Automation Consultant Contracts in England

Automation Consultant
UK > England

The median Automation Consultant daily rate in England is £700 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 6 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
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 537 643 779
Rank change year-on-year +106 +136 -167
Contract jobs requiring an Automation Consultant 11 13 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.030% 0.026% 0.015%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.032% 0.028% 0.016%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 3 7
10th Percentile £435 £533 £450
25th Percentile £453 £563 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £625 £475
Median % change year-on-year +12.00% +31.58% -2.56%
75th Percentile £750 £919 £588
90th Percentile £800 £1,088 £635
UK median daily rate £700 £625 £475
% change year-on-year +12.00% +31.58% +2.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 0
10th Percentile - £60.60 -
25th Percentile £58.75 £65.25 -
Median hourly rate £62.50 £71.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -11.97% - -
75th Percentile £66.25 £78.00 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £71.00 -
% change year-on-year -11.97% - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 34,362 47,263 67,966
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.69% 94.63% 95.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,836 33,555 48,392
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
75th Percentile £643 £663 £638
90th Percentile £750 £760 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,442 1,404 1,879
10th Percentile £13.00 £14.36 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.50 £44.32 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -17.64% +96.98% +2.27%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.86 £77.00 £63.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%

Automation Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Automation Consultant in England

Automation Consultant
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Automation Consultant in England.

Daily rate trend for Automation Consultant in England

Automation Consultant
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Automation Consultant in England over the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Automation Consultant in England

Automation Consultant
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Automation Consultant in England.

Hourly rate trend for Automation Consultant in England

Automation Consultant
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Automation Consultant within the England region over the 6 months to 6 May 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
London +113 9 £700 +12.00% 6
South West - 2 - -
Automation Consultant
UK

Automation Consultant Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 6 May 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 England region featuring Automation Consultant in the job title.

1 8 (72.73%) Test Automation
2 5 (45.45%) BDD
2 5 (45.45%) TDD
3 4 (36.36%) Software Testing
3 4 (36.36%) Python
3 4 (36.36%) SoapUI
3 4 (36.36%) TypeScript
3 4 (36.36%) QA
3 4 (36.36%) QA Automation
3 4 (36.36%) Fintech
3 4 (36.36%) Postman
3 4 (36.36%) Social Skills
4 3 (27.27%) Git
4 3 (27.27%) DevOps
4 3 (27.27%) Security Cleared
4 3 (27.27%) Agile
4 3 (27.27%) Azure
4 3 (27.27%) C#
4 3 (27.27%) Java
4 3 (27.27%) .NET
4 3 (27.27%) Banking
5 2 (18.18%) Investment Banking
5 2 (18.18%) Software Engineering
5 2 (18.18%) Finance
5 2 (18.18%) .NET Framework
5 2 (18.18%) ETL
5 2 (18.18%) JUnit
5 2 (18.18%) Microsoft
5 2 (18.18%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 2 (18.18%) WebDriver

Automation Consultant Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 3 (27.27%) Azure
2 1 (9.09%) Azure API Management
2 1 (9.09%) Azure Batch
2 1 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (9.09%) Azure Functions
2 1 (9.09%) Azure Key Vault
2 1 (9.09%) Azure Logic Apps
2 1 (9.09%) Azure Service Bus
2 1 (9.09%) Azure Storage
2 1 (9.09%) Dynamics 365
2 1 (9.09%) Power Automate
2 1 (9.09%) Power Platform
2 1 (9.09%) PowerApps
2 1 (9.09%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (9.09%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.09%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (9.09%) Big Data
1 1 (9.09%) Data Lake
1 1 (9.09%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (9.09%) OLTP
1 1 (9.09%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (36.36%) Postman
1 4 (36.36%) SoapUI
2 3 (27.27%) Git
3 2 (18.18%) Appium
3 2 (18.18%) Cucumber
3 2 (18.18%) eggPlant
3 2 (18.18%) Fiddler
3 2 (18.18%) JUnit
3 2 (18.18%) REST Assured
3 2 (18.18%) Selenium
3 2 (18.18%) SOAtest
3 2 (18.18%) TestNG
3 2 (18.18%) WebDriver
4 1 (9.09%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 4 (36.36%) Social Skills
2 3 (27.27%) Banking
3 2 (18.18%) Finance
3 2 (18.18%) Investment Banking
4 1 (9.09%) German Language
4 1 (9.09%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (27.27%) .NET
2 2 (18.18%) .NET Framework
3 1 (9.09%) ARM Templates
3 1 (9.09%) JSON
3 1 (9.09%) Web Services
3 1 (9.09%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 2 (18.18%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (9.09%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (72.73%) Test Automation
2 5 (45.45%) BDD
2 5 (45.45%) TDD
3 4 (36.36%) Fintech
3 4 (36.36%) QA Automation
3 4 (36.36%) Software Testing
4 3 (27.27%) Agile
4 3 (27.27%) DevOps
5 2 (18.18%) ATDD
5 2 (18.18%) Continuous Deployment
5 2 (18.18%) Continuous Integration
5 2 (18.18%) ETL
5 2 (18.18%) Exploratory Testing
5 2 (18.18%) Machine Learning
5 2 (18.18%) Natural Language Processing
5 2 (18.18%) SDET
5 2 (18.18%) Software Engineering
5 2 (18.18%) Test Scripting
5 2 (18.18%) Test Strategy
5 2 (18.18%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 4 (36.36%) Python
1 4 (36.36%) TypeScript
2 3 (27.27%) C#
2 3 (27.27%) Java
3 1 (9.09%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (27.27%) Security Cleared
2 2 (18.18%) SC Cleared
3 1 (9.09%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (36.36%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (9.09%) Ansible
1 1 (9.09%) Terraform
1 1 (9.09%) vRealize
Vendors
1 2 (18.18%) Microsoft
2 1 (9.09%) UiPath
2 1 (9.09%) VMware