Senior Automation Engineer Contract Job Trends in Cambridge

Senior Automation Engineer
Cambridgeshire > Cambridge

As of 15 April 2026, there is not enough information available from job vacancies posted within the last 6 months to determine the median Senior Automation Engineer daily rate in Cambridge.

6 months to
15 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Automation Engineer 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridge 0.44% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.50% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
Cambridgeshire median daily rate - - -

All Contract IT Job Roles
Cambridge

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Cambridge. 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 Cambridge with a recognized job title 201 92 174
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 88.94% 84.40% 91.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 105 63 106
10th Percentile £221 £330 £235
25th Percentile £400 £423 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £503 £450
Median % change year-on-year -1.49% +11.67% -5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £550
90th Percentile £675 £670 £663
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £478 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +0.53% - +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 7 26
10th Percentile £14.64 £16.68 £15.51
25th Percentile £15.10 £20.40 £25.00
Median hourly rate £23.83 £60.00 £46.00
Median % change year-on-year -60.29% +30.43% +124.39%
75th Percentile £32.47 £62.50 £66.63
90th Percentile £34.74 £65.00 £75.00
Cambridgeshire median hourly rate £15.96 £17.80 £16.30
% change year-on-year -10.34% +9.20% +5.16%

Senior Automation Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridge

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Senior Automation Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridge.

Senior Automation Engineer job vacancy trend in Cambridge

Senior Automation Engineer Skill Set
Top 23 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cambridge

For the 6 months to 15 April 2026, Senior Automation Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Cambridge region featuring Senior Automation Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
1 1 (100.00%) Deployment Automation
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Puppet
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
1 1 (100.00%) Use Case

Senior Automation Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cambridge by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 1 (100.00%) Deployment Automation
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Puppet
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform