DevOps Automation Engineer Contract Job Trends in the North East

DevOps Automation Engineer
England > North East

The median DevOps Automation Engineer daily rate in the North East is £600, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 16 October 2025.

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

6 months to
16 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 43 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a DevOps Automation Engineer 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the North East 0.33% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.35% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 - -
England median daily rate £556 £622 £575
% change year-on-year -10.61% +8.17% -4.17%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
North East

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the North East. 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 North East with a recognized job title 282 259 213
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.86% 89.31% 93.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 180 107 165
10th Percentile £173 £268 £268
25th Percentile £338 £358 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £435
Median % change year-on-year - +3.45% -17.14%
75th Percentile £575 £568 £575
90th Percentile £650 £650 £626
England median daily rate £512 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -2.48% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 23 9
10th Percentile £13.75 £15.35 £15.00
25th Percentile £16.19 £32.70 £16.25
Median hourly rate £19.25 £46.18 £32.00
Median % change year-on-year -58.32% +44.31% +103.17%
75th Percentile £22.19 £50.00 £46.18
90th Percentile £36.00 £70.00 -
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year -41.51% -6.89% +67.93%

DevOps Automation Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

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 the North East.

DevOps Automation Engineer job vacancy trend in the North East

DevOps Automation Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in the North East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for DevOps Automation Engineer job vacancies in the North East.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for DevOps Automation Engineer job vacancies in the North East

DevOps Automation Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North East

For the 6 months to 16 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 North East region featuring DevOps Automation Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Argo
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Deployment Automation
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
1 1 (100.00%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Groovy
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) OpenShift
1 1 (100.00%) Podman
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Splunk
1 1 (100.00%) Static Application Security Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform

DevOps Automation Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North East 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 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (100.00%) OpenShift
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Deployment Automation
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Static Application Security Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) Groovy
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Argo
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Podman
1 1 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Splunk