Infrastructure Automation Contract Job Trends in Hampshire

Infrastructure Automation
South East > Hampshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Hampshire requiring Infrastructure Automation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 72 69 96
Rank change year-on-year -3 +27 +20
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Automation 8 18 3
As % of all contract jobs in Hampshire 0.77% 1.53% 0.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.89% 1.91% 0.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 11 2
10th Percentile £470 £475 £665
25th Percentile £500 £544 £669
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £582 £700
Median % change year-on-year -11.94% -16.86% +27.27%
75th Percentile £538 £585 £744
90th Percentile £568 £610 £755
South East median daily rate £525 £570 £675
% change year-on-year -7.89% -15.56% +17.39%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Hampshire

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 Hampshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 896 940 1,196
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 86.32% 80.00% 87.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 593 621 676
10th Percentile £325 £360 £300
25th Percentile £450 £460 £439
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £570 £533
Median % change year-on-year -7.89% +7.04% +1.43%
75th Percentile £600 £645 £637
90th Percentile £650 £713 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £510 £525
% change year-on-year -2.01% -2.81% +2.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 111 65 98
10th Percentile £16.17 £23.85 £15.50
25th Percentile £18.87 £31.25 £21.01
Median hourly rate £20.71 £70.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -70.41% +33.33% +16.67%
75th Percentile £26.33 £75.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £50.00 £77.25 £71.11
South East median hourly rate £20.71 £58.30 £52.30
% change year-on-year -64.48% +11.47% +47.66%

Infrastructure Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Hampshire

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

Infrastructure Automation job vacancy trend in Hampshire

Infrastructure Automation
Daily Rate Trend in Hampshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing Infrastructure Automation.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing Infrastructure Automation

Infrastructure Automation
Contract Job Locations in Hampshire

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 Hampshire region over the 6 months to 25 October 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
Farnborough -1 5 £513 -11.94% 1
Southampton - 2 £450 - 2
Basingstoke -4 1 £575 +15.00%
Infrastructure Automation
South East

Infrastructure Automation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hampshire 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 (12.50%) Amazon ECR
1 1 (12.50%) Azure
1 1 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (12.50%) GitHub
1 1 (12.50%) IaaS
1 1 (12.50%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) Firewall
1 1 (12.50%) HTTPS
1 1 (12.50%) Software-Defined Networking
1 1 (12.50%) SSL
Development Applications
1 2 (25.00%) GitLab
General
1 1 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Automation Engineer
1 3 (37.50%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Azure DevOps Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Linux/Unix DevOps
3 1 (12.50%) Ubuntu Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Virtualisation Specialist
3 1 (12.50%) VMware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) LDAP
1 1 (12.50%) OAuth
1 1 (12.50%) RESTful
1 1 (12.50%) SAML
1 1 (12.50%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Private Cloud
2 1 (12.50%) Cloud Native
2 1 (12.50%) Data Centre
2 1 (12.50%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (50.00%) Linux
2 2 (25.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (25.00%) Windows
3 1 (12.50%) Ubuntu
3 1 (12.50%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) CI/CD
2 5 (62.50%) DevOps
3 2 (25.00%) Containerisation
3 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 1 (12.50%) Agile
4 1 (12.50%) API Development
4 1 (12.50%) Clean Code
4 1 (12.50%) Configuration Management
4 1 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (12.50%) Identity Access Management
4 1 (12.50%) Identity Management
4 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Transformation
4 1 (12.50%) Multi-Factor Authentication
4 1 (12.50%) Observability
4 1 (12.50%) Proactive Maintenance
4 1 (12.50%) RBAC
4 1 (12.50%) Secure Coding
4 1 (12.50%) Test Automation
4 1 (12.50%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 4 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 4 (50.00%) Python
2 2 (25.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (12.50%) Bash
3 1 (12.50%) Go
3 1 (12.50%) Java
3 1 (12.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (87.50%) Security Cleared
2 6 (75.00%) SC Cleared
3 3 (37.50%) DV Cleared
4 1 (12.50%) VCAP
4 1 (12.50%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) QA
System Software
1 4 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (12.50%) Active Directory
2 1 (12.50%) Docker
2 1 (12.50%) VMware NSX
2 1 (12.50%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 6 (75.00%) Ansible
1 6 (75.00%) Terraform
2 3 (37.50%) Kubernetes
3 2 (25.00%) Rundeck
3 2 (25.00%) vRealize
3 2 (25.00%) vRealize Orchestrator
4 1 (12.50%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 1 (12.50%) Podman
4 1 (12.50%) Proxmox
4 1 (12.50%) Rsyslog
4 1 (12.50%) Salt
4 1 (12.50%) SCOM
4 1 (12.50%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 5 (62.50%) VMware
2 2 (25.00%) Red Hat
3 1 (12.50%) Microsoft