Infrastructure Automation Contract Job Trends in Hertfordshire

Infrastructure Automation
East of England > Hertfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Hertfordshire requiring Infrastructure Automation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 57 44 -
Rank change year-on-year -13 - -
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Automation 6 2 0
As % of all contract jobs in Hertfordshire 0.85% 0.51% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.01% 0.59% -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 2 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £525 £475 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £500 -
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% - -
75th Percentile £659 £525 -
90th Percentile £676 - -
East of England median daily rate £650 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +30.00% -9.09% +5.77%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Hertfordshire

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 Hertfordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 592 340 665
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 84.09% 87.18% 88.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 214 139 328
10th Percentile £196 £267 £277
25th Percentile £406 £368 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £488
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% +5.13% -11.36%
75th Percentile £625 £619 £650
90th Percentile £730 £678 £750
East of England median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 245 80 184
10th Percentile £16.45 £18.32 £37.91
25th Percentile £18.50 £45.98 £48.25
Median hourly rate £28.00 £66.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -57.58% +1.54% -
75th Percentile £67.50 £75.06 £70.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £85.25 £90.00
East of England median hourly rate £20.09 £40.00 £31.80
% change year-on-year -49.78% +25.79% +44.55%

Infrastructure Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Infrastructure Automation job vacancy trend in Hertfordshire

Infrastructure Automation
Daily Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

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

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

Infrastructure Automation
Contract Job Locations in Hertfordshire

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 Hertfordshire region over the 6 months to 3 February 2026. 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
Hatfield -23 2 - -
Stevenage - 2 £550 -
Welwyn Garden City - 2 £663 - 1
Infrastructure Automation
East of England

Infrastructure Automation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hertfordshire 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 4 (66.67%) Azure
2 2 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (33.33%) Entra ID
2 2 (33.33%) Google Workspace
3 1 (16.67%) AWS
3 1 (16.67%) Azure AKS
3 1 (16.67%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 4 (66.67%) DHCP
1 4 (66.67%) DNS
2 2 (33.33%) Firewall
2 2 (33.33%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) SQL Server
2 1 (16.67%) NoSQL
2 1 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) GitLab
2 1 (16.67%) Snyk
General
1 2 (33.33%) Aerospace
1 2 (33.33%) Documentation Skills
1 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (83.33%) Senior
2 4 (66.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 4 (66.67%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Development Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Java Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Java Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Software Development Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) REST
2 1 (16.67%) Kafka
2 1 (16.67%) Spring
2 1 (16.67%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) PKI
2 1 (16.67%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 5 (83.33%) Windows
2 4 (66.67%) Windows Server
3 3 (50.00%) Linux
4 2 (33.33%) VMS
4 2 (33.33%) Windows Server 2016
4 2 (33.33%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) CI/CD
1 4 (66.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 4 (66.67%) Zero Trust
2 2 (33.33%) AI
2 2 (33.33%) DevOps
2 2 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (33.33%) Generative AI
2 2 (33.33%) Identity Access Management
2 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (33.33%) Platform Engineering
2 2 (33.33%) Task Automation
3 1 (16.67%) Agile
3 1 (16.67%) Configuration Management
3 1 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (16.67%) Data-Driven Decision Making
3 1 (16.67%) Mentoring
3 1 (16.67%) Network Virtualisation
3 1 (16.67%) Scrum
3 1 (16.67%) Secure Coding
3 1 (16.67%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) PowerShell
2 2 (33.33%) Python
3 1 (16.67%) Java
3 1 (16.67%) JavaScript
3 1 (16.67%) SQL
3 1 (16.67%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) CompTIA Security+
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 4 (66.67%) Active Directory
1 4 (66.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (33.33%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 4 (66.67%) Terraform
2 2 (33.33%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
2 2 (33.33%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (33.33%) vCenter Server
3 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (83.33%) Microsoft
2 4 (66.67%) VMware
3 2 (33.33%) Citrix
3 2 (33.33%) Google
3 2 (33.33%) Veeam
3 2 (33.33%) Wyse
4 1 (16.67%) New Relic
4 1 (16.67%) Splunk