Automation Developer Contracts in London

Automation Developer
England > London

The median Automation Developer daily rate in London is £400, 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 333 368 473
Rank change year-on-year +35 +105 +85
Contract jobs requiring an Automation Developer 20 23 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.16% 0.13% 0.074%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.17% 0.14% 0.078%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 21 18
10th Percentile £363 £205 £421
25th Percentile £385 £400 £441
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £550 £488
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% +12.82% -11.36%
75th Percentile £621 £575 £578
90th Percentile £680 £888 £851
England median daily rate £525 £511 £450
% change year-on-year +2.69% +13.61% -14.29%

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 Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Automation Developer in London

Automation Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Automation Developer in London

Automation Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for Automation Developer in London

Automation Developer
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 Developer 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 £583 -
Automation Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Automation Developer 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 Developer in the job title.

1 10 (50.00%) SQL
2 9 (45.00%) Azure
2 9 (45.00%) Power Platform
2 9 (45.00%) Power Automate
3 8 (40.00%) PowerApps
3 8 (40.00%) SharePoint
4 7 (35.00%) .NET
4 7 (35.00%) SQL Server
5 6 (30.00%) Oracle
5 6 (30.00%) C#
5 6 (30.00%) Finance
5 6 (30.00%) Microsoft Excel
5 6 (30.00%) Microsoft
5 6 (30.00%) Data Analysis
5 6 (30.00%) DevOps
6 5 (25.00%) Robotic Process Automation
6 5 (25.00%) Root Cause Analysis
6 5 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
6 5 (25.00%) Banking
6 5 (25.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 5 (25.00%) User Acceptance Testing
6 5 (25.00%) Test Automation
7 4 (20.00%) Python
7 4 (20.00%) Git
7 4 (20.00%) UiPath
7 4 (20.00%) Power BI
7 4 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
7 4 (20.00%) Data Reconciliation
7 4 (20.00%) CI/CD

Automation Developer 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:

Application Platforms
1 8 (40.00%) SharePoint
2 1 (5.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 6 (30.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 9 (45.00%) Azure
1 9 (45.00%) Power Automate
1 9 (45.00%) Power Platform
2 8 (40.00%) PowerApps
3 4 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (15.00%) Azure Logic Apps
4 3 (15.00%) Dynamics 365
4 3 (15.00%) GitHub
5 2 (10.00%) Azure Functions
5 2 (10.00%) Entra ID
5 2 (10.00%) Serverless
6 1 (5.00%) AWS
6 1 (5.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 1 (5.00%) Copilot Studio
6 1 (5.00%) GCP
6 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 2 (10.00%) Firewall
1 2 (10.00%) LAN
1 2 (10.00%) Network Security
1 2 (10.00%) SD-WAN
1 2 (10.00%) VPN
1 2 (10.00%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (35.00%) SQL Server
2 5 (25.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 4 (20.00%) Power BI
4 2 (10.00%) Relational Database
5 1 (5.00%) KDB
5 1 (5.00%) NoSQL
5 1 (5.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (20.00%) Git
2 3 (15.00%) JIRA
3 1 (5.00%) Bitbucket Server
3 1 (5.00%) GitLab
3 1 (5.00%) Jenkins
3 1 (5.00%) JUnit
General
1 6 (30.00%) Finance
2 5 (25.00%) Banking
3 3 (15.00%) Social Skills
4 2 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (5.00%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (5.00%) Public Sector
5 1 (5.00%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (35.00%) .NET
2 3 (15.00%) REST
2 3 (15.00%) RESTful
3 2 (10.00%) NETCONF
4 1 (5.00%) .NET Core
4 1 (5.00%) AngularJS
4 1 (5.00%) CSS
4 1 (5.00%) FastAPI
4 1 (5.00%) FIX Protocol
4 1 (5.00%) Flask
4 1 (5.00%) GraphQL
4 1 (5.00%) HTML
4 1 (5.00%) HTML5 Canvas
4 1 (5.00%) jQuery
4 1 (5.00%) OAuth
4 1 (5.00%) OAuth2
4 1 (5.00%) SOAP
4 1 (5.00%) SPFx
4 1 (5.00%) WPF
4 1 (5.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.00%) CMDB
2 1 (5.00%) Algorithms
2 1 (5.00%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (5.00%) Equities
2 1 (5.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (5.00%) Low-Code
2 1 (5.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (15.00%) Linux
1 3 (15.00%) Unix
2 1 (5.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (30.00%) Data Analysis
1 6 (30.00%) DevOps
2 5 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (25.00%) Robotic Process Automation
2 5 (25.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 5 (25.00%) Test Automation
2 5 (25.00%) User Acceptance Testing
3 4 (20.00%) CI/CD
3 4 (20.00%) Data Reconciliation
4 3 (15.00%) Agile
4 3 (15.00%) Business Case
4 3 (15.00%) Business Intelligence
4 3 (15.00%) Infrastructure Automation
4 3 (15.00%) Unit Testing
4 3 (15.00%) Workflow
5 2 (10.00%) Customer Service
5 2 (10.00%) Decision-Making
5 2 (10.00%) Design Thinking
5 2 (10.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 2 (10.00%) Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 10 (50.00%) SQL
2 6 (30.00%) C#
3 4 (20.00%) Python
4 2 (10.00%) JavaScript
4 2 (10.00%) PowerShell
5 1 (5.00%) Bicep
5 1 (5.00%) Formula Language
5 1 (5.00%) Java
5 1 (5.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (15.00%) BPSS Clearance
2 2 (10.00%) Degree
2 2 (10.00%) Security Cleared
3 1 (5.00%) Azure Certification
3 1 (5.00%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 2 (10.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (15.00%) Terraform
2 2 (10.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 6 (30.00%) Microsoft
1 6 (30.00%) Oracle
2 4 (20.00%) UiPath
3 3 (15.00%) ServiceNow
4 2 (10.00%) Cisco
5 1 (5.00%) Citrix
5 1 (5.00%) IBM
5 1 (5.00%) Salesforce
5 1 (5.00%) Sybase