Infrastructure Automation Contracts in the South West

Infrastructure Automation
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 27 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 93 104 146
Rank change year-on-year +11 +42 0
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Automation 17 43 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.89% 1.46% 0.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.99% 1.75% 0.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 31 4
10th Percentile £500 £570 £536
25th Percentile £563 £585 £553
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £700 £575
Median % change year-on-year -17.86% +21.74% +6.98%
75th Percentile £625 - £619
90th Percentile £651 - £675
England median daily rate £500 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -9.09% -4.35% +5.50%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,709 2,464 2,968
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 89.62% 83.61% 88.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,007 1,581 2,100
10th Percentile £220 £263 £313
25th Percentile £363 £418 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.46% +3.91%
75th Percentile £613 £628 £650
90th Percentile £688 £700 £725
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 201 318 256
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.41 £21.50
25th Percentile £18.51 £37.91 £48.82
Median hourly rate £25.15 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -61.31% - +30.00%
75th Percentile £65.00 £72.50 £77.50
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £84.38
England median hourly rate £25.15 £40.33 £42.50
% change year-on-year -37.63% -5.12% +63.46%

Infrastructure Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Automation in the South West

Infrastructure Automation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure Automation in the South West

Infrastructure Automation
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Automation in the South West over the 6 months to 27 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Automation in the South West

Infrastructure Automation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Hourly rate trend for Infrastructure Automation in the South West

Infrastructure Automation
Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 West region over the 6 months to 27 July 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
Wiltshire +9 14 £588 -16.07% 1
Gloucestershire +23 1 £550 -2.22% 12
Bristol +3 1 £310 -52.31% 9
Dorset - 1 £475 - 1
Infrastructure Automation
England

Infrastructure Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 7 (41.18%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 5 (29.41%) AWS
2 4 (23.53%) Azure
3 3 (17.65%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (17.65%) GCP
4 2 (11.76%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (5.88%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.88%) Firewall
Development Applications
1 13 (76.47%) Jenkins
2 12 (70.59%) Bitbucket
3 11 (64.71%) Git
4 7 (41.18%) JIRA
5 4 (23.53%) GitLab
6 2 (11.76%) SonarQube
General
1 2 (11.76%) Aerospace
1 2 (11.76%) Finance
2 1 (5.88%) Military
2 1 (5.88%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (29.41%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 4 (23.53%) Automation Engineer
2 4 (23.53%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) DevSecOps Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Linux Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Software Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Platform Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Python Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Server Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (64.71%) REST
1 11 (64.71%) SOAP
2 2 (11.76%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.88%) CESG
1 1 (5.88%) PKI
1 1 (5.88%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 13 (76.47%) Linux
2 11 (64.71%) Windows
3 10 (58.82%) Windows Server
4 1 (5.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (5.88%) VMS
4 1 (5.88%) Windows 10
4 1 (5.88%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (5.88%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (76.47%) Deployment Automation
2 12 (70.59%) Agile
2 12 (70.59%) Configuration Management
3 11 (64.71%) Problem-Solving
3 11 (64.71%) Reverse Engineering
3 11 (64.71%) Validation
4 10 (58.82%) NsoIT
4 10 (58.82%) Service Management
4 10 (58.82%) System Testing
5 8 (47.06%) DevOps
6 6 (35.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 5 (29.41%) CI/CD
7 5 (29.41%) Containerisation
8 3 (17.65%) DevSecOps
8 3 (17.65%) Infrastructure as Code
8 3 (17.65%) Software Engineering
9 2 (11.76%) OWASP
9 2 (11.76%) SDLC
9 2 (11.76%) Secure Coding
9 2 (11.76%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 15 (88.24%) Python
2 14 (82.35%) Bash
2 14 (82.35%) PowerShell
3 1 (5.88%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 15 (88.24%) Security Cleared
2 14 (82.35%) SC Cleared
3 10 (58.82%) CCNP
3 10 (58.82%) Cisco Certification
3 10 (58.82%) OCA
3 10 (58.82%) Oracle Certification
3 10 (58.82%) RHCA
3 10 (58.82%) RHCE
3 10 (58.82%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 2 (11.76%) AWS Certification
4 2 (11.76%) DV Cleared
5 1 (5.88%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Azure Certification
5 1 (5.88%) CISSP
5 1 (5.88%) CompTIA Security+
5 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (5.88%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (5.88%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 1 (5.88%) JSP 440
2 1 (5.88%) NCSC
2 1 (5.88%) NIST
System Software
1 11 (64.71%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (23.53%) Docker
3 1 (5.88%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 16 (94.12%) Ansible
2 13 (76.47%) Puppet
3 11 (64.71%) Progress Chef
4 10 (58.82%) vCenter Server
5 4 (23.53%) Terraform
6 3 (17.65%) Grafana
6 3 (17.65%) Kubernetes
6 3 (17.65%) Prometheus
7 1 (5.88%) PowerCLI
7 1 (5.88%) SCCM
Vendors
1 11 (64.71%) VMware
2 10 (58.82%) Cisco
2 10 (58.82%) Oracle
3 7 (41.18%) Atlassian
4 3 (17.65%) Splunk
5 1 (5.88%) Microsoft