Task Automation Contracts in the East of England

Task Automation
England > East of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England 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 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 106 117 133
Rank change year-on-year +11 +16 -21
Contract jobs citing Task Automation 4 6 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 0.21% 0.29% 0.54%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.24% 0.33% 0.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 6 12
10th Percentile £431 £488 £403
25th Percentile £459 £525 £439
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £469
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% +17.33% +33.93%
75th Percentile £559 £594 £505
90th Percentile £584 £656 £549
England median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - +10.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
East of England

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 East of England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,645 1,801 2,263
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 86.13% 87.13% 87.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 709 1,065 1,274
10th Percentile £206 £201 £185
25th Percentile £333 £313 £338
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year - - +11.76%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £550
90th Percentile £675 £700 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 605 340 385
10th Percentile £14.16 £13.41 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.39 £14.25 £13.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £24.62 £15.50
Median % change year-on-year +62.47% +58.84% -13.58%
75th Percentile £62.50 £65.00 £39.55
90th Percentile £75.25 £70.00 £58.75
England median hourly rate £35.83 £37.50 £24.48
% change year-on-year -4.45% +53.20% +1.99%

Task Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Task Automation in the East of England

Task Automation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

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

Daily rate trend for Task Automation in the East of England

Task Automation
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Task Automation in the East of England over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Task Automation in the East of England

Task Automation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

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

Hourly rate trend for Task Automation in the East of England

Task Automation
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

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 East of England region over the 6 months to 29 April 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
Hertfordshire -2 2 £600 +9.09% 6
Norfolk - 1 £425 -
Cambridgeshire - 1 - - 4
Task Automation
England

Task Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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 (25.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (25.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (25.00%) OneDrive
1 1 (25.00%) Power Platform
1 1 (25.00%) PowerApps
General
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) Administrator
1 1 (25.00%) Analyst
1 1 (25.00%) Business Analyst
1 1 (25.00%) Developer
1 1 (25.00%) Linux Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft 365 Administrator
1 1 (25.00%) Robotic Process Automation Developer
1 1 (25.00%) Senior
1 1 (25.00%) Senior Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (25.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) CentOS
1 1 (25.00%) Linux
1 1 (25.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (25.00%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (25.00%) Actionable Insight
2 1 (25.00%) Configuration Management
2 1 (25.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (25.00%) Data Modelling
2 1 (25.00%) Data Protection
2 1 (25.00%) ITIL
2 1 (25.00%) Migration
2 1 (25.00%) Patch Management
2 1 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (25.00%) Process Improvement
2 1 (25.00%) Project Management
2 1 (25.00%) Regulatory Compliance
2 1 (25.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (25.00%) Security Hardening
2 1 (25.00%) Service Delivery
2 1 (25.00%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (25.00%) Python
1 1 (25.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (50.00%) Degree
2 1 (25.00%) Linux+ Certification
2 1 (25.00%) LPIC
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (25.00%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
1 1 (25.00%) KVM
1 1 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (25.00%) Xen
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Ansible
1 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (25.00%) Progress Chef
1 1 (25.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (25.00%) Blue Prism
2 1 (25.00%) Red Hat
2 1 (25.00%) UiPath
2 1 (25.00%) VMware