Infrastructure Automation Contracts in the Thames Valley

Infrastructure Automation
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 88 140 144
Rank change year-on-year +52 +4 +9
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Automation 14 5 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.93% 0.19% 0.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.00% 0.21% 0.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 2 4
10th Percentile £387 £506 £455
25th Percentile £413 £521 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £548 £563
Median % change year-on-year -8.68% -2.67% -2.17%
75th Percentile £550 £574 £631
90th Percentile £589 £590 £665
South East median daily rate £500 £548 £550
% change year-on-year -8.68% -0.45% -4.35%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,403 2,340 2,682
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 92.85% 87.12% 91.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 851 1,306 1,860
10th Percentile £300 £213 £320
25th Percentile £413 £369 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.26%
75th Percentile £605 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £508
% change year-on-year - -1.53% +1.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 58 170 62
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.30 £18.60
25th Percentile £14.54 £19.48 £24.86
Median hourly rate £32.05 £45.00 £51.25
Median % change year-on-year -28.78% -12.20% +192.86%
75th Percentile £62.44 £64.57 £66.21
90th Percentile £78.03 £85.65 £79.19
South East median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -41.05% -5.00% +122.22%

Infrastructure Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Automation in the Thames Valley

Infrastructure Automation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Infrastructure Automation in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure Automation in the Thames Valley

Infrastructure Automation
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Automation in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Automation in the Thames Valley

Infrastructure Automation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Infrastructure Automation in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for Infrastructure Automation in the Thames Valley

Infrastructure Automation
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Berkshire +40 12 £513 +3.54% 12
Buckinghamshire - 2 £425 - 10
Infrastructure Automation
South East

Infrastructure Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 6 (42.86%) Azure
2 5 (35.71%) AWS
3 4 (28.57%) PaaS
4 2 (14.29%) GCP
4 2 (14.29%) GitHub
4 2 (14.29%) OpenShift
5 1 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (7.14%) IaaS
5 1 (7.14%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (21.43%) iSCSI
2 2 (14.29%) BGP
2 2 (14.29%) DNS
2 2 (14.29%) Ethernet VPN
2 2 (14.29%) Fibre Channel
2 2 (14.29%) Firewall
2 2 (14.29%) IPv6
2 2 (14.29%) OSPF
2 2 (14.29%) SAN
2 2 (14.29%) Spanning Tree
2 2 (14.29%) TACACS
2 2 (14.29%) VSAN
Development Applications
1 5 (35.71%) GitLab
2 2 (14.29%) JIRA
General
1 4 (28.57%) Social Skills
1 4 (28.57%) Telecoms
2 3 (21.43%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (21.43%) Public Sector
3 2 (14.29%) Electronics
3 2 (14.29%) Finance
3 2 (14.29%) Manufacturing
3 2 (14.29%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 4 (28.57%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (21.43%) Automation Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Network Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Applications Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Architect
4 1 (7.14%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Azure Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Infrastructure Architect
4 1 (7.14%) IT Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Migration Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) VMware Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (14.29%) YAML
2 1 (7.14%) ARM Templates
2 1 (7.14%) Jinja
2 1 (7.14%) JSON
2 1 (7.14%) NETCONF
2 1 (7.14%) RESTCONF
Miscellaneous
1 3 (21.43%) Cloud Native
1 3 (21.43%) Product Ownership
2 2 (14.29%) Onboarding
3 1 (7.14%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 6 (42.86%) Linux
2 5 (35.71%) Windows
3 2 (14.29%) AIX
3 2 (14.29%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (57.14%) CI/CD
2 6 (42.86%) Configuration Management
2 6 (42.86%) DevOps
3 4 (28.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 4 (28.57%) Infrastructure Management
4 3 (21.43%) Continuous Improvement
4 3 (21.43%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (21.43%) Migration
4 3 (21.43%) SIEM
5 2 (14.29%) Agile
5 2 (14.29%) Business Intelligence
5 2 (14.29%) Coaching
5 2 (14.29%) Digital Marketing
5 2 (14.29%) Observability
5 2 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (14.29%) Programme Management
5 2 (14.29%) Runbook
6 1 (7.14%) Containerisation
6 1 (7.14%) Database Migration
6 1 (7.14%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 4 (28.57%) Python
2 2 (14.29%) Bash
2 2 (14.29%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (28.57%) SC Cleared
1 4 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 1 (7.14%) CCNP
2 1 (7.14%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (7.14%) JNCIP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (14.29%) NIST
System Software
1 4 (28.57%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (21.43%) NFS
2 3 (21.43%) VMware ESXi
2 3 (21.43%) VMware NSX
3 2 (14.29%) Ceph
3 2 (14.29%) Docker
3 2 (14.29%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 8 (57.14%) Ansible
2 4 (28.57%) Progress Chef
2 4 (28.57%) Puppet
2 4 (28.57%) Terraform
3 3 (21.43%) Kubernetes
3 3 (21.43%) vRealize
3 3 (21.43%) vRealize Orchestrator
4 2 (14.29%) Argo
4 2 (14.29%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (14.29%) SCCM
5 1 (7.14%) Grafana
5 1 (7.14%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 8 (57.14%) VMware
2 4 (28.57%) Microsoft
3 3 (21.43%) Cisco
4 2 (14.29%) Dell
4 2 (14.29%) Red Hat
4 2 (14.29%) SAP
5 1 (7.14%) Fortinet
5 1 (7.14%) Google