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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 318 340 425
Rank change year-on-year +22 +85 -51
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Automation 82 98 99
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.39% 0.43% 0.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.47% 0.48% 0.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 62 74
10th Percentile £451 £456 £300
25th Percentile £514 £500 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £605 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year +15.24% - +6.60%
75th Percentile £700 £575 £629
90th Percentile - £611 £713
UK median daily rate £585 £550 £550
% change year-on-year +6.36% - +10.00%
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 17,348 20,314 27,218
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 83.29% 89.18% 89.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,293 13,939 19,042
10th Percentile £250 £260 £240
25th Percentile £375 £400 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year - +2.56% +9.18%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £694 £663
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,136 1,244 1,338
10th Percentile £12.45 £10.63 £12.47
25th Percentile £15.39 £15.21 £14.25
Median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.91% +75.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £61.30 £64.72 £47.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £74.70 £62.80
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.25 £25.68
% change year-on-year +0.69% +41.16% +9.74%

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 June 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 1 June 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 1 June 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 +43 45 £700 +27.27% 7
South East +21 22 £585 +6.36% 8
North of England +32 17 £463 -19.57% 13
Midlands +29 13 £582 +28.62% 3
North West +27 12 £475 -15.56% 8
West Midlands +20 12 £582 +36.94% 3
Yorkshire +21 5 £390 -48.00% 4
Scotland -10 4 £693 +29.59% 1
East Midlands +12 1 £625 +30.21%
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 28 (34.15%) Confluence
2 3 (3.66%) SAS
3 2 (2.44%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (1.22%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 23 (28.05%) AWS
2 20 (24.39%) Azure
3 9 (10.98%) GCP
3 9 (10.98%) OpenShift
3 9 (10.98%) PaaS
4 5 (6.10%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (4.88%) GitHub
5 4 (4.88%) IaaS
6 3 (3.66%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 3 (3.66%) Amazon EKS
6 3 (3.66%) Azure AKS
6 3 (3.66%) Cloud Computing
6 3 (3.66%) Dynamics 365
7 2 (2.44%) Entra ID
7 2 (2.44%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (2.44%) Microsoft 365
7 2 (2.44%) Serverless
7 2 (2.44%) Slack
8 1 (1.22%) NuGet
8 1 (1.22%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 5 (6.10%) Software-Defined Networking
2 4 (4.88%) VPN
3 3 (3.66%) Fibre Channel
3 3 (3.66%) Firewall
3 3 (3.66%) iSCSI
4 2 (2.44%) SAN
5 1 (1.22%) DNS
5 1 (1.22%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.44%) DB2
1 2 (2.44%) SQL Server
1 2 (2.44%) SQLite
2 1 (1.22%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (1.22%) Big Data
2 1 (1.22%) Flink
2 1 (1.22%) Hadoop
2 1 (1.22%) MySQL
2 1 (1.22%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 32 (39.02%) JIRA
2 28 (34.15%) Jenkins
3 27 (32.93%) Bitbucket
4 22 (26.83%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 19 (23.17%) Git
6 5 (6.10%) GitLab
7 4 (4.88%) JUnit
8 2 (2.44%) Cucumber
8 2 (2.44%) Snyk
8 2 (2.44%) SonarQube
9 1 (1.22%) Bitbucket Server
9 1 (1.22%) JMeter
9 1 (1.22%) Pa11y
9 1 (1.22%) Selenium
9 1 (1.22%) Spinnaker
9 1 (1.22%) TestCafe
General
1 28 (34.15%) Social Skills
2 26 (31.71%) Analytical Skills
3 18 (21.95%) Aerospace
4 6 (7.32%) Public Sector
5 4 (4.88%) Finance
6 1 (1.22%) Banking
6 1 (1.22%) Electronics
6 1 (1.22%) Investment Banking
6 1 (1.22%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.22%) Marketing
6 1 (1.22%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (1.22%) Retail
6 1 (1.22%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 20 (24.39%) Developer
2 12 (14.63%) DevOps Engineer
2 12 (14.63%) Senior
3 8 (9.76%) Architect
4 5 (6.10%) Automation Architect
4 5 (6.10%) Software Engineer
5 4 (4.88%) Azure Engineer
5 4 (4.88%) Platform Engineer
5 4 (4.88%) Senior DevOps
5 4 (4.88%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 4 (4.88%) Senior Test Engineer
5 4 (4.88%) Test Engineer
6 3 (3.66%) Automation Test Lead
6 3 (3.66%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 3 (3.66%) DevOps Specialist
6 3 (3.66%) Infrastructure Architect
6 3 (3.66%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 3 (3.66%) Office Automation Architect
6 3 (3.66%) Test Leader
6 3 (3.66%) VMware Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (31.71%) .NET
2 22 (26.83%) .NET Core
3 15 (18.29%) YAML
4 5 (6.10%) Elastic Stack
4 5 (6.10%) React
5 4 (4.88%) .NET Framework
5 4 (4.88%) ModSecurity
6 3 (3.66%) AngularJS
6 3 (3.66%) Flash
6 3 (3.66%) POSIX
7 2 (2.44%) Fluent Bit
7 2 (2.44%) Gherkin
7 2 (2.44%) Jetpack Compose
7 2 (2.44%) Kafka
7 2 (2.44%) Loki
7 2 (2.44%) RxJava
7 2 (2.44%) XML
8 1 (1.22%) Android Jetpack
8 1 (1.22%) ARM Templates
8 1 (1.22%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 7 (8.54%) Data Centre
2 5 (6.10%) PKI
2 5 (6.10%) Product Ownership
2 5 (6.10%) Public Cloud
3 4 (4.88%) Security Posture
4 3 (3.66%) NVMe
5 2 (2.44%) Client/Server
5 2 (2.44%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.22%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.22%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (1.22%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.22%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 49 (59.76%) Linux
2 24 (29.27%) Windows
3 16 (19.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (7.32%) Unix
5 4 (4.88%) VMS
6 3 (3.66%) Windows 2000
6 3 (3.66%) Windows Server
6 3 (3.66%) Windows XP
7 2 (2.44%) Data ONTAP
8 1 (1.22%) Android
8 1 (1.22%) Windows Server 2008
8 1 (1.22%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (1.22%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (1.22%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (52.44%) Configuration Management
2 41 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 32 (39.02%) Infrastructure as Code
4 26 (31.71%) Continuous Integration
4 26 (31.71%) Problem-Solving
5 24 (29.27%) OO
5 24 (29.27%) Task Automation
6 23 (28.05%) Deployment Automation
7 22 (26.83%) OOP
8 21 (25.61%) DevOps
9 19 (23.17%) Agile
10 14 (17.07%) Test Automation
10 14 (17.07%) Validation
11 13 (15.85%) Virtual Infrastructure
12 11 (13.41%) Computer Science
12 11 (13.41%) Continuous Improvement
13 8 (9.76%) GitOps
14 7 (8.54%) Architectural Patterns
14 7 (8.54%) Software Engineering
15 6 (7.32%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 53 (64.63%) PowerShell
2 42 (51.22%) Python
3 13 (15.85%) Java
4 6 (7.32%) Bash
5 3 (3.66%) Bicep
5 3 (3.66%) Go
5 3 (3.66%) JavaScript
5 3 (3.66%) Perl
5 3 (3.66%) PHP
5 3 (3.66%) Shell Script
5 3 (3.66%) SQL
6 2 (2.44%) Kotlin
6 2 (2.44%) TypeScript
7 1 (1.22%) C
7 1 (1.22%) C#
7 1 (1.22%) C++
7 1 (1.22%) Rust
Qualifications
1 53 (64.63%) Security Cleared
2 43 (52.44%) SC Cleared
3 9 (10.98%) Degree
4 5 (6.10%) DV Cleared
5 4 (4.88%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (4.88%) Master's Degree
6 3 (3.66%) VCAP
6 3 (3.66%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 2 (2.44%) AWS Certification
7 2 (2.44%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 1 (1.22%) Azure Certification
8 1 (1.22%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.66%) Accessibility
System Software
1 27 (32.93%) VMware Infrastructure
2 15 (18.29%) Docker
3 14 (17.07%) Virtual Machines
4 9 (10.98%) VMware NSX
5 6 (7.32%) vSphere
6 3 (3.66%) Hyper-V
6 3 (3.66%) NFS
7 2 (2.44%) Active Directory
7 2 (2.44%) GPFS
Systems Management
1 51 (62.20%) Ansible
2 41 (50.00%) Terraform
3 26 (31.71%) PowerCLI
4 23 (28.05%) Kubernetes
5 15 (18.29%) Puppet
6 14 (17.07%) Progress Chef
7 13 (15.85%) Salt
8 5 (6.10%) Grafana
8 5 (6.10%) Prometheus
9 4 (4.88%) Argo
9 4 (4.88%) OPNET
9 4 (4.88%) vRealize
9 4 (4.88%) vRealize Orchestrator
10 2 (2.44%) Kustomize
10 2 (2.44%) Rancher
10 2 (2.44%) Veritas Storage Foundation
11 1 (1.22%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 1 (1.22%) Dell DRAC
11 1 (1.22%) SCCM
11 1 (1.22%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 31 (37.80%) VMware
2 26 (31.71%) Atlassian
3 23 (28.05%) Dell
4 22 (26.83%) HP
5 14 (17.07%) Red Hat
6 11 (13.41%) SaltStack
7 9 (10.98%) Microsoft
8 6 (7.32%) Google
9 4 (4.88%) Cisco
10 3 (3.66%) Fortinet
10 3 (3.66%) Juniper
11 2 (2.44%) Brocade
11 2 (2.44%) EMC
11 2 (2.44%) IBM
11 2 (2.44%) NetApp
11 2 (2.44%) ServiceNow
11 2 (2.44%) Sybase
11 2 (2.44%) Veritas
12 1 (1.22%) Proofpoint
12 1 (1.22%) SAP