Infrastructure Automation Contract Job Trends in Farnborough

Infrastructure Automation
Hampshire > Farnborough

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Farnborough requiring Infrastructure Automation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 24 25 -
Rank change year-on-year +1 - -
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Automation 9 2 0
As % of all contract jobs in Farnborough 6.08% 1.87% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.09% 2.33% -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 2 0
10th Percentile £332 £530 -
25th Percentile £440 £536 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £560 -
Median % change year-on-year -9.60% - -
75th Percentile £523 £574 -
90th Percentile £532 £575 -
Hampshire median daily rate £519 £560 £700
% change year-on-year -7.37% -20.00% +21.74%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Farnborough

Infrastructure Automation 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 Farnborough.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 127 86 130
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Farnborough 85.81% 80.37% 98.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 97 57 76
10th Percentile £313 £350 £281
25th Percentile £385 £475 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £570 £581
Median % change year-on-year -12.28% -1.94% +16.25%
75th Percentile £606 £638 £667
90th Percentile £675 £750 £713
Hampshire median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 8 13
10th Percentile - £69.00 £17.20
25th Percentile £19.25 £74.06 £21.05
Median hourly rate £40.00 £75.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -46.67% +114.29% -22.22%
75th Percentile - - £58.75
90th Percentile £53.35 £77.25 £79.50
Hampshire median hourly rate £20.71 £62.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -66.86% +25.00% +11.11%

Infrastructure Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Farnborough

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

Infrastructure Automation job vacancy trend in Farnborough

Infrastructure Automation
Daily Rate Trend in Farnborough

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Farnborough citing Infrastructure Automation.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Farnborough citing Infrastructure Automation

Infrastructure Automation
Daily Rate Histogram in Farnborough

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Automation in Farnborough over the 6 months to 13 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Automation in Farnborough

Infrastructure Automation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Farnborough 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 3 (33.33%) Apache
1 3 (33.33%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 4 (44.44%) AWS
2 3 (33.33%) Amazon EC2
2 3 (33.33%) Amazon S3
2 3 (33.33%) AWS CloudFormation
2 3 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
2 3 (33.33%) Serverless
3 2 (22.22%) Azure
4 1 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (11.11%) GCP
Development Applications
1 3 (33.33%) Bitbucket
1 3 (33.33%) Git
1 3 (33.33%) GitLab
1 3 (33.33%) Gradle
1 3 (33.33%) Maven
2 1 (11.11%) Gatling
2 1 (11.11%) Jenkins
2 1 (11.11%) JMeter
2 1 (11.11%) LoadRunner
General
1 4 (44.44%) Social Skills
2 2 (22.22%) Banking
3 1 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (33.33%) Automation Engineer
1 3 (33.33%) Developer
1 3 (33.33%) Java Developer
2 1 (11.11%) Azure DevOps Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) VMware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (44.44%) RESTful
2 3 (33.33%) AngularJS
2 3 (33.33%) Spring
2 3 (33.33%) Spring Boot
3 1 (11.11%) LDAP
3 1 (11.11%) OAuth
3 1 (11.11%) SAML
3 1 (11.11%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Private Cloud
2 1 (11.11%) Cloud Native
2 1 (11.11%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (33.33%) Linux
2 2 (22.22%) Windows
3 1 (11.11%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (88.89%) CI/CD
2 6 (66.67%) DevOps
3 4 (44.44%) Containerisation
3 4 (44.44%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (33.33%) Agile
4 3 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (33.33%) Microservices
4 3 (33.33%) OO
4 3 (33.33%) OOP
5 2 (22.22%) Observability
5 2 (22.22%) Test Automation
6 1 (11.11%) Chaos Engineering
6 1 (11.11%) Clean Code
6 1 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
6 1 (11.11%) Deployment Automation
6 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 1 (11.11%) Root Cause Analysis
6 1 (11.11%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 1 (11.11%) Test Strategy
6 1 (11.11%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 4 (44.44%) Java
1 4 (44.44%) Python
1 4 (44.44%) SQL
2 3 (33.33%) PowerShell
3 2 (22.22%) Bash
3 2 (22.22%) JavaScript
4 1 (11.11%) Go
Qualifications
1 5 (55.56%) SC Cleared
1 5 (55.56%) Security Cleared
2 2 (22.22%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) QA
System Software
1 3 (33.33%) Docker
1 3 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (11.11%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 8 (88.89%) Ansible
1 8 (88.89%) Terraform
2 5 (55.56%) Kubernetes
3 2 (22.22%) Rundeck
4 1 (11.11%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 1 (11.11%) Grafana
4 1 (11.11%) Prometheus
4 1 (11.11%) Proxmox
4 1 (11.11%) Salt
4 1 (11.11%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (11.11%) vRealize
4 1 (11.11%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 4 (44.44%) VMware
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft