Infrastructure Automation Contract Job Trends in South Wales

Infrastructure Automation
Wales > South Wales

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South Wales requiring Infrastructure Automation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 41 - 46
Rank change year-on-year - - +17
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Automation 1 0 2
As % of all contract jobs in South Wales 0.29% - 0.51%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.34% - 0.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £525 - £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - £475
75th Percentile £575 - £488
90th Percentile - - -
Wales median daily rate £575 - £475

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 294 305 356
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Wales 84.24% 81.12% 89.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 204 162 273
10th Percentile £192 £160 £176
25th Percentile £266 £211 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £419 £450
Median % change year-on-year -4.48% -6.94% -10.00%
75th Percentile £494 £550 £575
90th Percentile £613 £686 £649
Wales median daily rate £400 £425 £438
% change year-on-year -5.88% -2.86% -12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 45 25
10th Percentile £13.08 £15.48 £17.40
25th Percentile £14.23 £20.12 £21.34
Median hourly rate £17.99 £25.00 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.05% -3.85% +30.29%
75th Percentile £20.75 £40.00 £52.50
90th Percentile £29.82 £49.50 £55.25
Wales median hourly rate £19.60 £24.33 £26.00
% change year-on-year -19.46% -6.42% +30.59%

Infrastructure Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

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

Infrastructure Automation job vacancy trend in South Wales

Infrastructure Automation
Daily Rate Trend in South Wales

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Wales citing Infrastructure Automation

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 15 November 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
Newport - 1 £550 - 1
Infrastructure Automation
Wales

Infrastructure Automation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Wales 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) DHCP
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
General
1 1 (100.00%) Aerospace
1 1 (100.00%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server 2016
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) CompTIA Security+
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) Hyper-V
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Veeam
1 1 (100.00%) VMware