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 25 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 119 119 149
Rank change year-on-year 0 +30 +18
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Automation 8 11 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.40% 0.39% 0.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.45% 0.47% 0.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 5 5
10th Percentile £401 £401 £479
25th Percentile £476 £425 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 £523 £575
Median % change year-on-year +2.78% -9.13% +12.20%
75th Percentile £638 £575 £588
90th Percentile - £635 £655
England median daily rate £511 £564 £550
% change year-on-year -9.27% +2.45% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 0
10th Percentile - £65.31 -
25th Percentile £73.50 £69.53 -
Median hourly rate £79.00 £71.87 -
Median % change year-on-year +9.92% - -
75th Percentile £84.50 £74.15 -
90th Percentile - £78.26 -
England median hourly rate £79.00 £71.87 -
% change year-on-year +9.92% - -

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 1,791 2,352 2,701
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 89.46% 83.82% 89.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,197 1,435 1,884
10th Percentile £303 £306 £313
25th Percentile £384 £400 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £495 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.07% -1.00% +2.56%
75th Percentile £563 £585 £588
90th Percentile £664 £675 £675
England median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 102 264 140
10th Percentile £12.82 £11.00 £15.98
25th Percentile £19.06 £14.13 £20.00
Median hourly rate £32.00 £27.75 £30.27
Median % change year-on-year +15.32% -8.33% +28.56%
75th Percentile £63.40 £46.18 £43.75
90th Percentile £83.17 £66.61 £57.68
England median hourly rate £25.50 £37.50 £35.03
% change year-on-year -32.00% +7.05% +36.41%

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
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Automation in the North West over the 6 months to 25 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram 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 25 June 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 £478 +4.66% 8
Merseyside - 2 £625 - 5
Manchester +8 1 - - 18
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 (12.50%) Distributed Ledger
Cloud Services
1 5 (62.50%) AWS
2 3 (37.50%) Azure
3 2 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (25.00%) GCP
3 2 (25.00%) Serverless
4 1 (12.50%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (12.50%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (12.50%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) Firewall
1 1 (12.50%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) MySQL
General
1 2 (25.00%) Banking
1 2 (25.00%) Finance
1 2 (25.00%) Legal
1 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Military
2 1 (12.50%) Pharmaceutical
2 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (25.00%) Architect
1 2 (25.00%) AWS Architect
1 2 (25.00%) AWS Solution Architect
1 2 (25.00%) Developer
1 2 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 2 (25.00%) Principal DevOps Engineer
1 2 (25.00%) Principal Engineer
1 2 (25.00%) Solutions Architect
2 1 (12.50%) Cisco Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Cisco Network Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Cisco Security Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Cloud Developer
2 1 (12.50%) Cloud Solutions Architect
2 1 (12.50%) Full-Stack Developer
2 1 (12.50%) Network Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Network Security Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Security Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Senior
2 1 (12.50%) Senior Software Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (25.00%) Kafka
2 1 (12.50%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (12.50%) Express.js
2 1 (12.50%) Node.js
2 1 (12.50%) Pug
2 1 (12.50%) RESTful
2 1 (12.50%) Sequelize
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Cloud Native
1 2 (25.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 2 (25.00%) Public Cloud
2 1 (12.50%) Blockchain
2 1 (12.50%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (37.50%) Linux
2 2 (25.00%) Windows
2 2 (25.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (37.50%) CI/CD
2 3 (37.50%) Containerisation
2 3 (37.50%) DevOps
2 3 (37.50%) Migration
3 2 (25.00%) Cost Optimisation
3 2 (25.00%) Data Migration
3 2 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 2 (25.00%) Full-Stack Development
3 2 (25.00%) High Availability
3 2 (25.00%) ITSM
3 2 (25.00%) Microservices
3 2 (25.00%) Observability
3 2 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (25.00%) Software Engineering
3 2 (25.00%) Workflow
4 1 (12.50%) Architectural Design
4 1 (12.50%) Fraud Detection
4 1 (12.50%) GitOps
4 1 (12.50%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 4 (50.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) AWS Certification
1 1 (12.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 1 (12.50%) CCNP
1 1 (12.50%) CCSA
1 1 (12.50%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
1 1 (12.50%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 2 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (62.50%) Terraform
2 4 (50.00%) Ansible
3 3 (37.50%) Kubernetes
4 1 (12.50%) Grafana
4 1 (12.50%) Progress Chef
4 1 (12.50%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) Cisco
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft
2 1 (12.50%) Palo Alto
2 1 (12.50%) Red Hat
2 1 (12.50%) VMware
2 1 (12.50%) Zscaler