Infrastructure Automation Contract Job Trends in South Yorkshire

Infrastructure Automation
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South Yorkshire requiring Infrastructure Automation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 48 41 -
Rank change year-on-year -7 - -
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Automation 44 4 0
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 5.74% 1.19% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.00% 1.30% -
Number of daily rates quoted 32 4 0
10th Percentile £406 £467 -
25th Percentile £425 £488 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £541 -
Median % change year-on-year -9.84% - -
75th Percentile £600 £593 -
90th Percentile £865 £611 -
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £413 £556
% change year-on-year +21.21% -25.84% +30.88%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 733 308 423
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 95.69% 91.94% 95.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 489 178 260
10th Percentile £316 £213 £375
25th Percentile £400 £400 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £515 £539
Median % change year-on-year -6.80% -4.41% +2.62%
75th Percentile £538 £595 £625
90th Percentile £638 £675 £720
Yorkshire median daily rate £482 £477 £500
% change year-on-year +1.05% -4.60% -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 4 6
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.79 £19.25
25th Percentile £14.71 £14.35 £20.31
Median hourly rate £20.08 £18.10 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +10.94% -19.58% +52.54%
75th Percentile £25.15 £20.38 £29.38
90th Percentile - £21.05 £40.63
Yorkshire median hourly rate £25.15 £22.50 £21.31
% change year-on-year +11.78% +5.58% +1.48%

Infrastructure Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Infrastructure Automation job vacancy trend in South Yorkshire

Infrastructure Automation
Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

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

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

Infrastructure Automation
Daily Rate Histogram in South Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Automation in South Yorkshire over the 6 months to 18 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Automation in South Yorkshire

Infrastructure Automation
Contract Job Locations in South Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 18 December 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
Sheffield -11 41 £488 -9.84% 3
Doncaster - 1 - - 1
Infrastructure Automation
Yorkshire

Infrastructure Automation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Yorkshire 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 1 (2.27%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 29 (65.91%) AWS
1 29 (65.91%) GCP
2 19 (43.18%) Serverless
3 7 (15.91%) OpenShift
4 6 (13.64%) Azure
5 3 (6.82%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (4.55%) AWS KMS
6 2 (4.55%) GitHub
6 2 (4.55%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (2.27%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (2.27%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 8 (18.18%) Firewall
2 5 (11.36%) DNS
3 4 (9.09%) NAS
3 4 (9.09%) SAN
4 2 (4.55%) TCP/IP
5 1 (2.27%) Fibre Channel
5 1 (2.27%) iSCSI
5 1 (2.27%) VLAN
5 1 (2.27%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (43.18%) NoSQL
2 6 (13.64%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (4.55%) MongoDB
4 1 (2.27%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 25 (56.82%) Jenkins
2 23 (52.27%) GitLab
3 18 (40.91%) Liquibase
4 6 (13.64%) Git
5 2 (4.55%) CircleCI
5 2 (4.55%) Jaeger
5 2 (4.55%) JIRA
General
1 30 (68.18%) Social Skills
2 26 (59.09%) Finance
3 21 (47.73%) Financial Institution
4 20 (45.45%) Banking
5 4 (9.09%) Public Sector
6 2 (4.55%) Law
7 1 (2.27%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 12 (27.27%) DevOps Engineer
2 11 (25.00%) Senior
2 11 (25.00%) Software Engineer
3 10 (22.73%) Senior Software Engineer
4 9 (20.45%) Cloud Engineer
5 6 (13.64%) GCP Engineer
6 4 (9.09%) Administrator
6 4 (9.09%) Architect
6 4 (9.09%) Cloud Software Engineer
6 4 (9.09%) Platform Architect
6 4 (9.09%) Senior Cloud Engineer
6 4 (9.09%) Senior DevOps
6 4 (9.09%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 4 (9.09%) VMWare Administrator
7 3 (6.82%) AWS Engineer
7 3 (6.82%) AWS Software Engineer
7 3 (6.82%) Migration Specialist
7 3 (6.82%) Python Engineer
7 3 (6.82%) Server Migration Specialist
7 3 (6.82%) Server Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (45.45%) REST
2 19 (43.18%) Elastic Stack
2 19 (43.18%) RESTful
3 5 (11.36%) Middleware
4 4 (9.09%) Kafka
5 2 (4.55%) OpenTelemetry
5 2 (4.55%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 22 (50.00%) Public Cloud
2 20 (45.45%) Distributed Systems
3 19 (43.18%) Cloud Native
4 4 (9.09%) Management Information System
5 3 (6.82%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (4.55%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (4.55%) Enterprise Storage
6 2 (4.55%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (2.27%) Onboarding
7 1 (2.27%) Private Cloud
7 1 (2.27%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 29 (65.91%) Linux
2 6 (13.64%) VMS
2 6 (13.64%) Windows
3 3 (6.82%) Windows Server
4 2 (4.55%) Unix
5 1 (2.27%) CentOS
5 1 (2.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (2.27%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (77.27%) DevOps
2 29 (65.91%) Containerisation
3 28 (63.64%) CI/CD
4 26 (59.09%) Cybersecurity
5 25 (56.82%) High Availability
6 23 (52.27%) Infrastructure as Code
7 22 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
8 21 (47.73%) Agile
8 21 (47.73%) Microservices
9 20 (45.45%) Computer Science
9 20 (45.45%) Data Security
10 18 (40.91%) Cost Optimisation
10 18 (40.91%) Software Engineering
11 17 (38.64%) Continuous Delivery
11 17 (38.64%) Continuous Integration
11 17 (38.64%) Cryptography
11 17 (38.64%) Non-Functional Testing
12 14 (31.82%) Change Management
13 12 (27.27%) Data Encryption
13 12 (27.27%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 34 (77.27%) Python
2 23 (52.27%) Go
3 12 (27.27%) Java
4 10 (22.73%) PowerShell
5 9 (20.45%) Bash
6 8 (18.18%) SQL
7 7 (15.91%) Shell Script
8 2 (4.55%) Rust
Qualifications
1 20 (45.45%) Degree
2 18 (40.91%) Computer Science Degree
3 16 (36.36%) Master's Degree
4 10 (22.73%) AWS Certification
5 7 (15.91%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 4 (9.09%) OCP
6 4 (9.09%) Oracle Certification
7 3 (6.82%) AWS Certified Developer
7 3 (6.82%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 3 (6.82%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.55%) SLA
System Software
1 21 (47.73%) Docker
2 8 (18.18%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (11.36%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (6.82%) Active Directory
4 3 (6.82%) VMware NSX
4 3 (6.82%) vSphere
5 1 (2.27%) Ceph
5 1 (2.27%) Hyper-V
5 1 (2.27%) KVM
5 1 (2.27%) NFS
5 1 (2.27%) QEMU
5 1 (2.27%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 37 (84.09%) Ansible
2 33 (75.00%) Terraform
3 29 (65.91%) Kubernetes
4 23 (52.27%) Grafana
5 21 (47.73%) Prometheus
6 3 (6.82%) vCenter Server
6 3 (6.82%) vRealize
7 2 (4.55%) Kiali
8 1 (2.27%) Argo
Vendors
1 23 (52.27%) Splunk
2 13 (29.55%) Google
3 9 (20.45%) VMware
4 6 (13.64%) Microsoft
5 5 (11.36%) Pure Storage
6 4 (9.09%) Dell
7 3 (6.82%) F5
8 2 (4.55%) Oracle
8 2 (4.55%) ServiceNow
9 1 (2.27%) AppDynamics
9 1 (2.27%) Citrix