Task Automation Jobs in the South East

Task Automation
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 292 357 387
Rank change year-on-year +65 +30 -79
Permanent jobs citing Task Automation 88 54 90
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 0.53% 0.36% 0.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.63% 0.38% 0.48%
Number of salaries quoted 45 39 65
10th Percentile £37,950 £34,940 £27,093
25th Percentile £51,250 - £40,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £40,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +56.25% -30.43% +4.55%
75th Percentile £68,750 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £86,250 £75,500 £75,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £64,140 £60,000
% change year-on-year -2.56% +6.90% -

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 permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 14,075 14,250 18,615
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 84.77% 94.50% 94.45%
Number of salaries quoted 9,899 8,257 12,075
10th Percentile £27,500 £30,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £41,250 £41,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £86,250 £82,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%

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
Salary Trend in the South East

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

Salary trend for Task Automation in the South East

Task Automation
Salary Histogram in the South East

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

Salary histogram for Task Automation in the South East

Task Automation
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Hampshire +23 60 £62,500 +56.25% 2
Surrey +34 23 £62,500 +56.25% 1
Thames Valley +10 13 £70,000 - 6
Berkshire +24 10 £70,000 -6.04% 3
West Sussex +38 2 - -
Oxfordshire +13 2 £56,003 +36.69% 2
Kent -2 2 £37,500 -21.05% 2
Buckinghamshire -19 1 £77,500 +14.81% 1
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 3 (3.41%) Apache
1 3 (3.41%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.14%) Confluence
2 1 (1.14%) IIS
2 1 (1.14%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.14%) WebSphere
Applications
1 2 (2.27%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.14%) AutoCAD
2 1 (1.14%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.14%) PTC Creo
2 1 (1.14%) SOLIDWORKS
Cloud Services
1 64 (72.73%) Azure
2 42 (47.73%) Azure DevOps
3 40 (45.45%) IBM Cloud
4 16 (18.18%) IaaS
5 15 (17.05%) Nutanix
6 9 (10.23%) AWS
7 6 (6.82%) GitHub
7 6 (6.82%) SaaS
8 4 (4.55%) Entra ID
8 4 (4.55%) Microsoft 365
9 3 (3.41%) Power Platform
10 2 (2.27%) Cloud Computing
10 2 (2.27%) GCP
11 1 (1.14%) GitHub Actions
11 1 (1.14%) PaaS
11 1 (1.14%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 19 (21.59%) DNS
2 7 (7.95%) Firewall
3 5 (5.68%) VPN
4 3 (3.41%) DHCP
4 3 (3.41%) Intranet
4 3 (3.41%) TCP/IP
5 2 (2.27%) LAN
5 2 (2.27%) WAN
6 1 (1.14%) Internet
6 1 (1.14%) Intrusion Detection
6 1 (1.14%) Network Security
6 1 (1.14%) Remote Desktop
6 1 (1.14%) Reverse Proxy
6 1 (1.14%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (3.41%) SQL Server
2 2 (2.27%) MySQL
3 1 (1.14%) MariaDB
3 1 (1.14%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.14%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 8 (9.09%) Jenkins
2 7 (7.95%) Cucumber
2 7 (7.95%) Selenium
3 5 (5.68%) Bitbucket
3 5 (5.68%) Bitbucket Server
3 5 (5.68%) JIRA
3 5 (5.68%) JMeter
3 5 (5.68%) Serenity BDD
3 5 (5.68%) SoapUI
4 3 (3.41%) REST Assured
4 3 (3.41%) WebDriver
5 2 (2.27%) JUnit
5 2 (2.27%) TestNG
6 1 (1.14%) Chocolatey
6 1 (1.14%) Git
6 1 (1.14%) TeamCity
General
1 41 (46.59%) Public Sector
2 19 (21.59%) Analytical Skills
3 18 (20.45%) Finance
4 7 (7.95%) Social Skills
5 4 (4.55%) Telecoms
6 3 (3.41%) Banking
6 3 (3.41%) Billing
6 3 (3.41%) Manufacturing
6 3 (3.41%) Marketing
7 2 (2.27%) Law
8 1 (1.14%) Legal
8 1 (1.14%) Retail
Job Titles
1 20 (22.73%) Senior
2 19 (21.59%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 15 (17.05%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 7 (7.95%) Analyst
4 7 (7.95%) Automation Tester
4 7 (7.95%) Tester
5 5 (5.68%) Administrator
5 5 (5.68%) Developer
6 3 (3.41%) Cybersecurity Analyst
6 3 (3.41%) Intranet Developer
6 3 (3.41%) Linux Support
6 3 (3.41%) Security Analyst
6 3 (3.41%) Senior Analyst
6 3 (3.41%) Senior Cybersecurity Analyst
6 3 (3.41%) Senior Security Analyst
6 3 (3.41%) SharePoint Developer
6 3 (3.41%) Support Analyst
6 3 (3.41%) Systems Administrator
7 2 (2.27%) Azure Administrator
7 2 (2.27%) Java Automation Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (6.82%) Web Services
2 5 (5.68%) RESTful
2 5 (5.68%) SOAP
3 2 (2.27%) Apache Commons
3 2 (2.27%) Guava
3 2 (2.27%) Java Concurrency
3 2 (2.27%) REST
3 2 (2.27%) WireMock
4 1 (1.14%) CSS
4 1 (1.14%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (1.14%) HTML
4 1 (1.14%) PHP-FPM
4 1 (1.14%) React
4 1 (1.14%) XML
4 1 (1.14%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 41 (46.59%) Hybrid Cloud
2 40 (45.45%) Blockchain
2 40 (45.45%) Distributed Systems
3 15 (17.05%) IoT
4 5 (5.68%) Management Information System
5 2 (2.27%) Clustering
5 2 (2.27%) Enterprise Storage
5 2 (2.27%) Product Ownership
5 2 (2.27%) Replication
6 1 (1.14%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.14%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.14%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (1.14%) Operational Technology
6 1 (1.14%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.14%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.14%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 49 (55.68%) Linux
2 40 (45.45%) Alpine Linux
2 40 (45.45%) CentOS
2 40 (45.45%) Debian
3 22 (25.00%) Windows
4 2 (2.27%) Windows Server
5 1 (1.14%) Android
5 1 (1.14%) Apple iOS
5 1 (1.14%) Kali Linux
5 1 (1.14%) Ubuntu
5 1 (1.14%) Windows 10
5 1 (1.14%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (64.77%) DevOps
2 51 (57.95%) CI/CD
3 41 (46.59%) Data Science
4 40 (45.45%) Artificial Intelligence
4 40 (45.45%) Co-Creation
4 40 (45.45%) Functional Testing
4 40 (45.45%) Separation of Concerns
4 40 (45.45%) Technology Transformation
5 26 (29.55%) Problem-Solving
6 21 (23.86%) ITIL
7 20 (22.73%) Disaster Recovery
8 19 (21.59%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 17 (19.32%) Capacity Planning
9 17 (19.32%) Virtual Infrastructure
10 16 (18.18%) Decision-Making
10 16 (18.18%) Infrastructure Automation
11 15 (17.05%) Cloud Enablement
11 15 (17.05%) Network Virtualisation
11 15 (17.05%) Storage Management
11 15 (17.05%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 25 (28.41%) Python
2 21 (23.86%) Bash
3 18 (20.45%) Perl
4 13 (14.77%) PowerShell
5 12 (13.64%) SQL
6 8 (9.09%) Java
7 7 (7.95%) JavaScript
8 5 (5.68%) Shell Script
9 1 (1.14%) AWK
9 1 (1.14%) C
9 1 (1.14%) MATLAB
9 1 (1.14%) PHP
9 1 (1.14%) PL/SQL
9 1 (1.14%) Ruby
9 1 (1.14%) sed
Qualifications
1 42 (47.73%) Azure Certification
2 41 (46.59%) MCSA
2 41 (46.59%) MCSE
2 41 (46.59%) Microsoft Certification
3 7 (7.95%) SC Cleared
3 7 (7.95%) Security Cleared
4 6 (6.82%) Degree
5 3 (3.41%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (3.41%) ITIL Certification
6 2 (2.27%) AWS Certification
7 1 (1.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (1.14%) CISSP
7 1 (1.14%) Master's Degree
7 1 (1.14%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (19.32%) Data Quality
2 4 (4.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (3.41%) GRC
4 2 (2.27%) QA
5 1 (1.14%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 1 (1.14%) NIST
5 1 (1.14%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 43 (48.86%) Docker
2 19 (21.59%) Active Directory
3 15 (17.05%) Virtual Machines
3 15 (17.05%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (3.41%) Hyper-V
5 1 (1.14%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 44 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 44 (50.00%) Terraform
2 3 (3.41%) Ansible
2 3 (3.41%) CSIRT
3 2 (2.27%) Grafana
3 2 (2.27%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 1 (1.14%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 1 (1.14%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (1.14%) Progress Chef
4 1 (1.14%) Prometheus
4 1 (1.14%) Salt
4 1 (1.14%) SCCM
4 1 (1.14%) SCOM
4 1 (1.14%) Suricata
4 1 (1.14%) systemd
Vendors
1 41 (46.59%) IBM
1 41 (46.59%) Red Hat
2 15 (17.05%) VMware
3 8 (9.09%) Microsoft
4 4 (4.55%) Oracle
5 2 (2.27%) Cisco
5 2 (2.27%) Fortinet
5 2 (2.27%) Splunk
6 1 (1.14%) Citrix
6 1 (1.14%) Juniper
6 1 (1.14%) MathWorks
6 1 (1.14%) New Relic
6 1 (1.14%) Palo Alto
6 1 (1.14%) PTC
6 1 (1.14%) SAP
6 1 (1.14%) TOWER Software