Technical Specialist Contracts in Hampshire

Technical Specialist
South East > Hampshire

The median Technical Specialist daily rate in Hampshire is £658, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 66 - 97
Rank change year-on-year - - +31
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Specialist 3 0 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Hampshire 0.40% - 0.14%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.42% - 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 2
10th Percentile £381 - £545
25th Percentile £483 - £548
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £658 - £559
Median % change year-on-year - - +33.10%
75th Percentile £661 - £576
90th Percentile - - £583
South East median daily rate £233 £150 £575
% change year-on-year +55.00% -73.91% +27.78%

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 712 1,451 1,323
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.44% 90.12% 94.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 519 824 865
10th Percentile £280 £363 £232
25th Percentile £425 £450 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £575 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.52% +9.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £613 £675 £620
90th Percentile £661 £738 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +2.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 173 106
10th Percentile £20.03 £13.40 £18.25
25th Percentile £24.66 £33.75 £22.51
Median hourly rate £55.00 £57.35 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -4.10% +9.24% +141.38%
75th Percentile £71.25 £62.50 £67.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £76.86 £75.00
South East median hourly rate £32.50 £47.50 £48.40
% change year-on-year -31.58% -1.86% +130.48%

Technical Specialist
Job Vacancy Trend in Hampshire

Job postings that featured Technical Specialist in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Hampshire.

Job vacancy trend for Technical Specialist in Hampshire

Technical Specialist
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Hampshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Technical Specialist in Hampshire.

Daily rate trend for Technical Specialist in Hampshire

Technical Specialist
Daily Rate Histogram in Hampshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Technical Specialist in Hampshire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Technical Specialist in Hampshire

Technical Specialist
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Hampshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Technical Specialist in Hampshire.

Hourly rate trend for Technical Specialist in Hampshire

Technical Specialist
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 Technical Specialist within the Hampshire region over the 6 months to 1 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
Southampton - 1 £325 - 2
Winchester - 1 £658 -
Technical Specialist
South East

Technical Specialist Skill Set
Top 25 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Hampshire

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Technical Specialist contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Hampshire region featuring Technical Specialist in the job title.

1 2 (66.67%) Windows
1 2 (66.67%) DNS
1 2 (66.67%) Active Directory
1 2 (66.67%) Juniper
1 2 (66.67%) Symantec
1 2 (66.67%) Norton AntiVirus
1 2 (66.67%) VMware
1 2 (66.67%) Clustering
1 2 (66.67%) WSUS
1 2 (66.67%) SC Cleared
1 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
1 2 (66.67%) PowerShell
1 2 (66.67%) NETGEAR
1 2 (66.67%) Hyper-V
1 2 (66.67%) SolarWinds
1 2 (66.67%) vSphere
1 2 (66.67%) Windows 10
1 2 (66.67%) Windows Server
1 2 (66.67%) Power Management
1 2 (66.67%) Failover Clustering
1 2 (66.67%) TP-LINK
1 2 (66.67%) VSAN
1 2 (66.67%) vCenter Server
1 2 (66.67%) Windows Server 2019
2 1 (33.33%) SaaS

Technical Specialist Skill Set
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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) DNS
1 2 (66.67%) VSAN
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Windows
1 2 (66.67%) Windows 10
1 2 (66.67%) Windows Server
1 2 (66.67%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Power Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) SC Cleared
1 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Active Directory
1 2 (66.67%) Hyper-V
1 2 (66.67%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Failover Clustering
1 2 (66.67%) Norton AntiVirus
1 2 (66.67%) vCenter Server
1 2 (66.67%) WSUS
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Juniper
1 2 (66.67%) NETGEAR
1 2 (66.67%) SolarWinds
1 2 (66.67%) Symantec
1 2 (66.67%) TP-LINK
1 2 (66.67%) VMware