Task Automation Contracts in Cambridgeshire

Task Automation
East of England > Cambridgeshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cambridgeshire 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 35 54 -
Rank change year-on-year +19 - -
Contract jobs citing Task Automation 10 1 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 3.62% 0.20% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.10% 0.24% -
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile £199 - -
25th Percentile £400 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 - -
75th Percentile £625 - -
90th Percentile £711 - -
East of England median daily rate £565 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +10.24% -6.82% +17.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £65.00 - -
East of England median hourly rate £65.00 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cambridgeshire

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 Cambridgeshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 244 410 526
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 88.41% 82.83% 88.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 130 148 284
10th Percentile £296 £200 £200
25th Percentile £402 £350 £281
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £470 £450
Median % change year-on-year +1.06% +4.44% -
75th Percentile £550 £553 £536
90th Percentile £650 £683 £600
East of England median daily rate £500 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +5.26% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 52 194 150
10th Percentile £14.86 - £13.41
25th Percentile £14.99 £14.16 £14.25
Median hourly rate £16.23 £15.00 £14.50
Median % change year-on-year +8.20% +3.45% +6.15%
75th Percentile £18.85 £21.46 £20.56
90th Percentile £22.93 £52.25 £22.06
East of England median hourly rate £42.50 £40.00 £24.62
% change year-on-year +6.25% +62.47% +58.84%

Task Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Task Automation in Cambridgeshire

Task Automation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Daily rate trend for Task Automation in Cambridgeshire

Task Automation
Daily Rate Histogram in Cambridgeshire

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

Daily rate histogram for Task Automation in Cambridgeshire

Task Automation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Task Automation in Cambridgeshire

Task Automation
Contract Job Locations in Cambridgeshire

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 Cambridgeshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Cambridge - 8 £465 - 18
Task Automation
East of England

Task Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cambridgeshire 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
Business Applications
1 1 (10.00%) SAP CO
1 1 (10.00%) SAP FI
1 1 (10.00%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 5 (50.00%) Azure
2 4 (40.00%) AWS
2 4 (40.00%) GCP
3 2 (20.00%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (10.00%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (10.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (10.00%) GitHub
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%) JIRA
2 1 (10.00%) Git
General
1 2 (20.00%) Finance
1 2 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (30.00%) Consultant
2 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Security Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Automation Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Data Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Linux Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Platform Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) SAP Consultant
3 1 (10.00%) Systems Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) VMware Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (10.00%) .NET
1 1 (10.00%) Redfish
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Cyber Threat
1 2 (20.00%) Public Cloud
1 2 (20.00%) Virtual Team
2 1 (10.00%) Cyber Defence
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%) Performance Tuning
2 3 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (20.00%) Actionable Insight
3 2 (20.00%) Case Management
3 2 (20.00%) Computer Science
3 2 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
3 2 (20.00%) Cyber Intelligence
3 2 (20.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
3 2 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
3 2 (20.00%) Data Enrichment
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
3 2 (20.00%) Threat Intelligence
3 2 (20.00%) Workload Management
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-shell
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
1 1 (10.00%) IFRS
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 4 (40.00%) Google
2 3 (30.00%) Red Hat
3 2 (20.00%) Dell
3 2 (20.00%) IBM
3 2 (20.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (20.00%) Palo Alto
3 2 (20.00%) Splunk
3 2 (20.00%) Synopsys
4 1 (10.00%) HP
4 1 (10.00%) SAP
4 1 (10.00%) ServiceNow
4 1 (10.00%) Sun
4 1 (10.00%) VMware