Infrastructure Automation Contract Job Trends in Manchester

Infrastructure Automation
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring Infrastructure Automation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 74 76 94
Rank change year-on-year +2 +18 +34
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Automation 11 6 5
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 1.03% 0.53% 0.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.15% 0.60% 0.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 1 4
10th Percentile £492 - -
25th Percentile £600 £625 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £650 £538
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +20.93% -4.32%
75th Percentile £713 £675 £606
90th Percentile £725 - £663
North West median daily rate £600 £550 £560
% change year-on-year +9.09% -1.79% -0.31%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £73.50 - -
Median hourly rate £79.00 - -
75th Percentile £84.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
North West median hourly rate £72.75 £80.00 -
% change year-on-year -9.06% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 959 993 1,447
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 89.96% 87.03% 88.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 620 570 1,054
10th Percentile £301 £313 £270
25th Percentile £385 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £591 £575 £588
90th Percentile £678 £675 £675
North West median daily rate £450 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% +1.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 76 32 58
10th Percentile £16.43 £21.25 £15.72
25th Percentile £19.07 £29.25 £16.37
Median hourly rate £22.63 £35.00 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year -35.34% +79.49% -44.29%
75th Percentile £33.00 £63.13 £43.75
90th Percentile £64.38 £74.20 £68.50
North West median hourly rate £25.15 £40.33 £35.50
% change year-on-year -37.63% +13.59% +34.50%

Infrastructure Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Infrastructure Automation job vacancy trend in Manchester

Infrastructure Automation
Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

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

Infrastructure Automation
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Automation in Manchester over the 6 months to 28 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Automation in Manchester

Infrastructure Automation
Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Infrastructure Automation.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Infrastructure Automation

Infrastructure Automation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester 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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (36.36%) OpenStack
2 1 (9.09%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 9 (81.82%) AWS
2 4 (36.36%) Azure
2 4 (36.36%) GCP
3 3 (27.27%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (9.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (9.09%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (9.09%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (9.09%) Amazon ELB
4 1 (9.09%) Amazon EventBridge
4 1 (9.09%) Amazon S3
4 1 (9.09%) Amazon SQS
4 1 (9.09%) AWS Fargate
4 1 (9.09%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (9.09%) Serverless
4 1 (9.09%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (45.45%) Firewall
2 1 (9.09%) DNS
2 1 (9.09%) Network Security
2 1 (9.09%) SSL
2 1 (9.09%) TCP/IP
2 1 (9.09%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.09%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 3 (27.27%) Git
1 3 (27.27%) GitLab
2 2 (18.18%) Jenkins
3 1 (9.09%) JIRA
3 1 (9.09%) Robot Framework
General
1 3 (27.27%) Public Sector
2 2 (18.18%) Finance
3 1 (9.09%) Retail
Job Titles
1 5 (45.45%) Platform Engineer
2 3 (27.27%) AWS Engineer
2 3 (27.27%) Virtualisation Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) DevSecOps Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Senior
3 2 (18.18%) Software Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) AWS Platform Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Lead
4 1 (9.09%) Network Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Python Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Python Software Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Senior Network Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Senior Software Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) VMware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (27.27%) Node.js
2 2 (18.18%) AWS CDK
3 1 (9.09%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) Cloud Native
2 1 (9.09%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 4 (36.36%) Linux
2 1 (9.09%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (90.91%) CI/CD
1 10 (90.91%) DevOps
1 10 (90.91%) Infrastructure as Code
2 6 (54.55%) Incident Response
3 5 (45.45%) Containerisation
3 5 (45.45%) Observability
3 5 (45.45%) Platform Engineering
3 5 (45.45%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 3 (27.27%) DevSecOps
4 3 (27.27%) Migration
4 3 (27.27%) SDLC
5 2 (18.18%) Deployment Automation
5 2 (18.18%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
5 2 (18.18%) Software Engineering
5 2 (18.18%) Static Application Security Testing
5 2 (18.18%) Threat Modelling
6 1 (9.09%) Event-Driven
6 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 1 (9.09%) Secrets Management
6 1 (9.09%) Service Migration
Programming Languages
1 9 (81.82%) Python
2 5 (45.45%) Bash
3 3 (27.27%) Go
3 3 (27.27%) TypeScript
4 2 (18.18%) Perl
4 2 (18.18%) Shell Script
5 1 (9.09%) Java
5 1 (9.09%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (36.36%) Security Cleared
2 3 (27.27%) SC Cleared
3 1 (9.09%) AWS Certification
3 1 (9.09%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (18.18%) PCI DSS
2 1 (9.09%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (9.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (9.09%) NIST
2 1 (9.09%) SOC 2
System Software
1 5 (45.45%) Docker
2 4 (36.36%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (36.36%) vSphere
3 1 (9.09%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 9 (81.82%) Terraform
2 5 (45.45%) Kubernetes
3 4 (36.36%) Ansible
4 2 (18.18%) Packer
5 1 (9.09%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 5 (45.45%) F5
1 5 (45.45%) Palo Alto
1 5 (45.45%) VMware
2 1 (9.09%) CheckPoint