Infrastructure Automation Contract Job Trends in Basingstoke

Infrastructure Automation
Hampshire > Basingstoke

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Basingstoke requiring Infrastructure Automation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 40 31 -
Rank change year-on-year -9 - -
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Automation 3 4 0
As % of all contract jobs in Basingstoke 0.98% 1.96% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.18% 2.31% -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 4 0
10th Percentile £575 £466 -
25th Percentile £594 £472 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £550 -
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% - -
75th Percentile £681 £650 -
90th Percentile £685 £695 -
Hampshire median daily rate £519 £560 £675
% change year-on-year -7.37% -17.04% +14.89%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Basingstoke

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 requiring process or methodology skills in Basingstoke.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 254 173 218
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Basingstoke 83.01% 84.80% 86.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 185 147 61
10th Percentile £463 £404 £213
25th Percentile £500 £475 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -4.17% +14.29%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £638
90th Percentile £725 £718 £688
Hampshire median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 3 13
10th Percentile £12.18 £18.50 -
25th Percentile - £21.88 £15.50
Median hourly rate £17.00 £28.00 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -39.29% +60.00% -15.54%
75th Percentile - £32.25 £33.75
90th Percentile £17.37 £34.50 £45.00
Hampshire median hourly rate £20.71 £35.00 £51.42
% change year-on-year -40.83% -31.93% +18.21%

Infrastructure Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Basingstoke

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Infrastructure Automation relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Basingstoke.

Infrastructure Automation job vacancy trend in Basingstoke

Infrastructure Automation
Daily Rate Trend in Basingstoke

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Basingstoke citing Infrastructure Automation.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Basingstoke citing Infrastructure Automation

Infrastructure Automation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Basingstoke by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon EKS
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) Azure AKS
1 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (33.33%) Azure Functions
1 1 (33.33%) GitHub
1 1 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (33.33%) IaaS
1 1 (33.33%) PaaS
1 1 (33.33%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) iSCSI
1 1 (33.33%) Software-Defined Networking
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Git
1 1 (33.33%) GitLab
1 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (100.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Architect
1 1 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Virtualisation Specialist
1 1 (33.33%) VMware Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Native
1 1 (33.33%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Agile
1 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
1 2 (66.67%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (33.33%) Architectural Patterns
2 1 (33.33%) Benchmarking
2 1 (33.33%) Configuration Management
2 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) High Availability
2 1 (33.33%) Identity Management
2 1 (33.33%) Incident Management
2 1 (33.33%) Incident Response
2 1 (33.33%) Microservices
2 1 (33.33%) Platform Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (33.33%) SIEM
2 1 (33.33%) Software Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Software Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Test Automation
2 1 (33.33%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) PowerShell
1 2 (66.67%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) Bash
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 3 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) VCAP
2 1 (33.33%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) VMware NSX
2 1 (33.33%) Docker
2 1 (33.33%) NFS
2 1 (33.33%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (33.33%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) vRealize
1 2 (66.67%) vRealize Orchestrator
2 1 (33.33%) Ansible
2 1 (33.33%) Grafana
2 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 1 (33.33%) Progress Chef
2 1 (33.33%) Prometheus
2 1 (33.33%) Puppet
2 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) VMware
2 1 (33.33%) Splunk