Infrastructure Automation Contracts in Central London

Infrastructure Automation
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London 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 108 124 159
Rank change year-on-year +16 +35 +30
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Automation 21 9 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 1.05% 0.37% 0.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.13% 0.41% 0.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 8 11
10th Percentile £404 £300 £525
25th Percentile £505 £431 £553
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £524 £575 £700
Median % change year-on-year -8.91% -17.86% +16.67%
75th Percentile £656 £622 £738
90th Percentile £689 £699 -
London median daily rate £525 £575 £675
% change year-on-year -8.70% -14.81% +22.73%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Central London

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 Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,856 2,215 3,533
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 92.94% 90.56% 91.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,197 1,573 2,397
10th Percentile £363 £350 £325
25th Percentile £456 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year +2.73% -8.33% +5.26%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £725
90th Percentile £774 £800 £825
London median daily rate £550 £550 £590
% change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 25 28
10th Percentile £22.00 £20.04 £15.43
25th Percentile £22.75 £22.50 £18.50
Median hourly rate £29.07 £27.81 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.53% -20.54% -14.63%
75th Percentile £43.97 £33.00 £58.75
90th Percentile £50.75 £46.89 £88.30
London median hourly rate £31.67 £29.50 £38.13
% change year-on-year +7.36% -22.62% +5.90%

Infrastructure Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Automation in Central London

Infrastructure Automation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure Automation in Central London

Infrastructure Automation
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

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

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Automation in Central London

Infrastructure Automation
Contract Job Locations in Central London

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 Central London 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
City of London +16 17 £575 - 5
West End of London - 1 £425 -
City of Westminster - 1 £425 -
Infrastructure Automation
London

Infrastructure Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (4.76%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 11 (52.38%) Azure
2 7 (33.33%) AWS
3 6 (28.57%) GCP
4 3 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (9.52%) Boomi
5 2 (9.52%) Entra ID
5 2 (9.52%) GitHub
6 1 (4.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (4.76%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (4.76%) Amazon S3
6 1 (4.76%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (4.76%) Datadog
6 1 (4.76%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (4.76%) IaaS
6 1 (4.76%) PaaS
6 1 (4.76%) Power Platform
6 1 (4.76%) PowerApps
6 1 (4.76%) SaaS
6 1 (4.76%) Serverless
6 1 (4.76%) SonarCloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (9.52%) DHCP
1 2 (9.52%) DNS
2 1 (4.76%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (9.52%) Oracle Database
1 2 (9.52%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (9.52%) Redis
2 1 (4.76%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (4.76%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 8 (38.10%) Jenkins
2 4 (19.05%) GitLab
3 2 (9.52%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 2 (9.52%) Git
3 2 (9.52%) JIRA
3 2 (9.52%) JUnit
3 2 (9.52%) Maven
3 2 (9.52%) Mockito
3 2 (9.52%) Postman
3 2 (9.52%) REST Assured
3 2 (9.52%) SoapUI
3 2 (9.52%) SonarQube
3 2 (9.52%) Subversion
3 2 (9.52%) Xcode
3 2 (9.52%) XCTest
4 1 (4.76%) Snyk
General
1 7 (33.33%) Finance
2 5 (23.81%) Social Skills
3 4 (19.05%) Banking
4 1 (4.76%) Financial Institution
4 1 (4.76%) Public Sector
4 1 (4.76%) Retail
Job Titles
1 7 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
2 5 (23.81%) Automation Engineer
3 2 (9.52%) Architect
3 2 (9.52%) AWS DevOps
3 2 (9.52%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 2 (9.52%) AWS Engineer
3 2 (9.52%) Data Architect
3 2 (9.52%) Data Integration Architect
3 2 (9.52%) Developer
3 2 (9.52%) GCP DevOps
3 2 (9.52%) GCP DevOps Engineer
3 2 (9.52%) GCP Engineer
3 2 (9.52%) Integration Architect
4 1 (4.76%) COBOL Developer
4 1 (4.76%) Data Centre Manager
4 1 (4.76%) Environment Manager
4 1 (4.76%) Java Developer
4 1 (4.76%) Mainframe Developer
4 1 (4.76%) Technical Manager
4 1 (4.76%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (14.29%) Kafka
2 2 (9.52%) AngularJS
2 2 (9.52%) Bootstrap
2 2 (9.52%) CSS
2 2 (9.52%) CSS3
2 2 (9.52%) Hibernate
2 2 (9.52%) HTML
2 2 (9.52%) HTML5
2 2 (9.52%) J2EE
2 2 (9.52%) JPA
2 2 (9.52%) Material-UI
2 2 (9.52%) Middleware
2 2 (9.52%) REST
2 2 (9.52%) SOAP
2 2 (9.52%) Spring
2 2 (9.52%) Spring Boot
2 2 (9.52%) Spring Cloud
2 2 (9.52%) Spring MVC
2 2 (9.52%) Swagger
2 2 (9.52%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 3 (14.29%) Hedge funds
2 2 (9.52%) Data Centre
2 2 (9.52%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (9.52%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (9.52%) Public Cloud
3 1 (4.76%) Fibre Optics
3 1 (4.76%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (4.76%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 4 (19.05%) Linux
2 3 (14.29%) Rocky
2 3 (14.29%) Windows
3 2 (9.52%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (71.43%) CI/CD
1 15 (71.43%) DevOps
2 6 (28.57%) Containerisation
2 6 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (23.81%) Agile
3 5 (23.81%) Configuration Management
3 5 (23.81%) Continuous Integration
3 5 (23.81%) Infrastructure as Code
4 4 (19.05%) Integration Patterns
4 4 (19.05%) Microservices
5 3 (14.29%) API Integration
5 3 (14.29%) Code Quality
5 3 (14.29%) Continuous Delivery
5 3 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
5 3 (14.29%) Static Code Analysis
6 2 (9.52%) Event-Driven Architecture
6 2 (9.52%) High Availability
6 2 (9.52%) Software Architecture
6 2 (9.52%) Software Testing
6 2 (9.52%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 8 (38.10%) Python
2 3 (14.29%) Groovy
2 3 (14.29%) PowerShell
3 2 (9.52%) Bash
3 2 (9.52%) C#
3 2 (9.52%) Java
3 2 (9.52%) JavaScript
3 2 (9.52%) Shell Script
3 2 (9.52%) SQL
4 1 (4.76%) Bicep
4 1 (4.76%) COBOL
4 1 (4.76%) JCL
Qualifications
1 2 (9.52%) Degree
2 1 (4.76%) AWS Certification
2 1 (4.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (4.76%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (4.76%) SC Cleared
2 1 (4.76%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (14.29%) QA
System Software
1 7 (33.33%) Docker
2 2 (9.52%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 13 (61.90%) Terraform
2 11 (52.38%) Kubernetes
3 7 (33.33%) Ansible
4 3 (14.29%) Consul
5 2 (9.52%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (9.52%) MOM
6 1 (4.76%) Istio
6 1 (4.76%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (9.52%) CA Agile Central
1 2 (9.52%) Dynatrace
1 2 (9.52%) Google
1 2 (9.52%) MuleSoft
1 2 (9.52%) Oracle
1 2 (9.52%) Splunk
2 1 (4.76%) Microsoft
2 1 (4.76%) New Relic