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 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 99 115 150
Rank change year-on-year +16 +35 +25
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Automation 17 9 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 1.00% 0.42% 0.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.07% 0.46% 0.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 8 13
10th Percentile £488 £300 £530
25th Percentile £506 £356 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £521 £525 £700
Median % change year-on-year -0.86% -25.00% +16.67%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £738
90th Percentile £695 £626 -
Central London median daily rate £513 £525 £700
% change year-on-year -2.38% -25.00% +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 1,589 1,953 3,155
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 93.58% 90.75% 91.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,008 1,368 2,128
10th Percentile £356 £350 £363
25th Percentile £452 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £563 £600
Median % change year-on-year -2.22% -6.25% +4.80%
75th Percentile £688 £688 £725
90th Percentile £775 £800 £820
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £600
% change year-on-year - -8.33% +6.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 11 23
10th Percentile £18.15 £19.92 £14.45
25th Percentile £23.98 £20.22 £16.06
Median hourly rate £28.33 £26.25 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.90% -25.00% -13.58%
75th Percentile £41.48 £40.00 £61.25
90th Percentile £59.25 £41.84 £88.30
Central London median hourly rate £28.33 £27.81 £35.00
% change year-on-year +1.85% -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 31 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Automation in the City of London

Infrastructure Automation
Contract Job Locations in the City of 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 City of London region over the 6 months to 31 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
Moorgate - 1 £390 -
Infrastructure Automation
Central 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 7 (41.18%) Azure
2 6 (35.29%) GCP
3 5 (29.41%) AWS
4 3 (17.65%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 2 (11.76%) Azure AKS
5 2 (11.76%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (11.76%) Cloud Composer
5 2 (11.76%) Cloud Functions
5 2 (11.76%) Entra ID
5 2 (11.76%) Google Compute Engine
5 2 (11.76%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (5.88%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (5.88%) Azure AI
6 1 (5.88%) Azure Key Vault
6 1 (5.88%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (5.88%) IaaS
6 1 (5.88%) Kong
6 1 (5.88%) PaaS
6 1 (5.88%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (17.65%) DNS
2 2 (11.76%) DHCP
3 1 (5.88%) Internet
3 1 (5.88%) NAS
3 1 (5.88%) SAN
3 1 (5.88%) Software-Defined Networking
3 1 (5.88%) SSH
3 1 (5.88%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (11.76%) Big Data
1 2 (11.76%) BigQuery
1 2 (11.76%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 5 (29.41%) Jenkins
2 4 (23.53%) GitLab
3 2 (11.76%) Git
4 1 (5.88%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 1 (5.88%) git-flow
General
1 3 (17.65%) Finance
2 2 (11.76%) Public Sector
3 1 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (5.88%) Banking
3 1 (5.88%) Retail
3 1 (5.88%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (35.29%) DevOps Engineer
2 5 (29.41%) Automation Engineer
3 3 (17.65%) Azure Engineer
3 3 (17.65%) GCP Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) Azure Platform Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) Data Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) GCP Data Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) Platform Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) Senior
5 1 (5.88%) AWS DevOps
5 1 (5.88%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) AWS Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Data Centre Manager
5 1 (5.88%) Programme Manager
5 1 (5.88%) Senior Data Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Senior DevOps
5 1 (5.88%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.88%) ARM Templates
1 1 (5.88%) Kafka
1 1 (5.88%) RESTful
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%) Cloud Native
3 1 (5.88%) Fibre Optics
3 1 (5.88%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 5 (29.41%) Linux
2 3 (17.65%) Rocky
2 3 (17.65%) Windows
3 1 (5.88%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (82.35%) CI/CD
2 12 (70.59%) DevOps
3 6 (35.29%) Containerisation
4 5 (29.41%) Configuration Management
4 5 (29.41%) Continuous Integration
4 5 (29.41%) Infrastructure as Code
5 4 (23.53%) Agile
5 4 (23.53%) Continuous Delivery
6 3 (17.65%) Analytics
6 3 (17.65%) API Development
6 3 (17.65%) Artificial Intelligence
6 3 (17.65%) Problem-Solving
7 2 (11.76%) Cloud Security
7 2 (11.76%) Data Engineering
7 2 (11.76%) Data Ingestion
7 2 (11.76%) Data Pipeline
7 2 (11.76%) Deployment Automation
7 2 (11.76%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 2 (11.76%) Platform Engineering
7 2 (11.76%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 8 (47.06%) Python
2 2 (11.76%) Bash
2 2 (11.76%) C#
2 2 (11.76%) PowerShell
2 2 (11.76%) SQL
3 1 (5.88%) Go
3 1 (5.88%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 1 (5.88%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (5.88%) Degree
1 1 (5.88%) SC Cleared
1 1 (5.88%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (17.65%) QA
2 2 (11.76%) Data Quality
System Software
1 4 (23.53%) Docker
2 2 (11.76%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 14 (82.35%) Terraform
2 10 (58.82%) Kubernetes
3 6 (35.29%) Ansible
4 3 (17.65%) Consul
5 2 (11.76%) Istio
5 2 (11.76%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (5.88%) Argo
6 1 (5.88%) Packer
6 1 (5.88%) yum
Vendors
1 3 (17.65%) Google
2 1 (5.88%) Dynatrace
2 1 (5.88%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.88%) OpenAI