Automation Consultant Contracts in London

Automation Consultant
England > London

The median Automation Consultant daily rate in London is £625, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 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 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 345 381 485
Rank change year-on-year +36 +104 +107
Contract jobs requiring an Automation Consultant 8 10 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.064% 0.056% 0.030%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.068% 0.060% 0.031%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 8 3
10th Percentile £500 £398 £533
25th Percentile £525 £441 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £578 £625
Median % change year-on-year +8.23% -7.60% +27.55%
75th Percentile £700 £725 £919
90th Percentile £813 £800 £1,088
England median daily rate £588 £578 £625
% change year-on-year +1.73% -7.60% +31.58%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in London. 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 London with a recognized job title 11,726 16,625 25,758
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.45% 93.24% 95.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,034 12,022 18,663
10th Percentile £341 £325 £363
25th Percentile £431 £444 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -
75th Percentile £675 £675 £700
90th Percentile £800 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 143 336 290
10th Percentile £20.45 £16.01 £18.00
25th Percentile £23.90 £20.02 £22.53
Median hourly rate £34.00 £27.81 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.26% -20.54% -
75th Percentile £50.75 £43.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £64.75 £65.00 £76.03
England median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
% change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%

Automation Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Automation Consultant in London

Automation Consultant
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Automation Consultant in London.

Daily rate trend for Automation Consultant in London

Automation Consultant
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Automation Consultant in London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Automation Consultant in London

Automation Consultant
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Automation Consultant within the London region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Central London +5 2 £781 +71.70% 2
Automation Consultant
England

Automation Consultant Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Automation Consultant 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 London region featuring Automation Consultant in the job title.

1 4 (50.00%) VPN
1 4 (50.00%) BGP
2 3 (37.50%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (37.50%) Azure
2 3 (37.50%) AWS
2 3 (37.50%) Terraform
2 3 (37.50%) Fortinet
2 3 (37.50%) FortiGate
2 3 (37.50%) WAN
2 3 (37.50%) MPLS
2 3 (37.50%) SD-WAN
3 1 (12.50%) GRC
3 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Knowledge Transfer
3 1 (12.50%) Roadmaps
3 1 (12.50%) OSPF
3 1 (12.50%) TCP/IP
3 1 (12.50%) Project Management
3 1 (12.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (12.50%) PMP
3 1 (12.50%) PMI Certification
3 1 (12.50%) Salesforce
3 1 (12.50%) Oracle
3 1 (12.50%) SAP
3 1 (12.50%) Python
3 1 (12.50%) CRM
3 1 (12.50%) Risk Management
3 1 (12.50%) Finance
3 1 (12.50%) Migration
3 1 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management

Automation Consultant Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (12.50%) SAP GRC
1 1 (12.50%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 3 (37.50%) AWS
1 3 (37.50%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 4 (50.00%) BGP
1 4 (50.00%) VPN
2 3 (37.50%) MPLS
2 3 (37.50%) SD-WAN
2 3 (37.50%) WAN
3 1 (12.50%) OSPF
3 1 (12.50%) TCP/IP
3 1 (12.50%) VLAN
General
1 1 (12.50%) Finance
1 1 (12.50%) Marketing
1 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
1 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (37.50%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (12.50%) Analytics
2 1 (12.50%) Collaborative Working
2 1 (12.50%) CRM
2 1 (12.50%) Customer Analytics
2 1 (12.50%) Data Integration
2 1 (12.50%) Data Migration
2 1 (12.50%) Data Protection
2 1 (12.50%) Data Transformation
2 1 (12.50%) Digital Transformation Programme
2 1 (12.50%) Knowledge Transfer
2 1 (12.50%) Marketing Automation
2 1 (12.50%) Marketing Strategy
2 1 (12.50%) Presales
2 1 (12.50%) Process Improvement
2 1 (12.50%) Product Marketing
2 1 (12.50%) Roadmaps
2 1 (12.50%) Strategic Roadmap
2 1 (12.50%) Task Automation
2 1 (12.50%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 1 (12.50%) Bash
1 1 (12.50%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) Degree
1 1 (12.50%) PMI Certification
1 1 (12.50%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) GRC
1 1 (12.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 3 (37.50%) FortiGate
1 3 (37.50%) Terraform
2 1 (12.50%) Ansible
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) Fortinet
2 1 (12.50%) Blue Prism
2 1 (12.50%) Marketo
2 1 (12.50%) Oracle
2 1 (12.50%) Salesforce
2 1 (12.50%) SAP
2 1 (12.50%) UiPath
2 1 (12.50%) VMware