Cloud Automation Engineer Contracts in England

Cloud Automation Engineer
UK > England

The median Cloud Automation Engineer daily rate in England is £513, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 483 536 645
Rank change year-on-year +53 +109 +135
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Automation Engineer 2 6 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.008% 0.016% 0.016%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.009% 0.017% 0.017%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 7
10th Percentile £431 - £550
25th Percentile £459 - £604
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £430 £675
Median % change year-on-year +19.19% -36.30% +68.75%
75th Percentile £559 - £700
90th Percentile £584 - £702
UK median daily rate £513 £440 £675
% change year-on-year +16.48% -34.81% +68.75%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies 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 22,549 34,488 47,741
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.59% 92.73% 94.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,007 22,894 33,903
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £409 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £643 £663
90th Percentile £750 £750 £763
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 900 2,432 1,409
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.00 £14.35
25th Percentile £18.51 £16.30 £20.00
Median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%
75th Percentile £63.75 £61.25 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £76.60
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

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
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cloud Automation Engineer in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram 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 1 May 2025. 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 +35 1 £600 -
North of England +18 1 £425 -1.16%
Yorkshire +8 1 £425 -1.16%
Cloud Automation Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, 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 2 (100.00%) Ansible
1 2 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Automation
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Incident Response
2 1 (50.00%) Security Posture
2 1 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (50.00%) Proactive Monitoring
2 1 (50.00%) Deployment Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Metrics
2 1 (50.00%) GCP
2 1 (50.00%) GitLab
2 1 (50.00%) Software Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) Patch Management
2 1 (50.00%) Security Patching
2 1 (50.00%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (50.00%) Terraform
2 1 (50.00%) Windows Server
2 1 (50.00%) C
2 1 (50.00%) Windows
2 1 (50.00%) Linux
2 1 (50.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) Configuration Management
2 1 (50.00%) Project Management
2 1 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (50.00%) ITSM

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 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) GCP
1 1 (50.00%) GitHub
1 1 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (50.00%) GitLab
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (50.00%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
1 1 (50.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Configuration Management
2 1 (50.00%) Deployment Automation
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (50.00%) High Availability
2 1 (50.00%) Incident Response
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) ITSM
2 1 (50.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Patch Management
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Metrics
2 1 (50.00%) Proactive Monitoring
2 1 (50.00%) Project Management
2 1 (50.00%) Security Patching
2 1 (50.00%) Software Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) C
1 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (50.00%) Python
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Ansible
2 1 (50.00%) Terraform
2 1 (50.00%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) SolarWinds
1 1 (50.00%) Splunk