Automation Engineer Contracts in the North West

Automation Engineer
England > North West

The median Automation Engineer daily rate in the North West 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 129 152 176
Rank change year-on-year +23 +24 -42
Contract jobs requiring an Automation Engineer 7 4 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.25% 0.12% 0.15%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.27% 0.13% 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 3 4
10th Percentile £439 £332 £408
25th Percentile £478 £371 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £488
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -2.56% +35.79%
75th Percentile - £525 £547
90th Percentile - £533 £564
England median daily rate £500 £544 £525
% change year-on-year -8.05% +3.57% +16.67%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
North West

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the North West. 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 the North West with a recognized job title 2,616 3,047 3,885
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.34% 94.63% 96.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,710 2,185 2,841
10th Percentile £280 £300 £206
25th Percentile £390 £403 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £500 £465
Median % change year-on-year -1.40% +7.53% +9.70%
75th Percentile £587 £588 £563
90th Percentile £675 £675 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 266 136 177
10th Percentile £11.07 £14.13 £11.36
25th Percentile £13.50 £20.00 £15.00
Median hourly rate £26.53 £30.54 £20.49
Median % change year-on-year -13.15% +49.05% +12.41%
75th Percentile £46.18 £47.13 £43.75
90th Percentile £63.75 £65.00 £58.75
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 the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Automation Engineer in the North West

Automation Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Automation Engineer in the North West.

Daily rate trend for Automation Engineer in the North West

Automation Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 North West 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
Manchester +15 4 £500 - 6
Merseyside - 2 - - 3
Lancashire - 1 - -
Automation Engineer
England

Automation Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West

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 North West region featuring Automation Engineer in the job title.

1 4 (57.14%) Python
1 4 (57.14%) QA
1 4 (57.14%) Test Automation
2 3 (42.86%) Selenium
2 3 (42.86%) QA Automation
3 2 (28.57%) Sonatype Nexus
3 2 (28.57%) BrowserStack
3 2 (28.57%) Sauce Labs
3 2 (28.57%) Task Automation
3 2 (28.57%) WebdriverIO
3 2 (28.57%) Perfecto Mobile
3 2 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (28.57%) Software-Defined Networking
3 2 (28.57%) Appium
3 2 (28.57%) GitLab
3 2 (28.57%) pytest
3 2 (28.57%) Ansible
3 2 (28.57%) JIRA
3 2 (28.57%) API Testing
3 2 (28.57%) Conversational UI
3 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
3 2 (28.57%) Presentation Skills
3 2 (28.57%) Conversational AI
3 2 (28.57%) Agile
3 2 (28.57%) Artificial Intelligence
3 2 (28.57%) Cisco
3 2 (28.57%) CCIE
3 2 (28.57%) CCNP
3 2 (28.57%) CCNA
3 2 (28.57%) Cisco Certification

Automation Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 (28.57%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (28.57%) BrowserStack
1 2 (28.57%) GitHub
1 2 (28.57%) Sauce Labs
2 1 (14.29%) Azure
2 1 (14.29%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (28.57%) Cisco Nexus
1 2 (28.57%) Software-Defined Networking
Development Applications
1 3 (42.86%) Selenium
2 2 (28.57%) Appium
2 2 (28.57%) Bitbucket
2 2 (28.57%) Cucumber
2 2 (28.57%) Git
2 2 (28.57%) GitLab
2 2 (28.57%) Jenkins
2 2 (28.57%) JIRA
2 2 (28.57%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (14.29%) Cypress.io
General
1 2 (28.57%) Presentation Skills
1 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Finance
2 1 (14.29%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) pytest
1 2 (28.57%) WebdriverIO
2 1 (14.29%) Gherkin
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Greenfield Project
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Test Automation
2 3 (42.86%) QA Automation
3 2 (28.57%) Agile
3 2 (28.57%) API Testing
3 2 (28.57%) Artificial Intelligence
3 2 (28.57%) BDD
3 2 (28.57%) Conversational AI
3 2 (28.57%) Conversational UI
3 2 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (28.57%) Task Automation
3 2 (28.57%) Time Management
4 1 (14.29%) Asset Management
4 1 (14.29%) DevOps
4 1 (14.29%) Investment Management
4 1 (14.29%) Performance Testing
4 1 (14.29%) Software Engineering
4 1 (14.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 1 (14.29%) Systems Thinking
4 1 (14.29%) Test Strategy
4 1 (14.29%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 4 (57.14%) Python
2 1 (14.29%) C#
2 1 (14.29%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) CCIE
1 2 (28.57%) CCNA
1 2 (28.57%) CCNP
1 2 (28.57%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (57.14%) QA
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) Ansible
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Cisco
1 2 (28.57%) Perfecto Mobile
2 1 (14.29%) CyberArk