Task Automation Contracts in England

Task Automation
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 320 425 475
Rank change year-on-year +105 +50 -18
Contract jobs citing Task Automation 231 230 338
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.62% 0.46% 0.48%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.72% 0.51% 0.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 190 148 246
10th Percentile £387 £396 £403
25th Percentile £465 £483 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - +10.00%
75th Percentile £675 £677 £654
90th Percentile £700 £750 £713
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 3
10th Percentile - £19.13 -
25th Percentile - £30.94 £22.03
Median hourly rate £23.80 £51.25 £22.28
Median % change year-on-year -53.56% +130.03% -48.53%
75th Percentile - £70.94 £52.52
90th Percentile - £82.38 £70.51
UK median hourly rate £23.80 £51.25 £22.28
% change year-on-year -53.56% +130.03% -59.49%

All Process and Methodology Skills
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 England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 32,201 45,536 64,490
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.52% 90.24% 90.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,119 31,974 45,794
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £445 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.14%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £766 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,240 1,592 1,770
10th Percentile £12.91 £10.87 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.83 £37.50 £24.48
Median % change year-on-year -4.45% +53.20% +1.99%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.75
UK median hourly rate £35.50 £37.30 £25.00
% change year-on-year -4.83% +49.20% -

Task Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Task Automation in England

Task Automation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Task Automation in England

Task Automation
Daily Rate Histogram in England

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

Daily rate histogram for Task Automation in England

Task Automation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Task Automation in England

Task Automation
Contract Job Locations in 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 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
London +75 116 £550 - 68
South West +31 36 £700 +27.27% 14
South East +42 32 £500 -3.85% 21
North of England +29 27 £488 -20.41% 17
Yorkshire +23 16 £520 -25.71% 2
North West +23 7 £400 -20.00% 15
Midlands +20 7 £650 +23.81% 15
West Midlands +26 6 £650 -10.34% 10
North East +21 4 £463 -15.91%
East of England +11 4 £513 -6.82% 14
East Midlands +16 1 £575 +9.52% 5
Task Automation
UK

Task Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 29 (12.55%) Confluence
2 14 (6.06%) SharePoint
3 8 (3.46%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (1.73%) nginx
5 2 (0.87%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.87%) IIS
6 1 (0.43%) Apache Solr
Applications
1 3 (1.30%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.87%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.43%) InVision
3 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.43%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.43%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 7 (3.03%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 69 (29.87%) Azure
2 40 (17.32%) AWS
3 27 (11.69%) GitHub
4 25 (10.82%) GCP
5 22 (9.52%) Microsoft 365
6 15 (6.49%) Entra ID
6 15 (6.49%) OpenShift
7 10 (4.33%) Apigee
7 10 (4.33%) Azure DevOps
8 9 (3.90%) Power Platform
8 9 (3.90%) PowerApps
9 7 (3.03%) Kong
9 7 (3.03%) Power Automate
10 5 (2.16%) CloudFront
10 5 (2.16%) Datadog
10 5 (2.16%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 4 (1.73%) Azure Monitor
11 4 (1.73%) OneDrive
11 4 (1.73%) WhatsApp
12 3 (1.30%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 25 (10.82%) DNS
2 19 (8.23%) VPN
3 14 (6.06%) Firewall
4 12 (5.19%) Network Security
5 11 (4.76%) TCP/IP
6 8 (3.46%) HTTP
7 7 (3.03%) DHCP
8 6 (2.60%) LAN
8 6 (2.60%) SAN
8 6 (2.60%) Software-Defined Networking
9 5 (2.16%) Cisco Nexus
9 5 (2.16%) IPv4
9 5 (2.16%) OSPF
9 5 (2.16%) VLAN
10 4 (1.73%) NAS
10 4 (1.73%) WAN
10 4 (1.73%) Wireless
11 3 (1.30%) Cisco ASA
11 3 (1.30%) Internet
11 3 (1.30%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (9.96%) PostgreSQL
2 22 (9.52%) MongoDB
3 17 (7.36%) SQL Server
4 14 (6.06%) Elasticsearch
5 10 (4.33%) Sybase ASE
6 9 (3.90%) Relational Database
7 8 (3.46%) DB2
8 6 (2.60%) KDB
8 6 (2.60%) MySQL
9 5 (2.16%) RDBMS
10 4 (1.73%) Power BI
11 3 (1.30%) Metadata
11 3 (1.30%) NoSQL
12 2 (0.87%) Amazon RDS
12 2 (0.87%) Redis
13 1 (0.43%) BigQuery
13 1 (0.43%) Couchbase
13 1 (0.43%) Data Lake
13 1 (0.43%) Flink
13 1 (0.43%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 45 (19.48%) Jenkins
2 30 (12.99%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 29 (12.55%) JIRA
4 24 (10.39%) Bitbucket
4 24 (10.39%) GitLab
5 22 (9.52%) Git
6 9 (3.90%) Sonatype Nexus
7 7 (3.03%) TeamCity
8 6 (2.60%) CircleCI
8 6 (2.60%) NUnit
8 6 (2.60%) Travis CI
9 5 (2.16%) Postman
9 5 (2.16%) Visual Studio
10 4 (1.73%) Artifactory
10 4 (1.73%) Gradle
10 4 (1.73%) Maven
10 4 (1.73%) Selenium
11 3 (1.30%) Cucumber
11 3 (1.30%) Cypress.io
11 3 (1.30%) MSI
General
1 77 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 47 (20.35%) Analytical Skills
3 32 (13.85%) Finance
4 19 (8.23%) Aerospace
5 11 (4.76%) Public Sector
5 11 (4.76%) Retail
6 10 (4.33%) Banking
7 5 (2.16%) Law
8 4 (1.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (1.73%) Marketing
9 3 (1.30%) Advertising
9 3 (1.30%) Automotive
9 3 (1.30%) Electronics
9 3 (1.30%) Investment Banking
9 3 (1.30%) Manufacturing
9 3 (1.30%) Telecoms
10 2 (0.87%) Local Government
10 2 (0.87%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (0.87%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 37 (16.02%) Developer
2 27 (11.69%) Senior
3 25 (10.82%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 24 (10.39%) Site Engineer
5 22 (9.52%) DevOps Engineer
6 20 (8.66%) DBA
7 14 (6.06%) Administrator
7 14 (6.06%) Cloud Engineer
8 13 (5.63%) Database Specialist
8 13 (5.63%) Security Engineer
9 11 (4.76%) Senior Developer
10 10 (4.33%) Analyst
10 10 (4.33%) Python Engineer
11 9 (3.90%) Automation Engineer
11 9 (3.90%) Azure Engineer
12 8 (3.46%) Applications Engineer
12 8 (3.46%) Sybase DBA
13 7 (3.03%) Network Engineer
13 7 (3.03%) Platform Specialist
14 6 (2.60%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (14.29%) .NET
2 24 (10.39%) .NET Core
3 20 (8.66%) Kafka
4 10 (4.33%) RabbitMQ
5 9 (3.90%) REST
5 9 (3.90%) RESTful
6 8 (3.46%) JSON
6 8 (3.46%) XML
7 7 (3.03%) Elastic Stack
8 6 (2.60%) SAML
8 6 (2.60%) YAML
9 5 (2.16%) AngularJS
9 5 (2.16%) CSS
9 5 (2.16%) GraphQL
9 5 (2.16%) OAuth
9 5 (2.16%) OAuth2
9 5 (2.16%) Playwright
10 3 (1.30%) Jest
10 3 (1.30%) React
10 3 (1.30%) SPFx
Miscellaneous
1 31 (13.42%) Replication
2 20 (8.66%) Linux Command Line
3 17 (7.36%) Cloud Native
4 15 (6.49%) Data Structures
5 14 (6.06%) Clustering
6 11 (4.76%) Distributed Systems
7 10 (4.33%) Algorithms
8 7 (3.03%) Data Centre
9 6 (2.60%) Fixed Income
10 5 (2.16%) Cyberattack
10 5 (2.16%) Management Information System
10 5 (2.16%) PKI
10 5 (2.16%) Public Cloud
11 4 (1.73%) Data Protection Act
11 4 (1.73%) Hybrid Cloud
12 3 (1.30%) Security Posture
12 3 (1.30%) Taxonomies
13 2 (0.87%) Media Streaming
13 2 (0.87%) Operational Technology
13 2 (0.87%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 86 (37.23%) Linux
2 46 (19.91%) Windows
3 19 (8.23%) Unix
4 12 (5.19%) Windows Server
5 8 (3.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (1.30%) CentOS
6 3 (1.30%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.43%) VMS
7 1 (0.43%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (0.43%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.43%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (32.90%) CI/CD
2 64 (27.71%) Problem-Solving
3 62 (26.84%) DevOps
4 50 (21.65%) Agile
5 36 (15.58%) Configuration Management
5 36 (15.58%) Continuous Integration
6 35 (15.15%) Deployment Automation
7 33 (14.29%) Disaster Recovery
8 29 (12.55%) Migration
9 28 (12.12%) Performance Tuning
10 27 (11.69%) Infrastructure as Code
10 27 (11.69%) ITIL
11 26 (11.26%) Infrastructure Automation
11 26 (11.26%) OO
11 26 (11.26%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 25 (10.82%) Microservices
12 25 (10.82%) OOP
13 23 (9.96%) Incident Response
13 23 (9.96%) Scrum
14 21 (9.09%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 118 (51.08%) Python
2 96 (41.56%) PowerShell
3 42 (18.18%) Bash
4 28 (12.12%) SQL
5 21 (9.09%) Java
6 16 (6.93%) Go
7 15 (6.49%) Shell Script
8 13 (5.63%) JavaScript
9 12 (5.19%) Perl
10 9 (3.90%) C#
11 7 (3.03%) C++
12 6 (2.60%) T-SQL
12 6 (2.60%) TypeScript
13 3 (1.30%) Groovy
14 2 (0.87%) Kusto Query Language
14 2 (0.87%) PHP
14 2 (0.87%) Ruby
14 2 (0.87%) VB.NET
15 1 (0.43%) Bicep
15 1 (0.43%) C
Qualifications
1 62 (26.84%) Security Cleared
2 56 (24.24%) SC Cleared
3 22 (9.52%) Degree
4 10 (4.33%) Microsoft Certification
5 8 (3.46%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (3.03%) AWS Certification
6 7 (3.03%) Cisco Certification
7 6 (2.60%) MCSE
8 5 (2.16%) CCNA
8 5 (2.16%) CCNP
8 5 (2.16%) DV Cleared
9 2 (0.87%) CCIE
9 2 (0.87%) Network+ Certification
9 2 (0.87%) RHCE
10 1 (0.43%) GIAC
10 1 (0.43%) JNCIA
10 1 (0.43%) JNCIS
10 1 (0.43%) Linux+ Certification
10 1 (0.43%) LPIC
10 1 (0.43%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (8.23%) QA
2 8 (3.46%) Accessibility
3 4 (1.73%) SLA
4 2 (0.87%) GDPR
5 1 (0.43%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.43%) NIST
5 1 (0.43%) PMO
System Software
1 37 (16.02%) Docker
2 34 (14.72%) Active Directory
3 22 (9.52%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (5.19%) vSphere
5 8 (3.46%) Apache ZooKeeper
6 6 (2.60%) VMware NSX
7 5 (2.16%) Hyper-V
8 4 (1.73%) Veritas Cluster Server
9 3 (1.30%) VMware ESXi
10 2 (0.87%) BitLocker
10 2 (0.87%) Microsoft App-V
11 1 (0.43%) Firmware
11 1 (0.43%) KVM
11 1 (0.43%) Virtual Machines
11 1 (0.43%) VMware Server
11 1 (0.43%) Xen
Systems Management
1 60 (25.97%) Ansible
2 42 (18.18%) Terraform
3 41 (17.75%) Kubernetes
4 28 (12.12%) Prometheus
5 25 (10.82%) Grafana
6 23 (9.96%) PowerCLI
7 15 (6.49%) Puppet
8 13 (5.63%) Kibana
9 10 (4.33%) Progress Chef
10 9 (3.90%) Istio
11 8 (3.46%) Consul
12 7 (3.03%) Argo
12 7 (3.03%) Microsoft Intune
12 7 (3.03%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
13 6 (2.60%) Docker Swarm
13 6 (2.60%) logstash
14 5 (2.16%) SCCM
15 4 (1.73%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 4 (1.73%) VxRail
16 3 (1.30%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 67 (29.00%) Microsoft
2 27 (11.69%) VMware
3 25 (10.82%) Dell
4 24 (10.39%) HP
5 23 (9.96%) Atlassian
6 16 (6.93%) Oracle
7 15 (6.49%) SolarWinds
8 14 (6.06%) Red Hat
9 13 (5.63%) Splunk
10 12 (5.19%) SAP
11 11 (4.76%) ServiceNow
12 10 (4.33%) Cisco
12 10 (4.33%) Sybase
13 9 (3.90%) IBM
14 8 (3.46%) Google
14 8 (3.46%) SaltStack
15 5 (2.16%) Blue Prism
15 5 (2.16%) CrowdStrike
15 5 (2.16%) UiPath
15 5 (2.16%) Veritas