DevOps Automation Engineer Contracts in London

DevOps Automation Engineer
England > London

The median DevOps Automation Engineer daily rate in London is £563, 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 349 387 474
Rank change year-on-year +38 +87 +120
Contract jobs requiring a DevOps Automation Engineer 4 4 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.032% 0.022% 0.070%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.034% 0.024% 0.074%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 8
10th Percentile £451 - £511
25th Percentile £491 £563 £531
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £575 £650
Median % change year-on-year -2.17% -11.54% +31.31%
75th Percentile £644 £588 £659
90th Percentile £723 - £714
England median daily rate £513 £622 £650
% change year-on-year -17.60% -4.31% +36.84%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in London. 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 London with a recognized job title 11,726 16,625 25,758
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.45% 93.24% 95.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,034 12,022 18,663
10th Percentile £341 £325 £363
25th Percentile £431 £444 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -
75th Percentile £675 £675 £700
90th Percentile £800 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 143 336 290
10th Percentile £20.45 £16.01 £18.00
25th Percentile £23.90 £20.02 £22.53
Median hourly rate £34.00 £27.81 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.26% -20.54% -
75th Percentile £50.75 £43.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £64.75 £65.00 £76.03
England median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
% change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%

DevOps Automation Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for DevOps Automation Engineer in London

DevOps Automation Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for DevOps Automation Engineer in London

DevOps Automation Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for DevOps Automation Engineer in London

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

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 London region featuring DevOps Automation Engineer in the job title.

1 4 (100.00%) DevOps
1 4 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (75.00%) Terraform
2 3 (75.00%) Ansible
2 3 (75.00%) Python
3 2 (50.00%) Linux
3 2 (50.00%) High Availability
3 2 (50.00%) Splunk
3 2 (50.00%) Configuration Management
3 2 (50.00%) GitLab
3 2 (50.00%) Test Automation
3 2 (50.00%) Azure
3 2 (50.00%) AWS
3 2 (50.00%) Jenkins
3 2 (50.00%) Elastic Stack
3 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Automation
4 1 (25.00%) Canary Deployment
4 1 (25.00%) Product Requirements
4 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
4 1 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (25.00%) Secrets Management
4 1 (25.00%) Podman
4 1 (25.00%) Windows Server
4 1 (25.00%) GraphQL
4 1 (25.00%) Containerisation
4 1 (25.00%) Incident Response
4 1 (25.00%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (25.00%) Security Posture
4 1 (25.00%) MSTest

DevOps Automation Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 (25.00%) Apache
1 1 (25.00%) nginx
1 1 (25.00%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) AWS
1 2 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (25.00%) GCP
2 1 (25.00%) GitHub
2 1 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) HTTP
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) GitLab
1 2 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (25.00%) Bitbucket
2 1 (25.00%) Git
2 1 (25.00%) MSTest
2 1 (25.00%) NSubstitute
2 1 (25.00%) NUnit
2 1 (25.00%) Selenium
2 1 (25.00%) Visual Studio Coded UI
General
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (25.00%) .NET
2 1 (25.00%) GraphQL
2 1 (25.00%) Jest
2 1 (25.00%) React
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (25.00%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Security Posture
1 1 (25.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Linux
2 1 (25.00%) Unix
2 1 (25.00%) Windows
2 1 (25.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (100.00%) DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) Configuration Management
2 2 (50.00%) High Availability
2 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Automation
2 2 (50.00%) Test Automation
3 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (25.00%) Integration Testing
3 1 (25.00%) ITSM
3 1 (25.00%) Migration
3 1 (25.00%) Patch Management
3 1 (25.00%) Performance Metrics
3 1 (25.00%) Project Management
3 1 (25.00%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (25.00%) Software Delivery
3 1 (25.00%) Software Testing
3 1 (25.00%) System Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Python
2 1 (25.00%) C
2 1 (25.00%) Go
2 1 (25.00%) Groovy
2 1 (25.00%) Java
2 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (25.00%) Shell Script
2 1 (25.00%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) Ansible
1 3 (75.00%) Terraform
2 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (25.00%) Podman
2 1 (25.00%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Splunk
2 1 (25.00%) AppDynamics
2 1 (25.00%) Dynatrace
2 1 (25.00%) SolarWinds