Infrastructure Automation Contracts in the North West

Infrastructure Automation
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 114 119 146
Rank change year-on-year +5 +27 +13
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Automation 6 18 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.30% 0.65% 0.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.34% 0.76% 0.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 12 11
10th Percentile £567 £428 -
25th Percentile £613 £459 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £481 £525
Median % change year-on-year +29.94% -8.38% +3.70%
75th Percentile £638 £535 £575
90th Percentile - £549 -
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 West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,776 2,377 2,894
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 90.24% 86.28% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,147 1,519 2,058
10th Percentile £300 £306 £313
25th Percentile £393 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £593 £588
90th Percentile £661 £688 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 108 244 144
10th Percentile £15.97 £10.95 £16.85
25th Percentile £22.66 £13.30 £21.25
Median hourly rate £31.88 £21.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +51.81% -40.00% +70.82%
75th Percentile £60.00 £45.22 £48.91
90th Percentile £83.96 £57.50 £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 West

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Automation in the North West

Infrastructure Automation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure Automation in the North West

Infrastructure Automation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for Infrastructure Automation in the North West

Infrastructure Automation
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West 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
Cheshire -3 4 £625 +28.34% 2
Merseyside - 2 £625 - 1
Infrastructure Automation
England

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

Business Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Distributed Ledger
Cloud Services
1 4 (66.67%) AWS
2 3 (50.00%) OpenShift
3 2 (33.33%) Azure
3 2 (33.33%) GCP
4 1 (16.67%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (16.67%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) Firewall
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) GitLab
1 2 (33.33%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (33.33%) Banking
1 2 (33.33%) Finance
1 2 (33.33%) Legal
1 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Architect
1 2 (33.33%) Automation Engineer
1 2 (33.33%) AWS Architect
1 2 (33.33%) AWS Solution Architect
1 2 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
1 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 2 (33.33%) Principal DevOps Engineer
1 2 (33.33%) Principal Engineer
1 2 (33.33%) Python Engineer
1 2 (33.33%) Senior
1 2 (33.33%) Senior Automation Engineer
1 2 (33.33%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
1 2 (33.33%) Solutions Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Cloud Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Cloud Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (66.67%) Kafka
2 1 (16.67%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Cloud Native
1 2 (33.33%) Hybrid Cloud
1 2 (33.33%) Public Cloud
2 1 (16.67%) Blockchain
2 1 (16.67%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (33.33%) Linux
1 2 (33.33%) Windows
1 2 (33.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) CI/CD
1 4 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
1 4 (66.67%) Microservices
2 3 (50.00%) DevOps
2 3 (50.00%) Observability
3 2 (33.33%) Collaborative Working
3 2 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (33.33%) Cost Optimisation
3 2 (33.33%) Data Migration
3 2 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
3 2 (33.33%) Event-Driven Architecture
3 2 (33.33%) High Availability
3 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 2 (33.33%) ITSM
3 2 (33.33%) Mentoring
3 2 (33.33%) Migration
3 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
3 2 (33.33%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) Java
1 2 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) AWS Certification
1 1 (16.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 1 (16.67%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 2 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (100.00%) Ansible
1 6 (100.00%) Terraform
2 2 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 2 (33.33%) Progress Chef
3 1 (16.67%) Grafana
3 1 (16.67%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Cisco
2 1 (16.67%) Red Hat
2 1 (16.67%) VMware