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 20 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 109 105 138
Rank change year-on-year -4 +33 +39
Contract jobs citing Task Automation 13 23 28
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.75% 1.06% 0.79%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.80% 1.17% 0.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 19 20
10th Percentile £365 £438 £278
25th Percentile £447 £523 £423
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £655 £484
Median % change year-on-year -4.58% +35.40% -10.42%
75th Percentile £698 £698 £696
90th Percentile £755 £710 £741
Central London median daily rate £581 £600 £484
% change year-on-year -3.13% +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 1,625 1,959 3,245
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 93.61% 90.44% 91.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,017 1,379 2,192
10th Percentile £356 £350 £356
25th Percentile £463 £450 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £565 £600
Median % change year-on-year +1.77% -5.83% +4.35%
75th Percentile £688 £688 £730
90th Percentile £775 £813 £825
Central London median daily rate £565 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +2.73% -8.33% +5.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 12 26
10th Percentile £22.00 £19.95 £14.75
25th Percentile £23.75 £20.22 £17.08
Median hourly rate £28.15 £25.63 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.85% -26.79% -13.58%
75th Percentile £43.75 £40.00 £57.50
90th Percentile £60.75 £41.65 £88.30
Central London median hourly rate £29.07 £27.81 £35.00
% change year-on-year +4.53% -20.54% -13.58%

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 20 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
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 2 (15.38%) SharePoint
2 1 (7.69%) Confluence
2 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 6 (46.15%) AWS
2 4 (30.77%) Azure
2 4 (30.77%) GCP
3 2 (15.38%) GitHub
3 2 (15.38%) Power Platform
4 1 (7.69%) Amazon Cognito
4 1 (7.69%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (7.69%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (7.69%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (7.69%) Entra ID
4 1 (7.69%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (7.69%) Nutanix
4 1 (7.69%) OneDrive
4 1 (7.69%) OpenShift
4 1 (7.69%) Power Automate
4 1 (7.69%) Serverless
4 1 (7.69%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (15.38%) DNS
1 2 (15.38%) TCP/IP
2 1 (7.69%) DHCP
2 1 (7.69%) Firewall
2 1 (7.69%) HTTP
2 1 (7.69%) Kerberos
2 1 (7.69%) Network Security
2 1 (7.69%) Software-Defined Networking
2 1 (7.69%) VLAN
2 1 (7.69%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (15.38%) CockroachDB
1 2 (15.38%) MySQL
1 2 (15.38%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (15.38%) Relational Database
2 1 (7.69%) Amazon QuickSight
2 1 (7.69%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (7.69%) BigQuery
2 1 (7.69%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (7.69%) DynamoDB
2 1 (7.69%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (7.69%) NonStop SQL
2 1 (7.69%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 3 (23.08%) JIRA
2 2 (15.38%) GitLab
3 1 (7.69%) Subversion
3 1 (7.69%) TeamCity
General
1 4 (30.77%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (23.08%) Banking
2 3 (23.08%) Finance
3 1 (7.69%) Retail
3 1 (7.69%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (30.77%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) Lead
3 1 (7.69%) Analyst
3 1 (7.69%) Architect
3 1 (7.69%) Data Analyst
3 1 (7.69%) Database Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Developer
3 1 (7.69%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Lead Data Analyst
3 1 (7.69%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Linux Administrator
3 1 (7.69%) Mac Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Network Architect
3 1 (7.69%) Network Security Architect
3 1 (7.69%) Security Architect
3 1 (7.69%) Senior
3 1 (7.69%) Senior Mac Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) ServiceNow Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (15.38%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (7.69%) Ajax
2 1 (7.69%) HTML
2 1 (7.69%) LDAP
2 1 (7.69%) Node.js
2 1 (7.69%) REST
2 1 (7.69%) SOAP
2 1 (7.69%) Web Services
2 1 (7.69%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (15.38%) Analytical Mindset
1 2 (15.38%) Data Structures
1 2 (15.38%) DataPower
1 2 (15.38%) Mainframe
1 2 (15.38%) Private Cloud
1 2 (15.38%) Product Ownership
1 2 (15.38%) Public Cloud
1 2 (15.38%) Replication
2 1 (7.69%) Clustering
2 1 (7.69%) CMDB
2 1 (7.69%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 4 (30.77%) Unix
2 3 (23.08%) Linux
3 1 (7.69%) Mac OS
3 1 (7.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (7.69%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (53.85%) DevOps
2 5 (38.46%) CI/CD
2 5 (38.46%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (30.77%) Agile
3 4 (30.77%) High Availability
3 4 (30.77%) Software Engineering
4 3 (23.08%) Containerisation
4 3 (23.08%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (23.08%) SDLC
5 2 (15.38%) Actionable Insight
5 2 (15.38%) Cloud Security
5 2 (15.38%) Configuration Management
5 2 (15.38%) Continuous Integration
5 2 (15.38%) Customer Requirements
5 2 (15.38%) Data Security
5 2 (15.38%) Database Security
5 2 (15.38%) Pair Programming
5 2 (15.38%) Resource Management
5 2 (15.38%) SIEM
5 2 (15.38%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 11 (84.62%) Python
2 4 (30.77%) SQL
3 3 (23.08%) Bash
3 3 (23.08%) Shell Script
4 2 (15.38%) JavaScript
4 2 (15.38%) Perl
5 1 (7.69%) AppleScript
5 1 (7.69%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (15.38%) Security Cleared
2 1 (7.69%) AWS Certification
2 1 (7.69%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
2 1 (7.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (7.69%) DV Cleared
2 1 (7.69%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (7.69%) NIST
1 1 (7.69%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 3 (23.08%) Docker
2 1 (7.69%) Active Directory
2 1 (7.69%) NFS
2 1 (7.69%) Veritas File System
2 1 (7.69%) Veritas Volume Manager
2 1 (7.69%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (7.69%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (7.69%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 4 (30.77%) Terraform
2 3 (23.08%) Ansible
2 3 (23.08%) Kubernetes
3 1 (7.69%) Control-M
3 1 (7.69%) Jamf Pro
3 1 (7.69%) Kibana
3 1 (7.69%) logstash
3 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (7.69%) Netcool
3 1 (7.69%) QRadar
3 1 (7.69%) Red Hat Satellite
3 1 (7.69%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 3 (23.08%) Oracle
1 3 (23.08%) Red Hat
2 2 (15.38%) Google
2 2 (15.38%) Microsoft
2 2 (15.38%) Splunk
2 2 (15.38%) VMware
3 1 (7.69%) Apple
3 1 (7.69%) BMC
3 1 (7.69%) CheckPoint
3 1 (7.69%) Cisco
3 1 (7.69%) CyberArk
3 1 (7.69%) Fortinet
3 1 (7.69%) IBM
3 1 (7.69%) Palo Alto
3 1 (7.69%) Qualys
3 1 (7.69%) SaltStack
3 1 (7.69%) ServiceNow