Infrastructure Automation Contracts in the North West

Infrastructure Automation
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 125 151 166
Rank change year-on-year +26 +15 -38
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Automation 13 8 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.49% 0.26% 0.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.57% 0.29% 0.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 8 15
10th Percentile £405 - £409
25th Percentile £434 £456 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £538 £500
Median % change year-on-year -11.63% +7.50% +7.53%
75th Percentile £522 £575 £549
90th Percentile £554 £579 £570
England median daily rate £600 £550 £545
% change year-on-year +9.09% +0.92% +9.00%
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 - -
England median hourly rate £71.87 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

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 the North West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,294 2,778 3,578
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 85.95% 90.22% 88.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,459 1,950 2,598
10th Percentile £311 £313 £244
25th Percentile £406 £413 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £594 £588 £575
90th Percentile £689 £675 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 253 139 170
10th Percentile £10.96 £16.25 £10.63
25th Percentile £13.50 £22.47 £14.25
Median hourly rate £24.19 £35.03 £23.03
Median % change year-on-year -30.94% +52.12% +27.12%
75th Percentile £46.18 £49.08 £49.50
90th Percentile £62.50 £66.00 £75.00
England median hourly rate £36.50 £36.40 £25.00
% change year-on-year +0.29% +45.58% +8.70%

Infrastructure Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing Infrastructure Automation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Automation in the North West

Infrastructure Automation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Infrastructure Automation in the North West.

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure Automation in the North West

Infrastructure Automation
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

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

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Automation in the North West

Infrastructure Automation
Hourly Rate Histogram in the North West

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

Hourly rate histogram for Infrastructure Automation in the North West

Infrastructure Automation
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 North West 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
Manchester +20 11 £475 -13.64% 10
Cheshire -5 2 £456 -1.35%
Infrastructure Automation
England

Infrastructure Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 (7.69%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (7.69%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 6 (46.15%) AWS
2 3 (23.08%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 2 (15.38%) Azure
4 1 (7.69%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (7.69%) Azure Stack
4 1 (7.69%) BrowserStack
4 1 (7.69%) Entra ID
4 1 (7.69%) GCP
4 1 (7.69%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (7.69%) OneDrive
4 1 (7.69%) OpenShift
4 1 (7.69%) Serverless
4 1 (7.69%) SpeedCurve
4 1 (7.69%) Yammer
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.69%) DNS
1 1 (7.69%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (15.38%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 2 (15.38%) JUnit
2 1 (7.69%) Pa11y
2 1 (7.69%) TestCafe
General
1 4 (30.77%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (7.69%) Retail
2 1 (7.69%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (46.15%) Senior
2 5 (38.46%) Software Engineer
3 4 (30.77%) Senior Test Engineer
3 4 (30.77%) Test Engineer
4 2 (15.38%) Java Engineer
4 2 (15.38%) Senior Software Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) 3rd Line Support
5 1 (7.69%) Administrator
5 1 (7.69%) Android Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Automation Developer
5 1 (7.69%) Azure Administrator
5 1 (7.69%) Developer
5 1 (7.69%) Full Stack Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Full Stack Software Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Java Software Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (38.46%) React
2 3 (23.08%) AngularJS
3 2 (15.38%) Jetpack Compose
3 2 (15.38%) RxJava
3 2 (15.38%) XML
4 1 (7.69%) Android Jetpack
4 1 (7.69%) AWS CDK
4 1 (7.69%) Dagger
4 1 (7.69%) Node.js
4 1 (7.69%) Retrofit
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.69%) Cloud Native
1 1 (7.69%) Legacy Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Onboarding
1 1 (7.69%) PKI
1 1 (7.69%) Private Cloud
1 1 (7.69%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (15.38%) Windows
2 1 (7.69%) Android
2 1 (7.69%) Unix
2 1 (7.69%) Windows Server 2008
2 1 (7.69%) Windows Server 2012
2 1 (7.69%) Windows Server 2016
2 1 (7.69%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (46.15%) Software Engineering
1 6 (46.15%) Test Automation
2 4 (30.77%) Active Listening
2 4 (30.77%) Analytical Thinking
2 4 (30.77%) Continuous Improvement
2 4 (30.77%) Exploratory Testing
2 4 (30.77%) Load Testing
2 4 (30.77%) Security Testing
3 3 (23.08%) Architectural Patterns
3 3 (23.08%) Customer Experience
3 3 (23.08%) Non-Functional Testing
4 2 (15.38%) Continuous Delivery
4 2 (15.38%) Design Patterns
4 2 (15.38%) E-Commerce
4 2 (15.38%) Front End Development
4 2 (15.38%) MVVM
4 2 (15.38%) Observability
4 2 (15.38%) Push Notifications
4 2 (15.38%) Refactoring
4 2 (15.38%) Thought Leadership
Programming Languages
1 6 (46.15%) Java
2 3 (23.08%) PHP
3 2 (15.38%) Kotlin
3 2 (15.38%) TypeScript
4 1 (7.69%) JavaScript
4 1 (7.69%) PowerShell
4 1 (7.69%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (7.69%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (30.77%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (7.69%) Active Directory
1 1 (7.69%) Docker
1 1 (7.69%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (23.08%) Terraform
2 2 (15.38%) Kubernetes
3 1 (7.69%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (7.69%) Ansible
3 1 (7.69%) Grafana
3 1 (7.69%) Kibana
3 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (7.69%) Progress Chef
3 1 (7.69%) SCCM
3 1 (7.69%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 2 (15.38%) VMware
2 1 (7.69%) Databricks
2 1 (7.69%) Microsoft
2 1 (7.69%) Proofpoint
2 1 (7.69%) Sophos