Infrastructure Automation Contracts in the West Midlands

Infrastructure Automation
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 24 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 97 97 122
Rank change year-on-year 0 +25 +50
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Automation 7 12 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.47% 0.59% 0.090%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.53% 0.73% 0.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 6 2
10th Percentile - £564 -
25th Percentile £425 £573 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £582 £425
Median % change year-on-year -22.68% +36.94% -17.07%
75th Percentile £518 £584 £438
90th Percentile £544 £585 -
England median daily rate £511 £564 £550
% change year-on-year -9.27% +2.45% +1.85%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

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 the West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,315 1,654 1,946
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 88.97% 80.88% 87.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 828 1,093 1,337
10th Percentile £200 £264 £263
25th Percentile £375 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £510
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -1.96% +3.03%
75th Percentile £575 £625 £618
90th Percentile £650 £738 £700
England median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 84 119 47
10th Percentile £12.62 £11.30 £12.50
25th Percentile £14.32 £14.38 £15.25
Median hourly rate £24.28 £22.50 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.91% -10.00% +44.93%
75th Percentile £34.16 £40.25 £30.00
90th Percentile £50.00 £58.75 £50.00
England median hourly rate £26.12 £38.00 £35.03
% change year-on-year -31.26% +8.48% +36.41%

Infrastructure Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Infrastructure Automation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Automation in the West Midlands

Infrastructure Automation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure Automation in the West Midlands

Infrastructure Automation
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 24 June 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
Birmingham +15 2 £450 - 3
Coventry - 2 - - 1
Shropshire - 2 £558 - 4
Herefordshire - 1 - -
Infrastructure Automation
England

Infrastructure Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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:

Business Applications
1 2 (28.57%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 6 (85.71%) Azure
2 5 (71.43%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (42.86%) AWS
3 3 (42.86%) Azure AKS
4 2 (28.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 2 (28.57%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (28.57%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (28.57%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 2 (28.57%) Azure Data Factory
4 2 (28.57%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 2 (28.57%) Collibra
4 2 (28.57%) GitHub
4 2 (28.57%) GitHub Actions
4 2 (28.57%) Microsoft Purview
4 2 (28.57%) Serverless
5 1 (14.29%) AWS CodeBuild
5 1 (14.29%) AWS CodePipeline
5 1 (14.29%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 1 (14.29%) Power Platform
5 1 (14.29%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) Azure SQL Database
1 2 (28.57%) Delta Lake
1 2 (28.57%) GIS
1 2 (28.57%) Oracle Database
2 1 (14.29%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (14.29%) NoSQL
2 1 (14.29%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Jenkins
2 1 (14.29%) Bitbucket
2 1 (14.29%) GitLab
General
1 4 (57.14%) Social Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Azure Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Azure DevOps Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Platform Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Architect
3 1 (14.29%) AWS Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Azure Platform Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Data Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Data Migration Specialist
3 1 (14.29%) Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Migration Specialist
3 1 (14.29%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) .NET
1 2 (28.57%) Elastic Stack
1 2 (28.57%) Kafka
2 1 (14.29%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) IoT
1 2 (28.57%) SCADA
2 1 (14.29%) Cloud Native
2 1 (14.29%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (14.29%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (14.29%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) CI/CD
1 6 (85.71%) DevOps
2 4 (57.14%) Containerisation
2 4 (57.14%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (42.86%) Artificial Intelligence
4 2 (28.57%) Agile
4 2 (28.57%) Analytics
4 2 (28.57%) Configuration Management
4 2 (28.57%) Data Architecture
4 2 (28.57%) Data Governance
4 2 (28.57%) Data Integration
4 2 (28.57%) Data Management
4 2 (28.57%) Data Mapping
4 2 (28.57%) ETL
4 2 (28.57%) High Availability
4 2 (28.57%) Machine Learning
4 2 (28.57%) Mentoring
4 2 (28.57%) Project Management
4 2 (28.57%) Software Delivery
4 2 (28.57%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) Python
2 2 (28.57%) C#
2 2 (28.57%) Kusto Query Language
2 2 (28.57%) SQL
3 1 (14.29%) Bash
3 1 (14.29%) Bicep
3 1 (14.29%) PowerShell
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) Data Quality
1 2 (28.57%) GDPR
1 2 (28.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (14.29%) NCSC
System Software
1 2 (28.57%) Docker
2 1 (14.29%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 5 (71.43%) Terraform
2 4 (57.14%) Kubernetes
3 2 (28.57%) Ansible
4 1 (14.29%) Consul
4 1 (14.29%) Grafana
4 1 (14.29%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Databricks
1 2 (28.57%) Informatica
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft
1 2 (28.57%) Oracle
1 2 (28.57%) SAP
2 1 (14.29%) OpenAI
2 1 (14.29%) Splunk