Infrastructure Automation Contract Job Trends in Oxfordshire

Infrastructure Automation
South East > Oxfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Oxfordshire requiring Infrastructure Automation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 31 - 25
Rank change year-on-year - - +5
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Automation 1 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Oxfordshire 0.43% - 0.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.52% - 0.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £300 - -
South East median daily rate £550 £513 £495
% change year-on-year +7.32% +3.54% -10.00%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Oxfordshire

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 Oxfordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 194 89 193
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 82.91% 89.00% 86.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 113 50 124
10th Percentile £203 £250 £145
25th Percentile £263 £361 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £425
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +17.65% -10.53%
75th Percentile £550 £625 £525
90th Percentile £635 £689 £616
South East median daily rate £503 £510 £500
% change year-on-year -1.47% +2.00% -0.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 10 38
10th Percentile £15.62 £13.08 £12.20
25th Percentile £18.41 £21.93 £13.12
Median hourly rate £20.18 £36.38 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year -44.53% +86.56% -25.00%
75th Percentile £25.11 £46.30 £29.38
90th Percentile £27.54 £49.50 £58.00
South East median hourly rate £36.00 £32.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year +10.77% -18.75% -11.11%

Infrastructure Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Oxfordshire

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

Infrastructure Automation job vacancy trend in Oxfordshire

Infrastructure Automation
Daily Rate Trend in Oxfordshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Oxfordshire citing Infrastructure Automation.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Oxfordshire citing Infrastructure Automation

Infrastructure Automation
Contract Job Locations in Oxfordshire

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 Oxfordshire region over the 6 months to 24 March 2026. 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
Oxford - 1 £300 - 1
Infrastructure Automation
South East

Infrastructure Automation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Oxfordshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (100.00%) AWS CodePipeline
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Business Continuity
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (100.00%) Deployment Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Project Management
1 1 (100.00%) Resilience Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Analysis
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (100.00%) NIST
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform