Infrastructure Automation Contract Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Infrastructure Automation
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Infrastructure Automation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 120 113 134
Rank change year-on-year -7 +21 +35
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Automation 7 9 5
As % of all contract jobs in the Thames Valley 0.34% 0.45% 0.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.38% 0.50% 0.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 9 2
10th Percentile £406 £409 £621
25th Percentile £516 £413 £634
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £663
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -20.75% +4.74%
75th Percentile £584 £550 £684
90th Percentile £594 £596 £694
South East median daily rate £538 £525 £675
% change year-on-year +2.38% -22.22% +11.11%

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 1,826 1,786 2,271
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 87.70% 88.94% 91.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,191 1,046 1,459
10th Percentile £268 £293 £213
25th Percentile £400 £409 £396
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -
75th Percentile £588 £638 £613
90th Percentile £650 £688 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £515 £523
% change year-on-year -2.91% -1.44% +1.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 138 54 104
10th Percentile £15.01 £18.92 £18.95
25th Percentile £17.63 £29.75 £25.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £56.75 £49.87
Median % change year-on-year -55.68% +13.80% +137.45%
75th Percentile £57.25 £63.00 £64.63
90th Percentile £89.63 £69.03 £74.37
South East median hourly rate £22.27 £50.00 £53.94
% change year-on-year -55.47% -7.31% +43.85%

Infrastructure Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Infrastructure Automation job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

Infrastructure Automation
Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Infrastructure Automation.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Infrastructure Automation

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 16 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Automation in the Thames Valley

Infrastructure Automation
Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Infrastructure Automation.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Infrastructure Automation

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 16 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
Buckinghamshire +6 3 £550 +29.41% 4
Berkshire -13 2 £575 +6.98% 1
Oxfordshire - 2 £413 -
Infrastructure Automation
South East

Infrastructure Automation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 5 (71.43%) GitHub
2 4 (57.14%) Azure
3 3 (42.86%) AWS
4 2 (28.57%) Amazon EC2
4 2 (28.57%) Amazon S3
4 2 (28.57%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (28.57%) AWS CodePipeline
4 2 (28.57%) GitHub Actions
4 2 (28.57%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 1 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (14.29%) GCP
5 1 (14.29%) IaaS
5 1 (14.29%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 3 (42.86%) DNS
2 1 (14.29%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (42.86%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Cloud Engineer
2 3 (42.86%) Azure Engineer
3 2 (28.57%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (28.57%) Technical Specialist
4 1 (14.29%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Senior
4 1 (14.29%) Senior Cloud Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) VMware Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) PKI
2 2 (28.57%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (14.29%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 3 (42.86%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) CI/CD
1 6 (85.71%) Infrastructure as Code
2 5 (71.43%) Incident Response
3 4 (57.14%) Containerisation
3 4 (57.14%) Continuous Improvement
3 4 (57.14%) DevOps
3 4 (57.14%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (42.86%) AI
4 3 (42.86%) AI Transformation
5 2 (28.57%) Agile
5 2 (28.57%) Business Continuity
5 2 (28.57%) Data Protection
5 2 (28.57%) Deployment Automation
5 2 (28.57%) Disaster Recovery
5 2 (28.57%) High Availability
5 2 (28.57%) Project Management
5 2 (28.57%) Resilience Testing
5 2 (28.57%) Technical Analysis
6 1 (14.29%) Cloud Operations
6 1 (14.29%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 5 (71.43%) Python
2 4 (57.14%) PowerShell
3 1 (14.29%) Bash
Qualifications
1 4 (57.14%) Security Cleared
2 3 (42.86%) DV Cleared
3 2 (28.57%) AWS Certification
4 1 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (14.29%) Degree
4 1 (14.29%) VCAP
4 1 (14.29%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (28.57%) NIST
System Software
1 4 (57.14%) Docker
2 1 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (14.29%) VMware NSX
2 1 (14.29%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 4 (57.14%) Ansible
2 3 (42.86%) Podman
2 3 (42.86%) Proxmox
2 3 (42.86%) Terraform
3 1 (14.29%) Kubernetes
3 1 (14.29%) vRealize
3 1 (14.29%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Zscaler
2 1 (14.29%) VMware