Automation Developer Contracts

Automation Developer
UK

The median Automation Developer daily rate in the UK is £494, 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 534 651 790
Rank change year-on-year +117 +139 -90
Contract jobs requiring an Automation Developer 50 46 58
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.11% 0.083% 0.067%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.12% 0.088% 0.070%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 36 47
10th Percentile £241 £391 £406
25th Percentile £400 £425 £499
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £494 £450 £540
Median % change year-on-year +9.78% -16.67% +8.00%
75th Percentile £575 £509 £638
90th Percentile £890 £581 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £468 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +3.89% -10.00% +2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £32.25
Median hourly rate - - £34.50
75th Percentile - - £36.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £34.50

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides 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 40,557 52,491 83,111
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.86% 94.51% 95.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,070 36,644 58,616
10th Percentile £280 £313 £318
25th Percentile £408 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.42% +2.48% +6.06%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,936 1,486 1,938
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.75
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.42 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +16.28%
75th Percentile £61.81 £65.75 £50.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.08 £20.00
% change year-on-year -4.94% +110.39% +7.82%

Automation Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Automation Developer in the UK

Automation Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Automation Developer in the UK

Automation Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for Automation Developer in the UK

Automation Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Automation Developer in the UK

Automation Developer
Top 11 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Automation Developer within the UK 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
England +93 36 £536 +19.17% 14
London +91 25 £550 +15.79% 1
UK excluding London +26 23 £468 +3.89% 13
Work from Home +118 17 £550 +9.89% 13
Scotland +47 13 £475 - 1
North of England +20 5 £375 - 2
South East +15 4 £475 +8.57% 2
Yorkshire - 4 £350 -
West Midlands +16 1 £325 -16.13% 1
Midlands +15 1 £325 -16.13% 1
North West +14 1 £523 - 2

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

For the 6 months to 12 June 2024, Automation Developer 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 Developer in the job title.

1 24 (48.00%) Power Automate
2 20 (40.00%) Power Platform
3 15 (30.00%) Microsoft
4 14 (28.00%) Python
4 14 (28.00%) SQL
5 13 (26.00%) Machine Learning
5 13 (26.00%) PowerApps
6 12 (24.00%) Social Skills
6 12 (24.00%) Agile
7 11 (22.00%) Finance
7 11 (22.00%) TypeScript
7 11 (22.00%) SpaCy
8 10 (20.00%) Serverless
8 10 (20.00%) Public Sector
8 10 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
8 10 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
8 10 (20.00%) Data Analysis
9 9 (18.00%) Software Engineering
9 9 (18.00%) Business Intelligence
9 9 (18.00%) Amazon S3
9 9 (18.00%) AWS
9 9 (18.00%) Natural Language Processing
9 9 (18.00%) AWS CloudFormation
9 9 (18.00%) AWS Lambda
9 9 (18.00%) Power BI
9 9 (18.00%) AWS CDK
9 9 (18.00%) Amazon Aurora
10 8 (16.00%) Infrastructure as Code
10 8 (16.00%) Grafana
10 8 (16.00%) SQL Server

Automation Developer 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 6 (12.00%) SharePoint
2 1 (2.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 24 (48.00%) Power Automate
2 20 (40.00%) Power Platform
3 13 (26.00%) PowerApps
4 10 (20.00%) Serverless
5 9 (18.00%) Amazon S3
5 9 (18.00%) AWS
5 9 (18.00%) AWS CloudFormation
5 9 (18.00%) AWS Lambda
6 7 (14.00%) Microsoft Purview
7 6 (12.00%) OpenShift
8 5 (10.00%) Azure
8 5 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
8 5 (10.00%) Textract
9 1 (2.00%) Amazon SageMaker
9 1 (2.00%) Azure Functions
9 1 (2.00%) Azure Logic Apps
9 1 (2.00%) GitHub
9 1 (2.00%) Rekognition
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.00%) WAN
2 1 (2.00%) Firewall
2 1 (2.00%) LAN
2 1 (2.00%) SD-WAN
2 1 (2.00%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
2 9 (18.00%) Amazon Aurora
2 9 (18.00%) Power BI
3 8 (16.00%) SQL Server
4 7 (14.00%) Metadata
5 4 (8.00%) KNIME
6 1 (2.00%) NoSQL
6 1 (2.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (2.00%) GitLab
1 1 (2.00%) JIRA
1 1 (2.00%) XCUITest
General
1 12 (24.00%) Social Skills
2 11 (22.00%) Finance
3 10 (20.00%) Public Sector
4 7 (14.00%) Banking
5 2 (4.00%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (4.00%) Local Government
6 1 (2.00%) Italian Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (22.00%) SpaCy
2 9 (18.00%) AWS CDK
3 4 (8.00%) .NET
3 4 (8.00%) ASP.NET
3 4 (8.00%) CSS
3 4 (8.00%) HTML
3 4 (8.00%) PyTorch
4 2 (4.00%) LDAP
5 1 (2.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 5 (10.00%) NHS
2 4 (8.00%) Algorithms
3 2 (4.00%) CMDB
4 1 (2.00%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (2.00%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.00%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (2.00%) Private Cloud
4 1 (2.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.00%) Android
1 1 (2.00%) Apple iOS
1 1 (2.00%) Unix
1 1 (2.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (26.00%) Machine Learning
2 12 (24.00%) Agile
3 10 (20.00%) Data Analysis
3 10 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
4 9 (18.00%) Business Intelligence
4 9 (18.00%) Natural Language Processing
4 9 (18.00%) Software Engineering
5 8 (16.00%) Infrastructure as Code
6 7 (14.00%) Data Governance
6 7 (14.00%) Data Visualisation
6 7 (14.00%) Kanban
6 7 (14.00%) Mentoring
6 7 (14.00%) Product Management
6 7 (14.00%) Scrum
6 7 (14.00%) Visualisation
7 6 (12.00%) Artificial Intelligence
7 6 (12.00%) Test Automation
8 5 (10.00%) Service Design
9 4 (8.00%) Community of Practice
9 4 (8.00%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 14 (28.00%) Python
1 14 (28.00%) SQL
2 11 (22.00%) TypeScript
3 7 (14.00%) MATLAB
4 6 (12.00%) JavaScript
5 5 (10.00%) C#
6 4 (8.00%) Java
6 4 (8.00%) PHP
7 1 (2.00%) BeanShell
7 1 (2.00%) Kotlin
7 1 (2.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (8.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (4.00%) SC Cleared
2 2 (4.00%) Security Cleared
3 1 (2.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (2.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (10.00%) QA
2 4 (8.00%) Accessibility
3 1 (2.00%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 5 (10.00%) Docker
2 2 (4.00%) Virtual Servers
2 2 (4.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (16.00%) Grafana
2 6 (12.00%) Kubernetes
3 2 (4.00%) Ansible
3 2 (4.00%) vRealize Orchestrator
4 1 (2.00%) Progress Chef
4 1 (2.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 15 (30.00%) Microsoft
2 7 (14.00%) Databricks
3 5 (10.00%) Automation Anywhere
3 5 (10.00%) Blue Prism
3 5 (10.00%) UiPath
4 4 (8.00%) Alteryx
5 3 (6.00%) VMware
6 2 (4.00%) Cisco
7 1 (2.00%) Ariba
7 1 (2.00%) Oracle
7 1 (2.00%) Palo Alto
7 1 (2.00%) Red Hat
7 1 (2.00%) SAP
7 1 (2.00%) Splunk