Task Automation Contracts in Bristol

Task Automation
South West > Bristol

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Bristol 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 47 68 96
Rank change year-on-year +21 +28 +6
Contract jobs citing Task Automation 8 6 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Bristol 1.49% 0.57% 0.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.62% 0.68% 0.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 5 3
10th Percentile - £577 £552
25th Percentile - £580 £629
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £440 £590 £767
Median % change year-on-year -25.42% -23.03% +53.31%
75th Percentile £500 - £779
90th Percentile £514 £611 £781
South West median daily rate £475 £700 £550
% change year-on-year -32.14% +27.27% +7.84%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Bristol

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 Bristol.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 493 879 1,117
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 91.81% 83.16% 89.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 287 484 750
10th Percentile £222 £250 £300
25th Percentile £355 £363 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £515
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -2.91% +3.00%
75th Percentile £567 £602 £631
90th Percentile £657 £688 £713
South West median daily rate £520 £525 £549
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.37% +9.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 82 184 220
10th Percentile £18.51 £40.00 -
25th Percentile £42.51 £45.00 £9.80
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £61.50
Median % change year-on-year - +5.69% +36.67%
75th Percentile £68.00 £72.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £80.00 £83.88
South West median hourly rate £63.00 £50.00 £61.50
% change year-on-year +26.00% -18.70% +26.16%

Task Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

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

Job vacancy trend for Task Automation in Bristol

Task Automation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Bristol

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

Daily rate trend for Task Automation in Bristol

Task Automation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Bristol

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

Hourly rate trend for Task Automation in Bristol

Task Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Bristol 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%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 3 (37.50%) AWS
2 1 (12.50%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 3 (37.50%) DNS
1 3 (37.50%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 3 (37.50%) Jenkins
General
1 4 (50.00%) Legal
2 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Administrator
1 3 (37.50%) DevOps Administrator
1 3 (37.50%) Linux Administrator
1 3 (37.50%) Linux DevOps Administrator
1 3 (37.50%) Linux Engineer
1 3 (37.50%) Linux/Unix DevOps
2 1 (12.50%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Linux Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) LAMP
Miscellaneous
1 3 (37.50%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 8 (100.00%) Linux
2 1 (12.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (87.50%) Containerisation
2 4 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 4 (50.00%) DevOps
2 4 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (37.50%) Disaster Recovery
3 3 (37.50%) GitOps
3 3 (37.50%) High Availability
3 3 (37.50%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (37.50%) Security Hardening
3 3 (37.50%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 7 (87.50%) Bash
1 7 (87.50%) Python
2 3 (37.50%) Perl
3 1 (12.50%) PHP
Qualifications
1 8 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 5 (62.50%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 7 (87.50%) Docker
2 4 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 7 (87.50%) Ansible
3 3 (37.50%) Grafana
3 3 (37.50%) Prometheus
3 3 (37.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (87.50%) VMware
2 4 (50.00%) NetApp
2 4 (50.00%) Red Hat