Automation Developer Contracts in England

Automation Developer
UK > England

The median Automation Developer daily rate in England is £441, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 18 June 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
18 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 429 512 606
Rank change year-on-year +83 +94 +131
Contract jobs requiring an Automation Developer 46 37 29
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.19% 0.098% 0.062%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.20% 0.11% 0.065%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 32 23
10th Percentile £385 £210 £369
25th Percentile £403 £381 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £441 £536 £450
Median % change year-on-year -17.72% +19.17% -14.89%
75th Percentile £556 £575 £525
90th Percentile £594 £899 £609
UK median daily rate £463 £494 £450
% change year-on-year -6.38% +9.78% -16.67%

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 22,908 35,010 44,428
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.30% 92.85% 94.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,064 22,821 31,551
10th Percentile £293 £288 £313
25th Percentile £405 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +2.33%
75th Percentile £635 £638 £663
90th Percentile £750 £750 £763
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% +2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,027 2,684 1,320
10th Percentile £14.00 £12.86 £14.25
25th Percentile £18.13 £16.58 £20.00
Median hourly rate £28.75 £39.53 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -27.26% -12.17% +83.67%
75th Percentile £58.75 £62.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £74.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £27.45 £37.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -26.80% -16.67% +76.47%

Automation Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Automation Developer in England

Automation Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Automation Developer in England

Automation Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Automation Developer in England over the 6 months to 18 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Automation Developer in England

Automation Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Automation Developer in England

Automation Developer
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 Developer within the England region over the 6 months to 18 June 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 +52 25 £408 -25.91% 19
Midlands +20 8 £450 +38.46% 13
West Midlands +11 8 £450 +38.46% 13
South East +52 4 £600 +26.32% 11
North of England +11 3 £573 +52.67% 8
North West +11 2 £573 +9.57% 6
Yorkshire +13 1 £475 +35.71% 1
South West - 1 £413 - 4
Automation Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 18 June 2025, Automation Developer 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 Developer in the job title.

1 23 (50.00%) SQL
2 18 (39.13%) Finance
2 18 (39.13%) Test Automation
2 18 (39.13%) DevOps
3 17 (36.96%) .NET
3 17 (36.96%) Robotic Process Automation
4 16 (34.78%) C#
4 16 (34.78%) Agile
5 14 (30.43%) User Acceptance Testing
5 14 (30.43%) Python
5 14 (30.43%) Social Skills
6 13 (28.26%) CI/CD
7 11 (23.91%) Data Analysis
7 11 (23.91%) SQL Server
7 11 (23.91%) Azure
8 10 (21.74%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 10 (21.74%) Ansible
8 10 (21.74%) Oracle
8 10 (21.74%) Microsoft Excel
8 10 (21.74%) Problem-Solving
8 10 (21.74%) UiPath
9 9 (19.57%) Power Platform
9 9 (19.57%) Power Automate
9 9 (19.57%) Data Reconciliation
10 8 (17.39%) Analytical Skills
10 8 (17.39%) Root Cause Analysis
10 8 (17.39%) Banking
10 8 (17.39%) PowerApps
10 8 (17.39%) Business Case
11 7 (15.22%) Task Automation

Automation Developer 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 6 (13.04%) SharePoint
2 1 (2.17%) Apache
Applications
1 10 (21.74%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.17%) InfoPath
Cloud Services
1 11 (23.91%) Azure
2 9 (19.57%) Power Automate
2 9 (19.57%) Power Platform
3 8 (17.39%) PowerApps
4 6 (13.04%) Azure DevOps
5 5 (10.87%) Dynamics 365
5 5 (10.87%) GitHub
6 4 (8.70%) Microsoft 365
7 3 (6.52%) Azure Logic Apps
7 3 (6.52%) Tricentis Tosca
8 2 (4.35%) AWS
8 2 (4.35%) SaaS
9 1 (2.17%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 1 (2.17%) Azure Functions
9 1 (2.17%) Azure Stack
9 1 (2.17%) Entra ID
9 1 (2.17%) GCP
9 1 (2.17%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (6.52%) Firewall
2 2 (4.35%) BGP
2 2 (4.35%) Ethernet VPN
2 2 (4.35%) MPLS
2 2 (4.35%) VPN
3 1 (2.17%) DHCP
3 1 (2.17%) DNS
3 1 (2.17%) LAN
3 1 (2.17%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (23.91%) SQL Server
2 10 (21.74%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 3 (6.52%) BusinessObjects
3 3 (6.52%) Power BI
3 3 (6.52%) Relational Database
4 2 (4.35%) MongoDB
4 2 (4.35%) NoSQL
4 2 (4.35%) Oracle Database
5 1 (2.17%) KDB
5 1 (2.17%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 7 (15.22%) Jenkins
1 7 (15.22%) JIRA
2 5 (10.87%) GitLab
3 4 (8.70%) Git
4 1 (2.17%) Bitbucket Server
4 1 (2.17%) JUnit
General
1 18 (39.13%) Finance
2 14 (30.43%) Social Skills
3 8 (17.39%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (17.39%) Banking
4 5 (10.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (6.52%) Publishing
6 2 (4.35%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (2.17%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (36.96%) .NET
2 6 (13.04%) JSON
2 6 (13.04%) REST
2 6 (13.04%) XML
3 4 (8.70%) Jinja
3 4 (8.70%) SOAP
3 4 (8.70%) WPF
4 3 (6.52%) NETCONF
4 3 (6.52%) RESTCONF
4 3 (6.52%) YANG
5 2 (4.35%) YAML
6 1 (2.17%) CSS
6 1 (2.17%) FIX Protocol
6 1 (2.17%) GraphQL
6 1 (2.17%) HTML
6 1 (2.17%) jQuery
6 1 (2.17%) LAMP
6 1 (2.17%) Middleware
6 1 (2.17%) OAuth
6 1 (2.17%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 3 (6.52%) Onboarding
2 1 (2.17%) Algorithms
2 1 (2.17%) Equities
2 1 (2.17%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (2.17%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 7 (15.22%) Linux
2 4 (8.70%) Windows
3 3 (6.52%) Unix
4 2 (4.35%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (39.13%) DevOps
1 18 (39.13%) Test Automation
2 17 (36.96%) Robotic Process Automation
3 16 (34.78%) Agile
4 14 (30.43%) User Acceptance Testing
5 13 (28.26%) CI/CD
6 11 (23.91%) Data Analysis
7 10 (21.74%) Problem-Solving
8 9 (19.57%) Data Reconciliation
9 8 (17.39%) Business Case
9 8 (17.39%) Root Cause Analysis
10 7 (15.22%) Task Automation
11 6 (13.04%) Business Intelligence
12 5 (10.87%) Scrum
13 4 (8.70%) Continuous Improvement
13 4 (8.70%) Data Ingestion
13 4 (8.70%) Data Modelling
13 4 (8.70%) Infrastructure as Code
13 4 (8.70%) Workflow
14 3 (6.52%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 23 (50.00%) SQL
2 16 (34.78%) C#
3 14 (30.43%) Python
4 4 (8.70%) Bash
5 3 (6.52%) Shell Script
6 1 (2.17%) Formula Language
6 1 (2.17%) Go
6 1 (2.17%) Java
6 1 (2.17%) JavaScript
6 1 (2.17%) PowerShell
6 1 (2.17%) TypeScript
6 1 (2.17%) VB.NET
6 1 (2.17%) VBA
Qualifications
1 6 (13.04%) Security Cleared
2 4 (8.70%) CCNP
2 4 (8.70%) Cisco Certification
2 4 (8.70%) SC Cleared
3 3 (6.52%) BPSS Clearance
3 3 (6.52%) CCNA
4 2 (4.35%) Degree
5 1 (2.17%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.35%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 2 (4.35%) Docker
2 1 (2.17%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 10 (21.74%) Ansible
2 5 (10.87%) Kubernetes
3 1 (2.17%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (21.74%) Oracle
1 10 (21.74%) UiPath
2 6 (13.04%) Blue Prism
3 5 (10.87%) Microsoft
3 5 (10.87%) ServiceNow
4 3 (6.52%) Cisco
4 3 (6.52%) Citrix
4 3 (6.52%) Fortinet
4 3 (6.52%) Infoblox
5 1 (2.17%) IBM