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 5 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 41 53 27
Rank change year-on-year +12 -26 +3
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 84 26 79
As % of all contract jobs in Hampshire 4.32% 2.68% 5.61%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.44% 3.10% 7.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 20 44
10th Percentile £504 £506 £360
25th Percentile £525 £547 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £508
Median % change year-on-year - +13.30% +1.50%
75th Percentile £630 £600 £638
90th Percentile £683 - £675
South East median daily rate £550 £483 £465
% change year-on-year +13.99% +3.74% -6.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 17
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £51.06 £51.06
Median hourly rate £96.00 £54.88 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +74.94% -21.61% +21.74%
75th Percentile - £58.69 -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £77.50 £65.94 £70.00
% change year-on-year +17.54% -5.80% +21.74%

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 1,543 838 1,119
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 79.29% 86.30% 79.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 930 584 690
10th Percentile £363 £313 £363
25th Percentile £471 £456 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £528 £575
Median % change year-on-year +4.27% -8.26% +9.52%
75th Percentile £650 £600 £655
90th Percentile £730 £654 £725
South East median daily rate £525 £500 £515
% change year-on-year +5.00% -2.91% -0.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 190 75 115
10th Percentile £13.45 - £20.05
25th Percentile £16.55 £18.87 £52.95
Median hourly rate £49.00 £25.15 £57.35
Median % change year-on-year +94.83% -56.15% +4.27%
75th Percentile £60.00 £50.00 £74.38
90th Percentile £73.25 £64.50 £77.99
South East median hourly rate £52.50 £21.90 £57.35
% change year-on-year +139.73% -61.81% +9.24%

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 5 September 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 5 September 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 +16 36 £588 +16.05% 9
Portsmouth - 15 £575 - 2
Basingstoke -21 11 £575 - 5
Southampton -2 7 - - 11
Fareham - 4 - - 3
Eastleigh -5 2 £525 +5.00%
Gosport - 1 £545 -
Winchester - 1 - -
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 2 (2.38%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (2.38%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.19%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 2 (2.38%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 17 (20.24%) Azure
2 11 (13.10%) Entra ID
3 9 (10.71%) IaaS
4 8 (9.52%) AWS
5 4 (4.76%) GCP
5 4 (4.76%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (2.38%) GitHub
6 2 (2.38%) OneDrive
6 2 (2.38%) SaaS
7 1 (1.19%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (1.19%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (1.19%) OCI
7 1 (1.19%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 9 (10.71%) DNS
2 8 (9.52%) VLAN
3 6 (7.14%) VPN
4 5 (5.95%) DHCP
4 5 (5.95%) Firewall
5 4 (4.76%) X.509
6 3 (3.57%) SAN
6 3 (3.57%) VSAN
7 2 (2.38%) NAS
7 2 (2.38%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.38%) Data Mining
1 2 (2.38%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.19%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 3 (3.57%) GitLab
2 1 (1.19%) Artifactory
2 1 (1.19%) Bitbucket
2 1 (1.19%) Git
2 1 (1.19%) MLflow
General
1 15 (17.86%) Social Skills
2 6 (7.14%) Finance
3 3 (3.57%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (2.38%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (2.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (2.38%) Legal
5 1 (1.19%) Advertising
5 1 (1.19%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 67 (79.76%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 15 (17.86%) Cloud Engineer
2 15 (17.86%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
3 10 (11.90%) Senior
4 9 (10.71%) Lead
4 9 (10.71%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 8 (9.52%) Azure Engineer
5 8 (9.52%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
5 8 (9.52%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
6 7 (8.33%) Architect
7 5 (5.95%) Linux Engineer
7 5 (5.95%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
8 4 (4.76%) GCP Engineer
8 4 (4.76%) Oracle Infrastructure Engineer
8 4 (4.76%) Test Engineer
9 3 (3.57%) Analyst
9 3 (3.57%) Test Analyst
10 2 (2.38%) Infrastructure Analyst
10 2 (2.38%) Project Manager
10 2 (2.38%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (7.14%) Terraform
2 4 (4.76%) 802.1X
3 3 (3.57%) ModSecurity
4 1 (1.19%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (13.10%) PKI
2 5 (5.95%) Data Centre
3 3 (3.57%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (2.38%) Driving Licence
5 1 (1.19%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.19%) Private Cloud
5 1 (1.19%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 22 (26.19%) Windows
2 18 (21.43%) Windows Server
3 14 (16.67%) Linux
4 4 (4.76%) Oracle Linux
5 3 (3.57%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (1.19%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (13.10%) Agile
2 10 (11.90%) CI/CD
3 8 (9.52%) DevOps
3 8 (9.52%) Infrastructure as Code
3 8 (9.52%) Key Management
4 7 (8.33%) Continuous Improvement
4 7 (8.33%) Problem-Solving
4 7 (8.33%) RBAC
4 7 (8.33%) Service Delivery
5 6 (7.14%) Disaster Recovery
5 6 (7.14%) Technical Leadership
6 5 (5.95%) Continuous Integration
6 5 (5.95%) Identity Access Management
6 5 (5.95%) Incident Response
6 5 (5.95%) Project Delivery
6 5 (5.95%) Runbook
6 5 (5.95%) Scaled Agile Framework
6 5 (5.95%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 5 (5.95%) Stakeholder Management
7 4 (4.76%) Performance Testing
Programming Languages
1 12 (14.29%) PowerShell
2 5 (5.95%) Python
3 2 (2.38%) Bash
4 1 (1.19%) Java
Qualifications
1 63 (75.00%) Security Cleared
2 37 (44.05%) SC Cleared
3 36 (42.86%) DV Cleared
4 4 (4.76%) Degree
4 4 (4.76%) ISTQB
4 4 (4.76%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 2 (2.38%) CESG Certified Professional
5 2 (2.38%) CISSP
5 2 (2.38%) MCSA
5 2 (2.38%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.19%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.19%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (9.52%) NCSC
2 6 (7.14%) JSP 440
3 1 (1.19%) NIST
3 1 (1.19%) NIST 800
3 1 (1.19%) QA
System Software
1 27 (32.14%) VMware Infrastructure
2 18 (21.43%) Active Directory
3 11 (13.10%) Virtual Machines
4 10 (11.90%) vSphere
5 9 (10.71%) VMware ESXi
6 6 (7.14%) Virtual Desktop
7 5 (5.95%) Hyper-V
8 4 (4.76%) KVM
8 4 (4.76%) VMware NSX
9 2 (2.38%) Docker
10 1 (1.19%) UAG
Systems Management
1 10 (11.90%) vCenter Server
2 4 (4.76%) Kubernetes
2 4 (4.76%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (3.57%) PowerCLI
4 2 (2.38%) Ansible
4 2 (2.38%) Dell DRAC
4 2 (2.38%) SCCM
4 2 (2.38%) SCOM
4 2 (2.38%) SCSM
5 1 (1.19%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (1.19%) Argo
5 1 (1.19%) Avamar
5 1 (1.19%) McAfee ePO
Vendors
1 30 (35.71%) VMware
2 19 (22.62%) Microsoft
3 6 (7.14%) Veeam
4 5 (5.95%) Oracle
5 4 (4.76%) Google
5 4 (4.76%) Zerto
6 2 (2.38%) Dell
6 2 (2.38%) Remedy
6 2 (2.38%) Trend Micro
7 1 (1.19%) Becrypt
7 1 (1.19%) Cisco
7 1 (1.19%) McAfee
7 1 (1.19%) NetApp