DevOps Automation Engineer Contracts with Work from Home Options

DevOps Automation Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median DevOps Automation Engineer daily rate in Work from Home is £622 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

 6 months to
17 May 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 335 458 625
Rank change year-on-year +123 +167 -150
Contract jobs requiring a DevOps Automation Engineer 8 8 4
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.054% 0.033% 0.009%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.058% 0.034% 0.009%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 8 3
10th Percentile - £489 £343
25th Percentile - £524 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £622 £594 £475
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +25.00% +9.83%
75th Percentile £624 £650 £501
90th Percentile £624 £661 £510
UK median daily rate £622 £650 £475
% change year-on-year -4.31% +36.84% +4.97%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with a WFH option. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 13,835 23,454 42,149
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.54% 95.29% 95.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,295 16,589 30,493
10th Percentile £325 £363 £356
25th Percentile £425 £445 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +9.38%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.82% +2.90% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 559 534 593
10th Percentile £14.27 £17.50 £13.50
25th Percentile £22.61 £25.71 £19.00
Median hourly rate £44.00 £52.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.19% +50.00% +45.83%
75th Percentile £64.14 £67.50 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.25 £79.76 £68.65
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%

DevOps Automation Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option which featured DevOps Automation Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

DevOps Automation Engineer trend for jobs with a WFH option

DevOps Automation Engineer
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing DevOps Automation Engineer.

DevOps Automation Engineer daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

DevOps Automation Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 17 May 2024, 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 jobs with a WFH option featuring DevOps Automation Engineer in the job title.

1 8 (100.00%) DevOps
2 7 (87.50%) Azure
2 7 (87.50%) Agile
3 6 (75.00%) GCP
3 6 (75.00%) CI/CD
3 6 (75.00%) AWS
4 5 (62.50%) PowerShell
4 5 (62.50%) Ansible
4 5 (62.50%) Python
4 5 (62.50%) Social Skills
4 5 (62.50%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (62.50%) Terraform
4 5 (62.50%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (62.50%) Infrastructure as Code
5 4 (50.00%) Task Automation
5 4 (50.00%) HTTP
5 4 (50.00%) VPN
5 4 (50.00%) DNS
5 4 (50.00%) Firewall
5 4 (50.00%) JIRA
5 4 (50.00%) QA
5 4 (50.00%) GitHub
5 4 (50.00%) Jenkins
5 4 (50.00%) Git
5 4 (50.00%) Bash
5 4 (50.00%) Confluence
6 3 (37.50%) Puppet
6 3 (37.50%) YAML
6 3 (37.50%) Use Case
6 3 (37.50%) Atlassian Bamboo

DevOps Automation Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 4 (50.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 7 (87.50%) Azure
2 6 (75.00%) AWS
2 6 (75.00%) GCP
3 4 (50.00%) GitHub
4 3 (37.50%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (37.50%) Kong
5 2 (25.00%) Apigee
Communications & Networking
1 4 (50.00%) DNS
1 4 (50.00%) Firewall
1 4 (50.00%) HTTP
1 4 (50.00%) VPN
2 3 (37.50%) TCP/IP
3 2 (25.00%) SSL
4 1 (12.50%) BIG-IP
4 1 (12.50%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
4 1 (12.50%) Internet
4 1 (12.50%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (37.50%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 4 (50.00%) Git
1 4 (50.00%) Jenkins
1 4 (50.00%) JIRA
2 3 (37.50%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 3 (37.50%) CircleCI
2 3 (37.50%) GitLab
2 3 (37.50%) Travis CI
3 2 (25.00%) Postman
4 1 (12.50%) Newman
General
1 5 (62.50%) Analytical Skills
1 5 (62.50%) Social Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (37.50%) Elastic Stack
1 3 (37.50%) JSON
1 3 (37.50%) XML
1 3 (37.50%) YAML
2 1 (12.50%) Apache NiFi
2 1 (12.50%) REST
2 1 (12.50%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 3 (37.50%) Data Structures
2 2 (25.00%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) DevOps
2 7 (87.50%) Agile
3 6 (75.00%) CI/CD
4 5 (62.50%) Infrastructure as Code
4 5 (62.50%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (50.00%) Task Automation
6 3 (37.50%) API Integration
6 3 (37.50%) Collaborative Working
6 3 (37.50%) Containerisation
6 3 (37.50%) Continuous Deployment
6 3 (37.50%) Continuous Integration
6 3 (37.50%) DevSecOps
6 3 (37.50%) Project Management
6 3 (37.50%) Scrum
6 3 (37.50%) Secure Coding
6 3 (37.50%) Stakeholder Management
6 3 (37.50%) Use Case
6 3 (37.50%) Workflow
7 2 (25.00%) Migration
7 2 (25.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 5 (62.50%) PowerShell
1 5 (62.50%) Python
2 4 (50.00%) Bash
3 2 (25.00%) Bicep
4 1 (12.50%) ActionScript
4 1 (12.50%) JavaScript
4 1 (12.50%) SQL
4 1 (12.50%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) Azure Certification
1 2 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (25.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (50.00%) QA
System Software
1 3 (37.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (62.50%) Ansible
1 5 (62.50%) Terraform
2 3 (37.50%) Docker Swarm
2 3 (37.50%) Grafana
2 3 (37.50%) Kibana
2 3 (37.50%) Kubernetes
2 3 (37.50%) logstash
2 3 (37.50%) Progress Chef
2 3 (37.50%) Prometheus
2 3 (37.50%) Puppet
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) Splunk
2 2 (25.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (12.50%) Cadence
3 1 (12.50%) F5
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