Automation Engineer Contracts in Manchester

Automation Engineer
North West > Manchester

The median Automation Engineer daily rate in Manchester is £500 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 5 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
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 94 115 140
Rank change year-on-year +21 +25 -49
Contract jobs requiring an Automation Engineer 4 3 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 0.27% 0.16% 0.23%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.28% 0.17% 0.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 6
10th Percentile £439 - £413
25th Percentile £478 £438 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £513
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -7.32% +2.50%
75th Percentile - £513 £547
90th Percentile - - £550
North West median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - +46.24%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Manchester

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Manchester. 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 Manchester with a recognized job title 1,421 1,805 2,539
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.82% 96.42% 97.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 987 1,346 1,991
10th Percentile £313 £313 £226
25th Percentile £400 £413 £383
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £585 £594 £575
90th Percentile £694 £675 £656
North West median daily rate £493 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -1.40% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 81 49 59
10th Percentile £12.00 £16.23 £11.36
25th Percentile £13.31 £20.00 £12.02
Median hourly rate £26.00 £35.00 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -25.71% +100.00% +9.38%
75th Percentile £62.50 £48.75 £24.38
90th Percentile £73.75 £70.00 £34.00
North West median hourly rate £26.66 £35.00 £20.31
% change year-on-year -23.83% +72.33% +13.46%

Automation Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Automation Engineer in Manchester

Automation Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Daily rate trend for Automation Engineer in Manchester

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

For the 6 months to 5 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 Manchester region featuring Automation Engineer in the job title.

1 4 (100.00%) QA
1 4 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 3 (75.00%) Selenium
2 3 (75.00%) QA Automation
3 2 (50.00%) JIRA
3 2 (50.00%) BrowserStack
3 2 (50.00%) Sauce Labs
3 2 (50.00%) WebdriverIO
3 2 (50.00%) Perfecto Mobile
3 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (50.00%) Conversational UI
3 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (50.00%) Presentation Skills
3 2 (50.00%) Conversational AI
3 2 (50.00%) Agile
3 2 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence
3 2 (50.00%) Python
3 2 (50.00%) Cucumber
3 2 (50.00%) BDD
3 2 (50.00%) Time Management
3 2 (50.00%) Git
3 2 (50.00%) Confluence
3 2 (50.00%) GitHub
3 2 (50.00%) Bitbucket
3 2 (50.00%) Jenkins
3 2 (50.00%) Appium
3 2 (50.00%) GitLab
3 2 (50.00%) pytest
3 2 (50.00%) API Testing
4 1 (25.00%) DevOps

Automation Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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 (50.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) BrowserStack
1 2 (50.00%) GitHub
1 2 (50.00%) Sauce Labs
2 1 (25.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) SaaS
Development Applications
1 3 (75.00%) Selenium
2 2 (50.00%) Appium
2 2 (50.00%) Bitbucket
2 2 (50.00%) Cucumber
2 2 (50.00%) Git
2 2 (50.00%) GitLab
2 2 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (50.00%) JIRA
3 1 (25.00%) Cypress.io
General
1 2 (50.00%) Presentation Skills
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) pytest
1 2 (50.00%) WebdriverIO
2 1 (25.00%) Gherkin
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 3 (75.00%) QA Automation
3 2 (50.00%) Agile
3 2 (50.00%) API Testing
3 2 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence
3 2 (50.00%) BDD
3 2 (50.00%) Conversational AI
3 2 (50.00%) Conversational UI
3 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (50.00%) Time Management
4 1 (25.00%) Asset Management
4 1 (25.00%) DevOps
4 1 (25.00%) Investment Management
4 1 (25.00%) Performance Testing
4 1 (25.00%) Software Engineering
4 1 (25.00%) SOLID
4 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 1 (25.00%) Systems Thinking
4 1 (25.00%) Test Strategy
4 1 (25.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Python
2 1 (25.00%) C#
2 1 (25.00%) Java
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (100.00%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Perfecto Mobile