Automation Developer Contracts

Automation Developer
UK

The median Automation Developer daily rate in the UK is £500 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 537 660 792
Rank change year-on-year +123 +132 -128
Contract jobs requiring an Automation Developer 41 56 75
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.094% 0.095% 0.085%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.10% 0.10% 0.089%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 45 64
10th Percentile £223 £399 £386
25th Percentile £400 £425 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -9.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £647
90th Percentile £863 £636 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £460 £450 £488
% change year-on-year +2.22% -7.69% +2.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £22.13
25th Percentile - - £23.81
Median hourly rate - - £27.75
75th Percentile - - £32.81
90th Percentile - - £35.18
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £27.75

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 40,246 55,892 84,695
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.74% 94.62% 95.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,216 39,044 59,517
10th Percentile £279 £313 £313
25th Percentile £409 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,676 1,569 2,074
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.25 £15.72
Median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £76.00 £64.60
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.16 £19.52
% change year-on-year -5.11% +115.96% +2.74%

Automation Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Automation Developer in the UK

Automation Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Automation Developer in the UK

Automation Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Automation Developer over the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Automation Developer in the UK

Automation Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Automation Developer.

Hourly rate trend for Automation Developer in the UK

Automation Developer
Top 11 Contract Locations

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 UK 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
England +102 34 £511 +7.63% 10
London +113 24 £550 +10.00% 2
UK excluding London +45 14 £460 +2.22% 8
Work from Home +124 12 £550 +10.00% 4
Scotland +31 5 £460 -0.54%
North of England +30 5 £375 - 2
Yorkshire - 4 £350 -
South East +20 3 £475 +8.57% 1
Midlands +26 1 £325 -16.13% 4
North West +25 1 £523 - 2
West Midlands +16 1 £325 -16.13% 2

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

For the 6 months to 6 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 featuring Automation Developer in the job title.

1 23 (56.10%) Power Automate
2 20 (48.78%) Power Platform
3 15 (36.59%) Microsoft
4 13 (31.71%) SQL
4 13 (31.71%) PowerApps
5 11 (26.83%) Finance
6 10 (24.39%) Social Skills
7 9 (21.95%) Problem-Solving
7 9 (21.95%) Python
8 7 (17.07%) JavaScript
8 7 (17.07%) Business Intelligence
8 7 (17.07%) Agile
8 7 (17.07%) Power BI
9 6 (14.63%) Microsoft Purview
9 6 (14.63%) UiPath
9 6 (14.63%) Metadata
9 6 (14.63%) Blue Prism
9 6 (14.63%) Databricks
9 6 (14.63%) Product Management
9 6 (14.63%) Visualisation
9 6 (14.63%) Data Governance
9 6 (14.63%) Data Visualisation
9 6 (14.63%) TypeScript
9 6 (14.63%) Data Analysis
9 6 (14.63%) QA
9 6 (14.63%) Software Engineering
9 6 (14.63%) MATLAB
9 6 (14.63%) Java
9 6 (14.63%) SQL Server
10 5 (12.20%) .NET

Automation Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 5 (12.20%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 23 (56.10%) Power Automate
2 20 (48.78%) Power Platform
3 13 (31.71%) PowerApps
4 6 (14.63%) Microsoft Purview
5 5 (12.20%) Azure
6 4 (9.76%) Amazon S3
6 4 (9.76%) AWS
6 4 (9.76%) AWS CloudFormation
6 4 (9.76%) AWS Lambda
6 4 (9.76%) Microsoft 365
6 4 (9.76%) Serverless
7 2 (4.88%) OpenShift
8 1 (2.44%) Amazon SageMaker
8 1 (2.44%) Rekognition
8 1 (2.44%) Textract
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.88%) WAN
2 1 (2.44%) Firewall
2 1 (2.44%) LAN
2 1 (2.44%) SD-WAN
2 1 (2.44%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (17.07%) Power BI
2 6 (14.63%) Metadata
2 6 (14.63%) SQL Server
3 4 (9.76%) Amazon Aurora
3 4 (9.76%) KNIME
3 4 (9.76%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (2.44%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (2.44%) Cucumber
1 1 (2.44%) Selenium
1 1 (2.44%) XCUITest
General
1 11 (26.83%) Finance
2 10 (24.39%) Social Skills
3 5 (12.20%) Banking
4 3 (7.32%) Public Sector
5 2 (4.88%) Local Government
6 1 (2.44%) Italian Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (12.20%) .NET
2 4 (9.76%) ASP.NET
2 4 (9.76%) AWS CDK
2 4 (9.76%) CSS
2 4 (9.76%) HTML
3 2 (4.88%) LDAP
4 1 (2.44%) JSON
4 1 (2.44%) React
4 1 (2.44%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (9.76%) Algorithms
1 4 (9.76%) NHS
2 2 (4.88%) CMDB
3 1 (2.44%) Cloud Native
3 1 (2.44%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (2.44%) Legacy Applications
3 1 (2.44%) Private Cloud
3 1 (2.44%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.44%) Android
1 1 (2.44%) Apple iOS
1 1 (2.44%) Unix
1 1 (2.44%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (21.95%) Problem-Solving
2 7 (17.07%) Agile
2 7 (17.07%) Business Intelligence
3 6 (14.63%) Data Analysis
3 6 (14.63%) Data Governance
3 6 (14.63%) Data Visualisation
3 6 (14.63%) Product Management
3 6 (14.63%) Software Engineering
3 6 (14.63%) Visualisation
4 5 (12.20%) Data Modelling
5 4 (9.76%) Infrastructure as Code
5 4 (9.76%) Kanban
5 4 (9.76%) Machine Learning
5 4 (9.76%) Mentoring
5 4 (9.76%) Natural Language Processing
5 4 (9.76%) Project Management
5 4 (9.76%) Scrum
5 4 (9.76%) Service Design
5 4 (9.76%) Software Architecture
5 4 (9.76%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 13 (31.71%) SQL
2 9 (21.95%) Python
3 7 (17.07%) JavaScript
4 6 (14.63%) Java
4 6 (14.63%) MATLAB
4 6 (14.63%) TypeScript
5 5 (12.20%) C#
6 4 (9.76%) PHP
7 1 (2.44%) Kotlin
7 1 (2.44%) PowerShell
7 1 (2.44%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 4 (9.76%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (2.44%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (2.44%) Degree
2 1 (2.44%) SC Cleared
2 1 (2.44%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (14.63%) QA
2 1 (2.44%) Accessibility
2 1 (2.44%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 2 (4.88%) Virtual Servers
1 2 (4.88%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (2.44%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (9.76%) Grafana
2 2 (4.88%) Ansible
2 2 (4.88%) Kubernetes
2 2 (4.88%) vRealize Orchestrator
3 1 (2.44%) Progress Chef
3 1 (2.44%) Terraform
Vendors
1 15 (36.59%) Microsoft
2 6 (14.63%) Blue Prism
2 6 (14.63%) Databricks
2 6 (14.63%) UiPath
3 4 (9.76%) Alteryx
3 4 (9.76%) Automation Anywhere
4 3 (7.32%) VMware
5 2 (4.88%) Cisco
6 1 (2.44%) Ariba
6 1 (2.44%) Palo Alto
6 1 (2.44%) Red Hat
6 1 (2.44%) SAP
6 1 (2.44%) Splunk