Infrastructure Engineering Contract Job Trends in Portsmouth

Infrastructure Engineering
Hampshire > Portsmouth

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Portsmouth requiring Infrastructure Engineering skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 21 15
Rank change year-on-year +4 -6 +21
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 9 3 26
As % of all contract jobs in Portsmouth 4.95% 2.73% 9.09%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.82% 3.23% 10.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 4
10th Percentile - - £171
25th Percentile £375 - £334
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 - £494
Median % change year-on-year - - -1.25%
75th Percentile £425 - £580
90th Percentile - - £622
Hampshire median daily rate £525 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 10
10th Percentile - £56.80 £51.06
25th Percentile - £58.94 £52.19
Median hourly rate - £62.50 £62.50
75th Percentile - - £68.75
90th Percentile - - £70.00
Hampshire median hourly rate - £60.13 £62.50
% change year-on-year - -3.80% +19.62%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Portsmouth

Infrastructure Engineering falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Portsmouth.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 132 93 251
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Portsmouth 72.53% 84.55% 87.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 59 49 112
10th Percentile £313 £400 £400
25th Percentile £416 £464 £448
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £575 £542
Median % change year-on-year -10.87% +6.09% +5.76%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £631
90th Percentile £629 £660 £823
Hampshire median daily rate £538 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -2.27% -4.35% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 20 67
10th Percentile £15.65 £31.25 £31.95
25th Percentile £23.88 £34.06 £53.40
Median hourly rate £47.50 £61.50 £62.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.76% -0.81% +3.33%
75th Percentile £54.06 £62.81 £68.51
90th Percentile £59.88 £71.63 £78.12
Hampshire median hourly rate £22.00 £57.75 £53.69
% change year-on-year -61.90% +7.57% +13.03%

Infrastructure Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Portsmouth

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Infrastructure Engineering relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Portsmouth.

Infrastructure Engineering job vacancy trend in Portsmouth

Infrastructure Engineering
Daily Rate Trend in Portsmouth

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Portsmouth citing Infrastructure Engineering.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Portsmouth citing Infrastructure Engineering

Infrastructure Engineering
Hourly Rate Trend in Portsmouth

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Portsmouth citing Infrastructure Engineering.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Portsmouth citing Infrastructure Engineering

Infrastructure Engineering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Portsmouth 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 6 (66.67%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (11.11%) Exchange Server 2010
Cloud Services
1 1 (11.11%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (22.22%) DNS
1 2 (22.22%) Firewall
2 1 (11.11%) BGP
2 1 (11.11%) DHCP
2 1 (11.11%) IPsec
2 1 (11.11%) LAN
2 1 (11.11%) MPLS
2 1 (11.11%) Network Security
2 1 (11.11%) OSPF
2 1 (11.11%) TCP/IP
2 1 (11.11%) VLAN
2 1 (11.11%) VPN
2 1 (11.11%) WAN
2 1 (11.11%) Wireless
Job Titles
1 8 (88.89%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 6 (66.67%) Senior
2 6 (66.67%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 2 (22.22%) Windows
1 2 (22.22%) Windows Server
2 1 (11.11%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (11.11%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (11.11%) High Availability
1 1 (11.11%) ITIL
1 1 (11.11%) Network Monitoring
1 1 (11.11%) Operational Stability
1 1 (11.11%) Virtual Environments
1 1 (11.11%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 1 (11.11%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 6 (66.67%) SC Cleared
1 6 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (11.11%) CCNP
2 1 (11.11%) Cisco Certification
System Software
1 7 (77.78%) Active Directory
2 2 (22.22%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (11.11%) Sendmail
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 2 (22.22%) Microsoft
1 2 (22.22%) VMware
2 1 (11.11%) Cisco
2 1 (11.11%) Fortinet
2 1 (11.11%) Juniper
2 1 (11.11%) LogicMonitor
2 1 (11.11%) Meraki
2 1 (11.11%) Palo Alto