Infrastructure Automation Contracts in the City of London

Infrastructure Automation
Central London > City of London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London with a requirement for Infrastructure Automation skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Infrastructure Automation over the 6 months to 24 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 115 162 191
Rank change year-on-year +47 +29 -43
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Automation 9 12 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.41% 0.33% 0.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.45% 0.36% 0.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 11 7
10th Percentile £300 £525 £548
25th Percentile £431 £553 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £700 £600
Median % change year-on-year -17.86% +16.67% +14.29%
75th Percentile £622 £738 £975
90th Percentile £699 - -
Central London median daily rate £575 £700 £600
% change year-on-year -17.86% +16.67% +14.29%

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of London

Infrastructure Automation is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,999 3,351 3,906
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 90.37% 91.78% 91.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,415 2,247 2,967
10th Percentile £356 £350 £388
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.83% +4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £688 £730 £675
90th Percentile £800 £825 £775
Central London median daily rate £550 £600 £570
% change year-on-year -8.33% +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 26 40
10th Percentile £19.13 £15.50 £18.30
25th Percentile £20.22 £18.93 £23.44
Median hourly rate £25.00 £43.25 £41.00
Median % change year-on-year -42.20% +5.49% +115.93%
75th Percentile £40.00 £58.75 £52.00
90th Percentile £48.57 £88.30 £62.83
Central London median hourly rate £27.81 £35.00 £41.00
% change year-on-year -20.54% -14.63% +105.00%

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 24 April 2024.

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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (33.33%) Azure
2 2 (22.22%) Entra ID
3 1 (11.11%) AWS
3 1 (11.11%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (11.11%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (11.11%) Microsoft 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (22.22%) GitLab
2 1 (11.11%) Jenkins
General
1 5 (55.56%) Social Skills
2 3 (33.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (22.22%) Cloud Engineer
1 2 (22.22%) Cloud Platform Engineer
1 2 (22.22%) Platform Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Automation Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Consultant
2 1 (11.11%) Delivery Manager
2 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Systems Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) VMware Consultant
2 1 (11.11%) VMware Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Windows Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Windows Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (33.33%) SAML
2 2 (22.22%) LDAP
2 2 (22.22%) OAuth
2 2 (22.22%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) CMDB
2 1 (11.11%) Clustering
2 1 (11.11%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 2 (22.22%) Windows
2 1 (11.11%) Windows Server
2 1 (11.11%) Windows Server 2012
2 1 (11.11%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (66.67%) DevOps
2 3 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (22.22%) CI/CD
3 2 (22.22%) Identity Access Management
3 2 (22.22%) ITIL
3 2 (22.22%) Platform Engineering
3 2 (22.22%) Product Management
3 2 (22.22%) SDLC
3 2 (22.22%) Software Engineering
4 1 (11.11%) Agile
4 1 (11.11%) Backlog Prioritisation
4 1 (11.11%) Change Management
4 1 (11.11%) Identity Management
4 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 1 (11.11%) Open Source
4 1 (11.11%) Release Automation
4 1 (11.11%) Release Management
4 1 (11.11%) Risk Assessment
4 1 (11.11%) Sprint Planning
4 1 (11.11%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 4 (44.44%) SQL
2 3 (33.33%) Python
3 2 (22.22%) Bash
3 2 (22.22%) Java
3 2 (22.22%) PowerShell
4 1 (11.11%) C#
Qualifications
1 2 (22.22%) SC Cleared
1 2 (22.22%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 3 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (22.22%) Active Directory
2 2 (22.22%) Docker
2 2 (22.22%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 3 (33.33%) Kubernetes
1 3 (33.33%) Terraform
2 1 (11.11%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 1 (11.11%) Ansible
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Clustering
2 1 (11.11%) SCCM
2 1 (11.11%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (11.11%) vRealize
2 1 (11.11%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 4 (44.44%) Microsoft
2 3 (33.33%) VMware