Task Automation Contracts in the UK excluding London

Task Automation
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding 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 7 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 257 388 374
Rank change year-on-year +131 -14 -21
Contract jobs citing Task Automation 130 68 131
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.64% 0.29% 0.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.75% 0.32% 0.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 100 50 107
10th Percentile £405 £448 £350
25th Percentile £462 £513 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £513
Median % change year-on-year - +7.32% +13.89%
75th Percentile £650 £694 £594
90th Percentile £700 £739 £675
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - +10.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £12.50 -
UK median hourly rate £23.80 £51.25 £51.14
% change year-on-year -53.56% +0.22% -7.02%

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,229 21,054 27,253
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.55% 89.57% 88.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,247 14,598 19,040
10th Percentile £250 £256 £232
25th Percentile £375 £400 £386
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,039 1,291 1,337
10th Percentile £12.30 £11.00 £12.23
25th Percentile £15.17 £15.50 £14.00
Median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -6.98%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £46.12
90th Percentile £72.90 £73.75 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year +1.39% +44.00% +2.04%

Task Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Task Automation in the UK excluding London

Task Automation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Task Automation in the UK excluding London

Task Automation
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Task Automation in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Task Automation in the UK excluding London

Task Automation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Task Automation in the UK excluding London

Task Automation
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 7 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
South West +40 38 £700 +27.27% 11
South East +48 35 £500 +2.04% 18
North of England +30 29 £475 -26.92% 17
Yorkshire +29 19 £498 -28.93% 3
Scotland +57 13 £446 +8.12% 6
Midlands +27 10 £650 +20.93% 12
West Midlands +25 9 £650 -10.34% 9
North West +23 6 £488 -2.50% 12
East of England +3 5 £513 -6.82% 12
North East +17 4 £463 -15.91% 2
Northern Ireland - 2 - - 4
East Midlands +14 1 £575 +9.52% 3
Task Automation
UK

Task Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 29 (22.31%) Confluence
2 4 (3.08%) SharePoint
3 3 (2.31%) Apache
3 3 (2.31%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (1.54%) nginx
5 1 (0.77%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.77%) SharePoint 2010
5 1 (0.77%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 2 (1.54%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.77%) InfoPath
2 1 (0.77%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 7 (5.38%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 33 (25.38%) Azure
2 28 (21.54%) AWS
3 15 (11.54%) GCP
4 14 (10.77%) GitHub
5 12 (9.23%) OpenShift
6 8 (6.15%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 7 (5.38%) Azure DevOps
8 6 (4.62%) Apigee
8 6 (4.62%) Entra ID
8 6 (4.62%) Kong
9 5 (3.85%) CloudFront
10 4 (3.08%) Amazon EC2
10 4 (3.08%) Amazon S3
10 4 (3.08%) Datadog
10 4 (3.08%) Microsoft 365
10 4 (3.08%) Power Platform
10 4 (3.08%) PowerApps
11 3 (2.31%) OneDrive
11 3 (2.31%) Power Automate
11 3 (2.31%) ShareGate
Communications & Networking
1 21 (16.15%) DNS
2 14 (10.77%) VPN
3 9 (6.92%) TCP/IP
4 7 (5.38%) DHCP
4 7 (5.38%) HTTP
4 7 (5.38%) Network Security
5 6 (4.62%) Firewall
6 5 (3.85%) SAN
7 4 (3.08%) Fibre Channel
7 4 (3.08%) LAN
7 4 (3.08%) Remote Desktop
7 4 (3.08%) WAN
8 3 (2.31%) IPv4
8 3 (2.31%) OSPF
8 3 (2.31%) Software-Defined Networking
8 3 (2.31%) VLAN
9 2 (1.54%) Cisco Nexus
9 2 (1.54%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (16.15%) PostgreSQL
2 14 (10.77%) Elasticsearch
3 10 (7.69%) SQL Server
4 9 (6.92%) MongoDB
5 6 (4.62%) MySQL
6 4 (3.08%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (2.31%) Relational Database
8 2 (1.54%) Metadata
9 1 (0.77%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (0.77%) InfluxDB
9 1 (0.77%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 31 (23.85%) Jenkins
2 30 (23.08%) JIRA
3 29 (22.31%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 23 (17.69%) Bitbucket
5 18 (13.85%) Git
6 17 (13.08%) GitLab
7 6 (4.62%) CircleCI
7 6 (4.62%) NUnit
7 6 (4.62%) Travis CI
7 6 (4.62%) Visual Studio
8 5 (3.85%) Postman
9 4 (3.08%) Artifactory
10 2 (1.54%) Selenium
10 2 (1.54%) Sonatype Nexus
11 1 (0.77%) Cucumber
11 1 (0.77%) Cypress.io
11 1 (0.77%) MSTest
11 1 (0.77%) SpecFlow
11 1 (0.77%) Subversion
11 1 (0.77%) TeamCity
General
1 44 (33.85%) Social Skills
2 30 (23.08%) Analytical Skills
3 19 (14.62%) Aerospace
4 13 (10.00%) Finance
5 6 (4.62%) Retail
6 5 (3.85%) Public Sector
7 3 (2.31%) Banking
8 1 (0.77%) Electronics
8 1 (0.77%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.77%) Law
8 1 (0.77%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.77%) Marketing
8 1 (0.77%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 24 (18.46%) Developer
2 16 (12.31%) Site Engineer
2 16 (12.31%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 14 (10.77%) DevOps Engineer
4 13 (10.00%) Database Specialist
5 10 (7.69%) Cloud Engineer
6 9 (6.92%) Administrator
6 9 (6.92%) Senior
7 8 (6.15%) Security Engineer
8 7 (5.38%) Automation Engineer
8 7 (5.38%) DBA
8 7 (5.38%) VMware Engineer
9 6 (4.62%) Platform Specialist
9 6 (4.62%) Python Engineer
9 6 (4.62%) Virtualisation Engineer
10 5 (3.85%) Analyst
10 5 (3.85%) Applications Engineer
10 5 (3.85%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 5 (3.85%) Senior Test Automation Engineer
10 5 (3.85%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (23.08%) .NET
2 24 (18.46%) .NET Core
3 9 (6.92%) Kafka
4 7 (5.38%) JSON
4 7 (5.38%) Middleware
4 7 (5.38%) XML
5 6 (4.62%) AngularJS
5 6 (4.62%) Elastic Stack
5 6 (4.62%) YAML
6 5 (3.85%) GraphQL
6 5 (3.85%) OAuth
6 5 (3.85%) OAuth2
6 5 (3.85%) Playwright
6 5 (3.85%) SAML
7 4 (3.08%) REST
8 3 (2.31%) CSS
8 3 (2.31%) HTML
8 3 (2.31%) jQuery
8 3 (2.31%) SPFx
9 2 (1.54%) React
Miscellaneous
1 16 (12.31%) Cloud Native
2 14 (10.77%) Replication
3 11 (8.46%) Clustering
3 11 (8.46%) Linux Command Line
4 6 (4.62%) Data Structures
5 4 (3.08%) Management Information System
5 4 (3.08%) PKI
6 3 (2.31%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (1.54%) CMDB
7 2 (1.54%) Distributed Applications
7 2 (1.54%) Taxonomies
8 1 (0.77%) Algorithms
8 1 (0.77%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.77%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (0.77%) Private Cloud
8 1 (0.77%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 62 (47.69%) Linux
2 19 (14.62%) Windows
3 10 (7.69%) Unix
3 10 (7.69%) Windows Server
4 8 (6.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (4.62%) CentOS
5 6 (4.62%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.77%) VMS
6 1 (0.77%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.77%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (0.77%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.77%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (36.92%) CI/CD
2 39 (30.00%) DevOps
3 37 (28.46%) Problem-Solving
4 34 (26.15%) Agile
5 32 (24.62%) OO
6 31 (23.85%) Configuration Management
7 30 (23.08%) Continuous Integration
8 28 (21.54%) Containerisation
9 27 (20.77%) Performance Tuning
10 25 (19.23%) Deployment Automation
10 25 (19.23%) OOP
11 23 (17.69%) Infrastructure Automation
12 22 (16.92%) Disaster Recovery
13 19 (14.62%) Collaborative Working
14 18 (13.85%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 17 (13.08%) Migration
15 17 (13.08%) Scrum
16 16 (12.31%) Incident Response
17 15 (11.54%) Data Migration
17 15 (11.54%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 64 (49.23%) Python
2 51 (39.23%) PowerShell
3 38 (29.23%) Bash
4 20 (15.38%) SQL
5 7 (5.38%) Perl
6 5 (3.85%) Shell Script
6 5 (3.85%) TypeScript
7 4 (3.08%) Java
8 3 (2.31%) C#
8 3 (2.31%) JavaScript
9 2 (1.54%) Go
Qualifications
1 54 (41.54%) Security Cleared
2 47 (36.15%) SC Cleared
3 11 (8.46%) Degree
4 5 (3.85%) AWS Certification
4 5 (3.85%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (3.85%) DV Cleared
4 5 (3.85%) Microsoft Certification
5 4 (3.08%) MCSE
6 3 (2.31%) CCNA
6 3 (2.31%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (1.54%) CCIE
7 2 (1.54%) CCNP
7 2 (1.54%) RHCE
8 1 (0.77%) GIAC
8 1 (0.77%) Linux+ Certification
8 1 (0.77%) LPIC
8 1 (0.77%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.77%) Network+ Certification
8 1 (0.77%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (6.15%) QA
2 5 (3.85%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.54%) GDPR
4 1 (0.77%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (0.77%) SLA
System Software
1 27 (20.77%) VMware Infrastructure
2 25 (19.23%) Docker
3 14 (10.77%) Active Directory
4 13 (10.00%) vSphere
5 7 (5.38%) VMware NSX
6 5 (3.85%) VMware ESXi
7 4 (3.08%) VMware Server
8 2 (1.54%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.77%) KVM
9 1 (0.77%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.77%) Xen
Systems Management
1 45 (34.62%) Ansible
2 27 (20.77%) Terraform
3 26 (20.00%) Kubernetes
4 23 (17.69%) PowerCLI
5 20 (15.38%) Prometheus
6 18 (13.85%) Grafana
7 14 (10.77%) Kibana
8 13 (10.00%) Puppet
9 10 (7.69%) Istio
9 10 (7.69%) Progress Chef
10 8 (6.15%) Argo
11 7 (5.38%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
12 6 (4.62%) Docker Swarm
12 6 (4.62%) logstash
13 5 (3.85%) vCenter Server
14 2 (1.54%) Kiali
14 2 (1.54%) SCCM
15 1 (0.77%) Sysprep
15 1 (0.77%) WSUS
15 1 (0.77%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 30 (23.08%) VMware
2 25 (19.23%) Dell
3 23 (17.69%) Atlassian
4 22 (16.92%) HP
5 17 (13.08%) Microsoft
6 13 (10.00%) Red Hat
7 12 (9.23%) SolarWinds
8 10 (7.69%) Splunk
9 9 (6.92%) Oracle
10 4 (3.08%) ServiceNow
11 3 (2.31%) Informatica
12 2 (1.54%) Cisco
12 2 (1.54%) SAP
13 1 (0.77%) Arqiva
13 1 (0.77%) Blue Prism
13 1 (0.77%) Google
13 1 (0.77%) Qualys
13 1 (0.77%) UiPath
13 1 (0.77%) Veritas