Hampshire is the heart of our patch. From Portsmouth and Southampton on the coast up through Winchester, Eastleigh and Basingstoke to Farnborough and the M3 corridor, we place M&E and facilities management professionals at every level, engineers through to senior operations leaders.
Hampshire's building services market is broader than people give it credit for: major hospital estates, defence and aerospace sites around Farnborough and Aldershot, distribution hubs off the M3 and A34, university and college estates, and thousands of commercial buildings that all need maintaining, upgrading and fitting out.
That breadth means the hiring market splits into local micro-markets. A maintenance engineer in Basingstoke won't look at a Portsmouth static site, and vice versa. Recruiting county-wide means knowing who travels, who doesn't, and what it actually takes to move someone ten miles further from home. That local detail is most of the job, and it's where a specialist beats a national agency reading from a database.
Whether you're an employer with a stubborn vacancy or an engineer wondering what your ticket and experience are worth this year, our 2026 salary guide covers Hampshire in detail and we're always happy to talk it through.
What we placeYes. Most of our work sits along the M27 corridor but we recruit across the whole county, including the M3 corridor and the Surrey and Berkshire borders.
Experienced estimators, electrically biased maintenance engineers and good M&E project managers are the perennial shortages. If you're hiring for one of these, the spec and process need to be sharp, and we'll tell you honestly what it will take.
Yes, happily. We publish a South Coast salary guide and we'll always have a no-obligation conversation about where your packages sit. Better to find out before someone resigns than after.
Useful reading: our 2026 M&E and FM salary guide, retained vs contingency explained, and free interview and CV resources.
One honest conversation is usually enough to know whether we can help. No hard sell, no CV spam, just straight answers about the Hampshire market.
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