Automation Engineer Contracts

Automation Engineer
UK

The median Automation Engineer daily rate in the UK is £500 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 13 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
13 May 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 496 559 679
Rank change year-on-year +63 +120 -132
Contract jobs requiring an Automation Engineer 87 137 162
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.20% 0.24% 0.18%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.22% 0.25% 0.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 95 117
10th Percentile £325 £350 £410
25th Percentile £450 £436 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £535 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.54% +1.90% +16.67%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £588
90th Percentile £646 £695 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £475 £488
% change year-on-year +10.53% -2.56% +17.12%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £52.50 - -
Median hourly rate £55.00 £70.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -21.43% - -
75th Percentile £57.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes 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 39,665 55,057 84,118
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.77% 94.65% 95.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,784 38,442 59,095
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £410 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,665 1,534 2,069
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.06 £15.75
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +88.21% +6.13%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £73.26 £76.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.08 £20.00
% change year-on-year -4.94% +110.39% +3.98%

Automation Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Automation Engineer in the UK

Automation Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Automation Engineer in the UK

Automation Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Automation Engineer over the 6 months to 13 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Automation Engineer in the UK

Automation Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Automation Engineer in the UK

Automation Engineer
Top 13 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 13 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
England +74 73 £500 -6.98% 106
London +65 49 £500 -9.09% 12
Work from Home +85 37 £513 -6.82% 39
UK excluding London +53 27 £525 +10.53% 111
North of England +29 15 £561 -2.43% 23
Yorkshire +26 8 £624 - 10
North West +25 7 £500 -13.04% 13
South West +16 4 £481 -8.33% 17
South East +15 4 £638 +50.00% 14
Midlands +34 3 £450 +8.43% 25
West Midlands +25 3 £450 - 21
Scotland +33 2 £650 +36.84% 12
Wales +19 1 £490 -4.39% 8

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

For the 6 months to 13 May 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 featuring Automation Engineer in the job title.

1 37 (42.53%) Python
1 37 (42.53%) CI/CD
2 34 (39.08%) Ansible
3 33 (37.93%) Social Skills
4 32 (36.78%) Agile
5 30 (34.48%) DevOps
6 28 (32.18%) Test Automation
7 27 (31.03%) Azure
8 23 (26.44%) AWS
8 23 (26.44%) Git
8 23 (26.44%) QA
9 20 (22.99%) Problem-Solving
10 19 (21.84%) PowerShell
11 18 (20.69%) Continuous Integration
11 18 (20.69%) Java
11 18 (20.69%) Linux
12 17 (19.54%) Bash
12 17 (19.54%) Docker
12 17 (19.54%) Jenkins
12 17 (19.54%) Kubernetes
13 16 (18.39%) Selenium
13 16 (18.39%) Continuous Deployment
14 15 (17.24%) Terraform
14 15 (17.24%) GitHub
14 15 (17.24%) Analytical Skills
15 14 (16.09%) GCP
15 14 (16.09%) JIRA
15 14 (16.09%) Firewall
15 14 (16.09%) Infrastructure as Code
15 14 (16.09%) Task Automation

Automation Engineer 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 11 (12.64%) Confluence
2 3 (3.45%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.15%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.15%) OpenStack
3 1 (1.15%) SharePoint 2013
Cloud Services
1 27 (31.03%) Azure
2 23 (26.44%) AWS
3 15 (17.24%) GitHub
4 14 (16.09%) GCP
5 8 (9.20%) Kong
6 5 (5.75%) Apigee
7 4 (4.60%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (4.60%) GitHub Actions
7 4 (4.60%) IaaS
8 3 (3.45%) Amazon EC2
8 3 (3.45%) BrowserStack
8 3 (3.45%) Power Platform
8 3 (3.45%) Sauce Labs
9 2 (2.30%) Azure Logic Apps
9 2 (2.30%) SaaS
10 1 (1.15%) Azure Data Factory
10 1 (1.15%) Azure Stack
10 1 (1.15%) Cloud Computing
10 1 (1.15%) Serverless
10 1 (1.15%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 14 (16.09%) Firewall
2 9 (10.34%) DNS
3 8 (9.20%) HTTP
3 8 (9.20%) VPN
4 6 (6.90%) TCP/IP
5 5 (5.75%) Cisco Nexus
5 5 (5.75%) Internet
6 4 (4.60%) SSL
7 3 (3.45%) BGP
7 3 (3.45%) Cisco IOS
7 3 (3.45%) IOS XR
8 2 (2.30%) BIG-IP
8 2 (2.30%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
8 2 (2.30%) Reverse Proxy
8 2 (2.30%) Software-Defined Networking
9 1 (1.15%) Network Security
9 1 (1.15%) NGFW
9 1 (1.15%) SNA
9 1 (1.15%) VSAN
9 1 (1.15%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (8.05%) Elasticsearch
2 6 (6.90%) SQL Server
3 5 (5.75%) Relational Database
4 2 (2.30%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (2.30%) Power BI
5 1 (1.15%) Data Lake
5 1 (1.15%) MariaDB
5 1 (1.15%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.15%) MySQL
5 1 (1.15%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 23 (26.44%) Git
2 17 (19.54%) Jenkins
3 16 (18.39%) Selenium
4 14 (16.09%) JIRA
5 12 (13.79%) Appium
5 12 (13.79%) Cucumber
6 10 (11.49%) Postman
7 9 (10.34%) GitLab
8 6 (6.90%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 6 (6.90%) CircleCI
8 6 (6.90%) eggPlant
8 6 (6.90%) JUnit
8 6 (6.90%) REST Assured
8 6 (6.90%) SoapUI
8 6 (6.90%) SOAtest
8 6 (6.90%) Sonatype Nexus
8 6 (6.90%) TestNG
8 6 (6.90%) Travis CI
8 6 (6.90%) WebDriver
9 4 (4.60%) Bitbucket
General
1 33 (37.93%) Social Skills
2 15 (17.24%) Analytical Skills
3 13 (14.94%) Finance
4 6 (6.90%) Banking
5 5 (5.75%) Telecoms
6 4 (4.60%) Financial Institution
6 4 (4.60%) Retail
7 3 (3.45%) Presentation Skills
7 3 (3.45%) Public Sector
8 2 (2.30%) Pharmaceutical
8 2 (2.30%) Retail Banking
9 1 (1.15%) Electronics
9 1 (1.15%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (1.15%) Law
9 1 (1.15%) Manufacturing
9 1 (1.15%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (13.79%) .NET
2 10 (11.49%) .NET Framework
2 10 (11.49%) JSON
3 7 (8.05%) XML
3 7 (8.05%) YAML
4 6 (6.90%) Elastic Stack
5 4 (4.60%) LDAP
6 3 (3.45%) Django
6 3 (3.45%) Node.js
6 3 (3.45%) REST
6 3 (3.45%) RESTful
6 3 (3.45%) YANG
7 2 (2.30%) ARM Templates
7 2 (2.30%) Middleware
7 2 (2.30%) pytest
7 2 (2.30%) WebdriverIO
8 1 (1.15%) Apache NiFi
8 1 (1.15%) Gherkin
8 1 (1.15%) OLE
8 1 (1.15%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 6 (6.90%) Data Structures
2 5 (5.75%) Linux Command Line
3 4 (4.60%) CMDB
3 4 (4.60%) Greenfield Project
4 3 (3.45%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (3.45%) Hedge funds
4 3 (3.45%) Public Cloud
5 2 (2.30%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (2.30%) Mobile App
5 2 (2.30%) Tandem
6 1 (1.15%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (1.15%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.15%) Enterprise Cloud
6 1 (1.15%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (1.15%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.15%) Mainframe
6 1 (1.15%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.15%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 18 (20.69%) Linux
2 7 (8.05%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 7 (8.05%) Windows
3 5 (5.75%) Unix
4 4 (4.60%) Windows Server
5 2 (2.30%) Android
5 2 (2.30%) Apple iOS
6 1 (1.15%) CentOS
6 1 (1.15%) MVS
6 1 (1.15%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (1.15%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (42.53%) CI/CD
2 32 (36.78%) Agile
3 30 (34.48%) DevOps
4 28 (32.18%) Test Automation
5 20 (22.99%) Problem-Solving
6 18 (20.69%) Continuous Integration
7 16 (18.39%) Continuous Deployment
8 14 (16.09%) Infrastructure as Code
8 14 (16.09%) Task Automation
9 13 (14.94%) Infrastructure Automation
10 12 (13.79%) BDD
10 12 (13.79%) Containerisation
11 11 (12.64%) Software Testing
11 11 (12.64%) Test Scripting
12 10 (11.49%) SDLC
13 9 (10.34%) Scrum
14 8 (9.20%) API Integration
14 8 (9.20%) QA Automation
14 8 (9.20%) Test Strategy
14 8 (9.20%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 37 (42.53%) Python
2 19 (21.84%) PowerShell
3 18 (20.69%) Java
4 17 (19.54%) Bash
5 13 (14.94%) C#
6 12 (13.79%) SQL
7 6 (6.90%) JavaScript
8 4 (4.60%) T-SQL
9 3 (3.45%) Bicep
10 2 (2.30%) ActionScript
10 2 (2.30%) Go
10 2 (2.30%) Kotlin
10 2 (2.30%) Perl
10 2 (2.30%) Swift
11 1 (1.15%) Groovy
11 1 (1.15%) Korn
11 1 (1.15%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 12 (13.79%) Degree
2 10 (11.49%) SC Cleared
2 10 (11.49%) Security Cleared
3 7 (8.05%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (4.60%) Azure Certification
4 4 (4.60%) Cisco Certification
4 4 (4.60%) ISTQB
5 3 (3.45%) AWS Certification
5 3 (3.45%) CCNA
5 3 (3.45%) CCNP
6 2 (2.30%) CCIE
7 1 (1.15%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 1 (1.15%) CCSP
7 1 (1.15%) CISSP
7 1 (1.15%) DV Cleared
7 1 (1.15%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 1 (1.15%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (26.44%) QA
2 2 (2.30%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 17 (19.54%) Docker
2 9 (10.34%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (4.60%) Virtual Servers
4 2 (2.30%) Active Directory
5 1 (1.15%) KVM
5 1 (1.15%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (1.15%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (1.15%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (1.15%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 34 (39.08%) Ansible
2 17 (19.54%) Kubernetes
3 15 (17.24%) Terraform
4 11 (12.64%) Puppet
5 7 (8.05%) Progress Chef
6 6 (6.90%) Docker Swarm
6 6 (6.90%) Grafana
6 6 (6.90%) Kibana
6 6 (6.90%) logstash
6 6 (6.90%) Prometheus
7 3 (3.45%) vRealize Orchestrator
8 2 (2.30%) SCOrch
9 1 (1.15%) NetMRI
9 1 (1.15%) Packer
9 1 (1.15%) vCenter Server
9 1 (1.15%) vRealize
Vendors
1 11 (12.64%) VMware
2 9 (10.34%) Cisco
3 7 (8.05%) Microsoft
3 7 (8.05%) Splunk
4 6 (6.90%) Red Hat
5 5 (5.75%) F5
6 4 (4.60%) Palo Alto
7 3 (3.45%) Fortinet
7 3 (3.45%) Juniper
7 3 (3.45%) Oracle
7 3 (3.45%) Perfecto Mobile
7 3 (3.45%) TOWER Software
7 3 (3.45%) UiPath
8 2 (2.30%) Cadence
8 2 (2.30%) CyberArk
8 2 (2.30%) Google
8 2 (2.30%) IBM
9 1 (1.15%) Infoblox
9 1 (1.15%) SAP
9 1 (1.15%) Sybase
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