Infrastructure Automation Contract Job Trends in West London

Infrastructure Automation
London > West London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in West London requiring Infrastructure Automation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 42 25 42
Rank change year-on-year -17 +17 +11
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Automation 3 4 2
As % of all contract jobs in West London 0.98% 1.87% 0.48%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.11% 2.25% 0.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 4 2
10th Percentile - £466 £148
25th Percentile £408 £472 £241
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £415 £475 £398
Median % change year-on-year -12.63% +19.50% -21.41%
75th Percentile £423 £478 £554
90th Percentile - £484 £648
London median daily rate £550 £556 £568
% change year-on-year -1.12% -1.98% -9.20%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West 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 West London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 270 178 374
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West London 88.24% 83.18% 90.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 144 126 284
10th Percentile £204 £220 £202
25th Percentile £357 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £418 £525
Median % change year-on-year +7.72% -20.43% +2.69%
75th Percentile £575 £500 £600
90th Percentile £638 £588 £666
London median daily rate £530 £550 £565
% change year-on-year -3.64% -2.65% -4.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 10 23
10th Percentile £19.54 £20.20 £17.10
25th Percentile £21.46 £21.13 £31.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £22.93 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.68% -58.31% -11.29%
75th Percentile £30.56 £28.63 £69.50
90th Percentile £37.88 £37.53 £83.00
London median hourly rate £31.49 £36.00 £34.00
% change year-on-year -12.53% +5.88% -12.54%

Infrastructure Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in West London

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

Infrastructure Automation job vacancy trend in West London

Infrastructure Automation
Daily Rate Trend in West London

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West London citing Infrastructure Automation

Infrastructure Automation
Contract Job Locations in West 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 West London region over the 6 months to 18 December 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
Hillingdon -13 2 - -
Hounslow +4 1 £415 -12.63%
Infrastructure Automation
London

Infrastructure Automation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West London 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (66.67%) Apache
1 2 (66.67%) Oracle HTTP Server
1 2 (66.67%) Tomcat
1 2 (66.67%) WebLogic
2 1 (33.33%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
2 2 (66.67%) AWS
2 2 (66.67%) GCP
3 1 (33.33%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) DNS
1 2 (66.67%) Firewall
1 2 (66.67%) HTTP
1 2 (66.67%) SSL
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Git
1 1 (33.33%) JIRA
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Architect
1 2 (66.67%) Cloud Architect
1 2 (66.67%) Cloud Infrastructure Architect
1 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure Architect
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Linux
1 3 (100.00%) Unix
2 2 (66.67%) CentOS
2 2 (66.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (66.67%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) Cloud Operations
2 2 (66.67%) Containerisation
2 2 (66.67%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (66.67%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (66.67%) High Availability
2 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (66.67%) Load Balancing
2 2 (66.67%) Performance Metrics
3 1 (33.33%) Migration
3 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Python
2 2 (66.67%) Bash
3 1 (33.33%) C++
3 1 (33.33%) Go
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) AWS Certification
1 2 (66.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 2 (66.67%) RHCE
2 1 (33.33%) OCA
2 1 (33.33%) OCP
2 1 (33.33%) Oracle Certification
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Ansible
1 3 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 3 (100.00%) Prometheus
2 2 (66.67%) Nagios
2 2 (66.67%) Terraform
3 1 (33.33%) Grafana
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Oracle
1 3 (100.00%) Splunk