Infrastructure Automation Contracts with Work from Home Options

Infrastructure Automation
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Infrastructure Automation skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Infrastructure Automation over the 6 months leading up to 11 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 278 344 463
Rank change year-on-year +66 +119 -76
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Automation 65 103 167
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.44% 0.43% 0.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.50% 0.48% 0.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 69 132
10th Percentile £392 £425 £363
25th Percentile £463 £481 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £543 £545 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.46% -0.91% +10.00%
75th Percentile £600 £688 £638
90th Percentile £625 £741 £713
UK median daily rate £575 £550 £550
% change year-on-year +4.64% -0.09% +9.89%
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 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

Infrastructure Automation falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 12,892 21,388 39,955
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.30% 89.62% 91.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,688 15,183 29,114
10th Percentile £325 £363 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +5.42%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 574 493 516
10th Percentile £14.91 £18.49 £14.94
25th Percentile £23.81 £25.75 £20.75
Median hourly rate £42.75 £52.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.57% +31.25% +66.67%
75th Percentile £60.00 £67.50 £59.25
90th Percentile £74.35 £78.60 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £35.02 £25.68
% change year-on-year +4.24% +36.35% +11.65%

Infrastructure Automation
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Infrastructure Automation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Infrastructure Automation trend for jobs with a WFH option

Infrastructure Automation
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Infrastructure Automation.

Infrastructure Automation daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Infrastructure Automation
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Infrastructure Automation over the 6 months to 11 June 2024.

Infrastructure Automation daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Infrastructure Automation
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Infrastructure Automation.

Infrastructure Automation hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Infrastructure Automation
Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Infrastructure Automation over the 6 months to 11 June 2024.

Infrastructure Automation hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Infrastructure Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 1 (1.54%) Apache
1 1 (1.54%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (1.54%) Confluence
1 1 (1.54%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 3 (4.62%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 26 (40.00%) AWS
1 26 (40.00%) Azure
2 10 (15.38%) Azure DevOps
2 10 (15.38%) GCP
3 8 (12.31%) IaaS
3 8 (12.31%) OpenShift
4 6 (9.23%) Amazon EKS
4 6 (9.23%) GitHub
5 5 (7.69%) PaaS
5 5 (7.69%) Serverless
6 4 (6.15%) Dynamics 365
6 4 (6.15%) Entra ID
7 3 (4.62%) Azure Functions
7 3 (4.62%) Azure Key Vault
7 3 (4.62%) Azure Logic Apps
7 3 (4.62%) Azure Service Bus
7 3 (4.62%) Azure Storage
7 3 (4.62%) Power Automate
7 3 (4.62%) Power Platform
7 3 (4.62%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 7 (10.77%) TCP/IP
2 5 (7.69%) Firewall
3 3 (4.62%) HTTP
4 2 (3.08%) Fibre Channel
4 2 (3.08%) Network Security
4 2 (3.08%) SAN
5 1 (1.54%) BGP
5 1 (1.54%) Cisco ASA
5 1 (1.54%) Cisco Nexus
5 1 (1.54%) DNS
5 1 (1.54%) DSL
5 1 (1.54%) EIGRP
5 1 (1.54%) IPsec
5 1 (1.54%) OSPF
5 1 (1.54%) SD-WAN
5 1 (1.54%) VoIP
5 1 (1.54%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (4.62%) Azure SQL Database
1 3 (4.62%) Big Data
1 3 (4.62%) Data Lake
1 3 (4.62%) Data Warehouse
1 3 (4.62%) OLTP
1 3 (4.62%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.54%) Amazon Aurora
2 1 (1.54%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (1.54%) Apache Cassandra
2 1 (1.54%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
2 1 (1.54%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (1.54%) NoSQL
2 1 (1.54%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (1.54%) Redis
2 1 (1.54%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 20 (30.77%) Git
2 16 (24.62%) Jenkins
3 7 (10.77%) JIRA
4 6 (9.23%) GitLab
5 5 (7.69%) Bitbucket
5 5 (7.69%) JUnit
5 5 (7.69%) SonarQube
6 4 (6.15%) Cucumber
7 3 (4.62%) Artifactory
7 3 (4.62%) Maven
7 3 (4.62%) Sonatype Nexus
7 3 (4.62%) Visual Studio Team System
8 2 (3.08%) Snyk
9 1 (1.54%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 1 (1.54%) Bitbucket Server
9 1 (1.54%) Cypress.io
9 1 (1.54%) JMeter
9 1 (1.54%) Selenium
General
1 15 (23.08%) Social Skills
2 7 (10.77%) Finance
3 4 (6.15%) Public Sector
4 2 (3.08%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (3.08%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (1.54%) Danish Language
5 1 (1.54%) Electronics
5 1 (1.54%) Manufacturing
5 1 (1.54%) Marketing
5 1 (1.54%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 13 (20.00%) Senior
2 11 (16.92%) DevOps Engineer
3 7 (10.77%) Developer
3 7 (10.77%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 5 (7.69%) Automation Engineer
4 5 (7.69%) Senior DevOps
4 5 (7.69%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 4 (6.15%) Azure Engineer
5 4 (6.15%) Cloud Engineer
5 4 (6.15%) Consultant
6 3 (4.62%) Delivery Manager
6 3 (4.62%) Kubernetes Consultant
6 3 (4.62%) Lead
6 3 (4.62%) Software Engineer
6 3 (4.62%) WebOps Engineer
7 2 (3.08%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 2 (3.08%) Backend Developer
7 2 (3.08%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
7 2 (3.08%) Python Engineer
7 2 (3.08%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (10.77%) XML
2 6 (9.23%) JSON
2 6 (9.23%) YAML
3 5 (7.69%) Elastic Stack
4 4 (6.15%) .NET
4 4 (6.15%) Gherkin
4 4 (6.15%) REST
5 3 (4.62%) ARM Templates
5 3 (4.62%) AWS CDK
5 3 (4.62%) Node.js
5 3 (4.62%) RESTful
5 3 (4.62%) SOAP
5 3 (4.62%) Web Services
6 2 (3.08%) AngularJS
6 2 (3.08%) Fluent Bit
6 2 (3.08%) Loki
6 2 (3.08%) OAuth
6 2 (3.08%) OpenID
6 2 (3.08%) React
6 2 (3.08%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (7.69%) Data Centre
2 3 (4.62%) Distributed Applications
2 3 (4.62%) Private Cloud
3 2 (3.08%) Enterprise Storage
3 2 (3.08%) Onboarding
3 2 (3.08%) PKI
3 2 (3.08%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.54%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.54%) CMDB
4 1 (1.54%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.54%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (1.54%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.54%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 17 (26.15%) Linux
2 14 (21.54%) Windows
3 5 (7.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (4.62%) Unix
5 2 (3.08%) VMS
5 2 (3.08%) Windows 2000
5 2 (3.08%) Windows XP
6 1 (1.54%) Windows Server
6 1 (1.54%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (1.54%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (56.92%) DevOps
2 26 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 25 (38.46%) Agile
4 23 (35.38%) Test Automation
5 19 (29.23%) CI/CD
6 16 (24.62%) Configuration Management
7 10 (15.38%) Continuous Integration
7 10 (15.38%) GitOps
7 10 (15.38%) Scrum
8 9 (13.85%) Containerisation
9 8 (12.31%) Migration
9 8 (12.31%) Task Automation
10 7 (10.77%) Deployment Automation
10 7 (10.77%) ITSM
10 7 (10.77%) Open Source
10 7 (10.77%) Problem-Solving
11 6 (9.23%) Continuous Delivery
11 6 (9.23%) Continuous Deployment
11 6 (9.23%) Software Engineering
12 5 (7.69%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 20 (30.77%) PowerShell
2 16 (24.62%) Java
2 16 (24.62%) Python
3 9 (13.85%) Go
4 7 (10.77%) Bash
5 6 (9.23%) C#
6 5 (7.69%) PHP
7 4 (6.15%) JavaScript
7 4 (6.15%) Ruby
8 3 (4.62%) Bicep
8 3 (4.62%) Perl
9 2 (3.08%) Shell Script
10 1 (1.54%) Kotlin
10 1 (1.54%) SQL
10 1 (1.54%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 13 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 11 (16.92%) SC Cleared
3 3 (4.62%) DV Cleared
4 1 (1.54%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.54%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.62%) QA
2 1 (1.54%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.54%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 14 (21.54%) Docker
2 8 (12.31%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (6.15%) vSphere
4 3 (4.62%) Active Directory
4 3 (4.62%) vCloud
4 3 (4.62%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (4.62%) VMware NSX
5 2 (3.08%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 35 (53.85%) Terraform
2 26 (40.00%) Ansible
3 14 (21.54%) Kubernetes
4 12 (18.46%) Puppet
5 7 (10.77%) Progress Chef
6 4 (6.15%) Argo
6 4 (6.15%) Grafana
6 4 (6.15%) Prometheus
7 3 (4.62%) Autotask
8 2 (3.08%) Kustomize
8 2 (3.08%) Salt
9 1 (1.54%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (1.54%) Kibana
9 1 (1.54%) logstash
9 1 (1.54%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (1.54%) PowerCLI
9 1 (1.54%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 13 (20.00%) VMware
2 11 (16.92%) Microsoft
3 8 (12.31%) Red Hat
4 5 (7.69%) Oracle
5 3 (4.62%) Arista
5 3 (4.62%) BMC
5 3 (4.62%) Fortinet
5 3 (4.62%) Google
5 3 (4.62%) Remedy
5 3 (4.62%) SaltStack
5 3 (4.62%) TOWER Software
6 2 (3.08%) Brocade
6 2 (3.08%) Cisco
6 2 (3.08%) CyberArk
6 2 (3.08%) Juniper
6 2 (3.08%) Mercator
6 2 (3.08%) Splunk
7 1 (1.54%) Dell
7 1 (1.54%) HP
7 1 (1.54%) SAP