Infrastructure Automation Contracts in Berkshire

Infrastructure Automation
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 81 121 110
Rank change year-on-year +40 -11 +13
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Automation 12 3 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 1.02% 0.15% 0.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.09% 0.17% 0.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 1 2
10th Percentile £373 - £550
25th Percentile £473 - £569
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £495 £625
Median % change year-on-year +3.54% -20.80% +8.70%
75th Percentile £558 - £669
90th Percentile £604 - £680
South East median daily rate £500 £548 £550
% change year-on-year -8.68% -0.45% -4.35%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Berkshire

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 Berkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,096 1,764 1,640
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 93.44% 88.91% 90.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 641 918 1,053
10th Percentile £313 £213 £341
25th Percentile £413 £375 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £511 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.10% -2.71% +5.00%
75th Percentile £615 £608 £626
90th Percentile £675 £675 £711
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £508
% change year-on-year - -1.53% +1.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 101 48
10th Percentile £22.29 £20.17 £19.20
25th Percentile £32.05 £41.50 £25.72
Median hourly rate £61.50 £61.60 £57.82
Median % change year-on-year -0.17% +6.54% +174.67%
75th Percentile £76.77 £71.75 £73.69
90th Percentile £88.19 £87.46 £79.51
South East median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -41.05% -5.00% +122.22%

Infrastructure Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Automation in Berkshire

Infrastructure Automation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure Automation in Berkshire

Infrastructure Automation
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Automation in Berkshire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Automation in Berkshire

Infrastructure Automation
Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

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 Berkshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
Reading +34 5 £563 +13.64% 4
Bracknell +21 4 £550 -
Infrastructure Automation
South East

Infrastructure Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 6 (50.00%) Azure
2 5 (41.67%) AWS
3 4 (33.33%) PaaS
4 2 (16.67%) GCP
4 2 (16.67%) GitHub
4 2 (16.67%) OpenShift
5 1 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (8.33%) IaaS
5 1 (8.33%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (25.00%) iSCSI
2 2 (16.67%) BGP
2 2 (16.67%) DNS
2 2 (16.67%) Ethernet VPN
2 2 (16.67%) Fibre Channel
2 2 (16.67%) Firewall
2 2 (16.67%) IPv6
2 2 (16.67%) OSPF
2 2 (16.67%) SAN
2 2 (16.67%) Spanning Tree
2 2 (16.67%) TACACS
2 2 (16.67%) VSAN
Development Applications
1 3 (25.00%) GitLab
2 2 (16.67%) JIRA
General
1 4 (33.33%) Social Skills
1 4 (33.33%) Telecoms
2 3 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (25.00%) Public Sector
3 2 (16.67%) Electronics
3 2 (16.67%) Finance
3 2 (16.67%) Manufacturing
3 2 (16.67%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 4 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) Network Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Applications Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Architect
3 1 (8.33%) Automation Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Azure DevOps Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Infrastructure Architect
3 1 (8.33%) IT Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Migration Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) VMware Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (16.67%) YAML
2 1 (8.33%) ARM Templates
2 1 (8.33%) Jinja
2 1 (8.33%) JSON
2 1 (8.33%) NETCONF
2 1 (8.33%) RESTCONF
Miscellaneous
1 3 (25.00%) Cloud Native
1 3 (25.00%) Product Ownership
2 2 (16.67%) Onboarding
3 1 (8.33%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 4 (33.33%) Linux
2 3 (25.00%) Windows
3 2 (16.67%) AIX
3 2 (16.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 6 (50.00%) DevOps
3 4 (33.33%) Configuration Management
3 4 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 4 (33.33%) Infrastructure Management
4 3 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 3 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (25.00%) Migration
4 3 (25.00%) SIEM
5 2 (16.67%) Agile
5 2 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
5 2 (16.67%) Coaching
5 2 (16.67%) Digital Marketing
5 2 (16.67%) Observability
5 2 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (16.67%) Programme Management
5 2 (16.67%) Runbook
6 1 (8.33%) Benchmarking
6 1 (8.33%) Software Engineering
6 1 (8.33%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 4 (33.33%) Python
2 2 (16.67%) Bash
2 2 (16.67%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 4 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (8.33%) CCNP
2 1 (8.33%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (8.33%) JNCIP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (16.67%) NIST
System Software
1 4 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (25.00%) NFS
2 3 (25.00%) VMware ESXi
2 3 (25.00%) VMware NSX
3 2 (16.67%) Ceph
3 2 (16.67%) Docker
3 2 (16.67%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 6 (50.00%) Ansible
2 4 (33.33%) Progress Chef
2 4 (33.33%) Puppet
2 4 (33.33%) Terraform
3 3 (25.00%) Kubernetes
3 3 (25.00%) vRealize
3 3 (25.00%) vRealize Orchestrator
4 2 (16.67%) Argo
4 2 (16.67%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (16.67%) SCCM
5 1 (8.33%) Grafana
5 1 (8.33%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 6 (50.00%) VMware
2 4 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 3 (25.00%) Cisco
4 2 (16.67%) Dell
4 2 (16.67%) Red Hat
4 2 (16.67%) SAP
5 1 (8.33%) Fortinet
5 1 (8.33%) Google