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 £500, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 330 392 460
Rank change year-on-year +62 +68 +49
Contract jobs requiring an Automation Specialist 6 7 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.047% 0.034% 0.008%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.051% 0.036% 0.009%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 5 2
10th Percentile £430 - £234
25th Percentile £475 £525 £266
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £338
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +62.96% -15.63%
75th Percentile £660 £575 £416
90th Percentile £662 £583 £451
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £438
% change year-on-year -9.09% +25.71% -2.78%

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 11,767 19,240 22,667
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.17% 92.63% 94.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,552 11,748 15,893
10th Percentile £213 £213 £225
25th Percentile £363 £363 £395
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £492 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.46% -1.60% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £598 £595
90th Percentile £650 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 829 2,243 1,165
10th Percentile £14.00 £12.50 £13.45
25th Percentile £17.61 £15.75 £18.09
Median hourly rate £28.00 £39.55 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -29.20% -6.94% +117.95%
75th Percentile £64.50 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

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
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Automation Specialist in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram 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 1 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
South East +45 3 £500 -9.09% 7
North of England +21 3 £525 -8.70% 8
North West - 2 £525 - 7
Yorkshire - 1 - - 1
Automation Specialist
UK

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, 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 3 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 3 (50.00%) Agile
2 2 (33.33%) Power Platform
2 2 (33.33%) PowerApps
2 2 (33.33%) Power Automate
2 2 (33.33%) Public Sector
2 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 2 (33.33%) 4G
2 2 (33.33%) Radio Access Network
2 2 (33.33%) 5G
2 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 1 (16.67%) Artificial Intelligence
3 1 (16.67%) Degree
3 1 (16.67%) Computer Science
3 1 (16.67%) Use Case
3 1 (16.67%) Integration Testing
3 1 (16.67%) Kanban
3 1 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (16.67%) PowerShell
3 1 (16.67%) LTE
3 1 (16.67%) Git
3 1 (16.67%) NAS
3 1 (16.67%) Azure
3 1 (16.67%) Augmented Reality
3 1 (16.67%) vSphere
3 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (16.67%) Network Management
3 1 (16.67%) Hudson
3 1 (16.67%) Active Directory
3 1 (16.67%) SAN

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 1 (16.67%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 2 (33.33%) Power Automate
1 2 (33.33%) Power Platform
1 2 (33.33%) PowerApps
2 1 (16.67%) Azure
2 1 (16.67%) Azure Logic Apps
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (33.33%) 4G
1 2 (33.33%) 5G
1 2 (33.33%) Radio Access Network
2 1 (16.67%) 2G
2 1 (16.67%) 3G
2 1 (16.67%) 5G NR
2 1 (16.67%) DNS
2 1 (16.67%) LTE
2 1 (16.67%) NAS
2 1 (16.67%) SAN
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Git
1 1 (16.67%) GitLab
1 1 (16.67%) Hudson
1 1 (16.67%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (33.33%) Public Sector
1 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Back Office
2 1 (16.67%) Finance
2 1 (16.67%) Retail
2 1 (16.67%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Augmented Reality
1 1 (16.67%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (16.67%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Linux
1 1 (16.67%) Windows
1 1 (16.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Agile
1 3 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (16.67%) Artificial Intelligence
2 1 (16.67%) Backlog Management
2 1 (16.67%) Computer Science
2 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Automation
2 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (16.67%) Integration Testing
2 1 (16.67%) Invoice Processing
2 1 (16.67%) Kanban
2 1 (16.67%) Migration
2 1 (16.67%) Network Management
2 1 (16.67%) Project Management
2 1 (16.67%) Scrum
2 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (16.67%) Task Automation
2 1 (16.67%) Use Case
2 1 (16.67%) Validation
2 1 (16.67%) Webhook
2 1 (16.67%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) PowerShell
1 1 (16.67%) Python
1 1 (16.67%) Shell Script
1 1 (16.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (16.67%) DBS Check
1 1 (16.67%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Active Directory
1 1 (16.67%) Virtual Machines
1 1 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (16.67%) VMware NSX
1 1 (16.67%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Ansible
1 1 (16.67%) vCenter Server
1 1 (16.67%) vRealize
1 1 (16.67%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (16.67%) BMC
2 1 (16.67%) Ericsson
2 1 (16.67%) Nokia
2 1 (16.67%) Tenable
2 1 (16.67%) VMware