Task Automation Contracts in Berkshire

Task Automation
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire requiring Task Automation skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Task Automation over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 85 108 111
Rank change year-on-year +23 +3 +15
Contract jobs citing Task Automation 8 16 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 0.68% 0.81% 0.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.73% 0.91% 0.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 14 2
10th Percentile - £475 £433
25th Percentile - £481 £464
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £300 £500 £530
Median % change year-on-year -40.00% -5.66% +32.50%
75th Percentile - £556 £599
90th Percentile - £635 £631
South East median daily rate £411 £500 £520
% change year-on-year -17.90% -3.85% -5.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £61.87 - -
Median hourly rate £63.75 - -
75th Percentile £65.62 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £63.75 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Berkshire

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 Berkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,096 1,764 1,640
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 93.44% 88.91% 90.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 641 918 1,053
10th Percentile £313 £213 £341
25th Percentile £413 £375 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £511 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.10% -2.71% +5.00%
75th Percentile £615 £608 £626
90th Percentile £675 £675 £711
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £508
% change year-on-year - -1.53% +1.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 101 48
10th Percentile £22.29 £20.17 £19.20
25th Percentile £32.05 £41.50 £25.72
Median hourly rate £61.50 £61.60 £57.82
Median % change year-on-year -0.17% +6.54% +174.67%
75th Percentile £76.77 £71.75 £73.69
90th Percentile £88.19 £87.46 £79.51
South East median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -41.05% -5.00% +122.22%

Task Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Task Automation in Berkshire

Task Automation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Task Automation in Berkshire

Task Automation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Task Automation in Berkshire

Task Automation
Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

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 Berkshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
Reading +28 1 - - 11
Bracknell +18 1 - - 3
Wokingham -19 1 - - 1
Slough - 1 £300 - 7
Task Automation
South East

Task Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire 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 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (12.50%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 1 (12.50%) Azure
1 1 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (12.50%) GCP
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (50.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Git
1 1 (12.50%) GitLab
1 1 (12.50%) Postman
1 1 (12.50%) Selenium
General
1 3 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Military
2 2 (25.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Electronics
3 1 (12.50%) Finance
3 1 (12.50%) Manufacturing
3 1 (12.50%) Marketing
3 1 (12.50%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Administrator
1 4 (50.00%) Senior
2 3 (37.50%) DBA
2 3 (37.50%) Senior DBA
3 1 (12.50%) Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Developer
3 1 (12.50%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) DV Cleared DBA
3 1 (12.50%) Microsoft 365 Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Oracle DBA
3 1 (12.50%) Oracle SQL Server DBA
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Oracle DBA
3 1 (12.50%) Senior SQL DBA
3 1 (12.50%) Senior SQL Server DBA
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Systems Administrator
3 1 (12.50%) SQL DBA
3 1 (12.50%) SQL Server DBA
3 1 (12.50%) Systems Administrator
3 1 (12.50%) Technical Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Cloud Native
1 1 (12.50%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) Process Improvement
2 4 (50.00%) Capacity Planning
2 4 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 4 (50.00%) Performance Monitoring
2 4 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
2 4 (50.00%) Strategic Planning
3 3 (37.50%) Customer Requirements
3 3 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (25.00%) CI/CD
4 2 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (25.00%) DevOps
5 1 (12.50%) API Design
5 1 (12.50%) API Testing
5 1 (12.50%) Database Optimisation
5 1 (12.50%) Database Security
5 1 (12.50%) Digital Marketing
5 1 (12.50%) High Availability
5 1 (12.50%) Refactoring
5 1 (12.50%) Root Cause Analysis
5 1 (12.50%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 4 (50.00%) SQL
2 2 (25.00%) PowerShell
2 2 (25.00%) Python
3 1 (12.50%) Bash
Qualifications
1 4 (50.00%) DV Cleared
1 4 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (50.00%) SLA
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Ansible
1 1 (12.50%) Grafana
1 1 (12.50%) Kubernetes
1 1 (12.50%) Prometheus
1 1 (12.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (50.00%) Oracle
2 1 (12.50%) Google
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft
2 1 (12.50%) SAP