Automation Engineer Contract Job Trends in Dyfed

Automation Engineer
Wales > Dyfed

The median Automation Engineer daily rate in Dyfed is £600, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 16 October 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 4 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring an Automation Engineer 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Dyfed 14.29% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 14.29% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 - -
Wales median daily rate £600 - £475
% change year-on-year - - -3.06%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Dyfed

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Dyfed. 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 Dyfed with a recognized job title 7 4 10
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 100.00% 80.00% 90.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 3 4
10th Percentile £399 £426 £278
25th Percentile £463 £447 £437
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £488 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% -11.36% +8.37%
75th Percentile £600 £747 £625
90th Percentile £668 £899 £693
Wales median daily rate £408 £445 £425
% change year-on-year -8.43% +4.71% -12.82%

Automation Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Dyfed

For the 6 months to 16 October 2025, 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 Dyfed region featuring Automation Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Argo
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Deployment Automation
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
1 1 (100.00%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Groovy
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) OpenShift
1 1 (100.00%) Podman
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Splunk
1 1 (100.00%) Static Application Security Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform

Automation Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Dyfed 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%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (100.00%) OpenShift
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Deployment Automation
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Static Application Security Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) Groovy
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Python
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%) Argo
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Podman
1 1 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Splunk