Infrastructure Automation Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Infrastructure Automation
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 215 286 365
Rank change year-on-year +71 +79 +78
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Automation 87 63 109
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.88% 0.41% 0.42%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.96% 0.47% 0.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 61 29 74
10th Percentile £380 £460 £440
25th Percentile £413 £487 £484
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £535 £545
Median % change year-on-year -4.21% -1.83% -6.03%
75th Percentile £607 £591 £678
90th Percentile £650 £675 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £624 £550
% change year-on-year -15.83% +13.41% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 0
Median hourly rate - £71.87 -
UK median hourly rate - £71.87 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 9,017 13,465 23,106
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 91.06% 87.90% 89.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,189 8,984 16,334
10th Percentile £340 £325 £363
25th Percentile £419 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 221 579 532
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.17 £19.00
25th Percentile £19.75 £25.25 £30.54
Median hourly rate £39.00 £43.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -9.30% -21.82% +57.14%
75th Percentile £66.50 £60.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.25 £80.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.50 £36.42
% change year-on-year -18.31% -2.53% +45.69%

Infrastructure Automation
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Infrastructure Automation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Infrastructure Automation trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Infrastructure Automation
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options 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 remote working options citing Infrastructure Automation over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

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 remote working options citing Infrastructure Automation.

Infrastructure Automation hourly rate 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 5 (5.75%) nginx
1 5 (5.75%) OpenStack
2 4 (4.60%) Apache Spark
3 3 (3.45%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (3.45%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.15%) Apache
4 1 (1.15%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (1.15%) Notion
1 1 (1.15%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (1.15%) Distributed Ledger
1 1 (1.15%) SAP HCM
1 1 (1.15%) SAP IBP
1 1 (1.15%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 49 (56.32%) Azure
2 39 (44.83%) AWS
3 18 (20.69%) GCP
4 13 (14.94%) GitHub
5 12 (13.79%) AWS CloudFormation
6 11 (12.64%) Azure DevOps
7 10 (11.49%) GitHub Actions
7 10 (11.49%) Serverless
8 7 (8.05%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 7 (8.05%) Entra ID
9 6 (6.90%) Azure AKS
9 6 (6.90%) Microsoft 365
9 6 (6.90%) Snowflake
10 5 (5.75%) AWS Lambda
10 5 (5.75%) OpenShift
11 4 (4.60%) Azure Monitor
12 3 (3.45%) Amazon S3
12 3 (3.45%) Azure ExpressRoute
12 3 (3.45%) OneDrive
12 3 (3.45%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (13.79%) Firewall
2 8 (9.20%) TCP/IP
3 7 (8.05%) DNS
4 4 (4.60%) HTTP
4 4 (4.60%) Reverse Proxy
4 4 (4.60%) VPN
5 3 (3.45%) Network Security
5 3 (3.45%) Skype
6 2 (2.30%) DHCP
7 1 (1.15%) HTTPS
7 1 (1.15%) InfiniBand
7 1 (1.15%) iSCSI
7 1 (1.15%) Software-Defined Networking
7 1 (1.15%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (10.34%) Hadoop
2 7 (8.05%) Data Warehouse
2 7 (8.05%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (5.75%) NoSQL
3 5 (5.75%) Oracle Database
4 4 (4.60%) Apache Hive
4 4 (4.60%) Apache Iceberg
4 4 (4.60%) Data Lake
4 4 (4.60%) Parquet
4 4 (4.60%) Presto
5 2 (2.30%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
5 2 (2.30%) DynamoDB
5 2 (2.30%) Redis
5 2 (2.30%) SQL Server
5 2 (2.30%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 2 (2.30%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (1.15%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (1.15%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (1.15%) Big Data
6 1 (1.15%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 26 (29.89%) Jenkins
2 22 (25.29%) GitLab
3 10 (11.49%) Git
4 6 (6.90%) JIRA
5 4 (4.60%) NUnit
5 4 (4.60%) Poetry
6 3 (3.45%) Bitbucket
6 3 (3.45%) TeamCity
7 2 (2.30%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 2 (2.30%) CircleCI
7 2 (2.30%) JUnit
7 2 (2.30%) Maven
7 2 (2.30%) Mockito
7 2 (2.30%) Postman
7 2 (2.30%) REST Assured
7 2 (2.30%) SoapUI
7 2 (2.30%) SonarQube
7 2 (2.30%) Subversion
7 2 (2.30%) Xcode
7 2 (2.30%) XCTest
General
1 15 (17.24%) Finance
2 14 (16.09%) Public Sector
2 14 (16.09%) Social Skills
3 8 (9.20%) Banking
4 4 (4.60%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (4.60%) Legal
5 3 (3.45%) Telecoms
6 2 (2.30%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (2.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.15%) Digital Health
7 1 (1.15%) Police
Job Titles
1 28 (32.18%) DevOps Engineer
2 13 (14.94%) Senior
3 11 (12.64%) Cloud Engineer
4 9 (10.34%) Architect
4 9 (10.34%) Azure Engineer
4 9 (10.34%) Developer
4 9 (10.34%) Senior DevOps
4 9 (10.34%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 8 (9.20%) AWS Engineer
5 8 (9.20%) Lead
5 8 (9.20%) Platform Engineer
6 7 (8.05%) AWS DevOps
6 7 (8.05%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 7 (8.05%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 5 (5.75%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 4 (4.60%) Automation Engineer
8 4 (4.60%) Cloud Platform Engineer
8 4 (4.60%) Data Architect
8 4 (4.60%) Senior Cloud Engineer
8 4 (4.60%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (12.64%) .NET
2 7 (8.05%) ARM Templates
3 6 (6.90%) Kafka
3 6 (6.90%) React
3 6 (6.90%) REST
4 5 (5.75%) Elastic Stack
4 5 (5.75%) OAuth
4 5 (5.75%) OpenID
4 5 (5.75%) RESTful
4 5 (5.75%) SOAP
5 4 (4.60%) .NET Core
5 4 (4.60%) ASP.NET
5 4 (4.60%) Dask
5 4 (4.60%) LAPP Stack
6 2 (2.30%) CSS
6 2 (2.30%) Hibernate
6 2 (2.30%) HTML5
6 2 (2.30%) Node.js
6 2 (2.30%) Spring
6 2 (2.30%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 13 (14.94%) Cloud Native
2 8 (9.20%) Enterprise Software
3 5 (5.75%) Data Centre
4 4 (4.60%) Private Cloud
5 3 (3.45%) Hybrid Cloud
5 3 (3.45%) Management Information System
5 3 (3.45%) Public Cloud
6 2 (2.30%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (2.30%) Product Ownership
7 1 (1.15%) Blockchain
7 1 (1.15%) Enterprise Cloud
7 1 (1.15%) Fibre Optics
7 1 (1.15%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.15%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (1.15%) Mainframe
7 1 (1.15%) NHS
7 1 (1.15%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.15%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 28 (32.18%) Linux
2 13 (14.94%) Windows
3 7 (8.05%) Unix
4 5 (5.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (3.45%) AIX
6 1 (1.15%) Data ONTAP
6 1 (1.15%) SUSE
6 1 (1.15%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (65.52%) DevOps
2 55 (63.22%) CI/CD
3 43 (49.43%) Infrastructure as Code
4 28 (32.18%) Containerisation
5 20 (22.99%) Agile
6 15 (17.24%) Configuration Management
6 15 (17.24%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 13 (14.94%) Migration
7 13 (14.94%) Platform Engineering
8 12 (13.79%) Problem-Solving
9 11 (12.64%) Continuous Integration
9 11 (12.64%) Full-Stack Development
9 11 (12.64%) High Availability
10 10 (11.49%) Task Automation
11 9 (10.34%) Analytics
11 9 (10.34%) Deployment Automation
11 9 (10.34%) Microservices
12 8 (9.20%) Test Automation
12 8 (9.20%) User Experience
13 7 (8.05%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 35 (40.23%) Python
2 20 (22.99%) Bash
3 17 (19.54%) PowerShell
4 10 (11.49%) SQL
5 9 (10.34%) C#
6 6 (6.90%) Shell Script
7 5 (5.75%) TypeScript
8 4 (4.60%) Java
9 3 (3.45%) Bicep
10 2 (2.30%) Go
10 2 (2.30%) Groovy
10 2 (2.30%) JavaScript
10 2 (2.30%) T-SQL
11 1 (1.15%) ActionScript
11 1 (1.15%) ActionScript 2.0
11 1 (1.15%) COBOL
11 1 (1.15%) JCL
11 1 (1.15%) Perl
11 1 (1.15%) Rust
Qualifications
1 14 (16.09%) Security Cleared
2 13 (14.94%) SC Cleared
3 3 (3.45%) RHCSA
4 2 (2.30%) AWS Certification
4 2 (2.30%) Degree
4 2 (2.30%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 1 (1.15%) AWS Certified Developer
5 1 (1.15%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (1.15%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.15%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.15%) CCNP
5 1 (1.15%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (1.15%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.15%) IBM Certification
5 1 (1.15%) OCA
5 1 (1.15%) Oracle Certification
5 1 (1.15%) RHCA
5 1 (1.15%) RHCE
5 1 (1.15%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.75%) QA
2 4 (4.60%) Accessibility
3 3 (3.45%) NIST
4 1 (1.15%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (1.15%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 1 (1.15%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (1.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.15%) NCSC
System Software
1 36 (41.38%) Docker
2 9 (10.34%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (6.90%) Active Directory
4 3 (3.45%) Hyper-V
4 3 (3.45%) vSphere
5 2 (2.30%) Ceph
5 2 (2.30%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (1.15%) KVM
6 1 (1.15%) NFS
6 1 (1.15%) Veritas Cluster Server
6 1 (1.15%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (1.15%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 60 (68.97%) Terraform
2 46 (52.87%) Kubernetes
3 37 (42.53%) Ansible
4 11 (12.64%) Puppet
5 8 (9.20%) Microsoft Intune
5 8 (9.20%) Progress Chef
6 6 (6.90%) Grafana
6 6 (6.90%) Prometheus
7 3 (3.45%) Argo
7 3 (3.45%) SCCM
8 2 (2.30%) Nagios
8 2 (2.30%) ZABBIX
9 1 (1.15%) HAProxy
9 1 (1.15%) Istio
9 1 (1.15%) Kibana
9 1 (1.15%) Kubeflow
9 1 (1.15%) linkerd
9 1 (1.15%) logstash
9 1 (1.15%) Red Hat Satellite
9 1 (1.15%) WSUS
Vendors
1 12 (13.79%) Microsoft
1 12 (13.79%) VMware
2 8 (9.20%) Red Hat
3 7 (8.05%) Oracle
3 7 (8.05%) Splunk
4 5 (5.75%) Databricks
5 4 (4.60%) SAP
6 3 (3.45%) Dynatrace
7 2 (2.30%) CA Agile Central
7 2 (2.30%) Google
7 2 (2.30%) ServiceNow
8 1 (1.15%) Ariba
8 1 (1.15%) Cisco
8 1 (1.15%) Commvault
8 1 (1.15%) IBM
8 1 (1.15%) IBM Sterling
8 1 (1.15%) New Relic
8 1 (1.15%) Salesforce
8 1 (1.15%) Teradata
8 1 (1.15%) Zuora