Task Automation Contracts in Birmingham

Task Automation
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Birmingham 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 45 - 71
Rank change year-on-year - - +20
Contract jobs citing Task Automation 5 0 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 0.96% - 0.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.11% - 0.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile £318 - -
25th Percentile £372 - £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 - £513
Median % change year-on-year - - +46.43%
75th Percentile £514 - £519
90th Percentile £530 - -
West Midlands median daily rate £488 £650 £725
% change year-on-year -25.00% -10.34% +43.21%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Birmingham

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 Birmingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 452 644 798
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 86.59% 83.31% 88.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 317 423 537
10th Percentile £163 £240 £263
25th Percentile £375 £368 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £463 £513
Median % change year-on-year +8.11% -9.76% +7.89%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £625
90th Percentile £700 £675 £700
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £500 £512
% change year-on-year - -2.34% +5.03%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 44 27
10th Percentile - £13.20 £11.00
25th Percentile £12.62 £17.75 £12.50
Median hourly rate £18.38 £27.25 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year -32.57% +81.67% -14.19%
75th Percentile £27.69 £48.75 £26.50
90th Percentile £30.68 £56.25 £71.25
West Midlands median hourly rate £18.00 £22.50 £17.72
% change year-on-year -20.00% +26.98% +4.24%

Task Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

Job vacancy trend for Task Automation in Birmingham

Task Automation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

Daily rate trend for Task Automation in Birmingham

Task Automation
Daily Rate Histogram in Birmingham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Task Automation in Birmingham over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Task Automation in Birmingham

Task Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (20.00%) Amazon EKS
1 1 (20.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (20.00%) AWS
1 1 (20.00%) Azure
1 1 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (20.00%) GitHub
1 1 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (20.00%) SonarCloud
1 1 (20.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) JIRA
1 1 (20.00%) Snyk
1 1 (20.00%) SonarQube
General
1 3 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Site Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Integration Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Lead
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) YAML
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Computer Science
1 3 (60.00%) Containerisation
1 3 (60.00%) Incident Response
1 3 (60.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 3 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
1 3 (60.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 3 (60.00%) SIEM
1 3 (60.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (40.00%) DevOps
2 2 (40.00%) Use Case
3 1 (20.00%) Agile
3 1 (20.00%) Artificial Intelligence
3 1 (20.00%) High Availability
3 1 (20.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
3 1 (20.00%) Scrum
3 1 (20.00%) Secrets Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) Bash
1 3 (60.00%) Python
2 1 (20.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (60.00%) Degree
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Certification
System Software
1 4 (80.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (80.00%) Ansible
1 4 (80.00%) Kubernetes
1 4 (80.00%) Terraform
2 1 (20.00%) Argo
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) BT
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (20.00%) Red Hat