Automation Developer Contracts in Scotland

Automation Developer
UK > Scotland

The median Automation Developer daily rate in Scotland is £470 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 12 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
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 123 157 168
Rank change year-on-year +34 +11 -8
Contract jobs requiring an Automation Developer 4 13 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.18% 0.47% 0.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.20% 0.49% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 12 2
10th Percentile - £438 -
25th Percentile £460 £447 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £463 £475
Median % change year-on-year +1.62% -2.63% -5.00%
75th Percentile £487 £503 £488
90th Percentile £498 £510 -
UK median daily rate £503 £475 £525
% change year-on-year +5.89% -9.52% +5.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Scotland

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Scotland. 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 Scotland with a recognized job title 2,047 2,638 3,272
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.42% 95.48% 95.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,248 1,870 2,322
10th Percentile £200 £232 £214
25th Percentile £363 £400 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £463
Median % change year-on-year - +2.70% +8.82%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £550
90th Percentile £650 £650 £625
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 112 44 53
10th Percentile £12.31 £12.86 £15.53
25th Percentile £16.19 £14.44 £17.72
Median hourly rate £27.90 £22.13 £26.85
Median % change year-on-year +26.08% -17.60% -30.71%
75th Percentile £60.00 £59.41 £48.00
90th Percentile £66.00 £68.38 £55.75
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -16.67% +88.21% +5.89%

Automation Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Automation Developer in Scotland

Automation Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Automation Developer in Scotland.

Daily rate trend for Automation Developer in Scotland

Automation Developer
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Automation Developer within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 12 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
Edinburgh +32 3 £460 -6.88% 2
Glasgow - 1 £506 - 1
Automation Developer
UK

Automation Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland

For the 6 months to 12 May 2024, Automation Developer 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 Scotland region featuring Automation Developer in the job title.

1 4 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 4 (100.00%) Scrum
1 4 (100.00%) Agile
1 4 (100.00%) Kanban
1 4 (100.00%) Product Management
1 4 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 4 (100.00%) AWS
1 4 (100.00%) Natural Language Processing
1 4 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 4 (100.00%) TypeScript
1 4 (100.00%) Python
1 4 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 4 (100.00%) Service Design
1 4 (100.00%) Amazon Aurora
1 4 (100.00%) Serverless
1 4 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 4 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 4 (100.00%) Grafana
1 4 (100.00%) AWS CDK
2 3 (75.00%) Artificial Intelligence
3 2 (50.00%) OCR
4 1 (25.00%) Code Quality
4 1 (25.00%) Java
4 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
4 1 (25.00%) Accessibility
4 1 (25.00%) Rekognition
4 1 (25.00%) Textract
4 1 (25.00%) Amazon SageMaker
4 1 (25.00%) Community of Practice
4 1 (25.00%) Requirements Analysis

Automation Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 4 (100.00%) AWS
1 4 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 4 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 4 (100.00%) Serverless
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon SageMaker
2 1 (25.00%) OpenShift
2 1 (25.00%) Rekognition
2 1 (25.00%) Textract
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (100.00%) Amazon Aurora
1 4 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
General
1 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (100.00%) AWS CDK
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Agile
1 4 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 4 (100.00%) Kanban
1 4 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 4 (100.00%) Natural Language Processing
1 4 (100.00%) Product Management
1 4 (100.00%) Scrum
1 4 (100.00%) Service Design
2 3 (75.00%) Artificial Intelligence
3 2 (50.00%) OCR
4 1 (25.00%) Coaching
4 1 (25.00%) Code Coverage
4 1 (25.00%) Code Quality
4 1 (25.00%) Community of Practice
4 1 (25.00%) ETL
4 1 (25.00%) Mentoring
4 1 (25.00%) Requirements Analysis
4 1 (25.00%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Python
1 4 (100.00%) TypeScript
2 1 (25.00%) Java
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (25.00%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (100.00%) Grafana
2 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes