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 29 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 47 26 36
Rank change year-on-year -21 +10 +8
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 21 95 76
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Hampshire 2.83% 5.55% 5.91%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.17% 6.79% 6.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 50 51
10th Percentile £449 £425 £425
25th Percentile £513 £488 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £500
Median % change year-on-year - +15.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £700 £575
90th Percentile £595 £713 £625
South East median daily rate £525 £470 £500
% change year-on-year +11.70% -6.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 15 6
10th Percentile £51.93 - £47.50
25th Percentile £53.22 £51.06 £51.25
Median hourly rate £57.75 £62.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -7.60% +13.64% -17.62%
75th Percentile £61.31 £70.00 £58.75
90th Percentile £62.03 - -
South East median hourly rate £57.75 £62.50 £57.50
% change year-on-year -7.60% +8.70% -13.87%

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 663 1,399 1,150
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 89.35% 81.67% 89.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 475 769 730
10th Percentile £315 £388 £240
25th Percentile £450 £463 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £590 £525
Median % change year-on-year -7.63% +12.38% +5.00%
75th Percentile £619 £675 £619
90th Percentile £675 £739 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £510 £500
% change year-on-year -1.96% +1.95% +0.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 170 96
10th Percentile £20.96 £13.05 £15.90
25th Percentile £43.13 £26.06 £20.47
Median hourly rate £57.50 £57.35 £53.75
Median % change year-on-year +0.26% +6.70% +119.39%
75th Percentile £73.13 £65.00 £64.97
90th Percentile £75.00 £77.75 £75.00
South East median hourly rate £27.76 £47.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -41.56% -5.00% +127.79%

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 29 May 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 29 May 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 +8 12 £575 - 22
Southampton +1 2 £350 -48.15% 16
Portsmouth -7 2 - - 11
Winchester +3 1 - - 3
Farnborough +2 1 £450 -25.77% 4
Eastleigh - 1 £500 -
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 8 (38.10%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (9.52%) Apache
2 2 (9.52%) Confluence
3 1 (4.76%) IIS
3 1 (4.76%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 7 (33.33%) AWS
1 7 (33.33%) GCP
1 7 (33.33%) IaaS
1 7 (33.33%) OpenShift
1 7 (33.33%) PaaS
2 1 (4.76%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 9 (42.86%) DNS
2 8 (38.10%) SMTP
3 7 (33.33%) DHCP
3 7 (33.33%) Firewall
3 7 (33.33%) VPN
4 3 (14.29%) Software-Defined Radio
5 2 (9.52%) SNMP
5 2 (9.52%) VLAN
6 1 (4.76%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (38.10%) Elasticsearch
2 7 (33.33%) Amazon RDS
2 7 (33.33%) Big Data
3 1 (4.76%) Apache Cassandra
3 1 (4.76%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (14.29%) Robot Framework
2 2 (9.52%) Bitbucket
2 2 (9.52%) Eclipse
2 2 (9.52%) Git
2 2 (9.52%) GoogleTest
2 2 (9.52%) JIRA
General
1 9 (42.86%) Public Sector
2 2 (9.52%) Social Skills
3 1 (4.76%) Aerospace
3 1 (4.76%) Legal
Job Titles
1 14 (66.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 8 (38.10%) 3rd Line Engineer
2 8 (38.10%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
2 8 (38.10%) Support Engineer
3 7 (33.33%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
3 7 (33.33%) 3rd Line Support
3 7 (33.33%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
3 7 (33.33%) Infrastructure Support
3 7 (33.33%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) Software Test Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) Test Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) 2nd Line Support
5 1 (4.76%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) C++ Software Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Infrastructure Specialist
5 1 (4.76%) Integration Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Security Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Software Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Wintel Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Wintel Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (9.52%) CSS
1 2 (9.52%) HTML
2 1 (4.76%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (4.76%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (38.10%) PKI
2 7 (33.33%) Clustering
2 7 (33.33%) Data Centre
3 1 (4.76%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 14 (66.67%) Windows
2 13 (61.90%) Linux
3 11 (52.38%) Windows Server
4 3 (14.29%) Windows 10
5 2 (9.52%) CentOS
5 2 (9.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (9.52%) Windows 7
5 2 (9.52%) Windows Server 2003
5 2 (9.52%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (4.76%) Ubuntu
6 1 (4.76%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (42.86%) DevOps
2 7 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence
2 7 (33.33%) Machine Learning
2 7 (33.33%) Software Deployment
3 5 (23.81%) Agile
4 4 (19.05%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (19.05%) Software Engineering
5 3 (14.29%) Prototyping
5 3 (14.29%) Software Testing
6 2 (9.52%) Deployment Automation
6 2 (9.52%) ITSM
6 2 (9.52%) Remote Monitoring and Management
6 2 (9.52%) Scrum
6 2 (9.52%) SysML
6 2 (9.52%) Test Automation
6 2 (9.52%) Test Scripting
6 2 (9.52%) UML
6 2 (9.52%) Validation
6 2 (9.52%) Verification and Validation
7 1 (4.76%) Batch Scripting
Programming Languages
1 10 (47.62%) PowerShell
2 3 (14.29%) C++
3 2 (9.52%) JavaScript
4 1 (4.76%) PHP
4 1 (4.76%) SQL
Qualifications
1 16 (76.19%) Security Cleared
2 12 (57.14%) DV Cleared
3 7 (33.33%) Degree
4 4 (19.05%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.76%) Government Security Classifications
1 1 (4.76%) ISO/IEC 27005
1 1 (4.76%) JSP 440
1 1 (4.76%) NIST
System Software
1 10 (47.62%) Active Directory
1 10 (47.62%) VMware Infrastructure
2 8 (38.10%) Docker
2 8 (38.10%) Hyper-V
3 7 (33.33%) BitLocker
3 7 (33.33%) Microsoft App-V
3 7 (33.33%) Terminal Services
3 7 (33.33%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (14.29%) Firmware
5 2 (9.52%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (4.76%) Apache ZooKeeper
6 1 (4.76%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 10 (47.62%) Ansible
2 8 (38.10%) Kubernetes
2 8 (38.10%) vCenter Server
3 7 (33.33%) Nagios
3 7 (33.33%) Puppet
3 7 (33.33%) vMotion
4 3 (14.29%) SCCM
4 3 (14.29%) SCOM
5 2 (9.52%) Proxmox
6 1 (4.76%) SCSM
Vendors
1 12 (57.14%) VMware
2 9 (42.86%) Google
3 8 (38.10%) Microsoft
4 7 (33.33%) Citrix
4 7 (33.33%) HP
4 7 (33.33%) Symantec
5 3 (14.29%) SolarWinds
6 2 (9.52%) Atlassian
6 2 (9.52%) Cisco
6 2 (9.52%) Red Hat
7 1 (4.76%) Juniper
7 1 (4.76%) McAfee
7 1 (4.76%) NETGEAR
7 1 (4.76%) TP-LINK