Automation Engineer Contracts in England

Automation Engineer
UK > England

The median Automation Engineer daily rate in England is £500 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 9 May 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
9 May 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 468 553 667
Rank change year-on-year +85 +114 -150
Contract jobs requiring an Automation Engineer 72 102 118
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.20% 0.21% 0.17%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.21% 0.22% 0.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 72 94
10th Percentile £325 £351 £413
25th Percentile £413 £455 £464
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% +2.38% +16.67%
75th Percentile £575 £650 £609
90th Percentile £635 £700 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - +16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £52.50 - -
Median hourly rate £55.00 £70.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -21.43% - -
75th Percentile £57.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £70.00 -
% change year-on-year -21.43% - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised 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 34,105 46,424 66,840
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.69% 94.64% 95.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,627 32,967 47,588
10th Percentile £281 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
75th Percentile £645 £663 £640
90th Percentile £750 £760 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,443 1,373 1,839
10th Percentile £12.87 £14.26 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.92 £15.50
Median hourly rate £37.18 £45.00 £22.55
Median % change year-on-year -17.38% +99.60% +2.48%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.40 £63.00
UK median hourly rate £36.65 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -18.56% +88.21% +6.27%

Automation Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Automation Engineer in England

Automation Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Automation Engineer in England

Automation Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Automation Engineer in England over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Automation Engineer in England

Automation Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Automation Engineer in England

Automation Engineer
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 Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 9 May 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
London +66 49 £500 -9.09% 12
North of England +33 13 £500 -4.76% 21
North West +15 7 £500 -4.76% 11
Yorkshire +23 6 £624 - 10
South East +24 5 £625 +47.06% 12
South West +15 4 £481 +4.05% 14
Midlands +36 3 £450 +8.43% 22
West Midlands +24 3 £450 - 19
Automation Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 9 May 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 England region featuring Automation Engineer in the job title.

1 33 (45.83%) Python
2 30 (41.67%) CI/CD
3 29 (40.28%) Ansible
4 28 (38.89%) Social Skills
5 27 (37.50%) Agile
6 25 (34.72%) Test Automation
7 21 (29.17%) Azure
7 21 (29.17%) Git
7 21 (29.17%) DevOps
8 19 (26.39%) QA
8 19 (26.39%) Java
9 17 (23.61%) Linux
10 16 (22.22%) Selenium
10 16 (22.22%) PowerShell
10 16 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
11 15 (20.83%) AWS
11 15 (20.83%) Docker
11 15 (20.83%) Kubernetes
11 15 (20.83%) Continuous Integration
12 14 (19.44%) Bash
12 14 (19.44%) Continuous Deployment
13 13 (18.06%) Jenkins
13 13 (18.06%) Terraform
14 12 (16.67%) Appium
14 12 (16.67%) BDD
14 12 (16.67%) VMware
14 12 (16.67%) SQL
14 12 (16.67%) C#
15 11 (15.28%) .NET
15 11 (15.28%) SC Cleared

Automation Engineer 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 8 (11.11%) Confluence
2 2 (2.78%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.39%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.39%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 21 (29.17%) Azure
2 15 (20.83%) AWS
3 10 (13.89%) GCP
4 8 (11.11%) GitHub
5 6 (8.33%) Kong
6 5 (6.94%) Apigee
7 4 (5.56%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (5.56%) IaaS
8 3 (4.17%) BrowserStack
8 3 (4.17%) Sauce Labs
9 2 (2.78%) Azure Logic Apps
9 2 (2.78%) Power Platform
9 2 (2.78%) SaaS
10 1 (1.39%) Azure Data Factory
10 1 (1.39%) Azure Stack
10 1 (1.39%) Serverless
10 1 (1.39%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 9 (12.50%) Firewall
2 5 (6.94%) DNS
2 5 (6.94%) HTTP
2 5 (6.94%) VPN
3 4 (5.56%) Cisco Nexus
3 4 (5.56%) TCP/IP
4 3 (4.17%) BGP
4 3 (4.17%) Cisco IOS
4 3 (4.17%) Internet
4 3 (4.17%) IOS XR
5 2 (2.78%) SNA
5 2 (2.78%) Software-Defined Networking
5 2 (2.78%) VSAN
6 1 (1.39%) SSL
6 1 (1.39%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (6.94%) Elasticsearch
1 5 (6.94%) Relational Database
1 5 (6.94%) SQL Server
2 2 (2.78%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (2.78%) Power BI
3 1 (1.39%) Data Lake
3 1 (1.39%) MariaDB
3 1 (1.39%) MongoDB
3 1 (1.39%) MySQL
3 1 (1.39%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 21 (29.17%) Git
2 16 (22.22%) Selenium
3 13 (18.06%) Jenkins
4 12 (16.67%) Appium
5 11 (15.28%) Cucumber
5 11 (15.28%) JIRA
6 8 (11.11%) Postman
7 6 (8.33%) eggPlant
7 6 (8.33%) GitLab
7 6 (8.33%) JUnit
7 6 (8.33%) REST Assured
7 6 (8.33%) SoapUI
7 6 (8.33%) SOAtest
7 6 (8.33%) TestNG
7 6 (8.33%) WebDriver
8 5 (6.94%) Sonatype Nexus
9 4 (5.56%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 4 (5.56%) Bitbucket
9 4 (5.56%) CircleCI
9 4 (5.56%) Travis CI
General
1 28 (38.89%) Social Skills
2 10 (13.89%) Analytical Skills
2 10 (13.89%) Finance
3 5 (6.94%) Banking
4 4 (5.56%) Telecoms
5 3 (4.17%) Financial Institution
5 3 (4.17%) Presentation Skills
5 3 (4.17%) Public Sector
5 3 (4.17%) Retail
6 2 (2.78%) Retail Banking
7 1 (1.39%) Electronics
7 1 (1.39%) Law
7 1 (1.39%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.39%) Marketing
7 1 (1.39%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (15.28%) .NET
2 9 (12.50%) .NET Framework
3 8 (11.11%) JSON
4 6 (8.33%) YAML
5 5 (6.94%) XML
6 4 (5.56%) Django
6 4 (5.56%) Elastic Stack
6 4 (5.56%) LDAP
7 3 (4.17%) Node.js
7 3 (4.17%) pytest
7 3 (4.17%) REST
7 3 (4.17%) RESTful
7 3 (4.17%) YANG
8 2 (2.78%) Middleware
8 2 (2.78%) WebdriverIO
9 1 (1.39%) .NET Core
9 1 (1.39%) ARM Templates
9 1 (1.39%) FastAPI
9 1 (1.39%) Gherkin
Miscellaneous
1 5 (6.94%) Linux Command Line
2 4 (5.56%) CMDB
2 4 (5.56%) Data Structures
3 3 (4.17%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (4.17%) Greenfield Project
3 3 (4.17%) Public Cloud
4 2 (2.78%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (2.78%) Hedge funds
4 2 (2.78%) Mobile App
4 2 (2.78%) Tandem
5 1 (1.39%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.39%) Enterprise Cloud
5 1 (1.39%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (1.39%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.39%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 17 (23.61%) Linux
2 7 (9.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (5.56%) Unix
4 3 (4.17%) Android
5 2 (2.78%) Apple iOS
5 2 (2.78%) Windows
6 1 (1.39%) CentOS
6 1 (1.39%) MVS
6 1 (1.39%) Windows Server
6 1 (1.39%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (41.67%) CI/CD
2 27 (37.50%) Agile
3 25 (34.72%) Test Automation
4 21 (29.17%) DevOps
5 16 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
6 15 (20.83%) Continuous Integration
7 14 (19.44%) Continuous Deployment
8 12 (16.67%) BDD
9 11 (15.28%) Infrastructure Automation
9 11 (15.28%) Test Scripting
10 10 (13.89%) Containerisation
10 10 (13.89%) Infrastructure as Code
10 10 (13.89%) SDLC
10 10 (13.89%) Software Testing
10 10 (13.89%) Task Automation
11 7 (9.72%) Computer Science
11 7 (9.72%) Software Engineering
11 7 (9.72%) Test Strategy
11 7 (9.72%) User Stories
12 6 (8.33%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 33 (45.83%) Python
2 19 (26.39%) Java
3 16 (22.22%) PowerShell
4 14 (19.44%) Bash
5 12 (16.67%) C#
5 12 (16.67%) SQL
6 5 (6.94%) JavaScript
7 4 (5.56%) T-SQL
8 2 (2.78%) Bicep
8 2 (2.78%) Go
8 2 (2.78%) Kotlin
8 2 (2.78%) Shell Script
8 2 (2.78%) Swift
9 1 (1.39%) Groovy
9 1 (1.39%) Korn
9 1 (1.39%) Perl
Qualifications
1 11 (15.28%) Degree
1 11 (15.28%) SC Cleared
1 11 (15.28%) Security Cleared
2 7 (9.72%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (4.17%) Azure Certification
3 3 (4.17%) CCNA
3 3 (4.17%) CCNP
3 3 (4.17%) Cisco Certification
3 3 (4.17%) ISTQB
4 2 (2.78%) AWS Certification
4 2 (2.78%) CCIE
5 1 (1.39%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.39%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (26.39%) QA
2 2 (2.78%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 15 (20.83%) Docker
2 9 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (5.56%) Virtual Servers
4 2 (2.78%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (2.78%) VMware NSX
5 1 (1.39%) Active Directory
5 1 (1.39%) KVM
Systems Management
1 29 (40.28%) Ansible
2 15 (20.83%) Kubernetes
3 13 (18.06%) Terraform
4 8 (11.11%) Puppet
5 5 (6.94%) Progress Chef
6 4 (5.56%) Docker Swarm
6 4 (5.56%) Grafana
6 4 (5.56%) Kibana
6 4 (5.56%) logstash
6 4 (5.56%) Prometheus
7 3 (4.17%) vRealize Orchestrator
8 2 (2.78%) SCOrch
8 2 (2.78%) vCenter Server
8 2 (2.78%) vRealize
9 1 (1.39%) NetMRI
9 1 (1.39%) Packer
Vendors
1 12 (16.67%) VMware
2 8 (11.11%) Cisco
3 6 (8.33%) Red Hat
4 5 (6.94%) Splunk
5 4 (5.56%) Microsoft
6 3 (4.17%) Oracle
6 3 (4.17%) Perfecto Mobile
6 3 (4.17%) TOWER Software
7 2 (2.78%) F5
7 2 (2.78%) Fortinet
7 2 (2.78%) Google
7 2 (2.78%) IBM
7 2 (2.78%) Juniper
7 2 (2.78%) Palo Alto
8 1 (1.39%) CA
8 1 (1.39%) CheckPoint
8 1 (1.39%) CyberArk
8 1 (1.39%) Infoblox
8 1 (1.39%) SAP
8 1 (1.39%) Sybase
123 Automation Engineer jobs Nationwide