Infrastructure Automation Contract Job Trends in County Antrim

Infrastructure Automation
Northern Ireland > County Antrim

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in County Antrim requiring Infrastructure Automation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Automation 4 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in County Antrim 2.31% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.72% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £402 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £446 - -
75th Percentile £518 - -
90th Percentile £534 - -
Northern Ireland median daily rate £446 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
County Antrim

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 County Antrim.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 147 205 127
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in County Antrim 84.97% 90.31% 79.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 78 95 57
10th Percentile £263 £263 £144
25th Percentile £361 £325 £167
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £425
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +11.76% +6.25%
75th Percentile £656 £575 £538
90th Percentile £694 £625 £618
Northern Ireland median daily rate £450 £475 £431
% change year-on-year -5.26% +10.14% +7.81%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 50 16
10th Percentile - £12.66 £21.19
25th Percentile £14.50 £14.78 £23.89
Median hourly rate £43.28 £17.30 £24.18
Median % change year-on-year +150.19% -28.45% +76.69%
75th Percentile £43.96 £25.15 -
90th Percentile £44.85 - £40.25
Northern Ireland median hourly rate £43.96 £17.30 £24.18
% change year-on-year +154.10% -28.45% +76.69%

Infrastructure Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in County Antrim

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Infrastructure Automation relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in County Antrim.

Infrastructure Automation job vacancy trend in County Antrim

Infrastructure Automation
Daily Rate Trend in County Antrim

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in County Antrim citing Infrastructure Automation.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in County Antrim citing Infrastructure Automation

Infrastructure Automation
Contract Job Locations in County Antrim

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 County Antrim region over the 6 months to 22 September 2026. 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
Belfast - 4 £446 - 3
Infrastructure Automation
Northern Ireland

Infrastructure Automation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in County Antrim by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 3 (75.00%) Amazon EKS
1 3 (75.00%) AWS
1 3 (75.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 3 (75.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
2 1 (25.00%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) Kerberos
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Git
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (75.00%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 4 (100.00%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Linux
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
1 1 (25.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (75.00%) Containerisation
3 1 (25.00%) Architecture Governance
3 1 (25.00%) Code Quality
3 1 (25.00%) High Availability
3 1 (25.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Bash
1 1 (25.00%) Go
1 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (25.00%) Python
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 3 (75.00%) Grafana
2 3 (75.00%) Prometheus
3 1 (25.00%) Ansible