Task Automation Contracts in Reading

Task Automation
Berkshire > Reading

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

6 months to
1 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 93 85 95
Rank change year-on-year -8 +10 -41
Contract jobs citing Task Automation 4 3 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 0.34% 0.29% 0.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.37% 0.32% 0.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 2 1
10th Percentile £548 £433 -
25th Percentile £581 £464 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £530 £375
Median % change year-on-year +17.92% +41.33% +38.89%
75th Percentile £650 £599 £388
90th Percentile - £631 -
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £530 £400
% change year-on-year -5.66% +32.50% +48.15%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Reading

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 Reading with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,072 926 1,233
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 90.08% 89.99% 90.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 581 615 825
10th Percentile £213 £363 £253
25th Percentile £413 £456 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £619 £664 £600
90th Percentile £688 £721 £656
Berkshire median daily rate £511 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -2.71% +5.00% +8.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 46 23 8
10th Percentile £27.58 £45.50 £12.73
25th Percentile £53.74 £53.00 £19.44
Median hourly rate £62.07 £65.00 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.50% +132.14% -32.93%
75th Percentile £82.55 £74.40 £33.13
90th Percentile £87.50 £79.19 £40.25
Berkshire median hourly rate £61.30 £57.82 £21.05
% change year-on-year +6.02% +174.67% -1.06%

Task Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Job vacancy trend for Task Automation in Reading

Task Automation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

Daily rate trend for Task Automation in Reading

Task Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading 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%) AWS
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
1 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (25.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Appium
1 1 (25.00%) Git
1 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (25.00%) MSTest
1 1 (25.00%) NUnit
1 1 (25.00%) Selenium
1 1 (25.00%) SpecFlow
1 1 (25.00%) TeamCity
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Database Specialist
2 2 (50.00%) PostgreSQL Specialist
3 1 (25.00%) Automation Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) C# Software Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) DBA
3 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Specialist
3 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Software Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) SQL DBA
3 1 (25.00%) SQL Server DBA
3 1 (25.00%) SQL Server Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) .NET
1 1 (25.00%) .NET Core
1 1 (25.00%) .NET Framework
1 1 (25.00%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Linux
1 1 (25.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Capacity Management
1 3 (75.00%) Data Migration
1 3 (75.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 3 (75.00%) Migration
1 3 (75.00%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (25.00%) Configuration Management
2 1 (25.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (25.00%) Continuous Deployment
2 1 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (25.00%) DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (25.00%) OO
2 1 (25.00%) OOP
2 1 (25.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (25.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Bash
2 1 (25.00%) C#
2 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (100.00%) Terraform
2 1 (25.00%) Ansible
2 1 (25.00%) Progress Chef
2 1 (25.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Red Hat
1 2 (50.00%) SolarWinds
2 1 (25.00%) Google
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft