Automation Engineer Contracts in the UK excluding London

Automation Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Automation Engineer daily rate in the UK excluding London is £500 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 20 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
20 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 372 425 448
Rank change year-on-year +53 +23 -61
Contract jobs requiring an Automation Engineer 23 39 66
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.11% 0.16% 0.21%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.12% 0.17% 0.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 31 50
10th Percentile £443 £375 £406
25th Percentile £475 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £505
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.94% +36.49%
75th Percentile £593 £538 £570
90th Percentile £730 £544 £657
UK median daily rate £500 £535 £525
% change year-on-year -6.54% +1.90% +16.67%

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 19,163 22,850 30,047
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.69% 94.03% 95.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,803 16,013 21,031
10th Percentile £213 £225 £200
25th Percentile £363 £390 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.40% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £599 £594 £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 2,187 1,207 1,508
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.02
25th Percentile £15.50 £18.13 £14.25
Median hourly rate £36.50 £43.00 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year -15.12% +120.51% +2.63%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £41.65
90th Percentile £73.75 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £45.00 £23.00
% change year-on-year -22.22% +95.65% +0.48%

Automation Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Automation Engineer in the UK excluding London

Automation Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Automation Engineer in the UK excluding London

Automation Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Automation Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 20 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Automation Engineer in the UK excluding London

Automation Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Automation Engineer in the UK excluding London

Automation Engineer
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 Engineer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 20 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
North of England +41 9 £500 - 21
North West +25 7 £500 +5.26% 11
South East +11 5 £625 +47.06% 13
Midlands +41 3 £450 +8.43% 26
South West +19 3 £500 +8.11% 8
West Midlands - 3 £450 - 22
Scotland +27 2 £650 +36.84% 4
Yorkshire +23 2 £425 -19.05% 10
East of England +13 2 £475 - 13
Wales - 1 £490 - 6
Automation Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 20 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 UK excluding London region featuring Automation Engineer in the job title.

1 12 (52.17%) Test Automation
2 11 (47.83%) Python
3 10 (43.48%) QA
4 9 (39.13%) CI/CD
5 7 (30.43%) Ansible
5 7 (30.43%) Agile
5 7 (30.43%) Social Skills
6 6 (26.09%) Java
6 6 (26.09%) Azure
7 5 (21.74%) BDD
7 5 (21.74%) Relational Database
7 5 (21.74%) Appium
7 5 (21.74%) Cisco
7 5 (21.74%) Selenium
7 5 (21.74%) RESTful
8 4 (17.39%) Git
8 4 (17.39%) SC Cleared
8 4 (17.39%) Security Cleared
8 4 (17.39%) OO
8 4 (17.39%) JavaScript
8 4 (17.39%) Linux
8 4 (17.39%) SDLC
8 4 (17.39%) API Testing
8 4 (17.39%) QA Automation
8 4 (17.39%) Bash
8 4 (17.39%) Presentation Skills
8 4 (17.39%) Linux Command Line
8 4 (17.39%) Problem-Solving
9 3 (13.04%) Task Automation
9 3 (13.04%) Containerisation

Automation Engineer 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 2 (8.70%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 6 (26.09%) Azure
2 3 (13.04%) AWS
2 3 (13.04%) GitHub
3 2 (8.70%) BrowserStack
3 2 (8.70%) Sauce Labs
4 1 (4.35%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (4.35%) GCP
4 1 (4.35%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (4.35%) SaaS
4 1 (4.35%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 3 (13.04%) BGP
1 3 (13.04%) Cisco IOS
1 3 (13.04%) IOS XR
2 2 (8.70%) Cisco Nexus
2 2 (8.70%) DNS
2 2 (8.70%) Internet
2 2 (8.70%) Software-Defined Networking
3 1 (4.35%) SNA
3 1 (4.35%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (21.74%) Relational Database
2 3 (13.04%) SQL Server
3 1 (4.35%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 5 (21.74%) Appium
1 5 (21.74%) Selenium
2 4 (17.39%) Git
3 3 (13.04%) Jenkins
4 2 (8.70%) Bitbucket
4 2 (8.70%) Cucumber
4 2 (8.70%) Cypress.io
4 2 (8.70%) GitLab
4 2 (8.70%) JIRA
4 2 (8.70%) Postman
4 2 (8.70%) Sonatype Nexus
4 2 (8.70%) UI Automator
4 2 (8.70%) XCUITest
5 1 (4.35%) MSTest
5 1 (4.35%) NUnit
5 1 (4.35%) SpecFlow
5 1 (4.35%) TeamCity
General
1 7 (30.43%) Social Skills
2 4 (17.39%) Presentation Skills
3 3 (13.04%) Finance
4 2 (8.70%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (8.70%) Public Sector
4 2 (8.70%) Telecoms
5 1 (4.35%) Banking
5 1 (4.35%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (21.74%) RESTful
2 3 (13.04%) Django
2 3 (13.04%) JSON
2 3 (13.04%) REST
2 3 (13.04%) YANG
3 2 (8.70%) pytest
3 2 (8.70%) WebdriverIO
4 1 (4.35%) .NET
4 1 (4.35%) .NET Core
4 1 (4.35%) .NET Framework
4 1 (4.35%) ARM Templates
4 1 (4.35%) Gherkin
4 1 (4.35%) Playwright
4 1 (4.35%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (17.39%) Linux Command Line
2 3 (13.04%) Enterprise Software
2 3 (13.04%) Public Cloud
3 2 (8.70%) Analytical Mindset
3 2 (8.70%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (8.70%) Mobile App
3 2 (8.70%) Private Cloud
4 1 (4.35%) Mainframe
4 1 (4.35%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 4 (17.39%) Linux
2 2 (8.70%) Android
2 2 (8.70%) Apple iOS
3 1 (4.35%) MVS
3 1 (4.35%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (52.17%) Test Automation
2 9 (39.13%) CI/CD
3 7 (30.43%) Agile
4 5 (21.74%) BDD
5 4 (17.39%) API Testing
5 4 (17.39%) OO
5 4 (17.39%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (17.39%) QA Automation
5 4 (17.39%) SDLC
6 3 (13.04%) Containerisation
6 3 (13.04%) Continuous Improvement
6 3 (13.04%) DevOps
6 3 (13.04%) Infrastructure as Code
6 3 (13.04%) Inventory Management
6 3 (13.04%) Network Management
6 3 (13.04%) OOD
6 3 (13.04%) Open Source
6 3 (13.04%) Task Automation
6 3 (13.04%) Technical Leadership
6 3 (13.04%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 11 (47.83%) Python
2 6 (26.09%) Java
3 4 (17.39%) Bash
3 4 (17.39%) JavaScript
4 3 (13.04%) PowerShell
4 3 (13.04%) SQL
4 3 (13.04%) T-SQL
5 2 (8.70%) C#
5 2 (8.70%) Kotlin
5 2 (8.70%) Swift
6 1 (4.35%) Perl
Qualifications
1 4 (17.39%) SC Cleared
1 4 (17.39%) Security Cleared
2 2 (8.70%) CCIE
2 2 (8.70%) CCNA
2 2 (8.70%) CCNP
2 2 (8.70%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (8.70%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (43.48%) QA
System Software
1 1 (4.35%) Docker
1 1 (4.35%) VMware ESXi
1 1 (4.35%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 7 (30.43%) Ansible
2 2 (8.70%) Terraform
3 1 (4.35%) Progress Chef
3 1 (4.35%) Puppet
3 1 (4.35%) vCenter Server
3 1 (4.35%) vRealize
Vendors
1 5 (21.74%) Cisco
2 3 (13.04%) TOWER Software
3 2 (8.70%) Perfecto Mobile
4 1 (4.35%) CA
4 1 (4.35%) CyberArk
4 1 (4.35%) Google
4 1 (4.35%) VMware