Infrastructure Automation Contracts in Sheffield

Infrastructure Automation
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Sheffield 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 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 35 53 -
Rank change year-on-year +18 - -
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Automation 16 1 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Sheffield 4.47% 0.26% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.73% 0.29% -
Number of daily rates quoted 10 1 0
10th Percentile £385 - -
25th Percentile £403 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £390 -
Median % change year-on-year +18.59% - -
75th Percentile £497 - -
90th Percentile £605 - -
South Yorkshire median daily rate £463 £390 -
% change year-on-year +18.59% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Sheffield

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 Sheffield.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 338 349 423
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 94.41% 90.18% 96.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 218 201 281
10th Percentile £232 £375 £363
25th Percentile £380 £425 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £600
Median % change year-on-year -0.11% -20.83% +20.00%
75th Percentile £555 £588 £700
90th Percentile £650 £638 £745
South Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £475 £550
% change year-on-year - -13.64% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 8 3
10th Percentile £18.10 - £12.45
25th Percentile £18.20 £10.90 £14.63
Median hourly rate £18.69 £17.38 £20.50
Median % change year-on-year +7.57% -15.24% +22.39%
75th Percentile £18.87 £22.44 £31.38
90th Percentile - £23.75 £36.55
South Yorkshire median hourly rate £18.69 £12.83 £10.63
% change year-on-year +45.67% +20.70% -37.67%

Infrastructure Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Automation in Sheffield

Infrastructure Automation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Sheffield

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

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure Automation in Sheffield

Infrastructure Automation
Daily Rate Histogram in Sheffield

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Automation in Sheffield over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Automation in Sheffield

Infrastructure Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Sheffield 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 2 (12.50%) GCP
1 2 (12.50%) OCI
2 1 (6.25%) AWS
2 1 (6.25%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 4 (25.00%) SAN
2 3 (18.75%) DNS
2 3 (18.75%) NAS
3 1 (6.25%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (50.00%) Oracle Database
2 1 (6.25%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 14 (87.50%) Jenkins
2 5 (31.25%) Git
3 3 (18.75%) GitLab
4 1 (6.25%) Cucumber
4 1 (6.25%) JIRA
4 1 (6.25%) Selenium
4 1 (6.25%) TestNG
4 1 (6.25%) Visual Studio
General
1 7 (43.75%) Social Skills
2 6 (37.50%) Finance
3 1 (6.25%) Banking
Job Titles
1 6 (37.50%) Database Engineer
1 6 (37.50%) Oracle Database Engineer
2 4 (25.00%) Automation Engineer
2 4 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Architect
4 1 (6.25%) Automation Specialist
4 1 (6.25%) Cloud Automation Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Developer
4 1 (6.25%) DevOps Automation Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Oracle Developer
4 1 (6.25%) Python Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Virtualisation Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Virtualisation Specialist
4 1 (6.25%) VMware Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (25.00%) Middleware
2 3 (18.75%) RESTful
3 2 (12.50%) REST
4 1 (6.25%) Gherkin
4 1 (6.25%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 3 (18.75%) Data Protection Act
1 3 (18.75%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (12.50%) Enterprise Storage
2 2 (12.50%) Management Information System
3 1 (6.25%) EMC VMAX
Operating Systems
1 6 (37.50%) Linux
2 3 (18.75%) Windows
2 3 (18.75%) Windows Server
3 2 (12.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (6.25%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (81.25%) CI/CD
2 7 (43.75%) Performance Tuning
2 7 (43.75%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (37.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 4 (25.00%) Agile
4 4 (25.00%) Containerisation
4 4 (25.00%) DevOps
5 3 (18.75%) Data Protection
5 3 (18.75%) Kanban
5 3 (18.75%) Migration
5 3 (18.75%) Scrum
6 2 (12.50%) Computer Science
6 2 (12.50%) High Availability
6 2 (12.50%) Infrastructure as Code
6 2 (12.50%) Virtual Environments
7 1 (6.25%) Big Data Analytics
7 1 (6.25%) Data Pipeline
7 1 (6.25%) Deployment Automation
7 1 (6.25%) Event-Driven
7 1 (6.25%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 10 (62.50%) Python
2 7 (43.75%) Shell Script
3 4 (25.00%) PowerShell
4 1 (6.25%) ActionScript
4 1 (6.25%) ActionScript 2.0
4 1 (6.25%) Bash
4 1 (6.25%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 5 (31.25%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 4 (25.00%) OCP
2 4 (25.00%) Oracle Certification
3 2 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (12.50%) Degree
4 1 (6.25%) IBM Certification
System Software
1 11 (68.75%) vSphere
2 10 (62.50%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (25.00%) Docker
4 3 (18.75%) Active Directory
4 3 (18.75%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (18.75%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 15 (93.75%) Ansible
2 5 (31.25%) Kubernetes
3 4 (25.00%) vRealize
4 3 (18.75%) vCenter Server
5 1 (6.25%) Progress Chef
5 1 (6.25%) Puppet
5 1 (6.25%) Terraform
5 1 (6.25%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 11 (68.75%) VMware
2 8 (50.00%) Oracle
3 2 (12.50%) Red Hat
4 1 (6.25%) 3PAR
4 1 (6.25%) Brocade
4 1 (6.25%) Cisco
4 1 (6.25%) Databricks
4 1 (6.25%) EMC
4 1 (6.25%) Google
4 1 (6.25%) HP
4 1 (6.25%) IBM
4 1 (6.25%) IBM Sterling