Infrastructure Automation Contract Job Trends in Wiltshire

Infrastructure Automation
South West > Wiltshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Wiltshire requiring Infrastructure Automation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 56 52 71
Rank change year-on-year -4 +19 -8
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Automation 16 2 6
As % of all contract jobs in Wiltshire 2.69% 0.42% 0.78%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.23% 0.50% 0.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 2 5
10th Percentile £529 £583 -
25th Percentile £569 £603 £514
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £606 £635 £558
Median % change year-on-year -4.53% +13.90% -8.98%
75th Percentile £706 £668 £591
90th Percentile - £687 £630
South West median daily rate £600 £650 £559
% change year-on-year -7.69% +16.33% -6.88%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Wiltshire

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 Wiltshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 496 400 681
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wiltshire 83.50% 84.93% 88.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 335 273 499
10th Percentile £387 £340 £313
25th Percentile £513 £456 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year +6.82% - -
75th Percentile £713 £638 £638
90th Percentile £738 £725 £725
South West median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 4 14
10th Percentile £12.50 - £14.36
25th Percentile £15.00 £12.79 £16.81
Median hourly rate £22.00 £36.40 £46.95
Median % change year-on-year -39.55% -22.48% -28.32%
75th Percentile £24.50 £60.00 £67.75
90th Percentile £25.15 - £74.75
South West median hourly rate £30.00 £65.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -53.85% +8.33% -7.69%

Infrastructure Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Wiltshire

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

Infrastructure Automation job vacancy trend in Wiltshire

Infrastructure Automation
Daily Rate Trend in Wiltshire

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

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

Infrastructure Automation
Daily Rate Histogram in Wiltshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Automation in Wiltshire over the 6 months to 16 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Automation in Wiltshire

Infrastructure Automation
Hourly Rate Trend in Wiltshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Wiltshire citing Infrastructure Automation.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Wiltshire citing Infrastructure Automation

Infrastructure Automation
Contract Job Locations in Wiltshire

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 Wiltshire region over the 6 months to 16 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
Corsham +1 14 £606 +6.36% 5
Swindon 0 2 - -
Infrastructure Automation
South West

Infrastructure Automation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Wiltshire 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 (12.50%) Confluence
Applications
1 5 (31.25%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 5 (31.25%) AWS
2 3 (18.75%) Azure
2 3 (18.75%) Azure DevOps
2 3 (18.75%) GCP
3 2 (12.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 2 (12.50%) Amazon EC2
3 2 (12.50%) Amazon ELB
3 2 (12.50%) Amazon S3
3 2 (12.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 1 (6.25%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (6.25%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 2 (12.50%) DNS
1 2 (12.50%) Firewall
1 2 (12.50%) Network Security
1 2 (12.50%) SSL
1 2 (12.50%) TCP/IP
1 2 (12.50%) VPN
2 1 (6.25%) Software-Defined Networking
Development Applications
1 7 (43.75%) Jenkins
2 5 (31.25%) GitLab
3 4 (25.00%) Git
4 2 (12.50%) Bitbucket
4 2 (12.50%) JIRA
4 2 (12.50%) SonarQube
General
1 6 (37.50%) Public Sector
2 5 (31.25%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (31.25%) Social Skills
3 2 (12.50%) Aerospace
3 2 (12.50%) Finance
4 1 (6.25%) Military
Job Titles
1 11 (68.75%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 10 (62.50%) Automation Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) DevSecOps Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Senior
3 2 (12.50%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Developer
4 1 (6.25%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (25.00%) REST
1 4 (25.00%) SOAP
1 4 (25.00%) Web Services
2 2 (12.50%) Elastic Stack
Operating Systems
1 2 (12.50%) Linux
2 1 (6.25%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (75.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 8 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 6 (37.50%) Deployment Automation
3 6 (37.50%) DevOps
3 6 (37.50%) Infrastructure as Code
4 5 (31.25%) Agile
4 5 (31.25%) DevSecOps
5 4 (25.00%) Containerisation
5 4 (25.00%) Critical Thinking
6 3 (18.75%) Computer Science
6 3 (18.75%) Configuration Management
6 3 (18.75%) Incident Response
6 3 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
7 2 (12.50%) Analytical Thinking
7 2 (12.50%) Continuous Integration
7 2 (12.50%) High Availability
7 2 (12.50%) OWASP
7 2 (12.50%) Root Cause Analysis
7 2 (12.50%) Service Management
7 2 (12.50%) System Testing
Programming Languages
1 8 (50.00%) Python
2 6 (37.50%) Bash
3 5 (31.25%) JavaScript
3 5 (31.25%) PHP
3 5 (31.25%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 14 (87.50%) Security Cleared
2 13 (81.25%) SC Cleared
3 3 (18.75%) Degree
4 2 (12.50%) AWS Certification
4 2 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (6.25%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Azure Certification
5 1 (6.25%) CISSP
5 1 (6.25%) CompTIA Security+
5 1 (6.25%) DV Cleared
5 1 (6.25%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (12.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (6.25%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (6.25%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 1 (6.25%) NCSC
2 1 (6.25%) NIST
System Software
1 6 (37.50%) Docker
2 1 (6.25%) Hyper-V
2 1 (6.25%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (50.00%) Ansible
2 7 (43.75%) Terraform
3 4 (25.00%) Kubernetes
4 3 (18.75%) Grafana
4 3 (18.75%) Prometheus
5 2 (12.50%) Puppet
6 1 (6.25%) Dell DRAC
Vendors
1 3 (18.75%) Splunk
2 2 (12.50%) Atlassian
2 2 (12.50%) CheckPoint
2 2 (12.50%) F5
2 2 (12.50%) Microsoft
2 2 (12.50%) Palo Alto
3 1 (6.25%) Dell
3 1 (6.25%) HP
3 1 (6.25%) VMware