Infrastructure Automation Contracts in the South West

Infrastructure Automation
England > South West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South 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 3 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 108 154 157
Rank change year-on-year +46 +3 -24
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Automation 45 8 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 1.39% 0.24% 0.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.69% 0.26% 0.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 6 7
10th Percentile £514 £519 £425
25th Percentile £584 £525 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year +27.27% +4.76% +17.32%
75th Percentile - £584 £619
90th Percentile - £650 £660
England median daily rate £575 £550 £540
% change year-on-year +4.55% +1.85% +8.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South 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 South West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,669 3,041 3,269
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 82.20% 89.41% 88.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,686 2,207 2,346
10th Percentile £225 £313 £300
25th Percentile £401 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £549 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.37% +9.80% +5.37%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £600
90th Percentile £700 £725 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £545
% change year-on-year -4.55% +0.92% +9.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 361 314 205
10th Percentile £13.86 £9.80 £15.90
25th Percentile £29.75 £15.29 £21.25
Median hourly rate £55.00 £59.90 £48.48
Median % change year-on-year -8.18% +23.56% +7.73%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.30 £63.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £83.07 £68.81
England median hourly rate £37.50 £37.15 £25.00
% change year-on-year +0.94% +48.60% +11.11%

Infrastructure Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Automation in the South West

Infrastructure Automation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure Automation in the South West

Infrastructure Automation
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Automation in the South West over the 6 months to 3 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Automation in the South West

Infrastructure Automation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Hourly rate trend for Infrastructure Automation in the South West

Infrastructure Automation
Contract Job Locations in the South 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 South West region over the 6 months to 3 June 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
Wiltshire +37 36 £700 +27.27% 1
Bristol +17 5 - - 3
Gloucestershire +4 4 £563 -6.25% 1
Infrastructure Automation
England

Infrastructure Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South 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 26 (57.78%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 12 (26.67%) Azure
2 9 (20.00%) AWS
2 9 (20.00%) PaaS
3 6 (13.33%) GCP
3 6 (13.33%) OpenShift
4 3 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (4.44%) Amazon EKS
5 2 (4.44%) Azure AKS
5 2 (4.44%) Dynamics 365
5 2 (4.44%) GitHub
5 2 (4.44%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (4.44%) Slack
6 1 (2.22%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (8.89%) VPN
2 3 (6.67%) Firewall
3 1 (2.22%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.22%) MySQL
1 1 (2.22%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 29 (64.44%) JIRA
2 26 (57.78%) Bitbucket
2 26 (57.78%) Jenkins
3 22 (48.89%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 12 (26.67%) Git
5 2 (4.44%) GitLab
5 2 (4.44%) Snyk
5 2 (4.44%) SonarQube
General
1 23 (51.11%) Social Skills
2 19 (42.22%) Analytical Skills
3 18 (40.00%) Aerospace
4 5 (11.11%) Public Sector
5 1 (2.22%) Electronics
5 1 (2.22%) Finance
5 1 (2.22%) Manufacturing
5 1 (2.22%) Marketing
5 1 (2.22%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 18 (40.00%) Developer
2 5 (11.11%) Architect
2 5 (11.11%) Senior
3 4 (8.89%) Automation Architect
3 4 (8.89%) DevOps Engineer
3 4 (8.89%) Senior DevOps
3 4 (8.89%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 3 (6.67%) Automation Test Lead
4 3 (6.67%) Azure Engineer
4 3 (6.67%) Lead
4 3 (6.67%) Office Automation Architect
4 3 (6.67%) Test Leader
5 2 (4.44%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 2 (4.44%) Cloud Engineer
5 2 (4.44%) DevOps Specialist
5 2 (4.44%) Infrastructure Test Manager
5 2 (4.44%) Platform Engineer
5 2 (4.44%) Senior Cloud Engineer
5 2 (4.44%) Test Automation Manager
5 2 (4.44%) VMware Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (57.78%) .NET
2 22 (48.89%) .NET Core
3 9 (20.00%) YAML
4 4 (8.89%) .NET Framework
4 4 (8.89%) ModSecurity
5 2 (4.44%) Fluent Bit
5 2 (4.44%) Loki
6 1 (2.22%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 4 (8.89%) PKI
1 4 (8.89%) Product Ownership
1 4 (8.89%) Public Cloud
1 4 (8.89%) Security Posture
2 3 (6.67%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 38 (84.44%) Linux
2 14 (31.11%) Windows
3 9 (20.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (6.67%) Unix
4 3 (6.67%) VMS
4 3 (6.67%) Windows 2000
4 3 (6.67%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (75.56%) Configuration Management
2 31 (68.89%) CI/CD
3 24 (53.33%) Task Automation
4 22 (48.89%) Continuous Integration
4 22 (48.89%) Deployment Automation
4 22 (48.89%) OO
4 22 (48.89%) OOP
4 22 (48.89%) Problem-Solving
5 20 (44.44%) Infrastructure as Code
6 9 (20.00%) Validation
7 8 (17.78%) DevOps
7 8 (17.78%) GitOps
7 8 (17.78%) Virtual Infrastructure
8 7 (15.56%) Agile
9 6 (13.33%) NsoIT
10 5 (11.11%) Computer Science
10 5 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
11 4 (8.89%) Machine Learning
11 4 (8.89%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 4 (8.89%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 41 (91.11%) PowerShell
2 29 (64.44%) Python
3 3 (6.67%) Bash
3 3 (6.67%) Bicep
3 3 (6.67%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 40 (88.89%) Security Cleared
2 35 (77.78%) SC Cleared
3 5 (11.11%) Degree
4 4 (8.89%) Master's Degree
5 3 (6.67%) DV Cleared
6 1 (2.22%) Computer Science Degree
System Software
1 16 (35.56%) VMware Infrastructure
2 9 (20.00%) Virtual Machines
3 6 (13.33%) Docker
4 5 (11.11%) VMware NSX
5 3 (6.67%) Hyper-V
6 2 (4.44%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 41 (91.11%) Ansible
2 26 (57.78%) PowerCLI
3 23 (51.11%) Terraform
4 11 (24.44%) Puppet
5 10 (22.22%) Kubernetes
6 9 (20.00%) Progress Chef
6 9 (20.00%) Salt
7 4 (8.89%) Argo
7 4 (8.89%) OPNET
8 3 (6.67%) Grafana
8 3 (6.67%) Prometheus
9 2 (4.44%) Kustomize
10 1 (2.22%) Dell DRAC
Vendors
1 26 (57.78%) Atlassian
2 23 (51.11%) Dell
3 22 (48.89%) HP
4 18 (40.00%) VMware
5 9 (20.00%) Red Hat
6 8 (17.78%) SaltStack
7 5 (11.11%) Microsoft
8 4 (8.89%) Cisco
8 4 (8.89%) Google
9 3 (6.67%) Fortinet
9 3 (6.67%) Juniper
10 1 (2.22%) Databricks
10 1 (2.22%) SAP