Senior Automation Engineer Contract Job Trends in Herefordshire

Senior Automation Engineer
West Midlands > Herefordshire

The median Senior Automation Engineer daily rate in Herefordshire is £425, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 April 2026.

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

6 months to
1 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Automation Engineer 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Herefordshire 1.64% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 1.85% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £413 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 - -
75th Percentile £438 - -
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median daily rate £425 - -

All Contract IT Job Roles
Herefordshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Herefordshire. 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 Herefordshire with a recognized job title 54 19 28
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 88.52% 95.00% 82.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 13 16
10th Percentile £413 £330 £513
25th Percentile £525 £400 £518
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £700 £538
Median % change year-on-year -21.43% +30.11% -13.92%
75th Percentile £675 £800 £550
90th Percentile £750 £900 £563
West Midlands median daily rate £485 £488 £475
% change year-on-year -0.51% +2.63% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 2 3
10th Percentile £21.46 £19.78 -
25th Percentile £31.25 £21.70 £45.00
Median hourly rate £35.00 £25.51 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +37.23% -48.99% -
75th Percentile £69.46 £29.94 £55.00
90th Percentile £72.54 £32.23 -
West Midlands median hourly rate £26.00 £18.13 £22.00
% change year-on-year +43.41% -17.59% +18.92%

Senior Automation Engineer
Contract Job Locations in Herefordshire

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 Herefordshire region over the 6 months to 1 April 2026. 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
Leominster - 1 £425 - 2
Senior Automation Engineer
West Midlands

Senior Automation Engineer Skill Set
Top 22 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Herefordshire

For the 6 months to 1 April 2026, Senior 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 Herefordshire region featuring Senior Automation Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) API Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Collaborative Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Data Validation
1 1 (100.00%) Data-Driven Testing
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Integration Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Postman
1 1 (100.00%) QA
1 1 (100.00%) QA Automation
1 1 (100.00%) REST
1 1 (100.00%) SDET
1 1 (100.00%) Selenium
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) User Acceptance Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
1 1 (100.00%) WebDriver

Senior Automation Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Herefordshire 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%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Postman
1 1 (100.00%) Selenium
1 1 (100.00%) WebDriver
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Educational Technology
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) API Testing
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Collaborative Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Data Validation
1 1 (100.00%) Data-Driven Testing
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Integration Testing
1 1 (100.00%) QA Automation
1 1 (100.00%) SDET
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) User Acceptance Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) QA