Task Automation Contract Job Trends in Basingstoke

Task Automation
Hampshire > Basingstoke

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Basingstoke requiring Task Automation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 48 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Task Automation 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Basingstoke 0.25% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.32% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £493 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 - -
75th Percentile £498 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Hampshire median daily rate £495 £500 £425
% change year-on-year -1.00% +17.65% -18.27%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Basingstoke

Task Automation falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Basingstoke.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 316 122 381
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Basingstoke 79.40% 93.85% 85.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 236 101 200
10th Percentile £500 £463 £425
25th Percentile £525 £513 £491
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £575 £625
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -8.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £725 £625 £700
90th Percentile £769 £650 £738
Hampshire median daily rate £550 £550 £588
% change year-on-year - -6.46% +12.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 14
10th Percentile £13.90 - £19.63
25th Percentile £15.06 - £29.38
Median hourly rate £17.00 £21.39 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -20.52% -54.97% +196.88%
75th Percentile £22.50 - £48.75
90th Percentile £25.80 - -
Hampshire median hourly rate £40.00 £56.25 £57.35
% change year-on-year -28.89% -1.92% +6.70%

Task Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Basingstoke

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Task Automation relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Basingstoke.

Task Automation job vacancy trend in Basingstoke

Task Automation
Daily Rate Trend in Basingstoke

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Basingstoke citing Task Automation.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Basingstoke citing Task Automation

Task Automation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Basingstoke by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Applications
1 1 (100.00%) MS Visio
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) Intrusion Detection
1 1 (100.00%) IPv4
1 1 (100.00%) IPv6
1 1 (100.00%) LAN
1 1 (100.00%) Network Security
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (100.00%) VLAN
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
1 1 (100.00%) WAN
General
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Design Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Network Design Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Capacity Management
1 1 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Network Design
1 1 (100.00%) Network Management
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Requirements Gathering
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) CCNA
1 1 (100.00%) CCNP
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (100.00%) JNCIA
1 1 (100.00%) JNCIS
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) KVM
1 1 (100.00%) RHEV
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (100.00%) Xen
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Nagios
1 1 (100.00%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) F5
1 1 (100.00%) Juniper
1 1 (100.00%) SolarWinds
1 1 (100.00%) VMware