Task Automation Contracts in Cambridge

Task Automation
Cambridgeshire > Cambridge

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cambridge 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 12 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Task Automation 8 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cambridge 7.02% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.92% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £166 - -
25th Percentile £316 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 - -
75th Percentile £554 - -
90th Percentile £597 - -
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £530 - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £65.00 - -
Cambridgeshire median hourly rate £65.00 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cambridge

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 Cambridge.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 101 177 258
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridge 88.60% 91.24% 87.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 72 99 177
10th Percentile £296 £235 £185
25th Percentile £411 £350 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £463
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -2.70% -2.63%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £538
90th Percentile £650 £650 £600
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £475 £470 £450
% change year-on-year +1.06% +4.44% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 28 16
10th Percentile £16.28 £20.40 £17.12
25th Percentile £17.46 £25.00 £17.50
Median hourly rate £23.00 £52.50 £20.50
Median % change year-on-year -56.19% +156.10% -64.04%
75th Percentile £60.00 £66.25 £53.75
90th Percentile £62.00 £75.00 -
Cambridgeshire median hourly rate £16.23 £15.00 £14.50
% change year-on-year +8.20% +3.45% +6.15%

Task Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridge

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

Job vacancy trend for Task Automation in Cambridge

Task Automation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cambridge

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

Daily rate trend for Task Automation in Cambridge

Task Automation
Daily Rate Histogram in Cambridge

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

Daily rate histogram for Task Automation in Cambridge

Task Automation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cambridge

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

Hourly rate trend for Task Automation in Cambridge

Task Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cambridge 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 2 (25.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 4 (50.00%) Azure
2 3 (37.50%) AWS
2 3 (37.50%) GCP
3 1 (12.50%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (12.50%) Azure Sentinel
3 1 (12.50%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 1 (12.50%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 2 (25.00%) Firewall
2 1 (12.50%) DNS
2 1 (12.50%) Network Security
2 1 (12.50%) SNMP
2 1 (12.50%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (12.50%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Artifactory
1 2 (25.00%) JIRA
2 1 (12.50%) Git
General
1 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (25.00%) Consultant
1 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Automation Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Data Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Linux Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Platform Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Security Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Systems Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) VMware Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) .NET
1 1 (12.50%) Redfish
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Public Cloud
1 2 (25.00%) Virtual Team
2 1 (12.50%) Cyber Defence
2 1 (12.50%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (12.50%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (37.50%) Linux
2 1 (12.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 3 (37.50%) Agile
2 3 (37.50%) Performance Tuning
2 3 (37.50%) Vulnerability Management
3 2 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (25.00%) Computer Science
3 2 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
3 2 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (25.00%) Security Patching
3 2 (25.00%) Workload Management
4 1 (12.50%) Actionable Insight
4 1 (12.50%) Break/Fix
4 1 (12.50%) Converged Infrastructure
4 1 (12.50%) Cyber Intelligence
4 1 (12.50%) Data Science
4 1 (12.50%) DevOps
4 1 (12.50%) Network Virtualisation
4 1 (12.50%) Proactive Monitoring
4 1 (12.50%) Regulatory Compliance
4 1 (12.50%) Threat Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 5 (62.50%) Python
2 4 (50.00%) Perl
3 3 (37.50%) Bash
4 2 (25.00%) PowerShell
4 2 (25.00%) Shell Script
4 2 (25.00%) Tcl
5 1 (12.50%) C-shell
5 1 (12.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (25.00%) Degree
2 1 (12.50%) VCAP
2 1 (12.50%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Firmware
1 1 (12.50%) VMware ESXi
1 1 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (12.50%) VMware NSX
1 1 (12.50%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 4 (50.00%) Ansible
2 3 (37.50%) Terraform
3 2 (25.00%) vCenter Server
4 1 (12.50%) HAProxy
4 1 (12.50%) Nagios
4 1 (12.50%) PowerCLI
4 1 (12.50%) Puppet
4 1 (12.50%) VxRail
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) Google
1 3 (37.50%) Red Hat
2 2 (25.00%) Dell
2 2 (25.00%) IBM
2 2 (25.00%) Synopsys
3 1 (12.50%) HP
3 1 (12.50%) Microsoft
3 1 (12.50%) Palo Alto
3 1 (12.50%) ServiceNow
3 1 (12.50%) Splunk
3 1 (12.50%) Sun
3 1 (12.50%) VMware