Infrastructure Automation Contracts in the Midlands

Infrastructure Automation
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 105 131 159
Rank change year-on-year +26 +28 +46
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Automation 6 2 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.31% 0.073% 0.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.36% 0.088% 0.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £425 £613 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £625 £453
Median % change year-on-year -28.00% +38.12% -9.50%
75th Percentile £588 £638 £481
90th Percentile £655 - £484
England median daily rate £525 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,676 2,266 3,045
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 87.57% 82.19% 88.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,099 1,510 2,125
10th Percentile £200 £237 £250
25th Percentile £358 £356 £370
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £495
Median % change year-on-year - -4.04% +4.21%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £588
90th Percentile £650 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 93 172 119
10th Percentile £12.62 £11.07 £11.96
25th Percentile £13.81 £13.81 £15.05
Median hourly rate £18.13 £19.00 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -4.58% +7.22% +1.37%
75th Percentile £24.22 £35.00 £26.81
90th Percentile £36.55 £55.00 £55.50
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 the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Automation in the Midlands

Infrastructure Automation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure Automation in the Midlands

Infrastructure Automation
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

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

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Automation in the Midlands

Infrastructure Automation
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands 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
West Midlands +18 5 £450 - 4
East Midlands +10 1 £700 +12.00% 5
Infrastructure Automation
England

Infrastructure Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (66.67%) AWS
1 4 (66.67%) Azure
1 4 (66.67%) Azure DevOps
2 3 (50.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 2 (33.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 2 (33.33%) Azure AKS
3 2 (33.33%) GitHub
3 2 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (16.67%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (16.67%) Amazon S3
4 1 (16.67%) AWS CodeBuild
4 1 (16.67%) AWS CodePipeline
4 1 (16.67%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (16.67%) Azure Batch
4 1 (16.67%) GCP
4 1 (16.67%) Serverless
4 1 (16.67%) Snowflake
4 1 (16.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (16.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (16.67%) Bitbucket
2 1 (16.67%) GitLab
General
1 3 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Azure DevOps Engineer
1 2 (33.33%) Azure Engineer
1 2 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
1 2 (33.33%) Platform Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) AWS Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Cloud Platform Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Lead
2 1 (16.67%) Senior
2 1 (16.67%) Senior Cloud Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Senior Platform Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (50.00%) .NET
2 1 (16.67%) .NET Framework
2 1 (16.67%) AngularJS
2 1 (16.67%) ASP.NET
2 1 (16.67%) ASP.NET Web API
2 1 (16.67%) Django
2 1 (16.67%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (16.67%) Entity Framework
2 1 (16.67%) Flask
2 1 (16.67%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Cloud Native
1 1 (16.67%) Management Information System
1 1 (16.67%) Product Ownership
1 1 (16.67%) Public Cloud
1 1 (16.67%) Self-Motivation
1 1 (16.67%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 6 (100.00%) DevOps
2 5 (83.33%) Containerisation
3 4 (66.67%) Cost Optimisation
4 3 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 2 (33.33%) Agile
5 2 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
5 2 (33.33%) Mentoring
5 2 (33.33%) Platform Engineering
5 2 (33.33%) Project Management
5 2 (33.33%) Software Delivery
5 2 (33.33%) Software Engineering
6 1 (16.67%) Computer Science
6 1 (16.67%) Configuration Management
6 1 (16.67%) Continuous Delivery
6 1 (16.67%) Front End Development
6 1 (16.67%) High Availability
6 1 (16.67%) Scrum
6 1 (16.67%) Test Automation
6 1 (16.67%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) C#
1 3 (50.00%) Python
2 2 (33.33%) Bash
2 2 (33.33%) PowerShell
3 1 (16.67%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (16.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (16.67%) NCSC
1 1 (16.67%) QA
System Software
1 3 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (66.67%) Kubernetes
1 4 (66.67%) Terraform
2 1 (16.67%) Ansible
2 1 (16.67%) Grafana
2 1 (16.67%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft
1 1 (16.67%) Siemens