Infrastructure Automation Contract Job Trends in Wales

Infrastructure Automation
UK > Wales

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Wales requiring Infrastructure Automation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 46 - 54
Rank change year-on-year - - +10
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Automation 2 0 2
As % of all contract jobs in Wales 0.43% - 0.42%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.51% - 0.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £533 - -
25th Percentile £544 - £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 - £475
75th Percentile £594 - £488
90th Percentile £598 - -
UK median daily rate £520 £521 £550
% change year-on-year -0.24% -5.23% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Wales

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 Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 389 354 421
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales 82.94% 77.80% 88.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 229 199 320
10th Percentile £183 £140 £175
25th Percentile £256 £210 £220
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £425 £438
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% -2.86% -12.50%
75th Percentile £488 £550 £570
90th Percentile £618 £650 £646
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £533
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.41% -3.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 72 50 26
10th Percentile £13.42 £15.48 £15.93
25th Percentile £16.85 £20.12 £21.27
Median hourly rate £19.60 £24.33 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -19.46% -6.42% +30.59%
75th Percentile £25.12 £39.32 £50.00
90th Percentile £25.15 £48.88 £55.25
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £43.42
% change year-on-year -28.14% -19.38% +24.04%

Infrastructure Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Infrastructure Automation relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales.

Infrastructure Automation job vacancy trend in Wales

Infrastructure Automation
Daily Rate Trend in Wales

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing Infrastructure Automation.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing Infrastructure Automation

Infrastructure Automation
Contract Job Locations in Wales

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 Wales region over the 6 months to 15 November 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
South Wales - 1 £550 - 1
Dyfed - 1 £600 -
Infrastructure Automation
UK

Infrastructure Automation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Wales by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) GitHub
1 1 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (50.00%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) DHCP
1 1 (50.00%) DNS
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) GitLab
1 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (50.00%) Aerospace
1 1 (50.00%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Automation Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps Automation Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
1 1 (50.00%) Windows Server
1 1 (50.00%) Windows Server 2016
1 1 (50.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (50.00%) Deployment Automation
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (50.00%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) Observability
1 1 (50.00%) Static Application Security Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (50.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (50.00%) Bash
2 1 (50.00%) Groovy
2 1 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) CompTIA Security+
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
1 1 (50.00%) Hyper-V
1 1 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Ansible
1 1 (50.00%) Argo
1 1 (50.00%) Grafana
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Podman
1 1 (50.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) Splunk
1 1 (50.00%) Veeam
1 1 (50.00%) VMware