Automation Developer Contract Job Trends in Chester

Automation Developer
Cheshire > Chester

As of 31 July 2026, there is not enough information available from job vacancies posted within the last 6 months to determine the median Automation Developer daily rate in Chester.

6 months to
31 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 27 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring an Automation Developer 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Chester 0.61% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.78% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
Cheshire median daily rate - £573 £523
% change year-on-year - +9.57% -

All Contract IT Job Roles
Chester

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Chester. 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 Chester with a recognized job title 129 66 47
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 79.14% 92.96% 92.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 20 24
10th Percentile £163 £325 £199
25th Percentile £275 £400 £275
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £525
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +14.29% +7.69%
75th Percentile £588 £728 £700
90th Percentile £653 £813 £738
Cheshire median daily rate £489 £438 £463
% change year-on-year +11.83% -5.45% -7.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 15 8
10th Percentile £29.19 £27.19 -
25th Percentile £29.99 £30.99 -
Median hourly rate £35.00 £33.40 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.79% -4.57% +13.80%
75th Percentile £37.50 £49.38 £47.50
90th Percentile £84.08 £50.00 -
Cheshire median hourly rate £32.23 £31.50 £17.72
% change year-on-year +2.32% +77.74% -41.98%

Automation Developer Skill Set
Top 27 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Chester

For the 6 months to 31 July 2026, Automation Developer 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 Chester region featuring Automation Developer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) Clean Code
1 1 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 1 (100.00%) Data Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Django
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) JSON
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Network Security
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) REST
1 1 (100.00%) SD-WAN
1 1 (100.00%) ServiceNow
1 1 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (100.00%) WAN
1 1 (100.00%) Wireless
1 1 (100.00%) Workflow
1 1 (100.00%) XML

Automation Developer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Chester 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Network Security
1 1 (100.00%) SD-WAN
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (100.00%) WAN
1 1 (100.00%) Wireless
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Django
1 1 (100.00%) JSON
1 1 (100.00%) REST
1 1 (100.00%) XML
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Clean Code
1 1 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 1 (100.00%) Data Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) ServiceNow