Senior Contract Job Trends in Hampshire

Senior
South East > Hampshire

The median Senior daily rate in Hampshire is £550, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 23 December 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 24 15 25
Rank change year-on-year -9 +10 +32
Contract jobs requiring a Senior 83 86 84
As % of all contract jobs in Hampshire 6.22% 9.60% 6.53%
As % of the Job Titles category 6.88% 10.14% 7.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 53 54
10th Percentile £397 £389 £469
25th Percentile £473 £486 £520
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £615
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -6.50% +5.81%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £667
90th Percentile £700 £698 £684
South East median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 4
10th Percentile - £32.00 £31.13
25th Percentile £56.75 £33.13 £32.81
Median hourly rate £58.50 £35.00 £47.00
Median % change year-on-year +67.14% -25.53% +10.12%
75th Percentile £60.25 - £60.31
90th Percentile - - £63.13
South East median hourly rate £75.00 £56.75 £59.00
% change year-on-year +32.17% -3.82% +31.11%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Hampshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Hampshire. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Hampshire with a recognized job title 1,207 848 1,164
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.41% 94.64% 90.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 794 593 640
10th Percentile £313 £313 £300
25th Percentile £453 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% +2.33% +2.38%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £638
90th Percentile £725 £700 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £505 £500
% change year-on-year -0.99% +1.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 108 43 72
10th Percentile £16.17 £21.70 £16.00
25th Percentile £18.13 £28.75 £20.88
Median hourly rate £23.89 £35.00 £50.71
Median % change year-on-year -31.74% -30.98% +15.30%
75th Percentile £48.75 £69.38 £65.00
90th Percentile £57.58 £75.00 £77.50
South East median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £54.78
% change year-on-year -40.82% -22.42% +47.54%

Senior
Job Vacancy Trend in Hampshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Senior' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire.

Senior job vacancy trend in Hampshire

Senior
Daily Rate Trend in Hampshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Senior job vacancies in Hampshire.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Senior job vacancies in Hampshire

Senior
Daily Rate Histogram in Hampshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior in Hampshire over the 6 months to 23 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Senior in Hampshire

Senior
Hourly Rate Trend in Hampshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Senior job vacancies in Hampshire.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Senior job vacancies in Hampshire

Senior
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 Senior within the Hampshire region over the 6 months to 23 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
Portsmouth 0 22 £550 -18.52% 65
Southampton +3 16 £550 +11.39% 48
Basingstoke -17 10 £500 -12.66% 52
Havant -1 8 £675 +3.85% 2
Farnborough -8 8 £462 -26.16% 5
Winchester -1 2 £525 - 6
Fareham -7 2 - - 16
Lyndhurst - 2 - - 2
Fleet -9 1 £465 +40.91%
Romsey - 1 £740 - 1
Senior
South East

Senior Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hampshire

For the 6 months to 23 December 2025, Senior contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Hampshire region featuring Senior in the job title.

1 30 (36.14%) Security Cleared
2 19 (22.89%) SC Cleared
3 14 (16.87%) Agile
4 11 (13.25%) Python
5 10 (12.05%) DV Cleared
5 10 (12.05%) Problem-Solving
5 10 (12.05%) Stakeholder Management
6 9 (10.84%) AWS
6 9 (10.84%) CI/CD
6 9 (10.84%) Jenkins
6 9 (10.84%) Microservices
6 9 (10.84%) Microsoft
6 9 (10.84%) PowerShell
7 8 (9.64%) Event-Driven
7 8 (9.64%) Grafana
7 8 (9.64%) Kubernetes
8 7 (8.43%) Cisco
8 7 (8.43%) Continuous Improvement
8 7 (8.43%) PostgreSQL
9 6 (7.23%) Artifactory
9 6 (7.23%) Cucumber
9 6 (7.23%) Data Analysis
9 6 (7.23%) Datadog
9 6 (7.23%) DevOps
9 6 (7.23%) DynamoDB
9 6 (7.23%) Firewall
9 6 (7.23%) GitHub
9 6 (7.23%) Gradle
9 6 (7.23%) HBase
9 6 (7.23%) Java

Senior Skill Set
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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (4.82%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (2.41%) Confluence
3 1 (1.20%) Exchange Server 2010
3 1 (1.20%) MS Project Server
3 1 (1.20%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (2.41%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (2.41%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.20%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.20%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (1.20%) PTC Creo
Business Applications
1 1 (1.20%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 9 (10.84%) AWS
2 6 (7.23%) Datadog
2 6 (7.23%) GitHub
3 2 (2.41%) Amazon EC2
3 2 (2.41%) Amazon EKS
3 2 (2.41%) AWS CloudFormation
3 2 (2.41%) Azure
3 2 (2.41%) IaaS
3 2 (2.41%) SuccessFactors
4 1 (1.20%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (1.20%) Amazon S3
4 1 (1.20%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (1.20%) GCP
4 1 (1.20%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 6 (7.23%) Firewall
1 6 (7.23%) VPN
2 5 (6.02%) Kerberos
2 5 (6.02%) TCP/IP
3 4 (4.82%) VLAN
4 3 (3.61%) Network Security
4 3 (3.61%) PCoIP
4 3 (3.61%) VSAN
5 2 (2.41%) BGP
5 2 (2.41%) Cisco ASA
5 2 (2.41%) DNS
5 2 (2.41%) IPv4
5 2 (2.41%) IPv6
5 2 (2.41%) LAN
5 2 (2.41%) MPLS
5 2 (2.41%) Multicast
5 2 (2.41%) OSPF
5 2 (2.41%) WAN
5 2 (2.41%) Wireshark
6 1 (1.20%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (8.43%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (7.23%) DynamoDB
2 6 (7.23%) HBase
2 6 (7.23%) MongoDB
2 6 (7.23%) NoSQL
3 2 (2.41%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (1.20%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (1.20%) Big Data
4 1 (1.20%) Data Lake
4 1 (1.20%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.20%) Power BI
4 1 (1.20%) SQL Server
4 1 (1.20%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 9 (10.84%) Jenkins
2 6 (7.23%) Artifactory
2 6 (7.23%) Cucumber
2 6 (7.23%) Gradle
2 6 (7.23%) JUnit
2 6 (7.23%) Sonatype Nexus
3 4 (4.82%) JIRA
4 2 (2.41%) Git
5 1 (1.20%) Gatling
5 1 (1.20%) JMeter
5 1 (1.20%) SoapUI
General
1 23 (27.71%) Social Skills
2 10 (12.05%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (9.64%) Finance
4 3 (3.61%) Banking
4 3 (3.61%) Public Sector
4 3 (3.61%) Telecoms
5 2 (2.41%) Influencing Skills
5 2 (2.41%) Legal
5 2 (2.41%) Manufacturing
5 2 (2.41%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (1.20%) Aerospace
6 1 (1.20%) Police
6 1 (1.20%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (7.23%) Kafka
1 6 (7.23%) RabbitMQ
1 6 (7.23%) Spring
1 6 (7.23%) Spring Boot
2 2 (2.41%) .NET
2 2 (2.41%) .NET Core
2 2 (2.41%) .NET Framework
2 2 (2.41%) AngularJS
2 2 (2.41%) RESTful
3 1 (1.20%) ADO
3 1 (1.20%) Apache NiFi
3 1 (1.20%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (1.20%) SOAP
3 1 (1.20%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (4.82%) Data Centre
1 4 (4.82%) Operational Technology
1 4 (4.82%) PMI
2 3 (3.61%) Onboarding
3 2 (2.41%) Analytical Mindset
3 2 (2.41%) Driving Licence
3 2 (2.41%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.20%) CAN bus
4 1 (1.20%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.20%) FMCG
4 1 (1.20%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (1.20%) PKI
4 1 (1.20%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 5 (6.02%) Windows
2 3 (3.61%) Linux
3 1 (1.20%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.20%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (16.87%) Agile
2 10 (12.05%) Problem-Solving
2 10 (12.05%) Stakeholder Management
3 9 (10.84%) CI/CD
3 9 (10.84%) Microservices
4 8 (9.64%) Event-Driven
5 7 (8.43%) Continuous Improvement
6 6 (7.23%) Data Analysis
6 6 (7.23%) DevOps
6 6 (7.23%) Migration
6 6 (7.23%) Observability
6 6 (7.23%) Scrum
6 6 (7.23%) SOA
6 6 (7.23%) Software Engineering
6 6 (7.23%) Test Automation
7 5 (6.02%) Data Migration
7 5 (6.02%) ITIL
7 5 (6.02%) Network Design
7 5 (6.02%) SIEM
7 5 (6.02%) SOAR
Programming Languages
1 11 (13.25%) Python
2 9 (10.84%) PowerShell
3 6 (7.23%) Java
4 4 (4.82%) C#
5 3 (3.61%) Bash
6 2 (2.41%) SQL
7 1 (1.20%) C++
7 1 (1.20%) Embedded C++
7 1 (1.20%) JavaScript
7 1 (1.20%) Kusto Query Language
7 1 (1.20%) R
Qualifications
1 30 (36.14%) Security Cleared
2 19 (22.89%) SC Cleared
3 10 (12.05%) DV Cleared
4 6 (7.23%) OCP
4 6 (7.23%) Oracle Certification
5 4 (4.82%) CCNP
5 4 (4.82%) Cisco Certification
5 4 (4.82%) PMI Certification
6 3 (3.61%) Degree
6 3 (3.61%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 2 (2.41%) CCIE
7 2 (2.41%) CCNA
7 2 (2.41%) JNCIS
8 1 (1.20%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (1.20%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.61%) IFRS
1 3 (3.61%) Solvency II
2 2 (2.41%) PMO
2 2 (2.41%) QA
2 2 (2.41%) SLA
3 1 (1.20%) COBIT
3 1 (1.20%) HMG Security Policy Framework
3 1 (1.20%) ISO 9001
3 1 (1.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.20%) JSP 440
System Software
1 5 (6.02%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (4.82%) Active Directory
3 3 (3.61%) Docker
3 3 (3.61%) VMware ESXi
3 3 (3.61%) vSphere
4 1 (1.20%) Sendmail
4 1 (1.20%) UAG
4 1 (1.20%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 8 (9.64%) Grafana
1 8 (9.64%) Kubernetes
2 5 (6.02%) Ansible
3 3 (3.61%) Terraform
3 3 (3.61%) vCenter Server
4 2 (2.41%) Endace
4 2 (2.41%) Iperf
4 2 (2.41%) Nagios
4 2 (2.41%) Nmap
4 2 (2.41%) Puppet
5 1 (1.20%) Progress Chef
5 1 (1.20%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.20%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 9 (10.84%) Microsoft
2 7 (8.43%) Cisco
3 6 (7.23%) VMware
4 5 (6.02%) SAP
4 5 (6.02%) SolarWinds
5 4 (4.82%) Juniper
6 3 (3.61%) CheckPoint
6 3 (3.61%) Fortinet
7 2 (2.41%) F5
7 2 (2.41%) Oracle
7 2 (2.41%) Palo Alto
8 1 (1.20%) Arqiva
8 1 (1.20%) EMC
8 1 (1.20%) NetIQ
8 1 (1.20%) PagerDuty
8 1 (1.20%) PTC
8 1 (1.20%) Red Hat