Infrastructure Automation Contracts in England

Infrastructure Automation
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 285 411 510
Rank change year-on-year +126 +99 -2
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Automation 209 131 143
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.86% 0.35% 0.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.94% 0.41% 0.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 157 80 102
10th Percentile £380 £400 £456
25th Percentile £425 £475 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £700 £700
90th Percentile £675 - £773
UK median daily rate £525 £625 £550
% change year-on-year -16.00% +13.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 0
Median hourly rate - £71.87 -
UK median hourly rate - £71.87 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 22,202 32,193 45,529
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.16% 86.56% 90.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,534 21,105 31,969
10th Percentile £310 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £765
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 921 2,246 1,592
10th Percentile £14.42 £12.92 £10.87
25th Percentile £18.20 £16.01 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

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 1 May 2025.

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
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 1 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
London +90 121 £525 -8.70% 117
North of England +27 28 £537 +11.64% 34
South East +60 23 £500 -8.68% 44
South West +35 20 £575 -17.86% 18
Yorkshire +25 19 £475 +3.83% 5
Midlands +26 6 £450 -28.00% 10
North West +5 6 £625 +29.94% 26
West Midlands +18 5 £450 - 4
East of England - 3 £500 - 5
North East - 3 £565 - 3
East Midlands +10 1 £700 +12.00% 5
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 10 (4.78%) Apache Spark
2 8 (3.83%) Confluence
2 8 (3.83%) SharePoint
3 6 (2.87%) nginx
4 5 (2.39%) OpenStack
5 3 (1.44%) Apache
5 3 (1.44%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.48%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.48%) JBoss
Business Applications
1 1 (0.48%) Distributed Ledger
Cloud Services
1 90 (43.06%) Azure
2 78 (37.32%) AWS
3 39 (18.66%) GCP
4 29 (13.88%) GitHub
5 23 (11.00%) Azure DevOps
6 20 (9.57%) AWS CloudFormation
7 16 (7.66%) Serverless
8 15 (7.18%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 15 (7.18%) GitHub Actions
9 14 (6.70%) Microsoft 365
10 13 (6.22%) Azure AKS
10 13 (6.22%) Entra ID
11 11 (5.26%) AWS Lambda
12 9 (4.31%) Amazon S3
13 8 (3.83%) Amazon EC2
13 8 (3.83%) OpenShift
13 8 (3.83%) PaaS
13 8 (3.83%) Power Platform
13 8 (3.83%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 6 (2.87%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 20 (9.57%) Firewall
2 14 (6.70%) DNS
3 11 (5.26%) VPN
4 9 (4.31%) Network Security
4 9 (4.31%) TCP/IP
5 6 (2.87%) SAN
6 5 (2.39%) BGP
6 5 (2.39%) DHCP
6 5 (2.39%) Ethernet VPN
6 5 (2.39%) HTTP
6 5 (2.39%) OSPF
6 5 (2.39%) Reverse Proxy
6 5 (2.39%) WAN
7 4 (1.91%) iSCSI
8 3 (1.44%) Cisco ISE
8 3 (1.44%) NAS
8 3 (1.44%) Skype
9 2 (0.96%) Fibre Channel
9 2 (0.96%) Spanning Tree
9 2 (0.96%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (5.74%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (5.26%) Oracle Database
3 9 (4.31%) Hadoop
4 8 (3.83%) Amazon RDS
4 8 (3.83%) Power BI
5 6 (2.87%) Apache Hive
5 6 (2.87%) Data Warehouse
6 5 (2.39%) Apache Iceberg
6 5 (2.39%) Big Data
6 5 (2.39%) Parquet
6 5 (2.39%) Presto
7 4 (1.91%) Data Lake
8 3 (1.44%) DynamoDB
8 3 (1.44%) SQL Server
9 2 (0.96%) Apache Cassandra
9 2 (0.96%) Azure SQL Database
9 2 (0.96%) BigQuery
9 2 (0.96%) Redis
9 2 (0.96%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 2 (0.96%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 68 (32.54%) Jenkins
2 54 (25.84%) GitLab
3 32 (15.31%) Git
4 15 (7.18%) Bitbucket
5 13 (6.22%) JIRA
6 5 (2.39%) Poetry
7 4 (1.91%) TeamCity
8 2 (0.96%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 2 (0.96%) CircleCI
8 2 (0.96%) JUnit
8 2 (0.96%) Maven
8 2 (0.96%) Mockito
8 2 (0.96%) Postman
8 2 (0.96%) REST Assured
8 2 (0.96%) Selenium
8 2 (0.96%) SoapUI
8 2 (0.96%) SonarQube
8 2 (0.96%) Subversion
8 2 (0.96%) Xcode
8 2 (0.96%) XCTest
General
1 45 (21.53%) Social Skills
2 40 (19.14%) Finance
3 21 (10.05%) Public Sector
4 14 (6.70%) Analytical Skills
5 13 (6.22%) Banking
6 8 (3.83%) Telecoms
7 5 (2.39%) Legal
7 5 (2.39%) Retail
8 4 (1.91%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (1.91%) Financial Institution
9 3 (1.44%) Electronics
9 3 (1.44%) Manufacturing
9 3 (1.44%) Marketing
9 3 (1.44%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (0.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (0.96%) Military
11 1 (0.48%) Digital Health
11 1 (0.48%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.48%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.48%) Police
Job Titles
1 62 (29.67%) DevOps Engineer
2 26 (12.44%) Senior
3 25 (11.96%) Automation Engineer
3 25 (11.96%) Cloud Engineer
4 22 (10.53%) Azure Engineer
5 21 (10.05%) AWS Engineer
6 20 (9.57%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 18 (8.61%) Developer
8 16 (7.66%) Platform Engineer
9 15 (7.18%) Architect
10 14 (6.70%) AWS DevOps
10 14 (6.70%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 14 (6.70%) Azure DevOps Engineer
11 10 (4.78%) Lead
12 8 (3.83%) Senior Cloud Engineer
12 8 (3.83%) Software Engineer
13 7 (3.35%) GCP Engineer
14 6 (2.87%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 6 (2.87%) GCP DevOps
14 6 (2.87%) GCP DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (9.09%) Kafka
2 17 (8.13%) REST
3 14 (6.70%) SOAP
4 10 (4.78%) .NET
4 10 (4.78%) YAML
5 8 (3.83%) ARM Templates
5 8 (3.83%) React
6 7 (3.35%) Middleware
6 7 (3.35%) RESTful
7 6 (2.87%) Elastic Stack
8 5 (2.39%) AWS CDK
8 5 (2.39%) Dask
8 5 (2.39%) LAPP Stack
9 4 (1.91%) OpenTelemetry
10 3 (1.44%) AngularJS
10 3 (1.44%) NETCONF
10 3 (1.44%) Node.js
10 3 (1.44%) pytest
10 3 (1.44%) Spring
11 2 (0.96%) JPA
Miscellaneous
1 20 (9.57%) Cloud Native
2 17 (8.13%) Data Centre
3 11 (5.26%) Management Information System
4 10 (4.78%) Hybrid Cloud
5 9 (4.31%) Public Cloud
6 7 (3.35%) Hedge funds
7 5 (2.39%) Data Protection Act
7 5 (2.39%) Distributed Systems
7 5 (2.39%) Product Ownership
8 4 (1.91%) Onboarding
8 4 (1.91%) PKI
8 4 (1.91%) Private Cloud
9 3 (1.44%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (1.44%) Legacy Applications
9 3 (1.44%) NHS
10 2 (0.96%) CMDB
10 2 (0.96%) Enterprise Storage
10 2 (0.96%) Virtual Team
11 1 (0.48%) Greenfield Project
11 1 (0.48%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 71 (33.97%) Linux
2 41 (19.62%) Windows
3 22 (10.53%) Windows Server
4 9 (4.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 9 (4.31%) Unix
5 4 (1.91%) CentOS
6 3 (1.44%) AIX
6 3 (1.44%) Rocky
7 2 (0.96%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.48%) VMS
8 1 (0.48%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.48%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.48%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 138 (66.03%) CI/CD
2 122 (58.37%) DevOps
3 88 (42.11%) Infrastructure as Code
4 64 (30.62%) Problem-Solving
5 50 (23.92%) Configuration Management
5 50 (23.92%) Containerisation
6 44 (21.05%) Agile
7 29 (13.88%) High Availability
7 29 (13.88%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 29 (13.88%) Migration
8 28 (13.40%) Infrastructure Management
9 27 (12.92%) Deployment Automation
10 20 (9.57%) Continuous Integration
10 20 (9.57%) Mentoring
11 19 (9.09%) Platform Engineering
11 19 (9.09%) Task Automation
12 17 (8.13%) Software Engineering
13 16 (7.66%) Microservices
14 15 (7.18%) Performance Tuning
14 15 (7.18%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 95 (45.45%) Python
2 50 (23.92%) PowerShell
3 34 (16.27%) Bash
4 14 (6.70%) SQL
5 12 (5.74%) C#
6 11 (5.26%) Java
6 11 (5.26%) Shell Script
7 10 (4.78%) Bicep
7 10 (4.78%) Go
8 7 (3.35%) TypeScript
9 6 (2.87%) Groovy
10 3 (1.44%) JavaScript
11 2 (0.96%) ActionScript
11 2 (0.96%) ActionScript 2.0
11 2 (0.96%) Rust
11 2 (0.96%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.48%) C
12 1 (0.48%) COBOL
12 1 (0.48%) JCL
12 1 (0.48%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 43 (20.57%) Security Cleared
2 36 (17.22%) SC Cleared
3 16 (7.66%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 14 (6.70%) CCNP
4 14 (6.70%) Cisco Certification
4 14 (6.70%) Oracle Certification
5 10 (4.78%) OCA
5 10 (4.78%) RHCA
5 10 (4.78%) RHCE
6 7 (3.35%) AWS Certification
7 6 (2.87%) Degree
7 6 (2.87%) DV Cleared
8 4 (1.91%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 4 (1.91%) OCP
9 3 (1.44%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (1.44%) RHCSA
10 2 (0.96%) IBM Certification
11 1 (0.48%) CISM
11 1 (0.48%) CISSP
11 1 (0.48%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (2.39%) NIST
1 5 (2.39%) QA
2 4 (1.91%) GDPR
2 4 (1.91%) NCSC
3 3 (1.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.48%) 21 CFR Part 11
4 1 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 1 (0.48%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.48%) GxP
4 1 (0.48%) HIPAA
4 1 (0.48%) JSP 440
4 1 (0.48%) SOC 2
System Software
1 49 (23.44%) Docker
2 31 (14.83%) VMware Infrastructure
3 15 (7.18%) Active Directory
4 11 (5.26%) vSphere
5 10 (4.78%) Virtual Machines
6 8 (3.83%) VMware NSX
7 4 (1.91%) Ceph
7 4 (1.91%) Hyper-V
7 4 (1.91%) NFS
7 4 (1.91%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.48%) Veritas Cluster Server
8 1 (0.48%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 135 (64.59%) Terraform
2 97 (46.41%) Ansible
3 82 (39.23%) Kubernetes
4 28 (13.40%) Puppet
5 19 (9.09%) Progress Chef
6 15 (7.18%) Prometheus
7 13 (6.22%) vCenter Server
8 12 (5.74%) Grafana
9 11 (5.26%) Microsoft Intune
10 10 (4.78%) vRealize
11 6 (2.87%) Argo
12 5 (2.39%) vRealize Orchestrator
13 4 (1.91%) Podman
13 4 (1.91%) SCCM
13 4 (1.91%) ZABBIX
14 3 (1.44%) Consul
14 3 (1.44%) Rancher
15 2 (0.96%) MOM
15 2 (0.96%) Packer
15 2 (0.96%) PowerCLI
Vendors
1 42 (20.10%) VMware
2 25 (11.96%) Cisco
3 23 (11.00%) Microsoft
4 21 (10.05%) Oracle
5 15 (7.18%) Red Hat
6 13 (6.22%) Google
7 12 (5.74%) Splunk
8 7 (3.35%) Atlassian
8 7 (3.35%) Databricks
9 5 (2.39%) Salesforce
9 5 (2.39%) ServiceNow
10 4 (1.91%) SAP
11 3 (1.44%) Mellanox
11 3 (1.44%) NVIDIA
11 3 (1.44%) Planview
11 3 (1.44%) SolarWinds
11 3 (1.44%) Sybase
12 2 (0.96%) Dell
12 2 (0.96%) IBM
12 2 (0.96%) IBM Sterling