Infrastructure Engineering Contract Job Trends in Farnborough

Infrastructure Engineering
Hampshire > Farnborough

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Farnborough requiring Infrastructure Engineering skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 24 24 -
Rank change year-on-year 0 - -
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 11 3 0
As % of all contract jobs in Farnborough 6.88% 2.94% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.40% 3.61% -
Number of daily rates quoted 11 3 0
10th Percentile £458 £375 -
25th Percentile £479 £394 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £450 -
Median % change year-on-year +12.22% - -
75th Percentile £575 £544 -
90th Percentile £606 £585 -
Hampshire median daily rate £525 £500 £600
% change year-on-year +5.00% -16.67% +9.59%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Farnborough

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 Farnborough.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 131 83 123
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Farnborough 81.88% 81.37% 96.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 100 54 73
10th Percentile £313 £350 £300
25th Percentile £385 £455 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £551 £588
Median % change year-on-year -9.26% -6.21% +17.50%
75th Percentile £619 £636 £667
90th Percentile £675 £734 £705
Hampshire median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +2.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 8 12
10th Percentile - £69.00 £16.73
25th Percentile £19.25 £74.06 £21.04
Median hourly rate £40.00 £75.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -46.67% +66.67% +12.50%
75th Percentile - - £63.44
90th Percentile £53.35 £77.25 £79.75
Hampshire median hourly rate £20.71 £35.00 £51.42
% change year-on-year -40.83% -31.93% +18.21%

Infrastructure Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Farnborough

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

Infrastructure Engineering job vacancy trend in Farnborough

Infrastructure Engineering
Daily Rate Trend in Farnborough

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

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

Infrastructure Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in Farnborough

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering in Farnborough over the 6 months to 17 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Engineering in Farnborough

Infrastructure Engineering
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 (9.09%) Azure
1 1 (9.09%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (18.18%) Firewall
1 2 (18.18%) VLAN
1 2 (18.18%) Wi-Fi
Development Applications
1 2 (18.18%) GitLab
Job Titles
1 7 (63.64%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Architect
2 2 (18.18%) Automation Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Infrastructure Architect
2 2 (18.18%) Network Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) VMware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (18.18%) Swagger
2 1 (9.09%) REST
2 1 (9.09%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 1 (9.09%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (9.09%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (9.09%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 5 (45.45%) Linux
2 3 (27.27%) Windows
3 2 (18.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (9.09%) CentOS
4 1 (9.09%) Ubuntu
4 1 (9.09%) Windows Server
4 1 (9.09%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (18.18%) Agile
1 2 (18.18%) Change Control
1 2 (18.18%) CI/CD
1 2 (18.18%) DevSecOps
1 2 (18.18%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (18.18%) Observability
1 2 (18.18%) Operational Stability
2 1 (9.09%) API Development
2 1 (9.09%) Capacity Planning
2 1 (9.09%) Configuration Management
2 1 (9.09%) Containerisation
2 1 (9.09%) Deployment Automation
2 1 (9.09%) Design Patterns
2 1 (9.09%) DevOps
2 1 (9.09%) Event-Driven
2 1 (9.09%) High Availability
2 1 (9.09%) Identity Access Management
2 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure Automation
2 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure Management
2 1 (9.09%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 3 (27.27%) PowerShell
2 2 (18.18%) Bash
2 2 (18.18%) Go
2 2 (18.18%) Java
2 2 (18.18%) JavaScript
2 2 (18.18%) Python
2 2 (18.18%) SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (72.73%) Security Cleared
2 5 (45.45%) DV Cleared
2 5 (45.45%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.09%) QA
System Software
1 8 (72.73%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (9.09%) Docker
2 1 (9.09%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (27.27%) Terraform
1 3 (27.27%) vCenter Server
2 2 (18.18%) Ansible
2 2 (18.18%) Dell DRAC
2 2 (18.18%) FortiGate
2 2 (18.18%) Kubernetes
2 2 (18.18%) Proxmox
2 2 (18.18%) Rundeck
2 2 (18.18%) Salt
3 1 (9.09%) Nessus
3 1 (9.09%) vRealize
Vendors
1 9 (81.82%) VMware
2 4 (36.36%) Red Hat
3 2 (18.18%) Aruba
3 2 (18.18%) Dell
3 2 (18.18%) Fortinet
4 1 (9.09%) Microsoft