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

6 months to
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 297 410 495
Rank change year-on-year +113 +85 +38
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Automation 242 164 208
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.83% 0.39% 0.36%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.91% 0.45% 0.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 165 97 142
10th Percentile £377 £408 £442
25th Percentile £425 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £625 £550
Median % change year-on-year -17.09% +13.64% -
75th Percentile £600 £700 £626
90th Percentile £675 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £700 £525
% change year-on-year -28.57% +33.33% -
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 excluding London median hourly rate £79.00 £71.87 -
% change year-on-year +9.92% - -

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 26,555 36,687 51,295
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.98% 86.22% 89.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,047 23,611 35,552
10th Percentile £305 £300 £325
25th Percentile £410 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% +3.77%
75th Percentile £626 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,084 2,428 1,693
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.75 £10.77
25th Percentile £18.13 £16.00 £16.13
Median hourly rate £28.00 £36.05 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.32% +0.13% +40.19%
75th Percentile £60.00 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -32.93% +7.14% +75.00%

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 16 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 16 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 +145 208 £525 -8.70% 311
London +79 120 £525 -2.33% 202
Work from Home +58 90 £500 -7.83% 153
UK excluding London +71 88 £500 -28.57% 167
North of England +35 30 £500 +5.26% 46
Yorkshire +34 21 £475 +21.79% 18
South West +29 20 £575 -17.86% 13
South East +62 19 £450 -17.81% 82
Midlands +20 8 £450 -28.00% 9
West Midlands +17 7 £450 - 5
North West +3 7 £625 +31.58% 22
Scotland +6 6 £472 -31.89% 8
East of England - 4 £500 - 7
Wales - 3 - -
North East - 2 £558 - 6
East Midlands +9 1 £700 +12.00% 4

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 9 (3.72%) Apache Spark
2 8 (3.31%) Confluence
2 8 (3.31%) nginx
3 7 (2.89%) Apache
3 7 (2.89%) SharePoint
4 6 (2.48%) OpenStack
5 4 (1.65%) JBoss
5 4 (1.65%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (1.24%) WebLogic
6 3 (1.24%) WebLogic Portal
6 3 (1.24%) WebSphere
7 2 (0.83%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.41%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 1 (0.41%) Apache Pulsar
8 1 (0.41%) CMS
8 1 (0.41%) Headless CMS
8 1 (0.41%) SAS
8 1 (0.41%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.41%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 1 (0.41%) Notion
1 1 (0.41%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (0.83%) SAP PM
2 1 (0.41%) Distributed Ledger
2 1 (0.41%) SAP HCM
2 1 (0.41%) SAP IBP
2 1 (0.41%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 110 (45.45%) Azure
2 86 (35.54%) AWS
3 48 (19.83%) GCP
4 34 (14.05%) GitHub
5 25 (10.33%) Azure DevOps
5 25 (10.33%) Serverless
6 23 (9.50%) AWS CloudFormation
7 21 (8.68%) Entra ID
8 20 (8.26%) GitHub Actions
9 19 (7.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 15 (6.20%) AWS Lambda
11 13 (5.37%) Azure AKS
12 12 (4.96%) Microsoft 365
12 12 (4.96%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 11 (4.55%) OpenShift
14 10 (4.13%) Amazon EC2
15 9 (3.72%) Amazon S3
16 8 (3.31%) Amazon EKS
16 8 (3.31%) Azure Monitor
16 8 (3.31%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 24 (9.92%) Firewall
2 18 (7.44%) DNS
3 14 (5.79%) VPN
4 13 (5.37%) TCP/IP
5 11 (4.55%) Network Security
6 7 (2.89%) SAN
7 5 (2.07%) BGP
7 5 (2.07%) DHCP
7 5 (2.07%) Ethernet VPN
7 5 (2.07%) HTTP
7 5 (2.07%) OSPF
7 5 (2.07%) Reverse Proxy
7 5 (2.07%) WAN
8 3 (1.24%) Fibre Channel
8 3 (1.24%) NAS
8 3 (1.24%) Skype
8 3 (1.24%) SSL
9 2 (0.83%) Cisco ISE
9 2 (0.83%) HTTPS
9 2 (0.83%) Spanning Tree
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (7.02%) Oracle Database
2 15 (6.20%) PostgreSQL
3 12 (4.96%) Amazon RDS
3 12 (4.96%) Hadoop
4 9 (3.72%) Data Lake
5 8 (3.31%) Big Data
5 8 (3.31%) Data Warehouse
5 8 (3.31%) NoSQL
6 6 (2.48%) Apache Hive
7 5 (2.07%) Apache Iceberg
7 5 (2.07%) BigQuery
7 5 (2.07%) Parquet
7 5 (2.07%) Power BI
7 5 (2.07%) Presto
8 4 (1.65%) Azure SQL Database
8 4 (1.65%) DynamoDB
8 4 (1.65%) SQL Server
9 3 (1.24%) MySQL
9 3 (1.24%) Redis
10 2 (0.83%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 79 (32.64%) Jenkins
2 59 (24.38%) GitLab
3 37 (15.29%) Git
4 17 (7.02%) JIRA
5 15 (6.20%) Bitbucket
6 6 (2.48%) TeamCity
7 5 (2.07%) Poetry
8 4 (1.65%) NUnit
9 3 (1.24%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 3 (1.24%) JUnit
9 3 (1.24%) Maven
9 3 (1.24%) Mockito
9 3 (1.24%) Postman
9 3 (1.24%) REST Assured
9 3 (1.24%) SoapUI
9 3 (1.24%) SonarQube
9 3 (1.24%) Subversion
9 3 (1.24%) Xcode
9 3 (1.24%) XCTest
10 2 (0.83%) CircleCI
General
1 53 (21.90%) Social Skills
2 47 (19.42%) Finance
3 21 (8.68%) Public Sector
4 17 (7.02%) Banking
5 10 (4.13%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (2.48%) Telecoms
7 5 (2.07%) Legal
8 4 (1.65%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (1.65%) Retail
9 3 (1.24%) Marketing
9 3 (1.24%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (0.83%) Electronics
10 2 (0.83%) Financial Institution
10 2 (0.83%) German Language
10 2 (0.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (0.83%) Manufacturing
10 2 (0.83%) Military
11 1 (0.41%) Digital Health
11 1 (0.41%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.41%) Police
Job Titles
1 68 (28.10%) DevOps Engineer
2 32 (13.22%) Senior
3 26 (10.74%) Cloud Engineer
4 25 (10.33%) Automation Engineer
4 25 (10.33%) Azure Engineer
5 22 (9.09%) Developer
6 19 (7.85%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 19 (7.85%) Platform Engineer
7 18 (7.44%) Architect
8 17 (7.02%) AWS Engineer
9 16 (6.61%) Lead
10 15 (6.20%) Azure DevOps Engineer
11 12 (4.96%) AWS DevOps
11 12 (4.96%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 10 (4.13%) Senior DevOps
12 10 (4.13%) Senior DevOps Engineer
13 9 (3.72%) GCP Engineer
13 9 (3.72%) Senior Cloud Engineer
14 8 (3.31%) Software Engineer
15 7 (2.89%) Database Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (9.09%) Kafka
2 18 (7.44%) ARM Templates
2 18 (7.44%) REST
3 15 (6.20%) .NET
4 14 (5.79%) RESTful
4 14 (5.79%) SOAP
5 8 (3.31%) Elastic Stack
6 7 (2.89%) Middleware
6 7 (2.89%) React
6 7 (2.89%) YAML
7 6 (2.48%) .NET Core
7 6 (2.48%) JSON
7 6 (2.48%) OAuth
8 5 (2.07%) ASP.NET
8 5 (2.07%) Dask
8 5 (2.07%) LAPP Stack
8 5 (2.07%) OpenID
8 5 (2.07%) OpenTelemetry
9 4 (1.65%) AngularJS
9 4 (1.65%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 29 (11.98%) Cloud Native
2 17 (7.02%) Data Centre
3 11 (4.55%) Enterprise Software
3 11 (4.55%) Management Information System
4 10 (4.13%) Hybrid Cloud
5 9 (3.72%) Public Cloud
6 7 (2.89%) Distributed Systems
7 5 (2.07%) Hedge funds
8 4 (1.65%) Data Protection Act
8 4 (1.65%) Onboarding
8 4 (1.65%) PKI
8 4 (1.65%) Product Ownership
9 3 (1.24%) Private Cloud
10 2 (0.83%) CMDB
10 2 (0.83%) Enterprise Cloud
10 2 (0.83%) Enterprise Storage
10 2 (0.83%) IoT
10 2 (0.83%) Linux Command Line
10 2 (0.83%) NHS
10 2 (0.83%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 79 (32.64%) Linux
2 42 (17.36%) Windows
3 23 (9.50%) Windows Server
4 13 (5.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 9 (3.72%) Unix
6 4 (1.65%) CentOS
7 3 (1.24%) Rocky
7 3 (1.24%) SUSE
8 2 (0.83%) Data ONTAP
8 2 (0.83%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.41%) VMS
9 1 (0.41%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.41%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.41%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 168 (69.42%) CI/CD
2 147 (60.74%) DevOps
3 113 (46.69%) Infrastructure as Code
4 66 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
5 62 (25.62%) Containerisation
6 56 (23.14%) Agile
7 46 (19.01%) Configuration Management
8 36 (14.88%) High Availability
9 35 (14.46%) Migration
10 31 (12.81%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 28 (11.57%) Deployment Automation
12 26 (10.74%) Infrastructure Management
13 24 (9.92%) Mentoring
13 24 (9.92%) Platform Engineering
14 22 (9.09%) Microservices
14 22 (9.09%) Test Automation
15 21 (8.68%) Continuous Integration
16 19 (7.85%) Performance Tuning
17 18 (7.44%) Software Engineering
18 16 (6.61%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 110 (45.45%) Python
2 51 (21.07%) PowerShell
3 43 (17.77%) Bash
4 24 (9.92%) SQL
5 16 (6.61%) C#
6 15 (6.20%) Java
7 14 (5.79%) Bicep
7 14 (5.79%) Shell Script
8 12 (4.96%) Go
9 7 (2.89%) Groovy
10 5 (2.07%) TypeScript
11 4 (1.65%) JavaScript
12 2 (0.83%) ActionScript
12 2 (0.83%) ActionScript 2.0
12 2 (0.83%) Kusto Query Language
12 2 (0.83%) Perl
12 2 (0.83%) Rust
12 2 (0.83%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.41%) Scala
13 1 (0.41%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 41 (16.94%) Security Cleared
2 35 (14.46%) SC Cleared
3 16 (6.61%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 14 (5.79%) CCNP
4 14 (5.79%) Cisco Certification
4 14 (5.79%) Oracle Certification
5 10 (4.13%) OCA
5 10 (4.13%) RHCA
5 10 (4.13%) RHCE
6 9 (3.72%) AWS Certification
7 7 (2.89%) Degree
8 6 (2.48%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 5 (2.07%) DV Cleared
10 4 (1.65%) Computer Science Degree
10 4 (1.65%) OCP
11 2 (0.83%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 2 (0.83%) Azure Certification
11 2 (0.83%) IBM Certification
11 2 (0.83%) RHCSA
12 1 (0.41%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (4.96%) QA
2 8 (3.31%) GDPR
3 5 (2.07%) Data Quality
3 5 (2.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (1.65%) Accessibility
4 4 (1.65%) NCSC
5 3 (1.24%) NIST
6 2 (0.83%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (0.83%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 2 (0.83%) HIPAA
6 2 (0.83%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.41%) 21 CFR Part 11
7 1 (0.41%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.41%) Disclosure Scotland
7 1 (0.41%) GxP
7 1 (0.41%) JSP 440
7 1 (0.41%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.41%) SLA
System Software
1 64 (26.45%) Docker
2 28 (11.57%) VMware Infrastructure
3 18 (7.44%) Active Directory
4 13 (5.37%) vSphere
5 10 (4.13%) Virtual Machines
6 6 (2.48%) VMware NSX
7 4 (1.65%) Ceph
8 3 (1.24%) LXC
8 3 (1.24%) Virtual Desktop
9 2 (0.83%) NFS
10 1 (0.41%) GPFS
10 1 (0.41%) Hyper-V
10 1 (0.41%) KVM
10 1 (0.41%) Veritas Cluster Server
10 1 (0.41%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 160 (66.12%) Terraform
2 111 (45.87%) Ansible
3 99 (40.91%) Kubernetes
4 27 (11.16%) Puppet
5 19 (7.85%) Prometheus
6 18 (7.44%) Progress Chef
7 17 (7.02%) Grafana
8 13 (5.37%) vCenter Server
9 10 (4.13%) Microsoft Intune
10 9 (3.72%) Argo
11 8 (3.31%) vRealize
12 4 (1.65%) Consul
12 4 (1.65%) Istio
12 4 (1.65%) Podman
12 4 (1.65%) ZABBIX
13 3 (1.24%) Kustomize
13 3 (1.24%) PowerCLI
13 3 (1.24%) Rancher
14 2 (0.83%) Single Sign-On
14 2 (0.83%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 35 (14.46%) VMware
2 31 (12.81%) Oracle
3 27 (11.16%) Microsoft
4 24 (9.92%) Cisco
5 19 (7.85%) Red Hat
6 17 (7.02%) Google
6 17 (7.02%) Splunk
7 12 (4.96%) Databricks
8 10 (4.13%) SAP
9 7 (2.89%) Atlassian
10 6 (2.48%) ServiceNow
11 4 (1.65%) Dynatrace
11 4 (1.65%) IBM
12 3 (1.24%) CA Agile Central
12 3 (1.24%) EMC
12 3 (1.24%) Mellanox
12 3 (1.24%) NVIDIA
12 3 (1.24%) Salesforce
12 3 (1.24%) SolarWinds
13 2 (0.83%) Palo Alto