Infrastructure Automation Contracts

Infrastructure Automation
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 417 492 518
Rank change year-on-year +75 +26 -61
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Automation 179 227 364
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.41% 0.38% 0.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.48% 0.42% 0.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 110 155 289
10th Percentile £425 £456 £436
25th Percentile £508 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% - +4.76%
75th Percentile £700 £632 £648
90th Percentile £750 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £624 £525 £525
% change year-on-year +18.81% - +12.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 1
10th Percentile £65.31 - -
25th Percentile £69.53 - -
Median hourly rate £71.87 - £49.54
75th Percentile £74.15 - -
90th Percentile £78.26 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £71.87 - £49.54
% change year-on-year - - +23.85%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,383 53,667 80,409
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.31% 89.90% 90.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,097 37,244 56,431
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,426 1,746 1,925
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.30 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.17% +49.20% -
75th Percentile £59.44 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £36.05 £36.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +0.13% +80.00% -8.51%

Infrastructure Automation
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Automation in the UK

Infrastructure Automation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure Automation in the UK

Infrastructure Automation
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Automation in the UK

Infrastructure Automation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Infrastructure Automation in the UK

Infrastructure Automation
Hourly Rate Histogram

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

Hourly rate histogram for Infrastructure Automation in the UK

Infrastructure Automation
Top 13 Contract Locations

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 UK 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
England +102 128 £575 +4.55% 62
UK excluding London +28 79 £624 +18.81% 42
London +89 66 £575 -11.54% 26
Work from Home +79 61 £535 -1.83% 24
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
Scotland -8 18 £693 +32.00%
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
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (13.97%) Confluence
2 5 (2.79%) SAS
3 4 (2.23%) Apache
3 4 (2.23%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (1.68%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (1.12%) Exchange Server 2010
5 2 (1.12%) Exchange Server 2013
5 2 (1.12%) nginx
6 1 (0.56%) Apache Solr
6 1 (0.56%) IIS
6 1 (0.56%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.56%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.56%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 3 (1.68%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 49 (27.37%) AWS
2 47 (26.26%) Azure
3 22 (12.29%) Entra ID
4 18 (10.06%) GCP
5 17 (9.50%) Azure DevOps
6 15 (8.38%) Serverless
7 14 (7.82%) IaaS
7 14 (7.82%) OpenShift
8 9 (5.03%) Amazon EKS
9 8 (4.47%) GitHub
10 7 (3.91%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 7 (3.91%) AWS Lambda
10 7 (3.91%) Azure Logic Apps
10 7 (3.91%) Microsoft 365
10 7 (3.91%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 6 (3.35%) Azure Service Bus
11 6 (3.35%) Azure Storage
11 6 (3.35%) Power Automate
11 6 (3.35%) Power Platform
11 6 (3.35%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 23 (12.85%) TCP/IP
2 15 (8.38%) HTTP
3 10 (5.59%) SSL
4 9 (5.03%) SAN
5 8 (4.47%) Firewall
6 7 (3.91%) DNS
6 7 (3.91%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 7 (3.91%) Fibre Channel
6 7 (3.91%) NetScaler
7 5 (2.79%) iSCSI
8 4 (2.23%) DHCP
8 4 (2.23%) Network Security
8 4 (2.23%) SNA
8 4 (2.23%) VSAN
9 3 (1.68%) NAS
9 3 (1.68%) Software-Defined Networking
10 2 (1.12%) DKIM
10 2 (1.12%) InfiniBand
10 2 (1.12%) IPsec
10 2 (1.12%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (5.59%) SQL Server
2 7 (3.91%) Azure SQL Database
2 7 (3.91%) Big Data
2 7 (3.91%) Data Lake
2 7 (3.91%) Data Warehouse
3 6 (3.35%) OLTP
4 4 (2.23%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (2.23%) Apache Cassandra
4 4 (2.23%) DB2
5 3 (1.68%) NoSQL
5 3 (1.68%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (1.12%) BigQuery
6 2 (1.12%) Hadoop
6 2 (1.12%) MySQL
6 2 (1.12%) Redis
6 2 (1.12%) SQLite
7 1 (0.56%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.56%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.56%) Neo4j
7 1 (0.56%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 46 (25.70%) Jenkins
2 38 (21.23%) Git
3 32 (17.88%) JIRA
4 26 (14.53%) Bitbucket
5 22 (12.29%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 11 (6.15%) GitLab
7 6 (3.35%) Visual Studio Team System
8 4 (2.23%) SonarQube
9 3 (1.68%) JUnit
9 3 (1.68%) Maven
9 3 (1.68%) Selenium
10 2 (1.12%) Artifactory
10 2 (1.12%) Snyk
10 2 (1.12%) Sonatype Nexus
11 1 (0.56%) Bitbucket Server
11 1 (0.56%) Cucumber
11 1 (0.56%) Pa11y
11 1 (0.56%) Spinnaker
11 1 (0.56%) Terragrunt
11 1 (0.56%) TestCafe
General
1 73 (40.78%) Social Skills
2 27 (15.08%) Analytical Skills
3 26 (14.53%) Public Sector
4 18 (10.06%) Aerospace
5 17 (9.50%) Finance
6 9 (5.03%) Documentation Skills
7 8 (4.47%) Banking
8 3 (1.68%) Investment Banking
9 2 (1.12%) Retail
9 2 (1.12%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.56%) Danish Language
10 1 (0.56%) Electronics
10 1 (0.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.56%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.56%) Marketing
10 1 (0.56%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.56%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 50 (27.93%) Developer
2 20 (11.17%) Senior
3 17 (9.50%) DevOps Engineer
4 16 (8.94%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 14 (7.82%) Automation Engineer
5 14 (7.82%) Python Developer
6 12 (6.70%) Consultant
7 10 (5.59%) Linux Engineer
7 10 (5.59%) Python Engineer
7 10 (5.59%) VMware Engineer
8 9 (5.03%) Architect
8 9 (5.03%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
9 8 (4.47%) Cloud Engineer
9 8 (4.47%) Storage Engineer
10 7 (3.91%) Java Developer
10 7 (3.91%) Lead
11 6 (3.35%) Software Engineer
12 5 (2.79%) Applications Developer
12 5 (2.79%) Senior Test Engineer
12 5 (2.79%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (16.20%) .NET
2 22 (12.29%) .NET Core
2 22 (12.29%) SAML
3 21 (11.73%) OAuth
3 21 (11.73%) OpenID
4 13 (7.26%) REST
5 12 (6.70%) Elastic Stack
6 11 (6.15%) XML
7 10 (5.59%) LDAP
8 9 (5.03%) JSON
9 8 (4.47%) AngularJS
9 8 (4.47%) ARM Templates
9 8 (4.47%) YAML
10 7 (3.91%) Web Services
11 5 (2.79%) Django
11 5 (2.79%) Flash
11 5 (2.79%) POSIX
11 5 (2.79%) Twisted
12 4 (2.23%) Flask
12 4 (2.23%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 10 (5.59%) CMDB
2 8 (4.47%) Data Centre
3 7 (3.91%) Cloud Native
3 7 (3.91%) Data Protection Act
4 5 (2.79%) NVMe
4 5 (2.79%) PKI
4 5 (2.79%) Public Cloud
5 4 (2.23%) Client/Server
5 4 (2.23%) Distributed Applications
6 3 (1.68%) Private Cloud
7 2 (1.12%) Clustering
7 2 (1.12%) Enterprise Storage
7 2 (1.12%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (1.12%) Legacy Applications
7 2 (1.12%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (1.12%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.56%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (0.56%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.56%) Product Ownership
8 1 (0.56%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 60 (33.52%) Linux
2 24 (13.41%) Windows
3 20 (11.17%) Unix
4 8 (4.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (3.35%) Windows Server
6 4 (2.23%) Data ONTAP
6 4 (2.23%) VMS
7 3 (1.68%) Windows 2000
7 3 (1.68%) Windows XP
8 2 (1.12%) Android
8 2 (1.12%) Windows Server 2012
8 2 (1.12%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.56%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.56%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.56%) Windows Server 2008
9 1 (0.56%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (41.34%) DevOps
2 69 (38.55%) CI/CD
3 52 (29.05%) Infrastructure as Code
4 43 (24.02%) Agile
4 43 (24.02%) Continuous Integration
5 34 (18.99%) Configuration Management
5 34 (18.99%) Problem-Solving
6 32 (17.88%) Deployment Automation
7 30 (16.76%) Test Automation
8 29 (16.20%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 28 (15.64%) Task Automation
10 26 (14.53%) OO
11 23 (12.85%) Identity Access Management
12 22 (12.29%) Containerisation
12 22 (12.29%) OOP
13 20 (11.17%) SDLC
14 19 (10.61%) Software Engineering
15 18 (10.06%) Migration
15 18 (10.06%) Scrum
16 17 (9.50%) Threat Detection
Programming Languages
1 82 (45.81%) Python
2 56 (31.28%) PowerShell
3 46 (25.70%) Java
4 19 (10.61%) Bash
5 18 (10.06%) Perl
6 17 (9.50%) Go
7 16 (8.94%) SQL
8 11 (6.15%) C#
8 11 (6.15%) JavaScript
9 6 (3.35%) PHP
10 5 (2.79%) Ruby
10 5 (2.79%) Shell Script
11 4 (2.23%) TypeScript
12 3 (1.68%) Bicep
13 2 (1.12%) Kotlin
14 1 (0.56%) C
14 1 (0.56%) C++
14 1 (0.56%) Rust
Qualifications
1 63 (35.20%) Security Cleared
2 59 (32.96%) SC Cleared
3 10 (5.59%) Degree
4 8 (4.47%) DV Cleared
5 7 (3.91%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.12%) VCAP
6 2 (1.12%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 1 (0.56%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.56%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.56%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.56%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.23%) Accessibility
2 3 (1.68%) QA
3 1 (0.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.56%) NCSC
3 1 (0.56%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 32 (17.88%) Docker
2 27 (15.08%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (6.70%) Active Directory
4 11 (6.15%) VMware NSX
5 7 (3.91%) vSphere
6 6 (3.35%) Virtual Servers
7 5 (2.79%) Hyper-V
7 5 (2.79%) NFS
7 5 (2.79%) VMware ESXi
8 4 (2.23%) GPFS
9 3 (1.68%) vCloud
10 2 (1.12%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
10 2 (1.12%) KVM
10 2 (1.12%) Virtual Machines
11 1 (0.56%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 71 (39.66%) Terraform
2 65 (36.31%) Ansible
3 47 (26.26%) Kubernetes
4 23 (12.85%) PowerCLI
5 12 (6.70%) Puppet
6 10 (5.59%) Progress Chef
7 7 (3.91%) vRealize
8 6 (3.35%) vRealize Orchestrator
9 4 (2.23%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 4 (2.23%) Grafana
9 4 (2.23%) Kibana
9 4 (2.23%) Prometheus
9 4 (2.23%) vCenter Server
9 4 (2.23%) Veritas Storage Foundation
10 3 (1.68%) Autotask
10 3 (1.68%) Single Sign-On
11 2 (1.12%) Argo
11 2 (1.12%) McAfee ePO
11 2 (1.12%) Rancher
11 2 (1.12%) SCCM
Vendors
1 41 (22.91%) Microsoft
2 38 (21.23%) VMware
3 23 (12.85%) Atlassian
3 23 (12.85%) Dell
4 22 (12.29%) HP
5 12 (6.70%) Google
6 10 (5.59%) Red Hat
7 9 (5.03%) Splunk
8 8 (4.47%) F5
9 6 (3.35%) Brocade
9 6 (3.35%) Oracle
10 5 (2.79%) IBM
11 4 (2.23%) EMC
11 4 (2.23%) NetApp
11 4 (2.23%) Sybase
11 4 (2.23%) Veritas
12 3 (1.68%) BMC
12 3 (1.68%) Juniper
12 3 (1.68%) Remedy
12 3 (1.68%) TOWER Software