Automation Specialist Contract Job Trends in London

Automation Specialist
England > London

The median Automation Specialist daily rate in London is £538, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 12 October 2025.

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

6 months to
12 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 365 387 -
Rank change year-on-year +22 - -
Contract jobs requiring an Automation Specialist 10 6 0
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.075% 0.037% -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.081% 0.040% -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 2 0
10th Percentile £394 £319 -
25th Percentile £412 £403 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £563 -
Median % change year-on-year -4.44% - -
75th Percentile £675 £728 -
90th Percentile - £816 -
England median daily rate £650 £502 -
% change year-on-year +29.48% - -

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 12,286 15,157 19,600
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.41% 94.08% 94.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,208 9,887 14,287
10th Percentile £333 £342 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £543 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.32% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £663 £675 £690
90th Percentile £775 £800 £800
England median daily rate £510 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -2.86% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 209 173 213
10th Percentile £17.00 £17.30 £18.50
25th Percentile £22.50 £24.15 £22.50
Median hourly rate £27.00 £35.00 £39.83
Median % change year-on-year -22.86% -12.13% +24.47%
75th Percentile £49.50 £60.00 £61.75
90th Percentile £68.00 £78.75 £76.25
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year -41.51% -6.89% +71.16%

Automation Specialist
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Automation Specialist job vacancy trend in London

Automation Specialist
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

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

Automation Specialist
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Automation Specialist in London over the 6 months to 12 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Automation Specialist in London

Automation Specialist
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 Specialist within the London region over the 6 months to 12 October 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 +10 1 £425 -50.00% 2
Automation Specialist
England

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

For the 6 months to 12 October 2025, Automation Specialist 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 Specialist in the job title.

1 4 (40.00%) Agile
1 4 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
1 4 (40.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (30.00%) Ansible
2 3 (30.00%) DevOps
2 3 (30.00%) Selenium
2 3 (30.00%) Test Automation
3 2 (20.00%) Azure
3 2 (20.00%) Security Testing
3 2 (20.00%) Android
3 2 (20.00%) ISTQB
3 2 (20.00%) Test Scripting
3 2 (20.00%) WebDriver
3 2 (20.00%) Apple iOS
3 2 (20.00%) SpecFlow
3 2 (20.00%) Mobile App
3 2 (20.00%) High Availability
3 2 (20.00%) Test Strategy
3 2 (20.00%) QA
3 2 (20.00%) CyberArk
3 2 (20.00%) NUnit
3 2 (20.00%) Data Management
3 2 (20.00%) C#
3 2 (20.00%) Finance
3 2 (20.00%) SSH
3 2 (20.00%) Information Security
3 2 (20.00%) Linux
3 2 (20.00%) Python
3 2 (20.00%) Appium

Automation Specialist 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 (10.00%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (10.00%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 2 (20.00%) Azure
1 2 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (10.00%) AWS
2 1 (10.00%) Dialogflow
2 1 (10.00%) PaaS
2 1 (10.00%) SaaS
2 1 (10.00%) Twilio
2 1 (10.00%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 2 (20.00%) SSH
2 1 (10.00%) BGP
2 1 (10.00%) Cisco Nexus
2 1 (10.00%) Ethernet VPN
2 1 (10.00%) IGMP
2 1 (10.00%) Multicast
2 1 (10.00%) Network Security
2 1 (10.00%) OSPF
2 1 (10.00%) SMS
2 1 (10.00%) VXLAN
Development Applications
1 3 (30.00%) Selenium
2 2 (20.00%) Appium
2 2 (20.00%) NUnit
2 2 (20.00%) SpecFlow
2 2 (20.00%) WebDriver
3 1 (10.00%) Git
3 1 (10.00%) REST Assured
3 1 (10.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 3 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Finance
3 1 (10.00%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (10.00%) JSON
1 1 (10.00%) Playwright
1 1 (10.00%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Data Centre
1 2 (20.00%) Linux Command Line
1 2 (20.00%) Mobile App
2 1 (10.00%) AI Agents
2 1 (10.00%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (10.00%) IVR
2 1 (10.00%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 2 (20.00%) Android
1 2 (20.00%) Apple iOS
1 2 (20.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (40.00%) Agile
1 4 (40.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (30.00%) DevOps
2 3 (30.00%) Test Automation
3 2 (20.00%) Data Management
3 2 (20.00%) High Availability
3 2 (20.00%) Information Security
3 2 (20.00%) Inventory Management
3 2 (20.00%) Key Management
3 2 (20.00%) Patch Management
3 2 (20.00%) Product Requirements
3 2 (20.00%) Security Testing
3 2 (20.00%) Systems Engineering
3 2 (20.00%) Task Automation
3 2 (20.00%) Test Scripting
3 2 (20.00%) Test Strategy
4 1 (10.00%) Collaborative Working
4 1 (10.00%) Customer Journey Map
4 1 (10.00%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 2 (20.00%) C#
1 2 (20.00%) Python
2 1 (10.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) ISTQB
2 1 (10.00%) CCIE
2 1 (10.00%) CCNP
2 1 (10.00%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (10.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (20.00%) Accessibility
1 2 (20.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 3 (30.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 2 (20.00%) CyberArk
2 1 (10.00%) Arista
2 1 (10.00%) Cisco
2 1 (10.00%) F5
2 1 (10.00%) Fortinet
2 1 (10.00%) Google
2 1 (10.00%) HubSpot
2 1 (10.00%) Informatica
2 1 (10.00%) LogicMonitor
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (10.00%) Palo Alto
2 1 (10.00%) Salesforce
2 1 (10.00%) SAP
2 1 (10.00%) SolarWinds
2 1 (10.00%) UiPath
2 1 (10.00%) Zoho