Task Automation Contracts in the West Midlands

Task Automation
England > West Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 106 132 163
Rank change year-on-year +26 +31 -39
Contract jobs citing Task Automation 6 8 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.31% 0.34% 0.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.37% 0.38% 0.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 5 10
10th Percentile - £495 £291
25th Percentile £625 £506 £371
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £725 £506
Median % change year-on-year -10.34% +43.21% +44.64%
75th Percentile £675 £813 £594
90th Percentile - - £678
England median daily rate £551 £550 £550
% change year-on-year +0.23% - +10.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

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 West Midlands with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,637 2,110 3,189
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 83.91% 88.54% 90.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,085 1,445 2,351
10th Percentile £275 £263 £270
25th Percentile £375 £401 £398
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £488
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +5.13% +16.07%
75th Percentile £625 £600 £575
90th Percentile £750 £694 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +8.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 115 45 69
10th Percentile £11.09 £12.20 £12.00
25th Percentile £14.00 £13.31 £13.87
Median hourly rate £22.50 £17.72 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year +26.98% +4.24% +1.07%
75th Percentile £41.13 £23.75 £19.86
90th Percentile £57.75 £51.25 £22.05
England median hourly rate £35.96 £37.50 £24.50
% change year-on-year -4.12% +53.06% +2.08%

Task Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Task Automation in the West Midlands

Task Automation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Task Automation in the West Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Task Automation in the West Midlands

Task Automation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Task Automation in the West Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Task Automation in the West Midlands

Task Automation
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 West Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 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
Coventry - 5 £650 -
Shropshire - 1 - - 2
Task Automation
England

Task Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 5 (83.33%) AWS
1 5 (83.33%) Azure
1 5 (83.33%) CloudFront
1 5 (83.33%) Entra ID
1 5 (83.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 6 (100.00%) DNS
2 5 (83.33%) Network Security
2 5 (83.33%) VPN
3 1 (16.67%) DHCP
3 1 (16.67%) Fibre Channel
3 1 (16.67%) LAN
3 1 (16.67%) Remote Desktop
3 1 (16.67%) SAN
3 1 (16.67%) WAN
General
1 5 (83.33%) Finance
1 5 (83.33%) Retail
Job Titles
1 5 (83.33%) Applications Engineer
1 5 (83.33%) Cloud Engineer
1 5 (83.33%) Security Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Administrator
2 1 (16.67%) Server Administrator
2 1 (16.67%) VMWare Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (83.33%) OAuth
1 5 (83.33%) OAuth2
1 5 (83.33%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (83.33%) Cloud Native
2 1 (16.67%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 6 (100.00%) Windows
2 1 (16.67%) CentOS
2 1 (16.67%) Linux
2 1 (16.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (16.67%) Ubuntu
2 1 (16.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Application Security
1 5 (83.33%) CI/CD
1 5 (83.33%) Cloud Security
1 5 (83.33%) Data Security
1 5 (83.33%) Defensive Programming
1 5 (83.33%) DevSecOps
1 5 (83.33%) Identity Access Management
1 5 (83.33%) Incident Response
1 5 (83.33%) Infrastructure Management
1 5 (83.33%) Penetration Testing
1 5 (83.33%) The Twelve-Factor App
2 1 (16.67%) Change Control
2 1 (16.67%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (16.67%) Load Balancing
2 1 (16.67%) Patch Management
2 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (16.67%) Virtual Infrastructure
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) Bash
1 1 (16.67%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 5 (83.33%) AWS Certification
System Software
1 6 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 5 (83.33%) Docker
3 1 (16.67%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (16.67%) VMware NSX
3 1 (16.67%) VMware Server
3 1 (16.67%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft
1 1 (16.67%) VMware