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 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 258 314 343
Rank change year-on-year +56 +29 +67
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Automation 82 78 101
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.63% 0.38% 0.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.70% 0.45% 0.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 46 65
10th Percentile £368 £475 £438
25th Percentile £425 £519 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £618 £525
Median % change year-on-year -19.03% +17.62% -
75th Percentile £588 £700 £575
90th Percentile £631 - £600
UK median daily rate £511 £585 £550
% change year-on-year -12.61% +6.36% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 0
10th Percentile - £65.31 -
25th Percentile £73.50 £69.53 -
Median hourly rate £79.00 £71.87 -
Median % change year-on-year +9.92% - -
75th Percentile £84.50 £74.15 -
90th Percentile - £78.26 -
UK median hourly rate £79.00 £71.87 -
% change year-on-year +9.92% - -

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 11,716 17,285 20,358
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.66% 83.51% 89.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,290 10,280 13,964
10th Percentile £235 £250 £260
25th Percentile £375 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +2.87%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £690
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 847 2,123 1,246
10th Percentile £13.83 £12.40 £10.63
25th Percentile £16.95 £15.39 £15.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -34.02% +8.91% +75.00%
75th Percentile £60.06 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £74.25
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £36.50 £37.00
% change year-on-year -24.66% -1.35% +44.08%

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 30 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 30 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 +26 29 £500 +0.25% 121
Yorkshire +38 22 £488 -18.75% 50
South West +17 18 £575 -17.86% 55
South East +55 17 £450 -23.08% 200
Midlands +11 7 £450 -22.68% 98
West Midlands +10 6 £450 -22.68% 51
Scotland +8 6 £472 -31.89% 26
North West +4 6 £581 +22.32% 56
East of England - 4 £500 - 91
Wales - 3 - - 14
East Midlands +10 1 £700 +12.00% 40
North East - 1 £565 - 15
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 (9.76%) Confluence
2 3 (3.66%) Apache
2 3 (3.66%) JBoss
2 3 (3.66%) nginx
2 3 (3.66%) WebLogic
2 3 (3.66%) WebLogic Portal
2 3 (3.66%) WebSphere
3 2 (2.44%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (2.44%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.22%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (1.22%) CMS
4 1 (1.22%) Headless CMS
4 1 (1.22%) SAS
4 1 (1.22%) Tomcat
4 1 (1.22%) WebSphere Application Server
Business Applications
1 2 (2.44%) SAP PM
2 1 (1.22%) Distributed Ledger
Cloud Services
1 25 (30.49%) Azure
2 24 (29.27%) AWS
3 11 (13.41%) GitHub
4 10 (12.20%) GCP
5 9 (10.98%) AWS Lambda
5 9 (10.98%) Azure DevOps
5 9 (10.98%) Serverless
6 8 (9.76%) AWS CloudFormation
7 7 (8.54%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 7 (8.54%) GitHub Actions
7 7 (8.54%) OpenShift
8 5 (6.10%) Entra ID
9 4 (4.88%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 3 (3.66%) Amazon EC2
10 3 (3.66%) Amazon ECS
10 3 (3.66%) Amazon ElastiCache
10 3 (3.66%) Amazon SQS
10 3 (3.66%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 3 (3.66%) IaaS
10 3 (3.66%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (9.76%) DNS
2 7 (8.54%) Firewall
2 7 (8.54%) SAN
3 5 (6.10%) BGP
3 5 (6.10%) Ethernet VPN
3 5 (6.10%) Network Security
3 5 (6.10%) OSPF
3 5 (6.10%) VPN
4 4 (4.88%) SSL
5 3 (3.66%) Fibre Channel
5 3 (3.66%) NAS
5 3 (3.66%) TCP/IP
5 3 (3.66%) WAN
6 2 (2.44%) IPv6
6 2 (2.44%) Skype
6 2 (2.44%) Spanning Tree
6 2 (2.44%) TACACS
6 2 (2.44%) VSAN
7 1 (1.22%) HTTPS
7 1 (1.22%) iSCSI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (12.20%) Oracle Database
2 6 (7.32%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (3.66%) DynamoDB
4 2 (2.44%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (2.44%) Delta Lake
4 2 (2.44%) GIS
5 1 (1.22%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (1.22%) Big Data
5 1 (1.22%) BigQuery
5 1 (1.22%) DB2
5 1 (1.22%) InfluxDB
5 1 (1.22%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.22%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.22%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (1.22%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 36 (43.90%) Jenkins
2 20 (24.39%) Git
3 16 (19.51%) GitLab
4 14 (17.07%) Bitbucket
5 10 (12.20%) JIRA
6 2 (2.44%) Selenium
6 2 (2.44%) TeamCity
7 1 (1.22%) Cucumber
7 1 (1.22%) TestNG
7 1 (1.22%) Visual Studio
General
1 21 (25.61%) Social Skills
2 12 (14.63%) Finance
3 5 (6.10%) Banking
3 5 (6.10%) Public Sector
4 4 (4.88%) Legal
5 3 (3.66%) Telecoms
6 2 (2.44%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (2.44%) Marketing
6 2 (2.44%) Military
7 1 (1.22%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.22%) Electronics
7 1 (1.22%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.22%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.22%) Police
7 1 (1.22%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 21 (25.61%) DevOps Engineer
2 13 (15.85%) Automation Engineer
3 11 (13.41%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 6 (7.32%) Architect
4 6 (7.32%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 6 (7.32%) Azure Engineer
4 6 (7.32%) Database Engineer
4 6 (7.32%) Developer
4 6 (7.32%) Lead
4 6 (7.32%) Oracle Database Engineer
5 5 (6.10%) Network Engineer
5 5 (6.10%) Senior
6 4 (4.88%) Cloud Engineer
6 4 (4.88%) Platform Engineer
6 4 (4.88%) Software Engineer
7 3 (3.66%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
7 3 (3.66%) Lead DevOps
7 3 (3.66%) Lead DevOps Engineer
7 3 (3.66%) Solutions Architect
8 2 (2.44%) Linux Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (17.07%) REST
2 11 (13.41%) SOAP
3 5 (6.10%) .NET
3 5 (6.10%) Elastic Stack
3 5 (6.10%) Kafka
3 5 (6.10%) Middleware
4 4 (4.88%) RESTful
5 2 (2.44%) ARM Templates
5 2 (2.44%) JSON
5 2 (2.44%) pytest
5 2 (2.44%) YAML
6 1 (1.22%) AWS CDK
6 1 (1.22%) Jinja
6 1 (1.22%) JWT
6 1 (1.22%) NETCONF
6 1 (1.22%) Next.js
6 1 (1.22%) OAuth
6 1 (1.22%) OpenTelemetry
6 1 (1.22%) React
6 1 (1.22%) RESTCONF
Miscellaneous
1 8 (9.76%) Cloud Native
2 5 (6.10%) Hybrid Cloud
3 4 (4.88%) Onboarding
4 3 (3.66%) Data Centre
4 3 (3.66%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (3.66%) Public Cloud
5 2 (2.44%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 2 (2.44%) Enterprise Storage
5 2 (2.44%) IoT
5 2 (2.44%) Management Information System
5 2 (2.44%) Product Ownership
5 2 (2.44%) SCADA
6 1 (1.22%) Blockchain
6 1 (1.22%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.22%) EMC VMAX
6 1 (1.22%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (1.22%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.22%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (1.22%) NVMe
6 1 (1.22%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 34 (41.46%) Linux
2 20 (24.39%) Windows
3 16 (19.51%) Windows Server
4 6 (7.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (3.66%) Unix
6 2 (2.44%) Data ONTAP
7 1 (1.22%) VMS
7 1 (1.22%) Windows 10
7 1 (1.22%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (1.22%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (57.32%) CI/CD
2 40 (48.78%) DevOps
3 29 (35.37%) Problem-Solving
4 28 (34.15%) Agile
5 23 (28.05%) Infrastructure as Code
6 21 (25.61%) Containerisation
7 20 (24.39%) Configuration Management
8 16 (19.51%) Deployment Automation
9 14 (17.07%) Validation
10 13 (15.85%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 13 (15.85%) Migration
11 11 (13.41%) Reverse Engineering
12 10 (12.20%) High Availability
12 10 (12.20%) NsoIT
12 10 (12.20%) Observability
12 10 (12.20%) Performance Tuning
12 10 (12.20%) Service Management
12 10 (12.20%) System Testing
13 9 (10.98%) Cost Optimisation
13 9 (10.98%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 39 (47.56%) Python
2 25 (30.49%) PowerShell
3 20 (24.39%) Bash
4 11 (13.41%) Shell Script
5 7 (8.54%) Java
6 5 (6.10%) Bicep
7 4 (4.88%) SQL
8 3 (3.66%) C#
9 2 (2.44%) Go
9 2 (2.44%) Kusto Query Language
9 2 (2.44%) Perl
10 1 (1.22%) ActionScript
10 1 (1.22%) ActionScript 2.0
10 1 (1.22%) Groovy
10 1 (1.22%) Scala
10 1 (1.22%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 23 (28.05%) Security Cleared
2 20 (24.39%) SC Cleared
3 16 (19.51%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 14 (17.07%) CCNP
4 14 (17.07%) Cisco Certification
4 14 (17.07%) Oracle Certification
5 10 (12.20%) OCA
5 10 (12.20%) RHCA
5 10 (12.20%) RHCE
6 4 (4.88%) DV Cleared
6 4 (4.88%) OCP
7 3 (3.66%) AWS Certification
7 3 (3.66%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (2.44%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 2 (2.44%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (2.44%) Degree
9 1 (1.22%) CISM
9 1 (1.22%) IBM Certification
9 1 (1.22%) JNCIP
9 1 (1.22%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (6.10%) GDPR
1 5 (6.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (3.66%) NIST
2 3 (3.66%) QA
3 2 (2.44%) Actionable Recommendations
3 2 (2.44%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (2.44%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 2 (2.44%) Data Quality
3 2 (2.44%) SOC 2
4 1 (1.22%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (1.22%) JSP 440
4 1 (1.22%) NCSC
4 1 (1.22%) SLA
System Software
1 23 (28.05%) VMware Infrastructure
2 18 (21.95%) Docker
3 11 (13.41%) vSphere
4 8 (9.76%) Active Directory
5 4 (4.88%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (4.88%) VMware NSX
6 3 (3.66%) LXC
7 2 (2.44%) Ceph
7 2 (2.44%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (1.22%) GPFS
8 1 (1.22%) Hyper-V
8 1 (1.22%) KVM
8 1 (1.22%) NFS
Systems Management
1 54 (65.85%) Ansible
2 35 (42.68%) Terraform
3 24 (29.27%) Kubernetes
4 17 (20.73%) Puppet
5 15 (18.29%) Progress Chef
6 13 (15.85%) vCenter Server
7 9 (10.98%) Grafana
8 8 (9.76%) Prometheus
9 5 (6.10%) vRealize
10 4 (4.88%) Microsoft Intune
11 2 (2.44%) Argo
11 2 (2.44%) Kustomize
11 2 (2.44%) PowerCLI
12 1 (1.22%) HAProxy
12 1 (1.22%) Nagios
12 1 (1.22%) Oracle Identity Management
12 1 (1.22%) Rancher
12 1 (1.22%) Red Hat Satellite
12 1 (1.22%) Single Sign-On
12 1 (1.22%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 27 (32.93%) VMware
2 24 (29.27%) Oracle
3 19 (23.17%) Cisco
4 14 (17.07%) Microsoft
5 9 (10.98%) Red Hat
6 7 (8.54%) Atlassian
6 7 (8.54%) Splunk
7 5 (6.10%) Google
8 4 (4.88%) Databricks
9 3 (3.66%) IBM
9 3 (3.66%) Mellanox
9 3 (3.66%) NVIDIA
9 3 (3.66%) SAP
10 2 (2.44%) Brocade
10 2 (2.44%) Dell
10 2 (2.44%) EMC
10 2 (2.44%) Informatica
10 2 (2.44%) NetApp
10 2 (2.44%) ServiceNow
11 1 (1.22%) Dynatrace