Task Automation Contracts in Gloucestershire

Task Automation
South West > Gloucestershire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Gloucestershire 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 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 51 56 -
Rank change year-on-year +5 - -
Contract jobs citing Task Automation 4 7 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 0.95% 1.45% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.10% 1.56% -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 7 0
10th Percentile £520 - -
25th Percentile £522 £525 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 -
75th Percentile £575 £575 -
90th Percentile - - -
South West median daily rate £700 £550 £510
% change year-on-year +27.27% +7.84% -15.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Gloucestershire

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 Gloucestershire with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 364 450 469
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 86.05% 92.98% 87.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 225 314 367
10th Percentile £363 £304 £205
25th Percentile £456 £415 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £513
Median % change year-on-year - +7.32% +7.89%
75th Percentile £681 £650 £600
90th Percentile £738 £721 £680
South West median daily rate £525 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% +6.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 38 14
10th Percentile £14.00 £35.00 £11.83
25th Percentile £19.57 £50.50 £13.03
Median hourly rate £40.00 £71.50 £32.40
Median % change year-on-year -44.06% +120.68% -35.20%
75th Percentile £70.00 £81.98 £42.83
90th Percentile £71.50 £83.40 £53.50
South West median hourly rate £55.00 £61.50 £48.61
% change year-on-year -10.57% +26.52% +8.02%

Task Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Gloucestershire

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

Job vacancy trend for Task Automation in Gloucestershire

Task Automation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Gloucestershire

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

Daily rate trend for Task Automation in Gloucestershire

Task Automation
Contract Job Locations in Gloucestershire

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 Gloucestershire region over the 6 months to 3 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
Cheltenham - 4 £550 - 4
Task Automation
South West

Task Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Gloucestershire 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (25.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (25.00%) AWS
1 1 (25.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
1 1 (25.00%) OpenShift
1 1 (25.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (75.00%) IPv4
1 3 (75.00%) OSPF
1 3 (75.00%) VLAN
1 3 (75.00%) VPN
2 1 (25.00%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (25.00%) InfluxDB
1 1 (25.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Lead
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Lead Cloud Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Lead DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) Lead DevOps Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Site Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (25.00%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Linux
2 2 (50.00%) Windows
3 1 (25.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Configuration Management
1 3 (75.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (50.00%) Agile
2 2 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 2 (50.00%) DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) Software Testing
3 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (25.00%) Event-Driven
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) Observability
3 1 (25.00%) Service Management
3 1 (25.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Python
2 3 (75.00%) PowerShell
3 2 (50.00%) Bash
4 1 (25.00%) Go
4 1 (25.00%) Java
4 1 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) DV Cleared
1 3 (75.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) GIAC
2 1 (25.00%) RHCE
System Software
1 3 (75.00%) Docker
2 1 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) Ansible
1 3 (75.00%) Puppet
2 2 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (50.00%) Terraform
3 1 (25.00%) Grafana
3 1 (25.00%) Progress Chef
3 1 (25.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle
1 1 (25.00%) Red Hat
1 1 (25.00%) VMware