Infrastructure Automation Contracts

Infrastructure Automation
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 295 402 494
Rank change year-on-year +107 +92 +23
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Automation 247 182 227
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.84% 0.42% 0.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.93% 0.48% 0.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 174 111 154
10th Percentile £380 £425 £456
25th Percentile £425 £501 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £625 £550
Median % change year-on-year -16.00% +13.64% -
75th Percentile £625 £700 £635
90th Percentile £675 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £624 £525
% change year-on-year -15.83% +18.81% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 0
Median hourly rate - £71.87 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £71.87 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 26,594 37,597 53,655
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.84% 86.31% 89.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,149 24,227 37,238
10th Percentile £308 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £743 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £483 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,071 2,443 1,746
10th Percentile £14.41 £12.75 £11.00
25th Percentile £18.21 £16.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%
75th Percentile £60.38 £59.98 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £37.34 £36.00
% change year-on-year -26.35% +3.72% +80.00%

Infrastructure Automation
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Infrastructure Automation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Automation in the UK

Infrastructure Automation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Infrastructure Automation.

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure Automation in the UK

Infrastructure Automation
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Automation in the UK

Infrastructure Automation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Infrastructure Automation.

Hourly rate trend for Infrastructure Automation in the UK

Infrastructure Automation
Top 16 Contract Locations

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 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
England +126 209 £525 -8.70% 206
London +90 121 £525 -8.70% 113
UK excluding London +75 90 £525 -15.83% 125
Work from Home +65 87 £513 -4.21% 102
North of England +27 28 £537 +11.64% 36
South East +60 23 £500 -8.68% 43
South West +35 20 £575 -17.86% 18
Yorkshire +25 19 £475 +3.83% 7
Scotland +5 9 £486 -29.87% 9
Midlands +26 6 £450 -28.00% 11
North West +5 6 £625 +29.94% 25
West Midlands +18 5 £450 - 4
North East - 3 £565 - 4
Wales - 3 - -
East of England - 3 £500 - 6
East Midlands +10 1 £700 +12.00% 6

Infrastructure Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 11 (4.45%) Apache Spark
2 9 (3.64%) nginx
3 8 (3.24%) Confluence
3 8 (3.24%) SharePoint
4 7 (2.83%) Apache
4 7 (2.83%) OpenStack
5 4 (1.62%) JBoss
6 3 (1.21%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (1.21%) WebLogic
6 3 (1.21%) WebLogic Portal
6 3 (1.21%) WebSphere
7 2 (0.81%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.40%) Apache Pulsar
8 1 (0.40%) SAS
8 1 (0.40%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.40%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 1 (0.40%) Notion
1 1 (0.40%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.40%) Distributed Ledger
1 1 (0.40%) SAP HCM
1 1 (0.40%) SAP IBP
1 1 (0.40%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 111 (44.94%) Azure
2 97 (39.27%) AWS
3 47 (19.03%) GCP
4 35 (14.17%) GitHub
5 25 (10.12%) Azure DevOps
6 24 (9.72%) Serverless
7 22 (8.91%) AWS CloudFormation
8 19 (7.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 19 (7.69%) GitHub Actions
9 14 (5.67%) AWS Lambda
9 14 (5.67%) Microsoft 365
10 13 (5.26%) Azure AKS
10 13 (5.26%) Entra ID
10 13 (5.26%) OpenShift
11 11 (4.45%) Amazon S3
12 9 (3.64%) Amazon EC2
12 9 (3.64%) Snowflake
12 9 (3.64%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 8 (3.24%) Azure Monitor
13 8 (3.24%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 24 (9.72%) Firewall
2 17 (6.88%) DNS
3 14 (5.67%) VPN
4 12 (4.86%) TCP/IP
5 10 (4.05%) Network Security
6 7 (2.83%) SAN
7 5 (2.02%) BGP
7 5 (2.02%) DHCP
7 5 (2.02%) Ethernet VPN
7 5 (2.02%) HTTP
7 5 (2.02%) iSCSI
7 5 (2.02%) OSPF
7 5 (2.02%) Reverse Proxy
7 5 (2.02%) WAN
8 3 (1.21%) Cisco ISE
8 3 (1.21%) Fibre Channel
8 3 (1.21%) NAS
8 3 (1.21%) Skype
8 3 (1.21%) VSAN
9 2 (0.81%) Spanning Tree
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (5.26%) Hadoop
1 13 (5.26%) Oracle Database
1 13 (5.26%) PostgreSQL
2 9 (3.64%) Amazon RDS
2 9 (3.64%) Data Warehouse
3 8 (3.24%) Power BI
4 7 (2.83%) Data Lake
4 7 (2.83%) NoSQL
5 6 (2.43%) Apache Hive
5 6 (2.43%) Big Data
6 5 (2.02%) Apache Iceberg
6 5 (2.02%) Parquet
6 5 (2.02%) Presto
7 4 (1.62%) DynamoDB
8 3 (1.21%) SQL Server
9 2 (0.81%) Apache Cassandra
9 2 (0.81%) MongoDB
9 2 (0.81%) MySQL
9 2 (0.81%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 2 (0.81%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 81 (32.79%) Jenkins
2 64 (25.91%) GitLab
3 33 (13.36%) Git
4 17 (6.88%) JIRA
5 15 (6.07%) Bitbucket
6 6 (2.43%) TeamCity
7 5 (2.02%) Poetry
8 4 (1.62%) NUnit
9 2 (0.81%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 2 (0.81%) JUnit
9 2 (0.81%) Maven
9 2 (0.81%) Mockito
9 2 (0.81%) Postman
9 2 (0.81%) REST Assured
9 2 (0.81%) Selenium
9 2 (0.81%) SoapUI
9 2 (0.81%) SonarQube
9 2 (0.81%) Subversion
9 2 (0.81%) Xcode
9 2 (0.81%) XCTest
General
1 57 (23.08%) Social Skills
2 45 (18.22%) Finance
3 25 (10.12%) Public Sector
4 18 (7.29%) Analytical Skills
5 17 (6.88%) Banking
6 8 (3.24%) Telecoms
7 6 (2.43%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (2.02%) Legal
8 5 (2.02%) Retail
9 4 (1.62%) Financial Institution
10 3 (1.21%) Electronics
10 3 (1.21%) Manufacturing
10 3 (1.21%) Marketing
10 3 (1.21%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (0.81%) German Language
11 2 (0.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.81%) Military
12 1 (0.40%) Digital Health
12 1 (0.40%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.40%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 69 (27.94%) DevOps Engineer
2 32 (12.96%) Senior
3 28 (11.34%) Automation Engineer
4 27 (10.93%) Cloud Engineer
4 27 (10.93%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 24 (9.72%) Developer
6 22 (8.91%) Azure Engineer
7 21 (8.50%) Architect
7 21 (8.50%) AWS Engineer
8 17 (6.88%) Platform Engineer
9 14 (5.67%) AWS DevOps
9 14 (5.67%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 14 (5.67%) Azure DevOps Engineer
9 14 (5.67%) Lead
10 10 (4.05%) Senior Cloud Engineer
10 10 (4.05%) Senior DevOps
10 10 (4.05%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 8 (3.24%) Software Engineer
12 7 (2.83%) Data Architect
12 7 (2.83%) Database Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (8.10%) Kafka
2 18 (7.29%) REST
3 15 (6.07%) .NET
4 14 (5.67%) SOAP
5 13 (5.26%) ARM Templates
6 12 (4.86%) RESTful
7 11 (4.45%) YAML
8 8 (3.24%) Elastic Stack
8 8 (3.24%) Middleware
8 8 (3.24%) React
9 6 (2.43%) .NET Core
9 6 (2.43%) AWS CDK
9 6 (2.43%) OAuth
10 5 (2.02%) ASP.NET
10 5 (2.02%) Dask
10 5 (2.02%) LAPP Stack
10 5 (2.02%) OpenID
10 5 (2.02%) OpenTelemetry
11 3 (1.21%) JSON
11 3 (1.21%) NETCONF
Miscellaneous
1 28 (11.34%) Cloud Native
2 17 (6.88%) Data Centre
3 12 (4.86%) Enterprise Software
4 11 (4.45%) Management Information System
5 10 (4.05%) Hybrid Cloud
6 9 (3.64%) Public Cloud
7 7 (2.83%) Hedge funds
7 7 (2.83%) Product Ownership
8 6 (2.43%) Distributed Systems
9 5 (2.02%) Data Protection Act
10 4 (1.62%) Onboarding
10 4 (1.62%) PKI
10 4 (1.62%) Private Cloud
11 3 (1.21%) Legacy Applications
11 3 (1.21%) NHS
12 2 (0.81%) CMDB
12 2 (0.81%) Enterprise Cloud
12 2 (0.81%) Enterprise Storage
12 2 (0.81%) Linux Command Line
12 2 (0.81%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 86 (34.82%) Linux
2 49 (19.84%) Windows
3 23 (9.31%) Windows Server
4 15 (6.07%) Unix
5 13 (5.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (2.83%) AIX
7 4 (1.62%) CentOS
8 3 (1.21%) Rocky
8 3 (1.21%) SUSE
9 2 (0.81%) Data ONTAP
9 2 (0.81%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.40%) VMS
10 1 (0.40%) Windows 10
10 1 (0.40%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.40%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 164 (66.40%) CI/CD
2 144 (58.30%) DevOps
3 105 (42.51%) Infrastructure as Code
4 69 (27.94%) Problem-Solving
5 63 (25.51%) Containerisation
6 56 (22.67%) Configuration Management
7 54 (21.86%) Agile
8 39 (15.79%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 37 (14.98%) High Availability
10 32 (12.96%) Infrastructure Management
11 29 (11.74%) Deployment Automation
11 29 (11.74%) Migration
12 24 (9.72%) Microservices
13 23 (9.31%) Mentoring
13 23 (9.31%) Platform Engineering
14 22 (8.91%) Continuous Integration
15 20 (8.10%) Task Automation
16 19 (7.69%) Test Automation
17 18 (7.29%) Performance Tuning
17 18 (7.29%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 110 (44.53%) Python
2 53 (21.46%) PowerShell
3 44 (17.81%) Bash
4 20 (8.10%) SQL
5 16 (6.48%) C#
6 14 (5.67%) Java
7 13 (5.26%) Shell Script
8 12 (4.86%) Bicep
9 11 (4.45%) Go
10 7 (2.83%) TypeScript
11 6 (2.43%) Groovy
12 4 (1.62%) JavaScript
13 2 (0.81%) ActionScript
13 2 (0.81%) ActionScript 2.0
13 2 (0.81%) Perl
13 2 (0.81%) Rust
13 2 (0.81%) T-SQL
14 1 (0.40%) COBOL
14 1 (0.40%) Scala
14 1 (0.40%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 47 (19.03%) Security Cleared
2 40 (16.19%) SC Cleared
3 16 (6.48%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 14 (5.67%) CCNP
4 14 (5.67%) Cisco Certification
4 14 (5.67%) Oracle Certification
5 10 (4.05%) OCA
5 10 (4.05%) RHCA
5 10 (4.05%) RHCE
6 9 (3.64%) AWS Certification
7 7 (2.83%) Degree
8 6 (2.43%) DV Cleared
9 4 (1.62%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 4 (1.62%) Computer Science Degree
9 4 (1.62%) OCP
10 3 (1.21%) RHCSA
11 2 (0.81%) Azure Certification
11 2 (0.81%) IBM Certification
12 1 (0.40%) AWS Certified Developer
12 1 (0.40%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (4.86%) QA
2 8 (3.24%) NIST
3 5 (2.02%) GDPR
4 4 (1.62%) Accessibility
4 4 (1.62%) NCSC
5 3 (1.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.81%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (0.81%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 2 (0.81%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.40%) 21 CFR Part 11
7 1 (0.40%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.40%) Disclosure Scotland
7 1 (0.40%) GxP
7 1 (0.40%) JSP 440
7 1 (0.40%) SLA
7 1 (0.40%) SOC 2
System Software
1 70 (28.34%) Docker
2 34 (13.77%) VMware Infrastructure
3 15 (6.07%) Active Directory
4 14 (5.67%) vSphere
5 12 (4.86%) Virtual Machines
6 9 (3.64%) VMware NSX
7 8 (3.24%) Hyper-V
8 5 (2.02%) NFS
9 4 (1.62%) Ceph
9 4 (1.62%) VMware ESXi
10 3 (1.21%) LXC
11 1 (0.40%) GPFS
11 1 (0.40%) KVM
11 1 (0.40%) Veritas Cluster Server
11 1 (0.40%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 155 (62.75%) Terraform
2 118 (47.77%) Ansible
3 105 (42.51%) Kubernetes
4 34 (13.77%) Puppet
5 25 (10.12%) Progress Chef
6 18 (7.29%) Prometheus
7 16 (6.48%) Grafana
8 15 (6.07%) Microsoft Intune
9 14 (5.67%) vCenter Server
10 11 (4.45%) vRealize
11 9 (3.64%) Argo
12 8 (3.24%) SCCM
13 5 (2.02%) vRealize Orchestrator
14 4 (1.62%) Consul
14 4 (1.62%) Istio
14 4 (1.62%) Podman
14 4 (1.62%) ZABBIX
15 3 (1.21%) PowerCLI
15 3 (1.21%) Rancher
16 2 (0.81%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 48 (19.43%) VMware
2 28 (11.34%) Microsoft
3 27 (10.93%) Oracle
4 25 (10.12%) Cisco
5 20 (8.10%) Red Hat
6 16 (6.48%) Splunk
7 15 (6.07%) Google
8 11 (4.45%) Databricks
9 9 (3.64%) SAP
10 7 (2.83%) Atlassian
11 6 (2.43%) ServiceNow
12 5 (2.02%) Salesforce
13 4 (1.62%) IBM
13 4 (1.62%) Sybase
14 3 (1.21%) Dynatrace
14 3 (1.21%) EMC
14 3 (1.21%) Mellanox
14 3 (1.21%) NVIDIA
14 3 (1.21%) Planview
14 3 (1.21%) SolarWinds