Infrastructure Engineering Contract Job Trends in Hampshire

Infrastructure Engineering
South East > Hampshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Hampshire requiring Infrastructure Engineering skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 53 49 28
Rank change year-on-year -4 -21 +1
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 58 28 98
As % of all contract jobs in Hampshire 3.15% 3.07% 5.65%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.94% 3.61% 6.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 19 48
10th Percentile £450 £520 £425
25th Percentile £500 £550 £471
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £555 £575 £558
Median % change year-on-year -3.48% +3.09% +11.55%
75th Percentile £603 £600 £656
90th Percentile £650 - £700
South East median daily rate £525 £550 £475
% change year-on-year -4.55% +15.79% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 18
10th Percentile - £51.49 -
25th Percentile - £52.14 £51.06
Median hourly rate - £56.31 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year - -19.55% +33.33%
75th Percentile - £59.77 -
90th Percentile - £59.98 -
South East median hourly rate £77.50 £57.75 £70.00
% change year-on-year +34.20% -17.50% +33.33%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Hampshire

Infrastructure Engineering falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Hampshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,472 775 1,420
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 79.96% 85.07% 81.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 950 534 811
10th Percentile £363 £325 £372
25th Percentile £475 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £590
Median % change year-on-year - -6.70% +12.29%
75th Percentile £645 £613 £675
90th Percentile £730 £661 £738
South East median daily rate £525 £500 £513
% change year-on-year +5.00% -2.44% -0.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 127 56 159
10th Percentile £13.45 £18.87 £13.85
25th Percentile £16.00 £25.15 £25.81
Median hourly rate £38.25 £46.25 £57.35
Median % change year-on-year -17.30% -19.35% +9.24%
75th Percentile £56.86 £60.03 £70.43
90th Percentile £67.17 £75.00 £77.75
South East median hourly rate £55.00 £24.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year +129.17% -52.00% -

Infrastructure Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Hampshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Infrastructure Engineering relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire.

Infrastructure Engineering job vacancy trend in Hampshire

Infrastructure Engineering
Daily Rate Trend in Hampshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing Infrastructure Engineering.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing Infrastructure Engineering

Infrastructure Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in Hampshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering in Hampshire over the 6 months to 11 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Engineering in Hampshire

Infrastructure Engineering
Hourly Rate Trend in Hampshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing Infrastructure Engineering.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing Infrastructure Engineering

Infrastructure Engineering
Contract Job Locations in Hampshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering within the Hampshire region over the 6 months to 11 July 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Farnborough - 25 £575 - 11
Portsmouth 0 8 £543 - 6
Basingstoke -20 8 £533 -7.39% 5
Eastleigh -7 3 £450 -10.00% 2
Southampton -8 2 - - 9
Fareham - 2 - - 5
Fleet - 2 £354 -
Gosport - 1 £545 -
Hook - 1 £510 -
Infrastructure Engineering
South East

Infrastructure Engineering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hampshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (3.45%) Apache Pulsar
2 1 (1.72%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.72%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.72%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (3.45%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.72%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 15 (25.86%) Azure
2 11 (18.97%) AWS
3 4 (6.90%) Entra ID
4 3 (5.17%) Amazon EKS
4 3 (5.17%) GCP
4 3 (5.17%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (3.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 2 (3.45%) Apigee
5 2 (3.45%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (3.45%) AWS KMS
5 2 (3.45%) Azure AKS
5 2 (3.45%) Azure API Management
5 2 (3.45%) GitHub
5 2 (3.45%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 2 (3.45%) IaaS
5 2 (3.45%) Kong
5 2 (3.45%) SaaS
5 2 (3.45%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 1 (1.72%) OCI
6 1 (1.72%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 9 (15.52%) DNS
2 8 (13.79%) VLAN
3 5 (8.62%) DHCP
3 5 (8.62%) Firewall
4 3 (5.17%) SAN
4 3 (5.17%) VSAN
5 2 (3.45%) NAS
6 1 (1.72%) TCP/IP
6 1 (1.72%) VPN
6 1 (1.72%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.45%) Data Mining
2 1 (1.72%) Oracle Database
2 1 (1.72%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (5.17%) GitLab
2 1 (1.72%) Artifactory
2 1 (1.72%) Bitbucket
2 1 (1.72%) Git
2 1 (1.72%) MLflow
2 1 (1.72%) Robot Framework
General
1 13 (22.41%) Social Skills
2 5 (8.62%) Finance
3 4 (6.90%) Legal
4 3 (5.17%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (3.45%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (3.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (3.45%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.72%) Advertising
6 1 (1.72%) Banking
Job Titles
1 43 (74.14%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 7 (12.07%) Senior
3 6 (10.34%) Cloud Engineer
3 6 (10.34%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
3 6 (10.34%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 5 (8.62%) Test Engineer
5 4 (6.90%) Azure Engineer
5 4 (6.90%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
5 4 (6.90%) Project Manager
5 4 (6.90%) VMware Engineer
6 3 (5.17%) Lead
6 3 (5.17%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
7 2 (3.45%) 3rd Line Engineer
7 2 (3.45%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
7 2 (3.45%) AWS Engineer
7 2 (3.45%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
7 2 (3.45%) DV Cleared Test Analyst
7 2 (3.45%) Infrastructure Test Analyst
7 2 (3.45%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
7 2 (3.45%) Oracle Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.45%) Kafka
1 2 (3.45%) OAuth
1 2 (3.45%) OAuth2
1 2 (3.45%) OpenTelemetry
2 1 (1.72%) ModSecurity
2 1 (1.72%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (10.34%) Data Centre
1 6 (10.34%) PKI
2 4 (6.90%) Private Cloud
3 3 (5.17%) Hybrid Cloud
3 3 (5.17%) Onboarding
4 2 (3.45%) Cloud Native
4 2 (3.45%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.72%) Chip and PIN
5 1 (1.72%) Driving Licence
5 1 (1.72%) EMV
5 1 (1.72%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 24 (41.38%) Windows
2 17 (29.31%) Windows Server
3 13 (22.41%) Linux
4 2 (3.45%) Oracle Linux
4 2 (3.45%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (1.72%) CentOS
5 1 (1.72%) Data ONTAP
5 1 (1.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (18.97%) Agile
2 10 (17.24%) CI/CD
3 8 (13.79%) Infrastructure as Code
3 8 (13.79%) Platform Engineering
4 7 (12.07%) DevOps
4 7 (12.07%) Disaster Recovery
4 7 (12.07%) Service Delivery
5 6 (10.34%) Migration
5 6 (10.34%) Performance Testing
5 6 (10.34%) RBAC
5 6 (10.34%) Validation
6 5 (8.62%) Continuous Integration
6 5 (8.62%) Problem-Solving
6 5 (8.62%) Scaled Agile Framework
6 5 (8.62%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 4 (6.90%) Continuous Improvement
7 4 (6.90%) High Availability
7 4 (6.90%) Infrastructure Management
7 4 (6.90%) Test Management
7 4 (6.90%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 8 (13.79%) PowerShell
2 4 (6.90%) Python
3 2 (3.45%) Bash
3 2 (3.45%) Bicep
4 1 (1.72%) Java
Qualifications
1 41 (70.69%) Security Cleared
2 23 (39.66%) DV Cleared
3 20 (34.48%) SC Cleared
4 5 (8.62%) Degree
5 4 (6.90%) ISTQB
5 4 (6.90%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 2 (3.45%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (3.45%) PMP
7 1 (1.72%) AWS Certification
7 1 (1.72%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (1.72%) MCSA
7 1 (1.72%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (1.72%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.45%) NCSC
1 2 (3.45%) NIST
1 2 (3.45%) NIST 800
1 2 (3.45%) PCI DSS
2 1 (1.72%) ISO 20022
2 1 (1.72%) ISO 8583
2 1 (1.72%) QA
System Software
1 24 (41.38%) VMware Infrastructure
2 13 (22.41%) Active Directory
3 10 (17.24%) vSphere
4 9 (15.52%) VMware ESXi
5 6 (10.34%) Virtual Machines
6 5 (8.62%) Virtual Desktop
7 4 (6.90%) Hyper-V
7 4 (6.90%) VMware NSX
8 2 (3.45%) Docker
8 2 (3.45%) KVM
8 2 (3.45%) UAG
Systems Management
1 9 (15.52%) vCenter Server
2 8 (13.79%) Terraform
3 7 (12.07%) Kubernetes
4 3 (5.17%) Ansible
4 3 (5.17%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (5.17%) PowerCLI
5 2 (3.45%) Grafana
5 2 (3.45%) Istio
5 2 (3.45%) linkerd
5 2 (3.45%) Prometheus
5 2 (3.45%) SCCM
5 2 (3.45%) SCOM
5 2 (3.45%) SCSM
6 1 (1.72%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (1.72%) Argo
6 1 (1.72%) Avamar
6 1 (1.72%) Dell DRAC
6 1 (1.72%) McAfee ePO
Vendors
1 27 (46.55%) VMware
2 10 (17.24%) Microsoft
3 6 (10.34%) Veeam
4 4 (6.90%) Zerto
5 3 (5.17%) Oracle
6 2 (3.45%) Becrypt
6 2 (3.45%) Cisco
6 2 (3.45%) Splunk
6 2 (3.45%) Trend Micro
7 1 (1.72%) Dell
7 1 (1.72%) Fortinet
7 1 (1.72%) Google
7 1 (1.72%) McAfee
7 1 (1.72%) NetApp
7 1 (1.72%) Remedy