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 £488, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 17 May 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
17 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 332 375 425
Rank change year-on-year +43 +50 +59
Contract jobs requiring an Automation Developer 16 20 26
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.12% 0.099% 0.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.13% 0.11% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 17 21
10th Percentile - £320 £369
25th Percentile £408 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £460 £450
Median % change year-on-year +5.98% +2.22% -7.69%
75th Percentile £584 £488 £501
90th Percentile £598 £499 £558
UK median daily rate £511 £487 £475
% change year-on-year +4.83% +2.53% -9.52%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies 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 11,941 18,763 21,693
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.97% 92.47% 94.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,600 11,440 15,152
10th Percentile £213 £213 £225
25th Percentile £363 £363 £393
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £490 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £595 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £543
% change year-on-year -2.38% -3.23% +3.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 849 2,259 1,107
10th Percentile £13.85 £12.50 £13.41
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.75 £18.08
Median hourly rate £27.13 £40.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -32.19% -5.88% +112.50%
75th Percentile £63.75 £61.60 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £74.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £28.15 £36.58 £45.00
% change year-on-year -23.03% -18.72% +87.50%

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 17 May 2025.

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 17 May 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
Midlands +24 7 £433 +33.08% 3
West Midlands +13 7 £433 +33.08% 3
South East +45 3 £600 +26.32% 2
North of England +17 3 £573 +52.67% 1
North West +18 2 £573 +9.57%
Scotland -1 2 - - 1
Yorkshire +11 1 £475 +35.71%
South West - 1 £413 -
Automation Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 17 May 2025, 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 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 7 (43.75%) Test Automation
3 5 (31.25%) Azure
3 5 (31.25%) Jenkins
3 5 (31.25%) Ansible
3 5 (31.25%) Blue Prism
3 5 (31.25%) Robotic Process Automation
3 5 (31.25%) Python
3 5 (31.25%) Finance
3 5 (31.25%) Agile
3 5 (31.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 4 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (25.00%) DevOps
4 4 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (25.00%) Kubernetes
5 3 (18.75%) GitHub
5 3 (18.75%) Translating Business Requirements
5 3 (18.75%) Continuous Improvement
5 3 (18.75%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (18.75%) Security Cleared
5 3 (18.75%) SharePoint
5 3 (18.75%) BusinessObjects
5 3 (18.75%) Business Intelligence
5 3 (18.75%) Microsoft
5 3 (18.75%) Linux
5 3 (18.75%) Power Platform
5 3 (18.75%) PowerApps
5 3 (18.75%) Power Automate
5 3 (18.75%) Task Automation
5 3 (18.75%) Tricentis Tosca

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 3 (18.75%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (6.25%) InfoPath
Cloud Services
1 5 (31.25%) Azure
2 3 (18.75%) GitHub
2 3 (18.75%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (18.75%) Power Automate
2 3 (18.75%) Power Platform
2 3 (18.75%) PowerApps
2 3 (18.75%) Tricentis Tosca
3 2 (12.50%) AWS
3 2 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (12.50%) GitHub Actions
3 2 (12.50%) SaaS
4 1 (6.25%) Azure Stack
4 1 (6.25%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (12.50%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (18.75%) BusinessObjects
2 1 (6.25%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 5 (31.25%) Jenkins
2 2 (12.50%) Bitbucket
2 2 (12.50%) GitLab
2 2 (12.50%) JIRA
General
1 8 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (31.25%) Finance
2 5 (31.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 4 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (12.50%) Banking
4 2 (12.50%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (12.50%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 2 (12.50%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 3 (18.75%) Linux
2 2 (12.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (43.75%) Test Automation
2 5 (31.25%) Agile
2 5 (31.25%) Robotic Process Automation
3 4 (25.00%) DevOps
3 4 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (18.75%) Business Intelligence
4 3 (18.75%) CI/CD
4 3 (18.75%) Continuous Improvement
4 3 (18.75%) Task Automation
4 3 (18.75%) Translating Business Requirements
5 2 (12.50%) Build Automation
5 2 (12.50%) Code Quality
5 2 (12.50%) Configuration Management
5 2 (12.50%) Data Collection
5 2 (12.50%) Data Modelling
5 2 (12.50%) IT Governance
5 2 (12.50%) Scrum
5 2 (12.50%) SDLC
5 2 (12.50%) Software Distribution
5 2 (12.50%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 5 (31.25%) Python
2 2 (12.50%) Bash
2 2 (12.50%) C#
2 2 (12.50%) Java
2 2 (12.50%) SQL
2 2 (12.50%) TypeScript
3 1 (6.25%) PowerShell
3 1 (6.25%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 3 (18.75%) Security Cleared
2 2 (12.50%) CCNA
2 2 (12.50%) CCNP
2 2 (12.50%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (12.50%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (12.50%) Cyber Essentials
Systems Management
1 5 (31.25%) Ansible
2 4 (25.00%) Kubernetes
3 2 (12.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (31.25%) Blue Prism
2 3 (18.75%) Microsoft
3 2 (12.50%) Fortinet
3 2 (12.50%) Infoblox
3 2 (12.50%) ServiceNow