Infrastructure Automation Contracts in the UK excluding London

Infrastructure Automation
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding 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 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 319 336 416
Rank change year-on-year +17 +80 -41
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Automation 66 108 95
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.33% 0.47% 0.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.39% 0.52% 0.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 73 71
10th Percentile £463 £431 £400
25th Percentile £513 £486 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £693 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year +32.00% - +9.66%
75th Percentile £700 £575 £621
90th Percentile - £600 £713
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
UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,112 20,583 27,136
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.30% 89.45% 89.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,220 14,187 18,951
10th Percentile £250 £258 £235
25th Percentile £381 £400 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £480
Median % change year-on-year - +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £656
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +7.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,064 1,254 1,350
10th Percentile £12.35 £10.63 £12.25
25th Percentile £15.25 £15.25 £14.25
Median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -4.99%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £47.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £73.74 £61.52
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 the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Automation in the UK excluding London

Infrastructure Automation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Infrastructure Automation in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure Automation in the UK excluding London

Infrastructure Automation
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Automation in the UK excluding London

Infrastructure Automation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Infrastructure Automation in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Infrastructure Automation in the UK excluding London

Infrastructure Automation
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate histogram for Infrastructure Automation in the UK excluding London

Infrastructure Automation
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London 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
South West +31 34 £700 +27.27% 7
North of England +36 14 £475 -3.80% 13
North West +26 13 £475 -11.63% 10
South East +31 10 £613 +11.36% 14
Scotland -6 9 £693 +28.99%
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 the UK excluding 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:

Application Platforms
1 26 (39.39%) Confluence
2 5 (7.58%) SAS
3 2 (3.03%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (1.52%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 21 (31.82%) AWS
1 21 (31.82%) Azure
2 9 (13.64%) OpenShift
3 7 (10.61%) GCP
3 7 (10.61%) PaaS
4 5 (7.58%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (6.06%) GitHub
6 3 (4.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 3 (4.55%) Amazon EKS
6 3 (4.55%) Azure AKS
6 3 (4.55%) Dynamics 365
6 3 (4.55%) IaaS
7 2 (3.03%) Entra ID
7 2 (3.03%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (3.03%) Microsoft 365
7 2 (3.03%) Serverless
7 2 (3.03%) Slack
8 1 (1.52%) BrowserStack
8 1 (1.52%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (1.52%) NuGet
Communications & Networking
1 5 (7.58%) Fibre Channel
1 5 (7.58%) iSCSI
2 4 (6.06%) SAN
3 3 (4.55%) Firewall
3 3 (4.55%) Software-Defined Networking
4 2 (3.03%) DNS
4 2 (3.03%) TCP/IP
4 2 (3.03%) VPN
5 1 (1.52%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
5 1 (1.52%) HTTP
5 1 (1.52%) NetScaler
5 1 (1.52%) Skype
5 1 (1.52%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (6.06%) DB2
2 2 (3.03%) SQL Server
2 2 (3.03%) SQLite
3 1 (1.52%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (1.52%) Big Data
3 1 (1.52%) Flink
3 1 (1.52%) Hadoop
3 1 (1.52%) MySQL
3 1 (1.52%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 30 (45.45%) JIRA
2 29 (43.94%) Jenkins
3 25 (37.88%) Bitbucket
4 22 (33.33%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 6 (9.09%) Git
6 5 (7.58%) GitLab
7 2 (3.03%) JUnit
7 2 (3.03%) Snyk
7 2 (3.03%) SonarQube
8 1 (1.52%) Bitbucket Server
8 1 (1.52%) Cucumber
8 1 (1.52%) JMeter
8 1 (1.52%) Pa11y
8 1 (1.52%) Selenium
8 1 (1.52%) Spinnaker
8 1 (1.52%) TestCafe
General
1 31 (46.97%) Social Skills
2 25 (37.88%) Analytical Skills
3 18 (27.27%) Aerospace
4 6 (9.09%) Finance
5 4 (6.06%) Banking
6 3 (4.55%) Investment Banking
6 3 (4.55%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.52%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.52%) Electronics
7 1 (1.52%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.52%) Marketing
7 1 (1.52%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.52%) Retail
7 1 (1.52%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 21 (31.82%) Developer
2 13 (19.70%) Senior
3 9 (13.64%) DevOps Engineer
4 6 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 6 (9.09%) Software Engineer
5 5 (7.58%) Architect
5 5 (7.58%) Senior Test Engineer
5 5 (7.58%) Test Engineer
6 4 (6.06%) Azure Engineer
6 4 (6.06%) Linux Engineer
6 4 (6.06%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
6 4 (6.06%) Python Engineer
6 4 (6.06%) Senior DevOps
6 4 (6.06%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 4 (6.06%) Storage Engineer
7 3 (4.55%) Automation Test Lead
7 3 (4.55%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 3 (4.55%) Lead
7 3 (4.55%) Test Leader
8 2 (3.03%) Test Automation Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (36.36%) .NET
2 22 (33.33%) .NET Core
3 5 (7.58%) Elastic Stack
3 5 (7.58%) Flash
3 5 (7.58%) POSIX
3 5 (7.58%) React
4 3 (4.55%) AngularJS
5 2 (3.03%) .NET Framework
5 2 (3.03%) Fluent Bit
5 2 (3.03%) Jetpack Compose
5 2 (3.03%) Kafka
5 2 (3.03%) Loki
5 2 (3.03%) ModSecurity
5 2 (3.03%) RxJava
5 2 (3.03%) XML
6 1 (1.52%) Android Jetpack
6 1 (1.52%) ARM Templates
6 1 (1.52%) AWS CDK
6 1 (1.52%) Dagger
6 1 (1.52%) Retrofit
Miscellaneous
1 5 (7.58%) Data Centre
1 5 (7.58%) NVMe
2 4 (6.06%) Client/Server
3 3 (4.55%) PKI
3 3 (4.55%) Public Cloud
4 2 (3.03%) Cloud Native
4 2 (3.03%) Product Ownership
4 2 (3.03%) Security Posture
5 1 (1.52%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.52%) Distributed Applications
5 1 (1.52%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (1.52%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.52%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 37 (56.06%) Linux
2 12 (18.18%) Windows
3 9 (13.64%) Unix
4 5 (7.58%) Windows Server
5 4 (6.06%) Data ONTAP
5 4 (6.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (6.06%) VMS
6 3 (4.55%) Windows 2000
6 3 (4.55%) Windows XP
7 1 (1.52%) Android
7 1 (1.52%) Windows Server 2008
7 1 (1.52%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (1.52%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (1.52%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (59.09%) CI/CD
2 28 (42.42%) Configuration Management
3 27 (40.91%) Continuous Integration
4 26 (39.39%) OO
5 25 (37.88%) Task Automation
6 24 (36.36%) Problem-Solving
7 23 (34.85%) Deployment Automation
8 22 (33.33%) OOP
9 16 (24.24%) DevOps
9 16 (24.24%) Infrastructure as Code
10 13 (19.70%) Agile
10 13 (19.70%) Test Automation
11 11 (16.67%) Computer Science
12 9 (13.64%) Continuous Improvement
12 9 (13.64%) SDLC
13 8 (12.12%) Software Engineering
14 7 (10.61%) Observability
15 6 (9.09%) GitOps
16 5 (7.58%) Architectural Patterns
16 5 (7.58%) Preventative Maintenance
Programming Languages
1 40 (60.61%) Python
2 35 (53.03%) PowerShell
3 14 (21.21%) Java
4 6 (9.09%) Perl
5 5 (7.58%) Bash
5 5 (7.58%) SQL
6 3 (4.55%) Bicep
6 3 (4.55%) Go
6 3 (4.55%) JavaScript
6 3 (4.55%) PHP
6 3 (4.55%) Shell Script
7 2 (3.03%) Kotlin
7 2 (3.03%) TypeScript
8 1 (1.52%) C
8 1 (1.52%) C#
8 1 (1.52%) C++
8 1 (1.52%) Rust
Qualifications
1 35 (53.03%) Security Cleared
2 29 (43.94%) SC Cleared
3 7 (10.61%) Degree
4 4 (6.06%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (4.55%) DV Cleared
6 2 (3.03%) Master's Degree
6 2 (3.03%) VCAP
6 2 (3.03%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 1 (1.52%) Azure Certification
7 1 (1.52%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (6.06%) Accessibility
System Software
1 13 (19.70%) Docker
2 10 (15.15%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (7.58%) NFS
3 5 (7.58%) VMware NSX
4 4 (6.06%) GPFS
4 4 (6.06%) vSphere
5 3 (4.55%) Hyper-V
6 2 (3.03%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 35 (53.03%) Ansible
2 24 (36.36%) PowerCLI
3 23 (34.85%) Terraform
4 21 (31.82%) Kubernetes
5 5 (7.58%) Grafana
5 5 (7.58%) Prometheus
6 4 (6.06%) Argo
6 4 (6.06%) Veritas Storage Foundation
7 2 (3.03%) Kustomize
7 2 (3.03%) OPNET
7 2 (3.03%) Puppet
7 2 (3.03%) Rancher
7 2 (3.03%) vRealize
7 2 (3.03%) vRealize Orchestrator
8 1 (1.52%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (1.52%) Dell DRAC
8 1 (1.52%) Kibana
8 1 (1.52%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (1.52%) Progress Chef
8 1 (1.52%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 24 (36.36%) Atlassian
2 23 (34.85%) Dell
3 22 (33.33%) HP
4 14 (21.21%) VMware
5 6 (9.09%) Google
5 6 (9.09%) Microsoft
6 4 (6.06%) Brocade
6 4 (6.06%) EMC
6 4 (6.06%) IBM
6 4 (6.06%) NetApp
6 4 (6.06%) Sybase
6 4 (6.06%) Veritas
7 3 (4.55%) Fortinet
7 3 (4.55%) Juniper
8 2 (3.03%) Cisco
8 2 (3.03%) ServiceNow
9 1 (1.52%) Databricks
9 1 (1.52%) Oracle
9 1 (1.52%) SAP
9 1 (1.52%) Sophos