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 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 416 489 543
Rank change year-on-year +73 +54 -68
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Automation 165 207 336
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.39% 0.36% 0.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.45% 0.40% 0.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 99 141 266
10th Percentile £400 £440 £421
25th Percentile £498 £500 £482
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £700 £626 £649
90th Percentile £750 £738 £735
UK excluding London median daily rate £693 £525 £525
% change year-on-year +32.00% - +6.60%
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 excluding London median hourly rate £71.87 - -

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 36,622 51,397 80,021
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.09% 89.76% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,613 35,611 56,174
10th Percentile £300 £325 £344
25th Percentile £413 £439 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +7.07%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £480
% change year-on-year - +4.17% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,439 1,690 1,913
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.77 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +7.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.00 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.57% +75.00% -6.54%

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 20 May 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 20 May 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 20 May 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 +113 125 £600 +9.09% 81
London +93 66 £536 -20.26% 36
UK excluding London +10 66 £693 +32.00% 47
Work from Home +70 60 £553 +1.38% 41
South West +33 34 £700 +27.27% 10
North of England +34 15 £475 -3.80% 14
North West +21 13 £475 -11.63% 11
South East +19 10 £613 +11.36% 13
Scotland -7 8 £609 +13.36%
Yorkshire +18 2 £495 +27.74% 1
Midlands +13 2 £625 +38.12% 7
East Midlands +17 1 £625 +30.21%
West Midlands +16 1 - - 7

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 26 (15.76%) Confluence
2 5 (3.03%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (3.03%) SAS
3 4 (2.42%) Apache
4 3 (1.82%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (1.21%) Exchange Server 2010
5 2 (1.21%) Exchange Server 2013
6 1 (0.61%) Apache Solr
6 1 (0.61%) IIS
6 1 (0.61%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.61%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.61%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 3 (1.82%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 53 (32.12%) Azure
2 51 (30.91%) AWS
3 24 (14.55%) GCP
4 22 (13.33%) Entra ID
5 17 (10.30%) Azure DevOps
6 15 (9.09%) Serverless
7 14 (8.48%) OpenShift
8 13 (7.88%) IaaS
9 8 (4.85%) Amazon EKS
9 8 (4.85%) GitHub
9 8 (4.85%) Microsoft 365
9 8 (4.85%) PaaS
10 7 (4.24%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 7 (4.24%) AWS CloudFormation
10 7 (4.24%) AWS Lambda
10 7 (4.24%) Azure Logic Apps
10 7 (4.24%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 6 (3.64%) Azure Functions
11 6 (3.64%) Dynamics 365
11 6 (3.64%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 14 (8.48%) TCP/IP
2 9 (5.45%) SAN
3 8 (4.85%) Firewall
4 7 (4.24%) DNS
4 7 (4.24%) Fibre Channel
5 6 (3.64%) HTTP
6 5 (3.03%) iSCSI
7 4 (2.42%) DHCP
7 4 (2.42%) Network Security
8 3 (1.82%) NAS
8 3 (1.82%) SNA
8 3 (1.82%) Software-Defined Networking
8 3 (1.82%) VPN
8 3 (1.82%) VSAN
9 2 (1.21%) DKIM
9 2 (1.21%) DMARC
9 2 (1.21%) InfiniBand
9 2 (1.21%) IPsec
10 1 (0.61%) EIGRP
10 1 (0.61%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (6.06%) SQL Server
2 7 (4.24%) Azure SQL Database
2 7 (4.24%) Big Data
2 7 (4.24%) Data Lake
2 7 (4.24%) Data Warehouse
3 6 (3.64%) OLTP
4 4 (2.42%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (2.42%) Apache Cassandra
4 4 (2.42%) DB2
5 3 (1.82%) BigQuery
5 3 (1.82%) NoSQL
5 3 (1.82%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (1.21%) Hadoop
6 2 (1.21%) MySQL
6 2 (1.21%) Redis
6 2 (1.21%) SQLite
7 1 (0.61%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (0.61%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.61%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.61%) Flink
Development Applications
1 40 (24.24%) Jenkins
2 33 (20.00%) Git
2 33 (20.00%) JIRA
3 27 (16.36%) Bitbucket
4 22 (13.33%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 10 (6.06%) GitLab
6 6 (3.64%) Visual Studio Team System
7 4 (2.42%) JUnit
7 4 (2.42%) SonarQube
8 3 (1.82%) Maven
9 2 (1.21%) Artifactory
9 2 (1.21%) Selenium
9 2 (1.21%) Snyk
9 2 (1.21%) Sonatype Nexus
10 1 (0.61%) Bitbucket Server
10 1 (0.61%) Cucumber
10 1 (0.61%) Pa11y
10 1 (0.61%) Spinnaker
10 1 (0.61%) Terragrunt
10 1 (0.61%) TestCafe
General
1 62 (37.58%) Social Skills
2 29 (17.58%) Analytical Skills
3 22 (13.33%) Public Sector
4 18 (10.91%) Aerospace
5 14 (8.48%) Finance
6 6 (3.64%) Banking
7 3 (1.82%) Investment Banking
8 2 (1.21%) Retail
9 1 (0.61%) Danish Language
9 1 (0.61%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.61%) Electronics
9 1 (0.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.61%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.61%) Marketing
9 1 (0.61%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.61%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.61%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 36 (21.82%) Developer
2 23 (13.94%) Senior
3 17 (10.30%) DevOps Engineer
4 15 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 13 (7.88%) Automation Engineer
6 11 (6.67%) Consultant
7 10 (6.06%) Architect
8 9 (5.45%) Cloud Engineer
8 9 (5.45%) VMware Engineer
9 8 (4.85%) Linux Engineer
9 8 (4.85%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
9 8 (4.85%) Python Engineer
9 8 (4.85%) Storage Engineer
10 7 (4.24%) Software Engineer
11 6 (3.64%) Azure Engineer
11 6 (3.64%) Lead
12 5 (3.03%) Python Developer
12 5 (3.03%) Senior Test Engineer
12 5 (3.03%) Test Engineer
13 4 (2.42%) Automation Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (18.18%) .NET
2 22 (13.33%) .NET Core
3 19 (11.52%) SAML
4 18 (10.91%) OpenID
5 17 (10.30%) OAuth
6 12 (7.27%) Elastic Stack
7 11 (6.67%) XML
8 9 (5.45%) JSON
8 9 (5.45%) LDAP
9 8 (4.85%) ARM Templates
10 7 (4.24%) Web Services
10 7 (4.24%) YAML
11 5 (3.03%) Flash
11 5 (3.03%) Node.js
11 5 (3.03%) POSIX
11 5 (3.03%) React
11 5 (3.03%) REST
12 3 (1.82%) AngularJS
12 3 (1.82%) Kafka
12 3 (1.82%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 8 (4.85%) CMDB
1 8 (4.85%) Data Centre
2 7 (4.24%) Cloud Native
2 7 (4.24%) PKI
3 5 (3.03%) Data Protection Act
3 5 (3.03%) NVMe
3 5 (3.03%) Public Cloud
4 4 (2.42%) Client/Server
4 4 (2.42%) Distributed Applications
5 3 (1.82%) Onboarding
5 3 (1.82%) Private Cloud
5 3 (1.82%) Product Ownership
6 2 (1.21%) Clustering
6 2 (1.21%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (1.21%) Enterprise Storage
6 2 (1.21%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (1.21%) Security Posture
7 1 (0.61%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.61%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (0.61%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 52 (31.52%) Linux
2 21 (12.73%) Windows
3 8 (4.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 8 (4.85%) Unix
4 6 (3.64%) Windows Server
5 4 (2.42%) Data ONTAP
5 4 (2.42%) VMS
6 3 (1.82%) Windows 2000
6 3 (1.82%) Windows XP
7 2 (1.21%) Windows Server 2012
7 2 (1.21%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.61%) Android
8 1 (0.61%) Windows Server 2008
8 1 (0.61%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (43.64%) DevOps
2 62 (37.58%) CI/CD
3 52 (31.52%) Infrastructure as Code
4 46 (27.88%) Agile
5 42 (25.45%) Continuous Integration
6 40 (24.24%) Problem-Solving
7 35 (21.21%) Configuration Management
8 32 (19.39%) Deployment Automation
8 32 (19.39%) Test Automation
9 30 (18.18%) Task Automation
10 26 (15.76%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 26 (15.76%) OO
11 23 (13.94%) Containerisation
11 23 (13.94%) Identity Access Management
12 22 (13.33%) OOP
13 20 (12.12%) SDLC
14 18 (10.91%) Scrum
15 17 (10.30%) Migration
16 15 (9.09%) Continuous Delivery
16 15 (9.09%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 68 (41.21%) Python
2 60 (36.36%) PowerShell
3 38 (23.03%) Java
4 18 (10.91%) Go
5 16 (9.70%) SQL
6 12 (7.27%) Bash
7 11 (6.67%) C#
8 8 (4.85%) Perl
9 6 (3.64%) JavaScript
9 6 (3.64%) PHP
10 5 (3.03%) Kotlin
10 5 (3.03%) Shell Script
10 5 (3.03%) TypeScript
11 4 (2.42%) Ruby
12 3 (1.82%) Bicep
13 1 (0.61%) C
13 1 (0.61%) C++
13 1 (0.61%) Rust
Qualifications
1 60 (36.36%) Security Cleared
2 54 (32.73%) SC Cleared
3 11 (6.67%) Degree
4 9 (5.45%) DV Cleared
5 7 (4.24%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.21%) Master's Degree
6 2 (1.21%) VCAP
6 2 (1.21%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 1 (0.61%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.61%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.61%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.61%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.42%) Accessibility
2 2 (1.21%) QA
3 1 (0.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.61%) NCSC
3 1 (0.61%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 35 (21.21%) Docker
2 26 (15.76%) VMware Infrastructure
3 15 (9.09%) Active Directory
4 11 (6.67%) VMware NSX
5 7 (4.24%) vSphere
6 5 (3.03%) Hyper-V
6 5 (3.03%) NFS
6 5 (3.03%) Virtual Servers
7 4 (2.42%) GPFS
7 4 (2.42%) VMware ESXi
8 3 (1.82%) vCloud
9 2 (1.21%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
9 2 (1.21%) KVM
9 2 (1.21%) Virtual Machines
10 1 (0.61%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 71 (43.03%) Terraform
2 61 (36.97%) Ansible
3 52 (31.52%) Kubernetes
4 24 (14.55%) PowerCLI
5 12 (7.27%) Puppet
6 6 (3.64%) Grafana
6 6 (3.64%) Prometheus
6 6 (3.64%) vRealize
6 6 (3.64%) vRealize Orchestrator
7 5 (3.03%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 5 (3.03%) Progress Chef
8 4 (2.42%) Argo
8 4 (2.42%) Veritas Storage Foundation
9 3 (1.82%) Autotask
9 3 (1.82%) Single Sign-On
9 3 (1.82%) vCenter Server
10 2 (1.21%) Kibana
10 2 (1.21%) Kustomize
10 2 (1.21%) Microsoft Intune
10 2 (1.21%) Rancher
Vendors
1 38 (23.03%) Microsoft
2 35 (21.21%) VMware
3 24 (14.55%) Atlassian
4 23 (13.94%) Dell
5 22 (13.33%) HP
6 14 (8.48%) Google
7 9 (5.45%) Red Hat
8 7 (4.24%) Splunk
9 6 (3.64%) Brocade
10 5 (3.03%) IBM
10 5 (3.03%) Oracle
11 4 (2.42%) EMC
11 4 (2.42%) NetApp
11 4 (2.42%) Sybase
11 4 (2.42%) Veritas
12 3 (1.82%) BMC
12 3 (1.82%) Cisco
12 3 (1.82%) Juniper
12 3 (1.82%) Remedy
12 3 (1.82%) TOWER Software