Infrastructure Automation Contracts in England

Infrastructure Automation
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Infrastructure Automation skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Infrastructure Automation over the 6 months to 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 410 512 511
Rank change year-on-year +102 -1 -65
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Automation 128 143 281
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.35% 0.28% 0.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.40% 0.31% 0.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 79 103 232
10th Percentile £410 £456 £438
25th Percentile £475 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - +9.78%
75th Percentile £700 £700 £634
90th Percentile - £771 £700
UK median daily rate £625 £550 £550
% change year-on-year +13.64% - +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £65.31 - -
25th Percentile £69.53 - -
Median hourly rate £71.87 - -
75th Percentile £74.15 - -
90th Percentile £78.26 - -
UK median hourly rate £71.87 - £49.54
% change year-on-year - - +23.85%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Infrastructure Automation is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,992 45,544 64,506
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.53% 90.24% 90.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,975 31,977 45,770
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £445 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.69%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £765 £749
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,229 1,592 1,769
10th Percentile £12.86 £10.87 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.50 £37.50 £24.35
Median % change year-on-year -5.33% +54.00% +1.46%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.60
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £37.30 £25.00
% change year-on-year -6.17% +49.20% -

Infrastructure Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Infrastructure Automation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Automation in England

Infrastructure Automation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Infrastructure Automation in England.

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure Automation in England

Infrastructure Automation
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Automation in England over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Automation in England

Infrastructure Automation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Infrastructure Automation in England.

Hourly rate trend for Infrastructure Automation in England

Infrastructure Automation
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Infrastructure Automation in England over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Infrastructure Automation in England

Infrastructure Automation
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Infrastructure Automation within the England region over the 6 months to 28 April 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +89 66 £575 -11.54% 26
South West +35 31 £700 +14.29% 6
North of England +38 20 £481 -3.80% 11
North West +30 18 £481 -8.38% 7
South East +15 9 £548 -0.45% 10
Yorkshire +22 2 £458 +18.06% 3
Midlands +21 2 £625 +38.12% 4
West Midlands +25 1 - - 3
East Midlands +19 1 £625 +30.21% 1
Infrastructure Automation
UK

Infrastructure Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 25 (19.53%) Confluence
2 4 (3.13%) Apache
2 4 (3.13%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (2.34%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (1.56%) Exchange Server 2010
4 2 (1.56%) Exchange Server 2013
4 2 (1.56%) nginx
5 1 (0.78%) Apache Solr
5 1 (0.78%) IIS
5 1 (0.78%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.78%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.78%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 35 (27.34%) AWS
1 35 (27.34%) Azure
2 17 (13.28%) Azure DevOps
3 15 (11.72%) GCP
3 15 (11.72%) Serverless
4 7 (5.47%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 7 (5.47%) AWS Lambda
4 7 (5.47%) Azure Logic Apps
4 7 (5.47%) IaaS
5 6 (4.69%) Azure API Management
5 6 (4.69%) Azure Batch
5 6 (4.69%) Azure Functions
5 6 (4.69%) Azure Key Vault
5 6 (4.69%) Azure Service Bus
5 6 (4.69%) Azure Storage
5 6 (4.69%) Dynamics 365
5 6 (4.69%) GitHub
5 6 (4.69%) Power Automate
5 6 (4.69%) Power Platform
5 6 (4.69%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 9 (7.03%) TCP/IP
2 8 (6.25%) Firewall
3 6 (4.69%) DNS
4 5 (3.91%) HTTP
5 4 (3.13%) DHCP
5 4 (3.13%) Network Security
5 4 (3.13%) SNA
5 4 (3.13%) VSAN
6 3 (2.34%) NAS
6 3 (2.34%) SAN
6 3 (2.34%) Software-Defined Networking
7 2 (1.56%) DKIM
7 2 (1.56%) DMARC
7 2 (1.56%) InfiniBand
7 2 (1.56%) IPsec
7 2 (1.56%) VPN
8 1 (0.78%) EIGRP
8 1 (0.78%) SD-WAN
8 1 (0.78%) Skype
8 1 (0.78%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (7.81%) SQL Server
2 7 (5.47%) Azure SQL Database
2 7 (5.47%) Big Data
2 7 (5.47%) Data Lake
2 7 (5.47%) Data Warehouse
3 6 (4.69%) OLTP
4 4 (3.13%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (3.13%) Apache Cassandra
5 3 (2.34%) NoSQL
5 3 (2.34%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (1.56%) BigQuery
6 2 (1.56%) Hadoop
6 2 (1.56%) MySQL
6 2 (1.56%) Redis
6 2 (1.56%) SQLite
7 1 (0.78%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (0.78%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.78%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.78%) Flink
7 1 (0.78%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 32 (25.00%) Jenkins
2 29 (22.66%) JIRA
3 24 (18.75%) Bitbucket
3 24 (18.75%) Git
4 22 (17.19%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 7 (5.47%) GitLab
6 6 (4.69%) Visual Studio Team System
7 3 (2.34%) JUnit
8 2 (1.56%) Selenium
8 2 (1.56%) Snyk
8 2 (1.56%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.78%) Bitbucket Server
9 1 (0.78%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.78%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.78%) Mockito
9 1 (0.78%) Pa11y
9 1 (0.78%) Spinnaker
9 1 (0.78%) Terragrunt
9 1 (0.78%) TestCafe
9 1 (0.78%) TestNG
General
1 34 (26.56%) Social Skills
2 27 (21.09%) Analytical Skills
3 18 (14.06%) Aerospace
4 10 (7.81%) Finance
5 9 (7.03%) Public Sector
6 2 (1.56%) Banking
6 2 (1.56%) Retail
6 2 (1.56%) Telecoms
7 1 (0.78%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (0.78%) Electronics
7 1 (0.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (0.78%) Manufacturing
7 1 (0.78%) Marketing
7 1 (0.78%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 40 (31.25%) Developer
2 18 (14.06%) Senior
3 12 (9.38%) Automation Engineer
4 11 (8.59%) DevOps Engineer
5 10 (7.81%) Python Developer
5 10 (7.81%) VMware Engineer
6 9 (7.03%) Architect
6 9 (7.03%) Consultant
7 7 (5.47%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 7 (5.47%) Lead
8 6 (4.69%) Cloud Engineer
9 5 (3.91%) Automation Developer
9 5 (3.91%) Linux Engineer
9 5 (3.91%) Python Engineer
9 5 (3.91%) Senior Test Engineer
9 5 (3.91%) Software Engineer
9 5 (3.91%) Test Engineer
10 4 (3.13%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
10 4 (3.13%) Storage Engineer
10 4 (3.13%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (22.66%) .NET
2 22 (17.19%) .NET Core
3 10 (7.81%) LDAP
4 9 (7.03%) Elastic Stack
5 8 (6.25%) ARM Templates
5 8 (6.25%) XML
6 7 (5.47%) Web Services
7 6 (4.69%) JSON
8 5 (3.91%) Django
8 5 (3.91%) SAML
8 5 (3.91%) YAML
9 4 (3.13%) FastAPI
9 4 (3.13%) Flask
9 4 (3.13%) OAuth
9 4 (3.13%) OpenID
9 4 (3.13%) React
10 3 (2.34%) AngularJS
10 3 (2.34%) Kafka
11 2 (1.56%) REST
11 2 (1.56%) RxJava
Miscellaneous
1 10 (7.81%) CMDB
2 7 (5.47%) Cloud Native
3 6 (4.69%) Data Centre
4 5 (3.91%) PKI
4 5 (3.91%) Public Cloud
5 4 (3.13%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.56%) Clustering
6 2 (1.56%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (1.56%) Legacy Applications
6 2 (1.56%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (0.78%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (0.78%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.78%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.78%) Private Cloud
7 1 (0.78%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.78%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 39 (30.47%) Linux
2 13 (10.16%) Windows
3 8 (6.25%) Unix
4 4 (3.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (3.13%) VMS
5 3 (2.34%) Windows 2000
5 3 (2.34%) Windows XP
6 2 (1.56%) Android
6 2 (1.56%) Windows Server
6 2 (1.56%) Windows Server 2012
6 2 (1.56%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.78%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.78%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.78%) Windows Server 2008
7 1 (0.78%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (41.41%) CI/CD
2 43 (33.59%) DevOps
3 36 (28.13%) Infrastructure as Code
4 33 (25.78%) Agile
4 33 (25.78%) Continuous Integration
4 33 (25.78%) Problem-Solving
5 30 (23.44%) Deployment Automation
6 28 (21.88%) Configuration Management
7 26 (20.31%) Task Automation
8 25 (19.53%) Test Automation
9 22 (17.19%) OO
9 22 (17.19%) OOP
10 17 (13.28%) Containerisation
10 17 (13.28%) Software Engineering
11 16 (12.50%) Scrum
12 14 (10.94%) Microservices
13 13 (10.16%) Continuous Delivery
14 12 (9.38%) Kanban
15 11 (8.59%) Migration
15 11 (8.59%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 62 (48.44%) Python
2 53 (41.41%) PowerShell
3 30 (23.44%) Java
4 13 (10.16%) Go
5 11 (8.59%) C#
5 11 (8.59%) SQL
6 6 (4.69%) Bash
7 5 (3.91%) JavaScript
7 5 (3.91%) PHP
7 5 (3.91%) Shell Script
8 4 (3.13%) TypeScript
9 3 (2.34%) Bicep
10 2 (1.56%) Kotlin
10 2 (1.56%) Ruby
11 1 (0.78%) C
11 1 (0.78%) C++
11 1 (0.78%) Perl
11 1 (0.78%) Rust
Qualifications
1 46 (35.94%) Security Cleared
2 42 (32.81%) SC Cleared
3 10 (7.81%) Degree
4 8 (6.25%) DV Cleared
5 7 (5.47%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.56%) VCAP
6 2 (1.56%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 1 (0.78%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.78%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.78%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.78%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.78%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.13%) Accessibility
2 1 (0.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (0.78%) NCSC
2 1 (0.78%) PCI DSS
2 1 (0.78%) QA
System Software
1 24 (18.75%) Docker
1 24 (18.75%) VMware Infrastructure
2 11 (8.59%) Active Directory
3 8 (6.25%) VMware NSX
4 6 (4.69%) Virtual Servers
5 5 (3.91%) Hyper-V
5 5 (3.91%) VMware ESXi
6 4 (3.13%) vSphere
7 2 (1.56%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
7 2 (1.56%) KVM
7 2 (1.56%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.78%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 58 (45.31%) Terraform
2 56 (43.75%) Ansible
3 40 (31.25%) Kubernetes
4 23 (17.97%) PowerCLI
5 7 (5.47%) Progress Chef
5 7 (5.47%) vRealize
6 6 (4.69%) Puppet
6 6 (4.69%) vRealize Orchestrator
7 4 (3.13%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 4 (3.13%) Grafana
7 4 (3.13%) Kibana
7 4 (3.13%) Prometheus
7 4 (3.13%) vCenter Server
8 3 (2.34%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (1.56%) Argo
9 2 (1.56%) McAfee ePO
9 2 (1.56%) Rancher
9 2 (1.56%) SCCM
10 1 (0.78%) Microsoft Intune
10 1 (0.78%) OPNET
Vendors
1 32 (25.00%) VMware
2 23 (17.97%) Atlassian
2 23 (17.97%) Dell
3 22 (17.19%) HP
4 20 (15.63%) Microsoft
5 9 (7.03%) Splunk
6 7 (5.47%) Google
6 7 (5.47%) Red Hat
7 4 (3.13%) Oracle
8 3 (2.34%) Fortinet
8 3 (2.34%) Juniper
9 2 (1.56%) Cisco
9 2 (1.56%) McAfee
9 2 (1.56%) NVIDIA
9 2 (1.56%) SAP
9 2 (1.56%) ServiceNow
10 1 (0.78%) CyberArk
10 1 (0.78%) Databricks
10 1 (0.78%) IBM
10 1 (0.78%) Ping Identity