Infrastructure Automation Contracts

Infrastructure Automation
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Infrastructure Automation skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Infrastructure Automation over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 391 499 539
Rank change year-on-year +108 +40 -50
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Automation 196 200 324
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.45% 0.36% 0.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.53% 0.40% 0.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 120 135 250
10th Percentile £375 £440 £413
25th Percentile £425 £487 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.64% -0.09% +9.89%
75th Percentile £700 £649 £639
90th Percentile £750 £748 £733
UK excluding London median daily rate £600 £525 £525
% change year-on-year +14.29% - +6.06%
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 excluding London median hourly rate £71.87 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Infrastructure Automation falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,178 49,770 79,013
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.13% 89.61% 90.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,737 34,458 55,587
10th Percentile £300 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £438 £436
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £750 £750 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £490
% change year-on-year - +2.04% +8.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,579 1,678 1,852
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.96 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.75 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.00 £35.65 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.79% +37.12% +13.04%
75th Percentile £61.28 £65.00 £50.15
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £34.90 £21.00
% change year-on-year +9.23% +66.18% -

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 12 June 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 12 June 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 12 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
England +121 161 £564 +2.45% 62
UK excluding London +24 93 £600 +14.29% 39
London +70 68 £513 -18.00% 25
Work from Home +77 64 £543 -0.46% 46
South West +36 42 £700 +27.27% 14
North of England +42 32 £413 -28.26% 14
South East +26 24 £582 +3.47% 6
Yorkshire +31 19 £400 -46.67% 3
Midlands +24 13 £582 +28.62% 2
North West +23 13 £499 -13.26% 10
West Midlands +25 12 £582 +36.94% 2
East Midlands +7 1 £625 +30.21%
Scotland -1 1 - - 1

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 (12.76%) Confluence
2 5 (2.55%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (1.53%) Apache
3 3 (1.53%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (1.02%) Exchange Server 2010
4 2 (1.02%) Exchange Server 2013
5 1 (0.51%) IIS
5 1 (0.51%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.51%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.51%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 3 (1.53%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 64 (32.65%) AWS
2 56 (28.57%) Azure
3 32 (16.33%) GCP
4 22 (11.22%) Entra ID
5 18 (9.18%) Azure DevOps
6 15 (7.65%) Serverless
7 13 (6.63%) AWS CloudFormation
7 13 (6.63%) IaaS
7 13 (6.63%) OpenShift
8 12 (6.12%) Cloud Computing
9 11 (5.61%) PaaS
10 9 (4.59%) GitHub
11 8 (4.08%) Amazon EKS
11 8 (4.08%) Microsoft 365
12 7 (3.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 7 (3.57%) Azure Logic Apps
12 7 (3.57%) Azure Storage
12 7 (3.57%) Power Platform
12 7 (3.57%) PowerApps
12 7 (3.57%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 13 (6.63%) TCP/IP
2 11 (5.61%) Firewall
3 6 (3.06%) HTTP
4 5 (2.55%) DNS
4 5 (2.55%) SAN
4 5 (2.55%) Software-Defined Networking
4 5 (2.55%) VPN
5 4 (2.04%) Network Security
6 3 (1.53%) DHCP
6 3 (1.53%) NAS
6 3 (1.53%) SNA
6 3 (1.53%) VSAN
7 2 (1.02%) DKIM
7 2 (1.02%) DMARC
7 2 (1.02%) Fibre Channel
7 2 (1.02%) InfiniBand
7 2 (1.02%) IPsec
8 1 (0.51%) Cisco Nexus
8 1 (0.51%) S/MIME
8 1 (0.51%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (6.12%) SQL Server
2 7 (3.57%) Azure SQL Database
2 7 (3.57%) Big Data
3 6 (3.06%) Data Lake
3 6 (3.06%) Data Warehouse
3 6 (3.06%) OLTP
4 5 (2.55%) BigQuery
5 4 (2.04%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (1.53%) Apache Cassandra
6 3 (1.53%) MySQL
6 3 (1.53%) NoSQL
6 3 (1.53%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (1.53%) RDBMS
6 3 (1.53%) Relational Database
7 2 (1.02%) SQLite
8 1 (0.51%) Amazon Athena
8 1 (0.51%) Amazon Aurora
8 1 (0.51%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.51%) Flink
8 1 (0.51%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 53 (27.04%) Git
2 51 (26.02%) Jenkins
3 32 (16.33%) JIRA
4 27 (13.78%) Bitbucket
5 19 (9.69%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 16 (8.16%) GitLab
7 7 (3.57%) JUnit
8 6 (3.06%) Visual Studio Team System
9 5 (2.55%) SonarQube
10 4 (2.04%) Cucumber
10 4 (2.04%) Maven
11 3 (1.53%) Artifactory
11 3 (1.53%) Sonatype Nexus
12 2 (1.02%) Cypress.io
12 2 (1.02%) Jaeger
12 2 (1.02%) Selenium
12 2 (1.02%) Snyk
13 1 (0.51%) JMeter
13 1 (0.51%) Mockito
13 1 (0.51%) TestNG
General
1 55 (28.06%) Social Skills
2 29 (14.80%) Analytical Skills
3 20 (10.20%) Public Sector
4 18 (9.18%) Aerospace
5 16 (8.16%) Finance
6 5 (2.55%) Banking
7 2 (1.02%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.51%) Danish Language
8 1 (0.51%) Electronics
8 1 (0.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.51%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.51%) Marketing
8 1 (0.51%) Retail
8 1 (0.51%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 38 (19.39%) Developer
2 31 (15.82%) DevOps Engineer
3 23 (11.73%) Senior
4 13 (6.63%) Automation Engineer
5 12 (6.12%) AWS DevOps
5 12 (6.12%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 12 (6.12%) AWS Engineer
6 11 (5.61%) Architect
6 11 (5.61%) Cloud Engineer
6 11 (5.61%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 10 (5.10%) Consultant
7 10 (5.10%) Platform Engineer
8 6 (3.06%) Azure Engineer
8 6 (3.06%) Lead
8 6 (3.06%) Software Engineer
8 6 (3.06%) VMware Engineer
9 5 (2.55%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 5 (2.55%) Junior
9 5 (2.55%) Junior DevOps Engineer
9 5 (2.55%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (14.80%) .NET
2 23 (11.73%) YAML
3 19 (9.69%) .NET Core
4 16 (8.16%) SAML
5 15 (7.65%) OpenID
6 14 (7.14%) OAuth
7 12 (6.12%) Elastic Stack
8 11 (5.61%) XML
9 9 (4.59%) JSON
10 7 (3.57%) ARM Templates
10 7 (3.57%) LDAP
10 7 (3.57%) Web Services
11 6 (3.06%) Kafka
12 5 (2.55%) .NET Framework
12 5 (2.55%) Node.js
12 5 (2.55%) React
12 5 (2.55%) REST
13 4 (2.04%) AWS CDK
13 4 (2.04%) Gherkin
13 4 (2.04%) ModSecurity
Miscellaneous
1 11 (5.61%) Data Centre
2 9 (4.59%) PKI
3 7 (3.57%) Public Cloud
4 6 (3.06%) Cloud Native
5 5 (2.55%) CMDB
5 5 (2.55%) Product Ownership
6 4 (2.04%) Data Protection Act
6 4 (2.04%) Private Cloud
6 4 (2.04%) Security Posture
7 3 (1.53%) Distributed Applications
7 3 (1.53%) Distributed Systems
7 3 (1.53%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.02%) Clustering
8 2 (1.02%) Enterprise Storage
8 2 (1.02%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.51%) Hedge funds
9 1 (0.51%) Legacy Applications
9 1 (0.51%) Linux Command Line
9 1 (0.51%) Management Information System
9 1 (0.51%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 64 (32.65%) Linux
2 33 (16.84%) Windows
3 17 (8.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (2.55%) Unix
5 4 (2.04%) VMS
6 3 (1.53%) Windows 2000
6 3 (1.53%) Windows XP
7 2 (1.02%) Windows Server
7 2 (1.02%) Windows Server 2012
7 2 (1.02%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.51%) Android
8 1 (0.51%) Windows Server 2008
8 1 (0.51%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 90 (45.92%) DevOps
2 88 (44.90%) Infrastructure as Code
3 82 (41.84%) CI/CD
4 59 (30.10%) Configuration Management
5 52 (26.53%) Agile
6 43 (21.94%) Problem-Solving
7 42 (21.43%) Continuous Integration
8 36 (18.37%) Test Automation
9 34 (17.35%) Containerisation
10 30 (15.31%) Deployment Automation
11 27 (13.78%) Task Automation
12 25 (12.76%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 22 (11.22%) Identity Access Management
14 20 (10.20%) Migration
15 19 (9.69%) OO
15 19 (9.69%) OOP
16 18 (9.18%) Scrum
17 16 (8.16%) Continuous Delivery
17 16 (8.16%) Microservices
17 16 (8.16%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 77 (39.29%) PowerShell
2 70 (35.71%) Python
3 39 (19.90%) Java
4 19 (9.69%) Bash
4 19 (9.69%) Go
5 12 (6.12%) SQL
6 11 (5.61%) C#
7 8 (4.08%) JavaScript
7 8 (4.08%) Shell Script
8 7 (3.57%) Kotlin
9 6 (3.06%) PHP
9 6 (3.06%) TypeScript
10 4 (2.04%) Ruby
11 3 (1.53%) Bicep
11 3 (1.53%) C++
11 3 (1.53%) Perl
12 2 (1.02%) Groovy
12 2 (1.02%) Scala
13 1 (0.51%) C
13 1 (0.51%) Rust
Qualifications
1 80 (40.82%) Security Cleared
2 69 (35.20%) SC Cleared
3 13 (6.63%) Degree
4 11 (5.61%) AWS Certification
5 10 (5.10%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 9 (4.59%) DV Cleared
7 6 (3.06%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 6 (3.06%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (2.04%) Master's Degree
9 3 (1.53%) VCAP
9 3 (1.53%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 1 (0.51%) Azure Certification
10 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (1.53%) Accessibility
1 3 (1.53%) QA
2 1 (0.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (0.51%) NCSC
2 1 (0.51%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 44 (22.45%) Docker
2 41 (20.92%) VMware Infrastructure
3 19 (9.69%) Virtual Machines
4 17 (8.67%) Active Directory
5 14 (7.14%) VMware NSX
6 9 (4.59%) vSphere
7 4 (2.04%) Hyper-V
7 4 (2.04%) Virtual Servers
7 4 (2.04%) VMware ESXi
8 3 (1.53%) vCloud
9 2 (1.02%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
9 2 (1.02%) KVM
10 1 (0.51%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 108 (55.10%) Terraform
2 85 (43.37%) Ansible
3 64 (32.65%) Kubernetes
4 31 (15.82%) Puppet
5 25 (12.76%) Progress Chef
6 23 (11.73%) PowerCLI
7 14 (7.14%) Salt
8 8 (4.08%) Prometheus
8 8 (4.08%) vRealize
8 8 (4.08%) vRealize Orchestrator
9 7 (3.57%) Grafana
10 5 (2.55%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 4 (2.04%) Argo
11 4 (2.04%) OPNET
12 3 (1.53%) Autotask
12 3 (1.53%) Single Sign-On
12 3 (1.53%) vCenter Server
13 2 (1.02%) Kiali
13 2 (1.02%) Kustomize
13 2 (1.02%) Rancher
Vendors
1 49 (25.00%) VMware
2 40 (20.41%) Microsoft
3 23 (11.73%) Atlassian
4 22 (11.22%) Red Hat
5 20 (10.20%) Dell
6 19 (9.69%) HP
7 14 (7.14%) Google
8 13 (6.63%) SaltStack
9 7 (3.57%) Oracle
10 6 (3.06%) Cisco
10 6 (3.06%) Splunk
11 4 (2.04%) Fortinet
12 3 (1.53%) Arista
12 3 (1.53%) BMC
12 3 (1.53%) Juniper
12 3 (1.53%) Remedy
12 3 (1.53%) TOWER Software
13 2 (1.02%) McAfee
13 2 (1.02%) Mercator
13 2 (1.02%) NVIDIA