Automation Engineer Contracts in Berkshire

Automation Engineer
South East > Berkshire

The median Automation Engineer daily rate in Berkshire is £550 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 28 April 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
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 117 111 134
Rank change year-on-year -6 +23 -33
Contract jobs requiring an Automation Engineer 1 4 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 0.051% 0.22% 0.042%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.054% 0.23% 0.044%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 4 1
10th Percentile - £374 -
25th Percentile £525 £391 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £413 £413
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% - +8.27%
75th Percentile £575 £438 £419
90th Percentile - - -
South East median daily rate £625 £425 £450
% change year-on-year +47.06% -5.56% -9.09%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Berkshire

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Berkshire. 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 Berkshire with a recognized job title 1,858 1,723 2,285
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.31% 94.88% 95.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 986 1,107 1,469
10th Percentile £213 £325 £206
25th Percentile £376 £415 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £490
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% +7.14% +8.89%
75th Percentile £608 £625 £580
90th Percentile £688 £713 £650
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £488
% change year-on-year - +2.56% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 117 56 41
10th Percentile £18.80 £17.61 £13.00
25th Percentile £41.50 £22.66 £17.00
Median hourly rate £60.00 £56.89 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +5.48% +170.88% -2.33%
75th Percentile £70.50 £73.69 £32.50
90th Percentile £86.19 £79.72 £68.25
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £48.40 £21.00
% change year-on-year -1.86% +130.48% -16.00%

Automation Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Automation Engineer in Berkshire

Automation Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Automation Engineer in Berkshire

Automation Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Automation Engineer in Berkshire

Automation Engineer
Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

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 Berkshire region over the 6 months to 28 April 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
Reading - 1 £550 -
Automation Engineer
South East

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

For the 6 months to 28 April 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 Berkshire region featuring Automation Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) OOP
1 1 (100.00%) OO
1 1 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 1 (100.00%) NUnit
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Google
1 1 (100.00%) .NET Framework
1 1 (100.00%) Selenium
1 1 (100.00%) Unit Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) TeamCity
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) MSTest
1 1 (100.00%) Puppet
1 1 (100.00%) SpecFlow
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) Progress Chef
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Appium

Automation Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire 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 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Appium
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) MSTest
1 1 (100.00%) NUnit
1 1 (100.00%) Selenium
1 1 (100.00%) SpecFlow
1 1 (100.00%) TeamCity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) .NET Core
1 1 (100.00%) .NET Framework
1 1 (100.00%) ARM Templates
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Deployment
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) OO
1 1 (100.00%) OOP
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Task Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Progress Chef
1 1 (100.00%) Puppet
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Google