Automation Developer Contracts in Edinburgh

Automation Developer
Scotland > Edinburgh

The median Automation Developer daily rate in Edinburgh is £460 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 26 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
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 69 103 -
Rank change year-on-year +34 - -
Contract jobs requiring an Automation Developer 4 9 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 0.49% 0.70% -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.51% 0.73% -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 8 0
10th Percentile £427 £434 -
25th Percentile £448 £438 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £494 -
Median % change year-on-year -6.88% - -
75th Percentile £465 £509 -
90th Percentile £474 £524 -
Scotland median daily rate £460 £463 £475
% change year-on-year -0.54% -2.63% -5.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Edinburgh

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh. 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 Edinburgh with a recognized job title 784 1,233 1,859
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.38% 95.58% 96.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 446 882 1,278
10th Percentile £203 £250 £230
25th Percentile £407 £405 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year - - +11.76%
75th Percentile £575 £545 £550
90th Percentile £663 £625 £638
Scotland median daily rate £475 £475 £458
% change year-on-year - +3.83% +7.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 55 14 23
10th Percentile £16.10 £14.53 £11.98
25th Percentile £17.86 £17.72 £17.50
Median hourly rate £50.00 £21.26 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +135.18% -1.12% -62.61%
75th Percentile £60.75 £53.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £66.00 £63.60 £53.75
Scotland median hourly rate £35.00 £23.18 £25.55
% change year-on-year +50.99% -9.26% -36.14%

Automation Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Job vacancy trend for Automation Developer in Edinburgh

Automation Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Automation Developer in Edinburgh.

Daily rate trend for Automation Developer in Edinburgh

Automation Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh

For the 6 months to 26 April 2024, Automation Developer 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 Edinburgh region featuring Automation Developer in the job title.

1 4 (100.00%) Agile
2 3 (75.00%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (75.00%) Scrum
2 3 (75.00%) Product Management
2 3 (75.00%) Amazon S3
2 3 (75.00%) AWS
2 3 (75.00%) Natural Language Processing
2 3 (75.00%) Machine Learning
2 3 (75.00%) TypeScript
2 3 (75.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 3 (75.00%) Kanban
2 3 (75.00%) AWS Lambda
2 3 (75.00%) Grafana
2 3 (75.00%) Service Design
2 3 (75.00%) Amazon Aurora
2 3 (75.00%) Serverless
2 3 (75.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (75.00%) AWS CDK
2 3 (75.00%) Python
3 2 (50.00%) OCR
3 2 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence
4 1 (25.00%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (25.00%) QA
4 1 (25.00%) Selenium
4 1 (25.00%) Java
4 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
4 1 (25.00%) React
4 1 (25.00%) QA Automation
4 1 (25.00%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (25.00%) Cucumber

Automation Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) Amazon S3
1 3 (75.00%) AWS
1 3 (75.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 3 (75.00%) AWS Lambda
1 3 (75.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) Amazon Aurora
1 3 (75.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (25.00%) Selenium
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (75.00%) AWS CDK
2 1 (25.00%) React
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Agile
2 3 (75.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (75.00%) Kanban
2 3 (75.00%) Machine Learning
2 3 (75.00%) Natural Language Processing
2 3 (75.00%) Product Management
2 3 (75.00%) Scrum
2 3 (75.00%) Service Design
3 2 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence
3 2 (50.00%) OCR
4 1 (25.00%) BDD
4 1 (25.00%) Data Protection
4 1 (25.00%) QA Automation
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Python
1 3 (75.00%) TypeScript
2 1 (25.00%) Java
2 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) Disclosure Scotland
1 1 (25.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) Grafana