Infrastructure Automation Contracts in Central London

Infrastructure Automation
London > Central London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London with 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 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 128 156 186
Rank change year-on-year +28 +30 -27
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Automation 9 15 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.38% 0.40% 0.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.41% 0.44% 0.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 13 8
10th Percentile £300 £530 £505
25th Percentile £356 £575 £559
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £700 £588
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% +19.15% -6.00%
75th Percentile £600 £738 £975
90th Percentile £626 - -
London median daily rate £525 £625 £550
% change year-on-year -16.00% +13.64% +4.76%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Central London

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 advertised in Central London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,175 3,404 4,137
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 90.78% 91.26% 92.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,537 2,302 3,146
10th Percentile £350 £325 £364
25th Percentile £450 £463 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £565
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +6.19% +7.62%
75th Percentile £675 £725 £688
90th Percentile £799 £813 £775
London median daily rate £550 £590 £575
% change year-on-year -6.78% +2.61% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 28 45
10th Percentile £20.22 £14.25 £18.50
25th Percentile £23.03 £16.33 £25.25
Median hourly rate £27.81 £35.00 £41.50
Median % change year-on-year -20.54% -15.66% +107.50%
75th Percentile £32.09 £53.19 £55.25
90th Percentile £41.65 £88.30 £62.50
London median hourly rate £28.00 £39.00 £35.50
% change year-on-year -28.21% +9.86% +8.07%

Infrastructure Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Automation in Central London

Infrastructure Automation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure Automation in Central London

Infrastructure Automation
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Automation in Central London over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Automation in Central London

Infrastructure Automation
Contract Job Locations in Central London

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 Central London region over the 6 months to 2 June 2024. 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
City of London +35 9 £525 -25.00%
Infrastructure Automation
London

Infrastructure Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London 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 (33.33%) Azure
2 2 (22.22%) AWS CloudFormation
2 2 (22.22%) Entra ID
3 1 (11.11%) AWS
3 1 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (11.11%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (11.11%) GCP
3 1 (11.11%) Microsoft 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (22.22%) GitLab
2 1 (11.11%) Git
2 1 (11.11%) Jenkins
General
1 4 (44.44%) Finance
1 4 (44.44%) Social Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Banking
Job Titles
1 3 (33.33%) Cloud Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Cloud Platform Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Platform Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Active Directory Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Automation Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Consultant
3 1 (11.11%) Delivery Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Systems Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) VMware Consultant
3 1 (11.11%) VMware Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Windows Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Windows Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (22.22%) LDAP
1 2 (22.22%) SAML
2 1 (11.11%) OAuth
2 1 (11.11%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) CMDB
2 1 (11.11%) Clustering
2 1 (11.11%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 2 (22.22%) Windows
2 1 (11.11%) Windows Server
2 1 (11.11%) Windows Server 2012
2 1 (11.11%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (55.56%) DevOps
2 4 (44.44%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (22.22%) Agile
3 2 (22.22%) CI/CD
3 2 (22.22%) Identity Access Management
3 2 (22.22%) ITIL
3 2 (22.22%) Platform Engineering
3 2 (22.22%) Product Management
3 2 (22.22%) SDLC
3 2 (22.22%) Software Engineering
4 1 (11.11%) Backlog Prioritisation
4 1 (11.11%) Change Management
4 1 (11.11%) Cloud Security
4 1 (11.11%) Identity Management
4 1 (11.11%) Open Source
4 1 (11.11%) Release Automation
4 1 (11.11%) Release Management
4 1 (11.11%) Risk Assessment
4 1 (11.11%) Task Automation
4 1 (11.11%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 4 (44.44%) SQL
2 3 (33.33%) Python
3 2 (22.22%) Bash
3 2 (22.22%) Java
3 2 (22.22%) PowerShell
4 1 (11.11%) C#
4 1 (11.11%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) SC Cleared
1 1 (11.11%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 3 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (22.22%) Active Directory
2 2 (22.22%) Docker
2 2 (22.22%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 4 (44.44%) Kubernetes
1 4 (44.44%) Terraform
2 1 (11.11%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 1 (11.11%) Ansible
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Clustering
2 1 (11.11%) SCCM
2 1 (11.11%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (11.11%) vRealize
2 1 (11.11%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 3 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 3 (33.33%) VMware