DevOps Automation Engineer Contracts in England

DevOps Automation Engineer
UK > England

The median DevOps 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 477 533 634
Rank change year-on-year +56 +101 +138
Contract jobs requiring a DevOps Automation Engineer 8 9 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.033% 0.024% 0.038%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.035% 0.026% 0.040%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 5 8
10th Percentile £391 £533 £511
25th Percentile £444 £563 £531
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £622 £650
Median % change year-on-year -17.60% -4.31% +36.84%
75th Percentile £584 £625 £659
90th Percentile £688 £640 £714
UK median daily rate £513 £622 £650
% change year-on-year -17.60% -4.31% +36.84%

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%

DevOps Automation Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for DevOps Automation Engineer in England

DevOps Automation Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for DevOps Automation Engineer in England

DevOps Automation Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

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

Daily rate histogram for DevOps Automation Engineer in England

DevOps 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 DevOps 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 +38 4 £563 -2.17%
North of England +18 3 £433 -30.80%
Yorkshire +6 2 £433 -30.80%
Midlands +22 1 - -
North West - 1 - -
East Midlands - 1 - -
DevOps Automation Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, 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 across the England region featuring DevOps Automation Engineer in the job title.

1 8 (100.00%) DevOps
2 7 (87.50%) CI/CD
3 6 (75.00%) Ansible
4 5 (62.50%) Terraform
4 5 (62.50%) Python
5 4 (50.00%) Configuration Management
5 4 (50.00%) Jenkins
5 4 (50.00%) Azure
6 3 (37.50%) PowerShell
6 3 (37.50%) Git
6 3 (37.50%) Test Automation
6 3 (37.50%) Linux
6 3 (37.50%) Docker
6 3 (37.50%) Kubernetes
6 3 (37.50%) Infrastructure as Code
6 3 (37.50%) Infrastructure Automation
6 3 (37.50%) Social Skills
7 2 (25.00%) Elastic Stack
7 2 (25.00%) Containerisation
7 2 (25.00%) GitLab
7 2 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
7 2 (25.00%) Deployment Automation
7 2 (25.00%) .NET
7 2 (25.00%) Selenium
7 2 (25.00%) Agile
7 2 (25.00%) Shell Script
7 2 (25.00%) High Availability
7 2 (25.00%) Splunk
7 2 (25.00%) VMware

DevOps 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (12.50%) Apache
1 1 (12.50%) nginx
1 1 (12.50%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 4 (50.00%) Azure
2 2 (25.00%) AWS
2 2 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (12.50%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (12.50%) GCP
3 1 (12.50%) GitHub
3 1 (12.50%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (12.50%) Power Automate
3 1 (12.50%) Power Platform
3 1 (12.50%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) HTTP
1 1 (12.50%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) Oracle Database
1 1 (12.50%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 4 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 3 (37.50%) Git
3 2 (25.00%) GitLab
3 2 (25.00%) Selenium
4 1 (12.50%) Bitbucket
4 1 (12.50%) Chocolatey
4 1 (12.50%) MSTest
4 1 (12.50%) NSubstitute
4 1 (12.50%) NUnit
4 1 (12.50%) SonarQube
4 1 (12.50%) TestNG
4 1 (12.50%) Visual Studio Coded UI
General
1 3 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Manufacturing
2 1 (12.50%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (25.00%) .NET
1 2 (25.00%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (12.50%) GraphQL
2 1 (12.50%) Jest
2 1 (12.50%) pytest
2 1 (12.50%) React
2 1 (12.50%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Cloud Native
1 1 (12.50%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (12.50%) EMC VMAX
1 1 (12.50%) Private Cloud
1 1 (12.50%) Security Posture
1 1 (12.50%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (37.50%) Linux
2 1 (12.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (12.50%) Unix
2 1 (12.50%) Windows
2 1 (12.50%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) DevOps
2 7 (87.50%) CI/CD
3 4 (50.00%) Configuration Management
4 3 (37.50%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (37.50%) Infrastructure Automation
4 3 (37.50%) Test Automation
5 2 (25.00%) Agile
5 2 (25.00%) Containerisation
5 2 (25.00%) Deployment Automation
5 2 (25.00%) High Availability
5 2 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
6 1 (12.50%) Business Intelligence
6 1 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
6 1 (12.50%) Disaster Recovery
6 1 (12.50%) ITIL
6 1 (12.50%) ITSM
6 1 (12.50%) Migration
6 1 (12.50%) Project Management
6 1 (12.50%) TDD
6 1 (12.50%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 5 (62.50%) Python
2 3 (37.50%) PowerShell
3 2 (25.00%) Shell Script
4 1 (12.50%) Bash
4 1 (12.50%) C
4 1 (12.50%) C#
4 1 (12.50%) Go
4 1 (12.50%) Groovy
4 1 (12.50%) Java
4 1 (12.50%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) SC Cleared
1 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
1 1 (12.50%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) QA
System Software
1 3 (37.50%) Docker
2 1 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (12.50%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 6 (75.00%) Ansible
2 5 (62.50%) Terraform
3 3 (37.50%) Kubernetes
4 1 (12.50%) Podman
4 1 (12.50%) Progress Chef
4 1 (12.50%) Puppet
4 1 (12.50%) vRealize
4 1 (12.50%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) Splunk
1 2 (25.00%) VMware
2 1 (12.50%) 3PAR
2 1 (12.50%) AppDynamics
2 1 (12.50%) Brocade
2 1 (12.50%) Cisco
2 1 (12.50%) Dynatrace
2 1 (12.50%) EMC
2 1 (12.50%) HP
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft
2 1 (12.50%) Oracle
2 1 (12.50%) Red Hat
2 1 (12.50%) ServiceNow
2 1 (12.50%) SolarWinds