Infrastructure Automation Contract Job Trends in Milton Keynes

Infrastructure Automation
Buckinghamshire > Milton Keynes

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Milton Keynes requiring Infrastructure Automation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 66 37 43
Rank change year-on-year -29 +6 -
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Automation 1 1 2
As % of all contract jobs in Milton Keynes 0.13% 0.50% 0.56%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.17% 0.53% 0.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 2
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 - £625
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £600 - £625

All Process & Methodology Skills
Milton Keynes

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 Milton Keynes.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 596 190 301
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 79.26% 94.06% 84.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 434 129 219
10th Percentile £354 £212 £245
25th Percentile £456 £338 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £425 £475
Median % change year-on-year +23.53% -10.53% -2.56%
75th Percentile £600 £550 £575
90th Percentile £638 £650 £650
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £525 £435 £475
% change year-on-year +20.69% -8.42% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 10 16
10th Percentile £15.05 £14.39 £15.85
25th Percentile £15.38 £15.12 £17.19
Median hourly rate £16.35 £16.69 £20.25
Median % change year-on-year -2.01% -17.60% +51.46%
75th Percentile £17.50 £18.00 £39.75
90th Percentile £18.32 £23.83 £48.75
Buckinghamshire median hourly rate £16.35 £15.25 £25.00
% change year-on-year +7.21% -39.00% +52.44%

Infrastructure Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Milton Keynes

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

Infrastructure Automation job vacancy trend in Milton Keynes

Infrastructure Automation
Daily Rate Trend in Milton Keynes

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Milton Keynes citing Infrastructure Automation

Infrastructure Automation
Hourly Rate Trend in Milton Keynes

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Milton Keynes citing Infrastructure Automation

Infrastructure Automation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Milton Keynes 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (100.00%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
General
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (100.00%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (100.00%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Architectural Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Deployment Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Design Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) Identity Management
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Load Balancing
1 1 (100.00%) Network Virtualisation
1 1 (100.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
1 1 (100.00%) Security Operations
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
1 1 (100.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bicep
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Single Sign-On
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform