Infrastructure Automation Contracts

Infrastructure Automation
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 426 504 526
Rank change year-on-year +78 +22 -59
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Automation 175 213 363
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.41% 0.36% 0.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.47% 0.40% 0.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 105 145 289
10th Percentile £418 £440 £431
25th Percentile £506 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £645 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year +17.27% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £700 £638 £638
90th Percentile £750 £738 £728
UK excluding London median daily rate £697 £525 £525
% change year-on-year +32.67% - +9.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 1
10th Percentile £65.31 - -
25th Percentile £69.53 - -
Median hourly rate £71.87 - £49.54
75th Percentile £74.15 - -
90th Percentile £78.26 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £71.87 - £49.54
% change year-on-year - - +23.85%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,268 53,074 80,383
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.35% 89.85% 90.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,016 36,805 56,451
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,439 1,749 1,911
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.95 £35.80 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.42% +43.20% +2.04%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -6.98%

Infrastructure Automation
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Automation in the UK

Infrastructure Automation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure Automation in the UK

Infrastructure Automation
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Automation over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Automation in the UK

Infrastructure Automation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Infrastructure Automation in the UK

Infrastructure Automation
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Infrastructure Automation over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Infrastructure Automation in the UK

Infrastructure Automation
Top 13 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 5 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
England +109 124 £600 +9.09% 65
UK excluding London +19 72 £697 +32.67% 33
London +104 68 £575 -10.85% 35
Work from Home +85 61 £536 -1.65% 30
South West +42 31 £700 +14.29% 8
Scotland +1 17 £693 +27.27%
North of England +34 14 £475 +2.70% 7
North West +31 13 £475 -9.52% 5
South East +18 9 £548 -2.67% 6
Midlands +23 2 £625 +38.12% 3
East Midlands +19 1 £625 +30.21%
Yorkshire +18 1 £390 +0.65% 2
West Midlands +17 1 - - 3

Infrastructure Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 25 (14.29%) Confluence
2 5 (2.86%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (2.86%) SAS
3 4 (2.29%) Apache
4 3 (1.71%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (1.14%) Exchange Server 2010
5 2 (1.14%) Exchange Server 2013
6 1 (0.57%) Apache Solr
6 1 (0.57%) IIS
6 1 (0.57%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.57%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.57%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 3 (1.71%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 48 (27.43%) AWS
1 48 (27.43%) Azure
2 22 (12.57%) Entra ID
3 19 (10.86%) GCP
4 17 (9.71%) Azure DevOps
5 15 (8.57%) Serverless
6 14 (8.00%) IaaS
7 11 (6.29%) OpenShift
8 8 (4.57%) Amazon EKS
8 8 (4.57%) GitHub
8 8 (4.57%) Microsoft 365
9 7 (4.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 7 (4.00%) AWS Lambda
9 7 (4.00%) Azure Logic Apps
9 7 (4.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 6 (3.43%) Amazon S3
10 6 (3.43%) Azure Functions
10 6 (3.43%) Azure Service Bus
10 6 (3.43%) Cloud Computing
10 6 (3.43%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 23 (13.14%) TCP/IP
2 15 (8.57%) HTTP
3 10 (5.71%) SSL
4 9 (5.14%) SAN
5 8 (4.57%) Firewall
6 7 (4.00%) DNS
6 7 (4.00%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 7 (4.00%) Fibre Channel
6 7 (4.00%) NetScaler
7 5 (2.86%) iSCSI
8 4 (2.29%) DHCP
8 4 (2.29%) Network Security
8 4 (2.29%) SNA
8 4 (2.29%) VSAN
9 3 (1.71%) NAS
9 3 (1.71%) Software-Defined Networking
10 2 (1.14%) DKIM
10 2 (1.14%) InfiniBand
10 2 (1.14%) IPsec
10 2 (1.14%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (5.71%) SQL Server
2 7 (4.00%) Azure SQL Database
2 7 (4.00%) Big Data
2 7 (4.00%) Data Lake
2 7 (4.00%) Data Warehouse
3 6 (3.43%) OLTP
4 4 (2.29%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (2.29%) Apache Cassandra
4 4 (2.29%) DB2
5 3 (1.71%) BigQuery
5 3 (1.71%) NoSQL
5 3 (1.71%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (1.14%) Hadoop
6 2 (1.14%) MySQL
6 2 (1.14%) Redis
6 2 (1.14%) SQLite
7 1 (0.57%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.57%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.57%) Neo4j
7 1 (0.57%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 46 (26.29%) Jenkins
2 38 (21.71%) Git
3 32 (18.29%) JIRA
4 26 (14.86%) Bitbucket
5 22 (12.57%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 10 (5.71%) GitLab
7 6 (3.43%) Visual Studio Team System
8 4 (2.29%) SonarQube
9 3 (1.71%) JUnit
9 3 (1.71%) Maven
10 2 (1.14%) Artifactory
10 2 (1.14%) Selenium
10 2 (1.14%) Snyk
10 2 (1.14%) Sonatype Nexus
11 1 (0.57%) Bitbucket Server
11 1 (0.57%) Cucumber
11 1 (0.57%) Pa11y
11 1 (0.57%) Spinnaker
11 1 (0.57%) Terragrunt
11 1 (0.57%) TestCafe
General
1 73 (41.71%) Social Skills
2 29 (16.57%) Analytical Skills
3 24 (13.71%) Public Sector
4 18 (10.29%) Aerospace
5 15 (8.57%) Finance
6 9 (5.14%) Documentation Skills
7 8 (4.57%) Banking
8 3 (1.71%) Investment Banking
9 2 (1.14%) Retail
9 2 (1.14%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.57%) Danish Language
10 1 (0.57%) Electronics
10 1 (0.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.57%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.57%) Marketing
10 1 (0.57%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.57%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 46 (26.29%) Developer
2 20 (11.43%) Senior
3 16 (9.14%) DevOps Engineer
3 16 (9.14%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 14 (8.00%) Automation Engineer
5 12 (6.86%) Consultant
6 11 (6.29%) Python Developer
7 10 (5.71%) VMware Engineer
8 9 (5.14%) Architect
8 9 (5.14%) Linux Engineer
8 9 (5.14%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
8 9 (5.14%) Python Engineer
9 8 (4.57%) Storage Engineer
10 7 (4.00%) Cloud Engineer
10 7 (4.00%) Java Developer
10 7 (4.00%) Lead
11 6 (3.43%) Software Engineer
12 5 (2.86%) Applications Developer
12 5 (2.86%) Senior Test Engineer
12 5 (2.86%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (16.57%) .NET
2 22 (12.57%) .NET Core
3 21 (12.00%) SAML
4 20 (11.43%) OAuth
4 20 (11.43%) OpenID
5 13 (7.43%) REST
6 12 (6.86%) Elastic Stack
7 11 (6.29%) XML
8 10 (5.71%) LDAP
9 9 (5.14%) JSON
10 8 (4.57%) AngularJS
10 8 (4.57%) ARM Templates
10 8 (4.57%) YAML
11 7 (4.00%) Web Services
12 5 (2.86%) Flash
12 5 (2.86%) POSIX
12 5 (2.86%) Twisted
13 4 (2.29%) Node.js
13 4 (2.29%) React
14 3 (1.71%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 10 (5.71%) CMDB
2 8 (4.57%) Data Centre
3 7 (4.00%) Cloud Native
3 7 (4.00%) Data Protection Act
4 6 (3.43%) PKI
5 5 (2.86%) NVMe
6 4 (2.29%) Client/Server
6 4 (2.29%) Distributed Applications
6 4 (2.29%) Public Cloud
7 3 (1.71%) Private Cloud
8 2 (1.14%) Clustering
8 2 (1.14%) Distributed Systems
8 2 (1.14%) Enterprise Storage
8 2 (1.14%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (1.14%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (1.14%) Onboarding
9 1 (0.57%) Legacy Applications
9 1 (0.57%) Management Information System
9 1 (0.57%) Product Ownership
9 1 (0.57%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 59 (33.71%) Linux
2 20 (11.43%) Windows
3 17 (9.71%) Unix
4 8 (4.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (3.43%) Windows Server
6 4 (2.29%) Data ONTAP
6 4 (2.29%) VMS
7 3 (1.71%) Windows 2000
7 3 (1.71%) Windows XP
8 2 (1.14%) Android
8 2 (1.14%) Windows Server 2012
8 2 (1.14%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.57%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.57%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.57%) Windows Server 2008
9 1 (0.57%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (42.29%) DevOps
2 68 (38.86%) CI/CD
3 53 (30.29%) Infrastructure as Code
4 43 (24.57%) Agile
5 42 (24.00%) Continuous Integration
6 36 (20.57%) Problem-Solving
7 33 (18.86%) Configuration Management
8 32 (18.29%) Deployment Automation
8 32 (18.29%) Test Automation
9 28 (16.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 28 (16.00%) Task Automation
10 26 (14.86%) OO
11 23 (13.14%) Identity Access Management
12 22 (12.57%) Containerisation
12 22 (12.57%) OOP
13 21 (12.00%) Migration
14 20 (11.43%) SDLC
15 17 (9.71%) Scrum
16 16 (9.14%) Software Engineering
16 16 (9.14%) Threat Detection
Programming Languages
1 77 (44.00%) Python
2 58 (33.14%) PowerShell
3 47 (26.86%) Java
4 19 (10.86%) Bash
5 18 (10.29%) Go
6 17 (9.71%) Perl
6 17 (9.71%) SQL
7 11 (6.29%) C#
7 11 (6.29%) JavaScript
8 6 (3.43%) PHP
9 5 (2.86%) Shell Script
10 4 (2.29%) Ruby
10 4 (2.29%) TypeScript
11 3 (1.71%) Bicep
12 2 (1.14%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.57%) C
13 1 (0.57%) C++
13 1 (0.57%) Rust
Qualifications
1 63 (36.00%) Security Cleared
2 59 (33.71%) SC Cleared
3 10 (5.71%) Degree
4 8 (4.57%) DV Cleared
5 7 (4.00%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.14%) VCAP
6 2 (1.14%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 1 (0.57%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.57%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.57%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.57%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.29%) Accessibility
2 3 (1.71%) QA
3 1 (0.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.57%) NCSC
3 1 (0.57%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 31 (17.71%) Docker
2 26 (14.86%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (7.43%) Active Directory
4 11 (6.29%) VMware NSX
5 7 (4.00%) vSphere
6 6 (3.43%) Virtual Servers
7 5 (2.86%) Hyper-V
7 5 (2.86%) NFS
7 5 (2.86%) VMware ESXi
8 4 (2.29%) GPFS
9 3 (1.71%) vCloud
10 2 (1.14%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
10 2 (1.14%) KVM
10 2 (1.14%) Virtual Machines
11 1 (0.57%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 66 (37.71%) Terraform
2 60 (34.29%) Ansible
3 45 (25.71%) Kubernetes
4 23 (13.14%) PowerCLI
5 12 (6.86%) Puppet
6 7 (4.00%) vRealize
7 6 (3.43%) Progress Chef
7 6 (3.43%) vRealize Orchestrator
8 5 (2.86%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 4 (2.29%) Grafana
9 4 (2.29%) Prometheus
9 4 (2.29%) vCenter Server
9 4 (2.29%) Veritas Storage Foundation
10 3 (1.71%) Autotask
10 3 (1.71%) Single Sign-On
11 2 (1.14%) Argo
11 2 (1.14%) Kibana
11 2 (1.14%) Microsoft Intune
11 2 (1.14%) Rancher
11 2 (1.14%) SCCM
Vendors
1 40 (22.86%) Microsoft
2 36 (20.57%) VMware
3 23 (13.14%) Atlassian
3 23 (13.14%) Dell
4 22 (12.57%) HP
5 13 (7.43%) Google
6 9 (5.14%) Red Hat
6 9 (5.14%) Splunk
7 8 (4.57%) F5
8 6 (3.43%) Brocade
8 6 (3.43%) Oracle
9 5 (2.86%) IBM
10 4 (2.29%) EMC
10 4 (2.29%) NetApp
10 4 (2.29%) Sybase
10 4 (2.29%) Veritas
11 3 (1.71%) BMC
11 3 (1.71%) Juniper
11 3 (1.71%) Remedy
11 3 (1.71%) TOWER Software