Automation Engineer Contracts

Automation Engineer
UK

The median Automation Engineer daily rate in the UK is £500 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 18 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
18 May 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 480 556 682
Rank change year-on-year +76 +126 -126
Contract jobs requiring an Automation Engineer 91 131 163
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.21% 0.23% 0.19%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.23% 0.24% 0.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 90 120
10th Percentile £325 £350 £400
25th Percentile £450 £434 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £523
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +0.48% +16.11%
75th Percentile £550 £587 £588
90th Percentile £643 £688 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +5.26% - +14.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £52.50 - -
Median hourly rate £55.00 £70.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -21.43% - -
75th Percentile £57.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 the UK with a recognized job title 39,507 53,867 83,506
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.79% 94.60% 95.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,718 37,620 58,687
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £410 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £544 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.40% +3.52% +9.38%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,672 1,498 2,036
10th Percentile £12.82 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.29 £19.13 £15.75
Median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.90 £76.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%

Automation Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Automation Engineer in the UK

Automation Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Automation Engineer in the UK

Automation Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Automation Engineer over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Automation Engineer in the UK

Automation Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Automation Engineer.

Hourly rate trend for Automation Engineer in the UK

Automation Engineer
Top 13 Contract Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 18 May 2024. 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
England +88 77 £500 -6.98% 108
London +81 49 £500 -9.09% 18
Work from Home +82 38 £506 -7.95% 105
UK excluding London +47 30 £500 +5.26% 108
North of England +43 18 £500 -13.04% 24
Yorkshire +24 11 £622 - 14
North West +22 7 £500 -13.04% 11
South East +32 4 £638 +54.55% 17
South West +6 4 £481 -8.33% 19
West Midlands +25 3 £450 - 19
Midlands +24 3 £450 +8.43% 24
Scotland +29 2 £650 +36.84% 10
Wales +16 1 £490 -4.39% 5

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

For the 6 months to 18 May 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 job ads featuring Automation Engineer in the job title.

1 41 (45.05%) Python
1 41 (45.05%) CI/CD
2 39 (42.86%) Ansible
3 35 (38.46%) DevOps
4 34 (37.36%) Social Skills
5 33 (36.26%) Agile
6 32 (35.16%) Test Automation
7 27 (29.67%) Azure
7 27 (29.67%) Git
8 24 (26.37%) AWS
8 24 (26.37%) Problem-Solving
9 23 (25.27%) PowerShell
10 22 (24.18%) QA
11 21 (23.08%) Docker
11 21 (23.08%) Jenkins
11 21 (23.08%) Kubernetes
12 19 (20.88%) Analytical Skills
12 19 (20.88%) Linux
13 18 (19.78%) Java
13 18 (19.78%) Continuous Integration
14 17 (18.68%) Bash
15 16 (17.58%) Continuous Deployment
15 16 (17.58%) Containerisation
15 16 (17.58%) Puppet
15 16 (17.58%) Selenium
16 15 (16.48%) Firewall
16 15 (16.48%) GitHub
16 15 (16.48%) Terraform
17 14 (15.38%) Task Automation
17 14 (15.38%) Infrastructure as Code

Automation Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 11 (12.09%) Confluence
2 3 (3.30%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.10%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.10%) OpenStack
3 1 (1.10%) SharePoint 2013
Cloud Services
1 27 (29.67%) Azure
2 24 (26.37%) AWS
3 15 (16.48%) GitHub
4 14 (15.38%) GCP
5 8 (8.79%) Kong
6 5 (5.49%) Apigee
7 4 (4.40%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (4.40%) GitHub Actions
7 4 (4.40%) IaaS
8 3 (3.30%) Amazon EC2
8 3 (3.30%) BrowserStack
8 3 (3.30%) Power Platform
8 3 (3.30%) Sauce Labs
9 2 (2.20%) Azure Logic Apps
9 2 (2.20%) SaaS
10 1 (1.10%) Azure Data Factory
10 1 (1.10%) Azure Stack
10 1 (1.10%) Cloud Computing
10 1 (1.10%) Serverless
10 1 (1.10%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 15 (16.48%) Firewall
2 9 (9.89%) DNS
3 8 (8.79%) HTTP
3 8 (8.79%) VPN
4 6 (6.59%) Cisco Nexus
4 6 (6.59%) Internet
4 6 (6.59%) TCP/IP
5 4 (4.40%) SSL
6 3 (3.30%) BGP
6 3 (3.30%) Cisco IOS
6 3 (3.30%) IOS XR
7 2 (2.20%) BIG-IP
7 2 (2.20%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
7 2 (2.20%) Reverse Proxy
7 2 (2.20%) Software-Defined Networking
8 1 (1.10%) Network Security
8 1 (1.10%) NGFW
8 1 (1.10%) SNA
8 1 (1.10%) VSAN
8 1 (1.10%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (7.69%) Elasticsearch
2 6 (6.59%) SQL Server
3 5 (5.49%) Relational Database
4 2 (2.20%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (2.20%) Power BI
5 1 (1.10%) Data Lake
5 1 (1.10%) MariaDB
5 1 (1.10%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.10%) MySQL
5 1 (1.10%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 27 (29.67%) Git
2 21 (23.08%) Jenkins
3 16 (17.58%) Selenium
4 14 (15.38%) JIRA
5 12 (13.19%) Appium
5 12 (13.19%) Cucumber
6 10 (10.99%) Postman
7 9 (9.89%) GitLab
8 7 (7.69%) Sonatype Nexus
9 6 (6.59%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 6 (6.59%) CircleCI
9 6 (6.59%) eggPlant
9 6 (6.59%) JUnit
9 6 (6.59%) REST Assured
9 6 (6.59%) SoapUI
9 6 (6.59%) SOAtest
9 6 (6.59%) TestNG
9 6 (6.59%) Travis CI
9 6 (6.59%) WebDriver
10 4 (4.40%) Bitbucket
General
1 34 (37.36%) Social Skills
2 19 (20.88%) Analytical Skills
3 14 (15.38%) Finance
4 8 (8.79%) Banking
5 5 (5.49%) Financial Institution
5 5 (5.49%) Retail
5 5 (5.49%) Telecoms
6 3 (3.30%) Presentation Skills
6 3 (3.30%) Public Sector
7 2 (2.20%) Pharmaceutical
7 2 (2.20%) Retail Banking
8 1 (1.10%) Electronics
8 1 (1.10%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.10%) Law
8 1 (1.10%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.10%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (13.19%) .NET
2 10 (10.99%) .NET Framework
2 10 (10.99%) JSON
3 7 (7.69%) XML
3 7 (7.69%) YAML
4 6 (6.59%) Elastic Stack
5 5 (5.49%) FastAPI
6 4 (4.40%) LDAP
7 3 (3.30%) Django
7 3 (3.30%) Node.js
7 3 (3.30%) REST
7 3 (3.30%) RESTful
7 3 (3.30%) YANG
8 2 (2.20%) ARM Templates
8 2 (2.20%) Middleware
8 2 (2.20%) pytest
8 2 (2.20%) WebdriverIO
9 1 (1.10%) Apache NiFi
9 1 (1.10%) Gherkin
9 1 (1.10%) OLE
Miscellaneous
1 6 (6.59%) Data Structures
2 5 (5.49%) Linux Command Line
3 4 (4.40%) CMDB
3 4 (4.40%) Greenfield Project
3 4 (4.40%) Hedge funds
4 3 (3.30%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (3.30%) Public Cloud
5 2 (2.20%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (2.20%) Mobile App
5 2 (2.20%) Tandem
6 1 (1.10%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (1.10%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.10%) Enterprise Cloud
6 1 (1.10%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (1.10%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.10%) Mainframe
6 1 (1.10%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.10%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 19 (20.88%) Linux
2 7 (7.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 7 (7.69%) Windows
3 6 (6.59%) Unix
4 4 (4.40%) Windows Server
5 2 (2.20%) Android
5 2 (2.20%) Apple iOS
6 1 (1.10%) CentOS
6 1 (1.10%) MVS
6 1 (1.10%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (1.10%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (45.05%) CI/CD
2 35 (38.46%) DevOps
3 33 (36.26%) Agile
4 32 (35.16%) Test Automation
5 24 (26.37%) Problem-Solving
6 18 (19.78%) Continuous Integration
7 16 (17.58%) Containerisation
7 16 (17.58%) Continuous Deployment
8 14 (15.38%) Infrastructure as Code
8 14 (15.38%) Task Automation
9 13 (14.29%) Infrastructure Automation
10 12 (13.19%) BDD
11 11 (12.09%) Software Testing
11 11 (12.09%) Test Scripting
12 10 (10.99%) API Development
12 10 (10.99%) SDLC
13 9 (9.89%) Continuous Improvement
13 9 (9.89%) Scrum
14 8 (8.79%) Test Strategy
14 8 (8.79%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 41 (45.05%) Python
2 23 (25.27%) PowerShell
3 18 (19.78%) Java
4 17 (18.68%) Bash
5 13 (14.29%) C#
6 12 (13.19%) SQL
7 6 (6.59%) JavaScript
8 5 (5.49%) Shell Script
9 4 (4.40%) T-SQL
10 3 (3.30%) Bicep
11 2 (2.20%) ActionScript
11 2 (2.20%) Go
11 2 (2.20%) Kotlin
11 2 (2.20%) Perl
11 2 (2.20%) Swift
12 1 (1.10%) Groovy
12 1 (1.10%) Korn
Qualifications
1 12 (13.19%) Degree
2 10 (10.99%) SC Cleared
2 10 (10.99%) Security Cleared
3 7 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (4.40%) AWS Certification
4 4 (4.40%) Azure Certification
4 4 (4.40%) Cisco Certification
4 4 (4.40%) ISTQB
5 3 (3.30%) CCNA
5 3 (3.30%) CCNP
6 2 (2.20%) CCIE
7 1 (1.10%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 1 (1.10%) CCSP
7 1 (1.10%) CISSP
7 1 (1.10%) DV Cleared
7 1 (1.10%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 1 (1.10%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (24.18%) QA
2 2 (2.20%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 21 (23.08%) Docker
2 9 (9.89%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (4.40%) Virtual Servers
4 2 (2.20%) Active Directory
5 1 (1.10%) KVM
5 1 (1.10%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (1.10%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (1.10%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (1.10%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 39 (42.86%) Ansible
2 21 (23.08%) Kubernetes
3 16 (17.58%) Puppet
4 15 (16.48%) Terraform
5 7 (7.69%) Progress Chef
6 6 (6.59%) Docker Swarm
6 6 (6.59%) Grafana
6 6 (6.59%) Kibana
6 6 (6.59%) logstash
6 6 (6.59%) Prometheus
7 3 (3.30%) vRealize Orchestrator
8 2 (2.20%) SCOrch
9 1 (1.10%) NetMRI
9 1 (1.10%) Packer
9 1 (1.10%) vCenter Server
9 1 (1.10%) vRealize
Vendors
1 11 (12.09%) VMware
2 10 (10.99%) Cisco
3 7 (7.69%) Microsoft
3 7 (7.69%) Splunk
4 6 (6.59%) F5
4 6 (6.59%) Red Hat
5 5 (5.49%) Palo Alto
6 4 (4.40%) Fortinet
6 4 (4.40%) Juniper
7 3 (3.30%) Oracle
7 3 (3.30%) Perfecto Mobile
7 3 (3.30%) TOWER Software
7 3 (3.30%) UiPath
8 2 (2.20%) Cadence
8 2 (2.20%) CyberArk
8 2 (2.20%) Google
8 2 (2.20%) IBM
9 1 (1.10%) Infoblox
9 1 (1.10%) SAP
9 1 (1.10%) Sybase
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