DevOps Automation Engineer Contracts

DevOps Automation Engineer
UK

The median DevOps Automation Engineer daily rate in the UK is £622, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 20 September 2024.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

 6 months to
20 Sep 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 545 622 826
Rank change year-on-year +77 +204 -47
Contract jobs requiring a DevOps Automation Engineer 21 24 27
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.055% 0.048% 0.031%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.059% 0.051% 0.033%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 13 8
10th Percentile £520 £503 £489
25th Percentile £563 £525 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £622 £575 £650
Median % change year-on-year +8.17% -11.54% +25.00%
75th Percentile £631 £650 £722
90th Percentile £650 - £814
UK excluding London median daily rate £622 £650 £488
% change year-on-year -4.31% +33.33% -9.30%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 UK with a recognized job title 35,672 46,944 81,846
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.92% 94.15% 95.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,921 32,148 57,528
10th Percentile £300 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £419 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £750 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,658 1,511 1,784
10th Percentile £14.73 £14.93 £13.02
25th Percentile £20.30 £19.06 £16.25
Median hourly rate £43.00 £44.50 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.37% +71.15% +30.00%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £77.50 £70.30
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.90 £43.75 £22.00
% change year-on-year +0.34% +98.86% +22.22%

DevOps Automation Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for DevOps Automation Engineer in the UK

DevOps Automation Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for DevOps Automation Engineer in the UK

DevOps Automation Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DevOps Automation Engineer over the 6 months to 20 September 2024.

Daily rate histogram for DevOps Automation Engineer in the UK

DevOps Automation Engineer
Top 8 Contract Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 20 September 2024. 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
England +70 16 £622 +8.17% 2
UK excluding London +51 9 £622 -4.31% 2
Work from Home +89 8 £622 +8.17% 2
London +58 7 £663 +15.22%
Yorkshire - 7 £624 -
North of England - 7 £624 - 1
Midlands - 2 £575 - 1
West Midlands - 2 £575 - 1

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

For the 6 months to 20 September 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 job ads featuring DevOps Automation Engineer in the job title.

1 21 (100.00%) DevOps
2 15 (71.43%) CI/CD
3 13 (61.90%) Python
4 12 (57.14%) Ansible
5 11 (52.38%) Terraform
5 11 (52.38%) Git
6 10 (47.62%) AWS
6 10 (47.62%) Bash
6 10 (47.62%) QA
6 10 (47.62%) Docker
6 10 (47.62%) Analytical Skills
6 10 (47.62%) Jenkins
6 10 (47.62%) Problem-Solving
7 9 (42.86%) Azure
7 9 (42.86%) Kubernetes
7 9 (42.86%) PowerShell
7 9 (42.86%) Agile
7 9 (42.86%) Containerisation
8 8 (38.10%) Workflow
8 8 (38.10%) GitHub
8 8 (38.10%) Social Skills
9 7 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
9 7 (33.33%) Task Automation
9 7 (33.33%) GCP
9 7 (33.33%) Grafana
9 7 (33.33%) Puppet
10 6 (28.57%) Splunk
10 6 (28.57%) Confluence
10 6 (28.57%) YAML
10 6 (28.57%) Use Case

DevOps Automation Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 6 (28.57%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 10 (47.62%) AWS
2 9 (42.86%) Azure
3 8 (38.10%) GitHub
4 7 (33.33%) GCP
5 6 (28.57%) Kong
6 4 (19.05%) Apigee
7 3 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (9.52%) Amazon EC2
8 2 (9.52%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (4.76%) Amazon ECR
9 1 (4.76%) Amazon ECS
9 1 (4.76%) Amazon S3
9 1 (4.76%) BrowserStack
9 1 (4.76%) dbt
9 1 (4.76%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 6 (28.57%) DNS
1 6 (28.57%) Firewall
1 6 (28.57%) HTTP
1 6 (28.57%) TCP/IP
1 6 (28.57%) VPN
2 2 (9.52%) BIG-IP
2 2 (9.52%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
2 2 (9.52%) Reverse Proxy
2 2 (9.52%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (28.57%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 11 (52.38%) Git
2 10 (47.62%) Jenkins
3 6 (28.57%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 6 (28.57%) CircleCI
3 6 (28.57%) GitLab
3 6 (28.57%) JIRA
3 6 (28.57%) Travis CI
4 1 (4.76%) Newman
4 1 (4.76%) Postman
4 1 (4.76%) SonarQube
General
1 10 (47.62%) Analytical Skills
2 8 (38.10%) Social Skills
3 3 (14.29%) Banking
4 2 (9.52%) Finance
5 1 (4.76%) Military
5 1 (4.76%) Public Sector
5 1 (4.76%) Publishing
5 1 (4.76%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (28.57%) Elastic Stack
1 6 (28.57%) JSON
1 6 (28.57%) XML
1 6 (28.57%) YAML
2 1 (4.76%) Apache NiFi
2 1 (4.76%) FastAPI
2 1 (4.76%) Node.js
2 1 (4.76%) OLE
2 1 (4.76%) Playwright
2 1 (4.76%) REST
2 1 (4.76%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 6 (28.57%) Data Structures
2 1 (4.76%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (4.76%) Private Cloud
2 1 (4.76%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 3 (14.29%) Linux
2 2 (9.52%) Windows
2 2 (9.52%) Windows Server
3 1 (4.76%) Unix
3 1 (4.76%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (100.00%) DevOps
2 15 (71.43%) CI/CD
3 10 (47.62%) Problem-Solving
4 9 (42.86%) Agile
4 9 (42.86%) Containerisation
5 8 (38.10%) Workflow
6 7 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
6 7 (33.33%) Task Automation
7 6 (28.57%) API Integration
7 6 (28.57%) Collaborative Working
7 6 (28.57%) Computer Science
7 6 (28.57%) Continuous Deployment
7 6 (28.57%) Continuous Integration
7 6 (28.57%) DevSecOps
7 6 (28.57%) Project Management
7 6 (28.57%) Scrum
7 6 (28.57%) Secure Coding
7 6 (28.57%) Stakeholder Management
7 6 (28.57%) Use Case
8 5 (23.81%) API Development
Programming Languages
1 13 (61.90%) Python
2 10 (47.62%) Bash
3 9 (42.86%) PowerShell
4 2 (9.52%) ActionScript
4 2 (9.52%) Shell Script
5 1 (4.76%) Bicep
5 1 (4.76%) JavaScript
5 1 (4.76%) Ruby
5 1 (4.76%) SQL
5 1 (4.76%) T-SQL
5 1 (4.76%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 6 (28.57%) Computer Science Degree
1 6 (28.57%) Degree
2 2 (9.52%) DV Cleared
2 2 (9.52%) Security Cleared
3 1 (4.76%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (47.62%) QA
System Software
1 10 (47.62%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (57.14%) Ansible
2 11 (52.38%) Terraform
3 9 (42.86%) Kubernetes
4 7 (33.33%) Grafana
4 7 (33.33%) Puppet
5 6 (28.57%) Docker Swarm
5 6 (28.57%) Kibana
5 6 (28.57%) logstash
5 6 (28.57%) Progress Chef
5 6 (28.57%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 6 (28.57%) Splunk
2 2 (9.52%) F5
2 2 (9.52%) IBM
2 2 (9.52%) Microsoft
2 2 (9.52%) UiPath
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