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 24 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 57 32 32
Rank change year-on-year -25 0 +44
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 22 60 78
As % of all contract jobs in Hampshire 2.13% 5.06% 5.75%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.46% 6.32% 6.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 42 36
10th Percentile £453 £360 £438
25th Percentile £500 £403 £478
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £508 £525
Median % change year-on-year +8.37% -3.33% +2.44%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £600
90th Percentile - £675 £644
South East median daily rate £450 £465 £500
% change year-on-year -3.27% -6.96% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 12 10
10th Percentile - £63.25 £35.00
25th Percentile - - £51.25
Median hourly rate - £70.00 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year - +21.74% +4.55%
75th Percentile - - £68.75
90th Percentile - - £70.00
South East median hourly rate £77.00 £70.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year +10.00% +16.67% +9.09%

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 895 949 1,190
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 86.47% 80.02% 87.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 595 627 670
10th Percentile £323 £360 £300
25th Percentile £450 £460 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £570 £530
Median % change year-on-year -7.89% +7.55% +0.95%
75th Percentile £600 £645 £636
90th Percentile £650 £715 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £511 £525
% change year-on-year -2.12% -2.70% +2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 107 65 98
10th Percentile £16.17 £23.85 £15.50
25th Percentile £18.87 £31.25 £21.01
Median hourly rate £20.71 £70.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -70.41% +33.33% +16.67%
75th Percentile £27.50 £75.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £50.00 £77.25 £71.11
South East median hourly rate £20.71 £58.30 £52.50
% change year-on-year -64.48% +11.05% +48.05%

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 24 October 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 24 October 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
Basingstoke +1 11 £600 +4.35% 4
Farnborough +5 5 £465 -7.00% 1
Southampton +4 3 £550 +57.14% 4
Eastleigh - 2 £513 -
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 5 (22.73%) Apache
2 4 (18.18%) IIS
2 4 (18.18%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 1 (4.55%) AWS
1 1 (4.55%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 5 (22.73%) DNS
2 4 (18.18%) SMTP
3 3 (13.64%) Firewall
4 2 (9.09%) VLAN
4 2 (9.09%) VSAN
4 2 (9.09%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (4.55%) DHCP
5 1 (4.55%) HTTPS
5 1 (4.55%) Intrusion Detection
5 1 (4.55%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.55%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (4.55%) Apache Cassandra
1 1 (4.55%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (4.55%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (4.55%) MongoDB
1 1 (4.55%) MySQL
1 1 (4.55%) NoSQL
1 1 (4.55%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (4.55%) RDBMS
1 1 (4.55%) Relational Database
1 1 (4.55%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (9.09%) GitLab
General
1 7 (31.82%) Social Skills
2 2 (9.09%) Public Sector
3 1 (4.55%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (4.55%) Finance
Job Titles
1 14 (63.64%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 4 (18.18%) 2nd Line Engineer
2 4 (18.18%) 2nd Line Support
2 4 (18.18%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
2 4 (18.18%) Support Engineer
2 4 (18.18%) Wintel Engineer
2 4 (18.18%) Wintel Support
2 4 (18.18%) Wintel Support Engineer
3 2 (9.09%) Automation Engineer
3 2 (9.09%) Network Engineer
3 2 (9.09%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) Database Specialist
4 1 (4.55%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) Engineering Manager
4 1 (4.55%) Integration Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) Linux/Unix DevOps
4 1 (4.55%) Technical Specialist
4 1 (4.55%) Ubuntu Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (18.18%) YAML
2 2 (9.09%) Swagger
3 1 (4.55%) REST
3 1 (4.55%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 4 (18.18%) PKI
2 1 (4.55%) Clustering
2 1 (4.55%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (4.55%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 9 (40.91%) Windows
2 8 (36.36%) Linux
3 4 (18.18%) CentOS
3 4 (18.18%) Ubuntu
4 3 (13.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (13.64%) Windows Server
4 3 (13.64%) Windows Server 2016
4 3 (13.64%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (63.64%) Problem-Solving
2 7 (31.82%) Agile
2 7 (31.82%) DevOps
3 4 (18.18%) Continuous Improvement
3 4 (18.18%) ITSM
3 4 (18.18%) Prototyping
4 3 (13.64%) CI/CD
5 2 (9.09%) Change Control
5 2 (9.09%) High Availability
5 2 (9.09%) Infrastructure as Code
5 2 (9.09%) Infrastructure Automation
5 2 (9.09%) Observability
5 2 (9.09%) Operational Stability
5 2 (9.09%) Test Automation
6 1 (4.55%) API Development
6 1 (4.55%) Collaborative Working
6 1 (4.55%) Converged Infrastructure
6 1 (4.55%) Secure Coding
6 1 (4.55%) Strategic Thinking
6 1 (4.55%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 9 (40.91%) PowerShell
2 3 (13.64%) Bash
2 3 (13.64%) Python
2 3 (13.64%) SQL
3 2 (9.09%) Go
3 2 (9.09%) Java
3 2 (9.09%) JavaScript
4 1 (4.55%) PHP
4 1 (4.55%) VB
Qualifications
1 15 (68.18%) Security Cleared
2 12 (54.55%) DV Cleared
3 4 (18.18%) SC Cleared
4 1 (4.55%) AWS Certification
4 1 (4.55%) Azure Certification
4 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (4.55%) OCP
4 1 (4.55%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (9.09%) GDPR
1 2 (9.09%) QA
2 1 (4.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (4.55%) PCI DSS
2 1 (4.55%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 9 (40.91%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (22.73%) Active Directory
3 4 (18.18%) vSphere
4 2 (9.09%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (45.45%) Ansible
2 5 (22.73%) SCOM
3 4 (18.18%) SCCM
3 4 (18.18%) Terraform
4 3 (13.64%) vCenter Server
4 3 (13.64%) VxRail
5 2 (9.09%) Dell DRAC
5 2 (9.09%) FortiGate
5 2 (9.09%) Kubernetes
5 2 (9.09%) Proxmox
5 2 (9.09%) Rundeck
5 2 (9.09%) Salt
6 1 (4.55%) Avamar
6 1 (4.55%) EMC NetWorker
6 1 (4.55%) Rsyslog
6 1 (4.55%) vRealize
Vendors
1 13 (59.09%) VMware
2 5 (22.73%) Red Hat
3 4 (18.18%) Dell
3 4 (18.18%) SolarWinds
4 2 (9.09%) Aruba
4 2 (9.09%) Fortinet
4 2 (9.09%) Microsoft
5 1 (4.55%) EMC
5 1 (4.55%) Oracle
5 1 (4.55%) Veeam