Infrastructure Automation Contracts in London

Infrastructure Automation
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London 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 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 324 414 413
Rank change year-on-year +90 -1 -63
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Automation 67 84 191
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.38% 0.31% 0.49%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.42% 0.34% 0.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 57 162
10th Percentile £374 £481 £454
25th Percentile £463 £525 £486
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £650 £550
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +18.18% +4.76%
75th Percentile £663 £738 £638
90th Percentile £688 £798 £718
England median daily rate £575 £550 £550
% change year-on-year +4.55% - +9.78%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

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 London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,787 24,631 35,904
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.49% 91.12% 92.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,315 17,709 26,172
10th Percentile £338 £375 £390
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £590 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.78% +2.61% +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 325 278 427
10th Percentile £16.00 £18.59 £17.25
25th Percentile £20.00 £22.53 £23.91
Median hourly rate £28.50 £38.13 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -25.25% +5.90% +10.87%
75th Percentile £46.86 £62.64 £51.00
90th Percentile £66.30 £76.78 £67.75
England median hourly rate £35.83 £37.50 £24.48
% change year-on-year -4.45% +53.20% +1.99%

Infrastructure Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Automation in London

Infrastructure Automation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure Automation in London

Infrastructure Automation
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Automation in London over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Automation in London

Infrastructure Automation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Infrastructure Automation in London

Infrastructure Automation
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 29 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
Central London +33 9 £575 -17.86% 3
West London +13 2 £80 -84.09% 1
Infrastructure Automation
England

Infrastructure Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 4 (5.97%) Apache
2 3 (4.48%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (4.48%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (2.99%) Exchange Server 2010
3 2 (2.99%) Exchange Server 2013
4 1 (1.49%) Apache Solr
4 1 (1.49%) IIS
4 1 (1.49%) Tomcat
4 1 (1.49%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 23 (34.33%) Azure
2 21 (31.34%) AWS
3 13 (19.40%) Serverless
4 12 (17.91%) Azure DevOps
5 10 (14.93%) GCP
6 7 (10.45%) Azure Logic Apps
7 6 (8.96%) AWS Lambda
7 6 (8.96%) Azure API Management
7 6 (8.96%) Azure Batch
7 6 (8.96%) Azure Functions
7 6 (8.96%) Azure Key Vault
7 6 (8.96%) Azure Service Bus
7 6 (8.96%) Azure Storage
7 6 (8.96%) Power Automate
7 6 (8.96%) Power Platform
7 6 (8.96%) PowerApps
8 5 (7.46%) Amazon S3
8 5 (7.46%) IaaS
9 4 (5.97%) Microsoft 365
9 4 (5.97%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 9 (13.43%) TCP/IP
2 5 (7.46%) DNS
2 5 (7.46%) Firewall
2 5 (7.46%) HTTP
3 4 (5.97%) DHCP
3 4 (5.97%) Network Security
3 4 (5.97%) SNA
3 4 (5.97%) VSAN
4 3 (4.48%) NAS
4 3 (4.48%) SAN
5 2 (2.99%) DKIM
5 2 (2.99%) DMARC
5 2 (2.99%) InfiniBand
5 2 (2.99%) IPsec
6 1 (1.49%) Cisco ASA
6 1 (1.49%) Internet
6 1 (1.49%) OSPF
6 1 (1.49%) S/MIME
6 1 (1.49%) SD-WAN
6 1 (1.49%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (11.94%) SQL Server
2 7 (10.45%) Data Lake
2 7 (10.45%) Data Warehouse
3 6 (8.96%) Azure SQL Database
3 6 (8.96%) Big Data
3 6 (8.96%) OLTP
4 4 (5.97%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (5.97%) Apache Cassandra
5 3 (4.48%) NoSQL
6 2 (2.99%) BigQuery
6 2 (2.99%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (2.99%) Redis
7 1 (1.49%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (1.49%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
7 1 (1.49%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (1.49%) Hadoop
7 1 (1.49%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 19 (28.36%) Git
2 6 (8.96%) Jenkins
2 6 (8.96%) Visual Studio Team System
3 2 (2.99%) GitLab
4 1 (1.49%) Cypress.io
4 1 (1.49%) JUnit
4 1 (1.49%) Maven
4 1 (1.49%) Mockito
4 1 (1.49%) Selenium
4 1 (1.49%) Terragrunt
4 1 (1.49%) TestNG
General
1 10 (14.93%) Social Skills
2 6 (8.96%) Finance
2 6 (8.96%) Public Sector
3 3 (4.48%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (2.99%) Banking
5 1 (1.49%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (1.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (1.49%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (1.49%) Retail
Job Titles
1 14 (20.90%) Developer
2 12 (17.91%) Automation Engineer
3 10 (14.93%) VMware Engineer
4 9 (13.43%) Consultant
5 7 (10.45%) Senior
6 6 (8.96%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 5 (7.46%) Architect
8 4 (5.97%) Cloud Engineer
8 4 (5.97%) Lead
8 4 (5.97%) Linux Engineer
8 4 (5.97%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
8 4 (5.97%) Python Developer
8 4 (5.97%) Python Engineer
8 4 (5.97%) Splunk Consultant
8 4 (5.97%) Splunk Engineer
8 4 (5.97%) Storage Engineer
8 4 (5.97%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
9 3 (4.48%) Automation Developer
9 3 (4.48%) Delivery Manager
9 3 (4.48%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (14.93%) LDAP
2 7 (10.45%) ARM Templates
2 7 (10.45%) Web Services
3 6 (8.96%) .NET
3 6 (8.96%) JSON
3 6 (8.96%) XML
4 5 (7.46%) SAML
5 4 (5.97%) Elastic Stack
5 4 (5.97%) OAuth
5 4 (5.97%) OpenID
5 4 (5.97%) YAML
6 2 (2.99%) REST
7 1 (1.49%) JAX-RS
7 1 (1.49%) JWT
7 1 (1.49%) Kafka
7 1 (1.49%) Node.js
7 1 (1.49%) OAuth2
7 1 (1.49%) Spring
7 1 (1.49%) Spring Boot
7 1 (1.49%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 10 (14.93%) CMDB
2 4 (5.97%) Data Protection Act
2 4 (5.97%) PKI
3 3 (4.48%) Cloud Native
4 2 (2.99%) Clustering
4 2 (2.99%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (2.99%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.49%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.49%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.49%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.49%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (1.49%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.49%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 10 (14.93%) Linux
2 4 (5.97%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (4.48%) Windows
4 1 (1.49%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.49%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (1.49%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (44.78%) DevOps
2 24 (35.82%) Infrastructure as Code
3 21 (31.34%) Agile
4 18 (26.87%) CI/CD
5 14 (20.90%) Containerisation
6 12 (17.91%) Microservices
6 12 (17.91%) Problem-Solving
6 12 (17.91%) Test Automation
7 11 (16.42%) Migration
7 11 (16.42%) Scrum
8 10 (14.93%) SDLC
9 9 (13.43%) Continuous Delivery
9 9 (13.43%) ITSM
9 9 (13.43%) Kanban
10 8 (11.94%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 7 (10.45%) Deployment Automation
11 7 (10.45%) ITIL
11 7 (10.45%) Software Engineering
12 6 (8.96%) SOA
12 6 (8.96%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 24 (35.82%) Python
2 22 (32.84%) Java
2 22 (32.84%) PowerShell
3 10 (14.93%) C#
3 10 (14.93%) SQL
4 9 (13.43%) Go
5 4 (5.97%) Bash
6 3 (4.48%) TypeScript
7 2 (2.99%) JavaScript
7 2 (2.99%) PHP
7 2 (2.99%) Shell Script
8 1 (1.49%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 14 (20.90%) SC Cleared
1 14 (20.90%) Security Cleared
2 7 (10.45%) DV Cleared
3 4 (5.97%) Degree
4 3 (4.48%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.49%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.49%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (1.49%) NCSC
1 1 (1.49%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 18 (26.87%) Docker
2 15 (22.39%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (14.93%) Active Directory
4 6 (8.96%) Virtual Servers
5 5 (7.46%) VMware ESXi
6 4 (5.97%) VMware NSX
7 2 (2.99%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
7 2 (2.99%) Hyper-V
7 2 (2.99%) KVM
7 2 (2.99%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (1.49%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 32 (47.76%) Terraform
2 24 (35.82%) Kubernetes
3 18 (26.87%) Ansible
4 5 (7.46%) vRealize
5 4 (5.97%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 4 (5.97%) Puppet
5 4 (5.97%) vCenter Server
5 4 (5.97%) vRealize Orchestrator
6 2 (2.99%) McAfee ePO
6 2 (2.99%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (1.49%) Grafana
7 1 (1.49%) Kibana
7 1 (1.49%) logstash
7 1 (1.49%) Microsoft Clustering
7 1 (1.49%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (1.49%) Progress Chef
7 1 (1.49%) Prometheus
7 1 (1.49%) SCCM
Vendors
1 18 (26.87%) VMware
2 16 (23.88%) Microsoft
3 9 (13.43%) Splunk
4 6 (8.96%) Google
4 6 (8.96%) Red Hat
5 2 (2.99%) CyberArk
5 2 (2.99%) McAfee
5 2 (2.99%) NVIDIA
6 1 (1.49%) Adobe
6 1 (1.49%) CheckPoint
6 1 (1.49%) Cisco
6 1 (1.49%) Citrix
6 1 (1.49%) F5
6 1 (1.49%) IBM
6 1 (1.49%) Oracle
6 1 (1.49%) Ping Identity
6 1 (1.49%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.49%) SAP
6 1 (1.49%) SolarWinds