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 21 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 70 34 49
Rank change year-on-year -36 +15 -
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Automation 1 1 2
As % of all contract jobs in Buckinghamshire 0.12% 0.46% 0.42%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.15% 0.49% 0.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 2
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £425 £625
Median % change year-on-year +41.18% -32.00% -
South East median daily rate £574 £450 £613
% change year-on-year +27.56% -26.53% +11.36%

All Process & 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 662 206 399
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 77.52% 94.50% 82.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 470 141 276
10th Percentile £315 £274 £253
25th Percentile £421 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £475 £465
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% +2.15% -2.11%
75th Percentile £597 £575 £575
90th Percentile £638 £643 £648
South East median daily rate £515 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +3.00% - -1.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 26 29
10th Percentile £15.05 - £15.85
25th Percentile £15.15 £14.20 £18.00
Median hourly rate £16.35 £14.73 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +11.04% -41.10% +81.82%
75th Percentile £18.32 £24.50 £28.75
90th Percentile £24.06 £62.50 £48.75
South East median hourly rate £52.50 £25.82 £47.50
% change year-on-year +103.35% -45.65% -5.00%

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 21 May 2026. 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 -33 1 £600 +41.18%
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 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (100.00%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
General
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (100.00%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (100.00%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Architectural Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Deployment Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Design Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) Identity Management
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Load Balancing
1 1 (100.00%) Network Virtualisation
1 1 (100.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
1 1 (100.00%) Security Operations
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
1 1 (100.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bicep
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Single Sign-On
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform