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 19 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 65 35 44
Rank change year-on-year -30 +9 +24
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 28 43 50
As % of all contract jobs in Hampshire 2.12% 4.73% 3.86%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.55% 5.60% 4.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 34 19
10th Percentile £448 £360 £388
25th Percentile £501 £391 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £600
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -16.67% +9.59%
75th Percentile £548 £613 £644
90th Percentile £606 £675 £705
South East median daily rate £459 £450 £425
% change year-on-year +1.94% +5.88% -5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 12
10th Percentile - £57.78 £36.63
25th Percentile - - £54.06
Median hourly rate - £62.50 £61.25
Median % change year-on-year - +2.04% +11.36%
75th Percentile - £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £77.00 £62.50 £67.27
% change year-on-year +23.20% -7.08% +25.73%

All Process and 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 1,096 768 1,123
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 83.03% 84.49% 86.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 739 533 619
10th Percentile £312 £356 £313
25th Percentile £450 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +2.80%
75th Percentile £625 £630 £649
90th Percentile £725 £698 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £513 £523
% change year-on-year -2.44% -1.91% +1.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 114 47 74
10th Percentile £16.17 £20.65 £16.25
25th Percentile £18.87 £27.25 £21.48
Median hourly rate £20.71 £35.00 £50.71
Median % change year-on-year -40.83% -30.98% +16.57%
75th Percentile £25.15 £70.00 £63.44
90th Percentile £49.63 £75.00 £77.50
South East median hourly rate £22.50 £47.78 £53.50
% change year-on-year -52.91% -10.69% +42.67%

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 19 December 2025.

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 19 December 2025. 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 -1 12 £505 +12.22% 5
Portsmouth -18 4 - - 4
Basingstoke - 4 £625 - 7
Southampton -1 2 £550 +57.14% 5
Eastleigh - 1 £525 -
Fleet - 1 £447 -
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 3 (10.71%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (3.57%) Exchange Server 2010
Cloud Services
1 3 (10.71%) AWS
1 3 (10.71%) Azure
2 1 (3.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (3.57%) Amazon EKS
2 1 (3.57%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (3.57%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (3.57%) Azure AKS
2 1 (3.57%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (3.57%) Azure Functions
2 1 (3.57%) GitHub
2 1 (3.57%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (3.57%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (3.57%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (14.29%) Firewall
2 2 (7.14%) DNS
2 2 (7.14%) VLAN
2 2 (7.14%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (3.57%) BGP
3 1 (3.57%) DHCP
3 1 (3.57%) HTTPS
3 1 (3.57%) IPsec
3 1 (3.57%) LAN
3 1 (3.57%) MPLS
3 1 (3.57%) Network Security
3 1 (3.57%) OSPF
3 1 (3.57%) SSL
3 1 (3.57%) VPN
3 1 (3.57%) VSAN
3 1 (3.57%) WAN
3 1 (3.57%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.57%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (3.57%) Apache Cassandra
1 1 (3.57%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (3.57%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (3.57%) MongoDB
1 1 (3.57%) MySQL
1 1 (3.57%) NoSQL
1 1 (3.57%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (3.57%) RDBMS
1 1 (3.57%) Relational Database
1 1 (3.57%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (10.71%) GitLab
2 1 (3.57%) Git
2 1 (3.57%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (7.14%) Public Sector
1 2 (7.14%) Social Skills
2 1 (3.57%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (3.57%) Finance
Job Titles
1 14 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 5 (17.86%) VMware Engineer
3 3 (10.71%) Architect
3 3 (10.71%) Infrastructure Architect
3 3 (10.71%) Network Engineer
3 3 (10.71%) Senior
3 3 (10.71%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (7.14%) Automation Engineer
4 2 (7.14%) DevOps Engineer
4 2 (7.14%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (7.14%) Support Engineer
5 1 (3.57%) 2nd Line Support
5 1 (3.57%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
5 1 (3.57%) 3rd Line Support
5 1 (3.57%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
5 1 (3.57%) Cloud Engineer
5 1 (3.57%) Infrastructure Analyst
5 1 (3.57%) Wintel Engineer
5 1 (3.57%) Wintel Support
5 1 (3.57%) Wintel Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (7.14%) Swagger
2 1 (3.57%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (3.57%) REST
2 1 (3.57%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 3 (10.71%) Private Cloud
2 2 (7.14%) PKI
3 1 (3.57%) Cloud Native
3 1 (3.57%) Clustering
3 1 (3.57%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (3.57%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (3.57%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 10 (35.71%) Linux
2 7 (25.00%) Windows
3 3 (10.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (10.71%) Ubuntu
3 3 (10.71%) Windows Server
4 2 (7.14%) CentOS
4 2 (7.14%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (3.57%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (3.57%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (17.86%) Agile
1 5 (17.86%) CI/CD
1 5 (17.86%) Platform Engineering
2 4 (14.29%) DevOps
3 3 (10.71%) High Availability
3 3 (10.71%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (10.71%) Infrastructure Automation
3 3 (10.71%) Observability
3 3 (10.71%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (7.14%) Change Control
4 2 (7.14%) Configuration Management
4 2 (7.14%) Containerisation
4 2 (7.14%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (7.14%) Deployment Automation
4 2 (7.14%) DevSecOps
4 2 (7.14%) Operational Stability
4 2 (7.14%) Root Cause Analysis
4 2 (7.14%) Test Automation
4 2 (7.14%) Zero Trust
5 1 (3.57%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 7 (25.00%) PowerShell
2 4 (14.29%) Bash
2 4 (14.29%) Python
3 3 (10.71%) SQL
4 2 (7.14%) Go
4 2 (7.14%) Java
4 2 (7.14%) JavaScript
5 1 (3.57%) VB
Qualifications
1 20 (71.43%) Security Cleared
2 9 (32.14%) DV Cleared
2 9 (32.14%) SC Cleared
3 1 (3.57%) AWS Certification
3 1 (3.57%) Azure Certification
3 1 (3.57%) CCNP
3 1 (3.57%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (3.57%) ISTQB
3 1 (3.57%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
3 1 (3.57%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (3.57%) OCP
3 1 (3.57%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.14%) GDPR
1 2 (7.14%) QA
2 1 (3.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (3.57%) PCI DSS
2 1 (3.57%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 12 (42.86%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (14.29%) Active Directory
3 3 (10.71%) Docker
3 3 (10.71%) vSphere
4 1 (3.57%) Sendmail
Systems Management
1 6 (21.43%) Terraform
2 5 (17.86%) Ansible
3 4 (14.29%) Kubernetes
3 4 (14.29%) vCenter Server
4 2 (7.14%) Dell DRAC
4 2 (7.14%) FortiGate
4 2 (7.14%) Proxmox
4 2 (7.14%) Rundeck
4 2 (7.14%) Salt
4 2 (7.14%) SCOM
4 2 (7.14%) VxRail
5 1 (3.57%) Avamar
5 1 (3.57%) EMC NetWorker
5 1 (3.57%) Grafana
5 1 (3.57%) Nessus
5 1 (3.57%) Progress Chef
5 1 (3.57%) Puppet
5 1 (3.57%) Rsyslog
5 1 (3.57%) SCCM
5 1 (3.57%) vRealize
Vendors
1 17 (60.71%) VMware
2 6 (21.43%) Red Hat
3 4 (14.29%) Microsoft
4 3 (10.71%) Dell
5 2 (7.14%) Aruba
5 2 (7.14%) Fortinet
6 1 (3.57%) Cisco
6 1 (3.57%) EMC
6 1 (3.57%) Juniper
6 1 (3.57%) LogicMonitor
6 1 (3.57%) Meraki
6 1 (3.57%) Oracle
6 1 (3.57%) Palo Alto
6 1 (3.57%) SolarWinds
6 1 (3.57%) Splunk
6 1 (3.57%) Veeam