Task Automation Contracts in the City of London

Task Automation
Central London > City of London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of 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 2 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 107 146 177
Rank change year-on-year +39 +31 -31
Contract jobs citing Task Automation 20 30 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.91% 0.82% 0.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.01% 0.90% 0.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 20 12
10th Percentile £419 £278 £411
25th Percentile £531 £423 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £628 £484 £550
Median % change year-on-year +29.72% -12.05% -8.33%
75th Percentile £689 £683 £631
90th Percentile £705 £741 £748
Central London median daily rate £600 £484 £550
% change year-on-year +24.03% -12.05% -8.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of 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 the City of London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,985 3,341 3,903
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 90.56% 91.66% 91.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,404 2,250 2,956
10th Percentile £356 £356 £388
25th Percentile £450 £480 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.83% +4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £688 £730 £675
90th Percentile £809 £825 £775
Central London median daily rate £550 £600 £570
% change year-on-year -8.33% +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 25 43
10th Percentile £19.92 £15.35 £18.50
25th Percentile £20.22 £18.50 £24.25
Median hourly rate £25.00 £35.00 £41.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.57% -15.66% +130.88%
75th Percentile £40.00 £58.75 £54.00
90th Percentile £41.84 £88.30 £65.10
Central London median hourly rate £27.81 £35.00 £41.50
% change year-on-year -20.54% -15.66% +107.50%

Task Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Task Automation in the City of London

Task Automation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Task Automation in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Task Automation in the City of London

Task Automation
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Task Automation in the City of London over the 6 months to 2 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Task Automation in the City of London

Task Automation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Task Automation in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for Task Automation in the City of London

Task Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 (5.00%) Apache Solr
1 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (5.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 2 (10.00%) AWS
1 2 (10.00%) Azure
1 2 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (5.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (5.00%) Entra ID
2 1 (5.00%) GCP
2 1 (5.00%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.00%) IPv4
1 1 (5.00%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (40.00%) MongoDB
2 5 (25.00%) Relational Database
3 4 (20.00%) DB2
3 4 (20.00%) RDBMS
3 4 (20.00%) Sybase ASE
4 1 (5.00%) BigQuery
4 1 (5.00%) Couchbase
4 1 (5.00%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (5.00%) MySQL
4 1 (5.00%) NoSQL
4 1 (5.00%) Redis
4 1 (5.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (5.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (5.00%) GitLab
1 1 (5.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (5.00%) JMeter
1 1 (5.00%) JUnit
1 1 (5.00%) Selenium
General
1 13 (65.00%) Social Skills
2 7 (35.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (10.00%) Finance
4 1 (5.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 7 (35.00%) Site Engineer
1 7 (35.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 6 (30.00%) Python Engineer
3 4 (20.00%) DBA
4 3 (15.00%) Java Engineer
4 3 (15.00%) Sybase DBA
5 2 (10.00%) Administrator
5 2 (10.00%) Applications Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) Applications Specialist
6 1 (5.00%) Development Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) Junior
6 1 (5.00%) Junior Project Manager
6 1 (5.00%) Migration Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) PMO Manager
6 1 (5.00%) Project Manager
6 1 (5.00%) SAP Administrator
6 1 (5.00%) Technical Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) Test Automation Specialist
6 1 (5.00%) Test Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (35.00%) Kafka
1 7 (35.00%) RabbitMQ
1 7 (35.00%) RESTful
2 1 (5.00%) Gherkin
2 1 (5.00%) Jest
2 1 (5.00%) REST
2 1 (5.00%) SailPoint
2 1 (5.00%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (35.00%) Algorithms
1 7 (35.00%) Data Structures
1 7 (35.00%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (20.00%) Linux Command Line
2 4 (20.00%) Replication
3 2 (10.00%) Data Centre
3 2 (10.00%) Operational Technology
4 1 (5.00%) Clustering
4 1 (5.00%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 12 (60.00%) Linux
2 4 (20.00%) Unix
3 2 (10.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
2 8 (40.00%) DevOps
3 7 (35.00%) Analytical Thinking
3 7 (35.00%) CI/CD
3 7 (35.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 7 (35.00%) Microservices
3 7 (35.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 4 (20.00%) Change Data Capture
4 4 (20.00%) Incident Management
4 4 (20.00%) ITIL
4 4 (20.00%) Operational Acceptance Testing
4 4 (20.00%) Root Cause Analysis
5 3 (15.00%) Migration
6 2 (10.00%) Data Migration
6 2 (10.00%) Infrastructure as Code
7 1 (5.00%) Database Migration
7 1 (5.00%) Infrastructure Automation
7 1 (5.00%) RBAC
7 1 (5.00%) Test Automation
7 1 (5.00%) Test Management
Programming Languages
1 14 (70.00%) Python
2 8 (40.00%) Java
3 7 (35.00%) Shell Script
4 6 (30.00%) PowerShell
4 6 (30.00%) SQL
5 5 (25.00%) C++
5 5 (25.00%) Go
6 4 (20.00%) Perl
6 4 (20.00%) T-SQL
7 1 (5.00%) Bash
Qualifications
1 2 (10.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (10.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.00%) AWS Certification
2 1 (5.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (25.00%) QA
2 1 (5.00%) PMO
System Software
1 7 (35.00%) Apache ZooKeeper
2 5 (25.00%) Active Directory
3 4 (20.00%) Veritas Cluster Server
4 1 (5.00%) Docker
4 1 (5.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (40.00%) Kubernetes
2 7 (35.00%) Consul
2 7 (35.00%) Grafana
2 7 (35.00%) Prometheus
3 2 (10.00%) Ansible
4 1 (5.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Clustering
4 1 (5.00%) Puppet
4 1 (5.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 9 (45.00%) Microsoft
2 7 (35.00%) SaltStack
3 4 (20.00%) IBM
3 4 (20.00%) Oracle
3 4 (20.00%) SAP
3 4 (20.00%) ServiceNow
3 4 (20.00%) Sun
3 4 (20.00%) Sybase
3 4 (20.00%) Veritas
4 1 (5.00%) Google
4 1 (5.00%) VMware