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 20 September 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 368 465 553
Rank change year-on-year +97 +88 -75
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Automation 201 181 319
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.52% 0.36% 0.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.61% 0.41% 0.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 129 118 225
10th Percentile £331 £434 £408
25th Percentile £400 £500 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -7.27% +2.33% +0.89%
75th Percentile £600 £635 £633
90th Percentile £680 £720 £712
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -22.73% +4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £82.50 - -
Median hourly rate £85.00 - -
75th Percentile £87.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £85.00 - -

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 32,912 44,388 77,735
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.73% 89.02% 90.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,157 30,166 54,294
10th Percentile £309 £313 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £750 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,439 1,570 1,739
10th Percentile £14.84 £14.25 £13.16
25th Percentile £20.00 £18.79 £16.25
Median hourly rate £43.00 £42.50 £28.90
Median % change year-on-year +1.18% +47.06% +34.42%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £58.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £77.50 £70.39
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.00 £42.50 £23.45
% change year-on-year +1.18% +81.28% +27.91%

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 20 September 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
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 20 September 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 +136 180 £523 -5.00% 98
UK excluding London +56 96 £425 -22.73% 66
London +84 87 £550 +1.62% 41
North of England +72 51 £413 -27.47% 22
Work from Home +62 47 £593 +7.73% 60
Yorkshire +52 41 £406 -26.97% 6
South East +36 23 £584 -13.56% 24
South West +26 18 £584 +2.82% 7
Midlands +26 18 £582 - 4
West Midlands - 17 £582 - 3
North West +23 10 £536 -6.74% 14
Scotland +1 6 £484 -7.81% 1
East Midlands +2 1 £625 - 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 12 (5.97%) Confluence
2 4 (1.99%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (1.49%) SAS
3 3 (1.49%) SharePoint
4 2 (1.00%) Exchange Server 2010
4 2 (1.00%) Exchange Server 2013
4 2 (1.00%) nginx
5 1 (0.50%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 86 (42.79%) AWS
2 62 (30.85%) Azure
3 27 (13.43%) GCP
4 21 (10.45%) AWS CloudFormation
5 19 (9.45%) OpenShift
6 17 (8.46%) GitHub
7 14 (6.97%) Serverless
8 12 (5.97%) Azure DevOps
8 12 (5.97%) Cloud Computing
8 12 (5.97%) GitHub Actions
8 12 (5.97%) IaaS
9 11 (5.47%) Entra ID
10 10 (4.98%) PaaS
11 7 (3.48%) Amazon EC2
11 7 (3.48%) Microsoft 365
11 7 (3.48%) Power Platform
11 7 (3.48%) PowerApps
11 7 (3.48%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 6 (2.99%) Amazon EKS
12 6 (2.99%) Azure ExpressRoute
Communications & Networking
1 8 (3.98%) Firewall
2 7 (3.48%) DNS
2 7 (3.48%) TCP/IP
3 6 (2.99%) Software-Defined Networking
4 5 (2.49%) DHCP
4 5 (2.49%) HTTP
4 5 (2.49%) Remote Desktop
4 5 (2.49%) VPN
5 4 (1.99%) Fibre Channel
5 4 (1.99%) iSCSI
5 4 (1.99%) SAN
6 3 (1.49%) NetScaler
7 2 (1.00%) DKIM
7 2 (1.00%) DMARC
7 2 (1.00%) InfiniBand
7 2 (1.00%) NAS
8 1 (0.50%) Cisco ISE
8 1 (0.50%) Cisco Nexus
8 1 (0.50%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
8 1 (0.50%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (8.46%) SQL Server
2 10 (4.98%) Amazon RDS
3 6 (2.99%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (2.49%) Azure SQL Database
4 5 (2.49%) BigQuery
4 5 (2.49%) MySQL
4 5 (2.49%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (2.49%) RDBMS
4 5 (2.49%) Relational Database
5 4 (1.99%) Big Data
5 4 (1.99%) Data Lake
5 4 (1.99%) OLTP
6 2 (1.00%) DB2
6 2 (1.00%) Oracle Database
6 2 (1.00%) Power BI
7 1 (0.50%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.50%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.50%) Flink
7 1 (0.50%) Parquet
7 1 (0.50%) Presto
Development Applications
1 51 (25.37%) Jenkins
2 50 (24.88%) GitLab
3 46 (22.89%) Git
4 12 (5.97%) JIRA
5 5 (2.49%) Bitbucket
5 5 (2.49%) Visual Studio
5 5 (2.49%) Visual Studio Team System
6 4 (1.99%) JUnit
7 3 (1.49%) Cucumber
7 3 (1.49%) Jaeger
8 2 (1.00%) Artifactory
9 1 (0.50%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 1 (0.50%) Chocolatey
9 1 (0.50%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.50%) git-flow
9 1 (0.50%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.50%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.50%) Spinnaker
9 1 (0.50%) TeamCity
9 1 (0.50%) Terragrunt
General
1 41 (20.40%) Finance
2 35 (17.41%) Social Skills
3 18 (8.96%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (8.46%) Banking
5 11 (5.47%) Public Sector
6 3 (1.49%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (1.00%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (1.00%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.50%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.50%) Military
8 1 (0.50%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 53 (26.37%) DevOps Engineer
2 34 (16.92%) AWS Engineer
3 28 (13.93%) AWS DevOps
3 28 (13.93%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 21 (10.45%) Developer
4 21 (10.45%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 19 (9.45%) Platform Engineer
6 18 (8.96%) Architect
6 18 (8.96%) Automation Engineer
7 15 (7.46%) Cloud Engineer
8 13 (6.47%) Senior
9 12 (5.97%) Junior
10 11 (5.47%) Consultant
11 10 (4.98%) Azure Engineer
11 10 (4.98%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 9 (4.48%) Junior DevOps
12 9 (4.48%) Junior DevOps Engineer
13 8 (3.98%) Java Developer
14 7 (3.48%) Python Developer
14 7 (3.48%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (11.44%) YAML
2 12 (5.97%) .NET
3 10 (4.98%) Elastic Stack
3 10 (4.98%) Kafka
4 9 (4.48%) AWS CDK
5 8 (3.98%) .NET Framework
6 6 (2.99%) Web Services
7 5 (2.49%) ARM Templates
8 4 (1.99%) Gherkin
8 4 (1.99%) JSON
8 4 (1.99%) ModSecurity
8 4 (1.99%) XML
9 3 (1.49%) AngularJS
9 3 (1.49%) ASP.NET Web API
9 3 (1.49%) CSS3
9 3 (1.49%) Django
9 3 (1.49%) Entity Framework
9 3 (1.49%) Flask
9 3 (1.49%) HTML5
9 3 (1.49%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 11 (5.47%) Cloud Native
1 11 (5.47%) Data Protection Act
2 9 (4.48%) Data Centre
3 8 (3.98%) PKI
3 8 (3.98%) Product Ownership
4 6 (2.99%) Public Cloud
5 5 (2.49%) Management Information System
5 5 (2.49%) Onboarding
5 5 (2.49%) Self-Motivation
6 4 (1.99%) Clustering
6 4 (1.99%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (1.99%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (1.99%) Legacy Applications
6 4 (1.99%) Security Posture
7 3 (1.49%) Client/Server
7 3 (1.49%) NVMe
7 3 (1.49%) Virtual Team
8 2 (1.00%) Distributed Applications
8 2 (1.00%) IoT
8 2 (1.00%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 54 (26.87%) Linux
2 44 (21.89%) Windows
3 23 (11.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 9 (4.48%) Unix
5 7 (3.48%) Windows Server
6 5 (2.49%) Windows Server 2012
6 5 (2.49%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (1.00%) Data ONTAP
7 2 (1.00%) VMS
8 1 (0.50%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.50%) Windows Server 2008
8 1 (0.50%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 118 (58.71%) DevOps
2 111 (55.22%) Infrastructure as Code
3 99 (49.25%) CI/CD
4 51 (25.37%) Containerisation
5 47 (23.38%) Agile
6 44 (21.89%) Configuration Management
7 36 (17.91%) Problem-Solving
8 35 (17.41%) Continuous Integration
9 31 (15.42%) Migration
10 26 (12.94%) High Availability
10 26 (12.94%) Test Automation
11 23 (11.44%) Platform Engineering
12 21 (10.45%) Microservices
12 21 (10.45%) Validation
13 20 (9.95%) Continuous Delivery
14 19 (9.45%) Scrum
15 18 (8.96%) Computer Science
15 18 (8.96%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 17 (8.46%) Virtual Infrastructure
17 16 (7.96%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 72 (35.82%) PowerShell
1 72 (35.82%) Python
2 33 (16.42%) Java
3 28 (13.93%) Bash
4 20 (9.95%) SQL
5 10 (4.98%) Go
6 9 (4.48%) C#
6 9 (4.48%) Shell Script
6 9 (4.48%) TypeScript
7 6 (2.99%) Perl
8 5 (2.49%) Kotlin
9 3 (1.49%) JavaScript
9 3 (1.49%) Ruby
10 2 (1.00%) C++
10 2 (1.00%) Groovy
10 2 (1.00%) Scala
11 1 (0.50%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 66 (32.84%) Security Cleared
2 52 (25.87%) SC Cleared
3 24 (11.94%) AWS Certification
3 24 (11.94%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 19 (9.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 15 (7.46%) Degree
6 10 (4.98%) Computer Science Degree
7 6 (2.99%) Azure Certification
7 6 (2.99%) DV Cleared
8 4 (1.99%) Master's Degree
9 3 (1.49%) Microsoft Certification
9 3 (1.49%) VCAP
9 3 (1.49%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 2 (1.00%) CCNA
10 2 (1.00%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (1.00%) MCSE
10 2 (1.00%) Microsoft Certified Master
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (2.99%) QA
2 3 (1.49%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.50%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (0.50%) GDPR
3 1 (0.50%) HIPAA
3 1 (0.50%) NCSC
3 1 (0.50%) SOC 2
System Software
1 71 (35.32%) Docker
2 43 (21.39%) VMware Infrastructure
3 22 (10.95%) Virtual Machines
4 15 (7.46%) Active Directory
5 10 (4.98%) VMware NSX
6 6 (2.99%) XenApp
6 6 (2.99%) XenDesktop
7 5 (2.49%) vSphere
8 4 (1.99%) NFS
9 2 (1.00%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
9 2 (1.00%) GPFS
9 2 (1.00%) Hyper-V
9 2 (1.00%) KVM
9 2 (1.00%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 140 (69.65%) Terraform
2 81 (40.30%) Ansible
3 79 (39.30%) Kubernetes
4 34 (16.92%) Progress Chef
5 30 (14.93%) Puppet
6 15 (7.46%) Salt
7 12 (5.97%) Prometheus
8 10 (4.98%) vRealize
9 8 (3.98%) vRealize Orchestrator
10 6 (2.99%) Grafana
10 6 (2.99%) SCOM
11 5 (2.49%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 4 (1.99%) OPNET
12 4 (1.99%) PowerCLI
12 4 (1.99%) SCCM
12 4 (1.99%) SCOrch
13 3 (1.49%) Argo
13 3 (1.49%) Kiali
13 3 (1.49%) Kustomize
13 3 (1.49%) Veritas Storage Foundation
Vendors
1 46 (22.89%) VMware
2 40 (19.90%) Microsoft
3 25 (12.44%) Red Hat
4 18 (8.96%) Google
5 14 (6.97%) SaltStack
6 6 (2.99%) Cisco
6 6 (2.99%) Citrix
7 5 (2.49%) Oracle
7 5 (2.49%) Splunk
8 4 (1.99%) Atlassian
8 4 (1.99%) NetApp
8 4 (1.99%) Sybase
8 4 (1.99%) xMatters
9 3 (1.49%) AppDynamics
9 3 (1.49%) CyberArk
9 3 (1.49%) EMC
9 3 (1.49%) IBM
9 3 (1.49%) ServiceNow
9 3 (1.49%) Veritas
10 2 (1.00%) McAfee