Task Automation Contracts in Central London

Task Automation
London > Central London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London with a requirement for Task Automation skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Task Automation over the 6 months to 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 110 145 174
Rank change year-on-year +35 +29 -13
Contract jobs citing Task Automation 23 29 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.95% 0.76% 0.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.05% 0.83% 0.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 20 13
10th Percentile £438 £278 £414
25th Percentile £525 £423 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £484 £550
Median % change year-on-year +24.03% -12.05% -8.33%
75th Percentile £688 £683 £600
90th Percentile £702 £741 £745
London median daily rate £550 £540 £575
% change year-on-year +1.85% -6.09% +9.52%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Central London

Task Automation is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Central London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,190 3,501 4,171
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 90.61% 91.34% 91.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,562 2,371 3,191
10th Percentile £350 £325 £375
25th Percentile £450 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £570
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £688 £725 £675
90th Percentile £800 £820 £775
London median daily rate £550 £590 £575
% change year-on-year -6.78% +2.61% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 30 42
10th Percentile £20.01 £15.23 £18.50
25th Percentile £22.38 £18.50 £24.25
Median hourly rate £27.81 £35.00 £41.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.54% -14.63% +105.00%
75th Percentile £29.11 £57.50 £54.38
90th Percentile £41.29 £88.30 £65.43
London median hourly rate £28.50 £39.00 £36.75
% change year-on-year -26.92% +6.12% +12.47%

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 5 May 2024.

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 5 May 2024. 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 +38 20 £628 +29.72% 7
City of Westminster - 2 £550 -
West End of London - 1 £500 -
Camden - 1 £500 -
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 1 (4.35%) Apache Solr
1 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (4.35%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 4 (17.39%) Azure
2 3 (13.04%) AWS
3 2 (8.70%) GitHub
3 2 (8.70%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (4.35%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (4.35%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (4.35%) Entra ID
4 1 (4.35%) GCP
4 1 (4.35%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.35%) IPv4
1 1 (4.35%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (34.78%) MongoDB
2 5 (21.74%) Relational Database
3 4 (17.39%) DB2
3 4 (17.39%) RDBMS
3 4 (17.39%) Sybase ASE
4 1 (4.35%) BigQuery
4 1 (4.35%) Couchbase
4 1 (4.35%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (4.35%) MySQL
4 1 (4.35%) NoSQL
4 1 (4.35%) Redis
4 1 (4.35%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (4.35%) Cucumber
1 1 (4.35%) GitLab
1 1 (4.35%) Jenkins
1 1 (4.35%) JMeter
1 1 (4.35%) JUnit
1 1 (4.35%) Selenium
General
1 13 (56.52%) Social Skills
2 7 (30.43%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (8.70%) Finance
4 1 (4.35%) Retail
Job Titles
1 7 (30.43%) Site Engineer
1 7 (30.43%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 6 (26.09%) Python Engineer
3 4 (17.39%) DBA
4 3 (13.04%) Java Engineer
4 3 (13.04%) Sybase DBA
5 2 (8.70%) Administrator
5 2 (8.70%) Applications Engineer
5 2 (8.70%) Platform Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) Applications Specialist
6 1 (4.35%) Developer
6 1 (4.35%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) Java Developer
6 1 (4.35%) Junior
6 1 (4.35%) Junior Project Manager
6 1 (4.35%) Migration Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) Project Manager
6 1 (4.35%) Technical Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) Test Automation Specialist
6 1 (4.35%) Test Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (30.43%) Kafka
1 7 (30.43%) RabbitMQ
1 7 (30.43%) RESTful
2 1 (4.35%) Gherkin
2 1 (4.35%) Jest
2 1 (4.35%) REST
2 1 (4.35%) SailPoint
2 1 (4.35%) SAML
2 1 (4.35%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 7 (30.43%) Algorithms
1 7 (30.43%) Data Structures
1 7 (30.43%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (17.39%) Linux Command Line
2 4 (17.39%) Replication
3 2 (8.70%) Data Centre
3 2 (8.70%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (8.70%) Operational Technology
4 1 (4.35%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 12 (52.17%) Linux
2 4 (17.39%) Unix
3 2 (8.70%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (52.17%) Problem-Solving
2 10 (43.48%) DevOps
3 9 (39.13%) CI/CD
4 8 (34.78%) Microservices
5 7 (30.43%) Analytical Thinking
5 7 (30.43%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 7 (30.43%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 5 (21.74%) Infrastructure as Code
7 4 (17.39%) Change Data Capture
7 4 (17.39%) Incident Management
7 4 (17.39%) ITIL
7 4 (17.39%) Operational Acceptance Testing
7 4 (17.39%) Root Cause Analysis
8 3 (13.04%) Migration
9 2 (8.70%) Data Migration
9 2 (8.70%) Platform Engineering
10 1 (4.35%) Database Migration
10 1 (4.35%) Infrastructure Automation
10 1 (4.35%) RBAC
10 1 (4.35%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 17 (73.91%) Python
2 9 (39.13%) Java
3 7 (30.43%) Shell Script
4 6 (26.09%) PowerShell
4 6 (26.09%) SQL
5 5 (21.74%) C++
5 5 (21.74%) Go
6 4 (17.39%) Perl
6 4 (17.39%) T-SQL
7 1 (4.35%) Bash
Qualifications
1 2 (8.70%) SC Cleared
1 2 (8.70%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.35%) AWS Certification
2 1 (4.35%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (21.74%) QA
2 1 (4.35%) PMO
System Software
1 7 (30.43%) Apache ZooKeeper
2 5 (21.74%) Active Directory
3 4 (17.39%) Veritas Cluster Server
4 1 (4.35%) Docker
4 1 (4.35%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (34.78%) Kubernetes
2 7 (30.43%) Consul
2 7 (30.43%) Grafana
2 7 (30.43%) Prometheus
3 3 (13.04%) Terraform
4 2 (8.70%) Ansible
5 1 (4.35%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Clustering
5 1 (4.35%) Puppet
5 1 (4.35%) SCCM
Vendors
1 9 (39.13%) Microsoft
2 7 (30.43%) SaltStack
3 4 (17.39%) IBM
3 4 (17.39%) Oracle
3 4 (17.39%) SAP
3 4 (17.39%) ServiceNow
3 4 (17.39%) Sun
3 4 (17.39%) Sybase
3 4 (17.39%) Veritas
4 1 (4.35%) Google
4 1 (4.35%) VMware