Infrastructure Automation Contracts in the North of England

Infrastructure Automation
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 138 165 206
Rank change year-on-year +27 +41 +9
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Automation 28 20 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.85% 0.42% 0.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.94% 0.49% 0.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 14 13
10th Percentile £400 £401 £414
25th Percentile £463 £453 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 £481 £500
Median % change year-on-year +11.64% -3.80% -2.44%
75th Percentile £638 £537 £575
90th Percentile - £546 -
England median daily rate £525 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 0
Median hourly rate - £71.87 -
England median hourly rate - £71.87 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

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 of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,966 4,089 5,288
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 90.02% 85.76% 90.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,908 2,506 3,674
10th Percentile £263 £300 £302
25th Percentile £378 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £563 £588 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 154 355 207
10th Percentile £13.83 £11.03 £10.63
25th Percentile £18.20 £12.45 £15.25
Median hourly rate £28.75 £17.50 £27.70
Median % change year-on-year +64.29% -36.82% +49.73%
75th Percentile £55.76 £44.41 £45.05
90th Percentile £82.56 £53.90 £65.00
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 of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Automation in the North of England

Infrastructure Automation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure Automation in the North of England

Infrastructure Automation
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Automation in the North of England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Automation in the North of England

Infrastructure Automation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Infrastructure Automation in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for Infrastructure Automation in the North of England

Infrastructure Automation
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 of England 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
Yorkshire +25 19 £475 +3.83% 34
North West +5 6 £625 +29.94% 54
North East - 3 £565 - 11
Infrastructure Automation
England

Infrastructure Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 (3.57%) nginx
Business Applications
1 1 (3.57%) Distributed Ledger
Cloud Services
1 7 (25.00%) AWS
1 7 (25.00%) Azure
2 5 (17.86%) GCP
3 3 (10.71%) OpenShift
4 2 (7.14%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (7.14%) OCI
4 2 (7.14%) Serverless
5 1 (3.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (3.57%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (3.57%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (3.57%) Amazon S3
5 1 (3.57%) AWS CodeCommit
5 1 (3.57%) AWS CodeDeploy
5 1 (3.57%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 1 (3.57%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (3.57%) Kong
5 1 (3.57%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 4 (14.29%) SAN
2 3 (10.71%) DNS
2 3 (10.71%) NAS
3 2 (7.14%) Firewall
4 1 (3.57%) HTTPS
4 1 (3.57%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (28.57%) Oracle Database
2 1 (3.57%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (3.57%) Big Data
2 1 (3.57%) BigQuery
2 1 (3.57%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 17 (60.71%) Jenkins
2 7 (25.00%) GitLab
3 5 (17.86%) Git
4 2 (7.14%) Selenium
5 1 (3.57%) Cucumber
5 1 (3.57%) JIRA
5 1 (3.57%) TestNG
5 1 (3.57%) Visual Studio
General
1 9 (32.14%) Finance
1 9 (32.14%) Social Skills
2 3 (10.71%) Banking
2 3 (10.71%) Public Sector
3 2 (7.14%) Legal
4 1 (3.57%) Electronics
4 1 (3.57%) Manufacturing
4 1 (3.57%) Marketing
4 1 (3.57%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 6 (21.43%) Automation Engineer
1 6 (21.43%) Database Engineer
1 6 (21.43%) DevOps Engineer
1 6 (21.43%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 6 (21.43%) Oracle Database Engineer
2 4 (14.29%) Architect
3 3 (10.71%) Python Engineer
3 3 (10.71%) Senior
4 2 (7.14%) AWS Architect
4 2 (7.14%) AWS Solution Architect
4 2 (7.14%) Azure Engineer
4 2 (7.14%) Cloud Engineer
4 2 (7.14%) Developer
4 2 (7.14%) Principal DevOps Engineer
4 2 (7.14%) Principal Engineer
4 2 (7.14%) Senior Automation Engineer
4 2 (7.14%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (7.14%) Solutions Architect
5 1 (3.57%) Virtualisation Engineer
5 1 (3.57%) VMware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (14.29%) Kafka
1 4 (14.29%) Middleware
2 3 (10.71%) REST
2 3 (10.71%) RESTful
3 2 (7.14%) Elastic Stack
3 2 (7.14%) pytest
4 1 (3.57%) .NET
4 1 (3.57%) ARM Templates
4 1 (3.57%) Gherkin
4 1 (3.57%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 5 (17.86%) Hybrid Cloud
2 3 (10.71%) Cloud Native
2 3 (10.71%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (7.14%) Enterprise Storage
3 2 (7.14%) Management Information System
3 2 (7.14%) Public Cloud
4 1 (3.57%) Blockchain
4 1 (3.57%) EMC VMAX
4 1 (3.57%) NHS
4 1 (3.57%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 9 (32.14%) Linux
2 5 (17.86%) Windows
2 5 (17.86%) Windows Server
3 3 (10.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (3.57%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (75.00%) CI/CD
2 13 (46.43%) Problem-Solving
3 11 (39.29%) DevOps
3 11 (39.29%) Infrastructure as Code
4 8 (28.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 8 (28.57%) Performance Tuning
5 7 (25.00%) Containerisation
6 6 (21.43%) Agile
6 6 (21.43%) Migration
7 5 (17.86%) Microservices
7 5 (17.86%) Scrum
8 4 (14.29%) Data Protection
8 4 (14.29%) High Availability
9 3 (10.71%) Analytics
9 3 (10.71%) Continuous Improvement
9 3 (10.71%) Data Migration
9 3 (10.71%) Event-Driven Architecture
9 3 (10.71%) Kanban
9 3 (10.71%) Stakeholder Management
9 3 (10.71%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 15 (53.57%) Python
2 7 (25.00%) Shell Script
3 4 (14.29%) PowerShell
4 2 (7.14%) Bash
4 2 (7.14%) Java
5 1 (3.57%) ActionScript
5 1 (3.57%) ActionScript 2.0
5 1 (3.57%) Bicep
5 1 (3.57%) C#
5 1 (3.57%) Groovy
5 1 (3.57%) Scala
5 1 (3.57%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (21.43%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 4 (14.29%) OCP
2 4 (14.29%) Oracle Certification
3 2 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (7.14%) Degree
4 1 (3.57%) AWS Certification
4 1 (3.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (3.57%) IBM Certification
4 1 (3.57%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 11 (39.29%) vSphere
2 10 (35.71%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (28.57%) Docker
4 3 (10.71%) Active Directory
4 3 (10.71%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (10.71%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 21 (75.00%) Ansible
2 12 (42.86%) Terraform
3 9 (32.14%) Kubernetes
4 4 (14.29%) vRealize
5 3 (10.71%) Grafana
5 3 (10.71%) Progress Chef
5 3 (10.71%) Prometheus
5 3 (10.71%) vCenter Server
6 1 (3.57%) Kibana
6 1 (3.57%) logstash
6 1 (3.57%) Puppet
6 1 (3.57%) vRealize Orchestrator
6 1 (3.57%) WSUS
Vendors
1 12 (42.86%) VMware
2 8 (28.57%) Oracle
3 3 (10.71%) Cisco
3 3 (10.71%) Red Hat
4 2 (7.14%) Databricks
4 2 (7.14%) Google
4 2 (7.14%) SAP
5 1 (3.57%) 3PAR
5 1 (3.57%) Ariba
5 1 (3.57%) Brocade
5 1 (3.57%) EMC
5 1 (3.57%) HP
5 1 (3.57%) IBM
5 1 (3.57%) IBM Sterling
5 1 (3.57%) Microsoft