Automation Engineer Contracts in Surrey

Automation Engineer
South East > Surrey

The median Automation Engineer daily rate in Surrey is £650 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 6 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
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 52 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring an Automation Engineer 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Surrey 0.51% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.55% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £578 - -
25th Percentile £581 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 - -
75th Percentile £738 - -
90th Percentile £745 - -
South East median daily rate £625 £425 £431
% change year-on-year +47.06% -1.45% -12.88%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Surrey

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Surrey. 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 Surrey with a recognized job title 550 666 859
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.75% 95.69% 97.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 405 495 605
10th Percentile £213 £200 £185
25th Percentile £375 £325 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +8.70%
75th Percentile £619 £614 £594
90th Percentile £691 £725 £675
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £491
% change year-on-year - +1.83% +9.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 56 37 25
10th Percentile £12.38 £19.37 £11.81
25th Percentile £13.25 £42.50 £18.05
Median hourly rate £28.37 £45.00 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -36.97% +114.29% -49.70%
75th Percentile £57.63 £61.99 £47.50
90th Percentile £76.86 £64.25 £48.25
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £47.79 £20.00
% change year-on-year -0.61% +138.95% -20.00%

Automation Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Surrey

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

Job vacancy trend for Automation Engineer in Surrey

Automation Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Surrey

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

Daily rate trend for Automation Engineer in Surrey

Automation Engineer
Contract Job Locations in Surrey

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 Surrey region over the 6 months to 6 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
Staines - 3 £650 -
Automation Engineer
South East

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

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

1 3 (100.00%) TOWER Software
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
1 3 (100.00%) JSON
1 3 (100.00%) Cisco IOS
1 3 (100.00%) Django
1 3 (100.00%) RESTful
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) Open Source
1 3 (100.00%) Bash
1 3 (100.00%) BDD
1 3 (100.00%) Network Management
1 3 (100.00%) REST
1 3 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 3 (100.00%) Enterprise Software
1 3 (100.00%) Relational Database
1 3 (100.00%) Ansible
1 3 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 3 (100.00%) Public Cloud
1 3 (100.00%) IOS XR
1 3 (100.00%) SDLC
1 3 (100.00%) Linux Command Line
1 3 (100.00%) Java
1 3 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
1 3 (100.00%) T-SQL
1 3 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 3 (100.00%) Linux
1 3 (100.00%) OO
1 3 (100.00%) Python
1 3 (100.00%) OOD

Automation Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Surrey 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 3 (100.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) BGP
1 3 (100.00%) Cisco IOS
1 3 (100.00%) IOS XR
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) Relational Database
1 3 (100.00%) SQL Server
General
1 3 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (66.67%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) Django
1 3 (100.00%) JSON
1 3 (100.00%) REST
1 3 (100.00%) RESTful
1 3 (100.00%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Enterprise Software
1 3 (100.00%) Linux Command Line
1 3 (100.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
1 3 (100.00%) BDD
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 3 (100.00%) Inventory Management
1 3 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 3 (100.00%) Network Management
1 3 (100.00%) OO
1 3 (100.00%) OOD
1 3 (100.00%) Open Source
1 3 (100.00%) SDLC
1 3 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Bash
1 3 (100.00%) Java
1 3 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 3 (100.00%) Python
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
1 3 (100.00%) T-SQL
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Cisco
1 3 (100.00%) TOWER Software