Infrastructure Automation Contracts with Work from Home Options

Infrastructure Automation
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for Infrastructure Automation skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Infrastructure Automation over the 6 months to 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 287 372 439
Rank change year-on-year +85 +67 -64
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Automation 61 104 183
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.40% 0.41% 0.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.46% 0.45% 0.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 70 148
10th Percentile £458 £425 £413
25th Percentile £481 £481 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £536 £545 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.65% -5.22% +15.00%
75th Percentile £591 £678 £650
90th Percentile £675 £738 £704
UK median daily rate £645 £550 £550
% change year-on-year +17.27% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £65.31 - -
25th Percentile £69.53 - -
Median hourly rate £71.87 - -
75th Percentile £74.15 - -
90th Percentile £78.26 - -
UK median hourly rate £71.87 - £49.54
% change year-on-year - - +23.85%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

Infrastructure Automation is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,319 22,924 40,623
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.90% 89.76% 91.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,917 16,193 29,494
10th Percentile £325 £363 £362
25th Percentile £425 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +8.25%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £630
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 575 527 541
10th Percentile £15.17 £18.67 £13.75
25th Percentile £24.63 £30.00 £20.00
Median hourly rate £42.50 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.73% +57.14% +40.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £68.75 £55.25
90th Percentile £75.15 £80.25 £67.50
UK median hourly rate £35.95 £35.80 £25.00
% change year-on-year +0.42% +43.20% +2.04%

Infrastructure Automation
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Infrastructure Automation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Infrastructure Automation trend for jobs with a WFH option

Infrastructure Automation
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Infrastructure Automation.

Infrastructure Automation daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Infrastructure Automation
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Infrastructure Automation over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Infrastructure Automation daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Infrastructure Automation
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Infrastructure Automation.

Infrastructure Automation hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Infrastructure Automation
Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Infrastructure Automation over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Infrastructure Automation hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Infrastructure Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (4.92%) Confluence
2 1 (1.64%) Apache
2 1 (1.64%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.64%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 3 (4.92%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 22 (36.07%) Azure
2 20 (32.79%) AWS
3 10 (16.39%) IaaS
4 9 (14.75%) Azure DevOps
5 8 (13.11%) GCP
6 6 (9.84%) Amazon EKS
7 5 (8.20%) GitHub
7 5 (8.20%) OpenShift
7 5 (8.20%) Serverless
8 4 (6.56%) Dynamics 365
9 3 (4.92%) Azure API Management
9 3 (4.92%) Azure Batch
9 3 (4.92%) Azure Functions
9 3 (4.92%) Azure Key Vault
9 3 (4.92%) Azure Logic Apps
9 3 (4.92%) Azure Service Bus
9 3 (4.92%) Azure Storage
9 3 (4.92%) Power Automate
9 3 (4.92%) Power Platform
9 3 (4.92%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 9 (14.75%) TCP/IP
2 5 (8.20%) Firewall
2 5 (8.20%) HTTP
3 2 (3.28%) Fibre Channel
3 2 (3.28%) Network Security
3 2 (3.28%) SAN
3 2 (3.28%) SSL
4 1 (1.64%) BGP
4 1 (1.64%) Cisco ASA
4 1 (1.64%) DNS
4 1 (1.64%) EIGRP
4 1 (1.64%) IPsec
4 1 (1.64%) OSPF
4 1 (1.64%) SD-WAN
4 1 (1.64%) VoIP
4 1 (1.64%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (4.92%) Azure SQL Database
1 3 (4.92%) Big Data
1 3 (4.92%) Data Lake
1 3 (4.92%) Data Warehouse
1 3 (4.92%) OLTP
1 3 (4.92%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.64%) Amazon Aurora
2 1 (1.64%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (1.64%) Apache Cassandra
2 1 (1.64%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
2 1 (1.64%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (1.64%) NoSQL
2 1 (1.64%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (1.64%) Redis
2 1 (1.64%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 14 (22.95%) Git
1 14 (22.95%) Jenkins
2 9 (14.75%) JIRA
3 6 (9.84%) Bitbucket
4 5 (8.20%) GitLab
5 4 (6.56%) SonarQube
6 3 (4.92%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 3 (4.92%) Visual Studio Team System
7 2 (3.28%) Artifactory
7 2 (3.28%) Maven
7 2 (3.28%) Snyk
7 2 (3.28%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (1.64%) Bitbucket Server
8 1 (1.64%) Cucumber
8 1 (1.64%) JMeter
8 1 (1.64%) JUnit
8 1 (1.64%) Selenium
General
1 16 (26.23%) Social Skills
2 6 (9.84%) Finance
2 6 (9.84%) Public Sector
3 2 (3.28%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (3.28%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (1.64%) Danish Language
4 1 (1.64%) Electronics
4 1 (1.64%) Manufacturing
4 1 (1.64%) Marketing
4 1 (1.64%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 10 (16.39%) Senior
2 9 (14.75%) DevOps Engineer
2 9 (14.75%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 8 (13.11%) Developer
4 7 (11.48%) Automation Engineer
4 7 (11.48%) Consultant
5 5 (8.20%) Linux Engineer
5 5 (8.20%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
5 5 (8.20%) Python Engineer
6 4 (6.56%) Azure Engineer
6 4 (6.56%) Cloud Engineer
6 4 (6.56%) Splunk Consultant
6 4 (6.56%) Storage Engineer
6 4 (6.56%) VMware Engineer
6 4 (6.56%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
7 3 (4.92%) Delivery Manager
7 3 (4.92%) Kubernetes Consultant
7 3 (4.92%) Lead
7 3 (4.92%) Software Engineer
7 3 (4.92%) WebOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (11.48%) XML
2 6 (9.84%) .NET
2 6 (9.84%) JSON
3 5 (8.20%) Elastic Stack
3 5 (8.20%) REST
4 3 (4.92%) .NET Core
4 3 (4.92%) AngularJS
4 3 (4.92%) ARM Templates
4 3 (4.92%) Node.js
4 3 (4.92%) RESTful
4 3 (4.92%) SOAP
4 3 (4.92%) Web Services
4 3 (4.92%) YAML
5 2 (3.28%) OAuth
5 2 (3.28%) OpenID
5 2 (3.28%) React
5 2 (3.28%) SAML
6 1 (1.64%) Flask
6 1 (1.64%) RxJava
6 1 (1.64%) Twisted
Miscellaneous
1 5 (8.20%) Data Centre
2 4 (6.56%) CMDB
3 3 (4.92%) Distributed Applications
4 2 (3.28%) Enterprise Storage
4 2 (3.28%) PKI
4 2 (3.28%) Private Cloud
4 2 (3.28%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.64%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.64%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.64%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.64%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.64%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.64%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 17 (27.87%) Linux
2 10 (16.39%) Windows
3 4 (6.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (6.56%) Unix
4 2 (3.28%) VMS
4 2 (3.28%) Windows 2000
4 2 (3.28%) Windows XP
5 1 (1.64%) Windows Server
5 1 (1.64%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (1.64%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (49.18%) DevOps
2 25 (40.98%) Agile
3 21 (34.43%) Infrastructure as Code
4 18 (29.51%) CI/CD
5 17 (27.87%) Test Automation
6 12 (19.67%) Continuous Integration
7 10 (16.39%) Configuration Management
8 9 (14.75%) Deployment Automation
8 9 (14.75%) ITSM
9 8 (13.11%) Scrum
10 7 (11.48%) Continuous Delivery
10 7 (11.48%) GitOps
10 7 (11.48%) Migration
10 7 (11.48%) Open Source
10 7 (11.48%) Task Automation
11 6 (9.84%) Containerisation
11 6 (9.84%) Continuous Deployment
11 6 (9.84%) Software Engineering
12 5 (8.20%) Use Case
12 5 (8.20%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 20 (32.79%) Python
2 19 (31.15%) PowerShell
3 12 (19.67%) Java
4 9 (14.75%) Go
5 7 (11.48%) Bash
6 6 (9.84%) C#
7 5 (8.20%) JavaScript
7 5 (8.20%) Perl
7 5 (8.20%) PHP
8 3 (4.92%) Bicep
8 3 (4.92%) Ruby
9 2 (3.28%) Shell Script
10 1 (1.64%) Kotlin
10 1 (1.64%) SQL
Qualifications
1 13 (21.31%) SC Cleared
1 13 (21.31%) Security Cleared
2 4 (6.56%) DV Cleared
3 1 (1.64%) AWS Certification
3 1 (1.64%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.28%) QA
2 1 (1.64%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.64%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 12 (19.67%) Docker
2 6 (9.84%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (6.56%) vSphere
4 3 (4.92%) Active Directory
4 3 (4.92%) vCloud
4 3 (4.92%) VMware NSX
5 2 (3.28%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 29 (47.54%) Terraform
2 22 (36.07%) Ansible
3 13 (21.31%) Kubernetes
4 8 (13.11%) Puppet
5 4 (6.56%) Progress Chef
6 3 (4.92%) Autotask
6 3 (4.92%) PowerCLI
7 2 (3.28%) Argo
7 2 (3.28%) Grafana
7 2 (3.28%) Prometheus
8 1 (1.64%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (1.64%) Kibana
8 1 (1.64%) logstash
8 1 (1.64%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (1.64%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 12 (19.67%) VMware
2 11 (18.03%) Microsoft
3 7 (11.48%) Red Hat
4 5 (8.20%) Splunk
5 3 (4.92%) Arista
5 3 (4.92%) Atlassian
5 3 (4.92%) BMC
5 3 (4.92%) Dell
5 3 (4.92%) Google
5 3 (4.92%) HP
5 3 (4.92%) Oracle
5 3 (4.92%) Remedy
5 3 (4.92%) TOWER Software
6 2 (3.28%) Brocade
6 2 (3.28%) CyberArk
6 2 (3.28%) Fortinet
6 2 (3.28%) Juniper
6 2 (3.28%) Mercator
7 1 (1.64%) F5
7 1 (1.64%) SolarWinds