Infrastructure Automation Contract Job Trends in Surrey

Infrastructure Automation
South East > Surrey

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Surrey requiring Infrastructure Automation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 53 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Automation 9 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Surrey 1.52% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.74% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 9 0 0
10th Percentile £413 - -
25th Percentile £450 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 - -
75th Percentile £508 - -
90th Percentile £610 - -
South East median daily rate £566 £450 £582
% change year-on-year +25.78% -22.68% -6.88%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Surrey

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 Surrey.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 517 304 484
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Surrey 87.04% 94.12% 85.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 332 216 355
10th Percentile £200 £204 £203
25th Percentile £354 £300 £302
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £463
Median % change year-on-year - +2.70% -11.90%
75th Percentile £550 £550 £563
90th Percentile £650 £597 £678
South East median daily rate £525 £500 £517
% change year-on-year +5.00% -3.34% -0.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 81 26 51
10th Percentile £16.33 £14.44 £11.71
25th Percentile £54.37 £24.78 £18.35
Median hourly rate £67.47 £28.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +140.96% -37.78% -
75th Percentile £70.00 £53.75 £71.90
90th Percentile £78.75 £66.33 £76.86
South East median hourly rate £57.00 £21.32 £57.35
% change year-on-year +167.35% -62.82% +14.70%

Infrastructure Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Surrey

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

Infrastructure Automation job vacancy trend in Surrey

Infrastructure Automation
Daily Rate Trend in Surrey

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

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

Infrastructure Automation
Daily Rate Histogram in Surrey

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Automation in Surrey over the 6 months to 11 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Automation in Surrey

Infrastructure Automation
Contract Job Locations in Surrey

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 Surrey region over the 6 months to 11 August 2026. 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
Staines - 5 £475 -
Woking - 1 £700 -
Infrastructure Automation
South East

Infrastructure Automation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Surrey 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:

Cloud Services
1 8 (88.89%) AWS
2 7 (77.78%) Azure
2 7 (77.78%) GCP
3 2 (22.22%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (11.11%) Amazon EventBridge
4 1 (11.11%) Amazon SQS
4 1 (11.11%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (11.11%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (22.22%) DNS
1 2 (22.22%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (55.56%) PostgreSQL
1 5 (55.56%) Relational Database
2 1 (11.11%) DynamoDB
2 1 (11.11%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 6 (66.67%) Git
2 1 (11.11%) Bitbucket
General
1 6 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 5 (55.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 5 (55.56%) Public Sector
3 2 (22.22%) Finance
3 2 (22.22%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 5 (55.56%) Lead
1 5 (55.56%) Technical Leader
2 2 (22.22%) Architect
2 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Python Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Test Automation Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (55.56%) CSS
1 5 (55.56%) Django
1 5 (55.56%) HTML
1 5 (55.56%) OAuth
1 5 (55.56%) OAuth2
1 5 (55.56%) OpenID
1 5 (55.56%) React
1 5 (55.56%) RESTful
2 1 (11.11%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 5 (55.56%) Cloud Native
2 2 (22.22%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (88.89%) CI/CD
2 7 (77.78%) DevOps
3 6 (66.67%) Agile
3 6 (66.67%) Microservices
3 6 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (66.67%) Test Automation
4 5 (55.56%) Analytics
4 5 (55.56%) API Development
4 5 (55.56%) Application Security
4 5 (55.56%) Code Quality
4 5 (55.56%) Containerisation
4 5 (55.56%) Digital Transformation Programme
4 5 (55.56%) Mentoring
4 5 (55.56%) Performance Optimisation
4 5 (55.56%) Stakeholder Management
4 5 (55.56%) Technical Leadership
4 5 (55.56%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
5 3 (33.33%) Computer Science
5 3 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
6 2 (22.22%) Architecture Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 6 (66.67%) JavaScript
1 6 (66.67%) Python
2 1 (11.11%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (33.33%) Degree
1 3 (33.33%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (55.56%) Accessibility
1 5 (55.56%) QA
System Software
1 7 (77.78%) Docker
2 2 (22.22%) Hyper-V
2 2 (22.22%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (77.78%) Kubernetes
2 3 (33.33%) Ansible
2 3 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (22.22%) VMware