Infrastructure Automation Contracts in Reading

Infrastructure Automation
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading 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 55 89 82
Rank change year-on-year +34 -7 +10
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Automation 5 2 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 0.84% 0.17% 0.48%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.90% 0.19% 0.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 2
10th Percentile £416 - £550
25th Percentile £450 - £569
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £495 £625
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% -20.80% +1.83%
75th Percentile £638 - £669
90th Percentile £649 - £680
Berkshire median daily rate £513 £495 £625
% change year-on-year +3.54% -20.80% +8.70%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Reading

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 Reading.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 555 1,075 936
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 92.96% 90.18% 89.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 329 581 620
10th Percentile £313 £213 £363
25th Percentile £450 £413 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £619 £660
90th Percentile £700 £688 £721
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £511 £525
% change year-on-year -2.10% -2.71% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 46 23
10th Percentile £33.82 £27.58 £45.50
25th Percentile £41.05 £53.74 £53.00
Median hourly rate £53.10 £62.07 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.46% -4.50% +132.14%
75th Percentile £65.14 £82.55 £74.40
90th Percentile £72.37 £87.50 £79.19
Berkshire median hourly rate £61.50 £61.60 £57.82
% change year-on-year -0.17% +6.54% +174.67%

Infrastructure Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

Job postings citing Infrastructure Automation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Reading.

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Automation in Reading

Infrastructure Automation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Infrastructure Automation in Reading.

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure Automation in Reading

Infrastructure Automation
Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Automation in Reading over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Automation in Reading

Infrastructure Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading 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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) Azure
2 4 (80.00%) AWS
3 1 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (20.00%) IaaS
3 1 (20.00%) PaaS
3 1 (20.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) Firewall
General
1 3 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Applications Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) IT Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Migration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Product Ownership
2 2 (40.00%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 4 (80.00%) Linux
2 3 (60.00%) Windows
3 2 (40.00%) AIX
3 2 (40.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (40.00%) Coaching
2 2 (40.00%) Configuration Management
2 2 (40.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (40.00%) DevOps
2 2 (40.00%) Migration
3 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) Bash
1 2 (40.00%) PowerShell
1 2 (40.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) NIST
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Docker
1 2 (40.00%) Hyper-V
1 2 (40.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (80.00%) Ansible
1 4 (80.00%) Progress Chef
1 4 (80.00%) Puppet
2 3 (60.00%) Terraform
3 2 (40.00%) Kubernetes
3 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (40.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (60.00%) VMware