Automation Developer Contracts in the UK excluding London

Automation Developer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Automation Developer daily rate in the UK excluding London is £460 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 389 429 500
Rank change year-on-year +40 +71 -82
Contract jobs requiring an Automation Developer 14 28 23
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.068% 0.12% 0.074%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.073% 0.12% 0.078%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 22 16
10th Percentile £315 £371 £363
25th Percentile £400 £416 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £450 £488
Median % change year-on-year +2.22% -7.69% +2.63%
75th Percentile £488 £499 £506
90th Percentile £502 £553 £638
UK median daily rate £500 £460 £525
% change year-on-year +8.70% -12.38% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £22.13
25th Percentile - - £23.81
Median hourly rate - - £27.75
75th Percentile - - £32.81
90th Percentile - - £35.18
UK median hourly rate - - £34.50

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 19,132 22,540 29,612
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.57% 94.26% 95.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,680 15,813 20,744
10th Percentile £213 £225 £200
25th Percentile £363 £398 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £598 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,253 1,158 1,481
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.21
25th Percentile £15.75 £18.01 £14.25
Median hourly rate £39.55 £42.37 £19.52
Median % change year-on-year -6.64% +117.03% +2.74%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £42.50
90th Percentile £73.75 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.50
% change year-on-year -18.89% +91.49% +4.44%

Automation Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Automation Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Automation Developer in the UK excluding London

Automation Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Automation Developer in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Automation Developer in the UK excluding London

Automation Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Automation Developer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Automation Developer in the UK excluding London

Automation Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Automation Developer in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Automation Developer in the UK excluding London

Automation Developer
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London 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
North of England +32 5 £375 - 2
Scotland +29 5 £460 -0.54%
Yorkshire - 4 £350 -
South East +15 3 £475 +8.57%
Midlands +24 1 £325 -16.13% 4
West Midlands +21 1 £325 -16.13% 2
North West +16 1 £523 - 2
Automation Developer
UK

Automation Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region featuring Automation Developer in the job title.

1 8 (57.14%) Python
2 6 (42.86%) TypeScript
3 5 (35.71%) Agile
3 5 (35.71%) QA
4 4 (28.57%) Kanban
4 4 (28.57%) Test Automation
4 4 (28.57%) Product Management
4 4 (28.57%) Amazon S3
4 4 (28.57%) AWS
4 4 (28.57%) Software Architecture
4 4 (28.57%) Software Engineering
4 4 (28.57%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (28.57%) Scrum
4 4 (28.57%) Natural Language Processing
4 4 (28.57%) Machine Learning
4 4 (28.57%) Algorithms
4 4 (28.57%) AWS CloudFormation
4 4 (28.57%) AWS Lambda
4 4 (28.57%) Grafana
4 4 (28.57%) Service Design
4 4 (28.57%) Amazon Aurora
4 4 (28.57%) Serverless
4 4 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
4 4 (28.57%) Power Platform
4 4 (28.57%) Power Automate
4 4 (28.57%) Social Skills
4 4 (28.57%) AWS CDK
5 3 (21.43%) Project Management
5 3 (21.43%) Artificial Intelligence

Automation Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 (7.14%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 4 (28.57%) Amazon S3
1 4 (28.57%) AWS
1 4 (28.57%) AWS CloudFormation
1 4 (28.57%) AWS Lambda
1 4 (28.57%) Power Automate
1 4 (28.57%) Power Platform
1 4 (28.57%) Serverless
2 2 (14.29%) OpenShift
3 1 (7.14%) Amazon SageMaker
3 1 (7.14%) PowerApps
3 1 (7.14%) Rekognition
3 1 (7.14%) Textract
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (28.57%) Amazon Aurora
1 4 (28.57%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (7.14%) Power BI
2 1 (7.14%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Cucumber
1 1 (7.14%) Selenium
1 1 (7.14%) XCUITest
General
1 4 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 2 (14.29%) Local Government
3 1 (7.14%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (28.57%) AWS CDK
2 1 (7.14%) React
Miscellaneous
1 4 (28.57%) Algorithms
2 1 (7.14%) Cloud Native
2 1 (7.14%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (7.14%) Legacy Applications
2 1 (7.14%) Private Cloud
2 1 (7.14%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.14%) Android
1 1 (7.14%) Apple iOS
1 1 (7.14%) Unix
1 1 (7.14%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (35.71%) Agile
2 4 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
2 4 (28.57%) Kanban
2 4 (28.57%) Machine Learning
2 4 (28.57%) Natural Language Processing
2 4 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (28.57%) Product Management
2 4 (28.57%) Scrum
2 4 (28.57%) Service Design
2 4 (28.57%) Software Architecture
2 4 (28.57%) Software Engineering
2 4 (28.57%) Test Automation
3 3 (21.43%) Artificial Intelligence
3 3 (21.43%) Project Management
4 2 (14.29%) CI/CD
4 2 (14.29%) Mentoring
4 2 (14.29%) OCR
4 2 (14.29%) Qualitative Research
4 2 (14.29%) Quantitative Research
4 2 (14.29%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 8 (57.14%) Python
2 6 (42.86%) TypeScript
3 3 (21.43%) Java
4 2 (14.29%) JavaScript
5 1 (7.14%) Kotlin
5 1 (7.14%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (35.71%) QA
2 1 (7.14%) Accessibility
2 1 (7.14%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 1 (7.14%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (28.57%) Grafana
2 2 (14.29%) Kubernetes
3 1 (7.14%) Ansible
3 1 (7.14%) Progress Chef
3 1 (7.14%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (7.14%) Ariba
1 1 (7.14%) Microsoft
1 1 (7.14%) SAP
1 1 (7.14%) VMware