Automation Engineer Contracts in Yorkshire

Automation Engineer
England > Yorkshire

The median Automation Engineer daily rate in Yorkshire is £538, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 2 August 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
2 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 87 91 105
Rank change year-on-year +4 +14 +35
Contract jobs requiring an Automation Engineer 23 13 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Yorkshire 1.55% 0.84% 0.24%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.65% 0.95% 0.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 11 2
10th Percentile £385 £425 -
25th Percentile £460 £461 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £622 £575
Median % change year-on-year -13.59% +8.17% +31.90%
75th Percentile £599 £631 £588
90th Percentile £614 £650 -
England median daily rate £523 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +1.95% -2.38% +2.94%

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 1,391 1,375 2,003
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.54% 89.34% 97.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 888 885 1,313
10th Percentile £263 £275 £219
25th Percentile £375 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £550 £579 £620
90th Percentile £613 £650 £700
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% +0.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 54 49 35
10th Percentile £17.27 £13.45 £12.11
25th Percentile £18.39 £16.25 £16.38
Median hourly rate £22.14 £21.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +5.43% +5.00% +6.81%
75th Percentile £28.19 £42.50 £23.25
90th Percentile £81.25 £48.75 £44.30
England median hourly rate £26.00 £45.00 £43.00
% change year-on-year -42.22% +4.65% +68.63%

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 2 August 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 2 August 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 -1 21 £513 -17.60% 7
West Yorkshire -5 2 £550 +29.41% 7
Automation Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 2 August 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 21 (91.30%) Python
1 21 (91.30%) Ansible
2 14 (60.87%) DevOps
3 13 (56.52%) Jenkins
4 12 (52.17%) Agile
4 12 (52.17%) CI/CD
5 11 (47.83%) Problem-Solving
6 10 (43.48%) Social Skills
7 9 (39.13%) Linux
7 9 (39.13%) Git
8 8 (34.78%) Shell Script
8 8 (34.78%) Finance
9 7 (30.43%) Oracle
9 7 (30.43%) Oracle Database
10 6 (26.09%) API Integration
10 6 (26.09%) Task Automation
10 6 (26.09%) FastAPI
10 6 (26.09%) Infrastructure Automation
10 6 (26.09%) SQL Server
10 6 (26.09%) Microsoft
10 6 (26.09%) Oracle RAC
10 6 (26.09%) Data Guard
10 6 (26.09%) yum
11 5 (21.74%) Test Automation
11 5 (21.74%) Configuration Management
11 5 (21.74%) VMware
11 5 (21.74%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 4 (17.39%) Terraform
12 4 (17.39%) Postman
12 4 (17.39%) Deployment Automation

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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (4.35%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 3 (13.04%) GitHub
2 2 (8.70%) AWS
2 2 (8.70%) Azure
2 2 (8.70%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (8.70%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (4.35%) CloudBees
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.70%) Firewall
1 2 (8.70%) SAN
1 2 (8.70%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (30.43%) Oracle Database
2 6 (26.09%) SQL Server
3 2 (8.70%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 13 (56.52%) Jenkins
2 9 (39.13%) Git
3 4 (17.39%) Cucumber
3 4 (17.39%) JIRA
3 4 (17.39%) Postman
3 4 (17.39%) Selenium
3 4 (17.39%) Visual Studio
4 2 (8.70%) TestNG
5 1 (4.35%) GitLab
General
1 10 (43.48%) Social Skills
2 8 (34.78%) Finance
3 4 (17.39%) Banking
4 2 (8.70%) Financial Institution
5 1 (4.35%) Analytical Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (26.09%) FastAPI
2 4 (17.39%) Gherkin
3 3 (13.04%) REST
4 2 (8.70%) pytest
4 2 (8.70%) RESTful
5 1 (4.35%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 2 (8.70%) Data Protection Act
1 2 (8.70%) EMC VMAX
1 2 (8.70%) Enterprise Storage
2 1 (4.35%) Private Cloud
2 1 (4.35%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 9 (39.13%) Linux
2 2 (8.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (8.70%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (60.87%) DevOps
2 12 (52.17%) Agile
2 12 (52.17%) CI/CD
3 11 (47.83%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (26.09%) API Integration
4 6 (26.09%) Infrastructure Automation
4 6 (26.09%) Task Automation
5 5 (21.74%) Configuration Management
5 5 (21.74%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 5 (21.74%) Test Automation
6 4 (17.39%) Deployment Automation
7 3 (13.04%) Data Protection
7 3 (13.04%) Infrastructure as Code
8 2 (8.70%) BDD
8 2 (8.70%) Data Management
8 2 (8.70%) End-to-End Testing
8 2 (8.70%) QA Automation
8 2 (8.70%) TDD
8 2 (8.70%) Validation
8 2 (8.70%) Webhook
Programming Languages
1 21 (91.30%) Python
2 8 (34.78%) Shell Script
3 4 (17.39%) Bash
4 2 (8.70%) Java
4 2 (8.70%) PowerShell
4 2 (8.70%) SQL
5 1 (4.35%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 1 (4.35%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (4.35%) Security Cleared
1 1 (4.35%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.70%) QA
System Software
1 6 (26.09%) Oracle RAC
2 3 (13.04%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (4.35%) Docker
3 1 (4.35%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 21 (91.30%) Ansible
2 6 (26.09%) Data Guard
2 6 (26.09%) yum
3 4 (17.39%) Puppet
3 4 (17.39%) Terraform
4 2 (8.70%) Microsoft Clustering
4 2 (8.70%) Progress Chef
4 2 (8.70%) vRealize
5 1 (4.35%) Kubernetes
5 1 (4.35%) NetBackup
5 1 (4.35%) SCCM
Vendors
1 7 (30.43%) Oracle
2 6 (26.09%) Microsoft
3 5 (21.74%) VMware
4 2 (8.70%) 3PAR
4 2 (8.70%) Brocade
4 2 (8.70%) Cisco
4 2 (8.70%) Databricks
4 2 (8.70%) EMC
4 2 (8.70%) HP
4 2 (8.70%) MuleSoft
4 2 (8.70%) Red Hat
5 1 (4.35%) Commvault
5 1 (4.35%) Veritas