Infrastructure Automation Contract Job Trends in Belfast

Infrastructure Automation
County Antrim > Belfast

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Belfast requiring Infrastructure Automation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 23 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Automation 4 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Belfast 2.84% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.31% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £402 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £446 - -
75th Percentile £518 - -
90th Percentile £534 - -
County Antrim median daily rate £446 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Belfast

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 Belfast.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 121 178 125
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Belfast 85.82% 89.45% 81.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 76 94 57
10th Percentile £263 £266 £144
25th Percentile £382 £325 £167
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £425
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% +11.76% +6.25%
75th Percentile £656 £575 £538
90th Percentile £694 £625 £618
County Antrim median daily rate £450 £475 £425
% change year-on-year -5.26% +11.76% +6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 28 14
10th Percentile £31.21 £12.31 £21.19
25th Percentile - £13.60 £23.30
Median hourly rate £43.96 £16.00 £24.18
Median % change year-on-year +174.75% -33.83% +79.64%
75th Percentile - £17.30 -
90th Percentile £44.83 £24.50 -
County Antrim median hourly rate £43.28 £17.30 £24.18
% change year-on-year +150.19% -28.45% +76.69%

Infrastructure Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Belfast

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

Infrastructure Automation job vacancy trend in Belfast

Infrastructure Automation
Daily Rate Trend in Belfast

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

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

Infrastructure Automation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Belfast 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 3 (75.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 3 (75.00%) Amazon EKS
1 3 (75.00%) AWS
1 3 (75.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 3 (75.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
2 1 (25.00%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) Kerberos
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Git
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (75.00%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 4 (100.00%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Linux
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
1 1 (25.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (75.00%) Containerisation
3 1 (25.00%) Architecture Governance
3 1 (25.00%) Code Quality
3 1 (25.00%) High Availability
3 1 (25.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Bash
1 1 (25.00%) Go
1 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (25.00%) Python
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 3 (75.00%) Grafana
2 3 (75.00%) Prometheus
3 1 (25.00%) Ansible