Task Automation Contracts in London

Task Automation
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 264 352 407
Rank change year-on-year +88 +55 -30
Contract jobs citing Task Automation 130 136 212
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.74% 0.53% 0.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.84% 0.59% 0.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 108 86 156
10th Percentile £359 £350 £453
25th Percentile £450 £458 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -4.35% +15.00%
75th Percentile £688 £673 £688
90th Percentile £790 £744 £750
England median daily rate £553 £550 £550
% change year-on-year +0.45% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £77.50
Median hourly rate £23.80 £90.00 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year -73.56% +12.50% +10.34%
75th Percentile - - £82.50
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £23.80 £51.25 £62.50
% change year-on-year -53.56% -18.00% -13.79%

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,465 23,124 35,641
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.32% 90.91% 92.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,089 16,746 26,132
10th Percentile £340 £375 £390
25th Percentile £449 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £590 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.78% +2.61% +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £545
% change year-on-year -4.55% +0.92% +9.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 320 264 402
10th Percentile £15.50 £18.00 £16.50
25th Percentile £20.00 £22.50 £23.91
Median hourly rate £28.00 £39.21 £35.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.59% +10.45% +8.07%
75th Percentile £48.75 £64.50 £50.00
90th Percentile £68.08 £82.50 £67.50
England median hourly rate £37.50 £37.32 £25.00
% change year-on-year +0.48% +49.28% +11.11%

Task Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Task Automation in London

Task Automation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Task Automation in London

Task Automation
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Task Automation in London over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Task Automation in London

Task Automation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Task Automation in London

Task Automation
Contract Job Locations in 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 London region over the 6 months to 1 June 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
Central London +39 29 £638 +34.92% 4
West London +18 4 £469 +6.53% 4
North London - 2 £250 -
Task Automation
England

Task Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 10 (7.69%) SharePoint
2 8 (6.15%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (2.31%) IIS
3 3 (2.31%) nginx
4 2 (1.54%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.54%) Confluence
5 1 (0.77%) Apache Solr
Applications
1 2 (1.54%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.77%) InVision
2 1 (0.77%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.77%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.77%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 40 (30.77%) Azure
2 19 (14.62%) AWS
3 17 (13.08%) Microsoft 365
4 14 (10.77%) GCP
5 13 (10.00%) GitHub
6 10 (7.69%) Entra ID
7 8 (6.15%) Azure DevOps
8 5 (3.85%) OpenShift
8 5 (3.85%) WhatsApp
9 4 (3.08%) Apigee
9 4 (3.08%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 4 (3.08%) GitHub Actions
10 3 (2.31%) Amazon ECS
10 3 (2.31%) Amazon EKS
10 3 (2.31%) AWS CloudFormation
10 3 (2.31%) Mimecast
10 3 (2.31%) Nutanix
10 3 (2.31%) Power Platform
10 3 (2.31%) Rubrik
11 2 (1.54%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 9 (6.92%) DNS
2 8 (6.15%) Firewall
3 5 (3.85%) NAS
3 5 (3.85%) SAN
3 5 (3.85%) VPN
3 5 (3.85%) Wireless
4 4 (3.08%) DHCP
4 4 (3.08%) Internet
4 4 (3.08%) LAN
4 4 (3.08%) Network Security
5 3 (2.31%) Cisco Nexus
5 3 (2.31%) DKIM
5 3 (2.31%) DMARC
5 3 (2.31%) Extranet
5 3 (2.31%) Software-Defined Networking
5 3 (2.31%) TCP/IP
5 3 (2.31%) Wi-Fi
6 2 (1.54%) Cisco Firepower
6 2 (1.54%) HTTP
6 2 (1.54%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (11.54%) MongoDB
2 11 (8.46%) Sybase ASE
3 10 (7.69%) KDB
4 9 (6.92%) DB2
4 9 (6.92%) SQL Server
5 7 (5.38%) Relational Database
6 5 (3.85%) PostgreSQL
6 5 (3.85%) RDBMS
7 3 (2.31%) MySQL
7 3 (2.31%) NoSQL
8 2 (1.54%) Power BI
8 2 (1.54%) Redis
8 2 (1.54%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 2 (1.54%) Tableau
9 1 (0.77%) Amazon Aurora
9 1 (0.77%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (0.77%) BigQuery
9 1 (0.77%) Couchbase
9 1 (0.77%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (0.77%) Flink
Development Applications
1 16 (12.31%) Jenkins
2 11 (8.46%) Git
3 5 (3.85%) GitLab
4 4 (3.08%) Artifactory
4 4 (3.08%) Sonatype Nexus
5 3 (2.31%) InstallShield
5 3 (2.31%) JIRA
5 3 (2.31%) MSI
5 3 (2.31%) TeamCity
6 2 (1.54%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 2 (1.54%) Cypress.io
6 2 (1.54%) Jaeger
6 2 (1.54%) NUnit
6 2 (1.54%) Postman
6 2 (1.54%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.77%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.77%) CircleCI
7 1 (0.77%) Gradle
7 1 (0.77%) Maven
General
1 47 (36.15%) Social Skills
2 19 (14.62%) Analytical Skills
3 18 (13.85%) Finance
4 6 (4.62%) Banking
4 6 (4.62%) Public Sector
4 6 (4.62%) Retail
5 5 (3.85%) Investment Banking
6 4 (3.08%) Marketing
7 3 (2.31%) Advertising
7 3 (2.31%) Automotive
7 3 (2.31%) Telecoms
8 2 (1.54%) Electronics
8 2 (1.54%) Manufacturing
8 2 (1.54%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.77%) Law
9 1 (0.77%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 26 (20.00%) Senior
2 20 (15.38%) Developer
3 14 (10.77%) DevOps Engineer
3 14 (10.77%) Senior Developer
4 13 (10.00%) DBA
4 13 (10.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 12 (9.23%) Site Engineer
6 10 (7.69%) KDB Developer
7 9 (6.92%) Python Engineer
7 9 (6.92%) Sybase DBA
8 6 (4.62%) Administrator
8 6 (4.62%) Architect
8 6 (4.62%) Cloud Engineer
8 6 (4.62%) Security Engineer
9 5 (3.85%) Applications Engineer
9 5 (3.85%) Azure Engineer
10 4 (3.08%) Analyst
10 4 (3.08%) Applications Specialist
10 4 (3.08%) Java Engineer
10 4 (3.08%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (11.54%) Kafka
2 13 (10.00%) RabbitMQ
2 13 (10.00%) RESTful
3 5 (3.85%) CSS
4 4 (3.08%) .NET
4 4 (3.08%) AngularJS
4 4 (3.08%) Node.js
4 4 (3.08%) REST
5 3 (2.31%) HTML
5 3 (2.31%) React
5 3 (2.31%) SailPoint
5 3 (2.31%) Software Packaging
6 2 (1.54%) Elastic Stack
6 2 (1.54%) GraphQL
6 2 (1.54%) LDAP
6 2 (1.54%) Playwright
6 2 (1.54%) WebGL
6 2 (1.54%) YAML
7 1 (0.77%) TensorFlow
7 1 (0.77%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 16 (12.31%) Replication
2 14 (10.77%) Distributed Systems
3 13 (10.00%) Algorithms
4 12 (9.23%) Data Structures
5 11 (8.46%) Linux Command Line
6 10 (7.69%) Fixed Income
7 6 (4.62%) Data Centre
8 5 (3.85%) Cyberattack
8 5 (3.85%) PKI
9 4 (3.08%) Virtual Team
10 3 (2.31%) Clustering
10 3 (2.31%) Fat Client
10 3 (2.31%) Hybrid Cloud
10 3 (2.31%) Public Cloud
10 3 (2.31%) Security Posture
10 3 (2.31%) Thin Client
11 2 (1.54%) Data Protection Act
11 2 (1.54%) Media Streaming
11 2 (1.54%) Operational Technology
11 2 (1.54%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 38 (29.23%) Linux
2 27 (20.77%) Windows
3 10 (7.69%) Unix
4 5 (3.85%) Windows Server
5 3 (2.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (31.54%) DevOps
2 40 (30.77%) CI/CD
3 36 (27.69%) Problem-Solving
4 22 (16.92%) Agile
4 22 (16.92%) Microservices
5 18 (13.85%) Infrastructure as Code
5 18 (13.85%) ITIL
6 15 (11.54%) Analytics
6 15 (11.54%) Migration
7 14 (10.77%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 13 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 12 (9.23%) Analytical Thinking
9 12 (9.23%) Incident Management
10 11 (8.46%) Continuous Improvement
11 10 (7.69%) Data Analytics
11 10 (7.69%) Disaster Recovery
11 10 (7.69%) Electronic Trading
11 10 (7.69%) Incident Response
11 10 (7.69%) Root Cause Analysis
12 8 (6.15%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 71 (54.62%) Python
2 50 (38.46%) PowerShell
3 18 (13.85%) Go
4 17 (13.08%) SQL
5 16 (12.31%) Java
5 16 (12.31%) Perl
6 15 (11.54%) Shell Script
7 13 (10.00%) JavaScript
8 11 (8.46%) Bash
9 9 (6.92%) C++
9 9 (6.92%) T-SQL
10 5 (3.85%) C#
11 3 (2.31%) Groovy
11 3 (2.31%) Ruby
11 3 (2.31%) TypeScript
12 2 (1.54%) Kusto Query Language
12 2 (1.54%) PHP
13 1 (0.77%) BeanShell
13 1 (0.77%) Bicep
13 1 (0.77%) C
Qualifications
1 14 (10.77%) Degree
2 10 (7.69%) SC Cleared
2 10 (7.69%) Security Cleared
3 7 (5.38%) Microsoft Certification
4 5 (3.85%) AWS Certification
5 4 (3.08%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (3.08%) MCSE
6 3 (2.31%) CCNP
6 3 (2.31%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (1.54%) CESG Certified Professional
7 2 (1.54%) Citrix Certification
7 2 (1.54%) MCSA
8 1 (0.77%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 1 (0.77%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.77%) CCNA
8 1 (0.77%) JNCIA
8 1 (0.77%) JNCIS
8 1 (0.77%) Tableau Certification
8 1 (0.77%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (7.69%) QA
2 5 (3.85%) Accessibility
3 3 (2.31%) SLA
4 2 (1.54%) GDPR
4 2 (1.54%) NIST
5 1 (0.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.77%) PMO
System Software
1 27 (20.77%) Active Directory
2 12 (9.23%) Docker
3 11 (8.46%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 9 (6.92%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (3.85%) Hyper-V
5 5 (3.85%) Microsoft App-V
5 5 (3.85%) Veritas Cluster Server
6 3 (2.31%) BitLocker
7 2 (1.54%) VMware NSX
7 2 (1.54%) vSphere
7 2 (1.54%) XenApp
7 2 (1.54%) XenDesktop
8 1 (0.77%) Firmware
8 1 (0.77%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 24 (18.46%) Kubernetes
2 17 (13.08%) Terraform
3 16 (12.31%) Prometheus
4 15 (11.54%) Grafana
5 14 (10.77%) Ansible
6 12 (9.23%) Consul
7 7 (5.38%) Microsoft Intune
8 4 (3.08%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 4 (3.08%) SCCM
8 4 (3.08%) VxRail
9 3 (2.31%) NetBackup
9 3 (2.31%) Puppet
9 3 (2.31%) SCOM
9 3 (2.31%) SCVMM
10 2 (1.54%) Backup Exec
11 1 (0.77%) CASB
11 1 (0.77%) Nagios
11 1 (0.77%) Packer
11 1 (0.77%) Progress Chef
11 1 (0.77%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 49 (37.69%) Microsoft
2 12 (9.23%) SAP
3 11 (8.46%) SaltStack
3 11 (8.46%) Sybase
3 11 (8.46%) VMware
4 10 (7.69%) Google
4 10 (7.69%) IBM
5 8 (6.15%) Oracle
5 8 (6.15%) ServiceNow
6 7 (5.38%) Cisco
7 5 (3.85%) CrowdStrike
7 5 (3.85%) F5
7 5 (3.85%) Splunk
7 5 (3.85%) Sun
7 5 (3.85%) Veritas
8 3 (2.31%) CheckPoint
8 3 (2.31%) Commvault
8 3 (2.31%) Dell Compellent
8 3 (2.31%) Equitrac
8 3 (2.31%) MobileIron