Automation Engineer Contracts in London

Automation Engineer
England > London

The median Automation Engineer daily rate in London is £500, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 12 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
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 343 421 534
Rank change year-on-year +78 +113 -96
Contract jobs requiring an Automation Engineer 57 61 70
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.32% 0.24% 0.18%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.34% 0.26% 0.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 40 46
10th Percentile £325 £334 £431
25th Percentile £425 £461 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +16.67%
75th Percentile £541 £656 £600
90th Percentile £553 £700 £675
England median daily rate £500 £544 £510
% change year-on-year -8.05% +6.62% +13.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £52.50 - £57.50
Median hourly rate £55.00 £70.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.43% +16.67% -17.24%
75th Percentile £57.50 - £62.50
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £55.00 £70.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -21.43% +16.67% +28.34%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in London. 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 London with a recognized job title 16,560 23,906 36,699
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.67% 95.05% 95.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,921 17,459 27,030
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £440 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £535
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +7.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 324 281 404
10th Percentile £16.00 £17.98 £16.25
25th Percentile £20.17 £22.63 £23.75
Median hourly rate £27.81 £36.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.75% +2.86% +7.12%
75th Percentile £46.59 £63.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £66.85 £82.25 £67.50
England median hourly rate £39.50 £45.00 £24.00
% change year-on-year -12.22% +87.50% +14.01%

Automation Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Automation Engineer in London

Automation Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Automation Engineer in London

Automation Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Automation Engineer in London over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Automation Engineer in London

Automation Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Automation Engineer in London

Automation Engineer
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 12 June 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
Central London +40 5 £505 -8.18% 2
West London +20 1 - - 2
Automation Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 12 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 job ads across the London region featuring Automation Engineer in the job title.

1 24 (42.11%) CI/CD
2 22 (38.60%) Python
3 21 (36.84%) Agile
3 21 (36.84%) Social Skills
3 21 (36.84%) Ansible
4 20 (35.09%) DevOps
5 19 (33.33%) Finance
6 15 (26.32%) Git
6 15 (26.32%) Test Automation
7 14 (24.56%) Java
8 13 (22.81%) Linux
8 13 (22.81%) AWS
9 11 (19.30%) Degree
10 10 (17.54%) Banking
10 10 (17.54%) Continuous Integration
10 10 (17.54%) .NET
10 10 (17.54%) Kubernetes
11 9 (15.79%) Cucumber
11 9 (15.79%) Infrastructure Automation
11 9 (15.79%) Terraform
11 9 (15.79%) Continuous Deployment
11 9 (15.79%) Problem-Solving
11 9 (15.79%) C#
11 9 (15.79%) Unix
11 9 (15.79%) Selenium
11 9 (15.79%) SC Cleared
11 9 (15.79%) Security Cleared
11 9 (15.79%) PowerShell
11 9 (15.79%) Azure
11 9 (15.79%) Software Testing

Automation Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 2 (3.51%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.75%) Confluence
2 1 (1.75%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.75%) OpenStack
2 1 (1.75%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (1.75%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 13 (22.81%) AWS
2 9 (15.79%) Azure
3 4 (7.02%) GCP
4 2 (3.51%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (3.51%) Azure Logic Apps
4 2 (3.51%) Kong
4 2 (3.51%) Power Platform
5 1 (1.75%) Anthos
5 1 (1.75%) Apigee
5 1 (1.75%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (1.75%) Azure Stack
5 1 (1.75%) BrowserStack
5 1 (1.75%) Datadog
5 1 (1.75%) GitHub
5 1 (1.75%) IaaS
5 1 (1.75%) SaaS
5 1 (1.75%) Sauce Labs
5 1 (1.75%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 8 (14.04%) Firewall
2 6 (10.53%) Cisco Nexus
2 6 (10.53%) Internet
3 1 (1.75%) SNA
3 1 (1.75%) VSAN
3 1 (1.75%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.51%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (3.51%) Power BI
1 2 (3.51%) Relational Database
1 2 (3.51%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.75%) MariaDB
2 1 (1.75%) MongoDB
2 1 (1.75%) MySQL
2 1 (1.75%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 15 (26.32%) Git
2 9 (15.79%) Cucumber
2 9 (15.79%) Selenium
3 8 (14.04%) Appium
4 7 (12.28%) Jenkins
4 7 (12.28%) Sonatype Nexus
5 6 (10.53%) eggPlant
5 6 (10.53%) JUnit
5 6 (10.53%) Postman
5 6 (10.53%) REST Assured
5 6 (10.53%) SoapUI
5 6 (10.53%) SOAtest
5 6 (10.53%) TestNG
5 6 (10.53%) WebDriver
6 3 (5.26%) JIRA
7 2 (3.51%) Bitbucket
8 1 (1.75%) HP UFT
8 1 (1.75%) PyUnit
8 1 (1.75%) SpecFlow
8 1 (1.75%) Vagrant
General
1 21 (36.84%) Social Skills
2 19 (33.33%) Finance
3 10 (17.54%) Banking
4 7 (12.28%) Financial Institution
4 7 (12.28%) Retail
5 5 (8.77%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (3.51%) Retail Banking
7 1 (1.75%) Electronics
7 1 (1.75%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.75%) Marketing
7 1 (1.75%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.75%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.75%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (17.54%) .NET
2 8 (14.04%) .NET Framework
3 3 (5.26%) LDAP
3 3 (5.26%) Node.js
4 2 (3.51%) FastAPI
4 2 (3.51%) ISPF
4 2 (3.51%) Middleware
5 1 (1.75%) Django
5 1 (1.75%) JSON
5 1 (1.75%) pytest
5 1 (1.75%) REST
5 1 (1.75%) XML
5 1 (1.75%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (10.53%) Hedge funds
2 4 (7.02%) Mainframe
3 3 (5.26%) CMDB
4 2 (3.51%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (3.51%) Tandem
5 1 (1.75%) Enterprise Cloud
5 1 (1.75%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.75%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (1.75%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.75%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (1.75%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.75%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 13 (22.81%) Linux
2 9 (15.79%) Unix
3 4 (7.02%) Windows
4 3 (5.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (5.26%) zOS
5 2 (3.51%) Android
5 2 (3.51%) Windows Server
6 1 (1.75%) Apple iOS
6 1 (1.75%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (42.11%) CI/CD
2 21 (36.84%) Agile
3 20 (35.09%) DevOps
4 15 (26.32%) Test Automation
5 10 (17.54%) Continuous Integration
6 9 (15.79%) Continuous Deployment
6 9 (15.79%) Infrastructure Automation
6 9 (15.79%) Problem-Solving
6 9 (15.79%) Software Testing
7 8 (14.04%) Deployment Automation
8 7 (12.28%) BDD
8 7 (12.28%) Test Scripting
8 7 (12.28%) Wealth Management
9 6 (10.53%) AOP
9 6 (10.53%) Application Security
9 6 (10.53%) Computer Science
9 6 (10.53%) Containerisation
9 6 (10.53%) ITIL
9 6 (10.53%) Scaled Agile Framework
9 6 (10.53%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 22 (38.60%) Python
2 14 (24.56%) Java
3 9 (15.79%) C#
3 9 (15.79%) PowerShell
4 8 (14.04%) SQL
5 6 (10.53%) Bash
6 4 (7.02%) REXX
6 4 (7.02%) Shell Script
7 3 (5.26%) Go
8 2 (3.51%) Bicep
8 2 (3.51%) JCL
9 1 (1.75%) Groovy
9 1 (1.75%) Korn
9 1 (1.75%) Perl
9 1 (1.75%) Ruby
9 1 (1.75%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (19.30%) Degree
2 9 (15.79%) SC Cleared
2 9 (15.79%) Security Cleared
3 6 (10.53%) AWS Certification
3 6 (10.53%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (5.26%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.75%) CCNA
5 1 (1.75%) CCNP
5 1 (1.75%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (1.75%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.75%) ISTQB
5 1 (1.75%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (12.28%) QA
2 2 (3.51%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 8 (14.04%) Docker
2 5 (8.77%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (5.26%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (1.75%) Active Directory
4 1 (1.75%) Job Entry Subsystem
4 1 (1.75%) KVM
4 1 (1.75%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (1.75%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 21 (36.84%) Ansible
2 10 (17.54%) Kubernetes
3 9 (15.79%) Terraform
4 8 (14.04%) Puppet
5 3 (5.26%) vRealize Orchestrator
6 2 (3.51%) SCOrch
7 1 (1.75%) BMC PATROL
7 1 (1.75%) Control-M
7 1 (1.75%) NetMRI
7 1 (1.75%) Packer
7 1 (1.75%) vCenter Server
7 1 (1.75%) vRealize
Vendors
1 7 (12.28%) Cisco
2 6 (10.53%) F5
2 6 (10.53%) Fortinet
2 6 (10.53%) Juniper
2 6 (10.53%) Palo Alto
2 6 (10.53%) VMware
3 5 (8.77%) Splunk
4 4 (7.02%) Microsoft
5 3 (5.26%) Oracle
6 2 (3.51%) BMC
6 2 (3.51%) CA
6 2 (3.51%) IBM
6 2 (3.51%) Red Hat
7 1 (1.75%) CheckPoint
7 1 (1.75%) CyberArk
7 1 (1.75%) Google
7 1 (1.75%) Perfecto Mobile
7 1 (1.75%) SAP
7 1 (1.75%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.75%) Sybase