Automation Engineer Contracts with Work from Home Options

Automation Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Automation Engineer daily rate in Work from Home is £506 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 9 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
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 305 397 507
Rank change year-on-year +92 +110 -112
Contract jobs requiring an Automation Engineer 36 71 108
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.24% 0.28% 0.25%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.26% 0.30% 0.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 51 81
10th Percentile £450 £350 £413
25th Percentile £455 £444 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -7.95% +2.33% +22.16%
75th Percentile £613 £650 £588
90th Percentile £669 £700 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - +16.67%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with a WFH option. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 14,102 23,924 42,008
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.55% 95.36% 95.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,465 16,894 30,368
10th Percentile £325 £360 £356
25th Percentile £425 £445 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £719
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 574 548 593
10th Percentile £14.27 £17.50 £13.27
25th Percentile £23.37 £25.71 £18.76
Median hourly rate £44.87 £54.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.91% +54.29% +42.86%
75th Percentile £63.75 £68.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.25 £66.00
UK median hourly rate £36.65 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -18.56% +88.21% +6.27%

Automation Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option which featured Automation Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Automation Engineer trend for jobs with a WFH option

Automation Engineer
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Automation Engineer.

Automation Engineer daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Automation Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Automation Engineer over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Automation Engineer daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Automation Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 9 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 jobs with a WFH option featuring Automation Engineer in the job title.

1 18 (50.00%) Ansible
2 17 (47.22%) Python
3 16 (44.44%) Azure
4 15 (41.67%) CI/CD
5 12 (33.33%) Social Skills
6 11 (30.56%) DevOps
6 11 (30.56%) Agile
7 10 (27.78%) AWS
8 9 (25.00%) PowerShell
9 8 (22.22%) Linux
9 8 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
10 7 (19.44%) Infrastructure as Code
10 7 (19.44%) Infrastructure Automation
10 7 (19.44%) Analytical Skills
10 7 (19.44%) Docker
10 7 (19.44%) GCP
10 7 (19.44%) Kubernetes
10 7 (19.44%) Terraform
10 7 (19.44%) QA
10 7 (19.44%) Test Automation
11 6 (16.67%) Bash
11 6 (16.67%) Jenkins
11 6 (16.67%) JIRA
11 6 (16.67%) Cisco
11 6 (16.67%) Firewall
11 6 (16.67%) Task Automation
12 5 (13.89%) SDLC
12 5 (13.89%) VMware
12 5 (13.89%) SQL Server
12 5 (13.89%) Git

Automation Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 3 (8.33%) Confluence
1 3 (8.33%) SharePoint
2 1 (2.78%) SharePoint 2013
Cloud Services
1 16 (44.44%) Azure
2 10 (27.78%) AWS
3 7 (19.44%) GCP
4 5 (13.89%) GitHub
5 4 (11.11%) IaaS
5 4 (11.11%) Kong
6 3 (8.33%) Apigee
6 3 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (8.33%) Power Platform
7 1 (2.78%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (2.78%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (2.78%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (16.67%) Firewall
2 4 (11.11%) DNS
3 3 (8.33%) BGP
3 3 (8.33%) Cisco IOS
3 3 (8.33%) HTTP
3 3 (8.33%) IOS XR
3 3 (8.33%) VPN
4 2 (5.56%) Cisco Nexus
4 2 (5.56%) Software-Defined Networking
4 2 (5.56%) TCP/IP
5 1 (2.78%) Internet
5 1 (2.78%) Network Security
5 1 (2.78%) NGFW
5 1 (2.78%) SNA
5 1 (2.78%) SSL
5 1 (2.78%) VSAN
5 1 (2.78%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (13.89%) SQL Server
2 4 (11.11%) Relational Database
3 2 (5.56%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (5.56%) Power BI
4 1 (2.78%) MongoDB
4 1 (2.78%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (16.67%) Jenkins
1 6 (16.67%) JIRA
2 5 (13.89%) Git
3 3 (8.33%) Cypress.io
3 3 (8.33%) GitLab
3 3 (8.33%) Selenium
4 2 (5.56%) Appium
4 2 (5.56%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 2 (5.56%) CircleCI
4 2 (5.56%) Postman
4 2 (5.56%) Sonatype Nexus
4 2 (5.56%) Travis CI
4 2 (5.56%) UI Automator
4 2 (5.56%) XCUITest
5 1 (2.78%) Bitbucket
5 1 (2.78%) Cucumber
5 1 (2.78%) Visual Studio
General
1 12 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 7 (19.44%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (8.33%) Finance
3 3 (8.33%) Telecoms
4 2 (5.56%) Pharmaceutical
4 2 (5.56%) Public Sector
4 2 (5.56%) Retail Banking
5 1 (2.78%) Banking
5 1 (2.78%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (2.78%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (13.89%) JSON
2 3 (8.33%) Django
2 3 (8.33%) REST
2 3 (8.33%) RESTful
2 3 (8.33%) YAML
2 3 (8.33%) YANG
3 2 (5.56%) Elastic Stack
3 2 (5.56%) XML
4 1 (2.78%) .NET
4 1 (2.78%) .NET Framework
4 1 (2.78%) Apache NiFi
4 1 (2.78%) Gherkin
4 1 (2.78%) Middleware
4 1 (2.78%) Node.js
4 1 (2.78%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 3 (8.33%) Enterprise Software
1 3 (8.33%) Greenfield Project
1 3 (8.33%) Linux Command Line
1 3 (8.33%) Public Cloud
2 2 (5.56%) Analytical Mindset
2 2 (5.56%) Data Structures
2 2 (5.56%) Mobile App
2 2 (5.56%) Tandem
3 1 (2.78%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (2.78%) Enterprise Cloud
3 1 (2.78%) Legacy Applications
3 1 (2.78%) Mainframe
3 1 (2.78%) Product Ownership
3 1 (2.78%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 8 (22.22%) Linux
2 4 (11.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (5.56%) Android
3 2 (5.56%) Apple iOS
3 2 (5.56%) Windows
4 1 (2.78%) MVS
4 1 (2.78%) Unix
4 1 (2.78%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (41.67%) CI/CD
2 11 (30.56%) Agile
2 11 (30.56%) DevOps
3 8 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
4 7 (19.44%) Infrastructure as Code
4 7 (19.44%) Infrastructure Automation
4 7 (19.44%) Test Automation
5 6 (16.67%) Task Automation
6 5 (13.89%) SDLC
7 4 (11.11%) API Integration
7 4 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
7 4 (11.11%) Continuous Integration
7 4 (11.11%) Technical Leadership
8 3 (8.33%) BDD
8 3 (8.33%) Manual Testing
8 3 (8.33%) Network Management
8 3 (8.33%) Open Source
8 3 (8.33%) Project Management
8 3 (8.33%) Scrum
8 3 (8.33%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 17 (47.22%) Python
2 9 (25.00%) PowerShell
3 6 (16.67%) Bash
4 4 (11.11%) Java
4 4 (11.11%) JavaScript
4 4 (11.11%) SQL
5 3 (8.33%) T-SQL
6 2 (5.56%) Bicep
6 2 (5.56%) C#
6 2 (5.56%) Kotlin
6 2 (5.56%) Swift
7 1 (2.78%) Go
Qualifications
1 4 (11.11%) Cisco Certification
1 4 (11.11%) Degree
2 3 (8.33%) Azure Certification
2 3 (8.33%) CCNA
2 3 (8.33%) CCNP
2 3 (8.33%) ISTQB
3 2 (5.56%) CCIE
3 2 (5.56%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (5.56%) SC Cleared
3 2 (5.56%) Security Cleared
4 1 (2.78%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 1 (2.78%) CCSP
4 1 (2.78%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (19.44%) QA
System Software
1 7 (19.44%) Docker
2 3 (8.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (2.78%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (2.78%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 18 (50.00%) Ansible
2 7 (19.44%) Kubernetes
2 7 (19.44%) Terraform
3 2 (5.56%) Docker Swarm
3 2 (5.56%) Grafana
3 2 (5.56%) Kibana
3 2 (5.56%) logstash
3 2 (5.56%) Progress Chef
3 2 (5.56%) Prometheus
3 2 (5.56%) Puppet
4 1 (2.78%) vCenter Server
4 1 (2.78%) vRealize
Vendors
1 6 (16.67%) Cisco
2 5 (13.89%) VMware
3 4 (11.11%) Microsoft
3 4 (11.11%) Red Hat
4 3 (8.33%) Splunk
4 3 (8.33%) TOWER Software
5 2 (5.56%) CyberArk
6 1 (2.78%) CA
6 1 (2.78%) Cadence
6 1 (2.78%) CheckPoint
6 1 (2.78%) Oracle
6 1 (2.78%) Palo Alto
6 1 (2.78%) Zscaler