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 23 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 68 74 119
Rank change year-on-year +6 +45 +19
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Automation 39 31 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Yorkshire 2.79% 1.90% 0.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.04% 2.28% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 30 2
10th Percentile £384 £288 £568
25th Percentile £406 £381 £594
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £400 £650
Median % change year-on-year +18.75% -38.46% +73.33%
75th Percentile £500 £419 £719
90th Percentile £600 £600 £753
England median daily rate £500 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -9.09% -4.35% +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 1,285 1,361 1,910
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 91.92% 83.50% 89.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 796 830 1,238
10th Percentile £263 £300 £281
25th Percentile £375 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £550 £579 £625
90th Percentile £625 £650 £700
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 61 55 32
10th Percentile £16.25 - £12.12
25th Percentile £18.35 £12.15 £17.42
Median hourly rate £22.14 £13.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +64.00% -32.50% +6.81%
75th Percentile £25.15 £21.75 £25.31
90th Percentile £34.15 £42.75 £48.53
England median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -37.13% -5.88% +63.46%

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 23 July 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 23 July 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 31 £449 -14.33% 7
West Yorkshire -15 8 £500 +25.00%
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (2.56%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 14 (35.90%) AWS
2 10 (25.64%) Serverless
3 8 (20.51%) GCP
4 6 (15.38%) AWS Lambda
4 6 (15.38%) GitHub
4 6 (15.38%) GitHub Actions
5 4 (10.26%) Amazon EKS
5 4 (10.26%) Azure
6 3 (7.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 3 (7.69%) Amazon ECS
6 3 (7.69%) Amazon ElastiCache
6 3 (7.69%) Amazon SQS
7 2 (5.13%) Amazon GuardDuty
7 2 (5.13%) Amazon Macie
7 2 (5.13%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (5.13%) AWS CloudTrail
7 2 (5.13%) AWS Direct Connect
7 2 (5.13%) AWS Fargate
7 2 (5.13%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (5.13%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 10 (25.64%) DNS
2 7 (17.95%) SAN
3 6 (15.38%) NAS
4 5 (12.82%) Firewall
5 3 (7.69%) SSL
5 3 (7.69%) TCP/IP
6 2 (5.13%) Network Security
6 2 (5.13%) VPN
7 1 (2.56%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 1 (2.56%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (20.51%) Oracle Database
2 4 (10.26%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (10.26%) NoSQL
3 3 (7.69%) DynamoDB
4 1 (2.56%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 29 (74.36%) Jenkins
2 13 (33.33%) GitLab
3 11 (28.21%) Git
4 5 (12.82%) Liquibase
5 2 (5.13%) JIRA
6 1 (2.56%) Cucumber
6 1 (2.56%) Selenium
6 1 (2.56%) TestNG
6 1 (2.56%) Visual Studio
General
1 17 (43.59%) Social Skills
2 13 (33.33%) Finance
3 5 (12.82%) Banking
4 4 (10.26%) Financial Institution
5 2 (5.13%) Public Sector
6 1 (2.56%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (28.21%) DevOps Engineer
2 6 (15.38%) Automation Engineer
2 6 (15.38%) Database Engineer
2 6 (15.38%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 6 (15.38%) Oracle Database Engineer
3 4 (10.26%) Python Engineer
4 3 (7.69%) Cloud Engineer
4 3 (7.69%) Lead
4 3 (7.69%) Migration Specialist
4 3 (7.69%) Server Migration Specialist
4 3 (7.69%) Server Specialist
5 2 (5.13%) Administrator
5 2 (5.13%) Developer
5 2 (5.13%) Lead DevOps
5 2 (5.13%) Lead DevOps Engineer
5 2 (5.13%) Senior
5 2 (5.13%) Software Engineer
5 2 (5.13%) VMWare Administrator
5 2 (5.13%) VMware Engineer
6 1 (2.56%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (17.95%) Middleware
1 7 (17.95%) RESTful
2 6 (15.38%) Elastic Stack
2 6 (15.38%) REST
3 2 (5.13%) React
4 1 (2.56%) .NET
4 1 (2.56%) Gherkin
4 1 (2.56%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 9 (23.08%) Cloud Native
2 4 (10.26%) Data Protection Act
2 4 (10.26%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (10.26%) Management Information System
2 4 (10.26%) Public Cloud
3 3 (7.69%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (5.13%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 2 (5.13%) Enterprise Storage
4 2 (5.13%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (2.56%) EMC VMAX
5 1 (2.56%) NHS
5 1 (2.56%) Onboarding
5 1 (2.56%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 14 (35.90%) Linux
2 7 (17.95%) Windows
3 6 (15.38%) Windows Server
4 2 (5.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (5.13%) VMS
5 1 (2.56%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (71.79%) CI/CD
2 20 (51.28%) DevOps
3 18 (46.15%) Problem-Solving
4 17 (43.59%) Agile
5 16 (41.03%) Infrastructure as Code
6 11 (28.21%) Containerisation
7 10 (25.64%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 9 (23.08%) Migration
9 8 (20.51%) Computer Science
9 8 (20.51%) Performance Tuning
9 8 (20.51%) Software Engineering
10 7 (17.95%) High Availability
10 7 (17.95%) Scrum
11 6 (15.38%) Cost Optimisation
11 6 (15.38%) Kanban
12 5 (12.82%) Change Management
12 5 (12.82%) Cybersecurity
13 4 (10.26%) Cryptography
13 4 (10.26%) Data Security
13 4 (10.26%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 27 (69.23%) Python
2 11 (28.21%) PowerShell
2 11 (28.21%) Shell Script
3 5 (12.82%) Go
4 3 (7.69%) Bash
5 2 (5.13%) Groovy
5 2 (5.13%) Java
5 2 (5.13%) JavaScript
5 2 (5.13%) TypeScript
6 1 (2.56%) ActionScript
6 1 (2.56%) ActionScript 2.0
6 1 (2.56%) C#
6 1 (2.56%) SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (20.51%) Computer Science Degree
1 8 (20.51%) Degree
2 6 (15.38%) AWS Certification
2 6 (15.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 6 (15.38%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 4 (10.26%) Master's Degree
3 4 (10.26%) OCP
3 4 (10.26%) Oracle Certification
3 4 (10.26%) Security Cleared
4 3 (7.69%) SC Cleared
5 2 (5.13%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (2.56%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (2.56%) IBM Certification
6 1 (2.56%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.13%) Actionable Recommendations
1 2 (5.13%) GDPR
1 2 (5.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (5.13%) NIST
1 2 (5.13%) SOC 2
System Software
1 15 (38.46%) VMware Infrastructure
1 15 (38.46%) vSphere
2 11 (28.21%) Docker
3 7 (17.95%) VMware NSX
4 6 (15.38%) Active Directory
4 6 (15.38%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (2.56%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (2.56%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 30 (76.92%) Ansible
2 18 (46.15%) Terraform
3 12 (30.77%) Kubernetes
4 8 (20.51%) Grafana
4 8 (20.51%) Prometheus
5 7 (17.95%) vCenter Server
5 7 (17.95%) vRealize
6 3 (7.69%) Puppet
7 2 (5.13%) Kustomize
8 1 (2.56%) PowerCLI
8 1 (2.56%) Progress Chef
8 1 (2.56%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 18 (46.15%) VMware
2 8 (20.51%) Oracle
3 7 (17.95%) Splunk
4 5 (12.82%) Google
5 4 (10.26%) F5
5 4 (10.26%) Microsoft
6 3 (7.69%) Databricks
7 2 (5.13%) Red Hat
8 1 (2.56%) 3PAR
8 1 (2.56%) Broadcom
8 1 (2.56%) Brocade
8 1 (2.56%) Cisco
8 1 (2.56%) Citrix
8 1 (2.56%) EMC
8 1 (2.56%) HP
8 1 (2.56%) IBM
8 1 (2.56%) IBM Sterling