Automation Consultant Contracts

Automation Consultant
UK

The median Automation Consultant daily rate in the UK is £550, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 11 June 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
11 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 512 585 671
Rank change year-on-year +73 +86 +163
Contract jobs requiring an Automation Consultant 12 5 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.041% 0.011% 0.027%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.044% 0.012% 0.029%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 3 4
10th Percentile £400 £420 £543
25th Percentile £463 £431 £588
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £450 £813
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% -44.62% +71.05%
75th Percentile £700 £453 £1,000
90th Percentile £813 £454 -
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - £65.33
25th Percentile - - £65.44
Median hourly rate - - £71.50
75th Percentile - - £78.00
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £70.50

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 27,162 40,531 52,517
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.30% 92.88% 94.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,463 26,076 36,648
10th Percentile £288 £280 £313
25th Percentile £402 £408 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £539
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.64% +2.71%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £488 £500
% change year-on-year -2.56% -2.50% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,133 2,932 1,488
10th Percentile £13.85 £12.86 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.79 £16.30 £19.39
Median hourly rate £27.64 £37.50 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.29% -16.67% +80.00%
75th Percentile £57.50 £61.60 £65.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £76.33
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -37.13% -5.88% +112.50%

Automation Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Automation Consultant in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Automation Consultant in the UK

Automation Consultant
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Automation Consultant.

Daily rate trend for Automation Consultant in the UK

Automation Consultant
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Automation Consultant over the 6 months to 11 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Automation Consultant in the UK

Automation Consultant
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Automation Consultant.

Hourly rate trend for Automation Consultant in the UK

Automation Consultant
Top 9 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Automation Consultant within the UK over the 6 months to 11 June 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
England +54 9 £588 +30.56% 21
London +58 6 £625 +38.89% 7
Work from Home +39 6 £525 +16.67% 8
UK excluding London +54 3 £450 - 16
East Midlands - 1 - -
Midlands - 1 - - 1
Scotland - 1 - -
Yorkshire - 1 £450 - 2
North of England - 1 £450 - 11

Automation Consultant Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 11 June 2025, Automation Consultant 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 featuring Automation Consultant in the job title.

1 4 (33.33%) Analytics
2 3 (25.00%) Marketing Strategy
2 3 (25.00%) Data Transformation
2 3 (25.00%) Marketo
2 3 (25.00%) Marketing
2 3 (25.00%) Product Marketing
2 3 (25.00%) Data Migration
2 3 (25.00%) Data Integration
2 3 (25.00%) Migration
2 3 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 3 (25.00%) Agile
2 3 (25.00%) Data Management
2 3 (25.00%) Supplier Management
2 3 (25.00%) CRM
2 3 (25.00%) PMP
2 3 (25.00%) PMI Certification
2 3 (25.00%) Salesforce
2 3 (25.00%) Project Management
2 3 (25.00%) Marketing Automation
2 3 (25.00%) Customer Analytics
2 3 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (25.00%) Knowledge Transfer
3 2 (16.67%) SD-WAN
3 2 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (16.67%) Power Platform
3 2 (16.67%) vRealize
3 2 (16.67%) MPLS
3 2 (16.67%) BGP
3 2 (16.67%) WAN
3 2 (16.67%) VPN

Automation Consultant Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (8.33%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (8.33%) SAP GRC
1 1 (8.33%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 2 (16.67%) AWS
1 2 (16.67%) Azure
1 2 (16.67%) Power Platform
2 1 (8.33%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (8.33%) Power Automate
2 1 (8.33%) PowerApps
2 1 (8.33%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (16.67%) BGP
1 2 (16.67%) MPLS
1 2 (16.67%) SD-WAN
1 2 (16.67%) VPN
1 2 (16.67%) WAN
2 1 (8.33%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (16.67%) Power BI
General
1 3 (25.00%) Marketing
1 3 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (8.33%) Finance
2 1 (8.33%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Graph
1 1 (8.33%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (8.33%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (8.33%) FMCG
1 1 (8.33%) Low-Code
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (33.33%) Analytics
2 3 (25.00%) Agile
2 3 (25.00%) CRM
2 3 (25.00%) Customer Analytics
2 3 (25.00%) Data Integration
2 3 (25.00%) Data Management
2 3 (25.00%) Data Migration
2 3 (25.00%) Data Transformation
2 3 (25.00%) Knowledge Transfer
2 3 (25.00%) Marketing Automation
2 3 (25.00%) Marketing Strategy
2 3 (25.00%) Migration
2 3 (25.00%) Product Marketing
2 3 (25.00%) Project Management
2 3 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 3 (25.00%) Supplier Management
3 2 (16.67%) Data Protection
3 2 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (8.33%) Risk Management
4 1 (8.33%) Strategic Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 1 (8.33%) PowerShell
1 1 (8.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (25.00%) PMI Certification
1 3 (25.00%) PMP
2 2 (16.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.33%) GRC
1 1 (8.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 1 (8.33%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (8.33%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 2 (16.67%) FortiGate
1 2 (16.67%) Terraform
1 2 (16.67%) vRealize
Vendors
1 3 (25.00%) Marketo
1 3 (25.00%) Salesforce
2 2 (16.67%) Fortinet
2 2 (16.67%) VMware
3 1 (8.33%) Blue Prism
3 1 (8.33%) Microsoft
3 1 (8.33%) Oracle
3 1 (8.33%) SAP
3 1 (8.33%) UiPath