Automation Engineer Contracts in London

Automation Engineer
England > London

The median Automation Engineer daily rate in London is £500 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 342 417 519
Rank change year-on-year +75 +102 -132
Contract jobs requiring an Automation Engineer 47 83 83
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.26% 0.31% 0.21%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.28% 0.32% 0.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 56 60
10th Percentile £325 £431 £424
25th Percentile £343 £518 £485
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £545
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +0.92% +21.11%
75th Percentile £538 £678 £625
90th Percentile £615 £700 £700
England median daily rate £500 £544 £525
% change year-on-year -8.05% +3.57% +16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £52.50 - -
Median hourly rate £55.00 £70.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -21.43% - -
75th Percentile £57.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £55.00 £70.00 -
% change year-on-year -21.43% - -

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 16,601 25,897 37,041
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.18% 95.32% 95.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,001 18,738 27,022
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £442 £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 £788 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 338 299 448
10th Percentile £16.01 £18.00 £16.50
25th Percentile £20.02 £22.57 £22.02
Median hourly rate £27.66 £35.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.10% +1.43% +12.90%
75th Percentile £43.75 £60.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £65.00 £76.60 £67.50
England median hourly rate £35.96 £44.53 £22.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% +97.91% +0.36%

Automation Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Automation Engineer in London

Automation Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Automation Engineer in London

Automation Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Automation Engineer in London over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Automation Engineer in London

Automation Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Automation Engineer in London.

Hourly rate trend for Automation Engineer in London

Automation Engineer
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 Engineer within the London region over the 6 months to 26 April 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 +41 6 £513 -21.15% 4
West London +18 1 - - 1
Automation Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 26 April 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 London region featuring Automation Engineer in the job title.

1 17 (36.17%) Python
1 17 (36.17%) Agile
1 17 (36.17%) CI/CD
2 16 (34.04%) Social Skills
2 16 (34.04%) Java
3 14 (29.79%) Test Automation
3 14 (29.79%) Ansible
4 12 (25.53%) Infrastructure Automation
4 12 (25.53%) Azure
4 12 (25.53%) VMware
5 11 (23.40%) .NET
6 10 (21.28%) SQL
6 10 (21.28%) Linux
6 10 (21.28%) AWS
6 10 (21.28%) Git
6 10 (21.28%) VMware Infrastructure
6 10 (21.28%) PowerShell
6 10 (21.28%) Selenium
6 10 (21.28%) DevOps
7 9 (19.15%) Continuous Integration
7 9 (19.15%) SC Cleared
7 9 (19.15%) Software Testing
7 9 (19.15%) Degree
7 9 (19.15%) Security Cleared
7 9 (19.15%) Cucumber
7 9 (19.15%) C#
8 8 (17.02%) Test Scripting
8 8 (17.02%) .NET Framework
8 8 (17.02%) QA
8 8 (17.02%) Kubernetes

Automation Engineer 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 2 (4.26%) Confluence
1 2 (4.26%) SharePoint
2 1 (2.13%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (2.13%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 12 (25.53%) Azure
2 10 (21.28%) AWS
3 4 (8.51%) GCP
3 4 (8.51%) IaaS
4 3 (6.38%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (6.38%) GitHub
5 2 (4.26%) Azure Logic Apps
5 2 (4.26%) Kong
5 2 (4.26%) Power Platform
6 1 (2.13%) Apigee
6 1 (2.13%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (2.13%) Azure Stack
6 1 (2.13%) BrowserStack
6 1 (2.13%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (2.13%) Power Automate
6 1 (2.13%) SaaS
6 1 (2.13%) Sauce Labs
Communications & Networking
1 4 (8.51%) Firewall
2 2 (4.26%) Internet
3 1 (2.13%) Cisco Nexus
3 1 (2.13%) DNS
3 1 (2.13%) HTTP
3 1 (2.13%) SNA
3 1 (2.13%) SSL
3 1 (2.13%) VPN
3 1 (2.13%) VSAN
3 1 (2.13%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.26%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (4.26%) Power BI
1 2 (4.26%) Relational Database
1 2 (4.26%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.13%) Data Lake
2 1 (2.13%) MariaDB
2 1 (2.13%) MongoDB
2 1 (2.13%) MySQL
2 1 (2.13%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 10 (21.28%) Git
1 10 (21.28%) Selenium
2 9 (19.15%) Cucumber
3 8 (17.02%) Postman
4 7 (14.89%) Appium
5 6 (12.77%) eggPlant
5 6 (12.77%) JUnit
5 6 (12.77%) REST Assured
5 6 (12.77%) SoapUI
5 6 (12.77%) SOAtest
5 6 (12.77%) TestNG
5 6 (12.77%) WebDriver
6 5 (10.64%) Jenkins
7 4 (8.51%) JIRA
8 2 (4.26%) Bitbucket
8 2 (4.26%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (2.13%) PyCharm
9 1 (2.13%) PyUnit
9 1 (2.13%) TestCafe
9 1 (2.13%) Vagrant
General
1 16 (34.04%) Social Skills
2 7 (14.89%) Finance
3 3 (6.38%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (6.38%) Banking
4 2 (4.26%) Financial Institution
4 2 (4.26%) Retail Banking
4 2 (4.26%) Telecoms
5 1 (2.13%) Electronics
5 1 (2.13%) Legal
5 1 (2.13%) Manufacturing
5 1 (2.13%) Marketing
5 1 (2.13%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (2.13%) Public Sector
5 1 (2.13%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (23.40%) .NET
2 8 (17.02%) .NET Framework
3 5 (10.64%) LDAP
4 2 (4.26%) Middleware
4 2 (4.26%) Node.js
5 1 (2.13%) Django
5 1 (2.13%) JSON
5 1 (2.13%) pytest
5 1 (2.13%) RESTful
5 1 (2.13%) XML
5 1 (2.13%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (10.64%) CMDB
2 2 (4.26%) Tandem
3 1 (2.13%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (2.13%) Enterprise Cloud
3 1 (2.13%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (2.13%) Hedge funds
3 1 (2.13%) Legacy Applications
3 1 (2.13%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 10 (21.28%) Linux
2 7 (14.89%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (6.38%) Unix
4 2 (4.26%) Windows
5 1 (2.13%) Android
5 1 (2.13%) CentOS
5 1 (2.13%) Windows Server
5 1 (2.13%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (36.17%) Agile
1 17 (36.17%) CI/CD
2 14 (29.79%) Test Automation
3 12 (25.53%) Infrastructure Automation
4 10 (21.28%) DevOps
5 9 (19.15%) Continuous Integration
5 9 (19.15%) Software Testing
6 8 (17.02%) Continuous Deployment
6 8 (17.02%) Test Scripting
7 7 (14.89%) BDD
7 7 (14.89%) ITIL
7 7 (14.89%) SDLC
7 7 (14.89%) User Stories
8 6 (12.77%) ATDD
8 6 (12.77%) Scaled Agile Framework
8 6 (12.77%) Software Engineering
8 6 (12.77%) TDD
8 6 (12.77%) Test Strategy
9 5 (10.64%) Code Quality
9 5 (10.64%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 17 (36.17%) Python
2 16 (34.04%) Java
3 10 (21.28%) PowerShell
3 10 (21.28%) SQL
4 9 (19.15%) C#
5 3 (6.38%) Bash
6 2 (4.26%) Bicep
6 2 (4.26%) Go
6 2 (4.26%) JavaScript
7 1 (2.13%) Groovy
7 1 (2.13%) Korn
7 1 (2.13%) Perl
7 1 (2.13%) Shell Script
7 1 (2.13%) T-SQL
7 1 (2.13%) VB
Qualifications
1 9 (19.15%) Degree
1 9 (19.15%) SC Cleared
1 9 (19.15%) Security Cleared
2 5 (10.64%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (6.38%) Azure Certification
4 2 (4.26%) AWS Certification
5 1 (2.13%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 1 (2.13%) CCNA
5 1 (2.13%) CCNP
5 1 (2.13%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (2.13%) DV Cleared
5 1 (2.13%) ISTQB
5 1 (2.13%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (17.02%) QA
2 2 (4.26%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 10 (21.28%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (14.89%) Docker
3 5 (10.64%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (2.13%) Active Directory
4 1 (2.13%) KVM
4 1 (2.13%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (2.13%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 14 (29.79%) Ansible
2 8 (17.02%) Kubernetes
3 5 (10.64%) Terraform
4 3 (6.38%) vRealize Orchestrator
5 2 (4.26%) SCOrch
6 1 (2.13%) NetMRI
6 1 (2.13%) Packer
6 1 (2.13%) Puppet
6 1 (2.13%) vCenter Server
6 1 (2.13%) vRealize
Vendors
1 12 (25.53%) VMware
2 6 (12.77%) Red Hat
3 4 (8.51%) Microsoft
4 3 (6.38%) Oracle
5 2 (4.26%) Cisco
6 1 (2.13%) Cadence
6 1 (2.13%) CheckPoint
6 1 (2.13%) Databricks
6 1 (2.13%) F5
6 1 (2.13%) Fortinet
6 1 (2.13%) Infoblox
6 1 (2.13%) Juniper
6 1 (2.13%) Palo Alto
6 1 (2.13%) Perfecto Mobile
6 1 (2.13%) SAP
6 1 (2.13%) Splunk
6 1 (2.13%) Sybase