Automation Developer Contracts in the North of England

Automation Developer
England > North of England

The median Automation Developer daily rate in the North of England is £375 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 3 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
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 182 214 239
Rank change year-on-year +32 +25 -56
Contract jobs requiring an Automation Developer 5 2 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.11% 0.034% 0.056%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.11% 0.036% 0.057%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 3
10th Percentile £273 - £423
25th Percentile £306 - £494
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 - £625
Median % change year-on-year - - +25.00%
75th Percentile £433 - £638
90th Percentile £494 - -
England median daily rate £511 £463 £525
% change year-on-year +10.54% -11.90% +4.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £32.25
Median hourly rate - - £34.50
75th Percentile - - £36.75
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate - - £34.50

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
North of England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the North of England. 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 the North of England with a recognized job title 4,397 5,527 6,968
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.12% 95.33% 96.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,760 3,908 5,123
10th Percentile £263 £285 £200
25th Percentile £385 £412 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.95% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £580 £600 £550
90th Percentile £675 £681 £638
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 394 159 289
10th Percentile £11.02 £14.00 £11.00
25th Percentile £12.53 £18.70 £14.25
Median hourly rate £19.75 £30.76 £18.69
Median % change year-on-year -35.78% +64.60% +5.15%
75th Percentile £45.97 £49.88 £29.50
90th Percentile £60.00 £66.00 £50.00
England median hourly rate £36.50 £44.53 £22.50
% change year-on-year -18.03% +97.91% +2.27%

Automation Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Automation Developer in the North of England

Automation Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Automation Developer in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Automation Developer in the North of England

Automation Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Automation Developer in the North of England over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Automation Developer in the North of England

Automation Developer
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 North of England region over the 6 months to 3 May 2024. 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
Yorkshire - 4 £350 -
North West +16 1 £523 - 2
Automation Developer
England

Automation Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England

For the 6 months to 3 May 2024, 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 North of England region featuring Automation Developer in the job title.

1 4 (80.00%) Test Automation
1 4 (80.00%) Software Architecture
1 4 (80.00%) Algorithms
1 4 (80.00%) QA
2 3 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (40.00%) TypeScript
3 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (40.00%) Project Management
4 1 (20.00%) Containerisation
4 1 (20.00%) XCUITest
4 1 (20.00%) Design Patterns
4 1 (20.00%) Architectural Patterns
4 1 (20.00%) Ansible
4 1 (20.00%) DevOps
4 1 (20.00%) Mentoring
4 1 (20.00%) Microservices
4 1 (20.00%) Apple iOS
4 1 (20.00%) Progress Chef
4 1 (20.00%) OpenShift
4 1 (20.00%) VMware
4 1 (20.00%) Software Engineering
4 1 (20.00%) Java
4 1 (20.00%) JavaScript
4 1 (20.00%) SAP
4 1 (20.00%) Unix
4 1 (20.00%) Windows
4 1 (20.00%) Python
4 1 (20.00%) Ariba
4 1 (20.00%) Site Reliability Engineering

Automation Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) OpenShift
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) XCUITest
General
1 3 (60.00%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 4 (80.00%) Algorithms
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (20.00%) Legacy Applications
2 1 (20.00%) Private Cloud
2 1 (20.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Android
1 1 (20.00%) Apple iOS
1 1 (20.00%) Unix
1 1 (20.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Software Architecture
1 4 (80.00%) Test Automation
2 3 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (40.00%) Project Management
4 1 (20.00%) Architectural Patterns
4 1 (20.00%) Containerisation
4 1 (20.00%) Continuous Delivery
4 1 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
4 1 (20.00%) Design Patterns
4 1 (20.00%) DevOps
4 1 (20.00%) DevSecOps
4 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Automation
4 1 (20.00%) Mentoring
4 1 (20.00%) Microservices
4 1 (20.00%) Observability
4 1 (20.00%) Performance Metrics
4 1 (20.00%) Project Delivery
4 1 (20.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 1 (20.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) TypeScript
2 1 (20.00%) Java
2 1 (20.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (20.00%) Kotlin
2 1 (20.00%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (80.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Ansible
1 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (20.00%) Progress Chef
1 1 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Ariba
1 1 (20.00%) SAP
1 1 (20.00%) VMware