Automation Engineer Contracts in Cheltenham

Automation Engineer
Gloucestershire > Cheltenham

The median Automation Engineer daily rate in Cheltenham is £615, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

 6 months to
1 May 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 21 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring an Automation Engineer 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheltenham 3.23% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 3.28% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £608 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £615 - -
75th Percentile £623 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Gloucestershire median daily rate £615 - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Cheltenham

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Cheltenham. 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 Cheltenham with a recognized job title 61 169 151
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 98.39% 90.86% 96.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 88 108
10th Percentile £513 £363 £319
25th Percentile £546 £469 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% +15.00%
75th Percentile £643 £671 £700
90th Percentile £734 £743 £729
Gloucestershire median daily rate £513 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.73% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 7 2
10th Percentile - £48.20 £67.05
25th Percentile £55.00 £70.25 £67.13
Median hourly rate £60.00 £71.00 £74.50
Median % change year-on-year -15.49% -4.70% +484.31%
75th Percentile £65.00 £72.63 £88.13
90th Percentile - £74.25 £91.95
Gloucestershire median hourly rate £67.50 £37.50 £71.50
% change year-on-year +80.00% -47.55% +138.33%

Automation Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheltenham

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

Job vacancy trend for Automation Engineer in Cheltenham

Automation Engineer Skill Set
Top 29 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheltenham

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, 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 Cheltenham region featuring Automation Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Python
1 2 (100.00%) DHCP
1 2 (100.00%) HTTP
1 2 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 2 (100.00%) DNS
1 2 (100.00%) Red Hat
1 2 (100.00%) Service Management
1 2 (100.00%) VMware
1 2 (100.00%) Incident Management
1 2 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 2 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Hyper-V
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Bash
1 2 (100.00%) Puppet
1 2 (100.00%) OpenShift
1 2 (100.00%) Ansible
1 2 (100.00%) Docker
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server
1 2 (100.00%) Containerisation

Automation Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheltenham 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 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) DHCP
1 2 (100.00%) DNS
1 2 (100.00%) HTTP
1 2 (100.00%) TCP/IP
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 2 (100.00%) Incident Management
1 2 (100.00%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Bash
1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 2 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Docker
1 2 (100.00%) Hyper-V
1 2 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Ansible
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (100.00%) Puppet
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Red Hat
1 2 (100.00%) VMware
9 Automation Engineer jobs in Gloucestershire