Automation Engineer Contract Job Trends in Hertfordshire

Automation Engineer
East of England > Hertfordshire

The median Automation Engineer daily rate in Hertfordshire is £825, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 September 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
1 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 48 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring an Automation Engineer 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 0.22% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.26% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £813 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £825 - -
75th Percentile £838 - -
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median daily rate £508 - £475
% change year-on-year - - -5.00%

All DemandTrendContract IT Job Vacancies
Hertfordshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Hertfordshire. 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 Hertfordshire with a recognized job title 383 587 699
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 84.18% 90.45% 93.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 168 229 404
10th Percentile £225 £237 £231
25th Percentile £411 £313 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -10.00% -
75th Percentile £600 £575 £675
90th Percentile £700 £625 £738
East of England median daily rate £500 £450 £488
% change year-on-year +11.11% -7.69% +2.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 121 201 132
10th Percentile £20.00 £15.53 £17.72
25th Percentile £33.00 £43.00 £48.00
Median hourly rate £50.00 £50.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - -23.08% +16.07%
75th Percentile £66.50 £65.00 £72.81
90th Percentile £75.00 £70.00 £90.00
East of England median hourly rate £40.00 £47.50 £32.40
% change year-on-year -15.79% +46.60% +63.55%

Automation Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Automation Engineer in Hertfordshire

Automation Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Automation Engineer job vacancies in Hertfordshire.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Automation Engineer job vacancies in Hertfordshire

Automation Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Automation Engineer job vacancies in Hertfordshire.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Automation Engineer job vacancies in Hertfordshire

Automation Engineer
Contract Job Locations in Hertfordshire

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 Hertfordshire region over the 6 months to 1 September 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
Welwyn Garden City - 1 £825 - 1
Automation Engineer
East of England

Automation Engineer Skill Set
Top 10 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Hertfordshire

For the 6 months to 1 September 2025, 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 Hertfordshire region featuring Automation Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) REST
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Public Cloud
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
1 1 (100.00%) SOAR

Automation Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Hertfordshire 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:

Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
1 1 (100.00%) SOAR
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python