Automation Consultant Contracts in the City of London

Automation Consultant
Central London > City of London

The median Automation Consultant daily rate in the City of London is £455 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 23 April 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
23 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 126 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring an Automation Consultant 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.045% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.047% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 - -
Central London median daily rate £455 - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
City of London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the City of 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 the City of London with a recognized job title 2,107 3,495 4,020
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.00% 95.26% 94.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,503 2,366 3,035
10th Percentile £350 £350 £366
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £600 £565
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +6.19% +7.62%
75th Percentile £688 £725 £675
90th Percentile £788 £819 £775
Central London median daily rate £550 £580 £560
% change year-on-year -5.17% +3.57% +6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 26 50
10th Percentile £16.46 £15.50 £13.74
25th Percentile £20.22 £18.50 £18.50
Median hourly rate £23.00 £35.00 £37.25
Median % change year-on-year -34.29% -6.04% +107.23%
75th Percentile £27.50 £58.75 £51.50
90th Percentile £44.10 £86.65 £62.83
Central London median hourly rate £25.78 £35.00 £37.25
% change year-on-year -26.34% -6.04% +107.23%

Automation Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Automation Consultant in the City of London

Automation Consultant
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Automation Consultant in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Automation Consultant in the City of London

Automation Consultant Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London

For the 6 months to 23 April 2024, Automation Consultant 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 City of London region featuring Automation Consultant in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) JUnit
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) TDD
1 1 (100.00%) Banking
1 1 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 1 (100.00%) .NET Framework
1 1 (100.00%) Selenium
1 1 (100.00%) Test Scripting
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) TestNG
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) WebDriver
1 1 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (100.00%) BDD
1 1 (100.00%) SoapUI
1 1 (100.00%) Test Strategy
1 1 (100.00%) ATDD
1 1 (100.00%) User Stories
1 1 (100.00%) eggPlant
1 1 (100.00%) Appium
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Deployment
1 1 (100.00%) Scaled Agile Framework

Automation Consultant Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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:

Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Appium
1 1 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (100.00%) eggPlant
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) JUnit
1 1 (100.00%) Postman
1 1 (100.00%) REST Assured
1 1 (100.00%) Selenium
1 1 (100.00%) SoapUI
1 1 (100.00%) SOAtest
1 1 (100.00%) TestNG
1 1 (100.00%) WebDriver
General
1 1 (100.00%) Banking
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) .NET Framework
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) ATDD
1 1 (100.00%) BDD
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Deployment
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
1 1 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 1 (100.00%) TDD
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Test Scripting
1 1 (100.00%) Test Strategy
1 1 (100.00%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft