Senior Automation Engineer Contracts in England

Senior Automation Engineer
UK > England

The median Senior Automation Engineer daily rate in England is £563, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 5 August 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
5 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 496 531 615
Rank change year-on-year +35 +84 +173
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Automation Engineer 7 3 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.025% 0.009% 0.020%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.028% 0.010% 0.021%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 3 7
10th Percentile £459 £465 £415
25th Percentile £513 £544 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £690 £575
Median % change year-on-year -18.48% +20.00% +6.48%
75th Percentile £715 £708 £650
90th Percentile - £718 £680
UK median daily rate £563 £690 £450
% change year-on-year -18.48% +53.33% -28.00%

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 25,317 31,120 43,058
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.68% 92.89% 94.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 16,428 20,500 30,340
10th Percentile £286 £300 £306
25th Percentile £402 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £656
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -0.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,309 1,828 1,343
10th Percentile £13.54 £14.16 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.50 £21.25 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.32 £45.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -43.73% +5.88% +66.67%
75th Percentile £55.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -41.51% +1.18% +65.50%

Senior Automation Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Automation Engineer in England

Senior Automation Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Senior Automation Engineer in England

Senior Automation Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Automation Engineer in England over the 6 months to 5 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Automation Engineer in England

Senior 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 Senior Automation Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 5 August 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 +3 3 £494 -28.96% 6
North of England -15 2 £710 +67.06% 1
North West - 2 £710 -
West Midlands - 1 - - 2
Midlands - 1 - - 4
Senior Automation Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 5 August 2025, Senior 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 Senior Automation Engineer in the job title.

1 5 (71.43%) Social Skills
1 5 (71.43%) Python
2 4 (57.14%) Fortinet
2 4 (57.14%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (57.14%) CI/CD
2 4 (57.14%) Ansible
2 4 (57.14%) DevOps
3 3 (42.86%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (42.86%) Continuous Improvement
3 3 (42.86%) ServiceNow
3 3 (42.86%) Validation
3 3 (42.86%) Scrum
3 3 (42.86%) Agile
3 3 (42.86%) Test Automation
3 3 (42.86%) Infoblox
3 3 (42.86%) Configuration Management
3 3 (42.86%) Firewall
4 2 (28.57%) Finance
4 2 (28.57%) Java
4 2 (28.57%) Cisco
4 2 (28.57%) Microsoft
4 2 (28.57%) Bash
4 2 (28.57%) Use Case
4 2 (28.57%) Continuous Integration
4 2 (28.57%) Git
4 2 (28.57%) F5
4 2 (28.57%) Process Improvement
4 2 (28.57%) Network Monitoring
4 2 (28.57%) Data Ingestion
4 2 (28.57%) GitLab

Senior 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:

Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 1 (14.29%) AWS
1 1 (14.29%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 3 (42.86%) Firewall
2 1 (14.29%) BGP
2 1 (14.29%) Cisco Nexus
2 1 (14.29%) Cisco Wireless
2 1 (14.29%) Ethernet VPN
2 1 (14.29%) IGMP
2 1 (14.29%) LAN
2 1 (14.29%) Multicast
2 1 (14.29%) Network Security
2 1 (14.29%) OSPF
2 1 (14.29%) VXLAN
2 1 (14.29%) WAN
2 1 (14.29%) Wireless
2 1 (14.29%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) MongoDB
1 1 (14.29%) MySQL
1 1 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (14.29%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Git
1 2 (28.57%) GitLab
2 1 (14.29%) Cucumber
2 1 (14.29%) Eclipse
2 1 (14.29%) JIRA
2 1 (14.29%) Postman
2 1 (14.29%) REST Assured
2 1 (14.29%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (14.29%) Subversion
2 1 (14.29%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 5 (71.43%) Social Skills
2 3 (42.86%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (28.57%) Finance
4 1 (14.29%) Banking
4 1 (14.29%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (14.29%) Manufacturing
4 1 (14.29%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) .NET
1 1 (14.29%) AngularJS
1 1 (14.29%) ASP.NET
1 1 (14.29%) CSS
1 1 (14.29%) Gherkin
1 1 (14.29%) HTML
1 1 (14.29%) Node.js
1 1 (14.29%) React
1 1 (14.29%) REST
1 1 (14.29%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Cloud Native
1 1 (14.29%) Data Centre
1 1 (14.29%) Greenfield Project
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) CI/CD
1 4 (57.14%) DevOps
1 4 (57.14%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (42.86%) Agile
2 3 (42.86%) Configuration Management
2 3 (42.86%) Continuous Improvement
2 3 (42.86%) Scrum
2 3 (42.86%) Test Automation
2 3 (42.86%) Validation
3 2 (28.57%) Backlog Refinement
3 2 (28.57%) Continuous Delivery
3 2 (28.57%) Continuous Integration
3 2 (28.57%) Data Ingestion
3 2 (28.57%) Network Monitoring
3 2 (28.57%) Process Improvement
3 2 (28.57%) Regulatory Compliance
3 2 (28.57%) Security Operations
3 2 (28.57%) Sprint Planning
3 2 (28.57%) Sprint Review
3 2 (28.57%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 5 (71.43%) Python
2 2 (28.57%) Bash
2 2 (28.57%) Java
3 1 (14.29%) C#
3 1 (14.29%) JavaScript
3 1 (14.29%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) CCIE
1 1 (14.29%) CCNP
1 1 (14.29%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (14.29%) Degree
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) QA
Systems Management
1 4 (57.14%) Ansible
2 1 (14.29%) HP Quality Center
2 1 (14.29%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (57.14%) Fortinet
2 3 (42.86%) Infoblox
2 3 (42.86%) ServiceNow
3 2 (28.57%) Cisco
3 2 (28.57%) F5
3 2 (28.57%) Microsoft
4 1 (14.29%) Arista
4 1 (14.29%) CheckPoint
4 1 (14.29%) LogicMonitor
4 1 (14.29%) Oracle
4 1 (14.29%) Palo Alto
4 1 (14.29%) Rockwell
4 1 (14.29%) Siemens
4 1 (14.29%) SolarWinds