Automation Specialist Contracts

Automation Specialist
UK

The median Automation Specialist daily rate in the UK is £550 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 11 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
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 582 689 828
Rank change year-on-year +107 +139 -140
Contract jobs requiring an Automation Specialist 8 10 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.019% 0.017% 0.018%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.020% 0.018% 0.019%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 8 8
10th Percentile £469 £335 £332
25th Percentile £525 £388 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £438 £444
Median % change year-on-year +25.71% -1.41% -13.41%
75th Percentile £575 £500 £573
90th Percentile £581 £583 £591
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £338 £400
% change year-on-year +62.96% -15.63% +14.29%

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 39,895 54,705 83,445
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.77% 94.63% 95.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,959 38,196 58,620
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 2,673 1,532 2,041
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% +6.27%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.90 £76.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.43 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.73% +112.16% +5.26%

Automation Specialist
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Automation Specialist in the UK

Automation Specialist
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Automation Specialist in the UK

Automation Specialist
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Automation Specialist over the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Automation Specialist in the UK

Automation Specialist
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 Specialist within the UK over the 6 months to 11 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 +109 8 £550 - 3
UK excluding London +58 7 £550 +62.96% 2
South East - 4 £550 -
London +94 1 £425 -22.73% 1
Midlands - 1 £550 - 2
North East - 1 £575 -
South West - 1 - -
West Midlands - 1 £550 - 2
North of England - 1 £575 -

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

For the 6 months to 11 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 featuring Automation Specialist in the job title.

1 5 (62.50%) Linux
2 4 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 4 (50.00%) Kubernetes
3 3 (37.50%) Containerisation
3 3 (37.50%) CI/CD
3 3 (37.50%) Deployment Automation
3 3 (37.50%) Continuous Improvement
3 3 (37.50%) Ansible
3 3 (37.50%) Re-Platforming
3 3 (37.50%) Python
3 3 (37.50%) Agile
4 2 (25.00%) Scrum
4 2 (25.00%) Data Protection
4 2 (25.00%) JIRA
4 2 (25.00%) VMS
4 2 (25.00%) Confluence
4 2 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (25.00%) GitLab
4 2 (25.00%) Git
4 2 (25.00%) SC Cleared
4 2 (25.00%) Security Cleared
4 2 (25.00%) Packer
4 2 (25.00%) Project Delivery
4 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
4 2 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (12.50%) Accessibility
5 1 (12.50%) Dell DRAC
5 1 (12.50%) Platform Engineering
5 1 (12.50%) Operational Technology
5 1 (12.50%) Generative AI

Automation Specialist 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 2 (25.00%) Confluence
2 1 (12.50%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 1 (12.50%) Azure
1 1 (12.50%) IaaS
1 1 (12.50%) Power Automate
1 1 (12.50%) Power Platform
1 1 (12.50%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) LTE
1 1 (12.50%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) MySQL
1 1 (12.50%) Power BI
1 1 (12.50%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Git
1 2 (25.00%) GitLab
1 2 (25.00%) JIRA
2 1 (12.50%) Artifactory
2 1 (12.50%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 1 (12.50%) Bitbucket
2 1 (12.50%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Finance
2 1 (12.50%) German Language
2 1 (12.50%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) .NET
1 1 (12.50%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) CCTV
1 1 (12.50%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (12.50%) Operational Technology
1 1 (12.50%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 5 (62.50%) Linux
2 4 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (25.00%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (37.50%) Agile
1 3 (37.50%) CI/CD
1 3 (37.50%) Containerisation
1 3 (37.50%) Continuous Improvement
1 3 (37.50%) Deployment Automation
1 3 (37.50%) Re-Platforming
2 2 (25.00%) Data Protection
2 2 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (25.00%) Project Delivery
2 2 (25.00%) Scrum
3 1 (12.50%) Artificial Intelligence
3 1 (12.50%) Business Analysis
3 1 (12.50%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (12.50%) Data Integration
3 1 (12.50%) Data Mapping
3 1 (12.50%) Release Management
3 1 (12.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (12.50%) Strategic Planning
3 1 (12.50%) Test Automation
3 1 (12.50%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (37.50%) Python
2 1 (12.50%) Java
2 1 (12.50%) PowerShell
2 1 (12.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (12.50%) Degree
2 1 (12.50%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) Accessibility
1 1 (12.50%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Docker
1 1 (12.50%) Hyper-V
1 1 (12.50%) Virtual Machines
1 1 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (12.50%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 4 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 3 (37.50%) Ansible
3 2 (25.00%) Packer
4 1 (12.50%) Dell DRAC
4 1 (12.50%) PowerCLI
4 1 (12.50%) Puppet
4 1 (12.50%) Terraform
4 1 (12.50%) vRealize
Vendors
1 1 (12.50%) Atlassian
1 1 (12.50%) Dell
1 1 (12.50%) HP
1 1 (12.50%) UiPath
1 1 (12.50%) VMware