Infrastructure Automation Contracts in the South East

Infrastructure Automation
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 136 196 208
Rank change year-on-year +60 +12 +30
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Automation 23 9 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.76% 0.16% 0.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.83% 0.19% 0.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 2 9
10th Percentile £325 £506 £422
25th Percentile £413 £521 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £548 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.68% -0.45% -4.35%
75th Percentile £550 £574 £613
90th Percentile £590 £590 £658
England median daily rate £525 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

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 the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,757 4,716 5,181
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 91.59% 84.85% 89.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,756 2,743 3,594
10th Percentile £256 £243 £250
25th Percentile £400 £400 £404
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £508
Median % change year-on-year - -1.53% +1.55%
75th Percentile £600 £621 £619
90th Percentile £675 £700 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 171 434 219
10th Percentile £13.85 £13.00 £18.25
25th Percentile £15.79 £18.23 £23.83
Median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -41.05% -5.00% +122.22%
75th Percentile £62.50 £62.49 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £76.86 £74.83
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Infrastructure Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Infrastructure Automation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Automation in the South East

Infrastructure Automation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Infrastructure Automation in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure Automation in the South East

Infrastructure Automation
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

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

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Automation in the South East

Infrastructure Automation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Infrastructure Automation in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Infrastructure Automation in the South East

Infrastructure Automation
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
Thames Valley +52 14 £500 -8.68% 27
Berkshire +40 12 £513 +3.54% 12
Hampshire +30 8 £513 - 19
Buckinghamshire - 2 £425 - 10
West Sussex - 1 £300 - 4
Infrastructure Automation
England

Infrastructure Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (4.35%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 9 (39.13%) Azure
2 6 (26.09%) AWS
3 5 (21.74%) PaaS
4 3 (13.04%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (13.04%) GitHub
5 2 (8.70%) GCP
5 2 (8.70%) OpenShift
6 1 (4.35%) IaaS
6 1 (4.35%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (21.74%) BGP
1 5 (21.74%) Ethernet VPN
1 5 (21.74%) OSPF
2 4 (17.39%) iSCSI
3 3 (13.04%) Network Security
3 3 (13.04%) VPN
3 3 (13.04%) WAN
4 2 (8.70%) DNS
4 2 (8.70%) Fibre Channel
4 2 (8.70%) Firewall
4 2 (8.70%) IPv6
4 2 (8.70%) SAN
4 2 (8.70%) Spanning Tree
4 2 (8.70%) TACACS
4 2 (8.70%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.35%) Apache Cassandra
1 1 (4.35%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (26.09%) GitLab
2 3 (13.04%) JIRA
General
1 6 (26.09%) Public Sector
2 4 (17.39%) Social Skills
2 4 (17.39%) Telecoms
3 3 (13.04%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (8.70%) Electronics
4 2 (8.70%) Finance
4 2 (8.70%) Manufacturing
4 2 (8.70%) Marketing
5 1 (4.35%) Police
Job Titles
1 5 (21.74%) Network Engineer
2 4 (17.39%) Azure Engineer
2 4 (17.39%) DevOps Engineer
2 4 (17.39%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (13.04%) Automation Engineer
3 3 (13.04%) Azure DevOps Engineer
3 3 (13.04%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) Architect
4 2 (8.70%) Cloud Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) Infrastructure Architect
4 2 (8.70%) VMware Architect
5 1 (4.35%) Applications Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) IT Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Kubernetes Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Migration Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (8.70%) YAML
2 1 (4.35%) ARM Templates
2 1 (4.35%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (4.35%) Jinja
2 1 (4.35%) JSON
2 1 (4.35%) Kafka
2 1 (4.35%) NETCONF
2 1 (4.35%) OpenTelemetry
2 1 (4.35%) RESTCONF
Miscellaneous
1 3 (13.04%) Cloud Native
1 3 (13.04%) Data Centre
1 3 (13.04%) Product Ownership
2 2 (8.70%) Onboarding
3 1 (4.35%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (4.35%) Legacy Applications
3 1 (4.35%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 10 (43.48%) Linux
2 5 (21.74%) Windows
3 2 (8.70%) AIX
3 2 (8.70%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (60.87%) CI/CD
2 9 (39.13%) DevOps
3 6 (26.09%) Configuration Management
4 5 (21.74%) Agile
4 5 (21.74%) Infrastructure as Code
5 4 (17.39%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 4 (17.39%) Infrastructure Management
5 4 (17.39%) SIEM
6 3 (13.04%) Containerisation
6 3 (13.04%) Continuous Improvement
6 3 (13.04%) Migration
6 3 (13.04%) Network Architecture
7 2 (8.70%) Benchmarking
7 2 (8.70%) Business Intelligence
7 2 (8.70%) Coaching
7 2 (8.70%) Digital Marketing
7 2 (8.70%) Observability
7 2 (8.70%) Problem-Solving
7 2 (8.70%) Programme Management
7 2 (8.70%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 5 (21.74%) PowerShell
1 5 (21.74%) Python
2 4 (17.39%) Bash
3 2 (8.70%) Go
Qualifications
1 12 (52.17%) Security Cleared
2 7 (30.43%) SC Cleared
3 5 (21.74%) DV Cleared
4 4 (17.39%) CCNP
4 4 (17.39%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (4.35%) JNCIP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.70%) NIST
System Software
1 5 (21.74%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (17.39%) NFS
2 4 (17.39%) VMware ESXi
2 4 (17.39%) VMware NSX
3 2 (8.70%) Ceph
3 2 (8.70%) Docker
3 2 (8.70%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 15 (65.22%) Ansible
2 11 (47.83%) Terraform
3 5 (21.74%) Kubernetes
4 4 (17.39%) Progress Chef
4 4 (17.39%) Puppet
4 4 (17.39%) vRealize
4 4 (17.39%) vRealize Orchestrator
5 2 (8.70%) Argo
5 2 (8.70%) Grafana
5 2 (8.70%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (8.70%) Prometheus
5 2 (8.70%) SCCM
6 1 (4.35%) Rancher
Vendors
1 10 (43.48%) VMware
2 6 (26.09%) Cisco
2 6 (26.09%) Microsoft
3 3 (13.04%) Mellanox
3 3 (13.04%) NVIDIA
4 2 (8.70%) Dell
4 2 (8.70%) Red Hat
4 2 (8.70%) SAP
5 1 (4.35%) Fortinet
5 1 (4.35%) Google
5 1 (4.35%) ServiceNow
5 1 (4.35%) Splunk