Infrastructure Automation Contract Job Trends in Tyne and Wear

Infrastructure Automation
North East > Tyne and Wear

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear requiring Infrastructure Automation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 65 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Automation 4 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Tyne and Wear 0.65% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.81% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £360 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £373 - -
75th Percentile £416 - -
90th Percentile £467 - -
North East median daily rate £373 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Tyne and Wear

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 Tyne and Wear.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 493 196 208
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 80.16% 83.76% 87.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 308 141 96
10th Percentile £313 £200 £314
25th Percentile £400 £350 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £490
Median % change year-on-year - -8.16% -10.91%
75th Percentile £588 £538 £588
90th Percentile £650 £625 £634
North East median daily rate £450 £450 £500
% change year-on-year - -10.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 60 9 39
10th Percentile £17.00 £11.60 £11.50
25th Percentile £48.49 £13.37 £12.13
Median hourly rate £66.25 £17.00 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year +289.71% -12.82% -1.27%
75th Percentile £70.00 £19.97 £50.00
90th Percentile - £26.90 £69.00
North East median hourly rate £68.47 £17.00 £19.50
% change year-on-year +302.76% -12.82% -2.50%

Infrastructure Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Tyne and Wear

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

Infrastructure Automation job vacancy trend in Tyne and Wear

Infrastructure Automation
Daily Rate Trend in Tyne and Wear

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Tyne and Wear citing Infrastructure Automation.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Tyne and Wear citing Infrastructure Automation

Infrastructure Automation
Daily Rate Histogram in Tyne and Wear

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Automation in Tyne and Wear over the 6 months to 26 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Automation in Tyne and Wear

Infrastructure Automation
Contract Job Locations in Tyne and Wear

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 Tyne and Wear region over the 6 months to 26 June 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
Newcastle upon Tyne - 4 £373 - 3
Infrastructure Automation
North East

Infrastructure Automation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Tyne and Wear 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 3 (75.00%) Apache
1 3 (75.00%) Apache Airflow
1 3 (75.00%) Apache Spark
1 3 (75.00%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) AWS
Development Applications
1 3 (75.00%) GitLab
General
1 4 (100.00%) Public Sector
2 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Developer
1 3 (75.00%) Python Developer
1 3 (75.00%) Software Developer
2 1 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) DevOps Platform Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Platform Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (100.00%) DevOps
1 4 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (75.00%) Agile
2 3 (75.00%) Analytics
2 3 (75.00%) Cloud Security
2 3 (75.00%) Collaborative Engineering
2 3 (75.00%) Containerisation
2 3 (75.00%) Data Engineering
2 3 (75.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (75.00%) Vulnerability Management
3 1 (25.00%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (75.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 3 (75.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (100.00%) Terraform
2 1 (25.00%) Ansible
2 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Trend Micro