Office Automation Contracts

Office Automation
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Office Automation skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Office Automation over the 6 months to 24 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 572 701 823
Rank change year-on-year +129 +122 -157
Contract jobs citing Office Automation 10 11 32
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.023% 0.018% 0.036%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.027% 0.020% 0.040%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 9 24
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £158
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £200 £200 £243
Median % change year-on-year - -17.53% +70.18%
75th Percentile £713 - £478
90th Percentile - £390 £534
UK excluding London median daily rate £200 £200 £160
% change year-on-year - +25.00% +18.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - £20.44
25th Percentile - - £25.22
Median hourly rate - - £34.38
75th Percentile - - £36.16
90th Percentile - - £36.51
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £34.38

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Office 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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,651 54,096 80,844
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.29% 89.91% 90.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,333 37,469 56,726
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,430 1,787 1,945
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.66 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.50 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +50.00% -
75th Percentile £58.75 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.34 £75.00 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.65 £37.30 £20.00
% change year-on-year -4.42% +86.50% -8.09%

Office Automation
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Office Automation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Office Automation in the UK

Office Automation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Office Automation in the UK

Office Automation
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Office Automation over the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Office Automation in the UK

Office Automation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Office Automation in the UK

Office Automation
Top 6 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Office Automation within the UK over the 6 months to 24 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
England +125 10 £200 - 3
UK excluding London +58 8 £200 - 2
Work from Home +118 5 £200 -
South East +11 5 £200 -
South West - 3 £675 - 1
London +104 2 £675 +12.50% 1

Office Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 4 (40.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (30.00%) SharePoint
3 1 (10.00%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 3 (30.00%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 3 (30.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (10.00%) AWS
2 1 (10.00%) Azure
2 1 (10.00%) GCP
2 1 (10.00%) OpenShift
2 1 (10.00%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (30.00%) DHCP
1 3 (30.00%) DNS
1 3 (30.00%) Firewall
1 3 (30.00%) LAN
1 3 (30.00%) Skype
1 3 (30.00%) SMTP
1 3 (30.00%) TCP/IP
1 3 (30.00%) WAN
2 1 (10.00%) VPN
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Bitbucket
1 1 (10.00%) JIRA
General
1 3 (30.00%) Military
1 3 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (60.00%) Support Technician
2 5 (50.00%) IT Support
2 5 (50.00%) IT Support Technician
2 5 (50.00%) IT Technician
3 3 (30.00%) Service Desk Engineer
3 3 (30.00%) Wintel Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Automation Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Office Automation Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (10.00%) .NET
1 1 (10.00%) .NET Framework
1 1 (10.00%) ModSecurity
Miscellaneous
1 4 (40.00%) PKI
2 1 (10.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (10.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (10.00%) Public Cloud
2 1 (10.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 4 (40.00%) Windows
1 4 (40.00%) Windows Server
2 3 (30.00%) Windows 10
3 1 (10.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (80.00%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (40.00%) Agile
2 4 (40.00%) Project Management
3 3 (30.00%) Change Management
3 3 (30.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 3 (30.00%) ITIL
3 3 (30.00%) ITSM
3 3 (30.00%) Matrix Management
3 3 (30.00%) Performance Monitoring
3 3 (30.00%) PRINCE2
3 3 (30.00%) Proactive Monitoring
3 3 (30.00%) Root Cause Analysis
3 3 (30.00%) Service Management
3 3 (30.00%) Statistical Analysis
4 1 (10.00%) ArchiMate
4 1 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (10.00%) IT Strategy
4 1 (10.00%) Machine Learning
4 1 (10.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 1 (10.00%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 4 (40.00%) PowerShell
2 3 (30.00%) SQL
3 1 (10.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 4 (40.00%) Degree
2 4 (40.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (10.00%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (30.00%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (40.00%) Active Directory
1 4 (40.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (30.00%) Microsoft Virtual Server
2 3 (30.00%) Virtual Desktop
2 3 (30.00%) Virtual Servers
3 1 (10.00%) Docker
3 1 (10.00%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 4 (40.00%) OPNET
2 3 (30.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 3 (30.00%) SCCM
2 3 (30.00%) SCOM
3 1 (10.00%) Ansible
3 1 (10.00%) Kubernetes
3 1 (10.00%) PowerCLI
3 1 (10.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (40.00%) Microsoft
1 4 (40.00%) VMware
2 3 (30.00%) Remedy
2 3 (30.00%) SolarWinds
3 1 (10.00%) Atlassian
3 1 (10.00%) Cisco
3 1 (10.00%) Google