Infrastructure Automation Contracts in the North East

Infrastructure Automation
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North East 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 35 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Automation 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North East 0.94% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.15% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £552 - -
25th Percentile £554 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 - -
75th Percentile £611 - -
90th Percentile £635 - -
England median daily rate £525 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
North East

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 North East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 261 270 387
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East 81.56% 79.88% 91.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 181 127 300
10th Percentile £225 £242 £254
25th Percentile £358 £363 £412
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.00% -9.09% +12.82%
75th Percentile £575 £589 £625
90th Percentile £650 £660 £720
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 47 2
10th Percentile - £11.44 £32.98
25th Percentile £11.60 £11.81 £35.56
Median hourly rate £14.07 £15.46 £40.75
Median % change year-on-year -8.99% -62.06% +146.97%
75th Percentile £46.82 £47.47 £45.56
90th Percentile £51.68 £50.00 £47.93
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 North East

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Automation in the North East

Infrastructure Automation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North East

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

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure Automation in the North East

Infrastructure Automation
Contract Job Locations in the North East

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 North East 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
Tyne and Wear - 2 £608 - 2
Infrastructure Automation
England

Infrastructure Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North East 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (33.33%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon EKS
2 1 (33.33%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) AWS CodeCommit
2 1 (33.33%) AWS CodeDeploy
2 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Kong
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) Firewall
1 1 (33.33%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) GitLab
2 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
2 1 (33.33%) Selenium
General
1 2 (66.67%) Public Sector
2 1 (33.33%) Electronics
2 1 (33.33%) Finance
2 1 (33.33%) Manufacturing
2 1 (33.33%) Marketing
2 1 (33.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Azure Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) AWS DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) AWS Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Lead
2 1 (33.33%) Lead DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Lead DevOps Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) ARM Templates
1 1 (33.33%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (33.33%) pytest
1 1 (33.33%) REST
1 1 (33.33%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
1 1 (33.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) Deployment Automation
2 2 (66.67%) DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) API Management
3 1 (33.33%) Cloud Security
3 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (33.33%) Data Migration
3 1 (33.33%) Data Protection
3 1 (33.33%) Decision-Making
3 1 (33.33%) Digital Marketing
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Transformation
3 1 (33.33%) Microservices
3 1 (33.33%) Migration
3 1 (33.33%) Performance Monitoring
3 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (33.33%) SFIA
3 1 (33.33%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Bash
1 1 (33.33%) Bicep
1 1 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Grafana
1 2 (66.67%) Kubernetes
1 2 (66.67%) Prometheus
1 2 (66.67%) Terraform
2 1 (33.33%) Kibana
2 1 (33.33%) logstash
2 1 (33.33%) WSUS
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) SAP
2 1 (33.33%) Ariba
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft