Automation Engineer Contracts in South Yorkshire

Automation Engineer
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The median Automation Engineer daily rate in South Yorkshire is £625 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 24 April 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
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 51 55 51
Rank change year-on-year +4 -4 -11
Contract jobs requiring an Automation Engineer 5 1 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 1.12% 0.19% 0.60%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.23% 0.21% 0.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 3
10th Percentile £623 - -
25th Percentile £624 - £505
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 - £510
Median % change year-on-year - - +45.71%
75th Percentile £638 - £536
90th Percentile £645 - £548
Yorkshire median daily rate £624 £525 £510
% change year-on-year +18.76% +2.94% +45.71%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
South Yorkshire

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in South Yorkshire. 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 South Yorkshire with a recognized job title 406 466 484
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.03% 90.66% 96.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 255 333 382
10th Percentile £241 £263 £263
25th Percentile £407 £440 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £550 £475
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% +15.79% +18.75%
75th Percentile £582 £650 £545
90th Percentile £645 £700 £636
Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £525 £475
% change year-on-year -9.52% +10.53% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 7 29
10th Percentile £10.90 £10.27 £10.94
25th Percentile £12.63 £11.13 £12.00
Median hourly rate £13.60 £17.72 £17.64
Median % change year-on-year -23.28% +0.45% +10.25%
75th Percentile £23.31 £23.50 £22.67
90th Percentile £23.75 £30.70 £24.00
Yorkshire median hourly rate £14.25 £22.00 £17.50
% change year-on-year -35.23% +25.71% -9.09%

Automation Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Automation Engineer in South Yorkshire

Automation Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Automation Engineer in South Yorkshire.

Daily rate trend for Automation Engineer in South Yorkshire

Automation Engineer
Contract Job Locations in South Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Automation Engineer within the South Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 24 April 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
Sheffield +3 5 £625 - 1
Automation Engineer
Yorkshire

Automation Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Yorkshire

For the 6 months to 24 April 2024, 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 South Yorkshire region featuring Automation Engineer in the job title.

1 4 (80.00%) Bash
1 4 (80.00%) Confluence
1 4 (80.00%) Puppet
1 4 (80.00%) Splunk
1 4 (80.00%) GitHub
1 4 (80.00%) Jenkins
1 4 (80.00%) Elasticsearch
1 4 (80.00%) Progress Chef
1 4 (80.00%) Ansible
1 4 (80.00%) Docker
1 4 (80.00%) logstash
1 4 (80.00%) DevOps
1 4 (80.00%) Kibana
1 4 (80.00%) Analytical Skills
1 4 (80.00%) Data Structures
1 4 (80.00%) GCP
1 4 (80.00%) GitLab
1 4 (80.00%) Kubernetes
1 4 (80.00%) Apigee
1 4 (80.00%) API Development
1 4 (80.00%) API Integration
1 4 (80.00%) Secure Coding
1 4 (80.00%) Elastic Stack
1 4 (80.00%) Terraform
1 4 (80.00%) Grafana
1 4 (80.00%) Travis CI
1 4 (80.00%) CircleCI
1 4 (80.00%) Continuous Deployment
1 4 (80.00%) Docker Swarm
1 4 (80.00%) Prometheus

Automation Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Yorkshire 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 4 (80.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 4 (80.00%) Apigee
1 4 (80.00%) AWS
1 4 (80.00%) Azure
1 4 (80.00%) GCP
1 4 (80.00%) GitHub
1 4 (80.00%) Kong
Communications & Networking
1 4 (80.00%) DNS
1 4 (80.00%) Firewall
1 4 (80.00%) HTTP
1 4 (80.00%) TCP/IP
1 4 (80.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (80.00%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 4 (80.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
1 4 (80.00%) CircleCI
1 4 (80.00%) Git
1 4 (80.00%) GitLab
1 4 (80.00%) Jenkins
1 4 (80.00%) JIRA
1 4 (80.00%) Travis CI
General
1 4 (80.00%) Analytical Skills
1 4 (80.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Banking
2 1 (20.00%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (80.00%) Elastic Stack
1 4 (80.00%) JSON
1 4 (80.00%) XML
1 4 (80.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (80.00%) Data Structures
2 1 (20.00%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) MVS
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Agile
1 4 (80.00%) API Development
1 4 (80.00%) API Integration
1 4 (80.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (80.00%) Collaborative Working
1 4 (80.00%) Containerisation
1 4 (80.00%) Continuous Deployment
1 4 (80.00%) Continuous Integration
1 4 (80.00%) DevOps
1 4 (80.00%) DevSecOps
1 4 (80.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 4 (80.00%) Problem-Solving
1 4 (80.00%) Project Management
1 4 (80.00%) Scrum
1 4 (80.00%) Secure Coding
1 4 (80.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 4 (80.00%) Task Automation
1 4 (80.00%) Use Case
1 4 (80.00%) Workflow
2 1 (20.00%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) Bash
1 4 (80.00%) PowerShell
1 4 (80.00%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (80.00%) QA
System Software
1 4 (80.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (80.00%) Ansible
1 4 (80.00%) Docker Swarm
1 4 (80.00%) Grafana
1 4 (80.00%) Kibana
1 4 (80.00%) Kubernetes
1 4 (80.00%) logstash
1 4 (80.00%) Progress Chef
1 4 (80.00%) Prometheus
1 4 (80.00%) Puppet
1 4 (80.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) Splunk
2 1 (20.00%) CA