Infrastructure Automation Contracts in Cheshire

Infrastructure Automation
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cheshire 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 54 51 58
Rank change year-on-year -3 +7 -
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Automation 4 7 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 0.89% 1.39% 0.94%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.92% 1.65% 1.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 7 5
10th Percentile £552 £424 £434
25th Percentile £575 £456 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £487 £463
Median % change year-on-year +28.34% +5.30% -
75th Percentile £638 £511 £469
90th Percentile - £535 £540
North West median daily rate £625 £481 £525
% change year-on-year +29.94% -8.38% +3.70%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cheshire

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 Cheshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 436 425 483
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 97.10% 84.33% 91.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 294 285 328
10th Percentile £317 £276 £275
25th Percentile £358 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -9.05% +5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £550 £580 £575
90th Percentile £638 £635 £660
North West median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 30 23
10th Percentile £19.00 £13.70 £19.06
25th Percentile £25.94 £16.61 £23.15
Median hourly rate £35.20 £26.66 £30.54
Median % change year-on-year +32.03% -12.70% +29.96%
75th Percentile £85.44 £42.31 £35.00
90th Percentile £86.00 £44.13 £39.20
North West median hourly rate £31.88 £21.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +51.81% -40.00% +70.82%

Infrastructure Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Automation in Cheshire

Infrastructure Automation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure Automation in Cheshire

Infrastructure Automation
Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

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 Cheshire 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
Knutsford -4 4 £625 +29.94%
Infrastructure Automation
North West

Infrastructure Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Distributed Ledger
Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) OpenShift
2 2 (50.00%) AWS
3 1 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (25.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) Firewall
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) GitLab
1 2 (50.00%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (50.00%) Banking
1 2 (50.00%) Finance
1 2 (50.00%) Legal
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Architect
1 2 (50.00%) Automation Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) AWS Architect
1 2 (50.00%) AWS Solution Architect
1 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Python Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Senior
1 2 (50.00%) Senior Automation Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Solutions Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (100.00%) Kafka
2 1 (25.00%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Cloud Native
1 2 (50.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 2 (50.00%) Public Cloud
2 1 (25.00%) Blockchain
2 1 (25.00%) Private Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Microservices
2 3 (75.00%) Observability
3 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (50.00%) Collaborative Working
3 2 (50.00%) Containerisation
3 2 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (50.00%) Data Migration
3 2 (50.00%) Event-Driven
3 2 (50.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
3 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 2 (50.00%) Mentoring
3 2 (50.00%) Migration
3 2 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
4 1 (25.00%) Analytics
4 1 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence
4 1 (25.00%) Customer Analytics
4 1 (25.00%) Machine Learning
4 1 (25.00%) Risk Assessment
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Java
1 2 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (25.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 1 (25.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (100.00%) Ansible
1 4 (100.00%) Terraform
2 2 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (50.00%) Progress Chef
3 1 (25.00%) Grafana
3 1 (25.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Red Hat
1 1 (25.00%) VMware