Infrastructure Automation Contracts in the Midlands

Infrastructure Automation
England > Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands with a requirement for Infrastructure Automation skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Infrastructure Automation over the 6 months to 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 135 155 193
Rank change year-on-year +20 +38 -34
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Automation 2 8 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.073% 0.23% 0.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.089% 0.26% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 4 5
10th Percentile - - £435
25th Percentile £613 £413 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £453 £500
Median % change year-on-year +38.12% -9.50% -
75th Percentile £638 £481 £538
90th Percentile - £484 £551
England median daily rate £575 £550 £550
% change year-on-year +4.55% - +10.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

Infrastructure Automation is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,253 3,057 4,469
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 82.14% 88.38% 88.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,505 2,131 3,302
10th Percentile £236 £250 £233
25th Percentile £356 £370 £364
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £488 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.56% +2.63% +17.65%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £566
90th Percentile £700 £675 £663
England median daily rate £525 £550 £535
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +9.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 172 120 155
10th Percentile £11.07 £11.80 £10.20
25th Percentile £13.81 £15.00 £13.50
Median hourly rate £19.00 £17.72 £17.48
Median % change year-on-year +7.22% +1.37% +9.25%
75th Percentile £35.00 £26.64 £22.00
90th Percentile £55.00 £55.25 £33.30
England median hourly rate £35.25 £37.50 £24.00
% change year-on-year -6.00% +56.25% -

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
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 25 April 2024. 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 +22 1 - - 3
East Midlands +18 1 £625 +30.21% 1
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 2 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Dynamics 365
2 1 (50.00%) Entra ID
2 1 (50.00%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (50.00%) Flink
1 1 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Git
General
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Architect
1 1 (50.00%) C# Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Dynamics 365 Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) ARM Templates
1 1 (50.00%) Kafka
1 1 (50.00%) RabbitMQ
1 1 (50.00%) Vue
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) VMS
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
1 1 (50.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Agile
1 1 (50.00%) Algorithmic Trading
1 1 (50.00%) Analytics
1 1 (50.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (50.00%) Configuration Management
1 1 (50.00%) Data Science
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) Full Stack Development
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (50.00%) Kanban
1 1 (50.00%) Migration
1 1 (50.00%) Performance Monitoring
1 1 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (50.00%) Scrum
1 1 (50.00%) Server Management
1 1 (50.00%) Service Management
1 1 (50.00%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) C#
1 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (50.00%) Python
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
2 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle