Automation Engineer Contracts in the UK excluding London

Automation Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Automation Engineer daily rate in the UK excluding London is £500 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 6 June 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 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 356 389 456
Rank change year-on-year +33 +67 -40
Contract jobs requiring an Automation Engineer 34 44 61
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.16% 0.19% 0.20%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.17% 0.20% 0.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 32 49
10th Percentile £413 £401 £300
25th Percentile £460 £417 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% - +5.56%
75th Percentile £622 £556 £550
90th Percentile £675 £711 £593
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £513
% change year-on-year -4.76% +2.34% +14.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 19,457 21,470 29,426
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.44% 94.27% 95.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,679 14,924 20,705
10th Percentile £213 £225 £206
25th Percentile £363 £388 £373
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +9.20%
75th Percentile £593 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £653
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,454 1,081 1,408
10th Percentile £12.51 £13.41 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.85 £18.00 £14.86
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £62.50 £65.00 £45.20
90th Percentile £74.00 £75.50 £61.03
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £24.50
% change year-on-year -16.67% +83.67% +12.70%

Automation Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Automation Engineer in the UK excluding London

Automation Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Automation Engineer in the UK excluding London

Automation Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Automation Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 6 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Automation Engineer in the UK excluding London

Automation Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Automation Engineer in the UK excluding London

Automation Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 6 June 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
North of England +33 19 £488 -15.22% 28
Yorkshire +21 11 £622 - 15
North West +14 6 £500 -13.04% 12
South East +18 5 £625 +51.52% 9
Midlands +14 5 £488 -30.36% 32
South West +8 4 £481 -8.33% 24
East Midlands +13 3 £488 +17.47% 16
Scotland +30 2 £638 +39.34% 13
West Midlands +5 2 £488 -31.58% 16
North East - 2 £368 - 2
Wales +14 1 £490 -4.39% 6
Automation Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 6 June 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 UK excluding London region featuring Automation Engineer in the job title.

1 17 (50.00%) Python
2 16 (47.06%) Agile
2 16 (47.06%) Ansible
2 16 (47.06%) CI/CD
3 15 (44.12%) Git
4 14 (41.18%) Test Automation
4 14 (41.18%) QA
4 14 (41.18%) Social Skills
4 14 (41.18%) Problem-Solving
5 13 (38.24%) PowerShell
6 12 (35.29%) Azure
6 12 (35.29%) Jenkins
6 12 (35.29%) DevOps
6 12 (35.29%) Analytical Skills
7 10 (29.41%) Docker
7 10 (29.41%) Containerisation
7 10 (29.41%) Puppet
7 10 (29.41%) Bash
8 9 (26.47%) Splunk
8 9 (26.47%) GitHub
8 9 (26.47%) Continuous Integration
8 9 (26.47%) JSON
8 9 (26.47%) JIRA
8 9 (26.47%) Scrum
8 9 (26.47%) Kubernetes
8 9 (26.47%) Task Automation
9 8 (23.53%) Terraform
9 8 (23.53%) GitLab
9 8 (23.53%) Infrastructure as Code
9 8 (23.53%) Selenium

Automation Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 8 (23.53%) Confluence
2 2 (5.88%) SAS
3 1 (2.94%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (5.88%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 12 (35.29%) Azure
2 9 (26.47%) GitHub
3 7 (20.59%) AWS
3 7 (20.59%) GCP
4 6 (17.65%) Kong
5 4 (11.76%) Apigee
6 2 (5.88%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (5.88%) BrowserStack
6 2 (5.88%) Sauce Labs
7 1 (2.94%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (2.94%) SaaS
7 1 (2.94%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 6 (17.65%) DNS
1 6 (17.65%) Firewall
1 6 (17.65%) HTTP
1 6 (17.65%) TCP/IP
1 6 (17.65%) VPN
2 3 (8.82%) BGP
2 3 (8.82%) Cisco IOS
2 3 (8.82%) IOS XR
3 2 (5.88%) BIG-IP
3 2 (5.88%) Cisco Nexus
3 2 (5.88%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
3 2 (5.88%) Reverse Proxy
3 2 (5.88%) Software-Defined Networking
3 2 (5.88%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (20.59%) Elasticsearch
2 3 (8.82%) Relational Database
2 3 (8.82%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 15 (44.12%) Git
2 12 (35.29%) Jenkins
3 9 (26.47%) JIRA
4 8 (23.53%) GitLab
4 8 (23.53%) Selenium
5 6 (17.65%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 6 (17.65%) CircleCI
5 6 (17.65%) Travis CI
6 4 (11.76%) Appium
7 3 (8.82%) Cypress.io
8 2 (5.88%) Bitbucket
8 2 (5.88%) Cucumber
8 2 (5.88%) Postman
8 2 (5.88%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (2.94%) MSTest
9 1 (2.94%) NUnit
9 1 (2.94%) SpecFlow
9 1 (2.94%) TeamCity
9 1 (2.94%) UI Automator
9 1 (2.94%) XCUITest
General
1 14 (41.18%) Social Skills
2 12 (35.29%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (8.82%) Finance
4 2 (5.88%) Banking
4 2 (5.88%) Presentation Skills
4 2 (5.88%) Public Sector
4 2 (5.88%) Telecoms
5 1 (2.94%) Law
5 1 (2.94%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (26.47%) JSON
2 7 (20.59%) YAML
3 6 (17.65%) Elastic Stack
3 6 (17.65%) XML
4 5 (14.71%) REST
5 3 (8.82%) Django
5 3 (8.82%) FastAPI
5 3 (8.82%) RESTful
5 3 (8.82%) YANG
6 2 (5.88%) ISPF
6 2 (5.88%) pytest
6 2 (5.88%) WebdriverIO
7 1 (2.94%) .NET
7 1 (2.94%) .NET Core
7 1 (2.94%) .NET Framework
7 1 (2.94%) ARM Templates
7 1 (2.94%) Gherkin
7 1 (2.94%) OLE
7 1 (2.94%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 6 (17.65%) Data Structures
2 4 (11.76%) Linux Command Line
2 4 (11.76%) Mainframe
3 3 (8.82%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (8.82%) Public Cloud
4 2 (5.88%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (2.94%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (2.94%) Mobile App
5 1 (2.94%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 5 (14.71%) Linux
2 4 (11.76%) Windows
3 2 (5.88%) Windows Server
3 2 (5.88%) zOS
4 1 (2.94%) Android
4 1 (2.94%) Apple iOS
4 1 (2.94%) MVS
4 1 (2.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (47.06%) Agile
1 16 (47.06%) CI/CD
2 14 (41.18%) Problem-Solving
2 14 (41.18%) Test Automation
3 12 (35.29%) DevOps
4 10 (29.41%) Containerisation
5 9 (26.47%) Continuous Integration
5 9 (26.47%) Scrum
5 9 (26.47%) Task Automation
6 8 (23.53%) Infrastructure as Code
7 7 (20.59%) API Development
7 7 (20.59%) Continuous Deployment
7 7 (20.59%) Project Management
8 6 (17.65%) API Integration
8 6 (17.65%) Collaborative Working
8 6 (17.65%) Continuous Improvement
8 6 (17.65%) Secure Coding
8 6 (17.65%) Stakeholder Management
8 6 (17.65%) Use Case
8 6 (17.65%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 17 (50.00%) Python
2 13 (38.24%) PowerShell
3 10 (29.41%) Bash
4 6 (17.65%) Java
5 4 (11.76%) JavaScript
6 3 (8.82%) Shell Script
6 3 (8.82%) SQL
6 3 (8.82%) T-SQL
7 2 (5.88%) ActionScript
7 2 (5.88%) C#
7 2 (5.88%) JCL
7 2 (5.88%) REXX
7 2 (5.88%) Scala
8 1 (2.94%) Kotlin
8 1 (2.94%) Perl
8 1 (2.94%) Swift
Qualifications
1 3 (8.82%) ISTQB
2 2 (5.88%) CCIE
2 2 (5.88%) CCNA
2 2 (5.88%) CCNP
2 2 (5.88%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (5.88%) SC Cleared
2 2 (5.88%) Security Cleared
3 1 (2.94%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (41.18%) QA
System Software
1 10 (29.41%) Docker
2 2 (5.88%) Job Entry Subsystem
3 1 (2.94%) Active Directory
3 1 (2.94%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (2.94%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 16 (47.06%) Ansible
2 10 (29.41%) Puppet
3 9 (26.47%) Kubernetes
4 8 (23.53%) Terraform
5 7 (20.59%) Progress Chef
6 6 (17.65%) Docker Swarm
6 6 (17.65%) Grafana
6 6 (17.65%) Kibana
6 6 (17.65%) logstash
6 6 (17.65%) Prometheus
7 2 (5.88%) Control-M
8 1 (2.94%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 9 (26.47%) Splunk
2 5 (14.71%) Cisco
3 3 (8.82%) CA
3 3 (8.82%) CyberArk
3 3 (8.82%) TOWER Software
4 2 (5.88%) BMC
4 2 (5.88%) F5
4 2 (5.88%) Perfecto Mobile
4 2 (5.88%) ServiceNow
5 1 (2.94%) Google
5 1 (2.94%) Microsoft
5 1 (2.94%) Red Hat
5 1 (2.94%) VMware