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

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 229 330 405
Rank change year-on-year +101 +75 +38
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Automation 122 67 74
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.00% 0.38% 0.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.09% 0.43% 0.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 85 39 53
10th Percentile £380 £363 £475
25th Percentile £406 £425 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £525 £625
Median % change year-on-year -1.30% -16.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £623 £644 £738
90th Percentile £683 £678 £785
England median daily rate £513 £582 £550
% change year-on-year -11.94% +5.82% +1.85%

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 11,225 15,457 23,121
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.24% 88.42% 90.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,536 11,093 16,726
10th Percentile £350 £340 £375
25th Percentile £431 £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 £800 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 189 316 265
10th Percentile £16.50 £15.50 £18.20
25th Percentile £23.80 £20.00 £22.50
Median hourly rate £31.35 £28.00 £39.42
Median % change year-on-year +11.95% -28.97% +12.39%
75th Percentile £49.75 £48.75 £64.50
90th Percentile £63.05 £66.88 £82.50
England median hourly rate £28.17 £37.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year -24.89% - +50.00%

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 30 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 30 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 +22 22 £513 -2.38% 4
South London - 2 £820 - 3
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 6 (4.92%) Apache Spark
2 3 (2.46%) Apache
2 3 (2.46%) nginx
2 3 (2.46%) OpenStack
3 2 (1.64%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.82%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.82%) DataSynapse
4 1 (0.82%) JBoss
4 1 (0.82%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 62 (50.82%) Azure
2 49 (40.16%) AWS
3 30 (24.59%) GCP
4 16 (13.11%) Entra ID
5 15 (12.30%) GitHub
6 13 (10.66%) AWS CloudFormation
6 13 (10.66%) Azure AKS
6 13 (10.66%) Azure DevOps
7 10 (8.20%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 9 (7.38%) GitHub Actions
8 9 (7.38%) Serverless
9 7 (5.74%) Azure Monitor
9 7 (5.74%) Microsoft 365
10 6 (4.92%) Amazon EC2
10 6 (4.92%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 5 (4.10%) Amazon EKS
11 5 (4.10%) AWS Lambda
12 4 (3.28%) Amazon ECS
12 4 (3.28%) AWS CodePipeline
12 4 (3.28%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 9 (7.38%) Firewall
2 8 (6.56%) DNS
3 6 (4.92%) TCP/IP
4 5 (4.10%) DHCP
4 5 (4.10%) VPN
5 4 (3.28%) Network Security
6 3 (2.46%) HTTP
6 3 (2.46%) Reverse Proxy
7 2 (1.64%) LAN
7 2 (1.64%) SD-WAN
7 2 (1.64%) WAN
8 1 (0.82%) Broadband
8 1 (0.82%) Cisco ISE
8 1 (0.82%) HTTPS
8 1 (0.82%) Internet
8 1 (0.82%) Kerberos
8 1 (0.82%) NAS
8 1 (0.82%) SAN
8 1 (0.82%) SMS
8 1 (0.82%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (8.20%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (4.92%) Big Data
3 5 (4.10%) Amazon RDS
3 5 (4.10%) Data Lake
3 5 (4.10%) Hadoop
4 4 (3.28%) Apache Hive
4 4 (3.28%) BigQuery
4 4 (3.28%) Oracle Database
5 3 (2.46%) Apache Iceberg
5 3 (2.46%) Parquet
5 3 (2.46%) Presto
5 3 (2.46%) Redis
6 2 (1.64%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (1.64%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (1.64%) DynamoDB
6 2 (1.64%) Power BI
7 1 (0.82%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.82%) InfluxDB
7 1 (0.82%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.82%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 35 (28.69%) GitLab
2 32 (26.23%) Jenkins
3 17 (13.93%) Git
4 5 (4.10%) Maven
5 4 (3.28%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 4 (3.28%) JUnit
5 4 (3.28%) TeamCity
6 3 (2.46%) JIRA
6 3 (2.46%) Mockito
6 3 (2.46%) Poetry
6 3 (2.46%) Postman
6 3 (2.46%) REST Assured
6 3 (2.46%) SoapUI
6 3 (2.46%) SonarQube
6 3 (2.46%) Subversion
6 3 (2.46%) Xcode
6 3 (2.46%) XCTest
7 2 (1.64%) CircleCI
7 2 (1.64%) PROIV
8 1 (0.82%) Mercurial
General
1 24 (19.67%) Finance
1 24 (19.67%) Social Skills
2 10 (8.20%) Public Sector
3 8 (6.56%) Banking
4 7 (5.74%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (4.10%) Retail
6 2 (1.64%) Financial Institution
6 2 (1.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (1.64%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (0.82%) Aviation
7 1 (0.82%) Digital Health
7 1 (0.82%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (0.82%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (0.82%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 39 (31.97%) DevOps Engineer
2 20 (16.39%) Senior
3 18 (14.75%) Cloud Engineer
4 15 (12.30%) AWS Engineer
4 15 (12.30%) Azure Engineer
5 12 (9.84%) Platform Engineer
6 11 (9.02%) Automation Engineer
7 10 (8.20%) Architect
7 10 (8.20%) Developer
8 9 (7.38%) AWS DevOps
8 9 (7.38%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 9 (7.38%) GCP Engineer
9 8 (6.56%) Azure DevOps Engineer
10 5 (4.10%) Automation Developer
10 5 (4.10%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 5 (4.10%) Data Engineer
10 5 (4.10%) GCP DevOps
10 5 (4.10%) GCP DevOps Engineer
10 5 (4.10%) Lead
10 5 (4.10%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (12.30%) Kafka
2 12 (9.84%) ARM Templates
3 5 (4.10%) RESTful
3 5 (4.10%) Spring
4 4 (3.28%) REST
5 3 (2.46%) AngularJS
5 3 (2.46%) Bootstrap
5 3 (2.46%) CSS3
5 3 (2.46%) Hibernate
5 3 (2.46%) HTML5
5 3 (2.46%) J2EE
5 3 (2.46%) Jinja
5 3 (2.46%) JPA
5 3 (2.46%) JSON
5 3 (2.46%) LAPP Stack
5 3 (2.46%) React
5 3 (2.46%) Spring Boot
5 3 (2.46%) Spring Cloud
5 3 (2.46%) Spring MVC
5 3 (2.46%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 12 (9.84%) Data Centre
2 11 (9.02%) Cloud Native
3 8 (6.56%) Management Information System
4 5 (4.10%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (4.10%) Hedge funds
4 5 (4.10%) Hybrid Cloud
5 3 (2.46%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 3 (2.46%) PKI
5 3 (2.46%) Public Cloud
6 2 (1.64%) CMDB
7 1 (0.82%) Distributed Applications
7 1 (0.82%) Enterprise Cloud
7 1 (0.82%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.82%) Fibre Optics
7 1 (0.82%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.82%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (0.82%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (0.82%) NHS
7 1 (0.82%) Private Cloud
7 1 (0.82%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 38 (31.15%) Linux
2 19 (15.57%) Windows
3 7 (5.74%) Windows Server
4 6 (4.92%) Unix
5 5 (4.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (3.28%) CentOS
7 3 (2.46%) Rocky
8 2 (1.64%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.82%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 92 (75.41%) CI/CD
2 82 (67.21%) DevOps
3 63 (51.64%) Infrastructure as Code
4 35 (28.69%) Problem-Solving
5 34 (27.87%) Containerisation
6 29 (23.77%) Configuration Management
7 21 (17.21%) High Availability
8 19 (15.57%) Agile
8 19 (15.57%) Mentoring
9 18 (14.75%) Migration
10 14 (11.48%) Infrastructure Management
10 14 (11.48%) Test Automation
11 13 (10.66%) Cloud Security
11 13 (10.66%) Platform Engineering
12 12 (9.84%) Continuous Integration
13 11 (9.02%) Task Automation
14 9 (7.38%) Data Engineering
14 9 (7.38%) Deployment Automation
14 9 (7.38%) Load Balancing
14 9 (7.38%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 54 (44.26%) Python
2 17 (13.93%) PowerShell
3 14 (11.48%) Bash
4 13 (10.66%) SQL
5 9 (7.38%) Go
5 9 (7.38%) Java
6 7 (5.74%) C#
7 6 (4.92%) Groovy
8 4 (3.28%) Bicep
8 4 (3.28%) JavaScript
8 4 (3.28%) Shell Script
8 4 (3.28%) TypeScript
9 2 (1.64%) Rust
10 1 (0.82%) ActionScript
10 1 (0.82%) ActionScript 2.0
10 1 (0.82%) C
10 1 (0.82%) COBOL
10 1 (0.82%) JCL
10 1 (0.82%) Korn
10 1 (0.82%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 14 (11.48%) Security Cleared
2 13 (10.66%) SC Cleared
3 6 (4.92%) AWS Certification
4 4 (3.28%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 2 (1.64%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (1.64%) Degree
6 1 (0.82%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (0.82%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.82%) IBM Certification
6 1 (0.82%) RHCSA
6 1 (0.82%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (4.92%) QA
2 3 (2.46%) Data Quality
2 3 (2.46%) GDPR
2 3 (2.46%) NCSC
3 1 (0.82%) 21 CFR Part 11
3 1 (0.82%) GxP
3 1 (0.82%) HIPAA
3 1 (0.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.82%) NIST
3 1 (0.82%) SOC 2
System Software
1 34 (27.87%) Docker
2 10 (8.20%) Active Directory
3 5 (4.10%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (2.46%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (1.64%) Ceph
6 1 (0.82%) Veritas Cluster Server
6 1 (0.82%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.82%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 97 (79.51%) Terraform
2 61 (50.00%) Kubernetes
3 41 (33.61%) Ansible
4 9 (7.38%) Prometheus
5 8 (6.56%) Puppet
6 7 (5.74%) Grafana
7 5 (4.10%) Argo
7 5 (4.10%) Microsoft Intune
8 4 (3.28%) Podman
8 4 (3.28%) ZABBIX
9 3 (2.46%) Consul
9 3 (2.46%) Istio
10 2 (1.64%) Kubeflow
10 2 (1.64%) Packer
10 2 (1.64%) Rancher
10 2 (1.64%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (1.64%) vRealize
11 1 (0.82%) FortiGate
11 1 (0.82%) Graylog
11 1 (0.82%) yum
Vendors
1 13 (10.66%) Splunk
2 12 (9.84%) Google
3 9 (7.38%) Microsoft
4 7 (5.74%) Red Hat
5 4 (3.28%) CA Agile Central
5 4 (3.28%) Cisco
5 4 (3.28%) Dynatrace
5 4 (3.28%) Oracle
5 4 (3.28%) ServiceNow
5 4 (3.28%) VMware
6 3 (2.46%) Databricks
6 3 (2.46%) SolarWinds
6 3 (2.46%) Wallstreet Suite
7 2 (1.64%) Okta
7 2 (1.64%) QAD
8 1 (0.82%) F5
8 1 (0.82%) OpenAI
8 1 (0.82%) Palo Alto
8 1 (0.82%) Ping Identity
8 1 (0.82%) ScienceLogic