Infrastructure Engineering Contracts in Hampshire

Infrastructure Engineering
South East > Hampshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Hampshire requiring Infrastructure Engineering skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Infrastructure Engineering over the 6 months leading up to 30 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 48 30 28
Rank change year-on-year -18 -2 +30
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 26 98 88
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Hampshire 3.14% 5.58% 6.75%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.61% 6.82% 7.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 48 53
10th Percentile £518 £425 £425
25th Percentile £550 £459 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £563 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.22% +12.50% +2.56%
75th Percentile £600 £656 £575
90th Percentile - £700 £620
South East median daily rate £550 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% +12.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 18 8
10th Percentile £51.49 - £35.00
25th Percentile £52.14 £51.06 £41.56
Median hourly rate £56.31 £70.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.55% +33.33% -4.55%
75th Percentile £59.77 - £58.75
90th Percentile £59.98 - -
South East median hourly rate £56.31 £70.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year -19.55% +33.33% -4.55%

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 721 1,436 1,154
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 86.97% 81.78% 88.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 499 808 709
10th Percentile £325 £379 £240
25th Percentile £457 £462 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £590 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.70% +12.29% +2.44%
75th Percentile £616 £675 £613
90th Percentile £663 £738 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £513 £515
% change year-on-year -2.44% -0.49% +3.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 49 168 105
10th Percentile £18.87 £13.78 £15.50
25th Percentile £32.94 £26.19 £21.05
Median hourly rate £50.00 £57.35 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.82% +4.27% +90.31%
75th Percentile £62.50 £70.00 £66.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £78.75 £74.50
South East median hourly rate £24.33 £47.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -48.78% -5.00% +122.22%

Infrastructure Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Hampshire

Job postings citing Infrastructure Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Hampshire.

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Engineering in Hampshire

Infrastructure Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Hampshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering in Hampshire.

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure Engineering in Hampshire

Infrastructure Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in Hampshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering in Hampshire over the 6 months to 30 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Engineering in Hampshire

Infrastructure Engineering
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Hampshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering in Hampshire.

Hourly rate trend for Infrastructure Engineering in Hampshire

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 30 June 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 +10 19 £575 - 13
Southampton +5 3 £450 -18.18% 5
Winchester -1 1 - - 8
Portsmouth -11 1 - - 8
Eastleigh - 1 £500 - 1
Infrastructure Engineering
South East

Infrastructure Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Hampshire by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 11 (42.31%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (19.23%) Apache
3 4 (15.38%) IIS
4 2 (7.69%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 7 (26.92%) AWS
1 7 (26.92%) GCP
1 7 (26.92%) IaaS
1 7 (26.92%) OpenShift
1 7 (26.92%) PaaS
2 1 (3.85%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 12 (46.15%) DNS
2 11 (42.31%) SMTP
3 7 (26.92%) DHCP
3 7 (26.92%) Firewall
3 7 (26.92%) VPN
4 2 (7.69%) SNMP
4 2 (7.69%) Software-Defined Radio
4 2 (7.69%) VLAN
5 1 (3.85%) Intrusion Detection
5 1 (3.85%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (26.92%) Amazon RDS
1 7 (26.92%) Big Data
1 7 (26.92%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 2 (7.69%) Bitbucket
1 2 (7.69%) Eclipse
1 2 (7.69%) Git
1 2 (7.69%) GoogleTest
1 2 (7.69%) JIRA
1 2 (7.69%) Robot Framework
General
1 9 (34.62%) Public Sector
2 6 (23.08%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 18 (69.23%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 11 (42.31%) Support Engineer
3 8 (30.77%) 3rd Line Engineer
3 8 (30.77%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
4 7 (26.92%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
4 7 (26.92%) 3rd Line Support
4 7 (26.92%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
4 7 (26.92%) Infrastructure Support
4 7 (26.92%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
5 4 (15.38%) 2nd Line Engineer
5 4 (15.38%) 2nd Line Support
5 4 (15.38%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
5 4 (15.38%) Wintel Engineer
5 4 (15.38%) Wintel Support
5 4 (15.38%) Wintel Support Engineer
6 1 (3.85%) C++ Software Engineer
6 1 (3.85%) IT Engineer
6 1 (3.85%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (3.85%) Software Engineer
6 1 (3.85%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (15.38%) YAML
2 2 (7.69%) CSS
2 2 (7.69%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (42.31%) PKI
2 7 (26.92%) Clustering
2 7 (26.92%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 17 (65.38%) Windows
2 13 (50.00%) Linux
3 11 (42.31%) Windows Server
4 3 (11.54%) CentOS
4 3 (11.54%) Windows 10
4 3 (11.54%) Windows Server 2019
5 2 (7.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (7.69%) Ubuntu
5 2 (7.69%) Windows 7
5 2 (7.69%) Windows Server 2003
5 2 (7.69%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (46.15%) DevOps
1 12 (46.15%) Problem-Solving
2 8 (30.77%) Agile
3 7 (26.92%) Artificial Intelligence
3 7 (26.92%) Machine Learning
3 7 (26.92%) Software Deployment
4 6 (23.08%) Prototyping
5 5 (19.23%) ITSM
6 3 (11.54%) Continuous Improvement
6 3 (11.54%) Test Automation
7 2 (7.69%) Deployment Automation
7 2 (7.69%) Remote Monitoring and Management
7 2 (7.69%) Scrum
7 2 (7.69%) Software Engineering
7 2 (7.69%) Software Testing
7 2 (7.69%) SysML
7 2 (7.69%) Test Scripting
7 2 (7.69%) UML
7 2 (7.69%) Validation
7 2 (7.69%) Verification and Validation
Programming Languages
1 13 (50.00%) PowerShell
2 2 (7.69%) C++
2 2 (7.69%) JavaScript
3 1 (3.85%) PHP
3 1 (3.85%) SQL
Qualifications
1 20 (76.92%) Security Cleared
2 18 (69.23%) DV Cleared
3 7 (26.92%) Degree
4 1 (3.85%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 13 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 13 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (26.92%) BitLocker
2 7 (26.92%) Docker
2 7 (26.92%) Hyper-V
2 7 (26.92%) Microsoft App-V
2 7 (26.92%) Terminal Services
2 7 (26.92%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (7.69%) Firmware
3 2 (7.69%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (7.69%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 13 (50.00%) Ansible
2 8 (30.77%) vCenter Server
3 7 (26.92%) Kubernetes
3 7 (26.92%) Nagios
3 7 (26.92%) Puppet
3 7 (26.92%) vMotion
4 5 (19.23%) SCCM
4 5 (19.23%) SCOM
5 2 (7.69%) Proxmox
6 1 (3.85%) VxRail
Vendors
1 15 (57.69%) VMware
2 9 (34.62%) Google
3 7 (26.92%) Citrix
3 7 (26.92%) HP
3 7 (26.92%) Microsoft
3 7 (26.92%) Symantec
4 6 (23.08%) SolarWinds
5 3 (11.54%) Red Hat
6 2 (7.69%) Atlassian
6 2 (7.69%) Cisco
7 1 (3.85%) Dell
7 1 (3.85%) Juniper
7 1 (3.85%) McAfee
7 1 (3.85%) NETGEAR
7 1 (3.85%) TP-LINK