Automation Consultant Contracts in England

Automation Consultant
UK > England

The median Automation Consultant daily rate in England is £588, 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 474 530 640
Rank change year-on-year +56 +110 +131
Contract jobs requiring an Automation Consultant 11 12 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.045% 0.032% 0.026%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.049% 0.035% 0.027%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 8 3
10th Percentile £478 £398 £533
25th Percentile £500 £441 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £578 £625
Median % change year-on-year +1.73% -7.60% +31.58%
75th Percentile £694 £725 £919
90th Percentile £788 £800 £1,088
UK median daily rate £550 £578 £625
% change year-on-year -4.76% -7.60% +31.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 5
10th Percentile - - £60.60
25th Percentile - £58.75 £65.25
Median hourly rate - £62.50 £71.00
Median % change year-on-year - -11.97% -
75th Percentile - £66.25 £78.00
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - £62.50 £71.00
% change year-on-year - -11.97% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in 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 England with a recognized job title 22,549 34,488 47,741
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.59% 92.73% 94.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,007 22,894 33,903
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £409 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £643 £663
90th Percentile £750 £750 £763
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 900 2,432 1,409
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.00 £14.35
25th Percentile £18.51 £16.30 £20.00
Median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%
75th Percentile £63.75 £61.25 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £76.60
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

Automation Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Automation Consultant in England

Automation Consultant
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Automation Consultant in England.

Daily rate trend for Automation Consultant in England

Automation Consultant
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Automation Consultant in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Automation Consultant in England

Automation Consultant
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Automation Consultant in England.

Hourly rate trend for Automation Consultant in England

Automation Consultant
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Automation Consultant within the England region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
London +36 8 £625 +8.23% 6
Yorkshire - 1 £450 -
East Midlands - 1 - -
Midlands - 1 - -
North of England - 1 £450 - 1
Automation Consultant
UK

Automation Consultant Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

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

1 4 (36.36%) VPN
1 4 (36.36%) BGP
1 4 (36.36%) Analytics
2 3 (27.27%) FortiGate
2 3 (27.27%) Customer Analytics
2 3 (27.27%) Data Transformation
2 3 (27.27%) Marketo
2 3 (27.27%) Marketing Automation
2 3 (27.27%) Marketing
2 3 (27.27%) Fortinet
2 3 (27.27%) Product Marketing
2 3 (27.27%) Data Migration
2 3 (27.27%) Data Integration
2 3 (27.27%) Azure
2 3 (27.27%) AWS
2 3 (27.27%) Project Management
2 3 (27.27%) PMP
2 3 (27.27%) PMI Certification
2 3 (27.27%) Salesforce
2 3 (27.27%) MPLS
2 3 (27.27%) WAN
2 3 (27.27%) CRM
2 3 (27.27%) Supplier Management
2 3 (27.27%) Agile
2 3 (27.27%) Data Management
2 3 (27.27%) Migration
2 3 (27.27%) Stakeholder Management
2 3 (27.27%) Marketing Strategy
2 3 (27.27%) Terraform
2 3 (27.27%) Infrastructure as Code

Automation Consultant Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (9.09%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (9.09%) SAP GRC
1 1 (9.09%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 3 (27.27%) AWS
1 3 (27.27%) Azure
2 1 (9.09%) Power Automate
2 1 (9.09%) Power Platform
2 1 (9.09%) PowerApps
2 1 (9.09%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 4 (36.36%) BGP
1 4 (36.36%) VPN
2 3 (27.27%) MPLS
2 3 (27.27%) SD-WAN
2 3 (27.27%) WAN
3 1 (9.09%) OSPF
3 1 (9.09%) TCP/IP
3 1 (9.09%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.09%) Power BI
General
1 3 (27.27%) Marketing
1 3 (27.27%) Social Skills
2 1 (9.09%) Finance
2 1 (9.09%) Public Sector
Miscellaneous
1 1 (9.09%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (9.09%) FMCG
1 1 (9.09%) Low-Code
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (36.36%) Analytics
2 3 (27.27%) Agile
2 3 (27.27%) CRM
2 3 (27.27%) Customer Analytics
2 3 (27.27%) Data Integration
2 3 (27.27%) Data Management
2 3 (27.27%) Data Migration
2 3 (27.27%) Data Transformation
2 3 (27.27%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (27.27%) Knowledge Transfer
2 3 (27.27%) Marketing Automation
2 3 (27.27%) Marketing Strategy
2 3 (27.27%) Migration
2 3 (27.27%) Product Marketing
2 3 (27.27%) Project Management
2 3 (27.27%) Stakeholder Management
2 3 (27.27%) Supplier Management
3 2 (18.18%) Data Protection
4 1 (9.09%) Presales
4 1 (9.09%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 1 (9.09%) Bash
1 1 (9.09%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (27.27%) PMI Certification
1 3 (27.27%) PMP
2 2 (18.18%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.09%) GRC
1 1 (9.09%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 1 (9.09%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 3 (27.27%) FortiGate
1 3 (27.27%) Terraform
2 1 (9.09%) Ansible
Vendors
1 3 (27.27%) Fortinet
1 3 (27.27%) Marketo
1 3 (27.27%) Salesforce
2 1 (9.09%) Blue Prism
2 1 (9.09%) Oracle
2 1 (9.09%) SAP
2 1 (9.09%) UiPath
2 1 (9.09%) VMware