DevOps Automation Engineer Contract Job Trends in London

DevOps Automation Engineer
England > London

The median DevOps Automation Engineer daily rate in London is £588, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 21 October 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 371 375 410
Rank change year-on-year +4 +35 +155
Contract jobs requiring a DevOps Automation Engineer 2 6 26
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.015% 0.038% 0.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.016% 0.040% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 16
10th Percentile £566 £579 £519
25th Percentile £572 £603 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £663 £575
Median % change year-on-year -11.32% +15.22% -4.17%
75th Percentile £597 £728 £641
90th Percentile £599 £756 £738
England median daily rate £556 £622 £575
% change year-on-year -10.61% +8.17% -4.17%

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 12,385 14,895 19,565
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.48% 94.06% 94.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,246 9,671 14,260
10th Percentile £335 £348 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -
75th Percentile £665 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £800 £800
England median daily rate £513 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -2.38% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 213 166 213
10th Percentile £17.00 £17.25 £18.36
25th Percentile £22.00 £23.80 £22.29
Median hourly rate £26.50 £37.50 £39.83
Median % change year-on-year -29.33% -5.85% +21.62%
75th Percentile £48.00 £58.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £67.11 £79.75 £76.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £42.94 £45.88
% change year-on-year -41.43% -6.41% +60.98%

DevOps Automation Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'DevOps Automation Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

DevOps Automation Engineer job vacancy trend in London

DevOps Automation Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for DevOps Automation Engineer job vacancies in London.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for DevOps Automation Engineer job vacancies in London

DevOps Automation Engineer Skill Set
Top 29 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 21 October 2025, DevOps Automation Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the London region featuring DevOps Automation Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Ansible
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
1 2 (100.00%) GitHub
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Automation
1 2 (100.00%) SD-WAN
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
1 2 (100.00%) VPN
1 2 (100.00%) WAN
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Aruba
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco
2 1 (50.00%) DNS
2 1 (50.00%) GCP
2 1 (50.00%) GitLab
2 1 (50.00%) Grafana
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (50.00%) JIRA
2 1 (50.00%) Prometheus
2 1 (50.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
2 1 (50.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (50.00%) Test Automation

DevOps Automation Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) GitHub
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
1 2 (100.00%) SD-WAN
1 2 (100.00%) VPN
1 2 (100.00%) WAN
2 1 (50.00%) DNS
2 1 (50.00%) TCP/IP
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) GitLab
1 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (50.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
2 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Python
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Ansible
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
2 1 (50.00%) Grafana
2 1 (50.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Aruba
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco