Automation Engineer Contracts in the City of London

Automation Engineer
Central London > City of London

The median Automation Engineer daily rate in the City of London is £500 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 2 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
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 122 169 187
Rank change year-on-year +47 +18 -46
Contract jobs requiring an Automation Engineer 5 7 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.23% 0.19% 0.21%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.24% 0.20% 0.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 5 6
10th Percentile £340 £486 £480
25th Percentile £400 £531 £485
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £650 £519
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% +25.30% +48.21%
75th Percentile £563 £700 £580
90th Percentile £600 £753 £675
Central London median daily rate £513 £650 £519
% change year-on-year -21.15% +25.30% +48.21%

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 2,084 3,467 4,015
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.07% 95.12% 94.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,480 2,358 3,026
10th Percentile £350 £350 £363
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £561 £600 £565
Median % change year-on-year -6.46% +6.19% +7.62%
75th Percentile £688 £725 £675
90th Percentile £800 £820 £775
Central London median daily rate £550 £588 £560
% change year-on-year -6.38% +4.91% +6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 23 53
10th Percentile £15.62 £15.50 £13.88
25th Percentile £20.22 £18.50 £18.50
Median hourly rate £23.00 £35.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -34.29% -6.67% +111.42%
75th Percentile £27.25 £58.75 £51.75
90th Percentile £40.00 £87.64 £65.10
Central London median hourly rate £25.00 £35.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -28.57% -6.67% +108.62%

Automation Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Automation Engineer in the City of London

Automation Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

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

Daily rate trend for Automation Engineer in the City of London

Automation Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Automation Engineer in the City of London over the 6 months to 2 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Automation Engineer in the City of London

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

For the 6 months to 2 May 2024, 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 across the City of London region featuring Automation Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (40.00%) Python
1 2 (40.00%) Java
1 2 (40.00%) Agile
1 2 (40.00%) Selenium
1 2 (40.00%) QA Automation
1 2 (40.00%) QA
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
1 2 (40.00%) Cucumber
2 1 (20.00%) BDD
2 1 (20.00%) Presentation Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (20.00%) Conversational AI
2 1 (20.00%) CMDB
2 1 (20.00%) SDET
2 1 (20.00%) Terraform
2 1 (20.00%) Virtual Servers
2 1 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (20.00%) Continuous Deployment
2 1 (20.00%) BrowserStack
2 1 (20.00%) Sauce Labs
2 1 (20.00%) Perfecto Mobile
2 1 (20.00%) Conversational UI
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Automation
2 1 (20.00%) Power Automate
2 1 (20.00%) Regression Analysis
2 1 (20.00%) GitHub
2 1 (20.00%) Bitbucket
2 1 (20.00%) Jenkins

Automation Engineer 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (20.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) Azure
1 1 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (20.00%) BrowserStack
1 1 (20.00%) GitHub
1 1 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (20.00%) Power Automate
1 1 (20.00%) Sauce Labs
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) WAN
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Cucumber
1 2 (40.00%) Selenium
2 1 (20.00%) Appium
2 1 (20.00%) Bitbucket
2 1 (20.00%) Git
2 1 (20.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (20.00%) JIRA
General
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Banking
2 1 (20.00%) Finance
2 1 (20.00%) Financial Institution
2 1 (20.00%) Legal
2 1 (20.00%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) LDAP
1 1 (20.00%) Middleware
1 1 (20.00%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) CMDB
1 1 (20.00%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Agile
1 2 (40.00%) QA Automation
2 1 (20.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 1 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (20.00%) Conversational UI
2 1 (20.00%) Defect Management
2 1 (20.00%) DevOps
2 1 (20.00%) ETL
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Automation
2 1 (20.00%) ITIL
2 1 (20.00%) Microservices
2 1 (20.00%) Migration
2 1 (20.00%) Regression Testing
2 1 (20.00%) SDET
2 1 (20.00%) SDLC
2 1 (20.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (20.00%) Software Testing
2 1 (20.00%) Test Scripting
2 1 (20.00%) Time Management
2 1 (20.00%) Wealth Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) Java
1 2 (40.00%) Python
2 1 (20.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (20.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) ISTQB
1 1 (20.00%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Virtual Servers
1 1 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Cisco
1 1 (20.00%) Perfecto Mobile
1 1 (20.00%) VMware