Automation Developer Contract Job Trends in Ipswich

Automation Developer
Suffolk > Ipswich

The median Automation Developer daily rate in Ipswich is £400, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 29 August 2026.

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

6 months to
29 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 22 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring an Automation Developer 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Ipswich 0.83% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.89% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 - -
Suffolk median daily rate £400 - -

All Contract IT Job Roles
Ipswich

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Ipswich. 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 Ipswich with a recognized job title 112 35 37
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.33% 97.22% 94.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 79 25 23
10th Percentile £341 £190 £105
25th Percentile £416 £206 £188
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £507 £310 £363
Median % change year-on-year +63.55% -14.48% -39.58%
75th Percentile £560 £500 £531
90th Percentile £730 £565 £548
Suffolk median daily rate £506 £350 £300
% change year-on-year +44.57% +16.67% -40.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 4 8
10th Percentile - £16.19 £11.25
25th Percentile £16.25 £17.22 £13.35
Median hourly rate £17.50 £17.79 £14.60
Median % change year-on-year -1.63% +21.85% -28.99%
75th Percentile £18.75 £18.07 £15.15
90th Percentile - £18.58 -
Suffolk median hourly rate £15.95 £17.79 £47.50
% change year-on-year -10.34% -62.55% +167.15%

Automation Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Ipswich

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

Automation Developer job vacancy trend in Ipswich

Automation Developer
Daily Rate Trend in Ipswich

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Automation Developer job vacancies in Ipswich.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Automation Developer job vacancies in Ipswich

Automation Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Ipswich

For the 6 months to 29 August 2026, Automation Developer 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 Ipswich region featuring Automation Developer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) 4G
1 1 (100.00%) 5G
1 1 (100.00%) API Development
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) Build Automation
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) CSS
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
1 1 (100.00%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (100.00%) FastAPI
1 1 (100.00%) Flask
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) HTML
1 1 (100.00%) HTTP
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Jinja
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (100.00%) MySQL
1 1 (100.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (100.00%) OpenStack
1 1 (100.00%) Pandas
1 1 (100.00%) Playwright
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (100.00%) pytest

Automation Developer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Ipswich 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) OpenStack
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) 4G
1 1 (100.00%) 5G
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) HTTP
1 1 (100.00%) SSH
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (100.00%) MySQL
1 1 (100.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (100.00%) Redis
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) Selenium
General
1 1 (100.00%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) CSS
1 1 (100.00%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (100.00%) FastAPI
1 1 (100.00%) Flask
1 1 (100.00%) HTML
1 1 (100.00%) Jinja
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
1 1 (100.00%) Pandas
1 1 (100.00%) Playwright
1 1 (100.00%) pytest
1 1 (100.00%) RabbitMQ
1 1 (100.00%) REST
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) API Development
1 1 (100.00%) Build Automation
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Prometheus