Automation Consultant Contracts in London

Automation Consultant
England > London

The median Automation Consultant daily rate in London is £578 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 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
1 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 386 488 602
Rank change year-on-year +102 +114 -157
Contract jobs requiring an Automation Consultant 10 8 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.056% 0.030% 0.015%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.060% 0.031% 0.016%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 3 2
10th Percentile £398 £533 £442
25th Percentile £441 £563 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £578 £625 £490
Median % change year-on-year -7.60% +27.55% -2.00%
75th Percentile £725 £919 £520
90th Percentile £800 £1,088 £538
England median daily rate £578 £625 £475
% change year-on-year -7.60% +31.58% +2.70%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in 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 London with a recognized job title 16,604 25,696 37,092
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.23% 95.28% 95.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,003 18,613 27,062
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £443 £463 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £675
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 338 287 451
10th Percentile £16.01 £18.00 £16.50
25th Percentile £20.02 £22.57 £22.06
Median hourly rate £27.50 £35.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.43% - +11.64%
75th Percentile £43.75 £60.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £64.67 £76.10 £67.50
England median hourly rate £36.02 £44.77 £22.50
% change year-on-year -19.53% +98.96% +0.36%

Automation Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Automation Consultant in London

Automation Consultant
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Automation Consultant in London

Automation Consultant
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Automation Consultant in London over the 6 months to 1 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Automation Consultant in London

Automation Consultant
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 1 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
Central London - 1 £455 -
Automation Consultant
England

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

For the 6 months to 1 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 London region featuring Automation Consultant in the job title.

1 8 (80.00%) Test Automation
2 5 (50.00%) TDD
2 5 (50.00%) BDD
2 5 (50.00%) Social Skills
3 4 (40.00%) Postman
3 4 (40.00%) TypeScript
3 4 (40.00%) QA Automation
3 4 (40.00%) Fintech
3 4 (40.00%) Software Testing
3 4 (40.00%) Python
3 4 (40.00%) Azure
3 4 (40.00%) Agile
3 4 (40.00%) SoapUI
3 4 (40.00%) QA
4 3 (30.00%) C#
4 3 (30.00%) Java
4 3 (30.00%) .NET
4 3 (30.00%) Microsoft
4 3 (30.00%) Banking
4 3 (30.00%) DevOps
4 3 (30.00%) Git
5 2 (20.00%) Azure Logic Apps
5 2 (20.00%) Power Platform
5 2 (20.00%) PowerApps
5 2 (20.00%) Power Automate
5 2 (20.00%) REST Assured
5 2 (20.00%) CI/CD
5 2 (20.00%) User Stories
5 2 (20.00%) eggPlant
5 2 (20.00%) SDET

Automation Consultant Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 (10.00%) Confluence
1 1 (10.00%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 4 (40.00%) Azure
2 2 (20.00%) Azure Functions
2 2 (20.00%) Azure Logic Apps
2 2 (20.00%) Power Automate
2 2 (20.00%) Power Platform
2 2 (20.00%) PowerApps
2 2 (20.00%) Serverless
3 1 (10.00%) Azure API Management
3 1 (10.00%) Azure Batch
3 1 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (10.00%) Azure Key Vault
3 1 (10.00%) Azure Service Bus
3 1 (10.00%) Azure Storage
3 1 (10.00%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (10.00%) GitHub
3 1 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (20.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (10.00%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (10.00%) Big Data
2 1 (10.00%) Data Lake
2 1 (10.00%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (10.00%) NoSQL
2 1 (10.00%) OLTP
2 1 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (10.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 4 (40.00%) Postman
1 4 (40.00%) SoapUI
2 3 (30.00%) Git
3 2 (20.00%) Appium
3 2 (20.00%) Cucumber
3 2 (20.00%) eggPlant
3 2 (20.00%) Fiddler
3 2 (20.00%) JUnit
3 2 (20.00%) REST Assured
3 2 (20.00%) Selenium
3 2 (20.00%) SOAtest
3 2 (20.00%) TestNG
3 2 (20.00%) WebDriver
4 1 (10.00%) GitLab
4 1 (10.00%) JIRA
4 1 (10.00%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 5 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (30.00%) Banking
3 2 (20.00%) Finance
3 2 (20.00%) Investment Banking
4 1 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (10.00%) German Language
4 1 (10.00%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (30.00%) .NET
2 2 (20.00%) .NET Framework
3 1 (10.00%) ARM Templates
3 1 (10.00%) JSON
3 1 (10.00%) Web Services
3 1 (10.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 2 (20.00%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (10.00%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (80.00%) Test Automation
2 5 (50.00%) BDD
2 5 (50.00%) TDD
3 4 (40.00%) Agile
3 4 (40.00%) Fintech
3 4 (40.00%) QA Automation
3 4 (40.00%) Software Testing
4 3 (30.00%) DevOps
5 2 (20.00%) CI/CD
5 2 (20.00%) Continuous Deployment
5 2 (20.00%) Deployment Automation
5 2 (20.00%) ETL
5 2 (20.00%) Exploratory Testing
5 2 (20.00%) Machine Learning
5 2 (20.00%) Natural Language Processing
5 2 (20.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
5 2 (20.00%) SDET
5 2 (20.00%) Software Engineering
5 2 (20.00%) Test Strategy
5 2 (20.00%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 4 (40.00%) Python
1 4 (40.00%) TypeScript
2 3 (30.00%) C#
2 3 (30.00%) Java
3 2 (20.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (40.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (10.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (30.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (10.00%) Oracle
2 1 (10.00%) UiPath