Infrastructure Automation Contracts in the City of London

Infrastructure Automation
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of 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 102 118 166
Rank change year-on-year +16 +48 +16
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Automation 17 9 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.97% 0.41% 0.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.04% 0.45% 0.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 8 11
10th Percentile £506 £300 £525
25th Percentile £506 £431 £553
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £700
Median % change year-on-year - -17.86% +16.67%
75th Percentile £679 £622 £738
90th Percentile £694 £699 -
Central London median daily rate £524 £575 £700
% change year-on-year -8.91% -17.86% +16.67%

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,636 1,988 3,346
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 93.17% 90.49% 91.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,032 1,406 2,259
10th Percentile £363 £363 £355
25th Percentile £463 £451 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £565 £600
Median % change year-on-year +1.77% -5.83% +4.35%
75th Percentile £680 £688 £730
90th Percentile £775 £806 £825
Central London median daily rate £565 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +2.73% -8.33% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 11 24
10th Percentile £22.00 £19.92 £15.33
25th Percentile £24.00 £20.22 £18.03
Median hourly rate £29.58 £25.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.30% -28.57% -14.63%
75th Percentile £45.00 £40.00 £58.75
90th Percentile £62.25 £41.84 £88.30
Central London median hourly rate £29.07 £27.81 £35.00
% change year-on-year +4.53% -20.54% -14.63%

Infrastructure Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Automation in the City of London

Infrastructure Automation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Infrastructure Automation in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure Automation in the City of London

Infrastructure Automation
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

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

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Automation in the City of London

Infrastructure Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 (5.88%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 9 (52.94%) Azure
2 6 (35.29%) AWS
3 5 (29.41%) GCP
4 3 (17.65%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (11.76%) Boomi
5 2 (11.76%) Entra ID
6 1 (5.88%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (5.88%) Amazon S3
6 1 (5.88%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (5.88%) Azure AKS
6 1 (5.88%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (5.88%) Copilot Studio
6 1 (5.88%) GitHub
6 1 (5.88%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Copilot
6 1 (5.88%) PaaS
6 1 (5.88%) Power Platform
6 1 (5.88%) PowerApps
6 1 (5.88%) SaaS
6 1 (5.88%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (11.76%) DHCP
1 2 (11.76%) DNS
2 1 (5.88%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.88%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (5.88%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 6 (35.29%) Jenkins
2 4 (23.53%) GitLab
General
1 4 (23.53%) Finance
2 2 (11.76%) Banking
3 1 (5.88%) Public Sector
3 1 (5.88%) Retail
3 1 (5.88%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (29.41%) Automation Engineer
1 5 (29.41%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (11.76%) Architect
2 2 (11.76%) Data Architect
2 2 (11.76%) Data Integration Architect
2 2 (11.76%) Integration Architect
3 1 (5.88%) AWS DevOps
3 1 (5.88%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 1 (5.88%) AWS Engineer
3 1 (5.88%) Data Centre Manager
3 1 (5.88%) Developer
3 1 (5.88%) Environment Manager
3 1 (5.88%) Platform Engineer
3 1 (5.88%) Programme Manager
3 1 (5.88%) Senior DevOps
3 1 (5.88%) Senior DevOps Engineer
3 1 (5.88%) Technical Manager
3 1 (5.88%) Technical Programme Manager
3 1 (5.88%) Test Environment Manager
3 1 (5.88%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (11.76%) Middleware
2 1 (5.88%) ARM Templates
2 1 (5.88%) Kafka
2 1 (5.88%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (17.65%) Hedge funds
2 2 (11.76%) Data Centre
2 2 (11.76%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (11.76%) Public Cloud
3 1 (5.88%) Fibre Optics
3 1 (5.88%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 4 (23.53%) Linux
2 3 (17.65%) Rocky
2 3 (17.65%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (76.47%) CI/CD
1 13 (76.47%) DevOps
2 5 (29.41%) Configuration Management
2 5 (29.41%) Containerisation
3 4 (23.53%) Continuous Integration
4 3 (17.65%) API Integration
4 3 (17.65%) Continuous Delivery
4 3 (17.65%) Infrastructure as Code
5 2 (11.76%) Agile
5 2 (11.76%) Data Integration
5 2 (11.76%) Data Security
5 2 (11.76%) Deployment Automation
5 2 (11.76%) Event-Driven
5 2 (11.76%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 2 (11.76%) Integration Patterns
5 2 (11.76%) Migration
5 2 (11.76%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (11.76%) SOA
5 2 (11.76%) Software Delivery
5 2 (11.76%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 7 (41.18%) Python
2 3 (17.65%) PowerShell
3 2 (11.76%) C#
4 1 (5.88%) Bash
4 1 (5.88%) Bicep
4 1 (5.88%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 2 (11.76%) Degree
2 1 (5.88%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (5.88%) SC Cleared
2 1 (5.88%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.76%) QA
System Software
1 4 (23.53%) Docker
2 2 (11.76%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 11 (64.71%) Terraform
2 7 (41.18%) Ansible
2 7 (41.18%) Kubernetes
3 3 (17.65%) Consul
4 2 (11.76%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (11.76%) MOM
5 1 (5.88%) Istio
Vendors
1 2 (11.76%) MuleSoft
2 1 (5.88%) Google
2 1 (5.88%) Microsoft