Senior Automation Engineer Contracts in London

Senior Automation Engineer
England > London

The median Senior Automation Engineer daily rate in London is £494, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 4 August 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
4 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 372 374 466
Rank change year-on-year +2 +92 +129
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Automation Engineer 3 2 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.022% 0.012% 0.029%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.024% 0.013% 0.031%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 5
10th Percentile £436 £677 -
25th Percentile £456 £679 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £494 £695 £650
Median % change year-on-year -28.96% +6.92% +11.59%
75th Percentile £533 £716 -
90th Percentile £555 £722 £695
England median daily rate £563 £690 £575
% change year-on-year -18.48% +20.00% +6.48%

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 12,674 15,337 22,789
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.96% 94.20% 94.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,579 10,876 16,694
10th Percentile £326 £346 £356
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -0.91% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £675 £688 £700
90th Percentile £775 £800 £800
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 204 199 243
10th Percentile £17.98 £17.80 £18.55
25th Percentile £22.86 £22.00 £23.88
Median hourly rate £29.54 £33.07 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -10.69% -11.81% +12.78%
75th Percentile £50.50 £55.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £63.75 £72.50 £80.00
England median hourly rate £26.00 £45.00 £43.00
% change year-on-year -42.22% +4.65% +67.45%

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
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Automation Engineer in London over the 6 months to 4 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Automation Engineer in London

Senior Automation Engineer
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 Senior Automation Engineer within the London region over the 6 months to 4 August 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 - 1 £425 -
Senior Automation Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 4 August 2025, 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 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
1 2 (66.67%) F5
1 2 (66.67%) Ansible
1 2 (66.67%) DevOps
1 2 (66.67%) Cisco
1 2 (66.67%) Python
1 2 (66.67%) Finance
1 2 (66.67%) Fortinet
2 1 (33.33%) QA
2 1 (33.33%) Performance Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Manual Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Network Security
2 1 (33.33%) Git
2 1 (33.33%) Test Automation
2 1 (33.33%) SolarWinds
2 1 (33.33%) Infoblox
2 1 (33.33%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) HP Quality Center
2 1 (33.33%) Cucumber
2 1 (33.33%) Banking
2 1 (33.33%) IGMP
2 1 (33.33%) Network Design
2 1 (33.33%) Service Management
2 1 (33.33%) Change Management
2 1 (33.33%) Regression Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Firewall
2 1 (33.33%) Wireless
2 1 (33.33%) Eclipse
2 1 (33.33%) LAN

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:

Business Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) BGP
1 1 (33.33%) Cisco Nexus
1 1 (33.33%) Cisco Wireless
1 1 (33.33%) Ethernet VPN
1 1 (33.33%) Firewall
1 1 (33.33%) IGMP
1 1 (33.33%) LAN
1 1 (33.33%) Multicast
1 1 (33.33%) Network Security
1 1 (33.33%) OSPF
1 1 (33.33%) VXLAN
1 1 (33.33%) WAN
1 1 (33.33%) Wireless
1 1 (33.33%) WLAN
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Cucumber
1 1 (33.33%) Eclipse
1 1 (33.33%) Git
1 1 (33.33%) GitLab
1 1 (33.33%) Postman
1 1 (33.33%) REST Assured
1 1 (33.33%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 2 (66.67%) Finance
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Banking
2 1 (33.33%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) Gherkin
1 1 (33.33%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Native
1 1 (33.33%) Data Centre
1 1 (33.33%) Greenfield Project
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
1 2 (66.67%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Actionable Insight
2 1 (33.33%) Change Management
2 1 (33.33%) Collaborative Working
2 1 (33.33%) Configuration Management
2 1 (33.33%) Fintech
2 1 (33.33%) High Availability
2 1 (33.33%) Low Latency
2 1 (33.33%) Manual Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Microservices
2 1 (33.33%) Network Design
2 1 (33.33%) Performance Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Proactive Monitoring
2 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) QA Automation
2 1 (33.33%) Regression Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Service Management
2 1 (33.33%) Test Automation
2 1 (33.33%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) CCIE
1 1 (33.33%) CCNP
1 1 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) QA
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Ansible
2 1 (33.33%) HP Quality Center
2 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Cisco
1 2 (66.67%) F5
1 2 (66.67%) Fortinet
2 1 (33.33%) Arista
2 1 (33.33%) CheckPoint
2 1 (33.33%) Infoblox
2 1 (33.33%) LogicMonitor
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (33.33%) Palo Alto
2 1 (33.33%) SolarWinds