Infrastructure Automation Contracts in the UK excluding London

Infrastructure Automation
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 246 321 345
Rank change year-on-year +75 +24 +76
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Automation 90 78 118
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.70% 0.38% 0.49%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.78% 0.44% 0.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 64 50 83
10th Percentile £388 £462 £431
25th Percentile £444 £499 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £624 £525
Median % change year-on-year -15.83% +18.81% -
75th Percentile £588 £700 £575
90th Percentile £638 £722 £610
UK median daily rate £525 £625 £550
% change year-on-year -16.00% +13.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 0
Median hourly rate - £71.87 -
UK median hourly rate - £71.87 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,543 17,602 21,544
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.42% 84.74% 89.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,249 10,520 14,947
10th Percentile £235 £250 £255
25th Percentile £375 £380 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £662 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 825 2,048 1,307
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.33 £11.00
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.28 £16.00
Median hourly rate £27.50 £37.34 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.35% +3.72% +80.00%
75th Percentile £64.50 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £72.98
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Infrastructure Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Infrastructure Automation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Automation in the UK excluding London

Infrastructure Automation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Infrastructure Automation in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure Automation in the UK excluding London

Infrastructure Automation
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Automation in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Automation in the UK excluding London

Infrastructure Automation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Infrastructure Automation in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Infrastructure Automation in the UK excluding London

Infrastructure Automation
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London 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
North of England +27 28 £537 +11.64% 102
South East +60 23 £500 -8.68% 114
South West +35 20 £575 -17.86% 58
Yorkshire +25 19 £475 +3.83% 34
Scotland +5 9 £486 -29.87% 21
Midlands +26 6 £450 -28.00% 70
North West +5 6 £625 +29.94% 57
West Midlands +18 5 £450 - 36
Wales - 3 - - 8
North East - 3 £565 - 11
East of England - 3 £500 - 54
East Midlands +10 1 £700 +12.00% 29
Infrastructure Automation
UK

Infrastructure Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Application Platforms
1 8 (8.89%) Confluence
2 4 (4.44%) nginx
3 3 (3.33%) Apache
3 3 (3.33%) JBoss
3 3 (3.33%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (3.33%) SharePoint
3 3 (3.33%) WebLogic
3 3 (3.33%) WebLogic Portal
3 3 (3.33%) WebSphere
4 1 (1.11%) SAS
4 1 (1.11%) Tomcat
4 1 (1.11%) WebSphere Application Server
Business Applications
1 1 (1.11%) Distributed Ledger
Cloud Services
1 28 (31.11%) Azure
2 26 (28.89%) AWS
3 9 (10.00%) GCP
3 9 (10.00%) OpenShift
4 8 (8.89%) Azure DevOps
5 7 (7.78%) GitHub
6 6 (6.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 5 (5.56%) AWS CloudFormation
7 5 (5.56%) AWS Lambda
7 5 (5.56%) PaaS
7 5 (5.56%) Serverless
8 4 (4.44%) Amazon S3
8 4 (4.44%) Entra ID
8 4 (4.44%) Microsoft 365
8 4 (4.44%) SaaS
9 3 (3.33%) Amazon EC2
9 3 (3.33%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 3 (3.33%) GitHub Actions
9 3 (3.33%) OCI
9 3 (3.33%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 7 (7.78%) SAN
2 5 (5.56%) BGP
2 5 (5.56%) DNS
2 5 (5.56%) Ethernet VPN
2 5 (5.56%) Firewall
2 5 (5.56%) iSCSI
2 5 (5.56%) OSPF
3 3 (3.33%) Fibre Channel
3 3 (3.33%) NAS
3 3 (3.33%) Network Security
3 3 (3.33%) Skype
3 3 (3.33%) VPN
3 3 (3.33%) WAN
4 2 (2.22%) IPv6
4 2 (2.22%) Spanning Tree
4 2 (2.22%) SSL
4 2 (2.22%) TACACS
4 2 (2.22%) VSAN
5 1 (1.11%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (8.89%) Oracle Database
2 3 (3.33%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (2.22%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.11%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (1.11%) Big Data
4 1 (1.11%) BigQuery
4 1 (1.11%) DB2
4 1 (1.11%) DynamoDB
4 1 (1.11%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (1.11%) InfluxDB
4 1 (1.11%) MongoDB
4 1 (1.11%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 35 (38.89%) Jenkins
2 19 (21.11%) GitLab
3 16 (17.78%) Git
4 14 (15.56%) Bitbucket
5 12 (13.33%) JIRA
6 2 (2.22%) Selenium
6 2 (2.22%) TeamCity
7 1 (1.11%) Cucumber
7 1 (1.11%) TestNG
7 1 (1.11%) Visual Studio
General
1 23 (25.56%) Social Skills
2 15 (16.67%) Finance
3 10 (11.11%) Public Sector
4 7 (7.78%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (5.56%) Banking
5 5 (5.56%) Legal
5 5 (5.56%) Telecoms
6 3 (3.33%) Electronics
6 3 (3.33%) Manufacturing
6 3 (3.33%) Marketing
7 2 (2.22%) Military
8 1 (1.11%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.11%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.11%) Police
8 1 (1.11%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 19 (21.11%) DevOps Engineer
2 17 (18.89%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 16 (17.78%) Automation Engineer
4 8 (8.89%) Azure Engineer
5 7 (7.78%) Architect
5 7 (7.78%) Senior
6 6 (6.67%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 6 (6.67%) Database Engineer
6 6 (6.67%) Oracle Database Engineer
7 5 (5.56%) Cloud Engineer
7 5 (5.56%) Developer
7 5 (5.56%) Network Engineer
8 4 (4.44%) Platform Engineer
8 4 (4.44%) Python Engineer
9 3 (3.33%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
9 3 (3.33%) Lead
9 3 (3.33%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
9 3 (3.33%) Microsoft Engineer
9 3 (3.33%) Software Engineer
9 3 (3.33%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (16.67%) REST
2 12 (13.33%) SOAP
3 7 (7.78%) .NET
4 5 (5.56%) Kafka
4 5 (5.56%) Middleware
5 4 (4.44%) Elastic Stack
5 4 (4.44%) RESTful
6 2 (2.22%) ARM Templates
6 2 (2.22%) AWS CDK
6 2 (2.22%) JSON
6 2 (2.22%) pytest
6 2 (2.22%) YAML
7 1 (1.11%) .NET Framework
7 1 (1.11%) AngularJS
7 1 (1.11%) ASP.NET Web API
7 1 (1.11%) Django
7 1 (1.11%) Entity Framework
7 1 (1.11%) Flask
7 1 (1.11%) Gherkin
7 1 (1.11%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 7 (7.78%) Cloud Native
2 5 (5.56%) Hybrid Cloud
2 5 (5.56%) Product Ownership
2 5 (5.56%) Public Cloud
3 3 (3.33%) Data Centre
3 3 (3.33%) Data Protection Act
3 3 (3.33%) Management Information System
3 3 (3.33%) Onboarding
4 2 (2.22%) Enterprise Storage
5 1 (1.11%) Blockchain
5 1 (1.11%) CESG
5 1 (1.11%) Client/Server
5 1 (1.11%) EMC VMAX
5 1 (1.11%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.11%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (1.11%) NHS
5 1 (1.11%) PKI
5 1 (1.11%) Private Cloud
5 1 (1.11%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.11%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 38 (42.22%) Linux
2 24 (26.67%) Windows
3 16 (17.78%) Windows Server
4 7 (7.78%) Unix
5 6 (6.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (4.44%) AIX
7 2 (2.22%) Data ONTAP
8 1 (1.11%) VMS
8 1 (1.11%) Windows 10
8 1 (1.11%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (1.11%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (55.56%) CI/CD
2 37 (41.11%) DevOps
3 29 (32.22%) Agile
3 29 (32.22%) Problem-Solving
4 23 (25.56%) Configuration Management
5 20 (22.22%) Containerisation
5 20 (22.22%) Infrastructure as Code
6 19 (21.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 17 (18.89%) Deployment Automation
8 12 (13.33%) Migration
8 12 (13.33%) Validation
9 11 (12.22%) Reverse Engineering
10 10 (11.11%) NsoIT
10 10 (11.11%) Performance Tuning
10 10 (11.11%) Service Management
10 10 (11.11%) System Testing
11 9 (10.00%) High Availability
12 8 (8.89%) Microservices
12 8 (8.89%) Scrum
12 8 (8.89%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 40 (44.44%) Python
2 25 (27.78%) PowerShell
3 20 (22.22%) Bash
4 9 (10.00%) Shell Script
5 5 (5.56%) Java
6 4 (4.44%) C#
7 2 (2.22%) Bicep
7 2 (2.22%) Go
7 2 (2.22%) Perl
7 2 (2.22%) SQL
8 1 (1.11%) ActionScript
8 1 (1.11%) ActionScript 2.0
8 1 (1.11%) Groovy
8 1 (1.11%) JavaScript
8 1 (1.11%) Scala
8 1 (1.11%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 29 (32.22%) Security Cleared
2 23 (25.56%) SC Cleared
3 16 (17.78%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 14 (15.56%) CCNP
4 14 (15.56%) Cisco Certification
4 14 (15.56%) Oracle Certification
5 10 (11.11%) OCA
5 10 (11.11%) RHCA
5 10 (11.11%) RHCE
6 6 (6.67%) DV Cleared
7 4 (4.44%) OCP
8 3 (3.33%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (3.33%) Degree
9 2 (2.22%) AWS Certification
10 1 (1.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (1.11%) CISM
10 1 (1.11%) CISSP
10 1 (1.11%) IBM Certification
10 1 (1.11%) JNCIP
10 1 (1.11%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.44%) NIST
1 4 (4.44%) QA
2 2 (2.22%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (2.22%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 2 (2.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.11%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (1.11%) GDPR
3 1 (1.11%) JSP 440
3 1 (1.11%) NCSC
3 1 (1.11%) SLA
System Software
1 26 (28.89%) VMware Infrastructure
2 20 (22.22%) Docker
3 11 (12.22%) vSphere
4 8 (8.89%) VMware NSX
5 7 (7.78%) Active Directory
6 5 (5.56%) Hyper-V
6 5 (5.56%) NFS
7 4 (4.44%) Virtual Machines
7 4 (4.44%) VMware ESXi
8 3 (3.33%) LXC
9 2 (2.22%) Ceph
10 1 (1.11%) GPFS
10 1 (1.11%) KVM
Systems Management
1 60 (66.67%) Ansible
2 33 (36.67%) Terraform
3 24 (26.67%) Kubernetes
4 20 (22.22%) Progress Chef
5 19 (21.11%) Puppet
6 13 (14.44%) vCenter Server
7 9 (10.00%) vRealize
8 7 (7.78%) Grafana
8 7 (7.78%) Microsoft Intune
9 6 (6.67%) Prometheus
10 5 (5.56%) SCCM
10 5 (5.56%) vRealize Orchestrator
11 2 (2.22%) Argo
11 2 (2.22%) PowerCLI
12 1 (1.11%) HAProxy
12 1 (1.11%) Kibana
12 1 (1.11%) Rancher
12 1 (1.11%) Single Sign-On
12 1 (1.11%) Veritas Storage Foundation
12 1 (1.11%) WSUS
Vendors
1 36 (40.00%) VMware
2 22 (24.44%) Oracle
3 19 (21.11%) Cisco
4 15 (16.67%) Microsoft
5 10 (11.11%) Red Hat
6 7 (7.78%) Atlassian
7 5 (5.56%) Google
8 4 (4.44%) SAP
8 4 (4.44%) Splunk
9 3 (3.33%) IBM
9 3 (3.33%) Mellanox
9 3 (3.33%) NVIDIA
10 2 (2.22%) Brocade
10 2 (2.22%) Databricks
10 2 (2.22%) Dell
10 2 (2.22%) EMC
10 2 (2.22%) NetApp
10 2 (2.22%) ServiceNow
11 1 (1.11%) Fortinet
11 1 (1.11%) IBM Sterling