Automation Engineer Contract Job Trends in Harrow

Automation Engineer
West London > Harrow

The median Automation Engineer daily rate in Harrow is £500, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 17 April 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring an Automation Engineer 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Harrow 5.00% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 5.88% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - -
West London median daily rate £500 - -

All Contract IT Job Roles
Harrow

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Harrow. 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 Harrow with a recognized job title 17 2 2
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 85.00% 100.00% 100.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 2 0
10th Percentile £181 £318 -
25th Percentile £185 £336 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £300 £381 -
Median % change year-on-year -21.31% - -
75th Percentile £450 £436 -
90th Percentile £519 £459 -
West London median daily rate £550 £400 £450
% change year-on-year +37.50% -11.11% -18.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £16.86
West London median hourly rate £25.15 £22.27 £32.50
% change year-on-year +12.93% -31.48% -49.22%

Automation Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Harrow

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Automation Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Harrow.

Automation Engineer job vacancy trend in Harrow

Automation Engineer Skill Set
Top 27 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Harrow

For the 6 months to 17 April 2026, Automation Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Harrow region featuring Automation Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 1 (100.00%) Debian
1 1 (100.00%) Dell
1 1 (100.00%) Dell DRAC
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) KVM
1 1 (100.00%) Ladder Logic
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Meraki
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) QA
1 1 (100.00%) QEMU
1 1 (100.00%) Ubuntu
1 1 (100.00%) VLAN
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server 2019

Automation Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Harrow by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) VLAN
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Device Driver
1 1 (100.00%) Lidar
1 1 (100.00%) Robotics
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Debian
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Ubuntu
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) Ladder Logic
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
1 1 (100.00%) KVM
1 1 (100.00%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Dell DRAC
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) Dell
1 1 (100.00%) Meraki