Automation Developer Contracts with Work from Home Options

Automation Developer
UK > Work from Home

The median Automation Developer daily rate in Work from Home is £550 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 5 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
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 336 458 579
Rank change year-on-year +122 +121 -112
Contract jobs requiring an Automation Developer 12 18 43
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.079% 0.070% 0.096%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.085% 0.074% 0.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 11 39
10th Percentile £494 £413 £363
25th Percentile £505 £453 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £575
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -13.04% +12.09%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £700
90th Percentile £650 £588 -
UK median daily rate £500 £475 £525
% change year-on-year +5.26% -9.52% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £21.00
UK median hourly rate - - £27.75

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with a WFH option. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 14,165 24,342 42,704
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.49% 95.31% 95.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,495 17,179 30,870
10th Percentile £325 £358 £356
25th Percentile £425 £443 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% +2.38% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £718
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 575 559 605
10th Percentile £14.33 £17.68 £13.25
25th Percentile £23.29 £25.71 £18.75
Median hourly rate £43.00 £54.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.37% +54.29% +42.86%
75th Percentile £62.75 £68.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.25 £66.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.60
% change year-on-year -18.89% +90.68% +4.89%

Automation Developer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option which featured Automation Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Automation Developer trend for jobs with a WFH option

Automation Developer
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Automation Developer.

Automation Developer daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Automation Developer
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Automation Developer over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Automation Developer daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Automation Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 5 May 2024, Automation Developer 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 jobs with a WFH option featuring Automation Developer in the job title.

1 7 (58.33%) Power Platform
2 6 (50.00%) PowerApps
2 6 (50.00%) Power Automate
2 6 (50.00%) Microsoft
3 5 (41.67%) Azure
3 5 (41.67%) Social Skills
3 5 (41.67%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (33.33%) SharePoint
4 4 (33.33%) Agile
5 3 (25.00%) Python
6 2 (16.67%) WAN
6 2 (16.67%) Java
6 2 (16.67%) Finance
6 2 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (16.67%) Scrum
6 2 (16.67%) AWS
6 2 (16.67%) Kanban
6 2 (16.67%) Product Management
6 2 (16.67%) Cisco
6 2 (16.67%) Amazon S3
6 2 (16.67%) TypeScript
6 2 (16.67%) Natural Language Processing
6 2 (16.67%) Mentoring
6 2 (16.67%) User Experience
6 2 (16.67%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (16.67%) Amazon Aurora
6 2 (16.67%) Serverless
6 2 (16.67%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (16.67%) Grafana

Automation Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 4 (33.33%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 7 (58.33%) Power Platform
2 6 (50.00%) Power Automate
2 6 (50.00%) PowerApps
3 5 (41.67%) Azure
4 4 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (16.67%) Amazon S3
5 2 (16.67%) AWS
5 2 (16.67%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (16.67%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (16.67%) Serverless
6 1 (8.33%) Amazon SageMaker
6 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Purview
6 1 (8.33%) OpenShift
6 1 (8.33%) Rekognition
6 1 (8.33%) Textract
Communications & Networking
1 2 (16.67%) WAN
2 1 (8.33%) Firewall
2 1 (8.33%) LAN
2 1 (8.33%) SD-WAN
2 1 (8.33%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (16.67%) Amazon Aurora
1 2 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (8.33%) Metadata
2 1 (8.33%) Power BI
2 1 (8.33%) SQL Server
General
1 5 (41.67%) Social Skills
2 2 (16.67%) Finance
2 2 (16.67%) Public Sector
3 1 (8.33%) Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (16.67%) AWS CDK
2 1 (8.33%) .NET
2 1 (8.33%) JSON
2 1 (8.33%) XML
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (41.67%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (33.33%) Agile
3 2 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (16.67%) Kanban
3 2 (16.67%) Machine Learning
3 2 (16.67%) Mentoring
3 2 (16.67%) Natural Language Processing
3 2 (16.67%) Product Management
3 2 (16.67%) Scrum
3 2 (16.67%) Service Design
3 2 (16.67%) User Experience
4 1 (8.33%) API Integration
4 1 (8.33%) Community of Practice
4 1 (8.33%) Data Design
4 1 (8.33%) Data Pipeline
4 1 (8.33%) Data-Driven Decision Making
4 1 (8.33%) Decision-Making
4 1 (8.33%) Infrastructure Automation
4 1 (8.33%) Task Automation
4 1 (8.33%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 3 (25.00%) Python
2 2 (16.67%) Java
2 2 (16.67%) TypeScript
3 1 (8.33%) C#
3 1 (8.33%) JavaScript
3 1 (8.33%) MATLAB
3 1 (8.33%) PowerShell
3 1 (8.33%) SQL
3 1 (8.33%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 1 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (8.33%) Degree
1 1 (8.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (8.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.33%) Accessibility
1 1 (8.33%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 1 (8.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (16.67%) Grafana
2 1 (8.33%) Ansible
2 1 (8.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (16.67%) Cisco
3 1 (8.33%) Blue Prism
3 1 (8.33%) Databricks
3 1 (8.33%) Palo Alto
3 1 (8.33%) Red Hat
3 1 (8.33%) Splunk
3 1 (8.33%) UiPath