Infrastructure Automation Contracts in the UK excluding London

Infrastructure Automation
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Infrastructure Automation skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Infrastructure Automation over the 6 months to 12 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 322 342 415
Rank change year-on-year +20 +73 -45
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Automation 66 111 92
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.32% 0.47% 0.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.38% 0.53% 0.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 76 68
10th Percentile £462 £425 £404
25th Percentile £512 £486 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% - +9.66%
75th Percentile - £575 £618
90th Percentile £722 £600 £713
UK median daily rate £635 £550 £550
% change year-on-year +15.45% - +9.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £65.31 - -
25th Percentile £69.53 - -
Median hourly rate £71.87 - -
75th Percentile £74.15 - -
90th Percentile £78.26 - -
UK median hourly rate £71.87 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Infrastructure Automation is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,300 21,032 27,102
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.45% 89.50% 89.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,314 14,532 18,929
10th Percentile £250 £256 £235
25th Percentile £380 £400 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £653
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,056 1,281 1,348
10th Percentile £12.32 £11.00 £12.25
25th Percentile £15.25 £15.44 £14.25
Median hourly rate £38.06 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.74% +75.00% -6.98%
75th Percentile £61.26 £65.00 £47.05
90th Percentile £72.90 £73.75 £60.92
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +4.82%

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 12 May 2024.

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
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Infrastructure Automation in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 12 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram 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 12 May 2024. 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
South West +34 32 £700 +27.27% 6
North of England +25 13 £475 +2.70% 10
North West +25 12 £475 -9.52% 8
Scotland -2 11 £693 +27.27% 2
South East +16 9 £548 -0.45% 5
Midlands +24 2 £625 +38.12% 2
East Midlands +22 1 £625 +30.21%
Yorkshire +19 1 £390 +0.65% 2
West Midlands +11 1 - - 2
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 26 (39.39%) Confluence
2 5 (7.58%) SAS
3 2 (3.03%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (1.52%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 19 (28.79%) Azure
2 18 (27.27%) AWS
3 7 (10.61%) OpenShift
4 6 (9.09%) GCP
5 5 (7.58%) Azure DevOps
5 5 (7.58%) PaaS
6 4 (6.06%) GitHub
7 3 (4.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 3 (4.55%) Amazon EKS
7 3 (4.55%) Azure AKS
7 3 (4.55%) Dynamics 365
7 3 (4.55%) IaaS
8 2 (3.03%) Entra ID
8 2 (3.03%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (3.03%) Microsoft 365
8 2 (3.03%) Serverless
9 1 (1.52%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (1.52%) Cloud Computing
9 1 (1.52%) NuGet
9 1 (1.52%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 5 (7.58%) Fibre Channel
1 5 (7.58%) iSCSI
2 4 (6.06%) SAN
2 4 (6.06%) TCP/IP
3 3 (4.55%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
3 3 (4.55%) Firewall
3 3 (4.55%) HTTP
3 3 (4.55%) NetScaler
3 3 (4.55%) Software-Defined Networking
3 3 (4.55%) SSL
4 2 (3.03%) DNS
4 2 (3.03%) VPN
5 1 (1.52%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (6.06%) DB2
2 2 (3.03%) SQL Server
2 2 (3.03%) SQLite
3 1 (1.52%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (1.52%) Big Data
3 1 (1.52%) Flink
3 1 (1.52%) Hadoop
3 1 (1.52%) MySQL
3 1 (1.52%) Neo4j
3 1 (1.52%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.52%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 30 (45.45%) JIRA
2 29 (43.94%) Jenkins
3 25 (37.88%) Bitbucket
4 22 (33.33%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 7 (10.61%) Git
6 5 (7.58%) GitLab
7 2 (3.03%) JUnit
7 2 (3.03%) Snyk
7 2 (3.03%) SonarQube
8 1 (1.52%) Bitbucket Server
8 1 (1.52%) Cucumber
8 1 (1.52%) JMeter
8 1 (1.52%) Pa11y
8 1 (1.52%) Selenium
8 1 (1.52%) Spinnaker
8 1 (1.52%) TestCafe
General
1 33 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 25 (37.88%) Analytical Skills
3 18 (27.27%) Aerospace
4 6 (9.09%) Finance
5 5 (7.58%) Banking
6 3 (4.55%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (4.55%) Investment Banking
7 2 (3.03%) Telecoms
8 1 (1.52%) Electronics
8 1 (1.52%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.52%) Marketing
8 1 (1.52%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.52%) Public Sector
8 1 (1.52%) Retail
Job Titles
1 24 (36.36%) Developer
2 10 (15.15%) Senior
3 7 (10.61%) DevOps Engineer
4 6 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 5 (7.58%) Architect
5 5 (7.58%) Senior Test Engineer
5 5 (7.58%) Software Engineer
5 5 (7.58%) Test Engineer
6 4 (6.06%) Azure Engineer
6 4 (6.06%) Linux Engineer
6 4 (6.06%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
6 4 (6.06%) Python Engineer
6 4 (6.06%) Storage Engineer
7 3 (4.55%) Automation Test Lead
7 3 (4.55%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 3 (4.55%) Java Developer
7 3 (4.55%) Lead
7 3 (4.55%) Python Developer
7 3 (4.55%) Test Leader
8 2 (3.03%) Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (36.36%) .NET
2 22 (33.33%) .NET Core
3 5 (7.58%) Elastic Stack
3 5 (7.58%) Flash
3 5 (7.58%) POSIX
4 4 (6.06%) AngularJS
4 4 (6.06%) React
5 3 (4.55%) REST
6 2 (3.03%) .NET Framework
6 2 (3.03%) Jetpack Compose
6 2 (3.03%) Kafka
6 2 (3.03%) ModSecurity
6 2 (3.03%) RxJava
6 2 (3.03%) XML
7 1 (1.52%) Android Jetpack
7 1 (1.52%) ARM Templates
7 1 (1.52%) AWS CDK
7 1 (1.52%) Dagger
7 1 (1.52%) jQuery
7 1 (1.52%) Retrofit
Miscellaneous
1 5 (7.58%) Data Centre
1 5 (7.58%) NVMe
2 4 (6.06%) Client/Server
3 3 (4.55%) PKI
3 3 (4.55%) Public Cloud
4 2 (3.03%) Cloud Native
4 2 (3.03%) Product Ownership
4 2 (3.03%) Security Posture
5 1 (1.52%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.52%) Distributed Applications
5 1 (1.52%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (1.52%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (1.52%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 38 (57.58%) Linux
2 11 (16.67%) Unix
3 10 (15.15%) Windows
4 5 (7.58%) Windows Server
5 4 (6.06%) Data ONTAP
5 4 (6.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (6.06%) VMS
6 3 (4.55%) Windows 2000
6 3 (4.55%) Windows XP
7 2 (3.03%) Android
8 1 (1.52%) Apple iOS
8 1 (1.52%) Ubuntu
8 1 (1.52%) Windows Server 2008
8 1 (1.52%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (1.52%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (1.52%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (59.09%) CI/CD
2 27 (40.91%) Continuous Integration
3 26 (39.39%) Configuration Management
3 26 (39.39%) OO
4 23 (34.85%) Deployment Automation
4 23 (34.85%) Task Automation
5 22 (33.33%) OOP
5 22 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
6 15 (22.73%) Infrastructure as Code
7 14 (21.21%) DevOps
7 14 (21.21%) Test Automation
8 13 (19.70%) Agile
9 11 (16.67%) Computer Science
10 9 (13.64%) Continuous Improvement
11 7 (10.61%) Observability
11 7 (10.61%) SDLC
11 7 (10.61%) Software Engineering
12 5 (7.58%) Architectural Patterns
12 5 (7.58%) Preventative Maintenance
12 5 (7.58%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 41 (62.12%) Python
2 33 (50.00%) PowerShell
3 16 (24.24%) Java
4 8 (12.12%) Perl
5 5 (7.58%) Bash
5 5 (7.58%) SQL
6 4 (6.06%) JavaScript
7 3 (4.55%) Bicep
7 3 (4.55%) Go
7 3 (4.55%) PHP
7 3 (4.55%) Shell Script
8 2 (3.03%) Kotlin
9 1 (1.52%) C
9 1 (1.52%) C#
9 1 (1.52%) C++
9 1 (1.52%) Rust
9 1 (1.52%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 33 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 29 (43.94%) SC Cleared
3 7 (10.61%) Degree
4 4 (6.06%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (3.03%) Master's Degree
5 2 (3.03%) VCAP
5 2 (3.03%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 1 (1.52%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.52%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.52%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (6.06%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.52%) QA
System Software
1 10 (15.15%) Docker
1 10 (15.15%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (7.58%) NFS
2 5 (7.58%) VMware NSX
3 4 (6.06%) GPFS
3 4 (6.06%) vSphere
4 3 (4.55%) Hyper-V
5 2 (3.03%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 33 (50.00%) Ansible
2 24 (36.36%) PowerCLI
3 20 (30.30%) Terraform
4 18 (27.27%) Kubernetes
5 4 (6.06%) Veritas Storage Foundation
6 3 (4.55%) Grafana
6 3 (4.55%) Prometheus
7 2 (3.03%) Argo
7 2 (3.03%) OPNET
7 2 (3.03%) Puppet
7 2 (3.03%) Rancher
7 2 (3.03%) vRealize
7 2 (3.03%) vRealize Orchestrator
8 1 (1.52%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (1.52%) Dell DRAC
8 1 (1.52%) Kibana
8 1 (1.52%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (1.52%) Progress Chef
8 1 (1.52%) SCCM
8 1 (1.52%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 24 (36.36%) Atlassian
2 23 (34.85%) Dell
3 22 (33.33%) HP
4 14 (21.21%) VMware
5 6 (9.09%) Google
5 6 (9.09%) Microsoft
6 4 (6.06%) Brocade
6 4 (6.06%) EMC
6 4 (6.06%) IBM
6 4 (6.06%) NetApp
6 4 (6.06%) Sybase
6 4 (6.06%) Veritas
7 3 (4.55%) F5
7 3 (4.55%) Fortinet
7 3 (4.55%) Juniper
8 2 (3.03%) Cisco
8 2 (3.03%) Oracle
8 2 (3.03%) ServiceNow
9 1 (1.52%) SAP
9 1 (1.52%) Sophos