Infrastructure Automation Contract Job Trends in West Yorkshire

Infrastructure Automation
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in West Yorkshire requiring Infrastructure Automation skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 70 33 90
Rank change year-on-year -37 +57 +26
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Automation 8 36 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 1.07% 4.27% 0.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.21% 5.00% 0.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 36 3
10th Percentile £502 £288 £480
25th Percentile £505 £381 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £400 £550
Median % change year-on-year +27.50% -27.27% +22.22%
75th Percentile £515 £419 £663
90th Percentile £518 £519 £730
Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £406 £550
% change year-on-year +16.92% -26.14% +22.22%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 661 720 1,261
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 88.37% 85.41% 90.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 428 461 838
10th Percentile £287 £350 £339
25th Percentile £400 £413 £439
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £494 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.30% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £625
90th Percentile £659 £650 £700
Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 24 21
10th Percentile - £12.15 £12.00
25th Percentile £22.14 £13.44 £13.17
Median hourly rate £29.56 £17.75 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year +66.51% -1.39% -10.00%
75th Percentile £81.25 £33.75 £21.31
90th Percentile - £38.75 £26.78
Yorkshire median hourly rate £22.14 £17.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +30.24% -15.00% +5.26%

Infrastructure Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Automation in West Yorkshire

Infrastructure Automation
Daily Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

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

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

Infrastructure Automation
Contract Job Locations in West Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 9 September 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
Leeds -30 8 £510 +27.50% 3
Infrastructure Automation
Yorkshire

Infrastructure Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West Yorkshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 8 (100.00%) AWS
2 4 (50.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 4 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
2 4 (50.00%) Serverless
3 3 (37.50%) GitHub
3 3 (37.50%) GitHub Actions
3 3 (37.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 2 (25.00%) Amazon EC2
4 2 (25.00%) Amazon ECS
4 2 (25.00%) Amazon EKS
4 2 (25.00%) Amazon ElastiCache
4 2 (25.00%) Amazon ELB
4 2 (25.00%) Amazon S3
4 2 (25.00%) Amazon SQS
5 1 (12.50%) Amazon GuardDuty
5 1 (12.50%) Amazon Macie
5 1 (12.50%) AWS CloudTrail
5 1 (12.50%) AWS Direct Connect
5 1 (12.50%) AWS Fargate
5 1 (12.50%) AWS KMS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (50.00%) DNS
1 4 (50.00%) SSL
1 4 (50.00%) TCP/IP
2 3 (37.50%) Firewall
2 3 (37.50%) VPN
3 2 (25.00%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (25.00%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 5 (62.50%) Jenkins
2 4 (50.00%) Git
2 4 (50.00%) GitLab
General
1 1 (12.50%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
1 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) DevOps Engineer
2 3 (37.50%) Senior
2 3 (37.50%) Senior DevOps
2 3 (37.50%) Senior DevOps Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) AWS Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) AWS DevOps
4 1 (12.50%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Disaster Recovery Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Firewall Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Lead
4 1 (12.50%) Lead Cloud Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Lead DevOps
4 1 (12.50%) Lead DevOps Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (25.00%) React
2 1 (12.50%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 3 (37.50%) Cloud Native
2 2 (25.00%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (12.50%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 8 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 6 (75.00%) DevOps
3 4 (50.00%) Agile
4 3 (37.50%) DevSecOps
4 3 (37.50%) High Availability
4 3 (37.50%) Incident Response
5 2 (25.00%) Clean Code
5 2 (25.00%) Containerisation
5 2 (25.00%) Front End Development
5 2 (25.00%) Full-Stack Development
5 2 (25.00%) Observability
5 2 (25.00%) Software Engineering
5 2 (25.00%) TDD
6 1 (12.50%) Artificial Intelligence
6 1 (12.50%) Cloud Security
6 1 (12.50%) Compliance Audit
6 1 (12.50%) RBAC
6 1 (12.50%) Secrets Management
6 1 (12.50%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 5 (62.50%) Python
2 2 (25.00%) Bash
2 2 (25.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (25.00%) TypeScript
3 1 (12.50%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 3 (37.50%) Security Cleared
2 2 (25.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (12.50%) AWS Certification
3 1 (12.50%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) Actionable Recommendations
1 1 (12.50%) GDPR
1 1 (12.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (12.50%) NIST
1 1 (12.50%) SOC 2
System Software
1 4 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (100.00%) Terraform
2 4 (50.00%) Ansible
3 3 (37.50%) Grafana
3 3 (37.50%) Prometheus
4 1 (12.50%) Kubernetes
4 1 (12.50%) Kustomize
4 1 (12.50%) Puppet
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) CheckPoint
1 2 (25.00%) F5
1 2 (25.00%) Palo Alto
1 2 (25.00%) Splunk
2 1 (12.50%) Zscaler