Infrastructure Automation Contracts in the South East

Infrastructure Automation
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 177 208 227
Rank change year-on-year +31 +19 -15
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Automation 10 12 32
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.18% 0.21% 0.42%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.22% 0.24% 0.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 7 20
10th Percentile £527 £419 £496
25th Percentile £574 £475 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year +11.36% -4.35% +6.48%
75th Percentile £625 £631 £626
90th Percentile - £665 £650
England median daily rate £600 £550 £545
% change year-on-year +9.09% +0.92% +9.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

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 South East with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,596 4,987 6,865
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 84.25% 89.05% 89.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,676 3,461 4,681
10th Percentile £250 £249 £233
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £508 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.43% +1.50% +8.70%
75th Percentile £625 £615 £595
90th Percentile £700 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 439 214 278
10th Percentile £13.00 £16.25 £11.96
25th Percentile £18.20 £22.16 £14.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £50.00 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +132.56% -19.63%
75th Percentile £62.50 £64.91 £47.50
90th Percentile £76.86 £75.00 £61.50
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 South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Automation in the South East

Infrastructure Automation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Infrastructure Automation in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure Automation in the South East

Infrastructure Automation
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

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

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Automation in the South East

Infrastructure Automation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Infrastructure Automation in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Infrastructure Automation in the South East

Infrastructure Automation
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East 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
Thames Valley +9 6 £613 +6.52% 3
Hampshire -5 4 - - 4
Oxfordshire +9 2 £600 +33.33%
Berkshire -14 2 £495 -20.80%
Buckinghamshire - 2 £625 - 3
Infrastructure Automation
England

Infrastructure Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 2 (20.00%) Confluence
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 6 (60.00%) AWS
2 5 (50.00%) Azure
3 2 (20.00%) GCP
3 2 (20.00%) IaaS
3 2 (20.00%) OpenShift
3 2 (20.00%) PaaS
3 2 (20.00%) Slack
4 1 (10.00%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (10.00%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (10.00%) Azure AKS
4 1 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (10.00%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (10.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 1 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (10.00%) NuGet
Communications & Networking
1 2 (20.00%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) Big Data
1 1 (10.00%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 3 (30.00%) Git
1 3 (30.00%) GitLab
1 3 (30.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (20.00%) JIRA
3 1 (10.00%) Spinnaker
General
1 2 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (20.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (60.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 3 (30.00%) Senior
3 2 (20.00%) Senior DevOps
3 2 (20.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Administrator
4 1 (10.00%) Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Azure Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) DevSecOps Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) VMware Architect
4 1 (10.00%) VMware Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (40.00%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (20.00%) Fluent Bit
2 2 (20.00%) Loki
3 1 (10.00%) Kafka
3 1 (10.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (10.00%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 5 (50.00%) Linux
2 2 (20.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (80.00%) CI/CD
2 7 (70.00%) DevOps
3 6 (60.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 5 (50.00%) Agile
5 4 (40.00%) Configuration Management
5 4 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (30.00%) Containerisation
6 3 (30.00%) Continuous Integration
6 3 (30.00%) Test Automation
7 2 (20.00%) Computer Science
7 2 (20.00%) Continuous Delivery
7 2 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
7 2 (20.00%) GitOps
7 2 (20.00%) ITIL
7 2 (20.00%) Project Delivery
7 2 (20.00%) Release Management
7 2 (20.00%) SDLC
7 2 (20.00%) Software Delivery
7 2 (20.00%) Task Automation
8 1 (10.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 6 (60.00%) Python
2 5 (50.00%) PowerShell
3 3 (30.00%) Bash
3 3 (30.00%) Go
4 1 (10.00%) C
4 1 (10.00%) C++
4 1 (10.00%) Java
4 1 (10.00%) JavaScript
4 1 (10.00%) Rust
Qualifications
1 6 (60.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (30.00%) Degree
3 2 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (20.00%) DV Cleared
3 2 (20.00%) VCAP
3 2 (20.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 1 (10.00%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 4 (40.00%) Docker
2 3 (30.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (20.00%) VMware NSX
3 2 (20.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 8 (80.00%) Terraform
2 7 (70.00%) Kubernetes
3 6 (60.00%) Ansible
4 4 (40.00%) Prometheus
5 3 (30.00%) Grafana
6 2 (20.00%) Argo
6 2 (20.00%) Kustomize
6 2 (20.00%) Rancher
6 2 (20.00%) vRealize
6 2 (20.00%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 4 (40.00%) VMware
2 2 (20.00%) ServiceNow
3 1 (10.00%) Microsoft