Rackspace Contract Job Trends in Hampshire

Rackspace
South East > Hampshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Hampshire requiring knowledge or experience of Rackspace products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Rackspace over the 6 months leading up to 30 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within Rackspace.

6 months to
30 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 93 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Rackspace 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Hampshire 0.073% - -
As % of the Vendors category 0.18% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - -
South East median daily rate £550 - -

All Vendors
Hampshire

Rackspace falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services in Hampshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 543 389 724
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 39.81% 50.98% 50.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 407 269 334
10th Percentile £362 £360 £300
25th Percentile £463 £438 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% - +4.76%
75th Percentile £650 £625 £650
90th Percentile £725 £700 £725
South East median daily rate £500 £511 £500
% change year-on-year -2.07% +2.12% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 20 55
10th Percentile £12.29 £19.82 £13.05
25th Percentile £17.81 £30.31 £21.00
Median hourly rate £20.00 £61.50 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -67.48% +6.96% +144.32%
75th Percentile £29.88 £64.06 £70.00
90th Percentile £48.75 £75.75 £78.00
South East median hourly rate £22.25 £36.46 £52.50
% change year-on-year -38.97% -30.56% +45.83%

Rackspace
Job Vacancy Trend in Hampshire

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

Rackspace job vacancy trend in Hampshire

Rackspace
Daily Rate Trend in Hampshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing Rackspace

Rackspace
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 Rackspace within the Hampshire region over the 6 months to 30 January 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
Eastleigh - 1 £550 -
Rackspace
South East

Rackspace
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 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) NAS
1 1 (100.00%) SAN
General
1 1 (100.00%) Legal
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (100.00%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Business Continuity
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Runbook
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) VMware ESXi
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (100.00%) vSphere
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) VMware
1 1 (100.00%) Zerto