Senior Automation Engineer Contracts in London

Senior Automation Engineer
England > London

The median Senior Automation Engineer daily rate in London is £645 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 391 479 594
Rank change year-on-year +88 +115 -147
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Automation Engineer 3 10 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.017% 0.038% 0.026%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.018% 0.040% 0.027%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 7 8
10th Percentile £587 £550 £405
25th Percentile £604 £600 £441
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £645 £650 £480
Median % change year-on-year -0.77% +35.42% -12.73%
75th Percentile £674 - £527
90th Percentile £684 £680 £603
England median daily rate £600 £650 £480
% change year-on-year -7.69% +35.42% -12.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £70.00 -
England median hourly rate - £70.00 -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised 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 16,466 24,974 36,637
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.32% 95.21% 95.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,897 18,116 26,808
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £444 £463 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £685 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 325 280 441
10th Percentile £16.01 £18.00 £16.50
25th Percentile £20.02 £22.86 £22.68
Median hourly rate £27.50 £36.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -23.61% +2.86% +9.38%
75th Percentile £46.48 £62.95 £49.25
90th Percentile £65.02 £80.00 £68.75
England median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £23.00
% change year-on-year -16.67% +95.65% +4.55%

Senior Automation Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Automation Engineer in London

Senior Automation Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Senior Automation Engineer in London

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

For the 6 months to 10 May 2024, Senior Automation Engineer 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 Senior Automation Engineer in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) Ansible
2 2 (66.67%) SDLC
2 2 (66.67%) Linux
2 2 (66.67%) Python
2 2 (66.67%) VMware
3 1 (33.33%) Cadence
3 1 (33.33%) Agile
3 1 (33.33%) JIRA
3 1 (33.33%) Kanban
3 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
3 1 (33.33%) DV Cleared
3 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
3 1 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
3 1 (33.33%) YAML
3 1 (33.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (33.33%) OWASP
3 1 (33.33%) Git
3 1 (33.33%) Test Automation
3 1 (33.33%) Azure
3 1 (33.33%) AWS
3 1 (33.33%) Bash
3 1 (33.33%) Confluence
3 1 (33.33%) Network Architecture
3 1 (33.33%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (33.33%) GitHub
3 1 (33.33%) HTTP
3 1 (33.33%) VPN
3 1 (33.33%) SNA
3 1 (33.33%) DNS

Senior Automation Engineer 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 1 (33.33%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) GCP
1 1 (33.33%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) DNS
1 1 (33.33%) Firewall
1 1 (33.33%) HTTP
1 1 (33.33%) Internet
1 1 (33.33%) SNA
1 1 (33.33%) SSL
1 1 (33.33%) VPN
1 1 (33.33%) VSAN
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Git
1 1 (33.33%) JIRA
1 1 (33.33%) Postman
General
1 1 (33.33%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) YAML
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Linux
2 1 (33.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) SDLC
2 1 (33.33%) Agile
2 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Automation
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Kanban
2 1 (33.33%) Network Architecture
2 1 (33.33%) OWASP
2 1 (33.33%) Software Delivery
2 1 (33.33%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) Bash
2 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
2 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) DV Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) VMware ESXi
1 1 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (33.33%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Ansible
2 1 (33.33%) Terraform
2 1 (33.33%) vCenter Server
2 1 (33.33%) vRealize
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) VMware
2 1 (33.33%) Cadence
2 1 (33.33%) Red Hat