Task Automation Contracts in Central London

Task Automation
London > Central London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London with a requirement for Task Automation skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Task Automation over the 6 months to 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 112 150 185
Rank change year-on-year +38 +35 -33
Contract jobs citing Task Automation 25 29 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 1.03% 0.77% 0.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.14% 0.84% 0.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 20 12
10th Percentile £450 £278 £410
25th Percentile £500 £423 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £484 £540
Median % change year-on-year +24.03% -10.42% -10.00%
75th Percentile £688 £683 £631
90th Percentile £710 £741 £748
London median daily rate £565 £550 £576
% change year-on-year +2.73% -4.43% +12.84%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Central London

Task Automation is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Central London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,196 3,454 4,135
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 90.59% 91.33% 91.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,563 2,340 3,166
10th Percentile £350 £325 £375
25th Percentile £450 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £573
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.80% +9.05%
75th Percentile £688 £725 £675
90th Percentile £800 £825 £775
London median daily rate £550 £590 £575
% change year-on-year -6.78% +2.61% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 28 43
10th Percentile £20.22 £15.18 £18.50
25th Percentile £22.75 £18.03 £22.63
Median hourly rate £27.81 £35.00 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year -20.54% -13.58% +102.50%
75th Percentile £30.41 £55.00 £53.50
90th Percentile £41.47 £88.30 £65.10
London median hourly rate £28.00 £39.00 £37.00
% change year-on-year -28.21% +5.41% +12.63%

Task Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Job postings citing Task Automation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Job vacancy trend for Task Automation in Central London

Task Automation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Daily rate trend for Task Automation in Central London

Task Automation
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Task Automation in Central London over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Task Automation in Central London

Task Automation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

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

Hourly rate trend for Task Automation in Central London

Task Automation
Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Task Automation within the Central London region over the 6 months to 10 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
City of London +28 22 £628 +29.72% 6
City of Westminster - 2 £550 -
West End of London - 1 £500 -
Camden - 1 £500 -
Task Automation
London

Task Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central 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 1 (4.00%) Apache Solr
1 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (4.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 4 (16.00%) Azure
2 3 (12.00%) AWS
3 2 (8.00%) GitHub
3 2 (8.00%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (4.00%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (4.00%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (4.00%) Entra ID
4 1 (4.00%) GCP
4 1 (4.00%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.00%) IPv4
1 1 (4.00%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (36.00%) MongoDB
2 5 (20.00%) Relational Database
3 4 (16.00%) DB2
3 4 (16.00%) RDBMS
3 4 (16.00%) Sybase ASE
4 1 (4.00%) BigQuery
4 1 (4.00%) Couchbase
4 1 (4.00%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (4.00%) MySQL
4 1 (4.00%) NoSQL
4 1 (4.00%) Redis
4 1 (4.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (4.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (4.00%) GitLab
1 1 (4.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (4.00%) JMeter
1 1 (4.00%) JUnit
1 1 (4.00%) Selenium
General
1 14 (56.00%) Social Skills
2 8 (32.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (8.00%) Finance
4 1 (4.00%) Retail
4 1 (4.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 8 (32.00%) Site Engineer
1 8 (32.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 7 (28.00%) Python Engineer
3 4 (16.00%) DBA
3 4 (16.00%) Java Engineer
4 3 (12.00%) Sybase DBA
5 2 (8.00%) Administrator
5 2 (8.00%) Applications Engineer
5 2 (8.00%) Developer
5 2 (8.00%) Platform Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) Applications Specialist
6 1 (4.00%) Cloud Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) Development Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) Junior
6 1 (4.00%) Junior Project Manager
6 1 (4.00%) PMO Manager
6 1 (4.00%) Project Manager
6 1 (4.00%) ServiceNow Developer
6 1 (4.00%) Technical Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) Test Automation Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (32.00%) Kafka
1 8 (32.00%) RabbitMQ
1 8 (32.00%) RESTful
2 1 (4.00%) Ajax
2 1 (4.00%) AngularJS
2 1 (4.00%) CSS
2 1 (4.00%) Gherkin
2 1 (4.00%) HTML
2 1 (4.00%) Jest
2 1 (4.00%) JSON
2 1 (4.00%) REST
2 1 (4.00%) SailPoint
2 1 (4.00%) SAML
2 1 (4.00%) SOAP
2 1 (4.00%) Spring Boot
2 1 (4.00%) Web Services
2 1 (4.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (32.00%) Algorithms
1 8 (32.00%) Data Structures
1 8 (32.00%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (16.00%) Linux Command Line
2 4 (16.00%) Replication
3 2 (8.00%) Data Centre
3 2 (8.00%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (8.00%) Operational Technology
4 1 (4.00%) Clustering
4 1 (4.00%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 13 (52.00%) Linux
2 4 (16.00%) Unix
3 2 (8.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (52.00%) Problem-Solving
2 11 (44.00%) DevOps
3 10 (40.00%) CI/CD
4 9 (36.00%) Microservices
5 8 (32.00%) Analytical Thinking
5 8 (32.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 8 (32.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 5 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
7 4 (16.00%) Change Data Capture
7 4 (16.00%) Incident Management
7 4 (16.00%) ITIL
7 4 (16.00%) Operational Acceptance Testing
7 4 (16.00%) Root Cause Analysis
8 3 (12.00%) Migration
9 2 (8.00%) Data Migration
9 2 (8.00%) Platform Engineering
10 1 (4.00%) Database Migration
10 1 (4.00%) Incident Response
10 1 (4.00%) RBAC
10 1 (4.00%) System Integration Testing
Programming Languages
1 18 (72.00%) Python
2 10 (40.00%) Java
3 8 (32.00%) Shell Script
4 6 (24.00%) PowerShell
4 6 (24.00%) SQL
5 5 (20.00%) C++
5 5 (20.00%) Go
6 4 (16.00%) Perl
6 4 (16.00%) T-SQL
7 1 (4.00%) Bash
7 1 (4.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 2 (8.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (8.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.00%) AWS Certification
2 1 (4.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (20.00%) QA
2 1 (4.00%) PMO
System Software
1 8 (32.00%) Apache ZooKeeper
2 5 (20.00%) Active Directory
3 4 (16.00%) Veritas Cluster Server
4 1 (4.00%) Docker
4 1 (4.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 9 (36.00%) Kubernetes
2 8 (32.00%) Consul
2 8 (32.00%) Grafana
2 8 (32.00%) Prometheus
3 3 (12.00%) Terraform
4 2 (8.00%) Ansible
5 1 (4.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Clustering
5 1 (4.00%) Puppet
5 1 (4.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 11 (44.00%) Microsoft
2 8 (32.00%) SaltStack
3 5 (20.00%) ServiceNow
4 4 (16.00%) IBM
4 4 (16.00%) Oracle
4 4 (16.00%) SAP
4 4 (16.00%) Sun
4 4 (16.00%) Sybase
4 4 (16.00%) Veritas
5 1 (4.00%) Google
5 1 (4.00%) VMware