Infrastructure Automation Contract Job Trends in Buckinghamshire

Infrastructure Automation
South East > Buckinghamshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire requiring Infrastructure Automation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 44 50 -
Rank change year-on-year +6 - -
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Automation 3 3 0
As % of all contract jobs in Buckinghamshire 0.73% 0.80% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.86% 0.94% -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 3 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £525 £413 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £425 -
Median % change year-on-year +29.41% - -
75th Percentile £588 £438 -
90th Percentile £595 - -
South East median daily rate £538 £525 £650
% change year-on-year +2.38% -19.23% +7.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Buckinghamshire

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 Buckinghamshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 348 320 515
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 84.88% 85.56% 92.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 225 228 383
10th Percentile £211 £230 £275
25th Percentile £350 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £500 £510
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% -1.96% +2.00%
75th Percentile £538 £588 £600
90th Percentile £625 £662 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £515 £525
% change year-on-year -2.91% -1.90% +2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 8 19
10th Percentile £15.62 £14.25 £15.43
25th Percentile £15.91 £17.83 £17.83
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.08 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.31% +55.92% +45.16%
75th Percentile £29.61 £41.94 £25.50
90th Percentile - £54.88 £30.00
South East median hourly rate £22.00 £51.00 £51.96
% change year-on-year -56.86% -1.85% +38.56%

Infrastructure Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

Infrastructure Automation job vacancy trend in Buckinghamshire

Infrastructure Automation
Daily Rate Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

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

Infrastructure Automation
Hourly Rate Trend in Buckinghamshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Buckinghamshire citing Infrastructure Automation.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Buckinghamshire citing Infrastructure Automation

Infrastructure Automation
Contract Job Locations in Buckinghamshire

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 Buckinghamshire region over the 6 months to 14 December 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
Milton Keynes +6 3 £550 +29.41% 6
Infrastructure Automation
South East

Infrastructure Automation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Buckinghamshire 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 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) GitHub
2 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) DNS
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Azure Engineer
1 3 (100.00%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) AI
1 3 (100.00%) AI Transformation
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 3 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 3 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 3 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Ansible
1 3 (100.00%) Podman
1 3 (100.00%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Zscaler