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 27 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 24 23 -
Rank change year-on-year -1 - -
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Automation 5 11 0
As % of all contract jobs in Farnborough 4.72% 6.63% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.10% 8.40% -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 8 0
10th Percentile £501 £554 -
25th Percentile £503 £570 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £582 -
Median % change year-on-year -11.94% - -
75th Percentile £528 £585 -
90th Percentile £534 £593 -
Hampshire median daily rate £513 £582 £700
% change year-on-year -11.94% -16.86% +27.27%

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 98 131 119
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Farnborough 92.45% 78.92% 98.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 72 92 76
10th Percentile £368 £364 £300
25th Percentile £409 £513 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £619 £675 £667
90th Percentile £675 £750 £713
Hampshire median daily rate £525 £566 £530
% change year-on-year -7.28% +6.84% +0.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 9 15
10th Percentile - £69.75 £18.15
25th Percentile £19.25 - £21.05
Median hourly rate £19.50 £75.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -74.00% +36.36% +22.22%
75th Percentile £41.00 - £59.63
90th Percentile £53.75 £76.50 £79.00
Hampshire median hourly rate £20.71 £70.00 £51.96
% change year-on-year -70.41% +34.72% +15.47%

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
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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) Azure
1 1 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) GitLab
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Automation Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) VMware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) LDAP
1 1 (20.00%) OAuth
1 1 (20.00%) RESTful
1 1 (20.00%) SAML
1 1 (20.00%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Private Cloud
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (20.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Linux
1 2 (40.00%) Windows
2 1 (20.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (60.00%) DevOps
3 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (20.00%) API Development
4 1 (20.00%) Clean Code
4 1 (20.00%) Configuration Management
4 1 (20.00%) Containerisation
4 1 (20.00%) Identity Access Management
4 1 (20.00%) Identity Management
4 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Transformation
4 1 (20.00%) Multi-Factor Authentication
4 1 (20.00%) Observability
4 1 (20.00%) Test Automation
4 1 (20.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) PowerShell
1 3 (60.00%) Python
2 2 (40.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (20.00%) Bash
3 1 (20.00%) Go
3 1 (20.00%) Java
3 1 (20.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 5 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (40.00%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) QA
System Software
1 3 (60.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (20.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (80.00%) Ansible
1 4 (80.00%) Terraform
2 2 (40.00%) Rundeck
3 1 (20.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
3 1 (20.00%) Proxmox
3 1 (20.00%) Salt
3 1 (20.00%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (20.00%) vRealize
3 1 (20.00%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) VMware
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft