Internet Contract Job Trends in Hampshire

Internet
South East > Hampshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Hampshire requiring Internet skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 84 73 82
Rank change year-on-year -11 +9 +18
Contract jobs citing Internet 2 5 9
As % of all contract jobs in Hampshire 0.15% 0.55% 0.70%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.13% 2.69% 2.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 8
10th Percentile £545 - -
25th Percentile £574 £563 £205
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £645 £575 £300
Median % change year-on-year +12.17% +91.67% -28.23%
75th Percentile £714 £588 £325
90th Percentile £742 - £446
South East median daily rate £525 £500 £313
% change year-on-year +5.00% +60.00% -34.21%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Hampshire

Internet falls under the Communications and Computer Networking category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring communications or computer networking skills in Hampshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 177 186 334
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 13.58% 20.28% 25.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 142 118 95
10th Percentile £445 £362 £205
25th Percentile £500 £450 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £533 £450
Median % change year-on-year +3.29% +18.33% -14.29%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £569
90th Percentile £650 £675 £637
South East median daily rate £475 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -5.00% +11.11% -6.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 19 32
10th Percentile £47.09 £35.00 £16.23
25th Percentile £50.43 £40.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £56.00 £62.50 £58.25
Median % change year-on-year -10.40% +7.30% +29.23%
75th Percentile £64.50 £67.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £69.60 £72.00 £77.20
South East median hourly rate £70.16 £62.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year +12.26% +4.17% +33.33%

Internet
Job Vacancy Trend in Hampshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Internet relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire.

Internet job vacancy trend in Hampshire

Internet
Daily Rate Trend in Hampshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing Internet.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing Internet

Internet
Daily Rate Histogram in Hampshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Internet in Hampshire over the 6 months to 15 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Internet in Hampshire

Internet
Hourly Rate Trend in Hampshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing Internet.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing Internet

Internet
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 Internet within the Hampshire region over the 6 months to 15 December 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 -11 1 £550 - 17
Romsey - 1 £740 -
Internet
South East

Internet
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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon EKS
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) DNS
1 1 (50.00%) HTTP
1 1 (50.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon Aurora
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Senior DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (50.00%) SAML
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Configuration Management
1 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (50.00%) Cost Management
1 1 (50.00%) Deployment Automation
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (50.00%) Migration
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Ansible
1 1 (50.00%) Grafana
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (50.00%) Progress Chef
1 1 (50.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (50.00%) Puppet
1 1 (50.00%) Single Sign-On
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Red Hat
1 1 (50.00%) Zscaler