Cloud Automation Engineer Contracts in England

Cloud Automation Engineer
UK > England

The median Cloud Automation Engineer daily rate in England is £430 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 542 648 787
Rank change year-on-year +106 +139 -164
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Automation Engineer 6 8 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.016% 0.016% 0.004%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.017% 0.017% 0.004%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 7 2
10th Percentile - £550 £423
25th Percentile - £604 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £430 £675 £525
Median % change year-on-year -36.30% +28.57% +46.24%
75th Percentile - £700 £606
90th Percentile - £702 £648
UK median daily rate £440 £675 £525
% change year-on-year -34.81% +28.57% +25.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in England. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in England with a recognized job title 34,362 47,263 67,966
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.69% 94.63% 95.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,836 33,555 48,392
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
75th Percentile £643 £663 £638
90th Percentile £750 £760 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,442 1,404 1,879
10th Percentile £13.00 £14.36 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.50 £44.32 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -17.64% +96.98% +2.27%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.86 £77.00 £63.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%

Cloud Automation Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured Cloud Automation Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Automation Engineer in England

Cloud Automation Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cloud Automation Engineer in England.

Daily rate trend for Cloud Automation Engineer in England

Cloud Automation Engineer
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cloud Automation Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 6 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
London +108 4 - -
North of England - 2 £430 -
Yorkshire - 1 £430 -
North West - 1 - -
Cloud Automation Engineer
UK

Cloud Automation Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 6 May 2024, Cloud Automation Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the England region featuring Cloud Automation Engineer in the job title.

1 4 (66.67%) DevOps
1 4 (66.67%) Agile
2 3 (50.00%) Degree
2 3 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (50.00%) GCP
2 3 (50.00%) Terraform
2 3 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (50.00%) Azure Certification
2 3 (50.00%) Finance
2 3 (50.00%) Azure
2 3 (50.00%) AWS
3 2 (33.33%) PowerShell
3 2 (33.33%) Migration
3 2 (33.33%) Computer Science
3 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 2 (33.33%) Code Quality
3 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure Maintenance
3 2 (33.33%) Bicep
3 2 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (33.33%) Storage Management
3 2 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (33.33%) Tandem
4 1 (16.67%) JIRA
4 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes
4 1 (16.67%) Enterprise Cloud
4 1 (16.67%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (16.67%) Digital Transformation Programme

Cloud Automation Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (50.00%) AWS
1 3 (50.00%) Azure
1 3 (50.00%) GCP
2 2 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) MongoDB
1 1 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (16.67%) Relational Database
1 1 (16.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Bitbucket
1 1 (16.67%) Git
1 1 (16.67%) Jenkins
1 1 (16.67%) JIRA
General
1 3 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (50.00%) Finance
1 3 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) Middleware
1 1 (16.67%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Tandem
2 1 (16.67%) Enterprise Cloud
2 1 (16.67%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (16.67%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Unix
1 1 (16.67%) Windows
1 1 (16.67%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Agile
1 4 (66.67%) DevOps
2 3 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 2 (33.33%) Code Quality
3 2 (33.33%) Computer Science
3 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure Maintenance
3 2 (33.33%) Migration
3 2 (33.33%) Storage Management
4 1 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
4 1 (16.67%) Digital Transformation Programme
4 1 (16.67%) Functional Testing
4 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Automation
4 1 (16.67%) ITSM
4 1 (16.67%) Technical Leadership
4 1 (16.67%) Test Automation
4 1 (16.67%) Test Strategy
4 1 (16.67%) Use Case
4 1 (16.67%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) Bicep
1 2 (33.33%) PowerShell
2 1 (16.67%) C#
2 1 (16.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (50.00%) Azure Certification
1 3 (50.00%) Degree
2 2 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
3 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (50.00%) Terraform
2 1 (16.67%) Ansible
2 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (16.67%) CyberArk
2 1 (16.67%) Oracle
2 1 (16.67%) Splunk
2 1 (16.67%) Wind River