Infrastructure Automation Contract Job Trends in Birmingham

Infrastructure Automation
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Birmingham requiring Infrastructure Automation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 64 50 -
Rank change year-on-year -14 - -
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Automation 12 3 0
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 1.39% 0.57% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.66% 0.65% -
Number of daily rates quoted 8 3 0
10th Percentile £471 - -
25th Percentile £513 £425 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 £450 -
Median % change year-on-year +36.11% - -
75th Percentile £892 £488 -
90th Percentile - £495 -
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £450 -
% change year-on-year +11.11% - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Birmingham

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 Birmingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 723 461 636
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 83.97% 88.15% 83.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 450 332 418
10th Percentile £313 £186 £246
25th Percentile £408 £375 £373
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £455
Median % change year-on-year - +9.89% -9.00%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £575
90th Percentile £644 £700 £675
West Midlands median daily rate £488 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 17 44
10th Percentile £13.25 - £13.20
25th Percentile £15.91 £12.62 £17.75
Median hourly rate £20.25 £14.70 £27.25
Median % change year-on-year +37.76% -46.06% +74.20%
75th Percentile £25.00 £30.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £30.00 £39.41 £67.50
West Midlands median hourly rate £25.00 £18.07 £22.50
% change year-on-year +38.39% -19.71% +26.98%

Infrastructure Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

Infrastructure Automation job vacancy trend in Birmingham

Infrastructure Automation
Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

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

Infrastructure Automation
Daily Rate Histogram in Birmingham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Automation in Birmingham over the 6 months to 26 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Automation in Birmingham

Infrastructure Automation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Birmingham 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 10 (83.33%) AWS
2 5 (41.67%) GCP
2 5 (41.67%) Serverless
3 4 (33.33%) Amazon S3
4 3 (25.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 3 (25.00%) Amazon EC2
4 3 (25.00%) AWS KMS
5 2 (16.67%) Amazon SQS
5 2 (16.67%) Azure
5 2 (16.67%) Entra ID
5 2 (16.67%) Route 53
6 1 (8.33%) Amazon ELB
6 1 (8.33%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (8.33%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (8.33%) GitHub
6 1 (8.33%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (8.33%) IaaS
6 1 (8.33%) PaaS
6 1 (8.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (16.67%) Firewall
1 2 (16.67%) VPN
2 1 (8.33%) DNS
2 1 (8.33%) Network Security
2 1 (8.33%) SSL
2 1 (8.33%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (41.67%) NoSQL
2 4 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (16.67%) Amazon Aurora
3 2 (16.67%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (16.67%) DynamoDB
4 1 (8.33%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 9 (75.00%) Jenkins
2 7 (58.33%) GitLab
3 5 (41.67%) Git
4 3 (25.00%) Liquibase
5 2 (16.67%) JUnit
5 2 (16.67%) Maven
5 2 (16.67%) Mockito
5 2 (16.67%) SonarQube
General
1 6 (50.00%) Finance
2 5 (41.67%) Banking
2 5 (41.67%) Social Skills
3 4 (33.33%) Financial Institution
3 4 (33.33%) Public Sector
4 1 (8.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (8.33%) Military
Job Titles
1 5 (41.67%) Cloud Engineer
1 5 (41.67%) DevOps Engineer
1 5 (41.67%) Senior
2 4 (33.33%) GCP Engineer
2 4 (33.33%) Senior DevOps
2 4 (33.33%) Senior DevOps Engineer
3 3 (25.00%) Cloud Software Engineer
3 3 (25.00%) Senior Cloud Engineer
3 3 (25.00%) Senior Software Engineer
3 3 (25.00%) Software Engineer
4 2 (16.67%) AWS Engineer
4 2 (16.67%) Developer
4 2 (16.67%) GCP DevOps
4 2 (16.67%) GCP DevOps Engineer
4 2 (16.67%) GCP Software Engineer
4 2 (16.67%) Java Developer
4 2 (16.67%) Lead
5 1 (8.33%) AWS Platform Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Cloud Platform Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Senior AWS DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (58.33%) REST
2 5 (41.67%) Elastic Stack
3 4 (33.33%) RESTful
4 3 (25.00%) Web Services
5 2 (16.67%) ActiveMQ
5 2 (16.67%) AngularJS
5 2 (16.67%) Hibernate
5 2 (16.67%) JPA
5 2 (16.67%) Node.js
5 2 (16.67%) SOAP
5 2 (16.67%) Spring
5 2 (16.67%) Spring Batch
5 2 (16.67%) Spring Boot
5 2 (16.67%) Spring Cloud
5 2 (16.67%) Spring Integration
6 1 (8.33%) Azure Blueprints
Miscellaneous
1 5 (41.67%) Public Cloud
2 4 (33.33%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (25.00%) Cloud Native
4 1 (8.33%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 5 (41.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 12 (100.00%) DevOps
2 10 (83.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 8 (66.67%) Containerisation
4 7 (58.33%) Agile
4 7 (58.33%) Microservices
5 5 (41.67%) Computer Science
5 5 (41.67%) Continuous Delivery
5 5 (41.67%) Cost Optimisation
5 5 (41.67%) Data Security
5 5 (41.67%) High Availability
5 5 (41.67%) Root Cause Analysis
6 4 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
6 4 (33.33%) Cryptography
6 4 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
6 4 (33.33%) Data Encryption
6 4 (33.33%) Non-Functional Testing
7 3 (25.00%) Change Management
7 3 (25.00%) Scrum
7 3 (25.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 8 (66.67%) Python
2 6 (50.00%) Go
2 6 (50.00%) SQL
3 2 (16.67%) Bash
3 2 (16.67%) Java
4 1 (8.33%) JavaScript
4 1 (8.33%) PowerShell
4 1 (8.33%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 6 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 5 (41.67%) Computer Science Degree
2 5 (41.67%) Degree
2 5 (41.67%) Master's Degree
3 4 (33.33%) SC Cleared
4 1 (8.33%) AWS Certification
4 1 (8.33%) AWS Certified Developer
4 1 (8.33%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Azure Certification
4 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (8.33%) NCSC
System Software
1 7 (58.33%) Docker
2 1 (8.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 9 (75.00%) Terraform
2 7 (58.33%) Grafana
3 6 (50.00%) Ansible
3 6 (50.00%) Kubernetes
4 5 (41.67%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 5 (41.67%) Splunk
2 4 (33.33%) Google
3 2 (16.67%) Jaspersoft
4 1 (8.33%) CheckPoint
4 1 (8.33%) F5
4 1 (8.33%) Microsoft
4 1 (8.33%) Palo Alto