Infrastructure Automation Contract Job Trends in Somerset

Infrastructure Automation
South West > Somerset

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Somerset requiring Infrastructure Automation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 47 25 -
Rank change year-on-year -22 - -
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Automation 5 2 0
As % of all contract jobs in Somerset 1.18% 1.18% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.50% 1.27% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £900 £625 -
Median % change year-on-year +44.00% - -
South West median daily rate £563 £575 £700
% change year-on-year -2.17% -17.86% +24.44%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Somerset

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 Somerset.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 333 158 162
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Somerset 78.35% 93.49% 73.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 159 96 96
10th Percentile £350 £225 £206
25th Percentile £413 £400 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £530
Median % change year-on-year - -0.94% +7.34%
75th Percentile £671 £675 £600
90th Percentile £730 £775 £644
South West median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 84 26 29
10th Percentile £27.95 £16.47 £12.50
25th Percentile £52.19 - -
Median hourly rate £57.50 £18.51 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +210.64% -25.96% -50.74%
75th Percentile £58.75 £62.81 £40.00
90th Percentile £63.38 £63.75 £62.50
South West median hourly rate £57.50 £25.15 £60.00
% change year-on-year +128.63% -58.08% -7.69%

Infrastructure Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Somerset

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

Infrastructure Automation job vacancy trend in Somerset

Infrastructure Automation
Daily Rate Trend in Somerset

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

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

Infrastructure Automation
Contract Job Locations in Somerset

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 Somerset region over the 6 months to 17 July 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
Taunton - 3 - -
Yeovil - 2 £900 - 1
Infrastructure Automation
South West

Infrastructure Automation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Somerset 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (40.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 4 (80.00%) AWS
2 3 (60.00%) Azure
3 2 (40.00%) Amazon EKS
3 2 (40.00%) Azure AKS
4 1 (20.00%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) DHCP
1 1 (20.00%) DNS
1 1 (20.00%) Firewall
1 1 (20.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (20.00%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) NoSQL
General
1 2 (40.00%) Documentation Skills
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) .NET Architect
1 3 (60.00%) .NET Technical Architect
1 3 (60.00%) Architect
1 3 (60.00%) Technical Architect
2 2 (40.00%) Azure Architect
2 2 (40.00%) Cloud Architect
3 1 (20.00%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) .NET
1 3 (60.00%) .NET Framework
2 2 (40.00%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Distributed Systems
1 3 (60.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (40.00%) Cloud Native
2 2 (40.00%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (40.00%) Wiki
3 1 (20.00%) Data Centre
3 1 (20.00%) PKI
3 1 (20.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Linux
2 1 (20.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (20.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (60.00%) DevOps
2 3 (60.00%) DevSecOps
2 3 (60.00%) Integration Patterns
3 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (40.00%) Containerisation
3 2 (40.00%) Cost Optimisation
3 2 (40.00%) Data Integration
3 2 (40.00%) Decision-Making
3 2 (40.00%) Event-Driven
3 2 (40.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
3 2 (40.00%) High Availability
3 2 (40.00%) Microservices
3 2 (40.00%) Observability
3 2 (40.00%) Performance Metrics
3 2 (40.00%) Performance Optimisation
3 2 (40.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 2 (40.00%) Technical Leadership
3 2 (40.00%) Test Automation
3 2 (40.00%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) C#
2 2 (40.00%) Bicep
3 1 (20.00%) Bash
3 1 (20.00%) PowerShell
3 1 (20.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (40.00%) DV Cleared
2 2 (40.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (20.00%) AWS Certification
3 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (20.00%) RHCE
3 1 (20.00%) RHCSA
3 1 (20.00%) VCAP
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Docker
2 1 (20.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (20.00%) VMware NSX
2 1 (20.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (60.00%) Terraform
2 2 (40.00%) Ansible
3 1 (20.00%) FreeIPA
3 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
3 1 (20.00%) Podman
3 1 (20.00%) SELinux
3 1 (20.00%) VxRail
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) Red Hat
2 1 (20.00%) VMware