Task Automation Contract Job Trends in Berkshire

Task Automation
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Berkshire requiring Task Automation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 80 87 107
Rank change year-on-year +7 +20 +6
Contract jobs citing Task Automation 19 22 10
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 1.46% 1.38% 0.56%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.63% 1.55% 0.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 15 6
10th Percentile £391 £360 £190
25th Percentile £406 £390 £275
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £466 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.69% -6.80% -21.26%
75th Percentile £550 £485 £538
90th Percentile £590 £517 £550
South East median daily rate £447 £466 £500
% change year-on-year -4.08% -6.80% -16.67%

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 1,163 1,415 1,621
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 89.60% 88.60% 90.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 754 756 999
10th Percentile £325 £325 £250
25th Percentile £420 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £540 £520
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% +3.85% +4.00%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £625
90th Percentile £650 £691 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £513 £520
% change year-on-year -2.44% -1.44% +1.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 56 56 69
10th Percentile £14.75 £19.34 £18.95
25th Percentile £16.60 £41.25 £45.21
Median hourly rate £29.31 £58.49 £61.25
Median % change year-on-year -49.90% -4.51% +21.29%
75th Percentile £59.44 £63.41 £72.33
90th Percentile £77.50 £75.13 £77.55
South East median hourly rate £20.71 £58.34 £52.10
% change year-on-year -64.50% +11.97% +40.32%

Task Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Task Automation job vacancy trend in Berkshire

Task Automation
Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

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

Task Automation
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Task Automation in Berkshire over the 6 months to 31 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Task Automation in Berkshire

Task Automation
Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Task Automation.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Task Automation

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 31 October 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 13 £500 +31.58% 1
Wokingham -23 5 £463 -2.63%
Task Automation
South East

Task Automation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Berkshire 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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (15.79%) Oracle SOA Suite
1 3 (15.79%) Oracle Workflow
1 3 (15.79%) WebLogic
2 2 (10.53%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (5.26%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 3 (15.79%) Oracle EBS
1 3 (15.79%) Oracle EBS R12
1 3 (15.79%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (10.53%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 8 (42.11%) Azure
2 6 (31.58%) AWS
3 5 (26.32%) GCP
4 3 (15.79%) OCI
5 2 (10.53%) Entra ID
5 2 (10.53%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (5.26%) OneDrive
6 1 (5.26%) Power Automate
6 1 (5.26%) Power Platform
6 1 (5.26%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (10.53%) Network Security
2 1 (5.26%) DHCP
2 1 (5.26%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (15.79%) Oracle BI EE
2 2 (10.53%) Oracle Database
3 1 (5.26%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (5.26%) Apache Cassandra
3 1 (5.26%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (5.26%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (5.26%) MongoDB
3 1 (5.26%) MySQL
3 1 (5.26%) NoSQL
3 1 (5.26%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (5.26%) Power BI
3 1 (5.26%) RDBMS
3 1 (5.26%) Relational Database
3 1 (5.26%) SQL Server
General
1 9 (47.37%) Social Skills
2 6 (31.58%) Legal
3 5 (26.32%) Public Sector
4 2 (10.53%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (5.26%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (5.26%) Finance
Job Titles
1 6 (31.58%) Analyst
1 6 (31.58%) SOC Analyst
2 3 (15.79%) DBA
2 3 (15.79%) Oracle DBA
2 3 (15.79%) Site Engineer
2 3 (15.79%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) Senior
4 1 (5.26%) Architect
4 1 (5.26%) Database Specialist
4 1 (5.26%) Exchange Specialist
4 1 (5.26%) Junior
4 1 (5.26%) Microsoft 365 Architect
4 1 (5.26%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Technical Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 6 (31.58%) Management Information System
2 5 (26.32%) Distributed Systems
2 5 (26.32%) Security Operations Centre
3 4 (21.05%) Cyber Threat
4 2 (10.53%) Security Posture
5 1 (5.26%) Clustering
5 1 (5.26%) Onboarding
5 1 (5.26%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 7 (36.84%) Windows
2 6 (31.58%) Linux
3 3 (15.79%) Unix
4 1 (5.26%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (52.63%) Problem-Solving
2 9 (47.37%) Disaster Recovery
3 6 (31.58%) Behavioural Analysis
3 6 (31.58%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
3 6 (31.58%) Data Privacy
3 6 (31.58%) Forensic Analysis
3 6 (31.58%) High Availability
3 6 (31.58%) Incident Response
3 6 (31.58%) Malware Analysis
3 6 (31.58%) Risk Management
3 6 (31.58%) SIEM
3 6 (31.58%) Threat Intelligence
4 5 (26.32%) Business Continuity
4 5 (26.32%) CI/CD
4 5 (26.32%) Release Management
4 5 (26.32%) Security Operations
4 5 (26.32%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 4 (21.05%) Database Tuning
5 4 (21.05%) Migration
5 4 (21.05%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 12 (63.16%) Python
2 9 (47.37%) PowerShell
3 5 (26.32%) Go
3 5 (26.32%) Java
4 4 (21.05%) SQL
5 3 (15.79%) Perl
5 3 (15.79%) PL/SQL
6 1 (5.26%) Bash
Qualifications
1 11 (57.89%) Security Cleared
2 7 (36.84%) SC Cleared
3 6 (31.58%) CFCE
3 6 (31.58%) CISSP
3 6 (31.58%) GCFA
3 6 (31.58%) GCIA
3 6 (31.58%) GCIH
3 6 (31.58%) GIAC
4 2 (10.53%) Azure Certification
4 2 (10.53%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (10.53%) Degree
5 1 (5.26%) AWS Certification
5 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (5.26%) OCP
5 1 (5.26%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (36.84%) GDPR
1 7 (36.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (31.58%) HIPAA
2 6 (31.58%) NIST
3 1 (5.26%) QA
System Software
1 3 (15.79%) Oracle RAC
2 2 (10.53%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (26.32%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
1 5 (26.32%) Kubernetes
2 3 (15.79%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
2 3 (15.79%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
2 3 (15.79%) Oracle RMAN
3 2 (10.53%) BMC PATROL
4 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 9 (47.37%) Microsoft
2 6 (31.58%) ArcSight
2 6 (31.58%) LogRhythm
2 6 (31.58%) Splunk
3 4 (21.05%) CrowdStrike
3 4 (21.05%) Oracle
4 2 (10.53%) BMC
4 2 (10.53%) Remedy
4 2 (10.53%) ServiceNow