Infrastructure Automation Contracts in the North of England

Infrastructure Automation
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for Infrastructure Automation skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Infrastructure Automation over the 6 months to 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 170 201 228
Rank change year-on-year +31 +27 -56
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Automation 14 12 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.30% 0.21% 0.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.35% 0.23% 0.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 11 17
10th Percentile £389 £413 £410
25th Percentile £416 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £463 £513
Median % change year-on-year +2.70% -9.76% +10.22%
75th Percentile £499 £575 £538
90th Percentile £546 - £568
England median daily rate £600 £550 £550
% change year-on-year +9.09% - +9.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £65.31 - -
25th Percentile £69.53 - -
Median hourly rate £71.87 - -
75th Percentile £74.15 - -
90th Percentile £78.26 - -
England median hourly rate £71.87 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

Infrastructure Automation is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,023 5,182 6,316
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 85.72% 90.78% 88.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,447 3,599 4,626
10th Percentile £300 £300 £241
25th Percentile £400 £413 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +10.21%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £563
90th Percentile £675 £688 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 363 202 253
10th Percentile £11.07 £10.63 £10.63
25th Percentile £12.50 £15.86 £12.75
Median hourly rate £17.72 £29.15 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year -39.21% +57.57% +0.87%
75th Percentile £45.00 £46.51 £31.00
90th Percentile £57.50 £65.00 £52.40
England median hourly rate £36.50 £37.34 £24.30
% change year-on-year -2.25% +53.69% +3.38%

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 8 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Automation in the North of England

Infrastructure Automation
Hourly Rate Histogram in the North of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Infrastructure Automation in the North of England over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram 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 8 May 2024. 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
North West +28 13 £475 -9.52% 7
Yorkshire +25 1 £390 +0.65% 2
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 (7.14%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (7.14%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 6 (42.86%) AWS
2 3 (21.43%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 2 (14.29%) Azure
4 1 (7.14%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (7.14%) Azure Stack
4 1 (7.14%) BrowserStack
4 1 (7.14%) Entra ID
4 1 (7.14%) GitHub
4 1 (7.14%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (7.14%) OneDrive
4 1 (7.14%) OpenShift
4 1 (7.14%) SaaS
4 1 (7.14%) Serverless
4 1 (7.14%) SpeedCurve
4 1 (7.14%) Yammer
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.14%) DNS
1 1 (7.14%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (14.29%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 2 (14.29%) JUnit
2 1 (7.14%) Bitbucket
2 1 (7.14%) Bitbucket Server
2 1 (7.14%) Cucumber
2 1 (7.14%) Jenkins
2 1 (7.14%) JIRA
2 1 (7.14%) JMeter
2 1 (7.14%) Pa11y
2 1 (7.14%) Selenium
2 1 (7.14%) TestCafe
General
1 4 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (7.14%) Public Sector
2 1 (7.14%) Retail
2 1 (7.14%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (42.86%) Senior
2 5 (35.71%) Senior Test Engineer
2 5 (35.71%) Test Engineer
3 4 (28.57%) Software Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) Developer
4 2 (14.29%) Java Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) Python Developer
5 1 (7.14%) 3rd Line Support
5 1 (7.14%) Administrator
5 1 (7.14%) Android Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Automation Developer
5 1 (7.14%) Azure Administrator
5 1 (7.14%) Full Stack Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Full Stack Software Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Java Software Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Senior Software Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Senior Test Automation Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (28.57%) React
2 3 (21.43%) AngularJS
3 2 (14.29%) Jetpack Compose
3 2 (14.29%) RxJava
3 2 (14.29%) XML
4 1 (7.14%) Android Jetpack
4 1 (7.14%) AWS CDK
4 1 (7.14%) Dagger
4 1 (7.14%) Django
4 1 (7.14%) FastAPI
4 1 (7.14%) Flask
4 1 (7.14%) Retrofit
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.14%) Cloud Native
1 1 (7.14%) Legacy Applications
1 1 (7.14%) PKI
1 1 (7.14%) Private Cloud
1 1 (7.14%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (21.43%) Windows
2 2 (14.29%) Unix
3 1 (7.14%) Android
3 1 (7.14%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (7.14%) Windows Server 2012
3 1 (7.14%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (7.14%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 6 (42.86%) Software Engineering
3 4 (28.57%) Active Listening
3 4 (28.57%) Analytical Thinking
3 4 (28.57%) Continuous Improvement
3 4 (28.57%) Exploratory Testing
3 4 (28.57%) Load Testing
3 4 (28.57%) Security Testing
4 3 (21.43%) Architectural Patterns
4 3 (21.43%) Customer Experience
4 3 (21.43%) Non-Functional Testing
4 3 (21.43%) Observability
5 2 (14.29%) Agile
5 2 (14.29%) CI/CD
5 2 (14.29%) Design Patterns
5 2 (14.29%) DevOps
5 2 (14.29%) Front End Development
5 2 (14.29%) Full Stack Development
5 2 (14.29%) MVVM
5 2 (14.29%) Refactoring
Programming Languages
1 7 (50.00%) Java
2 3 (21.43%) PHP
3 2 (14.29%) Kotlin
3 2 (14.29%) Python
4 1 (7.14%) JavaScript
4 1 (7.14%) PowerShell
4 1 (7.14%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (7.14%) Degree
1 1 (7.14%) SC Cleared
1 1 (7.14%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (28.57%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (7.14%) Active Directory
1 1 (7.14%) Docker
1 1 (7.14%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (28.57%) Terraform
2 2 (14.29%) Ansible
2 2 (14.29%) Kubernetes
2 2 (14.29%) Progress Chef
3 1 (7.14%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (7.14%) Grafana
3 1 (7.14%) Kibana
3 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (7.14%) SCCM
3 1 (7.14%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 2 (14.29%) VMware
2 1 (7.14%) Databricks
2 1 (7.14%) Microsoft
2 1 (7.14%) Proofpoint
2 1 (7.14%) Sophos