Task Automation Contracts in the South East

Task Automation
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 168 218 220
Rank change year-on-year +50 +2 -38
Contract jobs citing Task Automation 32 8 41
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.58% 0.14% 0.53%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.68% 0.15% 0.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 6 36
10th Percentile £400 £422 £375
25th Percentile £480 £445 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -5.45% +18.92%
75th Percentile £588 £622 £632
90th Percentile £594 £645 £681
England median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - +10.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

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 South East with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,689 5,214 6,955
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 84.87% 89.45% 89.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,728 3,619 4,703
10th Percentile £243 £250 £225
25th Percentile £400 £405 £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £508 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.38% +1.50% +11.11%
75th Percentile £623 £619 £588
90th Percentile £700 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 431 218 287
10th Percentile £13.00 £18.37 £12.23
25th Percentile £18.20 £23.49 £16.06
Median hourly rate £47.50 £50.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +122.22% -13.46%
75th Percentile £62.50 £65.00 £48.67
90th Percentile £76.86 £74.85 £62.59
England median hourly rate £35.50 £37.50 £24.35
% change year-on-year -5.33% +54.00% +1.46%

Task Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Task Automation in the South East

Task Automation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

Daily rate trend for Task Automation in the South East

Task Automation
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Task Automation in the South East over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Task Automation in the South East

Task Automation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

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

Hourly rate trend for Task Automation in the South East

Task Automation
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region over the 6 months to 27 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
Thames Valley +20 17 £500 +14.29% 5
Berkshire +7 16 £500 -5.66% 2
West Sussex - 7 £575 -
Hampshire +6 6 £400 -27.27% 2
Surrey - 2 £493 - 1
Oxfordshire +4 1 £575 +31.43% 2
Task Automation
England

Task Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 2 (6.25%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (6.25%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 7 (21.88%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 10 (31.25%) OpenShift
2 8 (25.00%) GitHub
3 3 (9.38%) Azure
4 2 (6.25%) AWS
4 2 (6.25%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (6.25%) OneDrive
4 2 (6.25%) Power Automate
4 2 (6.25%) Power Platform
4 2 (6.25%) PowerApps
4 2 (6.25%) ShareGate
5 1 (3.13%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (3.13%) Entra ID
5 1 (3.13%) GCP
5 1 (3.13%) IaaS
5 1 (3.13%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.25%) DNS
2 1 (3.13%) DHCP
2 1 (3.13%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (56.25%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (21.88%) Elasticsearch
3 3 (9.38%) MongoDB
3 3 (9.38%) SQL Server
4 2 (6.25%) Metadata
5 1 (3.13%) MySQL
5 1 (3.13%) RDBMS
5 1 (3.13%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 8 (25.00%) GitLab
2 2 (6.25%) Git
3 1 (3.13%) Appium
3 1 (3.13%) Jenkins
3 1 (3.13%) MSTest
3 1 (3.13%) NUnit
3 1 (3.13%) Selenium
3 1 (3.13%) SpecFlow
3 1 (3.13%) TeamCity
General
1 3 (9.38%) Social Skills
2 2 (6.25%) Public Sector
3 1 (3.13%) Aerospace
3 1 (3.13%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (3.13%) Finance
3 1 (3.13%) Law
Job Titles
1 11 (34.38%) Site Engineer
1 11 (34.38%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 9 (28.13%) Database Specialist
3 6 (18.75%) Platform Specialist
4 2 (6.25%) Administrator
4 2 (6.25%) Analyst
4 2 (6.25%) DBA
4 2 (6.25%) Linux Engineer
4 2 (6.25%) PostgreSQL Specialist
4 2 (6.25%) Project Manager
4 2 (6.25%) SharePoint Administrator
5 1 (3.13%) Environment Analyst
5 1 (3.13%) Linux Support
5 1 (3.13%) Linux Support Engineer
5 1 (3.13%) Microsoft Specialist
5 1 (3.13%) PostgreSQL DBA
5 1 (3.13%) Software Engineer
5 1 (3.13%) Technical Project Manager
5 1 (3.13%) Windows Engineer
5 1 (3.13%) Windows Server Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (21.88%) Kafka
2 2 (6.25%) CSS
2 2 (6.25%) HTML
2 2 (6.25%) jQuery
2 2 (6.25%) SPFx
3 1 (3.13%) .NET
3 1 (3.13%) .NET Core
3 1 (3.13%) .NET Framework
3 1 (3.13%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 10 (31.25%) Linux Command Line
2 9 (28.13%) Cloud Native
3 8 (25.00%) Clustering
3 8 (25.00%) Replication
4 2 (6.25%) Management Information System
4 2 (6.25%) Taxonomies
5 1 (3.13%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (3.13%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (3.13%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 8 (25.00%) Linux
2 3 (9.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (6.25%) Windows
3 2 (6.25%) Windows Server
4 1 (3.13%) CentOS
4 1 (3.13%) Unix
4 1 (3.13%) VMS
4 1 (3.13%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (3.13%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (3.13%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (59.38%) Performance Tuning
2 13 (40.63%) Disaster Recovery
3 12 (37.50%) Capacity Management
3 12 (37.50%) Data Migration
3 12 (37.50%) DevOps
3 12 (37.50%) Migration
4 11 (34.38%) Agile
4 11 (34.38%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 10 (31.25%) GitOps
6 9 (28.13%) ITSM
7 8 (25.00%) Containerisation
7 8 (25.00%) Database Security
7 8 (25.00%) High Availability
7 8 (25.00%) Storage Management
8 7 (21.88%) Change Management
8 7 (21.88%) Collaborative Working
8 7 (21.88%) Software Engineering
9 6 (18.75%) Incident Response
9 6 (18.75%) Microservices
10 3 (9.38%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 13 (40.63%) Bash
2 5 (15.63%) PowerShell
3 4 (12.50%) Python
4 3 (9.38%) SQL
5 1 (3.13%) C#
5 1 (3.13%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 22 (68.75%) SC Cleared
1 22 (68.75%) Security Cleared
2 2 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (6.25%) Degree
3 1 (3.13%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.25%) GDPR
2 1 (3.13%) QA
System Software
1 9 (28.13%) VMware Infrastructure
1 9 (28.13%) vSphere
2 5 (15.63%) Active Directory
3 2 (6.25%) VMware NSX
4 1 (3.13%) Docker
4 1 (3.13%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 13 (40.63%) Terraform
2 9 (28.13%) Ansible
3 8 (25.00%) Kubernetes
4 7 (21.88%) Argo
4 7 (21.88%) Grafana
4 7 (21.88%) Istio
4 7 (21.88%) Kibana
4 7 (21.88%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 7 (21.88%) Prometheus
5 1 (3.13%) Nessus
5 1 (3.13%) Packer
5 1 (3.13%) Progress Chef
5 1 (3.13%) Puppet
5 1 (3.13%) SCCM
5 1 (3.13%) vCenter Server
5 1 (3.13%) vRealize
5 1 (3.13%) VxRail
5 1 (3.13%) WSUS
Vendors
1 11 (34.38%) Red Hat
1 11 (34.38%) SolarWinds
1 11 (34.38%) VMware
2 8 (25.00%) Oracle
3 4 (12.50%) Microsoft
4 1 (3.13%) Arqiva
4 1 (3.13%) Dell
4 1 (3.13%) Google
4 1 (3.13%) Qualys
4 1 (3.13%) Veritas