Infrastructure Automation Contracts in the Thames Valley

Infrastructure Automation
South East > Thames Valley

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 133 144 158
Rank change year-on-year +11 +14 -23
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Automation 7 7 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.26% 0.24% 0.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.30% 0.26% 0.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 4 11
10th Percentile £506 £455 £520
25th Percentile £521 £500 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £548 £563 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.67% -2.17% +7.48%
75th Percentile £574 £631 £628
90th Percentile £590 £665 £633
South East median daily rate £548 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -0.45% -4.35% +6.48%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 the Thames Valley with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,337 2,689 3,110
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 87.10% 91.56% 89.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,302 1,867 2,096
10th Percentile £213 £321 £225
25th Percentile £369 £413 £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £675 £688 £650
South East median daily rate £500 £508 £500
% change year-on-year -1.48% +1.50% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 171 62 87
10th Percentile £15.48 £18.60 £10.77
25th Percentile £19.71 £24.86 £11.78
Median hourly rate £45.00 £51.25 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -12.20% +192.86% -16.86%
75th Percentile £65.00 £66.21 £25.36
90th Percentile £85.65 £79.19 £67.80
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £50.00 £22.45
% change year-on-year -5.00% +122.72% -18.36%

Infrastructure Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing Infrastructure Automation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Automation in the Thames Valley

Infrastructure Automation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Infrastructure Automation in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure Automation in the Thames Valley

Infrastructure Automation
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

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

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Automation in the Thames Valley

Infrastructure Automation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Infrastructure Automation in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for Infrastructure Automation in the Thames Valley

Infrastructure Automation
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley 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
Berkshire -5 5 £495 -20.80%
Oxfordshire +3 2 £600 +20.00%
Infrastructure Automation
South East

Infrastructure Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 2 (28.57%) Confluence
1 2 (28.57%) nginx
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 4 (57.14%) AWS
2 3 (42.86%) Azure
3 2 (28.57%) GCP
4 1 (14.29%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (14.29%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (14.29%) Azure AKS
4 1 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (14.29%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (14.29%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 1 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (14.29%) NuGet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) Big Data
1 1 (14.29%) Hadoop
1 1 (14.29%) Neo4j
1 1 (14.29%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (42.86%) GitLab
2 2 (28.57%) Git
2 2 (28.57%) JIRA
3 1 (14.29%) Jenkins
3 1 (14.29%) Spinnaker
General
1 1 (14.29%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Administrator
2 1 (14.29%) Azure DevOps Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Developer
2 1 (14.29%) DevSecOps Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Full Stack Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Full Stack Python Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Python Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (57.14%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (14.29%) CSS
2 1 (14.29%) Django
2 1 (14.29%) HTML
2 1 (14.29%) jQuery
2 1 (14.29%) Kafka
2 1 (14.29%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Cloud Native
1 1 (14.29%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 4 (57.14%) Linux
2 1 (14.29%) Android
2 1 (14.29%) Apple iOS
2 1 (14.29%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) CI/CD
2 5 (71.43%) DevOps
3 4 (57.14%) Infrastructure as Code
3 4 (57.14%) Test Automation
4 3 (42.86%) Agile
4 3 (42.86%) Continuous Integration
4 3 (42.86%) Project Delivery
5 2 (28.57%) Artificial Intelligence
5 2 (28.57%) Configuration Management
5 2 (28.57%) Containerisation
5 2 (28.57%) Continuous Delivery
5 2 (28.57%) ITIL
5 2 (28.57%) Release Management
5 2 (28.57%) Software Delivery
6 1 (14.29%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
6 1 (14.29%) Deployment Automation
6 1 (14.29%) LLM
6 1 (14.29%) Scaled Agile Framework
6 1 (14.29%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 1 (14.29%) Threat Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) Go
1 3 (42.86%) Python
2 2 (28.57%) JavaScript
3 1 (14.29%) Bash
3 1 (14.29%) C
3 1 (14.29%) C++
3 1 (14.29%) Java
3 1 (14.29%) PowerShell
3 1 (14.29%) Rust
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) Degree
1 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) QA
System Software
1 2 (28.57%) Docker
2 1 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (85.71%) Terraform
2 5 (71.43%) Kubernetes
3 4 (57.14%) Ansible
4 2 (28.57%) Kibana
4 2 (28.57%) Prometheus
4 2 (28.57%) Rancher
5 1 (14.29%) Grafana
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) ServiceNow
1 2 (28.57%) VMware
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 1 (14.29%) Oracle