Automation Specialist Contracts in the UK excluding London

Automation Specialist
UK > UK excluding London

The median Automation Specialist daily rate in the UK excluding London is £550 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 6 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
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 381 445 507
Rank change year-on-year +64 +62 -70
Contract jobs requiring an Automation Specialist 7 2 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.034% 0.008% 0.010%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.037% 0.009% 0.010%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 2 2
10th Percentile - £234 £353
25th Percentile £525 £266 £365
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £338 £400
Median % change year-on-year +62.96% -15.63% +14.29%
75th Percentile £575 £416 £445
90th Percentile £583 £451 £463
UK median daily rate £550 £438 £444
% change year-on-year +25.71% -1.41% -12.35%

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 19,104 22,515 29,589
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.55% 94.27% 95.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,669 15,787 20,737
10th Percentile £213 £225 £200
25th Percentile £363 £397 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £597 £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 1,161 1,465
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.24
25th Percentile £15.75 £18.00 £14.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.16 £19.52
Median % change year-on-year -5.11% +115.96% +2.74%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £43.50
90th Percentile £73.75 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%

Automation Specialist
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Automation Specialist in the UK excluding London

Automation Specialist
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Automation Specialist in the UK excluding London

Automation Specialist
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 Specialist within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 6 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
South East - 4 £550 -
South West - 1 - -
West Midlands - 1 £550 - 1
North of England - 1 £575 -
Midlands - 1 £550 - 1
North East - 1 £575 -
Automation Specialist
UK

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

For the 6 months to 6 May 2024, Automation Specialist 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 Specialist in the job title.

1 5 (71.43%) Linux
2 4 (57.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 4 (57.14%) Kubernetes
3 3 (42.86%) Containerisation
3 3 (42.86%) CI/CD
3 3 (42.86%) Ansible
3 3 (42.86%) Re-Platforming
3 3 (42.86%) Continuous Improvement
3 3 (42.86%) Python
3 3 (42.86%) Agile
4 2 (28.57%) SC Cleared
4 2 (28.57%) Security Cleared
4 2 (28.57%) JIRA
4 2 (28.57%) VMS
4 2 (28.57%) Scrum
4 2 (28.57%) Git
4 2 (28.57%) Confluence
4 2 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (28.57%) GitLab
4 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
4 2 (28.57%) Packer
4 2 (28.57%) Project Delivery
4 2 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (28.57%) Deployment Automation
5 1 (14.29%) NsoIT
5 1 (14.29%) Server Management
5 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
5 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Automation
5 1 (14.29%) Power Platform
5 1 (14.29%) PowerApps

Automation Specialist 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 (28.57%) Confluence
2 1 (14.29%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 1 (14.29%) Azure
1 1 (14.29%) IaaS
1 1 (14.29%) Power Automate
1 1 (14.29%) Power Platform
1 1 (14.29%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) LTE
1 1 (14.29%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) MySQL
1 1 (14.29%) Power BI
1 1 (14.29%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Git
1 2 (28.57%) GitLab
1 2 (28.57%) JIRA
2 1 (14.29%) Artifactory
2 1 (14.29%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 1 (14.29%) Bitbucket
2 1 (14.29%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Finance
2 1 (14.29%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) .NET
1 1 (14.29%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) CCTV
1 1 (14.29%) Operational Technology
1 1 (14.29%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 5 (71.43%) Linux
2 4 (57.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (28.57%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) Agile
1 3 (42.86%) CI/CD
1 3 (42.86%) Containerisation
1 3 (42.86%) Continuous Improvement
1 3 (42.86%) Re-Platforming
2 2 (28.57%) Deployment Automation
2 2 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (28.57%) Project Delivery
2 2 (28.57%) Scrum
3 1 (14.29%) Artificial Intelligence
3 1 (14.29%) BPR
3 1 (14.29%) Business Analysis
3 1 (14.29%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (14.29%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (14.29%) Data Integration
3 1 (14.29%) Data Mapping
3 1 (14.29%) Data Protection
3 1 (14.29%) OO
3 1 (14.29%) OOP
3 1 (14.29%) Risk Assessment
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) Python
2 1 (14.29%) Java
2 1 (14.29%) PowerShell
2 1 (14.29%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) SC Cleared
1 2 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 1 (14.29%) Degree
2 1 (14.29%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) Accessibility
1 1 (14.29%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Docker
1 1 (14.29%) Hyper-V
1 1 (14.29%) Virtual Machines
1 1 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (14.29%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 4 (57.14%) Kubernetes
2 3 (42.86%) Ansible
3 2 (28.57%) Packer
4 1 (14.29%) Dell DRAC
4 1 (14.29%) PowerCLI
4 1 (14.29%) Puppet
4 1 (14.29%) Terraform
4 1 (14.29%) vRealize
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) Atlassian
1 1 (14.29%) Dell
1 1 (14.29%) HP
1 1 (14.29%) VMware