Infrastructure Automation Contract Job Trends in the East Midlands

Infrastructure Automation
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East Midlands requiring Infrastructure Automation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 72 - 62
Rank change year-on-year - - +34
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Automation 2 0 2
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 0.23% - 0.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.27% - 0.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £538 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 - -
75th Percentile £613 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £520 £524 £554
% change year-on-year -0.72% -5.42% -1.34%

All Process and Methodology Skills
East Midlands

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 East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 739 617 670
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 86.43% 84.29% 84.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 511 376 486
10th Percentile £210 £267 £213
25th Percentile £350 £356 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £415 £445 £480
Median % change year-on-year -6.74% -7.29% +1.05%
75th Percentile £525 £541 £588
90th Percentile £638 £619 £700
England median daily rate £508 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 69 28 53
10th Percentile £16.17 £14.90 £13.00
25th Percentile £17.87 £17.00 £16.66
Median hourly rate £18.87 £23.25 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.84% +3.33% +32.86%
75th Percentile £25.15 £50.00 £51.50
90th Percentile - £51.50 £69.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £38.04 £45.00
% change year-on-year -33.88% -15.48% +28.57%

Infrastructure Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

Infrastructure Automation job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

Infrastructure Automation
Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Infrastructure Automation.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Infrastructure Automation

Infrastructure Automation
Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

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 East Midlands region over the 6 months to 5 November 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
Leicestershire - 1 £575 - 4
Lincolnshire - 1 - -
Infrastructure Automation
England

Infrastructure Automation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Azure AKS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Monitor
1 1 (50.00%) dbt
1 1 (50.00%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall
1 1 (50.00%) Internet
1 1 (50.00%) Intrusion Detection
1 1 (50.00%) Network Security
General
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Lead
1 1 (50.00%) Lead Network Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Network Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Agile
1 1 (50.00%) API Management
1 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (50.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (50.00%) Network Architecture
1 1 (50.00%) RBAC
1 1 (50.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (50.00%) Scrum
1 1 (50.00%) SIEM
1 1 (50.00%) Zero Trust
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (50.00%) CCNP
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Grafana
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (50.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco
1 1 (50.00%) Databricks
1 1 (50.00%) Palo Alto
1 1 (50.00%) Zscaler