Infrastructure Automation Contracts in England

Infrastructure Automation
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 13 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 418 514 505
Rank change year-on-year +96 -9 -57
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Automation 123 131 276
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.34% 0.27% 0.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.39% 0.30% 0.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 73 95 226
10th Percentile £400 £425 £425
25th Percentile £475 £498 £486
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - +9.78%
75th Percentile £700 £700 £632
90th Percentile - £775 £710
UK median daily rate £625 £550 £550
% change year-on-year +13.64% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £65.31 - -
25th Percentile £69.53 - -
Median hourly rate £71.87 - -
75th Percentile £74.15 - -
90th Percentile £78.26 - -
UK median hourly rate £71.87 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,610 44,349 64,316
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.47% 90.16% 90.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,692 31,129 45,727
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £446 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £764 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,241 1,561 1,760
10th Percentile £12.87 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £36.50 £37.34 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.25% +49.36% +6.38%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +4.82%

Infrastructure Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Infrastructure Automation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Automation in England

Infrastructure Automation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Infrastructure Automation in England.

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure Automation in England

Infrastructure Automation
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Automation in England over the 6 months to 13 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Automation in England

Infrastructure Automation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Infrastructure Automation in England.

Hourly rate trend for Infrastructure Automation in England

Infrastructure Automation
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Infrastructure Automation in England over the 6 months to 13 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Infrastructure Automation in England

Infrastructure Automation
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 13 May 2024. 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
London +79 67 £550 -21.43% 34
South West +38 32 £700 +27.27% 7
North of England +23 13 £475 +2.70% 11
North West +27 12 £475 -9.52% 9
South East +14 9 £548 -0.45% 7
Midlands +27 2 £625 +38.12% 3
East Midlands +24 1 £625 +30.21%
Yorkshire +18 1 £390 +0.65% 2
West Midlands +17 1 - - 3
Infrastructure Automation
UK

Infrastructure Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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:

Application Platforms
1 26 (21.14%) Confluence
2 5 (4.07%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (3.25%) Apache
4 3 (2.44%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (1.63%) Exchange Server 2010
5 2 (1.63%) Exchange Server 2013
6 1 (0.81%) Apache Solr
6 1 (0.81%) IIS
6 1 (0.81%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.81%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.81%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 37 (30.08%) Azure
2 35 (28.46%) AWS
3 18 (14.63%) GCP
4 17 (13.82%) Azure DevOps
5 15 (12.20%) Serverless
6 7 (5.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 7 (5.69%) AWS Lambda
6 7 (5.69%) Azure Logic Apps
6 7 (5.69%) IaaS
7 6 (4.88%) Azure Functions
7 6 (4.88%) Azure Key Vault
7 6 (4.88%) Azure Service Bus
7 6 (4.88%) Azure Storage
7 6 (4.88%) Cloud Computing
7 6 (4.88%) Dynamics 365
7 6 (4.88%) Entra ID
7 6 (4.88%) GitHub
7 6 (4.88%) Microsoft 365
7 6 (4.88%) PaaS
7 6 (4.88%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 9 (7.32%) TCP/IP
2 8 (6.50%) Firewall
3 6 (4.88%) DNS
4 5 (4.07%) HTTP
5 4 (3.25%) DHCP
5 4 (3.25%) Network Security
5 4 (3.25%) SNA
5 4 (3.25%) VSAN
6 3 (2.44%) NAS
6 3 (2.44%) SAN
6 3 (2.44%) Software-Defined Networking
6 3 (2.44%) VPN
7 2 (1.63%) DKIM
7 2 (1.63%) DMARC
7 2 (1.63%) InfiniBand
7 2 (1.63%) IPsec
8 1 (0.81%) S/MIME
8 1 (0.81%) SD-WAN
8 1 (0.81%) Skype
8 1 (0.81%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (8.13%) SQL Server
2 7 (5.69%) Azure SQL Database
2 7 (5.69%) Big Data
2 7 (5.69%) Data Lake
2 7 (5.69%) Data Warehouse
3 6 (4.88%) OLTP
4 4 (3.25%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (3.25%) Apache Cassandra
5 3 (2.44%) BigQuery
5 3 (2.44%) NoSQL
5 3 (2.44%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (1.63%) Hadoop
6 2 (1.63%) MySQL
6 2 (1.63%) Redis
6 2 (1.63%) SQLite
7 1 (0.81%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.81%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.81%) Flink
7 1 (0.81%) Neo4j
7 1 (0.81%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 32 (26.02%) Jenkins
2 30 (24.39%) JIRA
3 25 (20.33%) Bitbucket
4 24 (19.51%) Git
5 22 (17.89%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 7 (5.69%) GitLab
7 6 (4.88%) Visual Studio Team System
8 3 (2.44%) JUnit
9 2 (1.63%) Selenium
9 2 (1.63%) Snyk
9 2 (1.63%) SonarQube
10 1 (0.81%) Bitbucket Server
10 1 (0.81%) Cucumber
10 1 (0.81%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.81%) Mockito
10 1 (0.81%) Pa11y
10 1 (0.81%) Spinnaker
10 1 (0.81%) Terragrunt
10 1 (0.81%) TestCafe
10 1 (0.81%) TestNG
General
1 33 (26.83%) Social Skills
2 29 (23.58%) Analytical Skills
3 18 (14.63%) Aerospace
4 9 (7.32%) Finance
5 7 (5.69%) Public Sector
6 2 (1.63%) Banking
6 2 (1.63%) Retail
6 2 (1.63%) Telecoms
7 1 (0.81%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (0.81%) Electronics
7 1 (0.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (0.81%) Manufacturing
7 1 (0.81%) Marketing
7 1 (0.81%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 35 (28.46%) Developer
2 18 (14.63%) Senior
3 11 (8.94%) Automation Engineer
4 10 (8.13%) Architect
5 9 (7.32%) Consultant
5 9 (7.32%) DevOps Engineer
5 9 (7.32%) VMware Engineer
6 7 (5.69%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 7 (5.69%) Lead
7 6 (4.88%) Cloud Engineer
7 6 (4.88%) Python Developer
8 5 (4.07%) Senior Test Engineer
8 5 (4.07%) Software Engineer
8 5 (4.07%) Test Engineer
9 4 (3.25%) Azure Engineer
9 4 (3.25%) Linux Engineer
9 4 (3.25%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
9 4 (3.25%) Python Engineer
9 4 (3.25%) Storage Engineer
9 4 (3.25%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (24.39%) .NET
2 22 (17.89%) .NET Core
3 9 (7.32%) Elastic Stack
3 9 (7.32%) LDAP
4 8 (6.50%) ARM Templates
4 8 (6.50%) XML
5 7 (5.69%) Web Services
6 6 (4.88%) JSON
7 5 (4.07%) YAML
8 4 (3.25%) React
8 4 (3.25%) SAML
9 3 (2.44%) .NET Framework
9 3 (2.44%) AngularJS
9 3 (2.44%) Kafka
9 3 (2.44%) OAuth
9 3 (2.44%) OpenID
10 2 (1.63%) Jetpack Compose
10 2 (1.63%) ModSecurity
10 2 (1.63%) REST
10 2 (1.63%) RxJava
Miscellaneous
1 9 (7.32%) CMDB
2 7 (5.69%) Cloud Native
2 7 (5.69%) PKI
3 6 (4.88%) Data Centre
4 5 (4.07%) Public Cloud
5 4 (3.25%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.63%) Clustering
6 2 (1.63%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (1.63%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (1.63%) Linux Command Line
6 2 (1.63%) Product Ownership
6 2 (1.63%) Security Posture
7 1 (0.81%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.81%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (0.81%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.81%) Private Cloud
7 1 (0.81%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 39 (31.71%) Linux
2 9 (7.32%) Windows
3 4 (3.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (3.25%) Unix
3 4 (3.25%) VMS
4 3 (2.44%) Windows 2000
4 3 (2.44%) Windows XP
5 2 (1.63%) Android
5 2 (1.63%) Windows Server
5 2 (1.63%) Windows Server 2012
5 2 (1.63%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.81%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.81%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.81%) Windows Server 2008
6 1 (0.81%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (43.09%) CI/CD
2 43 (34.96%) DevOps
3 38 (30.89%) Infrastructure as Code
4 36 (29.27%) Problem-Solving
5 35 (28.46%) Agile
6 33 (26.83%) Continuous Integration
7 30 (24.39%) Deployment Automation
8 28 (22.76%) Configuration Management
9 26 (21.14%) Task Automation
9 26 (21.14%) Test Automation
10 22 (17.89%) OO
10 22 (17.89%) OOP
11 17 (13.82%) Containerisation
12 15 (12.20%) Scrum
13 14 (11.38%) Microservices
14 13 (10.57%) Continuous Delivery
14 13 (10.57%) Migration
15 12 (9.76%) Software Engineering
16 11 (8.94%) Architectural Patterns
16 11 (8.94%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 57 (46.34%) Python
2 55 (44.72%) PowerShell
3 30 (24.39%) Java
4 13 (10.57%) Go
5 11 (8.94%) C#
6 10 (8.13%) SQL
7 6 (4.88%) Bash
8 5 (4.07%) JavaScript
8 5 (4.07%) PHP
8 5 (4.07%) Shell Script
9 4 (3.25%) TypeScript
10 3 (2.44%) Bicep
10 3 (2.44%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.81%) C
11 1 (0.81%) C++
11 1 (0.81%) Ruby
11 1 (0.81%) Rust
Qualifications
1 47 (38.21%) Security Cleared
2 43 (34.96%) SC Cleared
3 11 (8.94%) Degree
4 8 (6.50%) DV Cleared
5 7 (5.69%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.63%) Master's Degree
6 2 (1.63%) VCAP
6 2 (1.63%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 1 (0.81%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.81%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.81%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.81%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.25%) Accessibility
2 1 (0.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (0.81%) NCSC
2 1 (0.81%) PCI DSS
2 1 (0.81%) QA
System Software
1 24 (19.51%) Docker
2 23 (18.70%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (9.76%) Active Directory
4 9 (7.32%) VMware NSX
5 5 (4.07%) Hyper-V
5 5 (4.07%) Virtual Servers
5 5 (4.07%) VMware ESXi
6 4 (3.25%) vSphere
7 2 (1.63%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
7 2 (1.63%) KVM
7 2 (1.63%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.81%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 54 (43.90%) Terraform
2 51 (41.46%) Ansible
3 40 (32.52%) Kubernetes
4 24 (19.51%) PowerCLI
5 7 (5.69%) vRealize
6 6 (4.88%) Puppet
6 6 (4.88%) vRealize Orchestrator
7 5 (4.07%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 4 (3.25%) Grafana
8 4 (3.25%) Prometheus
8 4 (3.25%) vCenter Server
9 3 (2.44%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (1.63%) Argo
10 2 (1.63%) Kibana
10 2 (1.63%) McAfee ePO
10 2 (1.63%) Microsoft Intune
10 2 (1.63%) OPNET
10 2 (1.63%) Progress Chef
10 2 (1.63%) Rancher
10 2 (1.63%) SCCM
Vendors
1 30 (24.39%) VMware
2 24 (19.51%) Atlassian
3 23 (18.70%) Dell
4 22 (17.89%) HP
5 21 (17.07%) Microsoft
6 9 (7.32%) Google
6 9 (7.32%) Splunk
7 6 (4.88%) Red Hat
8 4 (3.25%) Oracle
9 3 (2.44%) Cisco
9 3 (2.44%) Fortinet
9 3 (2.44%) Juniper
10 2 (1.63%) CyberArk
10 2 (1.63%) McAfee
10 2 (1.63%) NVIDIA
10 2 (1.63%) SAP
10 2 (1.63%) ServiceNow
11 1 (0.81%) Databricks
11 1 (0.81%) Ping Identity
11 1 (0.81%) SolarWinds