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 4 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 41 56 33
Rank change year-on-year +15 -23 -4
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 83 24 59
As % of all contract jobs in Hampshire 4.38% 2.38% 4.70%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.55% 2.76% 5.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 19 39
10th Percentile £506 £458 £360
25th Percentile £525 £503 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% +10.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £630 £594 £592
90th Percentile £750 £600 £655
South East median daily rate £558 £465 £466
% change year-on-year +19.89% -0.18% -6.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 13
10th Percentile - - £51.78
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £96.00 - £70.00
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £77.50 £77.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year +0.65% +10.00% +20.71%

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 1,496 870 992
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 78.86% 86.40% 79.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 882 581 632
10th Percentile £358 £313 £360
25th Percentile £464 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £570
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -7.89% +7.55%
75th Percentile £650 £600 £650
90th Percentile £730 £650 £713
South East median daily rate £525 £500 £510
% change year-on-year +5.00% -1.96% -2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 214 96 72
10th Percentile £13.44 - £26.25
25th Percentile £15.50 £18.87 £47.05
Median hourly rate £38.25 £25.04 £68.75
Median % change year-on-year +52.77% -63.58% +25.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £41.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £71.32 £59.38 £78.75
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £22.19 £58.38
% change year-on-year +114.06% -61.99% +7.37%

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 4 October 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 4 October 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 +11 29 £575 +19.17% 11
Portsmouth - 15 £575 - 5
Basingstoke -21 13 £585 -0.43% 4
Southampton +5 12 - - 16
Fareham - 5 £450 - 9
Gosport - 1 £545 -
Winchester - 1 - - 2
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 (2.41%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (2.41%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.20%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 1 (1.20%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 21 (25.30%) Azure
2 16 (19.28%) Entra ID
3 14 (16.87%) IaaS
4 9 (10.84%) Microsoft 365
5 7 (8.43%) AWS
6 4 (4.82%) GCP
7 2 (2.41%) GitHub
7 2 (2.41%) OneDrive
7 2 (2.41%) SaaS
8 1 (1.20%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (1.20%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 10 (12.05%) DNS
2 7 (8.43%) VPN
3 6 (7.23%) DHCP
3 6 (7.23%) VLAN
4 5 (6.02%) Firewall
5 4 (4.82%) X.509
6 3 (3.61%) Wireless
7 2 (2.41%) SAN
8 1 (1.20%) LAN
8 1 (1.20%) NAS
8 1 (1.20%) TCP/IP
8 1 (1.20%) VSAN
8 1 (1.20%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.41%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.20%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 3 (3.61%) GitLab
2 1 (1.20%) Artifactory
2 1 (1.20%) Bitbucket
2 1 (1.20%) Git
2 1 (1.20%) MLflow
General
1 14 (16.87%) Social Skills
2 6 (7.23%) Finance
3 2 (2.41%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (2.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (1.20%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (1.20%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 67 (80.72%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 20 (24.10%) Cloud Engineer
2 20 (24.10%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
3 12 (14.46%) Azure Engineer
3 12 (14.46%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
4 11 (13.25%) Lead
5 9 (10.84%) Senior
5 9 (10.84%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 8 (9.64%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
7 6 (7.23%) Architect
8 5 (6.02%) Linux Engineer
8 5 (6.02%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
9 4 (4.82%) GCP Engineer
9 4 (4.82%) Oracle Infrastructure Engineer
9 4 (4.82%) Test Engineer
10 3 (3.61%) Analyst
10 3 (3.61%) Technical Leader
10 3 (3.61%) Test Analyst
11 2 (2.41%) Infrastructure Analyst
11 2 (2.41%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (6.02%) Terraform
2 4 (4.82%) 802.1X
3 3 (3.61%) ModSecurity
4 1 (1.20%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (13.25%) PKI
2 4 (4.82%) Data Centre
3 2 (2.41%) Driving Licence
3 2 (2.41%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (1.20%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 21 (25.30%) Windows
2 17 (20.48%) Windows Server
3 14 (16.87%) Linux
4 4 (4.82%) Oracle Linux
5 3 (3.61%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (15.66%) Agile
2 11 (13.25%) CI/CD
3 9 (10.84%) DevOps
3 9 (10.84%) Infrastructure as Code
4 8 (9.64%) Key Management
5 7 (8.43%) Continuous Improvement
5 7 (8.43%) Problem-Solving
5 7 (8.43%) Scaled Agile Framework
5 7 (8.43%) Stakeholder Management
6 6 (7.23%) RBAC
6 6 (7.23%) Service Delivery
6 6 (7.23%) Technical Leadership
7 5 (6.02%) Continuous Integration
7 5 (6.02%) Identity Access Management
7 5 (6.02%) ITIL
7 5 (6.02%) Project Delivery
7 5 (6.02%) Software Engineering
7 5 (6.02%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 4 (4.82%) Test Management
8 4 (4.82%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 16 (19.28%) PowerShell
2 5 (6.02%) Python
3 2 (2.41%) Bash
4 1 (1.20%) Java
Qualifications
1 58 (69.88%) Security Cleared
2 35 (42.17%) DV Cleared
3 33 (39.76%) SC Cleared
4 4 (4.82%) ISTQB
4 4 (4.82%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 3 (3.61%) Degree
6 2 (2.41%) CESG Certified Professional
6 2 (2.41%) CISSP
6 2 (2.41%) MCSA
6 2 (2.41%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (1.20%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.20%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (9.64%) NCSC
2 6 (7.23%) JSP 440
3 1 (1.20%) NIST
3 1 (1.20%) NIST 800
3 1 (1.20%) QA
System Software
1 23 (27.71%) VMware Infrastructure
2 18 (21.69%) Active Directory
3 14 (16.87%) Virtual Machines
4 7 (8.43%) vSphere
5 6 (7.23%) Virtual Desktop
5 6 (7.23%) VMware ESXi
6 5 (6.02%) Hyper-V
7 4 (4.82%) KVM
8 3 (3.61%) VMware NSX
9 2 (2.41%) Docker
10 1 (1.20%) UAG
Systems Management
1 8 (9.64%) vCenter Server
2 4 (4.82%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (3.61%) Kubernetes
4 2 (2.41%) Ansible
4 2 (2.41%) Dell DRAC
5 1 (1.20%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (1.20%) Argo
5 1 (1.20%) Avamar
5 1 (1.20%) McAfee ePO
5 1 (1.20%) PowerCLI
5 1 (1.20%) SCCM
5 1 (1.20%) SCOM
5 1 (1.20%) SCSM
Vendors
1 25 (30.12%) VMware
2 23 (27.71%) Microsoft
3 4 (4.82%) Google
3 4 (4.82%) Oracle
4 2 (2.41%) Dell
4 2 (2.41%) Remedy
4 2 (2.41%) Veeam
5 1 (1.20%) Becrypt
5 1 (1.20%) Cisco
5 1 (1.20%) McAfee
5 1 (1.20%) Trend Micro
5 1 (1.20%) Zerto