Infrastructure Automation Contract Job Trends in Cumbria

Infrastructure Automation
North West > Cumbria

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cumbria requiring Infrastructure Automation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 39 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Automation 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Cumbria 0.34% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.45% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £438 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 - -
75th Percentile £513 - -
90th Percentile - - -
North West median daily rate £525 £600 £523
% change year-on-year -12.50% +14.83% -9.13%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Cumbria

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 Cumbria.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 223 127 217
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cumbria 76.11% 79.87% 89.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 157 51 115
10th Percentile £325 £300 £405
25th Percentile £400 £420 £464
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £460 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.43% -8.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £552 £538 £584
90th Percentile £700 £638 £670
North West median daily rate £500 £456 £500
% change year-on-year +9.65% -8.80% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 14 49
10th Percentile £13.27 £25.15 -
25th Percentile £13.95 £25.82 £10.95
Median hourly rate £35.55 £41.15 £13.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.60% +216.52% -76.52%
75th Percentile £67.47 £58.50 £66.61
90th Percentile £73.25 £71.35 £71.10
North West median hourly rate £45.00 £27.90 £34.21
% change year-on-year +61.28% -18.44% -2.26%

Infrastructure Automation
Contract Job Locations in Cumbria

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 Cumbria region over the 6 months to 11 August 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
Barrow-in-Furness - 1 £475 - 1
Infrastructure Automation
North West

Infrastructure Automation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cumbria 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:

Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Unix Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Solaris
1 1 (100.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Failover Clustering
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle