Infrastructure Automation Contracts in London

Infrastructure Automation
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London 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 232 322 410
Rank change year-on-year +90 +88 +2
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Automation 121 69 83
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.96% 0.39% 0.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.05% 0.44% 0.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 88 39 56
10th Percentile £379 £363 £481
25th Percentile £422 £456 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £675
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% -14.81% +22.73%
75th Percentile £638 £659 £738
90th Percentile £688 £688 £800
England median daily rate £525 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,564 15,790 24,631
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.16% 88.55% 91.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,847 11,316 17,711
10th Percentile £350 £338 £375
25th Percentile £440 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £590
Median % change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
75th Percentile £688 £675 £700
90th Percentile £813 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 166 324 278
10th Percentile £16.17 £16.00 £18.59
25th Percentile £22.68 £20.00 £22.53
Median hourly rate £31.67 £29.50 £38.13
Median % change year-on-year +7.36% -22.62% +5.90%
75th Percentile £50.75 £47.56 £62.64
90th Percentile £63.75 £65.93 £76.78
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Infrastructure Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Automation in London

Infrastructure Automation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure Automation in London

Infrastructure Automation
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Automation in London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Automation in London

Infrastructure Automation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Infrastructure Automation in London

Infrastructure Automation
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London 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
Central London +16 21 £524 -8.91% 5
West London +12 2 £475 +493.75% 10
South London - 2 £820 -
Infrastructure Automation
England

Infrastructure Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 (8.26%) Apache Spark
2 5 (4.13%) nginx
2 5 (4.13%) OpenStack
2 5 (4.13%) SharePoint
3 3 (2.48%) Apache
4 1 (0.83%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.83%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 59 (48.76%) Azure
2 54 (44.63%) AWS
3 30 (24.79%) GCP
4 21 (17.36%) GitHub
5 15 (12.40%) AWS CloudFormation
6 14 (11.57%) Azure DevOps
7 11 (9.09%) Azure AKS
7 11 (9.09%) GitHub Actions
8 10 (8.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 10 (8.26%) Microsoft 365
8 10 (8.26%) Serverless
9 9 (7.44%) Entra ID
10 8 (6.61%) Power Platform
11 6 (4.96%) AWS Lambda
12 5 (4.13%) Amazon S3
12 5 (4.13%) Azure Monitor
12 5 (4.13%) Copilot Studio
12 5 (4.13%) Microsoft Copilot
12 5 (4.13%) PowerApps
12 5 (4.13%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 14 (11.57%) Firewall
2 8 (6.61%) DNS
2 8 (6.61%) TCP/IP
3 6 (4.96%) VPN
4 5 (4.13%) DHCP
4 5 (4.13%) HTTP
4 5 (4.13%) Reverse Proxy
5 4 (3.31%) Network Security
6 3 (2.48%) Cisco ISE
7 2 (1.65%) LAN
7 2 (1.65%) SD-WAN
7 2 (1.65%) WAN
8 1 (0.83%) Broadband
8 1 (0.83%) HTTPS
8 1 (0.83%) InfiniBand
8 1 (0.83%) Kerberos
8 1 (0.83%) NetScaler
8 1 (0.83%) SMTP
8 1 (0.83%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (8.26%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (6.61%) Hadoop
2 8 (6.61%) Power BI
3 6 (4.96%) Apache Hive
4 5 (4.13%) Apache Iceberg
4 5 (4.13%) Parquet
4 5 (4.13%) Presto
5 4 (3.31%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (3.31%) Big Data
6 3 (2.48%) Data Lake
6 3 (2.48%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (2.48%) DynamoDB
6 3 (2.48%) Oracle Database
7 2 (1.65%) Amazon Athena
7 2 (1.65%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (1.65%) Redis
8 1 (0.83%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (0.83%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.83%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.83%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 37 (30.58%) GitLab
2 35 (28.93%) Jenkins
3 16 (13.22%) Git
4 5 (4.13%) Poetry
5 4 (3.31%) TeamCity
6 2 (1.65%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 2 (1.65%) CircleCI
6 2 (1.65%) JIRA
6 2 (1.65%) JUnit
6 2 (1.65%) Maven
6 2 (1.65%) Mockito
6 2 (1.65%) Postman
6 2 (1.65%) REST Assured
6 2 (1.65%) SoapUI
6 2 (1.65%) SonarQube
6 2 (1.65%) Subversion
6 2 (1.65%) Xcode
6 2 (1.65%) XCTest
7 1 (0.83%) MLflow
7 1 (0.83%) Snyk
General
1 26 (21.49%) Social Skills
2 23 (19.01%) Finance
3 9 (7.44%) Banking
3 9 (7.44%) Public Sector
4 8 (6.61%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (4.13%) Retail
6 4 (3.31%) Documentation Skills
6 4 (3.31%) Financial Institution
7 3 (2.48%) Telecoms
8 2 (1.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.65%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.83%) Digital Health
9 1 (0.83%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 42 (34.71%) DevOps Engineer
2 20 (16.53%) Cloud Engineer
3 18 (14.88%) AWS Engineer
3 18 (14.88%) Senior
4 14 (11.57%) Developer
5 12 (9.92%) Automation Engineer
6 11 (9.09%) AWS DevOps
6 11 (9.09%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 11 (9.09%) Azure Engineer
7 10 (8.26%) Platform Engineer
8 8 (6.61%) Architect
9 7 (5.79%) Azure DevOps Engineer
9 7 (5.79%) GCP Engineer
9 7 (5.79%) Lead
10 6 (4.96%) GCP DevOps
10 6 (4.96%) GCP DevOps Engineer
10 6 (4.96%) Senior Cloud Engineer
11 5 (4.13%) Senior DevOps
11 5 (4.13%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 5 (4.13%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (11.57%) Kafka
2 8 (6.61%) React
2 8 (6.61%) YAML
3 6 (4.96%) ARM Templates
4 5 (4.13%) Dask
4 5 (4.13%) LAPP Stack
5 4 (3.31%) AWS CDK
6 3 (2.48%) Middleware
6 3 (2.48%) Node.js
6 3 (2.48%) OpenTelemetry
6 3 (2.48%) REST
6 3 (2.48%) RESTful
6 3 (2.48%) Spring
7 2 (1.65%) CSS
7 2 (1.65%) CSS3
7 2 (1.65%) Hibernate
7 2 (1.65%) HTML
7 2 (1.65%) J2EE
7 2 (1.65%) SOAP
7 2 (1.65%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 13 (10.74%) Cloud Native
2 12 (9.92%) Data Centre
3 8 (6.61%) Management Information System
4 7 (5.79%) Hedge funds
5 5 (4.13%) Hybrid Cloud
6 4 (3.31%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (3.31%) Public Cloud
7 3 (2.48%) PKI
7 3 (2.48%) Private Cloud
8 2 (1.65%) CMDB
8 2 (1.65%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.65%) Legacy Applications
8 2 (1.65%) NHS
9 1 (0.83%) Distributed Applications
9 1 (0.83%) Enterprise Cloud
9 1 (0.83%) Fibre Optics
9 1 (0.83%) Onboarding
9 1 (0.83%) Reinsurance
9 1 (0.83%) Security Posture
9 1 (0.83%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 38 (31.40%) Linux
2 20 (16.53%) Windows
3 7 (5.79%) Windows Server
4 4 (3.31%) CentOS
4 4 (3.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (3.31%) Unix
5 3 (2.48%) Rocky
6 2 (1.65%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 89 (73.55%) CI/CD
2 82 (67.77%) DevOps
3 61 (50.41%) Infrastructure as Code
4 36 (29.75%) Problem-Solving
5 33 (27.27%) Containerisation
6 28 (23.14%) Configuration Management
7 24 (19.83%) High Availability
8 18 (14.88%) Infrastructure Management
9 17 (14.05%) Agile
9 17 (14.05%) Migration
10 16 (13.22%) Task Automation
11 14 (11.57%) Mentoring
12 13 (10.74%) Continuous Integration
13 12 (9.92%) Cloud Security
13 12 (9.92%) Platform Engineering
14 11 (9.09%) Microservices
14 11 (9.09%) Test Automation
15 10 (8.26%) Deployment Automation
16 9 (7.44%) Continuous Delivery
16 9 (7.44%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 57 (47.11%) Python
2 23 (19.01%) PowerShell
3 13 (10.74%) Bash
3 13 (10.74%) SQL
4 9 (7.44%) Java
5 8 (6.61%) Go
6 7 (5.79%) Bicep
6 7 (5.79%) TypeScript
7 6 (4.96%) C#
8 5 (4.13%) Groovy
9 4 (3.31%) Shell Script
10 3 (2.48%) JavaScript
11 2 (1.65%) Rust
12 1 (0.83%) ActionScript
12 1 (0.83%) ActionScript 2.0
12 1 (0.83%) C
12 1 (0.83%) COBOL
12 1 (0.83%) JCL
12 1 (0.83%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 13 (10.74%) SC Cleared
1 13 (10.74%) Security Cleared
2 6 (4.96%) AWS Certification
3 3 (2.48%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 3 (2.48%) Degree
3 3 (2.48%) RHCSA
4 1 (0.83%) AWS Certified Developer
4 1 (0.83%) Azure Certification
4 1 (0.83%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (0.83%) IBM Certification
4 1 (0.83%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.31%) QA
2 3 (2.48%) GDPR
2 3 (2.48%) NCSC
3 1 (0.83%) 21 CFR Part 11
3 1 (0.83%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.83%) GxP
3 1 (0.83%) HIPAA
3 1 (0.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.83%) NIST
3 1 (0.83%) SOC 2
System Software
1 33 (27.27%) Docker
2 8 (6.61%) Active Directory
3 7 (5.79%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (4.13%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (1.65%) Ceph
6 1 (0.83%) Veritas Cluster Server
6 1 (0.83%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.83%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 98 (80.99%) Terraform
2 61 (50.41%) Kubernetes
3 42 (34.71%) Ansible
4 9 (7.44%) Prometheus
4 9 (7.44%) Puppet
5 6 (4.96%) Grafana
6 5 (4.13%) Microsoft Intune
7 4 (3.31%) Argo
7 4 (3.31%) Podman
7 4 (3.31%) ZABBIX
8 3 (2.48%) Consul
9 2 (1.65%) Istio
9 2 (1.65%) Kubeflow
9 2 (1.65%) Kustomize
9 2 (1.65%) MOM
9 2 (1.65%) Packer
9 2 (1.65%) Rancher
9 2 (1.65%) vRealize
10 1 (0.83%) FortiGate
10 1 (0.83%) Nagios
Vendors
1 11 (9.09%) Splunk
2 10 (8.26%) Google
3 9 (7.44%) Microsoft
4 8 (6.61%) Red Hat
5 7 (5.79%) VMware
6 6 (4.96%) Cisco
7 5 (4.13%) Salesforce
8 4 (3.31%) Databricks
9 3 (2.48%) Oracle
9 3 (2.48%) Planview
9 3 (2.48%) ServiceNow
9 3 (2.48%) SolarWinds
9 3 (2.48%) Sybase
10 2 (1.65%) CA Agile Central
10 2 (1.65%) Dynatrace
10 2 (1.65%) MuleSoft
10 2 (1.65%) QAD
11 1 (0.83%) New Relic
11 1 (0.83%) Palo Alto
11 1 (0.83%) Zuora