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 27 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 44 49 28
Rank change year-on-year +5 -21 -2
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 72 26 92
As % of all contract jobs in Hampshire 3.82% 2.77% 5.71%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.82% 3.24% 7.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 19 47
10th Percentile £450 £520 £393
25th Percentile £503 £550 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £535
Median % change year-on-year - +7.48% +7.00%
75th Percentile £619 £600 £638
90th Percentile £650 - £685
South East median daily rate £536 £550 £475
% change year-on-year -2.47% +15.79% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 17
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £51.06 £51.06
Median hourly rate - £54.88 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year - -21.61% +33.33%
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% +45.45%

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 1,495 802 1,315
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 79.23% 85.59% 81.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 960 562 784
10th Percentile £368 £325 £363
25th Percentile £480 £463 £454
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £539 £582
Median % change year-on-year +2.09% -7.43% +10.86%
75th Percentile £650 £613 £661
90th Percentile £731 £662 £738
South East median daily rate £525 £500 £520
% change year-on-year +5.00% -3.85% +0.97%
Number of hourly rates quoted 137 57 139
10th Percentile £13.45 £18.87 £16.20
25th Percentile £16.80 £25.15 £34.50
Median hourly rate £47.50 £41.00 £57.35
Median % change year-on-year +15.85% -28.51% +9.24%
75th Percentile £60.00 £60.00 £72.50
90th Percentile £68.55 £75.00 £78.75
South East median hourly rate £57.50 £21.99 £55.04
% change year-on-year +161.54% -60.05% +10.08%

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 27 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 27 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 - 30 £575 - 17
Basingstoke -24 10 £563 -2.17% 4
Portsmouth - 8 £543 - 11
Southampton -3 6 - - 11
Fareham - 4 - - 2
Eastleigh -8 3 £450 -10.00% 2
Fleet - 2 £354 -
Gosport - 1 £545 -
Winchester - 1 - - 3
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 (2.78%) Apache Pulsar
1 2 (2.78%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (2.78%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.39%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 2 (2.78%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.39%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 19 (26.39%) Azure
2 10 (13.89%) AWS
3 9 (12.50%) Entra ID
4 6 (8.33%) IaaS
5 4 (5.56%) Microsoft 365
6 3 (4.17%) Amazon EKS
7 2 (2.78%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 2 (2.78%) Apigee
7 2 (2.78%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (2.78%) AWS KMS
7 2 (2.78%) Azure AKS
7 2 (2.78%) Azure API Management
7 2 (2.78%) GCP
7 2 (2.78%) GitHub
7 2 (2.78%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 2 (2.78%) Kong
7 2 (2.78%) OneDrive
7 2 (2.78%) SaaS
7 2 (2.78%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 1 (1.39%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 10 (13.89%) DNS
2 9 (12.50%) VLAN
3 7 (9.72%) Firewall
4 6 (8.33%) DHCP
5 3 (4.17%) SAN
5 3 (4.17%) VSAN
6 2 (2.78%) NAS
6 2 (2.78%) VPN
6 2 (2.78%) Wireless
7 1 (1.39%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.78%) Data Mining
1 2 (2.78%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.39%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 3 (4.17%) GitLab
2 1 (1.39%) Artifactory
2 1 (1.39%) Bitbucket
2 1 (1.39%) Git
2 1 (1.39%) MLflow
2 1 (1.39%) Robot Framework
General
1 15 (20.83%) Social Skills
2 8 (11.11%) Finance
3 4 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (5.56%) Legal
4 2 (2.78%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (2.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (2.78%) Public Sector
5 1 (1.39%) Advertising
5 1 (1.39%) Banking
Job Titles
1 58 (80.56%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 13 (18.06%) Cloud Engineer
2 13 (18.06%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
3 9 (12.50%) Senior
4 8 (11.11%) Azure Engineer
4 8 (11.11%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
4 8 (11.11%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 6 (8.33%) Lead
5 6 (8.33%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
6 5 (6.94%) Test Engineer
7 4 (5.56%) Linux Engineer
7 4 (5.56%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
7 4 (5.56%) Project Manager
8 3 (4.17%) Oracle Infrastructure Engineer
8 3 (4.17%) VMware Engineer
9 2 (2.78%) 3rd Line Engineer
9 2 (2.78%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
9 2 (2.78%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
9 2 (2.78%) DV Cleared Test Analyst
9 2 (2.78%) Infrastructure Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (2.78%) Kafka
1 2 (2.78%) ModSecurity
1 2 (2.78%) OAuth
1 2 (2.78%) OAuth2
1 2 (2.78%) OpenTelemetry
2 1 (1.39%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (9.72%) PKI
2 6 (8.33%) Data Centre
3 3 (4.17%) Hybrid Cloud
3 3 (4.17%) Onboarding
3 3 (4.17%) Private Cloud
4 2 (2.78%) Cloud Native
4 2 (2.78%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.39%) Chip and PIN
5 1 (1.39%) Driving Licence
5 1 (1.39%) EMV
5 1 (1.39%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 26 (36.11%) Windows
2 19 (26.39%) Windows Server
3 15 (20.83%) Linux
4 3 (4.17%) Oracle Linux
5 2 (2.78%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (1.39%) CentOS
6 1 (1.39%) Data ONTAP
6 1 (1.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (16.67%) Agile
2 9 (12.50%) CI/CD
3 7 (9.72%) Disaster Recovery
3 7 (9.72%) Infrastructure as Code
3 7 (9.72%) RBAC
3 7 (9.72%) Service Delivery
4 6 (8.33%) DevOps
4 6 (8.33%) Migration
4 6 (8.33%) Performance Testing
4 6 (8.33%) Platform Engineering
4 6 (8.33%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (8.33%) Validation
5 5 (6.94%) Continuous Improvement
5 5 (6.94%) Continuous Integration
5 5 (6.94%) Scaled Agile Framework
5 5 (6.94%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 4 (5.56%) High Availability
6 4 (5.56%) Test Management
6 4 (5.56%) Test Scripting
6 4 (5.56%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 12 (16.67%) PowerShell
2 4 (5.56%) Python
3 2 (2.78%) Bash
3 2 (2.78%) Bicep
4 1 (1.39%) Java
Qualifications
1 48 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 28 (38.89%) DV Cleared
3 27 (37.50%) SC Cleared
4 5 (6.94%) Degree
5 4 (5.56%) ISTQB
5 4 (5.56%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 2 (2.78%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (2.78%) PMP
7 1 (1.39%) AWS Certification
7 1 (1.39%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (1.39%) CESG Certified Professional
7 1 (1.39%) CISSP
7 1 (1.39%) MCSA
7 1 (1.39%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (1.39%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.17%) NCSC
2 2 (2.78%) NIST
2 2 (2.78%) NIST 800
2 2 (2.78%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.39%) ISO 20022
3 1 (1.39%) ISO 8583
3 1 (1.39%) JSP 440
3 1 (1.39%) QA
System Software
1 28 (38.89%) VMware Infrastructure
2 15 (20.83%) Active Directory
3 10 (13.89%) Virtual Machines
3 10 (13.89%) VMware ESXi
3 10 (13.89%) vSphere
4 6 (8.33%) Virtual Desktop
5 5 (6.94%) Hyper-V
6 4 (5.56%) VMware NSX
7 3 (4.17%) KVM
8 2 (2.78%) Docker
8 2 (2.78%) UAG
Systems Management
1 10 (13.89%) vCenter Server
2 8 (11.11%) Terraform
3 6 (8.33%) Kubernetes
4 4 (5.56%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (4.17%) Ansible
5 3 (4.17%) PowerCLI
6 2 (2.78%) Grafana
6 2 (2.78%) Istio
6 2 (2.78%) linkerd
6 2 (2.78%) Prometheus
6 2 (2.78%) SCCM
6 2 (2.78%) SCOM
6 2 (2.78%) SCSM
7 1 (1.39%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (1.39%) Argo
7 1 (1.39%) Avamar
7 1 (1.39%) Dell DRAC
7 1 (1.39%) McAfee ePO
Vendors
1 31 (43.06%) VMware
2 15 (20.83%) Microsoft
3 6 (8.33%) Veeam
4 4 (5.56%) Oracle
4 4 (5.56%) Zerto
5 2 (2.78%) Becrypt
5 2 (2.78%) Cisco
5 2 (2.78%) Splunk
5 2 (2.78%) Trend Micro
6 1 (1.39%) Dell
6 1 (1.39%) Fortinet
6 1 (1.39%) Google
6 1 (1.39%) McAfee
6 1 (1.39%) NetApp
6 1 (1.39%) Remedy