Infrastructure Automation Contracts in Yorkshire

Infrastructure Automation
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Yorkshire 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 73 98 124
Rank change year-on-year +25 +26 +15
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Automation 19 2 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Yorkshire 1.87% 0.12% 0.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.02% 0.14% 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 2 2
10th Percentile £388 £402 £356
25th Percentile £413 £421 £366
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £458 £388
Median % change year-on-year +3.83% +18.06% -26.19%
75th Percentile £500 £501 £416
90th Percentile £590 £523 £429
England median daily rate £525 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 940 1,459 2,094
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 92.43% 86.38% 90.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 586 875 1,388
10th Percentile £246 £265 £296
25th Percentile £363 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -9.52% +9.38%
75th Percentile £550 £577 £600
90th Percentile £638 £650 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 64 61
10th Percentile £13.00 £11.30 -
25th Percentile £17.12 £12.15 £9.80
Median hourly rate £21.24 £13.50 £10.63
Median % change year-on-year +57.33% +27.00% -39.74%
75th Percentile £27.10 £22.00 £20.19
90th Percentile £80.10 £53.75 £56.00
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Infrastructure Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Automation in Yorkshire

Infrastructure Automation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Infrastructure Automation in Yorkshire.

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure Automation in Yorkshire

Infrastructure Automation
Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Automation in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Automation in Yorkshire

Infrastructure Automation
Contract Job Locations in 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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
South Yorkshire +23 16 £463 +18.59% 1
West Yorkshire - 4 £525 - 3
Infrastructure Automation
England

Infrastructure Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 3 (15.79%) GCP
2 2 (10.53%) AWS
2 2 (10.53%) Azure
2 2 (10.53%) OCI
3 1 (5.26%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (5.26%) Amazon S3
3 1 (5.26%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (5.26%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 1 (5.26%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (21.05%) SAN
2 3 (15.79%) DNS
2 3 (15.79%) NAS
3 1 (5.26%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (42.11%) Oracle Database
2 1 (5.26%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (5.26%) Big Data
2 1 (5.26%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 14 (73.68%) Jenkins
2 5 (26.32%) Git
3 3 (15.79%) GitLab
4 1 (5.26%) Cucumber
4 1 (5.26%) JIRA
4 1 (5.26%) Selenium
4 1 (5.26%) TestNG
4 1 (5.26%) Visual Studio
General
1 7 (36.84%) Social Skills
2 6 (31.58%) Finance
3 1 (5.26%) Banking
3 1 (5.26%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (31.58%) Database Engineer
1 6 (31.58%) Oracle Database Engineer
2 4 (21.05%) Automation Engineer
2 4 (21.05%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) Architect
3 2 (10.53%) Developer
3 2 (10.53%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) .NET Software Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Administrator
4 1 (5.26%) Automation Specialist
4 1 (5.26%) Cloud Automation Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) DevOps Automation Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Oracle Developer
4 1 (5.26%) Python Developer
4 1 (5.26%) Software Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Virtualisation Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Virtualisation Specialist
4 1 (5.26%) VMware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (21.05%) Middleware
2 3 (15.79%) RESTful
3 2 (10.53%) REST
4 1 (5.26%) .NET
4 1 (5.26%) Gherkin
4 1 (5.26%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.79%) Data Protection Act
1 3 (15.79%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (10.53%) Enterprise Storage
2 2 (10.53%) Management Information System
3 1 (5.26%) EMC VMAX
3 1 (5.26%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 6 (31.58%) Linux
2 3 (15.79%) Windows
2 3 (15.79%) Windows Server
3 2 (10.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (5.26%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (78.95%) CI/CD
2 10 (52.63%) Problem-Solving
3 8 (42.11%) Performance Tuning
4 6 (31.58%) DevOps
4 6 (31.58%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 5 (26.32%) Agile
6 4 (21.05%) Containerisation
6 4 (21.05%) Infrastructure as Code
6 4 (21.05%) Scrum
7 3 (15.79%) Data Protection
7 3 (15.79%) Kanban
7 3 (15.79%) Migration
8 2 (10.53%) Analytics
8 2 (10.53%) Computer Science
8 2 (10.53%) High Availability
8 2 (10.53%) Task Automation
8 2 (10.53%) Virtual Environments
9 1 (5.26%) BDD
9 1 (5.26%) Infrastructure Management
9 1 (5.26%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 12 (63.16%) Python
2 7 (36.84%) Shell Script
3 4 (21.05%) PowerShell
4 1 (5.26%) ActionScript
4 1 (5.26%) ActionScript 2.0
4 1 (5.26%) Bash
4 1 (5.26%) C#
4 1 (5.26%) Groovy
4 1 (5.26%) Scala
4 1 (5.26%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (26.32%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 4 (21.05%) OCP
2 4 (21.05%) Oracle Certification
3 2 (10.53%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (10.53%) Degree
4 1 (5.26%) IBM Certification
System Software
1 11 (57.89%) vSphere
2 10 (52.63%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (21.05%) Docker
4 3 (15.79%) Active Directory
4 3 (15.79%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (15.79%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 15 (78.95%) Ansible
2 5 (26.32%) Kubernetes
3 4 (21.05%) Terraform
3 4 (21.05%) vRealize
4 3 (15.79%) vCenter Server
5 1 (5.26%) Progress Chef
5 1 (5.26%) Puppet
5 1 (5.26%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 11 (57.89%) VMware
2 8 (42.11%) Oracle
3 2 (10.53%) Databricks
3 2 (10.53%) Google
3 2 (10.53%) Red Hat
4 1 (5.26%) 3PAR
4 1 (5.26%) Brocade
4 1 (5.26%) Cisco
4 1 (5.26%) EMC
4 1 (5.26%) HP
4 1 (5.26%) IBM
4 1 (5.26%) IBM Sterling