Infrastructure Automation Contract Job Trends in Newport

Infrastructure Automation
South Wales > Newport

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Newport requiring Infrastructure Automation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 14 - 22
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Automation 1 0 2
As % of all contract jobs in Newport 2.63% - 1.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.94% - 2.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £525 - £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - £475
75th Percentile £575 - £488
90th Percentile - - -
South Wales median daily rate £550 - £475

All Process and Methodology Skills
Newport

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 Newport.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 34 66 96
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Newport 89.47% 94.29% 87.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 23 69
10th Percentile £265 £179 £200
25th Percentile £405 £210 £435
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £451 £400 £525
Median % change year-on-year +12.81% -23.81% -7.89%
75th Percentile £580 - £638
90th Percentile £713 £574 £675
South Wales median daily rate £400 £419 £450
% change year-on-year -4.48% -6.94% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 33 12
10th Percentile £78.25 £16.19 £14.13
25th Percentile £79.38 £20.12 £21.34
Median hourly rate £82.50 £25.18 £32.33
Median % change year-on-year +227.64% -22.12% +59.75%
75th Percentile £84.38 £40.00 £55.25
90th Percentile £84.75 £49.75 -
South Wales median hourly rate £17.99 £25.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year -28.05% -3.85% +30.29%

Infrastructure Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Newport

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

Infrastructure Automation job vacancy trend in Newport

Infrastructure Automation
Daily Rate Trend in Newport

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

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

Infrastructure Automation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Newport 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) DHCP
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
General
1 1 (100.00%) Aerospace
1 1 (100.00%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server 2016
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) CompTIA Security+
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) Hyper-V
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Veeam
1 1 (100.00%) VMware