Automation Developer Contract Job Trends in London

Automation Developer
England > London

The median Automation Developer daily rate in London is £415, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025.

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

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 370 345 402
Rank change year-on-year -25 +57 +143
Contract jobs requiring an Automation Developer 11 32 7
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.077% 0.21% 0.036%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.083% 0.22% 0.038%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 19 6
10th Percentile £355 - £262
25th Percentile £398 £263 £485
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £415 £275 £500
Median % change year-on-year +50.91% -45.00% -20.00%
75th Percentile - £598 £603
90th Percentile £452 £660 £638
England median daily rate £415 £500 £513
% change year-on-year -17.00% -2.44% -16.33%

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 13,179 14,595 18,242
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.19% 93.55% 93.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,760 9,478 13,182
10th Percentile £338 £338 £336
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -3.18% -2.22% -2.17%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £688
90th Percentile £763 £799 £788
England median daily rate £507 £525 £534
% change year-on-year -3.38% -1.69% -2.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 230 152 214
10th Percentile £17.50 £17.25 £18.05
25th Percentile £21.12 £23.80 £21.75
Median hourly rate £27.61 £36.65 £36.14
Median % change year-on-year -24.68% +1.41% +3.26%
75th Percentile £53.59 £54.06 £58.75
90th Percentile £75.16 £80.75 £73.31
England median hourly rate £25.15 £37.25 £45.00
% change year-on-year -32.48% -17.22% +36.36%

Automation Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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 London.

Automation Developer job vacancy trend in London

Automation Developer
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

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

Automation Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Automation Developer in London over the 6 months to 13 December 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 13 December 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 -6 1 - -
South London - 1 £313 -
West London - 1 - -
Automation Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 13 December 2025, 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 London region featuring Automation Developer in the job title.

1 8 (72.73%) SQL
2 7 (63.64%) Agile
3 5 (45.45%) .NET
3 5 (45.45%) C#
3 5 (45.45%) JIRA
3 5 (45.45%) Robotic Process Automation
3 5 (45.45%) UiPath
4 4 (36.36%) Business Case
4 4 (36.36%) Citrix
4 4 (36.36%) DevOps
4 4 (36.36%) Windows
4 4 (36.36%) WPF
5 3 (27.27%) Blue Prism
5 3 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (27.27%) Security Cleared
5 3 (27.27%) User Acceptance Testing
6 2 (18.18%) AI
6 2 (18.18%) CI/CD
6 2 (18.18%) Data Reconciliation
6 2 (18.18%) Linux
6 2 (18.18%) Microsoft
6 2 (18.18%) Oracle
6 2 (18.18%) Power Platform
6 2 (18.18%) SC Cleared
6 2 (18.18%) SQL Server
6 2 (18.18%) Workflow
7 1 (9.09%) API Development
7 1 (9.09%) API Integration
7 1 (9.09%) BGP
7 1 (9.09%) CentOS

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

Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 2 (18.18%) Power Platform
2 1 (9.09%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 1 (9.09%) BGP
1 1 (9.09%) Ethernet VPN
1 1 (9.09%) MPLS
1 1 (9.09%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (18.18%) SQL Server
2 1 (9.09%) MongoDB
2 1 (9.09%) NoSQL
2 1 (9.09%) Relational Database
2 1 (9.09%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 5 (45.45%) JIRA
2 1 (9.09%) GitLab
General
1 5 (45.45%) Finance
2 3 (27.27%) Publishing
3 2 (18.18%) Banking
3 2 (18.18%) Social Skills
4 1 (9.09%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (45.45%) .NET
2 4 (36.36%) WPF
3 1 (9.09%) JSON
3 1 (9.09%) NETCONF
3 1 (9.09%) REST
3 1 (9.09%) RESTCONF
3 1 (9.09%) RESTful
3 1 (9.09%) SailPoint
3 1 (9.09%) SOAP
3 1 (9.09%) XML
3 1 (9.09%) YAML
3 1 (9.09%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 1 (9.09%) Greenfield Project
1 1 (9.09%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 4 (36.36%) Windows
2 2 (18.18%) Linux
3 1 (9.09%) CentOS
3 1 (9.09%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (63.64%) Agile
2 5 (45.45%) Robotic Process Automation
3 4 (36.36%) Business Case
3 4 (36.36%) DevOps
4 3 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (27.27%) User Acceptance Testing
5 2 (18.18%) AI
5 2 (18.18%) CI/CD
5 2 (18.18%) Data Reconciliation
5 2 (18.18%) Workflow
6 1 (9.09%) Containerisation
6 1 (9.09%) Data Analysis
6 1 (9.09%) Generative AI
6 1 (9.09%) Intelligent Automation
6 1 (9.09%) Knowledge Transfer
6 1 (9.09%) Platform Engineering
6 1 (9.09%) Roadmaps
6 1 (9.09%) Scrum
6 1 (9.09%) Test Automation
6 1 (9.09%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (72.73%) SQL
2 5 (45.45%) C#
3 1 (9.09%) Java
3 1 (9.09%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (27.27%) Security Cleared
2 2 (18.18%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 1 (9.09%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (9.09%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (45.45%) UiPath
2 4 (36.36%) Citrix
3 3 (27.27%) Blue Prism
4 2 (18.18%) Microsoft
4 2 (18.18%) Oracle
5 1 (9.09%) Cisco
5 1 (9.09%) Pega