Infrastructure Automation Contract Job Trends in Newcastle upon Tyne

Infrastructure Automation
Tyne and Wear > Newcastle upon Tyne

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne requiring Infrastructure Automation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 65 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Automation 4 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne 0.71% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.86% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £360 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £373 - -
75th Percentile £416 - -
90th Percentile £467 - -
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £373 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Newcastle upon Tyne

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 Newcastle upon Tyne.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 467 179 175
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 82.36% 84.83% 86.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 295 126 90
10th Percentile £313 £219 £348
25th Percentile £400 £375 £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £453 £460 £490
Median % change year-on-year -1.63% -6.12% -13.27%
75th Percentile £588 £547 £558
90th Percentile £639 £625 £631
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £450 £450 £490
% change year-on-year - -8.16% -10.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 56 7 23
10th Percentile £17.00 £14.20 £18.25
25th Percentile £59.19 £15.88 £21.50
Median hourly rate £69.47 £17.30 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +301.56% -63.58% +140.51%
75th Percentile £70.00 £20.30 £59.38
90th Percentile - £33.18 £70.00
Tyne and Wear median hourly rate £66.25 £17.00 £19.50
% change year-on-year +289.71% -12.82% -1.27%

Infrastructure Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

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

Infrastructure Automation job vacancy trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

Infrastructure Automation
Daily Rate Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne citing Infrastructure Automation.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne citing Infrastructure Automation

Infrastructure Automation
Daily Rate Histogram in Newcastle upon Tyne

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Automation in Newcastle upon Tyne over the 6 months to 26 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Automation in Newcastle upon Tyne

Infrastructure Automation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Newcastle upon Tyne 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 3 (75.00%) Apache
1 3 (75.00%) Apache Airflow
1 3 (75.00%) Apache Spark
1 3 (75.00%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) AWS
Development Applications
1 3 (75.00%) GitLab
General
1 4 (100.00%) Public Sector
2 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Developer
1 3 (75.00%) Python Developer
1 3 (75.00%) Software Developer
2 1 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) DevOps Platform Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Platform Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (100.00%) DevOps
1 4 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (75.00%) Agile
2 3 (75.00%) Analytics
2 3 (75.00%) Cloud Security
2 3 (75.00%) Collaborative Engineering
2 3 (75.00%) Containerisation
2 3 (75.00%) Data Engineering
2 3 (75.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (75.00%) Vulnerability Management
3 1 (25.00%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (75.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 3 (75.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (100.00%) Terraform
2 1 (25.00%) Ansible
2 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Trend Micro