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 20 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 14 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Task Automation 10 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cambridge 8.20% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.43% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 0
10th Percentile £133 - -
25th Percentile £250 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 - -
75th Percentile £601 - -
90th Percentile £675 - -
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 106 179 244
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridge 86.89% 91.79% 88.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 75 99 168
10th Percentile £296 £233 £185
25th Percentile £406 £350 £348
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% -
75th Percentile £575 £550 £560
90th Percentile £665 £655 £616
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £475 £475 £450
% change year-on-year - +5.56% -2.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 27 14
10th Percentile £16.40 £19.70 £16.98
25th Percentile £18.10 £25.00 £17.50
Median hourly rate £39.50 £52.50 £19.11
Median % change year-on-year -24.76% +174.73% -66.47%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £53.75
90th Percentile £62.50 £72.75 -
Cambridgeshire median hourly rate £16.23 £15.00 £14.50
% change year-on-year +8.20% +3.45% -

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 20 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 (20.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 6 (60.00%) Azure
2 3 (30.00%) AWS
2 3 (30.00%) GCP
3 2 (20.00%) Azure Sentinel
3 2 (20.00%) GitHub
4 1 (10.00%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (10.00%) Azure Logic Apps
4 1 (10.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 3 (30.00%) Firewall
2 1 (10.00%) DNS
2 1 (10.00%) Network Security
2 1 (10.00%) SNMP
2 1 (10.00%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (10.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Artifactory
1 2 (20.00%) Git
1 2 (20.00%) JIRA
2 1 (10.00%) Appium
2 1 (10.00%) Cypress.io
2 1 (10.00%) Gatling
2 1 (10.00%) JMeter
2 1 (10.00%) JUnit
2 1 (10.00%) LoadRunner
2 1 (10.00%) Postman
2 1 (10.00%) Selenium
2 1 (10.00%) TestNG
General
1 2 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Finance
2 1 (10.00%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 2 (20.00%) Automation Engineer
1 2 (20.00%) Consultant
1 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 2 (20.00%) Security Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Automation Tester
2 1 (10.00%) Data Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Linux Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Platform Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Systems Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Tester
2 1 (10.00%) VMware Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (10.00%) .NET
1 1 (10.00%) Redfish
1 1 (10.00%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Cyber Defence
1 2 (20.00%) Cyber Threat
1 2 (20.00%) Public Cloud
1 2 (20.00%) Virtual Team
2 1 (10.00%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (30.00%) Linux
2 1 (10.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (40.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 4 (40.00%) Vulnerability Management
2 3 (30.00%) Agile
2 3 (30.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (30.00%) Continuous Integration
2 3 (30.00%) Performance Tuning
3 2 (20.00%) Analytics
3 2 (20.00%) Case Management
3 2 (20.00%) Cloud Security
3 2 (20.00%) Computer Science
3 2 (20.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
3 2 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
3 2 (20.00%) Data Enrichment
3 2 (20.00%) DevOps
3 2 (20.00%) Incident Response
3 2 (20.00%) Migration
3 2 (20.00%) Security Operations
3 2 (20.00%) Security Patching
3 2 (20.00%) SIEM
3 2 (20.00%) SOAR
Programming Languages
1 6 (60.00%) Python
2 4 (40.00%) Perl
3 3 (30.00%) Bash
3 3 (30.00%) PowerShell
4 2 (20.00%) Shell Script
4 2 (20.00%) Tcl
5 1 (10.00%) C#
5 1 (10.00%) C-shell
5 1 (10.00%) JavaScript
5 1 (10.00%) Kusto Query Language
5 1 (10.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (20.00%) Degree
2 1 (10.00%) VCAP
2 1 (10.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (10.00%) Firmware
1 1 (10.00%) VMware ESXi
1 1 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (10.00%) VMware NSX
1 1 (10.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 4 (40.00%) Ansible
2 3 (30.00%) Terraform
3 2 (20.00%) vCenter Server
4 1 (10.00%) HAProxy
4 1 (10.00%) Nagios
4 1 (10.00%) PowerCLI
4 1 (10.00%) Puppet
4 1 (10.00%) VxRail
Vendors
1 3 (30.00%) Google
1 3 (30.00%) Red Hat
2 2 (20.00%) Dell
2 2 (20.00%) IBM
2 2 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (20.00%) Synopsys
3 1 (10.00%) HP
3 1 (10.00%) Palo Alto
3 1 (10.00%) ServiceNow
3 1 (10.00%) Splunk
3 1 (10.00%) Sun
3 1 (10.00%) VMware