Infrastructure Automation Contract Job Trends in Southampton

Infrastructure Automation
Hampshire > Southampton

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

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 19 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Automation 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Southampton 1.57% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.85% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 - -
Hampshire median daily rate £475 £582 £700
% change year-on-year -18.38% -16.86% +27.27%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Southampton

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 Southampton.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 108 116 148
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Southampton 85.04% 69.88% 84.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 71 77 104
10th Percentile £170 £200 £263
25th Percentile £320 £356 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £594 £634 £620
90th Percentile £688 £650 £650
Hampshire median daily rate £525 £575 £525
% change year-on-year -8.70% +9.52% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 6 6
10th Percentile £36.90 £46.00 £18.75
25th Percentile £58.50 - £22.69
Median hourly rate £71.50 £80.00 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -10.63% +196.30% +47.38%
75th Percentile £73.50 - £32.63
90th Percentile £74.40 - £36.63
Hampshire median hourly rate £25.15 £57.35 £55.00
% change year-on-year -56.15% +4.27% +30.49%

Infrastructure Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Southampton

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Automation in Southampton

Infrastructure Automation
Daily Rate Trend in Southampton

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Southampton citing Infrastructure Automation

Infrastructure Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Southampton 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon ECR
1 1 (50.00%) GitHub
1 1 (50.00%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall
1 1 (50.00%) HTTPS
1 1 (50.00%) SSL
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Linux/Unix DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Ubuntu Engineer
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (50.00%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Proactive Maintenance
2 1 (50.00%) Proactive Monitoring
2 1 (50.00%) RBAC
2 1 (50.00%) Secure Coding
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Ansible
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
2 1 (50.00%) Podman
2 1 (50.00%) Rsyslog
2 1 (50.00%) SCOM
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Red Hat