Infrastructure Engineer Contract Job Trends in Farnborough

Infrastructure Engineer
Hampshire > Farnborough

The median Infrastructure Engineer daily rate in Farnborough is £465, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 22 November 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 30 26 -
Rank change year-on-year -4 - -
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 4 5 0
As % of all contract jobs in Farnborough 2.92% 3.73% -
As % of the Job Titles category 3.28% 4.50% -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 5 0
10th Percentile £430 £408 -
25th Percentile £448 £475 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £500 -
Median % change year-on-year -7.00% - -
75th Percentile £484 £553 -
90th Percentile £505 £589 -
Hampshire median daily rate £550 £525 £525
% change year-on-year +4.76% - -1.18%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Farnborough

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Farnborough. 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 Farnborough with a recognized job title 122 111 107
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.05% 82.84% 78.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 88 71 70
10th Percentile £320 £363 £300
25th Percentile £396 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £619 £674 £667
90th Percentile £675 £750 £679
Hampshire median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +0.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 9 13
10th Percentile £22.80 £69.75 £21.01
25th Percentile £29.25 - £21.05
Median hourly rate £40.00 £75.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -46.67% +36.36% +22.22%
75th Percentile £51.13 - £60.00
90th Percentile £57.80 £76.50 £79.50
Hampshire median hourly rate £25.15 £65.85 £50.00
% change year-on-year -61.81% +31.70% +11.11%

Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Farnborough

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Infrastructure Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Farnborough.

Infrastructure Engineer job vacancy trend in Farnborough

Infrastructure Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in Farnborough

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Infrastructure Engineer job vacancies in Farnborough.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Infrastructure Engineer job vacancies in Farnborough

Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Farnborough

For the 6 months to 22 November 2025, Infrastructure Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Farnborough region featuring Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 4 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 3 (75.00%) VMware
2 3 (75.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (50.00%) Aruba
3 2 (50.00%) Change Control
3 2 (50.00%) Dell
3 2 (50.00%) Dell DRAC
3 2 (50.00%) Firewall
3 2 (50.00%) FortiGate
3 2 (50.00%) Fortinet
3 2 (50.00%) Operational Stability
3 2 (50.00%) SC Cleared
3 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
3 2 (50.00%) vCenter Server
3 2 (50.00%) VLAN
3 2 (50.00%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (25.00%) Ansible
4 1 (25.00%) API Development
4 1 (25.00%) Bash
4 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
4 1 (25.00%) DevOps
4 1 (25.00%) DV Cleared
4 1 (25.00%) GitLab
4 1 (25.00%) Go
4 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Automation
4 1 (25.00%) Java
4 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
4 1 (25.00%) Linux
4 1 (25.00%) Observability

Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
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:

Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) Firewall
1 2 (50.00%) VLAN
1 2 (50.00%) Wi-Fi
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) GitLab
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) RESTful
1 1 (25.00%) Swagger
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Linux
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (50.00%) Change Control
2 2 (50.00%) Operational Stability
3 1 (25.00%) API Development
3 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (25.00%) DevOps
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Automation
3 1 (25.00%) Observability
3 1 (25.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Bash
1 1 (25.00%) Go
1 1 (25.00%) Java
1 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (25.00%) Python
1 1 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) QA
System Software
1 3 (75.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Dell DRAC
1 2 (50.00%) FortiGate
1 2 (50.00%) vCenter Server
2 1 (25.00%) Ansible
2 1 (25.00%) Proxmox
2 1 (25.00%) Rundeck
2 1 (25.00%) Salt
2 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) VMware
2 2 (50.00%) Aruba
2 2 (50.00%) Dell
2 2 (50.00%) Fortinet