Infrastructure Automation Contracts with Work from Home Options

Infrastructure Automation
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 286 350 442
Rank change year-on-year +64 +92 -52
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Automation 59 104 175
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.40% 0.42% 0.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.45% 0.47% 0.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 69 143
10th Percentile £456 £425 £373
25th Percentile £483 £481 £494
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £551 £545 £575
Median % change year-on-year +1.15% -5.22% +15.00%
75th Percentile £617 £688 £649
90th Percentile £675 £738 £710
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
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 12,973 22,093 40,138
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.88% 89.67% 91.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,721 15,633 29,139
10th Percentile £325 £363 £362
25th Percentile £425 £450 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £545 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.58% +3.71% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £631
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +7.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 566 507 534
10th Percentile £14.94 £18.63 £14.08
25th Percentile £24.44 £26.25 £20.56
Median hourly rate £43.00 £52.50 £39.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.10% +32.91% +64.58%
75th Percentile £60.00 £68.75 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.00 £71.75
UK median hourly rate £36.05 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +0.13% +40.19% +7.00%

Infrastructure Automation
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Infrastructure Automation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Infrastructure Automation trend for jobs with a WFH option

Infrastructure Automation
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Infrastructure Automation.

Infrastructure Automation daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Infrastructure Automation
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Infrastructure Automation over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Infrastructure Automation daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Infrastructure Automation
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Infrastructure Automation.

Infrastructure Automation hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Infrastructure Automation
Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Infrastructure Automation over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Infrastructure Automation hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Infrastructure Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 3 (5.08%) Confluence
2 1 (1.69%) Apache
2 1 (1.69%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.69%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 3 (5.08%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 24 (40.68%) Azure
2 22 (37.29%) AWS
3 9 (15.25%) Azure DevOps
3 9 (15.25%) IaaS
4 8 (13.56%) GCP
5 7 (11.86%) OpenShift
6 6 (10.17%) Amazon EKS
7 5 (8.47%) GitHub
7 5 (8.47%) PaaS
7 5 (8.47%) Serverless
8 4 (6.78%) Dynamics 365
9 3 (5.08%) Azure API Management
9 3 (5.08%) Azure Batch
9 3 (5.08%) Azure Functions
9 3 (5.08%) Azure Logic Apps
9 3 (5.08%) Azure Service Bus
9 3 (5.08%) Azure Storage
9 3 (5.08%) Power Automate
9 3 (5.08%) Power Platform
9 3 (5.08%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 7 (11.86%) TCP/IP
2 5 (8.47%) Firewall
3 3 (5.08%) HTTP
4 2 (3.39%) Fibre Channel
4 2 (3.39%) Network Security
4 2 (3.39%) SAN
5 1 (1.69%) BGP
5 1 (1.69%) Cisco ASA
5 1 (1.69%) DNS
5 1 (1.69%) EIGRP
5 1 (1.69%) IPsec
5 1 (1.69%) OSPF
5 1 (1.69%) SD-WAN
5 1 (1.69%) VoIP
5 1 (1.69%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (5.08%) Azure SQL Database
1 3 (5.08%) Big Data
1 3 (5.08%) Data Lake
1 3 (5.08%) Data Warehouse
1 3 (5.08%) OLTP
1 3 (5.08%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.69%) Amazon Aurora
2 1 (1.69%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (1.69%) Apache Cassandra
2 1 (1.69%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
2 1 (1.69%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (1.69%) NoSQL
2 1 (1.69%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (1.69%) Redis
2 1 (1.69%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 15 (25.42%) Git
1 15 (25.42%) Jenkins
2 9 (15.25%) JIRA
3 6 (10.17%) Bitbucket
4 5 (8.47%) GitLab
5 4 (6.78%) SonarQube
6 3 (5.08%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 3 (5.08%) Visual Studio Team System
7 2 (3.39%) Artifactory
7 2 (3.39%) Maven
7 2 (3.39%) Snyk
7 2 (3.39%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (1.69%) Bitbucket Server
8 1 (1.69%) Cucumber
8 1 (1.69%) JMeter
8 1 (1.69%) JUnit
8 1 (1.69%) Selenium
General
1 15 (25.42%) Social Skills
2 6 (10.17%) Public Sector
3 5 (8.47%) Finance
4 2 (3.39%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (1.69%) Danish Language
5 1 (1.69%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (1.69%) Electronics
5 1 (1.69%) Manufacturing
5 1 (1.69%) Marketing
5 1 (1.69%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 12 (20.34%) Senior
2 10 (16.95%) DevOps Engineer
3 8 (13.56%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 7 (11.86%) Automation Engineer
5 6 (10.17%) Consultant
5 6 (10.17%) Developer
6 4 (6.78%) Azure Engineer
6 4 (6.78%) Cloud Engineer
6 4 (6.78%) Linux Engineer
6 4 (6.78%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
6 4 (6.78%) Python Engineer
6 4 (6.78%) Senior DevOps
6 4 (6.78%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 4 (6.78%) Storage Engineer
6 4 (6.78%) VMware Engineer
6 4 (6.78%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
7 3 (5.08%) Kubernetes Consultant
7 3 (5.08%) Lead
7 3 (5.08%) Splunk Consultant
7 3 (5.08%) WebOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (11.86%) XML
2 6 (10.17%) .NET
2 6 (10.17%) JSON
3 5 (8.47%) Elastic Stack
4 4 (6.78%) REST
5 3 (5.08%) .NET Core
5 3 (5.08%) ARM Templates
5 3 (5.08%) Node.js
5 3 (5.08%) RESTful
5 3 (5.08%) SOAP
5 3 (5.08%) Web Services
5 3 (5.08%) YAML
6 2 (3.39%) AngularJS
6 2 (3.39%) Fluent Bit
6 2 (3.39%) Loki
6 2 (3.39%) OAuth
6 2 (3.39%) OpenID
6 2 (3.39%) React
6 2 (3.39%) SAML
7 1 (1.69%) RxJava
Miscellaneous
1 5 (8.47%) Data Centre
2 3 (5.08%) CMDB
2 3 (5.08%) Distributed Applications
3 2 (3.39%) Enterprise Storage
3 2 (3.39%) PKI
3 2 (3.39%) Private Cloud
3 2 (3.39%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.69%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.69%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.69%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (1.69%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.69%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 17 (28.81%) Linux
2 11 (18.64%) Windows
3 4 (6.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (3.39%) Unix
4 2 (3.39%) VMS
4 2 (3.39%) Windows 2000
4 2 (3.39%) Windows XP
5 1 (1.69%) Windows Server
5 1 (1.69%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (1.69%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (52.54%) DevOps
2 23 (38.98%) Agile
3 22 (37.29%) Infrastructure as Code
4 19 (32.20%) CI/CD
5 17 (28.81%) Test Automation
6 12 (20.34%) Configuration Management
6 12 (20.34%) Continuous Integration
7 9 (15.25%) Deployment Automation
7 9 (15.25%) GitOps
7 9 (15.25%) Task Automation
8 8 (13.56%) Containerisation
8 8 (13.56%) ITSM
8 8 (13.56%) Scrum
9 7 (11.86%) Continuous Delivery
9 7 (11.86%) Migration
9 7 (11.86%) Open Source
10 6 (10.17%) Continuous Deployment
10 6 (10.17%) Problem-Solving
11 5 (8.47%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 5 (8.47%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 21 (35.59%) PowerShell
2 19 (32.20%) Python
3 10 (16.95%) Java
4 9 (15.25%) Go
5 7 (11.86%) Bash
6 6 (10.17%) C#
7 5 (8.47%) PHP
8 4 (6.78%) JavaScript
9 3 (5.08%) Bicep
9 3 (5.08%) Perl
9 3 (5.08%) Ruby
10 2 (3.39%) Shell Script
11 1 (1.69%) Kotlin
11 1 (1.69%) SQL
Qualifications
1 14 (23.73%) Security Cleared
2 12 (20.34%) SC Cleared
3 5 (8.47%) DV Cleared
4 1 (1.69%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.39%) QA
2 1 (1.69%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.69%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 14 (23.73%) Docker
2 6 (10.17%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (6.78%) vSphere
4 3 (5.08%) Active Directory
4 3 (5.08%) vCloud
4 3 (5.08%) VMware NSX
5 2 (3.39%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 30 (50.85%) Terraform
2 23 (38.98%) Ansible
3 15 (25.42%) Kubernetes
4 8 (13.56%) Puppet
5 4 (6.78%) Argo
5 4 (6.78%) Grafana
5 4 (6.78%) Prometheus
6 3 (5.08%) Autotask
6 3 (5.08%) PowerCLI
6 3 (5.08%) Progress Chef
7 2 (3.39%) Kustomize
8 1 (1.69%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (1.69%) Kibana
8 1 (1.69%) logstash
8 1 (1.69%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (1.69%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 12 (20.34%) VMware
2 11 (18.64%) Microsoft
3 7 (11.86%) Red Hat
4 4 (6.78%) Splunk
5 3 (5.08%) Arista
5 3 (5.08%) Atlassian
5 3 (5.08%) BMC
5 3 (5.08%) Dell
5 3 (5.08%) Google
5 3 (5.08%) HP
5 3 (5.08%) Oracle
5 3 (5.08%) Remedy
5 3 (5.08%) TOWER Software
6 2 (3.39%) Brocade
6 2 (3.39%) CyberArk
6 2 (3.39%) Fortinet
6 2 (3.39%) Juniper
6 2 (3.39%) Mercator
7 1 (1.69%) F5
7 1 (1.69%) SolarWinds