Task Automation Jobs in England

Task Automation
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Task Automation skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries 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 450 543 502
Rank change year-on-year +93 -41 -45
Permanent jobs citing Task Automation 433 463 860
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.51% 0.50% 0.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.59% 0.52% 0.69%
Number of salaries quoted 290 309 489
10th Percentile £40,490 £35,000 £33,825
25th Percentile £50,000 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £64,140 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.56% +6.90% -
75th Percentile £76,250 £77,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £90,125 £95,000 £90,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £63,820 £60,000
% change year-on-year -5.99% +6.37% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Task Automation is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 72,814 89,178 125,034
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 85.85% 95.66% 95.65%
Number of salaries quoted 53,731 52,642 73,765
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,250 £33,327
25th Percentile £39,750 £46,000 £44,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £73,750 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £101,250 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £62,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.29% +3.33% +9.09%

Task Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Task Automation in England

Task Automation
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Task Automation in England.

Salary trend for Task Automation in England

Task Automation
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Task Automation in England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Task Automation in England

Task Automation
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Task Automation within the England 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +104 181 £67,500 -3.57% 65
South East +65 88 £62,500 +56.25% 17
South West +1 57 £47,500 -20.83% 15
Midlands +33 55 £50,000 -28.57% 14
North of England +23 41 £45,000 -10.00% 15
West Midlands +38 35 £45,000 -35.71% 10
North West +21 28 £45,000 -5.26% 13
East Midlands -7 12 £48,750 -17.02% 4
Yorkshire +58 11 £35,000 -30.00% 2
East of England -12 9 £50,000 -0.50% 14
North East -4 2 £85,000 +81.82%
Task Automation
UK

Task Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 (6.70%) SharePoint
2 27 (6.24%) Confluence
3 24 (5.54%) IIS
4 23 (5.31%) Microsoft Exchange
5 22 (5.08%) Apache
6 14 (3.23%) Tomcat
7 6 (1.39%) SAS
8 5 (1.15%) nginx
9 1 (0.23%) Apache Airflow
9 1 (0.23%) Apache Solr
9 1 (0.23%) WebSphere
Applications
1 32 (7.39%) Microsoft Excel
2 19 (4.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 8 (1.85%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.46%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.23%) AutoCAD
5 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.23%) PTC Creo
5 1 (0.23%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 15 (3.46%) NEC Housing
2 8 (1.85%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 159 (36.72%) Azure
2 70 (16.17%) Microsoft 365
3 63 (14.55%) Power Platform
4 55 (12.70%) AWS
5 49 (11.32%) Azure DevOps
6 40 (9.24%) IBM Cloud
7 33 (7.62%) Entra ID
8 32 (7.39%) Power Automate
9 22 (5.08%) IaaS
9 22 (5.08%) Nutanix
10 20 (4.62%) PowerApps
11 19 (4.39%) GitHub
12 14 (3.23%) GCP
13 13 (3.00%) SaaS
14 12 (2.77%) Dynamics 365
15 10 (2.31%) Serverless
16 6 (1.39%) AWS CloudFormation
16 6 (1.39%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 5 (1.15%) WhatsApp
18 4 (0.92%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 48 (11.09%) Firewall
2 45 (10.39%) DNS
3 18 (4.16%) PBX
3 18 (4.16%) WAN
4 13 (3.00%) DHCP
4 13 (3.00%) SAN
5 12 (2.77%) LAN
5 12 (2.77%) VPN
6 11 (2.54%) TCP/IP
7 7 (1.62%) Network Security
8 6 (1.39%) IPv4
8 6 (1.39%) VLAN
9 5 (1.15%) Internet
9 5 (1.15%) NetScaler
9 5 (1.15%) Remote Desktop
10 4 (0.92%) Fibre Channel
10 4 (0.92%) OSPF
11 3 (0.69%) BGP
11 3 (0.69%) Intranet
11 3 (0.69%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (10.85%) SQL Server
2 34 (7.85%) MySQL
2 34 (7.85%) Power BI
3 31 (7.16%) PostgreSQL
4 21 (4.85%) Data Warehouse
4 21 (4.85%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 17 (3.93%) Oracle Database
6 12 (2.77%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 11 (2.54%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 10 (2.31%) Relational Database
9 9 (2.08%) NoSQL
10 8 (1.85%) Oracle BI EE
10 8 (1.85%) Tableau
11 6 (1.39%) Data Mining
11 6 (1.39%) GIS
11 6 (1.39%) Redis
12 5 (1.15%) Elasticsearch
13 4 (0.92%) Geospatial Data
13 4 (0.92%) Semantic Layer
13 4 (0.92%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 39 (9.01%) JIRA
2 38 (8.78%) Jenkins
3 24 (5.54%) Bitbucket
4 15 (3.46%) Git
5 12 (2.77%) Selenium
6 10 (2.31%) Cucumber
7 6 (1.39%) REST Assured
7 6 (1.39%) WebDriver
8 5 (1.15%) Bitbucket Server
8 5 (1.15%) GitLab
8 5 (1.15%) JMeter
8 5 (1.15%) JUnit
8 5 (1.15%) Serenity BDD
8 5 (1.15%) SoapUI
8 5 (1.15%) TestNG
9 2 (0.46%) git-flow
9 2 (0.46%) MSI
9 2 (0.46%) Travis CI
9 2 (0.46%) Visual Studio
10 1 (0.23%) Chocolatey
General
1 135 (31.18%) Finance
2 117 (27.02%) Social Skills
3 101 (23.33%) Analytical Skills
4 54 (12.47%) Public Sector
5 44 (10.16%) Retail
6 35 (8.08%) Banking
7 22 (5.08%) Law
8 20 (4.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 18 (4.16%) Investment Banking
10 17 (3.93%) Police
11 15 (3.46%) Front Office
12 14 (3.23%) Legal
13 12 (2.77%) Local Government
13 12 (2.77%) Organisational Skills
14 10 (2.31%) Telecoms
15 9 (2.08%) Manufacturing
16 7 (1.62%) General Ledger
16 7 (1.62%) Marketing
17 3 (0.69%) Games
17 3 (0.69%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 105 (24.25%) Senior
2 49 (11.32%) Analyst
3 47 (10.85%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 35 (8.08%) Systems Engineer
5 34 (7.85%) Lead
6 32 (7.39%) Administrator
7 27 (6.24%) Support Engineer
8 22 (5.08%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
9 21 (4.85%) Architect
9 21 (4.85%) Senior Analyst
10 20 (4.62%) DBA
11 19 (4.39%) Developer
11 19 (4.39%) Systems Support
12 18 (4.16%) Applications Support
12 18 (4.16%) Systems Support Engineer
13 16 (3.70%) Data Analyst
14 15 (3.46%) Consultant
15 14 (3.23%) Senior Manager
15 14 (3.23%) Support Analyst
15 14 (3.23%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (5.77%) REST
2 18 (4.16%) Web Services
3 14 (3.23%) HTML
4 12 (2.77%) CSS
5 10 (2.31%) .NET
6 7 (1.62%) SOAP
7 5 (1.15%) AngularJS
7 5 (1.15%) Apache Commons
7 5 (1.15%) Guava
7 5 (1.15%) Java Concurrency
7 5 (1.15%) RESTful
7 5 (1.15%) WebRTC
7 5 (1.15%) WireMock
8 4 (0.92%) .NET Core
8 4 (0.92%) PySpark
8 4 (0.92%) React
8 4 (0.92%) XML
9 3 (0.69%) FIX Protocol
9 3 (0.69%) JSON
9 3 (0.69%) LAMP
Miscellaneous
1 46 (10.62%) Hybrid Cloud
2 40 (9.24%) Blockchain
2 40 (9.24%) Distributed Systems
3 25 (5.77%) Management Information System
4 23 (5.31%) Self-Motivation
5 19 (4.39%) Data Centre
5 19 (4.39%) Public Cloud
6 18 (4.16%) Clustering
7 17 (3.93%) Replication
8 15 (3.46%) IoT
9 13 (3.00%) Derivative
10 9 (2.08%) Cyberattack
11 8 (1.85%) Blog
11 8 (1.85%) Housing Association
12 7 (1.62%) Credit Risk
12 7 (1.62%) PKI
13 6 (1.39%) AS400
13 6 (1.39%) Cyber Threat
13 6 (1.39%) Onboarding
14 5 (1.15%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 147 (33.95%) Windows
2 133 (30.72%) Linux
3 47 (10.85%) CentOS
4 40 (9.24%) Alpine Linux
4 40 (9.24%) Debian
5 38 (8.78%) Windows Server
6 21 (4.85%) Mac OS
7 17 (3.93%) Unix
8 12 (2.77%) Solaris
9 9 (2.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 9 (2.08%) Windows 10
10 8 (1.85%) Ubuntu
11 5 (1.15%) Windows Server 2016
11 5 (1.15%) Windows Server 2019
12 3 (0.69%) Windows Server 2012
13 1 (0.23%) AIX
13 1 (0.23%) Android
13 1 (0.23%) Apple iOS
13 1 (0.23%) Rocky
13 1 (0.23%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 140 (32.33%) Problem-Solving
2 97 (22.40%) CI/CD
3 93 (21.48%) DevOps
4 78 (18.01%) Agile
5 65 (15.01%) Data Science
6 58 (13.39%) Disaster Recovery
7 54 (12.47%) ITIL
8 51 (11.78%) Decision-Making
9 48 (11.09%) Artificial Intelligence
9 48 (11.09%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 47 (10.85%) Cybersecurity
10 47 (10.85%) Project Management
11 45 (10.39%) Computer Science
12 41 (9.47%) Analytics
12 41 (9.47%) Mentoring
13 40 (9.24%) Co-Creation
13 40 (9.24%) Functional Testing
13 40 (9.24%) Separation of Concerns
13 40 (9.24%) Technology Transformation
14 32 (7.39%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 143 (33.03%) PowerShell
2 110 (25.40%) Python
3 93 (21.48%) SQL
4 83 (19.17%) Bash
5 24 (5.54%) Perl
6 23 (5.31%) T-SQL
7 22 (5.08%) Shell Script
8 21 (4.85%) JavaScript
9 20 (4.62%) Java
10 18 (4.16%) PL/SQL
11 10 (2.31%) RPG
12 9 (2.08%) C#
13 8 (1.85%) VBA
14 5 (1.15%) MATLAB
14 5 (1.15%) R
14 5 (1.15%) TypeScript
15 3 (0.69%) Ruby
16 2 (0.46%) Go
16 2 (0.46%) PHP
17 1 (0.23%) sed
Qualifications
1 114 (26.33%) Degree
2 54 (12.47%) Microsoft Certification
3 46 (10.62%) Azure Certification
3 46 (10.62%) Security Cleared
4 44 (10.16%) MCSE
5 42 (9.70%) MCSA
6 29 (6.70%) SC Cleared
7 27 (6.24%) Computer Science Degree
8 24 (5.54%) Cisco Certification
9 20 (4.62%) CCNA
10 10 (2.31%) CISSP
11 6 (1.39%) DV Cleared
12 5 (1.15%) Master's Degree
13 4 (0.92%) AWS Certification
13 4 (0.92%) CCNP
14 3 (0.69%) CCIE
14 3 (0.69%) ITIL Certification
15 2 (0.46%) CCA
15 2 (0.46%) Citrix Certification
16 1 (0.23%) A+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (5.31%) Data Quality
2 19 (4.39%) Accessibility
3 12 (2.77%) QA
4 10 (2.31%) GRC
5 8 (1.85%) PCI DSS
6 6 (1.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (0.69%) SLA
8 2 (0.46%) GDPR
8 2 (0.46%) HIPAA
8 2 (0.46%) NIST
9 1 (0.23%) CDISC
9 1 (0.23%) Good Clinical Practice
9 1 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 99 (22.86%) Active Directory
2 70 (16.17%) VMware Infrastructure
3 61 (14.09%) Docker
4 32 (7.39%) VMware ESXi
5 24 (5.54%) Virtual Machines
6 23 (5.31%) Hyper-V
7 11 (2.54%) VMware NSX
8 10 (2.31%) Firmware
9 8 (1.85%) VMware Server
10 7 (1.62%) vSphere
11 6 (1.39%) XenApp
12 5 (1.15%) Virtual Desktop
12 5 (1.15%) XenDesktop
13 4 (0.92%) Microsoft App-V
14 2 (0.46%) Citrix Hypervisor
15 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 1 (0.23%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 70 (16.17%) Terraform
2 60 (13.86%) Kubernetes
3 33 (7.62%) Ansible
4 16 (3.70%) Microsoft Intune
5 15 (3.46%) SCOM
6 12 (2.77%) SCCM
7 9 (2.08%) Grafana
8 8 (1.85%) Nagios
9 7 (1.62%) Foglight
9 7 (1.62%) Microsoft Clustering
9 7 (1.62%) Puppet
10 6 (1.39%) Prometheus
10 6 (1.39%) vCenter Server
11 4 (0.92%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 4 (0.92%) CSIRT
12 3 (0.69%) ITRS Geneos
12 3 (0.69%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
12 3 (0.69%) SCOrch
12 3 (0.69%) Single Sign-On
12 3 (0.69%) vMotion
Vendors
1 116 (26.79%) Microsoft
2 88 (20.32%) VMware
3 54 (12.47%) IBM
4 47 (10.85%) Red Hat
5 31 (7.16%) Oracle
6 23 (5.31%) Atlassian
7 20 (4.62%) Palo Alto
8 15 (3.46%) NEC
8 15 (3.46%) Splunk
9 14 (3.23%) CrowdStrike
10 13 (3.00%) ArcSight
10 13 (3.00%) Dell
10 13 (3.00%) Veeam
11 11 (2.54%) NetApp
12 10 (2.31%) Citrix
12 10 (2.31%) HP
13 8 (1.85%) Cisco
13 8 (1.85%) ServiceNow
14 7 (1.62%) CyberArk
14 7 (1.62%) Qualys