Hybrid/Remote Automation Developer Contract Job Trends

Automation Developer
UK > Work from Home

The median Automation Developer daily rate for remote/hybrid work is £463, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 16 December 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 303 304 372
Rank change year-on-year +1 +68 +157
Contract jobs requiring an Automation Developer 14 13 9
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.14% 0.11% 0.052%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.15% 0.12% 0.056%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 7 8
10th Percentile - £403 £410
25th Percentile £294 £492 £441
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £521 £490
Median % change year-on-year -11.13% +6.33% -16.60%
75th Percentile £530 £572 £514
90th Percentile £538 £634 £549
UK median daily rate £415 £500 £490
% change year-on-year -17.00% +2.04% -16.60%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with remote/hybrid work options. 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 9,539 10,876 16,163
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.23% 93.12% 94.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,224 6,884 11,082
10th Percentile £329 £325 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £620 £638 £638
90th Percentile £720 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 338 199 363
10th Percentile £15.27 £18.30 £17.66
25th Percentile £20.72 £23.50 £26.25
Median hourly rate £45.46 £37.28 £53.00
Median % change year-on-year +21.94% -29.66% -3.64%
75th Percentile £65.00 £64.63 £70.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £87.90
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £34.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -26.03% -24.44% +50.00%

Automation Developer
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Roles

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Automation Developer' in the job title and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Automation Developer job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid roles

Automation Developer
Daily Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for remote/hybrid Automation Developer job vacancies.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for remote/hybrid Automation Developer job vacancies

Automation Developer
Daily Rate Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Automation Developer over the 6 months to 16 December 2025.

Automation Developer daily rate histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Automation Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs

For the 6 months to 16 December 2025, Automation Developer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract jobs with hybrid/remote work options featuring Automation Developer in the job title.

1 7 (50.00%) Blue Prism
2 6 (42.86%) Agile
2 6 (42.86%) SQL
3 5 (35.71%) Security Cleared
4 4 (28.57%) AI
4 4 (28.57%) API Development
4 4 (28.57%) Intelligent Automation
4 4 (28.57%) Microsoft
4 4 (28.57%) SC Cleared
4 4 (28.57%) User Acceptance Testing
5 3 (21.43%) Automation Anywhere
5 3 (21.43%) Power Platform
5 3 (21.43%) Roadmaps
6 2 (14.29%) Data Analysis
6 2 (14.29%) Microsoft Excel
6 2 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (14.29%) Python
6 2 (14.29%) Workflow
7 1 (7.14%) .NET
7 1 (7.14%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (7.14%) Amazon S3
7 1 (7.14%) API Design
7 1 (7.14%) Asset Management
7 1 (7.14%) AWS
7 1 (7.14%) AWS CDK
7 1 (7.14%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (7.14%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (7.14%) Azure
7 1 (7.14%) Business Case
7 1 (7.14%) C#

Automation Developer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Applications
1 2 (14.29%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 3 (21.43%) Power Platform
2 1 (7.14%) Amazon S3
2 1 (7.14%) AWS
2 1 (7.14%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (7.14%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (7.14%) Azure
2 1 (7.14%) OpenShift
2 1 (7.14%) Serverless
2 1 (7.14%) Snowflake
2 1 (7.14%) Textract
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.14%) Amazon Aurora
1 1 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (7.14%) Snowflake Schema
1 1 (7.14%) SQL Server
1 1 (7.14%) SQL Server Reporting Services
General
1 4 (28.57%) Finance
2 2 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (14.29%) Public Sector
2 2 (14.29%) Social Skills
3 1 (7.14%) Banking
3 1 (7.14%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.14%) .NET
1 1 (7.14%) AWS CDK
1 1 (7.14%) FastAPI
1 1 (7.14%) PyTorch
1 1 (7.14%) SailPoint
1 1 (7.14%) SpaCy
Miscellaneous
1 3 (21.43%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (7.14%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.14%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (42.86%) Agile
2 4 (28.57%) AI
2 4 (28.57%) API Development
2 4 (28.57%) Intelligent Automation
2 4 (28.57%) User Acceptance Testing
3 3 (21.43%) Roadmaps
4 2 (14.29%) Data Analysis
4 2 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (14.29%) Workflow
5 1 (7.14%) API Design
5 1 (7.14%) Change Management
5 1 (7.14%) Data Extraction
5 1 (7.14%) Identity Access Management
5 1 (7.14%) Infrastructure as Code
5 1 (7.14%) Investment Management
5 1 (7.14%) Kanban
5 1 (7.14%) OCR
5 1 (7.14%) Robotic Process Automation
5 1 (7.14%) Scrum
5 1 (7.14%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 6 (42.86%) SQL
2 2 (14.29%) Python
3 1 (7.14%) C#
3 1 (7.14%) Java
3 1 (7.14%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 5 (35.71%) Security Cleared
2 4 (28.57%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.14%) QA
System Software
1 1 (7.14%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (7.14%) Grafana
1 1 (7.14%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 7 (50.00%) Blue Prism
2 4 (28.57%) Microsoft
3 3 (21.43%) Automation Anywhere
4 1 (7.14%) Oracle
4 1 (7.14%) UiPath