Task Automation Contract Job Trends in Cheltenham

Task Automation
Gloucestershire > Cheltenham

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cheltenham requiring Task Automation skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 19 40 -
Rank change year-on-year +21 - -
Contract jobs citing Task Automation 1 5 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheltenham 1.12% 1.95% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.47% 2.35% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 4 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £525 £525 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £588 -
Median % change year-on-year -6.38% - -
75th Percentile £575 £625 -
90th Percentile - - -
Gloucestershire median daily rate £550 £510 £709
% change year-on-year +7.84% -28.04% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cheltenham

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 Cheltenham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 68 213 158
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheltenham 76.40% 82.88% 78.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 96 92
10th Percentile £431 £400 £317
25th Percentile £525 £525 £484
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £610 £600 £588
Median % change year-on-year +1.67% +2.13% +11.90%
75th Percentile £723 £675 £700
90th Percentile £759 £731 £738
Gloucestershire median daily rate £500 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -13.04% +4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 12 8
10th Percentile - £42.38 £24.08
25th Percentile - £68.81 £28.69
Median hourly rate £36.00 £71.00 £48.00
Median % change year-on-year -49.30% +47.92% +236.84%
75th Percentile - £73.75 £90.00
90th Percentile - - £91.35
Gloucestershire median hourly rate £35.17 £37.52 £75.00
% change year-on-year -6.25% -49.98% +95.44%

Task Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheltenham

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

Job vacancy trend for Task Automation in Cheltenham

Task Automation
Daily Rate Trend in Cheltenham

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheltenham citing Task Automation.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheltenham citing Task Automation

Task Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheltenham 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) npm
1 1 (100.00%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) RDBMS
1 1 (100.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) Maven
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Applications Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Applications Support
1 1 (100.00%) Applications Support Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) CentOS
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Data Centre Operations
1 1 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Service Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle