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 2 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 49 44 33
Rank change year-on-year -5 -11 +20
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 51 28 82
As % of all contract jobs in Hampshire 3.03% 3.75% 5.08%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.84% 4.18% 6.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 20 40
10th Percentile £404 £478 £423
25th Percentile £501 £528 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% - +12.20%
75th Percentile £611 £613 £700
90th Percentile £650 £675 £713
South East median daily rate £515 £550 £456
% change year-on-year -6.36% +20.55% +1.39%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 13
10th Percentile - £51.93 -
25th Percentile - £53.22 £51.06
Median hourly rate - £57.75 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year - -3.75% +11.11%
75th Percentile - £61.31 £65.00
90th Percentile - £62.03 £70.00
South East median hourly rate £77.50 £54.88 £60.00
% change year-on-year +41.23% -8.54% +8.11%

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 1,329 670 1,350
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 78.92% 89.81% 83.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 856 483 718
10th Percentile £357 £325 £388
25th Percentile £466 £450 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £585
Median % change year-on-year - -6.02% +11.48%
75th Percentile £650 £618 £675
90th Percentile £738 £675 £739
South East median daily rate £513 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +2.50% - -1.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 103 41 163
10th Percentile £12.70 £20.12 £13.05
25th Percentile £15.72 £30.00 £25.68
Median hourly rate £40.00 £57.50 £57.35
Median % change year-on-year -30.43% +0.26% +8.21%
75th Percentile £52.58 £71.25 £63.13
90th Percentile £68.04 £75.00 £76.86
South East median hourly rate £52.50 £28.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year +87.50% -41.05% -5.00%

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 2 May 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 2 May 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 +9 23 £550 +22.22% 7
Portsmouth +4 9 £400 - 6
Basingstoke -23 7 £613 +6.52% 2
Eastleigh +1 3 £450 -10.00%
Fleet - 2 £354 -
Southampton -12 1 - - 2
Hook - 1 £510 - 1
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 6 (11.76%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (3.92%) Apache Pulsar
3 1 (1.96%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 2 (3.92%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.96%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 12 (23.53%) Azure
2 8 (15.69%) AWS
3 3 (5.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 3 (5.88%) Amazon EKS
3 3 (5.88%) AWS CloudFormation
3 3 (5.88%) Azure AKS
3 3 (5.88%) GCP
4 2 (3.92%) Apigee
4 2 (3.92%) AWS KMS
4 2 (3.92%) Azure API Management
4 2 (3.92%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 2 (3.92%) Kong
4 2 (3.92%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (3.92%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 1 (1.96%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (1.96%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (1.96%) Entra ID
5 1 (1.96%) GitHub
5 1 (1.96%) OpenShift
5 1 (1.96%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 5 (9.80%) DNS
1 5 (9.80%) Firewall
2 4 (7.84%) DHCP
2 4 (7.84%) VLAN
3 2 (3.92%) NAS
3 2 (3.92%) VSAN
4 1 (1.96%) BGP
4 1 (1.96%) IPsec
4 1 (1.96%) LAN
4 1 (1.96%) MPLS
4 1 (1.96%) Network Security
4 1 (1.96%) OSPF
4 1 (1.96%) SAN
4 1 (1.96%) TCP/IP
4 1 (1.96%) VPN
4 1 (1.96%) WAN
4 1 (1.96%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.92%) Data Mining
2 1 (1.96%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 1 (1.96%) Git
1 1 (1.96%) GitLab
1 1 (1.96%) Jenkins
1 1 (1.96%) Robot Framework
General
1 4 (7.84%) Legal
1 4 (7.84%) Public Sector
1 4 (7.84%) Social Skills
2 3 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (3.92%) Documentation Skills
3 2 (3.92%) Finance
4 1 (1.96%) Advertising
4 1 (1.96%) Banking
4 1 (1.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 31 (60.78%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 9 (17.65%) VMware Engineer
3 7 (13.73%) Senior
4 6 (11.76%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 5 (9.80%) Architect
6 4 (7.84%) 3rd Line Engineer
6 4 (7.84%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
6 4 (7.84%) Infrastructure Architect
7 3 (5.88%) Azure Engineer
7 3 (5.88%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
8 2 (3.92%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
8 2 (3.92%) 3rd Line Support
8 2 (3.92%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
8 2 (3.92%) Infrastructure Support
8 2 (3.92%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
8 2 (3.92%) Lead
8 2 (3.92%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
8 2 (3.92%) Platform Engineer
8 2 (3.92%) Project Manager
8 2 (3.92%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.92%) Kafka
1 2 (3.92%) OAuth
1 2 (3.92%) OAuth2
1 2 (3.92%) OpenTelemetry
2 1 (1.96%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 7 (13.73%) Private Cloud
2 4 (7.84%) Data Centre
2 4 (7.84%) PKI
3 3 (5.88%) Cloud Native
3 3 (5.88%) Onboarding
4 2 (3.92%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (3.92%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.96%) Chip and PIN
5 1 (1.96%) EMV
5 1 (1.96%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 15 (29.41%) Windows
2 11 (21.57%) Linux
3 10 (19.61%) Windows Server
4 3 (5.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (3.92%) CentOS
6 1 (1.96%) Data ONTAP
6 1 (1.96%) Ubuntu
6 1 (1.96%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (1.96%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (1.96%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (25.49%) Platform Engineering
2 10 (19.61%) Agile
3 8 (15.69%) CI/CD
4 7 (13.73%) DevOps
5 6 (11.76%) Disaster Recovery
6 5 (9.80%) High Availability
6 5 (9.80%) Infrastructure as Code
6 5 (9.80%) Observability
7 4 (7.84%) Deployment Automation
7 4 (7.84%) Migration
7 4 (7.84%) Network Virtualisation
7 4 (7.84%) Problem-Solving
8 3 (5.88%) Infrastructure Management
8 3 (5.88%) Microservices
8 3 (5.88%) Runbook
8 3 (5.88%) Scaled Agile Framework
8 3 (5.88%) Security Hardening
8 3 (5.88%) Service Delivery
8 3 (5.88%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 3 (5.88%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 9 (17.65%) PowerShell
2 3 (5.88%) Python
3 2 (3.92%) Bash
3 2 (3.92%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 39 (76.47%) Security Cleared
2 17 (33.33%) DV Cleared
3 16 (31.37%) SC Cleared
4 4 (7.84%) Degree
5 2 (3.92%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (3.92%) ISTQB
5 2 (3.92%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 1 (1.96%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.96%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.96%) CCNP
6 1 (1.96%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (1.96%) PMI Certification
6 1 (1.96%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.92%) NCSC
1 2 (3.92%) NIST
1 2 (3.92%) NIST 800
1 2 (3.92%) PCI DSS
2 1 (1.96%) ISO 20022
2 1 (1.96%) ISO 8583
2 1 (1.96%) QA
System Software
1 23 (45.10%) VMware Infrastructure
2 14 (27.45%) Active Directory
3 6 (11.76%) VMware ESXi
3 6 (11.76%) vSphere
4 4 (7.84%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (3.92%) UAG
5 2 (3.92%) VMware NSX
6 1 (1.96%) Docker
6 1 (1.96%) Hyper-V
6 1 (1.96%) Sendmail
Systems Management
1 7 (13.73%) Kubernetes
1 7 (13.73%) Terraform
2 6 (11.76%) vCenter Server
3 3 (5.88%) Grafana
3 3 (5.88%) Prometheus
4 2 (3.92%) Ansible
4 2 (3.92%) Istio
4 2 (3.92%) linkerd
4 2 (3.92%) PowerCLI
4 2 (3.92%) SCCM
4 2 (3.92%) SCOM
4 2 (3.92%) SCSM
5 1 (1.96%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (1.96%) McAfee ePO
5 1 (1.96%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (1.96%) Nessus
5 1 (1.96%) Progress Chef
5 1 (1.96%) Puppet
5 1 (1.96%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 28 (54.90%) VMware
2 9 (17.65%) Microsoft
3 5 (9.80%) Veeam
4 4 (7.84%) Red Hat
5 3 (5.88%) Cisco
5 3 (5.88%) Splunk
5 3 (5.88%) Zerto
6 2 (3.92%) Becrypt
6 2 (3.92%) Trend Micro
7 1 (1.96%) Fortinet
7 1 (1.96%) Juniper
7 1 (1.96%) LogicMonitor
7 1 (1.96%) McAfee
7 1 (1.96%) Meraki
7 1 (1.96%) NetApp
7 1 (1.96%) Oracle
7 1 (1.96%) Palo Alto