Infrastructure Automation Contracts in England

Infrastructure Automation
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 408 513 510
Rank change year-on-year +105 -3 -54
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Automation 123 127 272
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.34% 0.26% 0.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.39% 0.29% 0.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 73 93 223
10th Percentile £400 £431 £425
25th Percentile £475 £500 £478
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £550 £545
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +0.92% +9.00%
75th Percentile £700 £700 £631
90th Percentile - £775 £716
UK median daily rate £625 £550 £550
% change year-on-year +13.64% - +10.00%
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 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,464 43,415 63,929
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.38% 90.10% 90.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,624 30,476 45,458
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £448 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £765 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +7.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,249 1,526 1,738
10th Percentile £12.92 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.95 £16.20 £15.25
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.40 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.29% +45.58% +8.70%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £36.05 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +0.13% +40.19% +7.00%

Infrastructure Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Automation in England

Infrastructure Automation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure Automation in England

Infrastructure Automation
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Automation in England over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Automation in England

Infrastructure Automation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Infrastructure Automation in England.

Hourly rate trend for Infrastructure Automation in England

Infrastructure Automation
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Infrastructure Automation in England over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Infrastructure Automation in England

Infrastructure Automation
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 18 May 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
London +90 65 £538 -20.07% 33
South West +31 34 £700 +27.27% 7
North of England +36 14 £475 -3.80% 14
North West +26 13 £475 -11.63% 10
South East +31 10 £613 +11.36% 14
Midlands +18 2 £625 +38.12% 4
West Midlands +18 1 - - 4
East Midlands +14 1 £625 +30.21%
Yorkshire +13 1 £390 +0.65% 2
Infrastructure Automation
UK

Infrastructure Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 26 (21.14%) Confluence
2 5 (4.07%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (3.25%) Apache
4 3 (2.44%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (1.63%) Exchange Server 2010
5 2 (1.63%) Exchange Server 2013
6 1 (0.81%) Apache Solr
6 1 (0.81%) IIS
6 1 (0.81%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.81%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.81%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 40 (32.52%) Azure
2 38 (30.89%) AWS
3 20 (16.26%) GCP
4 17 (13.82%) Azure DevOps
5 15 (12.20%) Serverless
6 8 (6.50%) PaaS
7 7 (5.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 7 (5.69%) AWS Lambda
7 7 (5.69%) Azure Logic Apps
7 7 (5.69%) Entra ID
7 7 (5.69%) IaaS
8 6 (4.88%) Azure API Management
8 6 (4.88%) Azure Batch
8 6 (4.88%) Azure Functions
8 6 (4.88%) Azure Key Vault
8 6 (4.88%) Azure Service Bus
8 6 (4.88%) Azure Storage
8 6 (4.88%) Power Automate
8 6 (4.88%) Power Platform
8 6 (4.88%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 9 (7.32%) TCP/IP
2 8 (6.50%) Firewall
3 6 (4.88%) DNS
4 5 (4.07%) HTTP
5 4 (3.25%) DHCP
5 4 (3.25%) Network Security
6 3 (2.44%) NAS
6 3 (2.44%) SAN
6 3 (2.44%) SNA
6 3 (2.44%) Software-Defined Networking
6 3 (2.44%) VPN
6 3 (2.44%) VSAN
7 2 (1.63%) DKIM
7 2 (1.63%) DMARC
7 2 (1.63%) InfiniBand
7 2 (1.63%) IPsec
8 1 (0.81%) Internet
8 1 (0.81%) OSPF
8 1 (0.81%) S/MIME
8 1 (0.81%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (8.13%) SQL Server
2 7 (5.69%) Azure SQL Database
2 7 (5.69%) Big Data
2 7 (5.69%) Data Lake
2 7 (5.69%) Data Warehouse
3 6 (4.88%) OLTP
4 4 (3.25%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (3.25%) Apache Cassandra
5 3 (2.44%) BigQuery
5 3 (2.44%) NoSQL
5 3 (2.44%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (1.63%) Hadoop
6 2 (1.63%) MySQL
6 2 (1.63%) Redis
6 2 (1.63%) SQLite
7 1 (0.81%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (0.81%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.81%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.81%) Flink
Development Applications
1 34 (27.64%) Jenkins
2 30 (24.39%) JIRA
3 25 (20.33%) Bitbucket
3 25 (20.33%) Git
4 22 (17.89%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 7 (5.69%) GitLab
6 6 (4.88%) Visual Studio Team System
7 3 (2.44%) JUnit
8 2 (1.63%) Selenium
8 2 (1.63%) Snyk
8 2 (1.63%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.81%) Bitbucket Server
9 1 (0.81%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.81%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.81%) Mockito
9 1 (0.81%) Pa11y
9 1 (0.81%) Spinnaker
9 1 (0.81%) Terragrunt
9 1 (0.81%) TestCafe
9 1 (0.81%) TestNG
General
1 33 (26.83%) Social Skills
2 29 (23.58%) Analytical Skills
3 18 (14.63%) Aerospace
4 9 (7.32%) Finance
5 8 (6.50%) Public Sector
6 2 (1.63%) Banking
6 2 (1.63%) Retail
7 1 (0.81%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (0.81%) Electronics
7 1 (0.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (0.81%) Manufacturing
7 1 (0.81%) Marketing
7 1 (0.81%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (0.81%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 34 (27.64%) Developer
2 21 (17.07%) Senior
3 11 (8.94%) Automation Engineer
3 11 (8.94%) DevOps Engineer
4 10 (8.13%) Architect
5 9 (7.32%) VMware Engineer
6 8 (6.50%) Consultant
7 7 (5.69%) Cloud Engineer
7 7 (5.69%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 6 (4.88%) Lead
8 6 (4.88%) Software Engineer
9 5 (4.07%) Python Developer
9 5 (4.07%) Senior Test Engineer
9 5 (4.07%) Test Engineer
10 4 (3.25%) Azure Engineer
10 4 (3.25%) Linux Engineer
10 4 (3.25%) Python Engineer
10 4 (3.25%) Senior DevOps
10 4 (3.25%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 4 (3.25%) Storage Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (24.39%) .NET
2 22 (17.89%) .NET Core
3 9 (7.32%) Elastic Stack
3 9 (7.32%) LDAP
4 8 (6.50%) ARM Templates
4 8 (6.50%) XML
5 7 (5.69%) Web Services
6 6 (4.88%) JSON
7 5 (4.07%) React
7 5 (4.07%) SAML
8 4 (3.25%) OpenID
8 4 (3.25%) YAML
9 3 (2.44%) .NET Framework
9 3 (2.44%) AngularJS
9 3 (2.44%) Kafka
9 3 (2.44%) OAuth
10 2 (1.63%) ModSecurity
10 2 (1.63%) Node.js
10 2 (1.63%) REST
10 2 (1.63%) RxJava
Miscellaneous
1 8 (6.50%) CMDB
2 7 (5.69%) Cloud Native
2 7 (5.69%) PKI
3 6 (4.88%) Data Centre
4 5 (4.07%) Public Cloud
5 4 (3.25%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.63%) Clustering
6 2 (1.63%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (1.63%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (1.63%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.63%) Product Ownership
6 2 (1.63%) Security Posture
7 1 (0.81%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.81%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (0.81%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (0.81%) Private Cloud
7 1 (0.81%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 40 (32.52%) Linux
2 11 (8.94%) Windows
3 4 (3.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (3.25%) Unix
3 4 (3.25%) VMS
4 3 (2.44%) Windows 2000
4 3 (2.44%) Windows XP
5 2 (1.63%) Windows Server
5 2 (1.63%) Windows Server 2012
5 2 (1.63%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.81%) Android
6 1 (0.81%) Windows Server 2008
6 1 (0.81%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (43.90%) CI/CD
2 44 (35.77%) DevOps
3 40 (32.52%) Infrastructure as Code
4 39 (31.71%) Problem-Solving
5 35 (28.46%) Agile
6 33 (26.83%) Continuous Integration
7 30 (24.39%) Configuration Management
7 30 (24.39%) Deployment Automation
8 28 (22.76%) Task Automation
9 25 (20.33%) Test Automation
10 22 (17.89%) OO
10 22 (17.89%) OOP
11 18 (14.63%) Containerisation
12 15 (12.20%) Scrum
13 14 (11.38%) Microservices
14 13 (10.57%) Continuous Delivery
14 13 (10.57%) Migration
14 13 (10.57%) Software Engineering
15 11 (8.94%) Kanban
15 11 (8.94%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 57 (46.34%) Python
2 56 (45.53%) PowerShell
3 30 (24.39%) Java
4 13 (10.57%) Go
5 11 (8.94%) C#
6 10 (8.13%) SQL
7 8 (6.50%) Bash
8 5 (4.07%) JavaScript
8 5 (4.07%) PHP
8 5 (4.07%) Shell Script
8 5 (4.07%) TypeScript
9 4 (3.25%) Kotlin
10 3 (2.44%) Bicep
11 1 (0.81%) C
11 1 (0.81%) C++
11 1 (0.81%) Ruby
11 1 (0.81%) Rust
Qualifications
1 46 (37.40%) Security Cleared
2 40 (32.52%) SC Cleared
3 11 (8.94%) Degree
4 9 (7.32%) DV Cleared
5 7 (5.69%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.63%) Master's Degree
6 2 (1.63%) VCAP
6 2 (1.63%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 1 (0.81%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.81%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.81%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.81%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.25%) Accessibility
2 1 (0.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (0.81%) NCSC
2 1 (0.81%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 27 (21.95%) Docker
2 23 (18.70%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (10.57%) Active Directory
4 8 (6.50%) VMware NSX
5 5 (4.07%) Hyper-V
5 5 (4.07%) Virtual Servers
6 4 (3.25%) VMware ESXi
6 4 (3.25%) vSphere
7 2 (1.63%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
7 2 (1.63%) KVM
7 2 (1.63%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.81%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 57 (46.34%) Terraform
2 52 (42.28%) Ansible
3 44 (35.77%) Kubernetes
4 24 (19.51%) PowerCLI
5 6 (4.88%) Grafana
5 6 (4.88%) Prometheus
5 6 (4.88%) Puppet
5 6 (4.88%) vRealize
5 6 (4.88%) vRealize Orchestrator
6 5 (4.07%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 4 (3.25%) Argo
8 3 (2.44%) Single Sign-On
8 3 (2.44%) vCenter Server
9 2 (1.63%) Kibana
9 2 (1.63%) Kustomize
9 2 (1.63%) Microsoft Intune
9 2 (1.63%) OPNET
9 2 (1.63%) Progress Chef
9 2 (1.63%) Rancher
9 2 (1.63%) SCCM
Vendors
1 29 (23.58%) VMware
2 24 (19.51%) Atlassian
3 23 (18.70%) Dell
4 22 (17.89%) HP
5 21 (17.07%) Microsoft
6 9 (7.32%) Google
7 7 (5.69%) Splunk
8 6 (4.88%) Red Hat
9 3 (2.44%) Cisco
9 3 (2.44%) Fortinet
9 3 (2.44%) Juniper
9 3 (2.44%) Oracle
10 2 (1.63%) CyberArk
10 2 (1.63%) McAfee
10 2 (1.63%) NVIDIA
10 2 (1.63%) SAP
10 2 (1.63%) ServiceNow
11 1 (0.81%) Databricks
11 1 (0.81%) Ping Identity
11 1 (0.81%) SolarWinds