Infrastructure Automation Contracts in South Wales

Infrastructure Automation
Wales > South Wales

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South Wales 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 31 - 54
Rank change year-on-year - - +19
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Automation 3 0 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Wales 1.23% - 0.77%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.38% - 0.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - £475
Median % change year-on-year - - -13.64%
75th Percentile - - £494
90th Percentile - - £498
Wales median daily rate - - £475
% change year-on-year - - -13.64%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South Wales

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 South Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 218 269 461
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Wales 89.34% 80.06% 88.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 157 190 351
10th Percentile £185 £160 £190
25th Percentile £285 £356 £330
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -17.50% +5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £530 £588 £575
90th Percentile £630 £668 £650
Wales median daily rate £420 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -16.00% +5.26% -2.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 22 23
10th Percentile £15.30 £11.21 £16.37
25th Percentile £19.09 £15.35 £16.98
Median hourly rate £20.62 £22.68 £18.14
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +25.03% -16.12%
75th Percentile £41.25 £52.31 £22.11
90th Percentile £45.00 £87.62 £49.75
Wales median hourly rate £21.01 £22.50 £18.82
% change year-on-year -6.62% +19.59% -16.38%

Infrastructure Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Automation in South Wales

Infrastructure Automation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South Wales

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

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure Automation in South Wales

Infrastructure Automation
Contract Job Locations in South Wales

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 Wales 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
Cardiff - 3 - - 4
Infrastructure Automation
Wales

Infrastructure Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Wales 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 3 (100.00%) Apache
1 3 (100.00%) JBoss
1 3 (100.00%) nginx
1 3 (100.00%) WebLogic
1 3 (100.00%) WebLogic Portal
1 3 (100.00%) WebSphere
2 1 (33.33%) Tomcat
2 1 (33.33%) WebSphere Application Server
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) OpenShift
2 1 (33.33%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) GitHub
2 1 (33.33%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) SSL
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) JIRA
General
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Automation Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) JSON
1 1 (33.33%) JWT
1 1 (33.33%) Middleware
1 1 (33.33%) OAuth
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) API Management
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 3 (100.00%) Microservices
2 1 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Identity Management
2 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) Requirements Gathering
2 1 (33.33%) Roadmaps
2 1 (33.33%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Java
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (100.00%) QA
2 1 (33.33%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) Docker
1 3 (100.00%) LXC
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Ansible
1 3 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (33.33%) Oracle Identity Management
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Oracle
1 3 (100.00%) Red Hat
2 1 (33.33%) IBM