Task Automation Contracts in the City of London

Task Automation
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of 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 102 107 148
Rank change year-on-year +5 +41 +26
Contract jobs citing Task Automation 17 20 30
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.97% 0.91% 0.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.04% 1.01% 0.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 16 20
10th Percentile £373 £419 £278
25th Percentile £439 £531 £423
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £628 £484
Median % change year-on-year -4.38% +29.72% -12.05%
75th Percentile £667 £689 £683
90th Percentile £733 £705 £741
Central London median daily rate £575 £600 £484
% change year-on-year -4.17% +24.03% -12.05%

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,636 1,988 3,346
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 93.17% 90.49% 91.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,032 1,406 2,259
10th Percentile £363 £363 £355
25th Percentile £463 £451 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £565 £600
Median % change year-on-year +1.77% -5.83% +4.35%
75th Percentile £680 £688 £730
90th Percentile £775 £806 £825
Central London median daily rate £565 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +2.73% -8.33% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 11 24
10th Percentile £22.00 £19.92 £15.33
25th Percentile £24.00 £20.22 £18.03
Median hourly rate £29.58 £25.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.30% -28.57% -14.63%
75th Percentile £45.00 £40.00 £58.75
90th Percentile £62.25 £41.84 £88.30
Central London median hourly rate £29.07 £27.81 £35.00
% change year-on-year +4.53% -20.54% -14.63%

Task Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Task Automation in the City of London

Task Automation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Task Automation in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Task Automation in the City of London

Task Automation
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

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

Daily rate histogram for Task Automation in the City of London

Task Automation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Task Automation in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for Task Automation in the City of London

Task Automation
Contract Job Locations in the City of 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 City of 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
London Bridge - 1 £425 -
Task Automation
Central London

Task Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 3 (17.65%) SharePoint
2 1 (5.88%) Confluence
2 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (5.88%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 7 (41.18%) AWS
2 4 (23.53%) Azure
2 4 (23.53%) GCP
3 3 (17.65%) Power Platform
4 2 (11.76%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (11.76%) GitHub
4 2 (11.76%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (11.76%) Power Automate
4 2 (11.76%) Serverless
5 1 (5.88%) Amazon Cognito
5 1 (5.88%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (5.88%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (5.88%) Amazon S3
5 1 (5.88%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (5.88%) Entra ID
5 1 (5.88%) Nutanix
5 1 (5.88%) OneDrive
5 1 (5.88%) OpenShift
5 1 (5.88%) PowerApps
5 1 (5.88%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 3 (17.65%) TCP/IP
2 2 (11.76%) DNS
2 2 (11.76%) VLAN
2 2 (11.76%) VPN
3 1 (5.88%) BGP
3 1 (5.88%) DHCP
3 1 (5.88%) Firewall
3 1 (5.88%) HTTP
3 1 (5.88%) Kerberos
3 1 (5.88%) Network Security
3 1 (5.88%) OSPF
3 1 (5.88%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (11.76%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (11.76%) CockroachDB
1 2 (11.76%) MySQL
1 2 (11.76%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (11.76%) Relational Database
2 1 (5.88%) Amazon QuickSight
2 1 (5.88%) BigQuery
2 1 (5.88%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (5.88%) DynamoDB
2 1 (5.88%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (5.88%) NonStop SQL
2 1 (5.88%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 3 (17.65%) GitLab
1 3 (17.65%) JIRA
2 1 (5.88%) Cypress.io
2 1 (5.88%) Jenkins
2 1 (5.88%) PHPUnit
2 1 (5.88%) Selenium
2 1 (5.88%) Subversion
2 1 (5.88%) TeamCity
General
1 5 (29.41%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (17.65%) Banking
2 3 (17.65%) Finance
2 3 (17.65%) Social Skills
3 1 (5.88%) Retail
Job Titles
1 5 (29.41%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (11.76%) Developer
2 2 (11.76%) Lead
2 2 (11.76%) Senior
3 1 (5.88%) Administrator
3 1 (5.88%) Analyst
3 1 (5.88%) Automation Consultant
3 1 (5.88%) AWS DevOps
3 1 (5.88%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 1 (5.88%) AWS Engineer
3 1 (5.88%) Consultant
3 1 (5.88%) Lead Data Analyst
3 1 (5.88%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (5.88%) Microsoft 365 Developer
3 1 (5.88%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
3 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Engineer
3 1 (5.88%) Network Consultant
3 1 (5.88%) Power Platform Developer
3 1 (5.88%) Software Developer
3 1 (5.88%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (11.76%) Elastic Stack
1 2 (11.76%) HTML
2 1 (5.88%) Ajax
2 1 (5.88%) CSS
2 1 (5.88%) Jest
2 1 (5.88%) LDAP
2 1 (5.88%) Node.js
2 1 (5.88%) Playwright
2 1 (5.88%) React
2 1 (5.88%) REST
2 1 (5.88%) SOAP
2 1 (5.88%) SPFx
2 1 (5.88%) Web Services
2 1 (5.88%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.76%) Analytical Mindset
1 2 (11.76%) Data Structures
1 2 (11.76%) DataPower
1 2 (11.76%) Mainframe
1 2 (11.76%) Private Cloud
1 2 (11.76%) Product Ownership
1 2 (11.76%) Public Cloud
1 2 (11.76%) Replication
2 1 (5.88%) Clustering
2 1 (5.88%) CMDB
2 1 (5.88%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 4 (23.53%) Unix
2 3 (17.65%) Linux
3 1 (5.88%) Mac OS
3 1 (5.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (5.88%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (47.06%) DevOps
2 6 (35.29%) CI/CD
2 6 (35.29%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (29.41%) High Availability
3 5 (29.41%) Software Engineering
4 4 (23.53%) Agile
4 4 (23.53%) Containerisation
4 4 (23.53%) Infrastructure as Code
5 3 (17.65%) Configuration Management
5 3 (17.65%) Continuous Integration
5 3 (17.65%) SDLC
6 2 (11.76%) Actionable Insight
6 2 (11.76%) Cloud Security
6 2 (11.76%) Customer Requirements
6 2 (11.76%) Data Security
6 2 (11.76%) Database Security
6 2 (11.76%) Pair Programming
6 2 (11.76%) Resource Management
6 2 (11.76%) SIEM
6 2 (11.76%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 13 (76.47%) Python
2 4 (23.53%) Bash
2 4 (23.53%) JavaScript
2 4 (23.53%) SQL
3 3 (17.65%) Shell Script
4 2 (11.76%) Perl
4 2 (11.76%) PowerShell
5 1 (5.88%) AppleScript
5 1 (5.88%) PHP
5 1 (5.88%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (17.65%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.88%) AWS Certification
2 1 (5.88%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
2 1 (5.88%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (5.88%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (5.88%) DV Cleared
2 1 (5.88%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (5.88%) NIST
1 1 (5.88%) PCI DSS
1 1 (5.88%) QA
System Software
1 4 (23.53%) Docker
2 2 (11.76%) VMware NSX
3 1 (5.88%) Active Directory
3 1 (5.88%) NFS
3 1 (5.88%) Veritas File System
3 1 (5.88%) Veritas Volume Manager
3 1 (5.88%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (5.88%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (35.29%) Ansible
2 5 (29.41%) Terraform
3 4 (23.53%) Kubernetes
4 1 (5.88%) Control-M
4 1 (5.88%) Jamf Pro
4 1 (5.88%) Kibana
4 1 (5.88%) logstash
4 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (5.88%) Netcool
4 1 (5.88%) QRadar
4 1 (5.88%) Red Hat Satellite
4 1 (5.88%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 3 (17.65%) Microsoft
1 3 (17.65%) Oracle
1 3 (17.65%) Red Hat
1 3 (17.65%) VMware
2 2 (11.76%) Google
2 2 (11.76%) Splunk
3 1 (5.88%) Apple
3 1 (5.88%) BMC
3 1 (5.88%) CheckPoint
3 1 (5.88%) Cisco
3 1 (5.88%) CyberArk
3 1 (5.88%) Fortinet
3 1 (5.88%) IBM
3 1 (5.88%) Palo Alto
3 1 (5.88%) Qualys
3 1 (5.88%) SaltStack
3 1 (5.88%) ServiceNow