Automation Engineer Contracts with Work from Home Options

Automation Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Automation Engineer daily rate for remote or hybrid work is £500, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 17 June 2024.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 298 399 508
Rank change year-on-year +101 +109 -90
Contract jobs requiring an Automation Engineer 43 58 115
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.29% 0.24% 0.26%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.31% 0.26% 0.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 41 91
10th Percentile £425 £300 £388
25th Percentile £456 £408 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £538 £510
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% +5.39% +14.61%
75th Percentile £550 £650 £588
90th Percentile £625 £700 £625
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £510
% change year-on-year -4.76% +2.94% +13.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £57.50
Median hourly rate - - £60.00
75th Percentile - - £62.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £70.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -21.43% +16.67% +28.34%

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 WFH or hybrid 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 13,801 22,740 41,944
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.53% 95.25% 95.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,306 16,147 30,496
10th Percentile £325 £360 £358
25th Percentile £425 £445 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% +2.38% +7.14%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -2.42% +2.48% +6.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 566 528 563
10th Percentile £14.27 £16.98 £14.05
25th Percentile £22.59 £25.00 £19.96
Median hourly rate £43.50 £50.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.00% +25.00% +70.21%
75th Percentile £63.56 £66.05 £59.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £76.15 £69.75
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +16.28%

Automation Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Automation Engineer trend for jobs with a WFH option

Automation Engineer
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 Engineer.

Automation Engineer daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Automation Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Automation Engineer over the 6 months to 17 June 2024.

Automation Engineer daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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

For the 6 months to 17 June 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 jobs with a WFH option featuring Automation Engineer in the job title.

1 18 (41.86%) Python
1 18 (41.86%) Ansible
2 15 (34.88%) DevOps
2 15 (34.88%) CI/CD
2 15 (34.88%) Agile
2 15 (34.88%) Azure
3 14 (32.56%) Social Skills
4 12 (27.91%) AWS
5 11 (25.58%) Finance
6 9 (20.93%) PowerShell
6 9 (20.93%) Splunk
6 9 (20.93%) Problem-Solving
7 8 (18.60%) Analytical Skills
7 8 (18.60%) Jenkins
7 8 (18.60%) Terraform
7 8 (18.60%) Firewall
7 8 (18.60%) Cisco
8 7 (16.28%) Mainframe
8 7 (16.28%) Bash
8 7 (16.28%) GCP
8 7 (16.28%) Kubernetes
8 7 (16.28%) Task Automation
9 6 (13.95%) Infrastructure as Code
9 6 (13.95%) Docker
9 6 (13.95%) Puppet
9 6 (13.95%) Git
9 6 (13.95%) Banking
9 6 (13.95%) Degree
9 6 (13.95%) JSON
9 6 (13.95%) JIRA

Automation Engineer 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 3 (6.98%) Confluence
2 2 (4.65%) SAS
2 2 (4.65%) SharePoint
3 1 (2.33%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (4.65%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 15 (34.88%) Azure
2 12 (27.91%) AWS
3 7 (16.28%) GCP
4 5 (11.63%) GitHub
4 5 (11.63%) Kong
5 3 (6.98%) Apigee
5 3 (6.98%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (4.65%) Power Platform
7 1 (2.33%) Anthos
7 1 (2.33%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (2.33%) Datadog
7 1 (2.33%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (2.33%) IaaS
7 1 (2.33%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (18.60%) Firewall
2 4 (9.30%) Cisco Nexus
2 4 (9.30%) DNS
3 3 (6.98%) BGP
3 3 (6.98%) Cisco IOS
3 3 (6.98%) HTTP
3 3 (6.98%) IOS XR
3 3 (6.98%) TCP/IP
3 3 (6.98%) VPN
4 2 (4.65%) Internet
4 2 (4.65%) Software-Defined Networking
5 1 (2.33%) BIG-IP
5 1 (2.33%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
5 1 (2.33%) Network Security
5 1 (2.33%) NGFW
5 1 (2.33%) Reverse Proxy
5 1 (2.33%) SSL
5 1 (2.33%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (9.30%) Relational Database
1 4 (9.30%) SQL Server
2 3 (6.98%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (4.65%) Power BI
4 1 (2.33%) MongoDB
4 1 (2.33%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 8 (18.60%) Jenkins
2 6 (13.95%) Git
2 6 (13.95%) JIRA
3 4 (9.30%) GitLab
3 4 (9.30%) Sonatype Nexus
4 3 (6.98%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 3 (6.98%) CircleCI
4 3 (6.98%) Cypress.io
4 3 (6.98%) Travis CI
5 2 (4.65%) Selenium
6 1 (2.33%) Appium
6 1 (2.33%) Bitbucket
6 1 (2.33%) Postman
6 1 (2.33%) UI Automator
6 1 (2.33%) XCUITest
General
1 14 (32.56%) Social Skills
2 11 (25.58%) Finance
3 8 (18.60%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (13.95%) Banking
5 2 (4.65%) Financial Institution
5 2 (4.65%) Pharmaceutical
5 2 (4.65%) Retail
5 2 (4.65%) Retail Banking
5 2 (4.65%) Telecoms
6 1 (2.33%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (2.33%) Law
6 1 (2.33%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (13.95%) JSON
2 5 (11.63%) REST
3 3 (6.98%) Django
3 3 (6.98%) Elastic Stack
3 3 (6.98%) ISPF
3 3 (6.98%) RESTful
3 3 (6.98%) XML
3 3 (6.98%) YAML
3 3 (6.98%) YANG
4 1 (2.33%) Apache NiFi
4 1 (2.33%) FastAPI
4 1 (2.33%) Gherkin
4 1 (2.33%) Middleware
4 1 (2.33%) Node.js
4 1 (2.33%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 7 (16.28%) Mainframe
2 3 (6.98%) Data Structures
2 3 (6.98%) Enterprise Software
2 3 (6.98%) Greenfield Project
2 3 (6.98%) Linux Command Line
2 3 (6.98%) Public Cloud
3 2 (4.65%) Hedge funds
3 2 (4.65%) Tandem
4 1 (2.33%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (2.33%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (2.33%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (2.33%) Enterprise Cloud
4 1 (2.33%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (2.33%) Mobile App
4 1 (2.33%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.33%) Private Cloud
4 1 (2.33%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.33%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 6 (13.95%) Linux
2 4 (9.30%) Windows
2 4 (9.30%) zOS
3 3 (6.98%) Unix
4 2 (4.65%) Windows Server
5 1 (2.33%) Android
5 1 (2.33%) Apple iOS
5 1 (2.33%) MVS
5 1 (2.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (34.88%) Agile
1 15 (34.88%) CI/CD
1 15 (34.88%) DevOps
2 9 (20.93%) Problem-Solving
3 7 (16.28%) Task Automation
4 6 (13.95%) Infrastructure as Code
5 5 (11.63%) API Integration
5 5 (11.63%) Continuous Improvement
5 5 (11.63%) Test Automation
6 4 (9.30%) API Development
6 4 (9.30%) Containerisation
6 4 (9.30%) Continuous Integration
6 4 (9.30%) Infrastructure Automation
6 4 (9.30%) Project Management
6 4 (9.30%) Scrum
6 4 (9.30%) Technical Leadership
6 4 (9.30%) Use Case
7 3 (6.98%) Collaborative Working
7 3 (6.98%) DevSecOps
7 3 (6.98%) Inventory Management
Programming Languages
1 18 (41.86%) Python
2 9 (20.93%) PowerShell
3 7 (16.28%) Bash
4 5 (11.63%) REXX
5 4 (9.30%) Java
5 4 (9.30%) SQL
6 3 (6.98%) JavaScript
6 3 (6.98%) JCL
6 3 (6.98%) T-SQL
7 2 (4.65%) Bicep
7 2 (4.65%) Go
8 1 (2.33%) ActionScript
8 1 (2.33%) C#
8 1 (2.33%) Kotlin
8 1 (2.33%) Ruby
8 1 (2.33%) Shell Script
8 1 (2.33%) Swift
Qualifications
1 6 (13.95%) Degree
2 4 (9.30%) Cisco Certification
3 3 (6.98%) Azure Certification
3 3 (6.98%) CCNA
3 3 (6.98%) CCNP
4 2 (4.65%) AWS Certification
4 2 (4.65%) CCIE
4 2 (4.65%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (2.33%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 1 (2.33%) CCSP
5 1 (2.33%) CISSP
5 1 (2.33%) ISTQB
5 1 (2.33%) SC Cleared
5 1 (2.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (13.95%) QA
System Software
1 6 (13.95%) Docker
2 2 (4.65%) Job Entry Subsystem
3 1 (2.33%) Active Directory
3 1 (2.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 18 (41.86%) Ansible
2 8 (18.60%) Terraform
3 7 (16.28%) Kubernetes
4 6 (13.95%) Puppet
5 3 (6.98%) Docker Swarm
5 3 (6.98%) Grafana
5 3 (6.98%) Kibana
5 3 (6.98%) logstash
5 3 (6.98%) Progress Chef
5 3 (6.98%) Prometheus
6 2 (4.65%) Control-M
7 1 (2.33%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 9 (20.93%) Splunk
2 8 (18.60%) Cisco
3 4 (9.30%) CA
3 4 (9.30%) CyberArk
4 3 (6.98%) F5
4 3 (6.98%) Microsoft
4 3 (6.98%) Palo Alto
4 3 (6.98%) TOWER Software
5 2 (4.65%) BMC
5 2 (4.65%) Fortinet
5 2 (4.65%) Juniper
5 2 (4.65%) ServiceNow
6 1 (2.33%) CheckPoint
6 1 (2.33%) Oracle
6 1 (2.33%) Red Hat
6 1 (2.33%) VMware
6 1 (2.33%) Zscaler