Infrastructure Automation Contract Job Trends in Portsmouth

Infrastructure Automation
Hampshire > Portsmouth

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Portsmouth requiring Infrastructure Automation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
11 Aug 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 41 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Automation 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Portsmouth 0.87% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.20% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £522 - -
25th Percentile £535 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £558 - -
75th Percentile £573 - -
90th Percentile £582 - -
Hampshire median daily rate £567 £481 £582
% change year-on-year +17.71% -17.31% -8.71%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Portsmouth

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 Portsmouth.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 249 146 193
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Portsmouth 72.38% 74.87% 91.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 125 93 85
10th Percentile £363 £366 £400
25th Percentile £461 £458 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £575
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% -6.52% +15.00%
75th Percentile £625 £556 £688
90th Percentile £685 £626 £850
Hampshire median daily rate £550 £538 £580
% change year-on-year +2.33% -7.33% +10.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 76 26 79
10th Percentile £15.72 £25.15 £51.06
25th Percentile £48.64 £32.94 £53.40
Median hourly rate £56.25 £50.00 £57.35
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -12.82% +4.27%
75th Percentile £64.63 £55.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £59.38 £76.86
Hampshire median hourly rate £47.50 £33.89 £57.35
% change year-on-year +40.18% -40.92% +11.90%

Infrastructure Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Portsmouth

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

Infrastructure Automation job vacancy trend in Portsmouth

Infrastructure Automation
Daily Rate Trend in Portsmouth

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

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

Infrastructure Automation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Portsmouth 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 2 (66.67%) GCP
2 1 (33.33%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) Azure
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) GCP Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) Kafka
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (33.33%) AI
3 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
3 1 (33.33%) DevSecOps
3 1 (33.33%) Machine Learning
3 1 (33.33%) SFIA
3 1 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) Bash
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Terraform
2 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Google
Infrastructure Automation jobs