Public Sector Contracts in Hampshire

Public Sector
South East > Hampshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Public Sector in contract job vacancies in Hampshire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Public Sector over the 6 months leading up to 22 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 15 9 27
Rank change year-on-year -6 +18 +4
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Public Sector 89 166 91
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Hampshire 9.00% 11.22% 7.02%
As % of the General category 18.86% 27.57% 14.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 77 133 72
10th Percentile £366 £303 £351
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -1.87%
75th Percentile £600 £675 £638
90th Percentile £653 £725 £676
South East median daily rate £525 £525 £500
% change year-on-year - +5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 7 2
10th Percentile - £21.75 £17.90
25th Percentile £18.50 £26.25 £25.54
Median hourly rate £18.51 £47.50 £40.15
Median % change year-on-year -61.04% +18.31% +100.75%
75th Percentile £18.51 £48.75 £56.64
90th Percentile - - £65.41
South East median hourly rate £23.61 £61.06 £60.00
% change year-on-year -61.33% +1.77% +200.00%

All General Skills
Hampshire

Public Sector falls under the General Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring common skills in Hampshire.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 472 602 642
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 47.72% 40.70% 49.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 327 344 396
10th Percentile £200 £350 £250
25th Percentile £358 £425 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +2.33% +4.88%
75th Percentile £600 £672 £630
90th Percentile £658 £738 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £500
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 92 79
10th Percentile £19.00 £16.00 £15.45
25th Percentile £31.25 £34.75 £27.00
Median hourly rate £52.50 £57.35 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -8.46% -0.26% +177.51%
75th Percentile £73.75 £70.00 £69.38
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £75.00
South East median hourly rate £18.85 £57.35 £50.00
% change year-on-year -67.14% +14.70% +134.74%

Public Sector
Job Vacancy Trend in Hampshire

Job postings citing Public Sector as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Hampshire.

Job vacancy trend for Public Sector in Hampshire

Public Sector
Daily Rate Trend in Hampshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing Public Sector.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing Public Sector

Public Sector
Daily Rate Histogram in Hampshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Public Sector in Hampshire over the 6 months to 22 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Public Sector in Hampshire

Public Sector
Hourly Rate Trend in Hampshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing Public Sector.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing Public Sector

Public Sector
DemandTrendContract 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 Public Sector within the Hampshire region over the 6 months to 22 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Basingstoke -4 32 £575 -11.54% 12
Southampton +11 18 £525 +138.64% 21
Farnborough +3 17 £513 -17.17% 5
Portsmouth -3 8 £425 +3.03% 4
Andover - 3 - -
Winchester -2 2 £470 -3.09% 3
Public Sector
South East

Public Sector
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 (12.36%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (5.62%) Exchange Server 2003
2 5 (5.62%) Exchange Server 2007
2 5 (5.62%) Exchange Server 2010
2 5 (5.62%) Exchange Server 2013
2 5 (5.62%) Office Communications Server
2 5 (5.62%) SharePoint
2 5 (5.62%) SharePoint Server
2 5 (5.62%) Skype for Business
3 2 (2.25%) Confluence
3 2 (2.25%) Documentum
4 1 (1.12%) Anypoint
4 1 (1.12%) Apache
4 1 (1.12%) Mule
4 1 (1.12%) Mule ESB
4 1 (1.12%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 7 (7.87%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (2.25%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (1.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.12%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 8 (8.99%) AWS
1 8 (8.99%) GCP
1 8 (8.99%) OpenShift
2 7 (7.87%) Azure
2 7 (7.87%) IaaS
3 6 (6.74%) PaaS
4 4 (4.49%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (1.12%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (1.12%) iPaaS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (14.61%) VPN
2 11 (12.36%) DHCP
2 11 (12.36%) DNS
3 9 (10.11%) Firewall
4 6 (6.74%) SMTP
5 5 (5.62%) DDNS
5 5 (5.62%) LAN
5 5 (5.62%) SAN
6 4 (4.49%) Network Security
7 2 (2.25%) WAN
8 1 (1.12%) BGP
8 1 (1.12%) HTTP
8 1 (1.12%) HTTPS
8 1 (1.12%) Intrusion Detection
8 1 (1.12%) MPLS
8 1 (1.12%) OSPF
8 1 (1.12%) TCP/IP
8 1 (1.12%) VLAN
8 1 (1.12%) Wireless
8 1 (1.12%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (6.74%) Amazon RDS
1 6 (6.74%) Big Data
1 6 (6.74%) Elasticsearch
2 3 (3.37%) MongoDB
3 1 (1.12%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (5.62%) JIRA
2 3 (3.37%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.12%) Bitbucket
3 1 (1.12%) Cucumber
3 1 (1.12%) Git
3 1 (1.12%) REST Assured
3 1 (1.12%) Selenium
3 1 (1.12%) SoapUI
3 1 (1.12%) SonarQube
General
1 18 (20.22%) Social Skills
2 11 (12.36%) Finance
3 6 (6.74%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (6.74%) Telecoms
4 3 (3.37%) Electronics
4 3 (3.37%) Manufacturing
5 2 (2.25%) Marketing
6 1 (1.12%) Aerospace
6 1 (1.12%) Games
6 1 (1.12%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (1.12%) Police
6 1 (1.12%) Retail
Job Titles
1 14 (15.73%) Support Engineer
2 10 (11.24%) Architect
3 7 (7.87%) 3rd Line Engineer
3 7 (7.87%) 3rd Line Support
3 7 (7.87%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
3 7 (7.87%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 6 (6.74%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
4 6 (6.74%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
4 6 (6.74%) Infrastructure Support
4 6 (6.74%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
4 6 (6.74%) Senior
5 5 (5.62%) 2nd Line Support
5 5 (5.62%) Analyst
5 5 (5.62%) Exchange Engineer
5 5 (5.62%) Exchange Support
5 5 (5.62%) Network Engineer
6 4 (4.49%) Consultant
6 4 (4.49%) Developer
6 4 (4.49%) Solutions Architect
6 4 (4.49%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (6.74%) SOAP
2 4 (4.49%) REST
2 4 (4.49%) RESTful
3 2 (2.25%) .NET
3 2 (2.25%) Kafka
3 2 (2.25%) XML
4 1 (1.12%) .NET Core
4 1 (1.12%) .NET Framework
4 1 (1.12%) AngularJS
4 1 (1.12%) JSON
4 1 (1.12%) Middleware
4 1 (1.12%) ONNX
4 1 (1.12%) RAML
4 1 (1.12%) React
4 1 (1.12%) Swagger
4 1 (1.12%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 14 (15.73%) Data Centre
2 6 (6.74%) Clustering
2 6 (6.74%) PKI
3 5 (5.62%) Replication
4 2 (2.25%) Smartphone
4 2 (2.25%) Virtual Team
5 1 (1.12%) CMDB
5 1 (1.12%) Driving Licence
5 1 (1.12%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.12%) FMCG
5 1 (1.12%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.12%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.12%) Private Cloud
5 1 (1.12%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 19 (21.35%) Windows
2 8 (8.99%) Linux
3 7 (7.87%) Windows Server
4 6 (6.74%) Windows Server 2003
5 3 (3.37%) Windows 10
6 2 (2.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (1.12%) CentOS
7 1 (1.12%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (20.22%) Agile
2 14 (15.73%) DevOps
3 13 (14.61%) ITIL
4 10 (11.24%) Migration
4 10 (11.24%) Problem-Solving
5 9 (10.11%) Project Management
6 8 (8.99%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 7 (7.87%) Business Intelligence
7 7 (7.87%) Machine Learning
7 7 (7.87%) Stakeholder Management
8 6 (6.74%) Architectural Design
8 6 (6.74%) Artificial Intelligence
8 6 (6.74%) CI/CD
8 6 (6.74%) High Availability
8 6 (6.74%) Software Deployment
9 5 (5.62%) Content Management
9 5 (5.62%) Customer Requirements
9 5 (5.62%) Enterprise Search
9 5 (5.62%) Service Design
9 5 (5.62%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 11 (12.36%) PowerShell
2 5 (5.62%) Java
2 5 (5.62%) Python
3 4 (4.49%) C#
4 3 (3.37%) Bash
4 3 (3.37%) SQL
5 2 (2.25%) JavaScript
6 1 (1.12%) C
6 1 (1.12%) DataWeave
6 1 (1.12%) PHP
Qualifications
1 84 (94.38%) Security Cleared
2 40 (44.94%) DV Cleared
3 27 (30.34%) SC Cleared
4 8 (8.99%) Degree
5 5 (5.62%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (3.37%) CCNP
6 3 (3.37%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (2.25%) CCNA
7 2 (2.25%) CISM
8 1 (1.12%) Chartered Engineer
8 1 (1.12%) CISSP
8 1 (1.12%) ISTQB
8 1 (1.12%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (1.12%) JNCIS
8 1 (1.12%) OCP
8 1 (1.12%) Oracle Certification
8 1 (1.12%) Six Sigma Black Belt
8 1 (1.12%) Six Sigma Master Black Belt
8 1 (1.12%) VCAP
8 1 (1.12%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.62%) SLA
2 3 (3.37%) QA
3 2 (2.25%) Def Stans
3 2 (2.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (2.25%) PMO
4 1 (1.12%) ECSS
4 1 (1.12%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 13 (14.61%) Active Directory
2 11 (12.36%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (7.87%) Docker
3 7 (7.87%) VMware ESXi
4 6 (6.74%) BitLocker
4 6 (6.74%) Hyper-V
4 6 (6.74%) Microsoft App-V
4 6 (6.74%) Terminal Services
5 5 (5.62%) Brightmail
5 5 (5.62%) ISA Server
6 2 (2.25%) vSphere
7 1 (1.12%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 14 (15.73%) Ansible
2 8 (8.99%) Kubernetes
3 6 (6.74%) Nagios
3 6 (6.74%) Puppet
3 6 (6.74%) vCenter Server
3 6 (6.74%) vMotion
4 5 (5.62%) Microsoft Clustering
4 5 (5.62%) SCOM
5 3 (3.37%) SCCM
6 2 (2.25%) Rsyslog
6 2 (2.25%) Terraform
7 1 (1.12%) Cilium
7 1 (1.12%) CloudHub
7 1 (1.12%) Iperf
7 1 (1.12%) Nmap
7 1 (1.12%) vRealize
7 1 (1.12%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 16 (17.98%) Microsoft
2 13 (14.61%) VMware
3 8 (8.99%) Cisco
4 7 (7.87%) Google
4 7 (7.87%) Juniper
5 6 (6.74%) Citrix
5 6 (6.74%) HP
5 6 (6.74%) Symantec
6 4 (4.49%) SolarWinds
7 3 (3.37%) SAP
7 3 (3.37%) ServiceNow
8 2 (2.25%) Fortinet
8 2 (2.25%) Red Hat
9 1 (1.12%) BT
9 1 (1.12%) CheckPoint
9 1 (1.12%) Dell
9 1 (1.12%) NetApp
9 1 (1.12%) Niku
9 1 (1.12%) Oracle
9 1 (1.12%) Qualys