Automation Engineer Contracts in Yorkshire

Automation Engineer
England > Yorkshire

The median Automation Engineer daily rate in Yorkshire is £463, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

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

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 80 94 124
Rank change year-on-year +14 +30 +13
Contract jobs requiring an Automation Engineer 12 6 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Yorkshire 1.18% 0.36% 0.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.25% 0.39% 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 4 1
10th Percentile £382 £475 -
25th Percentile £390 £570 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £624 £525
Median % change year-on-year -25.82% +18.76% +2.94%
75th Percentile £575 £631 £538
90th Percentile £583 £643 -
England median daily rate £544 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +8.75% -9.09% +4.76%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Yorkshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Yorkshire. 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 Yorkshire with a recognized job title 959 1,546 2,201
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.30% 91.53% 95.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 618 962 1,502
10th Percentile £224 £233 £260
25th Percentile £358 £378 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.26% -9.52% +10.53%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £600
90th Percentile £629 £650 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 65 27
10th Percentile £13.00 £11.23 £12.00
25th Percentile £17.12 £12.25 £16.50
Median hourly rate £21.24 £14.00 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +51.71% -36.36% +25.71%
75th Percentile £22.14 £23.75 £54.07
90th Percentile £80.10 £51.75 £70.00
England median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
% change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%

Automation Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Automation Engineer in Yorkshire

Automation Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Automation Engineer in Yorkshire

Automation Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Automation Engineer in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Automation Engineer in Yorkshire

Automation Engineer
Contract Job Locations in Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
South Yorkshire +12 9 £425 -32.00% 5
West Yorkshire +17 3 £550 +29.41% 8
Automation Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, 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 across the Yorkshire region featuring Automation Engineer in the job title.

1 9 (75.00%) Python
1 9 (75.00%) Ansible
2 8 (66.67%) CI/CD
3 7 (58.33%) Jenkins
4 5 (41.67%) Finance
5 4 (33.33%) Visual Studio
5 4 (33.33%) Gherkin
5 4 (33.33%) Selenium
5 4 (33.33%) Test Automation
5 4 (33.33%) Cucumber
5 4 (33.33%) Social Skills
5 4 (33.33%) Infrastructure Automation
5 4 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (25.00%) DevOps
6 3 (25.00%) REST
6 3 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 3 (25.00%) PowerShell
6 3 (25.00%) VMware
6 3 (25.00%) Cisco
6 3 (25.00%) Agile
6 3 (25.00%) JIRA
7 2 (16.67%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (16.67%) QA
7 2 (16.67%) Brocade
7 2 (16.67%) TDD
7 2 (16.67%) Financial Institution
7 2 (16.67%) Validation
7 2 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (16.67%) Java
7 2 (16.67%) SQL

Automation Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Yorkshire 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:

Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (8.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 2 (16.67%) AWS
2 1 (8.33%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (16.67%) SAN
2 1 (8.33%) Firewall
2 1 (8.33%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (8.33%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 7 (58.33%) Jenkins
2 4 (33.33%) Cucumber
2 4 (33.33%) Selenium
2 4 (33.33%) Visual Studio
3 3 (25.00%) JIRA
4 2 (16.67%) Git
4 2 (16.67%) Postman
4 2 (16.67%) TestNG
General
1 5 (41.67%) Finance
2 4 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 2 (16.67%) Financial Institution
4 1 (8.33%) Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (33.33%) Gherkin
2 3 (25.00%) REST
3 2 (16.67%) pytest
3 2 (16.67%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 2 (16.67%) Data Protection Act
1 2 (16.67%) EMC VMAX
1 2 (16.67%) Enterprise Storage
2 1 (8.33%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (8.33%) Linux
1 1 (8.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 4 (33.33%) Infrastructure Automation
2 4 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (33.33%) Test Automation
3 3 (25.00%) Agile
3 3 (25.00%) DevOps
3 3 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 2 (16.67%) BDD
4 2 (16.67%) Configuration Management
4 2 (16.67%) Containerisation
4 2 (16.67%) Data Protection
4 2 (16.67%) Deployment Automation
4 2 (16.67%) End-to-End Testing
4 2 (16.67%) QA Automation
4 2 (16.67%) TDD
4 2 (16.67%) Validation
5 1 (8.33%) Change Management
5 1 (8.33%) Infrastructure Management
5 1 (8.33%) Network Design
5 1 (8.33%) Network Management
Programming Languages
1 9 (75.00%) Python
2 3 (25.00%) PowerShell
3 2 (16.67%) Bash
3 2 (16.67%) Java
3 2 (16.67%) SQL
4 1 (8.33%) Go
4 1 (8.33%) Shell Script
4 1 (8.33%) VBA
Qualifications
1 1 (8.33%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (16.67%) QA
1 2 (16.67%) SOC 2
2 1 (8.33%) GDPR
2 1 (8.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (8.33%) PCI DSS
2 1 (8.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 1 (8.33%) Active Directory
1 1 (8.33%) Docker
1 1 (8.33%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (8.33%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 9 (75.00%) Ansible
2 2 (16.67%) Kubernetes
2 2 (16.67%) Progress Chef
2 2 (16.67%) Puppet
2 2 (16.67%) Terraform
2 2 (16.67%) vRealize
Vendors
1 3 (25.00%) Cisco
1 3 (25.00%) VMware
2 2 (16.67%) 3PAR
2 2 (16.67%) Brocade
2 2 (16.67%) EMC
2 2 (16.67%) HP
3 1 (8.33%) Microsoft
3 1 (8.33%) Oracle
3 1 (8.33%) Red Hat