Automation Engineer Contracts in the East of England

Automation Engineer
England > East of England

The median Automation Engineer daily rate in the East of England is £475 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 108 120 142
Rank change year-on-year +12 +22 -35
Contract jobs requiring an Automation Engineer 2 3 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 0.10% 0.15% 0.27%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.12% 0.16% 0.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 7
10th Percentile - - £459
25th Percentile - £463 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -9.52% +12.00%
75th Percentile - £488 £675
90th Percentile - - £688
England median daily rate £500 £544 £525
% change year-on-year -8.05% +3.57% +16.67%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
East of England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the East of England. 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 the East of England with a recognized job title 1,704 1,886 2,399
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.45% 91.42% 93.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 778 1,147 1,378
10th Percentile £206 £185 £163
25th Percentile £313 £300 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +5.56% +5.88%
75th Percentile £563 £600 £539
90th Percentile £650 £700 £638
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 587 298 373
10th Percentile £14.16 £13.41 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £15.25 £13.25
Median hourly rate £43.00 £32.16 £15.50
Median % change year-on-year +33.73% +107.45% -6.06%
75th Percentile £63.75 £65.00 £39.50
90th Percentile £75.25 £70.00 £58.75
England median hourly rate £35.96 £44.53 £22.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% +97.91% +0.36%

Automation Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Automation Engineer in the East of England

Automation Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Automation Engineer in the East of England.

Daily rate trend for Automation Engineer in the East of England

Automation Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Automation Engineer in the East of England.

Hourly rate trend for Automation Engineer in the East of England

Automation Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Automation Engineer within the East of England region over the 6 months to 26 April 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Hertfordshire - 2 £475 - 4
Automation Engineer
England

Automation Engineer Skill Set
Top 23 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England

For the 6 months to 26 April 2024, 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 East of England region featuring Automation Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) Python
1 2 (100.00%) DNS
1 2 (100.00%) Internet
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) QA
1 2 (100.00%) System Testing
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 2 (100.00%) Product Management
1 2 (100.00%) RESTful
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (100.00%) Relational Database
1 2 (100.00%) Private Cloud
1 2 (100.00%) Security Hardening
1 2 (100.00%) Customer Requirements
1 2 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Presentation Skills
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 2 (100.00%) End-to-End Testing

Automation Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) DNS
1 2 (100.00%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Relational Database
General
1 2 (100.00%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Private Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 2 (100.00%) Customer Requirements
1 2 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (100.00%) End-to-End Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Product Management
1 2 (100.00%) Security Hardening
1 2 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) System Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) QA