Automation Engineer Contracts in Corsham

Automation Engineer
Wiltshire > Corsham

The median Automation Engineer daily rate in Corsham is £575, 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 38 - 61
Rank change year-on-year - - -22
Contract jobs requiring an Automation Engineer 5 0 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Corsham 2.38% - 0.22%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.78% - 0.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 1
10th Percentile £521 - -
25th Percentile £563 - £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 - £400
Median % change year-on-year - - -5.88%
75th Percentile £650 - £425
90th Percentile £652 - -
Wiltshire median daily rate £575 - £400
% change year-on-year - - -23.81%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Corsham

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Corsham. 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 Corsham with a recognized job title 180 507 406
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 85.71% 91.02% 91.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 135 389 352
10th Percentile £425 £363 £401
25th Percentile £500 £463 £505
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £694
90th Percentile £692 £738 £727
Wiltshire median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - +6.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 15 9
10th Percentile £18.58 - £52.25
25th Percentile £18.69 £14.25 £60.00
Median hourly rate £18.87 £71.00 £65.50
Median % change year-on-year -73.42% +8.40% -2.86%
75th Percentile £39.44 £74.00 £68.25
90th Percentile £51.77 - £77.50
Wiltshire median hourly rate £18.87 £20.75 £65.50
% change year-on-year -9.06% -68.32% +19.09%

Automation Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Corsham

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

Job vacancy trend for Automation Engineer in Corsham

Automation Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Corsham

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

Daily rate trend for Automation Engineer in Corsham

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

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 Corsham region featuring Automation Engineer in the job title.

1 5 (100.00%) Python
1 5 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 5 (100.00%) Agile
1 5 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 5 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 5 (100.00%) Git
1 5 (100.00%) REST
1 5 (100.00%) Bitbucket
1 5 (100.00%) Ansible
1 5 (100.00%) Deployment Automation
2 4 (80.00%) NsoIT
2 4 (80.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 4 (80.00%) Infrastructure Automation
2 4 (80.00%) vCenter Server
2 4 (80.00%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (80.00%) Puppet
2 4 (80.00%) Progress Chef
2 4 (80.00%) Bash
2 4 (80.00%) Reverse Engineering
2 4 (80.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (80.00%) PowerShell
2 4 (80.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 4 (80.00%) Validation
2 4 (80.00%) VMware
2 4 (80.00%) OCA
2 4 (80.00%) Oracle Certification
2 4 (80.00%) Linux
2 4 (80.00%) Oracle
2 4 (80.00%) SOAP
3 3 (60.00%) Windows

Automation Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Corsham 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 1 (20.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Office
Development Applications
1 5 (100.00%) Bitbucket
1 5 (100.00%) Git
2 3 (60.00%) Jenkins
3 1 (20.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (100.00%) REST
2 4 (80.00%) SOAP
3 1 (20.00%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 4 (80.00%) Linux
2 3 (60.00%) Windows
2 3 (60.00%) Windows Server
3 1 (20.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Agile
1 5 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 5 (100.00%) Deployment Automation
2 4 (80.00%) Infrastructure Automation
2 4 (80.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 4 (80.00%) NsoIT
2 4 (80.00%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (80.00%) Reverse Engineering
2 4 (80.00%) Validation
3 3 (60.00%) Service Management
3 3 (60.00%) System Testing
4 1 (20.00%) Critical Thinking
4 1 (20.00%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Python
2 4 (80.00%) Bash
2 4 (80.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 5 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 5 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 4 (80.00%) OCA
2 4 (80.00%) Oracle Certification
2 4 (80.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 3 (60.00%) CCNP
3 3 (60.00%) Cisco Certification
3 3 (60.00%) RHCA
3 3 (60.00%) RHCE
4 1 (20.00%) Degree
4 1 (20.00%) MCSA
4 1 (20.00%) MCSE
4 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 4 (80.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (100.00%) Ansible
2 4 (80.00%) Progress Chef
2 4 (80.00%) Puppet
2 4 (80.00%) vCenter Server
3 1 (20.00%) PowerCLI
3 1 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) Oracle
1 4 (80.00%) VMware
2 3 (60.00%) Cisco
3 1 (20.00%) Atlassian
3 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (20.00%) SolarWinds
3 1 (20.00%) Veeam