Task Automation Contracts in Central London

Task Automation
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London 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 109 110 142
Rank change year-on-year +1 +32 +38
Contract jobs citing Task Automation 20 23 30
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 1.00% 0.94% 0.78%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.08% 1.04% 0.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 19 20
10th Percentile £350 £438 £278
25th Percentile £394 £525 £423
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £484
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +24.03% -12.05%
75th Percentile £663 £688 £683
90th Percentile £725 £702 £741
London median daily rate £544 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -1.14% - -4.35%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Central London

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 Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,856 2,215 3,533
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 92.94% 90.56% 91.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,197 1,573 2,397
10th Percentile £363 £350 £325
25th Percentile £456 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year +2.73% -8.33% +5.26%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £725
90th Percentile £774 £800 £825
London median daily rate £550 £550 £590
% change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 25 28
10th Percentile £22.00 £20.04 £15.43
25th Percentile £22.75 £22.50 £18.50
Median hourly rate £29.07 £27.81 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.53% -20.54% -14.63%
75th Percentile £43.97 £33.00 £58.75
90th Percentile £50.75 £46.89 £88.30
London median hourly rate £31.67 £29.50 £38.13
% change year-on-year +7.36% -22.62% +5.90%

Task Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Task Automation in Central London

Task Automation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Daily rate trend for Task Automation in Central London

Task Automation
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

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

Daily rate histogram for Task Automation in Central London

Task Automation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

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

Hourly rate trend for Task Automation in Central London

Task Automation
Contract Job Locations in Central London

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 Central London 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
City of London +5 17 £600 -4.38% 7
West End of London -2 1 £250 -50.00% 2
Southwark - 1 £425 -
Task Automation
London

Task Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London 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 5 (25.00%) SharePoint
2 3 (15.00%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (5.00%) Confluence
3 1 (5.00%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (10.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 7 (35.00%) AWS
2 6 (30.00%) Azure
3 5 (25.00%) Power Platform
4 4 (20.00%) GCP
4 4 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (20.00%) Power Automate
5 3 (15.00%) Entra ID
5 3 (15.00%) OneDrive
6 2 (10.00%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (10.00%) GitHub
6 2 (10.00%) Serverless
7 1 (5.00%) Amazon Cognito
7 1 (5.00%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (5.00%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (5.00%) Amazon S3
7 1 (5.00%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (5.00%) Nutanix
7 1 (5.00%) OpenShift
7 1 (5.00%) PowerApps
7 1 (5.00%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 3 (15.00%) Network Security
1 3 (15.00%) TCP/IP
2 2 (10.00%) DNS
2 2 (10.00%) VLAN
2 2 (10.00%) VPN
3 1 (5.00%) BGP
3 1 (5.00%) DHCP
3 1 (5.00%) Firewall
3 1 (5.00%) HTTP
3 1 (5.00%) Kerberos
3 1 (5.00%) OSPF
3 1 (5.00%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (10.00%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (10.00%) CockroachDB
1 2 (10.00%) MySQL
1 2 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (10.00%) Relational Database
2 1 (5.00%) Amazon QuickSight
2 1 (5.00%) BigQuery
2 1 (5.00%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (5.00%) DynamoDB
2 1 (5.00%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (5.00%) NonStop SQL
2 1 (5.00%) Power BI
2 1 (5.00%) Power Query
2 1 (5.00%) PowerPivot
Development Applications
1 3 (15.00%) GitLab
1 3 (15.00%) JIRA
2 1 (5.00%) Cypress.io
2 1 (5.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (5.00%) PHPUnit
2 1 (5.00%) Selenium
2 1 (5.00%) Subversion
2 1 (5.00%) TeamCity
General
1 5 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 3 (15.00%) Banking
3 3 (15.00%) Finance
4 1 (5.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 5 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 3 (15.00%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
2 3 (15.00%) Microsoft Engineer
2 3 (15.00%) Support Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) Developer
3 2 (10.00%) Lead
3 2 (10.00%) Senior
4 1 (5.00%) Analyst
4 1 (5.00%) Automation Consultant
4 1 (5.00%) AWS DevOps
4 1 (5.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) AWS Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Consultant
4 1 (5.00%) Lead Data Analyst
4 1 (5.00%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Microsoft 365 Developer
4 1 (5.00%) Network Consultant
4 1 (5.00%) Power Platform Developer
4 1 (5.00%) ServiceNow Developer
4 1 (5.00%) VBA Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (10.00%) Elastic Stack
1 2 (10.00%) HTML
1 2 (10.00%) Web Services
2 1 (5.00%) Ajax
2 1 (5.00%) CSS
2 1 (5.00%) Jest
2 1 (5.00%) LDAP
2 1 (5.00%) Node.js
2 1 (5.00%) Playwright
2 1 (5.00%) React
2 1 (5.00%) REST
2 1 (5.00%) SOAP
2 1 (5.00%) SPFx
2 1 (5.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.00%) Analytical Mindset
1 2 (10.00%) Data Structures
1 2 (10.00%) DataPower
1 2 (10.00%) Mainframe
1 2 (10.00%) Private Cloud
1 2 (10.00%) Product Ownership
1 2 (10.00%) Public Cloud
1 2 (10.00%) Replication
2 1 (5.00%) Clustering
2 1 (5.00%) CMDB
2 1 (5.00%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (5.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 4 (20.00%) Unix
2 3 (15.00%) Linux
3 1 (5.00%) Mac OS
3 1 (5.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (5.00%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (40.00%) DevOps
2 7 (35.00%) High Availability
3 6 (30.00%) CI/CD
3 6 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (25.00%) Software Engineering
5 4 (20.00%) Agile
5 4 (20.00%) Cloud Security
5 4 (20.00%) Containerisation
5 4 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
6 3 (15.00%) Configuration Management
6 3 (15.00%) Continuous Integration
6 3 (15.00%) Mentoring
6 3 (15.00%) SDLC
7 2 (10.00%) Data Management
7 2 (10.00%) Data Security
7 2 (10.00%) Pair Programming
7 2 (10.00%) Resource Management
7 2 (10.00%) Service Delivery
7 2 (10.00%) SIEM
7 2 (10.00%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 14 (70.00%) Python
2 5 (25.00%) PowerShell
2 5 (25.00%) SQL
3 4 (20.00%) Bash
3 4 (20.00%) JavaScript
4 3 (15.00%) Shell Script
5 2 (10.00%) Perl
6 1 (5.00%) AppleScript
6 1 (5.00%) PHP
6 1 (5.00%) TypeScript
6 1 (5.00%) VBA
Qualifications
1 4 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (15.00%) Degree
3 1 (5.00%) AWS Certification
3 1 (5.00%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
3 1 (5.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (5.00%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (5.00%) DV Cleared
3 1 (5.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.00%) QA
2 1 (5.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (5.00%) NIST
2 1 (5.00%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 4 (20.00%) Docker
2 3 (15.00%) Active Directory
3 2 (10.00%) VMware NSX
4 1 (5.00%) NFS
4 1 (5.00%) Veritas File System
4 1 (5.00%) Veritas Volume Manager
4 1 (5.00%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (5.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (30.00%) Ansible
2 5 (25.00%) Terraform
3 4 (20.00%) Kubernetes
4 3 (15.00%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (5.00%) Control-M
5 1 (5.00%) Jamf Pro
5 1 (5.00%) Kibana
5 1 (5.00%) logstash
5 1 (5.00%) Netcool
5 1 (5.00%) QRadar
5 1 (5.00%) Red Hat Satellite
5 1 (5.00%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 6 (30.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (15.00%) Oracle
2 3 (15.00%) Red Hat
2 3 (15.00%) VMware
3 2 (10.00%) Google
3 2 (10.00%) Splunk
4 1 (5.00%) Apple
4 1 (5.00%) BMC
4 1 (5.00%) CheckPoint
4 1 (5.00%) Cisco
4 1 (5.00%) CyberArk
4 1 (5.00%) Fortinet
4 1 (5.00%) IBM
4 1 (5.00%) Palo Alto
4 1 (5.00%) Qualys
4 1 (5.00%) SaltStack
4 1 (5.00%) ServiceNow