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 23 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 285 412 526
Rank change year-on-year +127 +114 -1
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Automation 202 126 124
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.85% 0.35% 0.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.93% 0.40% 0.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 146 76 90
10th Percentile £369 £395 £425
25th Percentile £416 £475 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -14.58% +9.09% +1.38%
75th Percentile £600 £700 £700
90th Percentile £675 - £775
UK median daily rate £513 £613 £550
% change year-on-year -16.33% +11.41% -0.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 0
10th Percentile - £65.31 -
25th Percentile £73.50 £69.53 -
Median hourly rate £79.00 £71.87 -
Median % change year-on-year +9.92% - -
75th Percentile £84.50 £74.15 -
90th Percentile - £78.26 -
UK median hourly rate £79.00 £71.87 -
% change year-on-year +9.92% - -

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 21,762 31,336 43,140
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.29% 86.24% 90.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,222 20,550 30,257
10th Percentile £305 £300 £325
25th Percentile £412 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £768
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +3.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 920 2,253 1,528
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.88 £10.63
25th Percentile £18.13 £15.95 £16.13
Median hourly rate £28.08 £36.50 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% -2.67% +50.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £60.25 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £36.05 £37.00
% change year-on-year -23.71% -2.58% +44.08%

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 23 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 23 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 +108 119 £520 -2.98% 227
North of England +28 29 £500 +5.26% 94
Yorkshire +34 22 £488 -18.75% 37
South East +60 19 £450 -26.53% 174
South West +22 18 £575 -17.86% 37
Midlands +23 7 £450 -28.00% 66
West Midlands +18 6 £450 - 32
North West +1 6 £581 +22.32% 43
East of England - 4 £500 - 56
East Midlands +11 1 £700 +12.00% 31
North East - 1 £565 - 14
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 8 (3.96%) Apache Spark
1 8 (3.96%) Confluence
2 5 (2.48%) nginx
3 4 (1.98%) OpenStack
3 4 (1.98%) SharePoint
4 3 (1.49%) Apache
4 3 (1.49%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.50%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.50%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.50%) CMS
5 1 (0.50%) DataSynapse
5 1 (0.50%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.50%) JBoss
Business Applications
1 2 (0.99%) SAP PM
2 1 (0.50%) Distributed Ledger
Cloud Services
1 88 (43.56%) Azure
2 73 (36.14%) AWS
3 40 (19.80%) GCP
4 27 (13.37%) GitHub
5 22 (10.89%) AWS CloudFormation
6 21 (10.40%) Entra ID
7 20 (9.90%) Azure DevOps
8 19 (9.41%) Serverless
9 17 (8.42%) GitHub Actions
10 16 (7.92%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 14 (6.93%) AWS Lambda
12 13 (6.44%) Azure AKS
13 11 (5.45%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 9 (4.46%) Amazon EC2
14 9 (4.46%) Microsoft 365
15 8 (3.96%) Amazon EKS
16 7 (3.47%) AWS CodePipeline
17 6 (2.97%) Amazon ECS
17 6 (2.97%) Amazon S3
17 6 (2.97%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 19 (9.41%) Firewall
2 16 (7.92%) DNS
3 12 (5.94%) VPN
4 11 (5.45%) Network Security
4 11 (5.45%) TCP/IP
5 6 (2.97%) SAN
6 5 (2.48%) BGP
6 5 (2.48%) DHCP
6 5 (2.48%) Ethernet VPN
6 5 (2.48%) HTTP
6 5 (2.48%) OSPF
6 5 (2.48%) Reverse Proxy
6 5 (2.48%) WAN
7 3 (1.49%) NAS
7 3 (1.49%) SSL
8 2 (0.99%) HTTPS
8 2 (0.99%) IPv6
8 2 (0.99%) LAN
8 2 (0.99%) Spanning Tree
8 2 (0.99%) TACACS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (6.93%) Oracle Database
2 12 (5.94%) Amazon RDS
2 12 (5.94%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (3.96%) Hadoop
4 7 (3.47%) Big Data
5 6 (2.97%) Apache Hive
5 6 (2.97%) Data Lake
6 5 (2.48%) Apache Iceberg
6 5 (2.48%) BigQuery
6 5 (2.48%) Data Warehouse
6 5 (2.48%) Parquet
6 5 (2.48%) Presto
7 4 (1.98%) Azure SQL Database
7 4 (1.98%) DynamoDB
8 3 (1.49%) Power BI
8 3 (1.49%) Redis
9 2 (0.99%) Apache Cassandra
9 2 (0.99%) GIS
9 2 (0.99%) NoSQL
9 2 (0.99%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 65 (32.18%) Jenkins
2 49 (24.26%) GitLab
3 36 (17.82%) Git
4 15 (7.43%) Bitbucket
5 13 (6.44%) JIRA
6 5 (2.48%) Poetry
7 4 (1.98%) TeamCity
8 3 (1.49%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 3 (1.49%) JUnit
8 3 (1.49%) Maven
8 3 (1.49%) Mockito
8 3 (1.49%) Postman
8 3 (1.49%) REST Assured
8 3 (1.49%) SoapUI
8 3 (1.49%) SonarQube
8 3 (1.49%) Subversion
8 3 (1.49%) Xcode
8 3 (1.49%) XCTest
9 2 (0.99%) CircleCI
9 2 (0.99%) Selenium
General
1 43 (21.29%) Social Skills
2 39 (19.31%) Finance
3 16 (7.92%) Public Sector
4 12 (5.94%) Banking
5 8 (3.96%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (2.97%) Telecoms
7 5 (2.48%) Retail
8 4 (1.98%) Legal
9 3 (1.49%) Marketing
9 3 (1.49%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (0.99%) Electronics
10 2 (0.99%) Financial Institution
10 2 (0.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (0.99%) Manufacturing
10 2 (0.99%) Military
11 1 (0.50%) Digital Health
11 1 (0.50%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.50%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.50%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.50%) Police
Job Titles
1 59 (29.21%) DevOps Engineer
2 27 (13.37%) Senior
3 25 (12.38%) Cloud Engineer
4 23 (11.39%) Azure Engineer
5 21 (10.40%) Automation Engineer
6 19 (9.41%) AWS Engineer
7 18 (8.91%) Platform Engineer
8 16 (7.92%) Architect
9 15 (7.43%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 13 (6.44%) AWS DevOps
10 13 (6.44%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 13 (6.44%) Azure DevOps Engineer
10 13 (6.44%) Developer
11 12 (5.94%) Lead
12 9 (4.46%) GCP Engineer
13 8 (3.96%) Software Engineer
14 7 (3.47%) Cloud Platform Engineer
15 6 (2.97%) Database Engineer
15 6 (2.97%) Oracle Database Engineer
15 6 (2.97%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (9.90%) Kafka
2 17 (8.42%) REST
3 14 (6.93%) SOAP
4 12 (5.94%) ARM Templates
5 8 (3.96%) .NET
5 8 (3.96%) RESTful
6 7 (3.47%) Elastic Stack
7 6 (2.97%) React
8 5 (2.48%) Dask
8 5 (2.48%) LAPP Stack
8 5 (2.48%) Middleware
9 4 (1.98%) Jinja
9 4 (1.98%) JSON
9 4 (1.98%) OpenTelemetry
9 4 (1.98%) Spring
9 4 (1.98%) YAML
10 3 (1.49%) CSS3
10 3 (1.49%) Spring Boot
10 3 (1.49%) Spring Cloud
10 3 (1.49%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 19 (9.41%) Cloud Native
2 17 (8.42%) Data Centre
3 10 (4.95%) Hybrid Cloud
3 10 (4.95%) Management Information System
4 7 (3.47%) Public Cloud
5 6 (2.97%) Distributed Systems
6 5 (2.48%) Hedge funds
7 4 (1.98%) Data Protection Act
7 4 (1.98%) Onboarding
7 4 (1.98%) PKI
8 3 (1.49%) Private Cloud
9 2 (0.99%) CMDB
9 2 (0.99%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 2 (0.99%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (0.99%) Enterprise Storage
9 2 (0.99%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 2 (0.99%) IoT
9 2 (0.99%) NHS
9 2 (0.99%) Product Ownership
9 2 (0.99%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 68 (33.66%) Linux
2 37 (18.32%) Windows
3 22 (10.89%) Windows Server
4 9 (4.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (3.47%) Unix
6 4 (1.98%) CentOS
7 3 (1.49%) Rocky
8 2 (0.99%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.50%) VMS
9 1 (0.50%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.50%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.50%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 137 (67.82%) CI/CD
2 123 (60.89%) DevOps
3 93 (46.04%) Infrastructure as Code
4 64 (31.68%) Problem-Solving
5 50 (24.75%) Containerisation
6 46 (22.77%) Configuration Management
7 42 (20.79%) Agile
8 32 (15.84%) Migration
9 28 (13.86%) High Availability
10 24 (11.88%) Deployment Automation
11 22 (10.89%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 22 (10.89%) Mentoring
12 21 (10.40%) Infrastructure Management
13 20 (9.90%) Platform Engineering
14 17 (8.42%) Continuous Integration
15 16 (7.92%) Cloud Security
15 16 (7.92%) Test Automation
16 15 (7.43%) Performance Tuning
16 15 (7.43%) Software Engineering
16 15 (7.43%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 93 (46.04%) Python
2 43 (21.29%) PowerShell
3 32 (15.84%) Bash
4 18 (8.91%) SQL
5 13 (6.44%) Shell Script
6 12 (5.94%) Java
7 11 (5.45%) C#
7 11 (5.45%) Go
8 10 (4.95%) Bicep
9 7 (3.47%) Groovy
10 5 (2.48%) TypeScript
11 4 (1.98%) JavaScript
12 2 (0.99%) ActionScript
12 2 (0.99%) ActionScript 2.0
12 2 (0.99%) Kusto Query Language
12 2 (0.99%) Rust
12 2 (0.99%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.50%) C
13 1 (0.50%) COBOL
13 1 (0.50%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 40 (19.80%) Security Cleared
2 34 (16.83%) SC Cleared
3 16 (7.92%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 14 (6.93%) CCNP
4 14 (6.93%) Cisco Certification
4 14 (6.93%) Oracle Certification
5 10 (4.95%) OCA
5 10 (4.95%) RHCA
5 10 (4.95%) RHCE
6 9 (4.46%) AWS Certification
7 7 (3.47%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 5 (2.48%) DV Cleared
9 4 (1.98%) Degree
9 4 (1.98%) OCP
10 3 (1.49%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 2 (0.99%) Computer Science Degree
11 2 (0.99%) IBM Certification
11 2 (0.99%) RHCSA
12 1 (0.50%) BPSS Clearance
12 1 (0.50%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (3.96%) GDPR
2 6 (2.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (2.48%) Data Quality
4 4 (1.98%) NCSC
4 4 (1.98%) NIST
4 4 (1.98%) QA
5 3 (1.49%) SOC 2
6 2 (0.99%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.50%) 21 CFR Part 11
7 1 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.50%) GxP
7 1 (0.50%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.50%) JSP 440
System Software
1 48 (23.76%) Docker
2 28 (13.86%) VMware Infrastructure
3 18 (8.91%) Active Directory
4 11 (5.45%) vSphere
5 8 (3.96%) Virtual Machines
6 5 (2.48%) VMware NSX
7 4 (1.98%) Ceph
8 3 (1.49%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.50%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.50%) NFS
9 1 (0.50%) Veritas Cluster Server
9 1 (0.50%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 136 (67.33%) Terraform
2 91 (45.05%) Ansible
3 82 (40.59%) Kubernetes
4 25 (12.38%) Puppet
5 17 (8.42%) Prometheus
6 15 (7.43%) Grafana
6 15 (7.43%) Progress Chef
7 13 (6.44%) vCenter Server
8 9 (4.46%) Microsoft Intune
9 7 (3.47%) vRealize
10 6 (2.97%) Argo
11 4 (1.98%) Kustomize
11 4 (1.98%) Podman
11 4 (1.98%) ZABBIX
12 3 (1.49%) Consul
12 3 (1.49%) Rancher
12 3 (1.49%) Single Sign-On
13 2 (0.99%) Istio
13 2 (0.99%) Kubeflow
13 2 (0.99%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 33 (16.34%) VMware
2 24 (11.88%) Oracle
3 23 (11.39%) Cisco
3 23 (11.39%) Microsoft
4 16 (7.92%) Splunk
5 15 (7.43%) Google
6 13 (6.44%) Red Hat
7 8 (3.96%) Databricks
8 7 (3.47%) Atlassian
9 5 (2.48%) ServiceNow
10 4 (1.98%) SAP
11 3 (1.49%) CA Agile Central
11 3 (1.49%) Dynatrace
11 3 (1.49%) Mellanox
11 3 (1.49%) NVIDIA
11 3 (1.49%) SolarWinds
12 2 (0.99%) IBM
12 2 (0.99%) IBM Sterling
12 2 (0.99%) Okta
12 2 (0.99%) Wallstreet Suite