Infrastructure Automation Contract Job Trends in the North of England

Infrastructure Automation
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring Infrastructure Automation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 105 116 159
Rank change year-on-year +11 +43 +65
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Automation 109 46 27
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 2.33% 1.28% 0.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.62% 1.48% 0.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 75 37 21
10th Percentile £370 £381 £463
25th Percentile £432 £402 £487
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £425 £525
Median % change year-on-year +21.18% -19.05% +12.00%
75th Percentile £607 £550 £569
90th Percentile £733 £628 £588
England median daily rate £525 £538 £553
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.71% -7.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 0
10th Percentile - £73.50 -
25th Percentile £65.75 £75.00 -
Median hourly rate £66.50 £80.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -16.88% - -
75th Percentile £67.25 £85.00 -
90th Percentile - £86.50 -
England median hourly rate £62.50 £80.00 -
% change year-on-year -21.88% - -

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 4,159 3,114 4,134
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 88.72% 86.69% 88.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,772 1,775 2,737
10th Percentile £215 £263 £290
25th Percentile £363 £381 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.05% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £550 £575 £600
90th Percentile £650 £671 £675
England median daily rate £505 £525 £544
% change year-on-year -3.81% -3.49% -1.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 260 157 191
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.22 £15.72
25th Percentile £19.42 £17.25 £17.74
Median hourly rate £29.30 £27.50 £28.44
Median % change year-on-year +6.55% -3.31% +27.82%
75th Percentile £51.75 £46.18 £46.18
90th Percentile £69.27 £66.45 £62.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +19.70%

Infrastructure Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Infrastructure Automation job vacancy trend in the North of England

Infrastructure Automation
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Infrastructure Automation.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Infrastructure Automation

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 18 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Automation in the North of England

Infrastructure Automation
Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Infrastructure Automation.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Infrastructure Automation

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 18 December 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 -9 64 £500 +21.21% 12
North West +13 43 £538 -14.00% 9
North East -7 2 £588 +3.98% 1
Infrastructure Automation
England

Infrastructure Automation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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 5 (4.59%) OpenStack
2 1 (0.92%) Anypoint
2 1 (0.92%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.92%) Confluence
2 1 (0.92%) JBoss
2 1 (0.92%) Mule
2 1 (0.92%) Mule ESB
Cloud Services
1 65 (59.63%) AWS
2 36 (33.03%) GCP
3 29 (26.61%) Serverless
4 24 (22.02%) Azure
5 16 (14.68%) AWS CloudFormation
6 14 (12.84%) GitHub
7 12 (11.01%) GitHub Actions
8 11 (10.09%) Amazon S3
9 10 (9.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 10 (9.17%) AWS Lambda
9 10 (9.17%) OpenShift
10 9 (8.26%) Amazon EC2
10 9 (8.26%) Azure DevOps
11 8 (7.34%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 6 (5.50%) Amazon ECS
13 5 (4.59%) Amazon ELB
14 4 (3.67%) Amazon EKS
15 3 (2.75%) AWS KMS
16 2 (1.83%) AWS CodeBuild
16 2 (1.83%) AWS Fargate
Communications & Networking
1 25 (22.94%) Firewall
2 18 (16.51%) Network Security
3 13 (11.93%) DNS
4 10 (9.17%) TCP/IP
5 6 (5.50%) SAN
6 5 (4.59%) SSL
6 5 (4.59%) VPN
7 4 (3.67%) Internet
7 4 (3.67%) Intrusion Detection
7 4 (3.67%) NAS
8 3 (2.75%) iSCSI
8 3 (2.75%) VLAN
9 1 (0.92%) Fibre Channel
9 1 (0.92%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (17.43%) NoSQL
2 7 (6.42%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (2.75%) MongoDB
4 2 (1.83%) Data Lake
4 2 (1.83%) DynamoDB
5 1 (0.92%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (0.92%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.92%) Big Data
5 1 (0.92%) MySQL
5 1 (0.92%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (0.92%) Power BI
5 1 (0.92%) RDBMS
5 1 (0.92%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 36 (33.03%) Jenkins
2 34 (31.19%) GitLab
3 18 (16.51%) Git
3 18 (16.51%) Liquibase
4 7 (6.42%) JIRA
5 4 (3.67%) CircleCI
6 2 (1.83%) Jaeger
6 2 (1.83%) MSI
7 1 (0.92%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.92%) MLflow
7 1 (0.92%) Robot Framework
7 1 (0.92%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.92%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (0.92%) TeamCity
General
1 39 (35.78%) Social Skills
2 31 (28.44%) Finance
3 22 (20.18%) Banking
4 21 (19.27%) Financial Institution
5 18 (16.51%) Public Sector
6 5 (4.59%) Law
7 4 (3.67%) Pharmaceutical
8 3 (2.75%) Analytical Skills
9 1 (0.92%) Military
9 1 (0.92%) Private Banking
9 1 (0.92%) Retail
Job Titles
1 23 (21.10%) DevOps Engineer
2 18 (16.51%) Senior
3 15 (13.76%) Lead
4 14 (12.84%) AWS Engineer
5 12 (11.01%) Cloud Engineer
5 12 (11.01%) Software Engineer
6 10 (9.17%) Senior Software Engineer
7 9 (8.26%) Platform Engineer
8 8 (7.34%) Senior DevOps
8 8 (7.34%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 8 (7.34%) Server Engineer
9 7 (6.42%) Architect
9 7 (6.42%) Network Engineer
10 6 (5.50%) AWS DevOps
10 6 (5.50%) GCP Engineer
10 6 (5.50%) Security Engineer
10 6 (5.50%) Virtualisation Engineer
11 5 (4.59%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 5 (4.59%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 5 (4.59%) Lead DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (20.18%) REST
1 22 (20.18%) RESTful
2 21 (19.27%) Elastic Stack
3 7 (6.42%) Node.js
4 6 (5.50%) Kafka
5 5 (4.59%) Middleware
6 4 (3.67%) React
6 4 (3.67%) Spring Boot
7 2 (1.83%) ARM Templates
7 2 (1.83%) AWS CDK
7 2 (1.83%) NestJS
7 2 (1.83%) OpenTelemetry
8 1 (0.92%) Express.js
8 1 (0.92%) Flask
8 1 (0.92%) JWT
8 1 (0.92%) Pug
8 1 (0.92%) PySpark
8 1 (0.92%) pytest
8 1 (0.92%) Sequelize
8 1 (0.92%) Streamlit
Miscellaneous
1 26 (23.85%) Cloud Native
2 22 (20.18%) Distributed Systems
2 22 (20.18%) Public Cloud
3 7 (6.42%) Onboarding
4 6 (5.50%) Clustering
5 5 (4.59%) Management Information System
6 4 (3.67%) Hybrid Cloud
6 4 (3.67%) NHS
6 4 (3.67%) Security Posture
7 3 (2.75%) Enterprise Storage
7 3 (2.75%) Replication
8 2 (1.83%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.83%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (1.83%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.92%) CMDB
9 1 (0.92%) CUDA
9 1 (0.92%) Data Centre
9 1 (0.92%) Private Cloud
9 1 (0.92%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 43 (39.45%) Linux
2 20 (18.35%) Windows
3 7 (6.42%) Windows Server
4 6 (5.50%) VMS
5 4 (3.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (2.75%) Unix
7 1 (0.92%) CentOS
7 1 (0.92%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (66.97%) CI/CD
1 73 (66.97%) DevOps
2 59 (54.13%) Infrastructure as Code
3 41 (37.61%) Containerisation
4 34 (31.19%) Agile
5 33 (30.28%) High Availability
6 27 (24.77%) Cybersecurity
6 27 (24.77%) Microservices
6 27 (24.77%) Root Cause Analysis
7 22 (20.18%) Data Security
7 22 (20.18%) Software Engineering
8 21 (19.27%) Computer Science
8 21 (19.27%) Continuous Integration
9 20 (18.35%) Continuous Delivery
10 19 (17.43%) Cost Optimisation
11 17 (15.60%) Cryptography
11 17 (15.60%) Non-Functional Testing
12 16 (14.68%) DevSecOps
13 15 (13.76%) Incident Response
13 15 (13.76%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 68 (62.39%) Python
2 29 (26.61%) Bash
3 27 (24.77%) Go
4 23 (21.10%) PowerShell
5 14 (12.84%) Java
6 11 (10.09%) SQL
7 10 (9.17%) Shell Script
8 9 (8.26%) TypeScript
9 4 (3.67%) JavaScript
10 3 (2.75%) Perl
11 2 (1.83%) C
11 2 (1.83%) Rust
12 1 (0.92%) C++
12 1 (0.92%) Groovy
12 1 (0.92%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 24 (22.02%) Security Cleared
2 22 (20.18%) Degree
3 19 (17.43%) Computer Science Degree
4 16 (14.68%) Master's Degree
5 15 (13.76%) SC Cleared
6 14 (12.84%) AWS Certification
7 8 (7.34%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 8 (7.34%) Cisco Certification
8 7 (6.42%) CCNP
9 6 (5.50%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 5 (4.59%) CCSA
11 4 (3.67%) OCP
11 4 (3.67%) Oracle Certification
12 3 (2.75%) AWS Certified Developer
13 1 (0.92%) Azure Certification
13 1 (0.92%) BPSS Clearance
13 1 (0.92%) CCNA CyberOps
13 1 (0.92%) Check Point Certification
13 1 (0.92%) CompTIA Security+
13 1 (0.92%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.75%) SLA
2 2 (1.83%) GDPR
2 2 (1.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (1.83%) NIST
2 2 (1.83%) PCI DSS
3 1 (0.92%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (0.92%) SOC 2
System Software
1 41 (37.61%) Docker
2 16 (14.68%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (11.01%) Active Directory
4 10 (9.17%) Virtual Machines
4 10 (9.17%) vSphere
5 7 (6.42%) Hyper-V
6 3 (2.75%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.92%) Ceph
7 1 (0.92%) KVM
7 1 (0.92%) NFS
7 1 (0.92%) QEMU
7 1 (0.92%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.92%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 79 (72.48%) Terraform
2 57 (52.29%) Ansible
3 47 (43.12%) Kubernetes
4 29 (26.61%) Grafana
5 26 (23.85%) Prometheus
6 7 (6.42%) vRealize
7 6 (5.50%) Microsoft Clustering
7 6 (5.50%) Nagios
7 6 (5.50%) vCenter Server
8 4 (3.67%) vRealize Orchestrator
9 2 (1.83%) Argo
9 2 (1.83%) Kiali
9 2 (1.83%) Packer
9 2 (1.83%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.92%) Kibana
10 1 (0.92%) Podman
10 1 (0.92%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 30 (27.52%) Splunk
2 23 (21.10%) VMware
3 17 (15.60%) Palo Alto
4 13 (11.93%) Google
5 12 (11.01%) F5
6 9 (8.26%) Zscaler
7 8 (7.34%) Microsoft
7 8 (7.34%) SolarWinds
8 7 (6.42%) Cisco
9 6 (5.50%) CheckPoint
9 6 (5.50%) Dell
10 5 (4.59%) Oracle
10 5 (4.59%) Pure Storage
11 3 (2.75%) AppDynamics
11 3 (2.75%) Red Hat
11 3 (2.75%) ServiceNow
12 2 (1.83%) Cribl.io
12 2 (1.83%) NetApp
12 2 (1.83%) Ping Identity
12 2 (1.83%) Veeam