DevOps Automation Engineer Contracts

DevOps Automation Engineer
UK

The median DevOps Automation Engineer daily rate in the UK is £622 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 8 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
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 573 674 840
Rank change year-on-year +101 +166 -163
Contract jobs requiring a DevOps Automation Engineer 13 19 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.030% 0.033% 0.010%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.033% 0.035% 0.011%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 9 5
10th Percentile £533 £493 £358
25th Percentile £563 £531 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £622 £650 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.31% +36.84% +5.56%
75th Percentile £625 - £488
90th Percentile £640 £705 £504
UK excluding London median daily rate £624 £501 £475
% change year-on-year +24.58% +5.37% +0.53%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 the UK with a recognized job title 39,991 54,978 83,963
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.74% 94.64% 95.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,011 38,395 59,001
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £410 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,675 1,545 2,052
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.28 £19.25 £15.63
Median hourly rate £36.65 £45.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -18.56% +88.21% +6.27%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.74 £76.40 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £19.52
% change year-on-year -5.88% +117.73% +2.74%

DevOps Automation Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for DevOps Automation Engineer in the UK

DevOps Automation Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for DevOps Automation Engineer in the UK

DevOps Automation Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DevOps Automation Engineer over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for DevOps Automation Engineer in the UK

DevOps Automation Engineer
Top 8 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DevOps Automation Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 8 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
England +82 9 £622 -4.31%
Work from Home +118 6 £624 +5.01%
UK excluding London +75 5 £624 +24.58%
London +87 4 £575 -11.54%
Yorkshire - 4 £625 -
North of England - 4 £625 -
Midlands - 1 £525 -
West Midlands - 1 £525 -

DevOps Automation Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 8 May 2024, DevOps 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 featuring DevOps Automation Engineer in the job title.

1 13 (100.00%) DevOps
2 11 (84.62%) AWS
3 9 (69.23%) Azure
3 9 (69.23%) CI/CD
4 8 (61.54%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (61.54%) GCP
4 8 (61.54%) GitHub
4 8 (61.54%) Ansible
4 8 (61.54%) Python
4 8 (61.54%) Agile
5 7 (53.85%) Bash
6 6 (46.15%) PowerShell
6 6 (46.15%) Firewall
6 6 (46.15%) HTTP
6 6 (46.15%) VPN
6 6 (46.15%) DNS
6 6 (46.15%) Jenkins
6 6 (46.15%) Terraform
6 6 (46.15%) Social Skills
6 6 (46.15%) Problem-Solving
6 6 (46.15%) Infrastructure as Code
7 5 (38.46%) Task Automation
7 5 (38.46%) Containerisation
7 5 (38.46%) Kubernetes
7 5 (38.46%) JIRA
7 5 (38.46%) Confluence
7 5 (38.46%) Docker
7 5 (38.46%) Elasticsearch
8 4 (30.77%) Progress Chef
8 4 (30.77%) Puppet

DevOps Automation Engineer Skill Set
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 5 (38.46%) Confluence
2 1 (7.69%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 11 (84.62%) AWS
2 9 (69.23%) Azure
3 8 (61.54%) GCP
3 8 (61.54%) GitHub
4 4 (30.77%) Apigee
4 4 (30.77%) Kong
5 2 (15.38%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (15.38%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (15.38%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (7.69%) Azure Stack
Communications & Networking
1 6 (46.15%) DNS
1 6 (46.15%) Firewall
1 6 (46.15%) HTTP
1 6 (46.15%) VPN
2 4 (30.77%) TCP/IP
3 2 (15.38%) Internet
3 2 (15.38%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (38.46%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (7.69%) MariaDB
2 1 (7.69%) MySQL
2 1 (7.69%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (7.69%) RDBMS
2 1 (7.69%) Relational Database
2 1 (7.69%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (46.15%) Jenkins
2 5 (38.46%) JIRA
3 4 (30.77%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 4 (30.77%) CircleCI
3 4 (30.77%) Git
3 4 (30.77%) GitLab
3 4 (30.77%) Travis CI
4 2 (15.38%) Postman
5 1 (7.69%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (7.69%) Vagrant
General
1 8 (61.54%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (46.15%) Social Skills
3 1 (7.69%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (30.77%) Elastic Stack
1 4 (30.77%) JSON
1 4 (30.77%) XML
1 4 (30.77%) YAML
2 1 (7.69%) Apache NiFi
Miscellaneous
1 4 (30.77%) Data Structures
2 2 (15.38%) Tandem
3 1 (7.69%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 4 (30.77%) Linux
2 2 (15.38%) Windows
2 2 (15.38%) Windows Server
3 1 (7.69%) CentOS
3 1 (7.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (7.69%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (100.00%) DevOps
2 9 (69.23%) CI/CD
3 8 (61.54%) Agile
4 6 (46.15%) Infrastructure as Code
4 6 (46.15%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (38.46%) Containerisation
5 5 (38.46%) Task Automation
6 4 (30.77%) API Development
6 4 (30.77%) API Integration
6 4 (30.77%) Collaborative Working
6 4 (30.77%) Continuous Deployment
6 4 (30.77%) Continuous Integration
6 4 (30.77%) DevSecOps
6 4 (30.77%) Project Management
6 4 (30.77%) Scrum
6 4 (30.77%) Secure Coding
6 4 (30.77%) Stakeholder Management
6 4 (30.77%) Use Case
6 4 (30.77%) Workflow
7 2 (15.38%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 8 (61.54%) Python
2 7 (53.85%) Bash
3 6 (46.15%) PowerShell
4 2 (15.38%) Bicep
4 2 (15.38%) JavaScript
5 1 (7.69%) Groovy
5 1 (7.69%) Korn
5 1 (7.69%) SQL
5 1 (7.69%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (15.38%) Azure Certification
1 2 (15.38%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (15.38%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (30.77%) QA
System Software
1 5 (38.46%) Docker
2 1 (7.69%) KVM
2 1 (7.69%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (61.54%) Ansible
2 6 (46.15%) Terraform
3 5 (38.46%) Kubernetes
4 4 (30.77%) Docker Swarm
4 4 (30.77%) Grafana
4 4 (30.77%) Kibana
4 4 (30.77%) logstash
4 4 (30.77%) Progress Chef
4 4 (30.77%) Prometheus
4 4 (30.77%) Puppet
5 1 (7.69%) Packer
Vendors
1 4 (30.77%) Splunk
2 2 (15.38%) Microsoft
2 2 (15.38%) UiPath
3 1 (7.69%) Cadence
3 1 (7.69%) Oracle
3 1 (7.69%) Sybase
3 1 (7.69%) VMware