Task Automation Contract Job Trends in Coventry

Task Automation
West Midlands > Coventry

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Coventry requiring Task Automation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 31 17 -
Rank change year-on-year -14 - -
Contract jobs citing Task Automation 2 3 0
As % of all contract jobs in Coventry 1.06% 2.80% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.20% 3.23% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 0
10th Percentile £282 - -
25th Percentile £319 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £384 £470 -
Median % change year-on-year -18.30% - -
75th Percentile £447 - -
90th Percentile £481 - -
West Midlands median daily rate £550 £492 £400
% change year-on-year +11.79% +23.00% +15.11%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Coventry

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 Coventry.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 166 93 170
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Coventry 87.83% 86.92% 89.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 104 64 124
10th Percentile £263 £329 £367
25th Percentile £313 £398 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £552 £538 £595
90th Percentile £685 £625 £650
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 2
10th Percentile £19.19 - £31.06
25th Percentile £24.35 - £38.65
Median hourly rate £27.21 - £52.59
75th Percentile - - £66.83
90th Percentile - - £74.60
West Midlands median hourly rate £20.25 £21.59 £28.25
% change year-on-year -6.21% -23.58% +66.81%

Task Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Coventry

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Task Automation relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Coventry.

Task Automation job vacancy trend in Coventry

Task Automation
Daily Rate Trend in Coventry

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

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

Task Automation
Daily Rate Histogram in Coventry

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Task Automation in Coventry over the 6 months to 11 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Task Automation in Coventry

Task Automation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Coventry by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon EKS
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) GCP
1 1 (50.00%) GitHub
1 1 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (50.00%) NuGet
1 1 (50.00%) SaaS
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) .NET
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Agile
1 1 (50.00%) AI
1 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (50.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) High Availability
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) Microservices
1 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Bash
1 1 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
1 1 (50.00%) Hyper-V
1 1 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (50.00%) Ansible
2 1 (50.00%) Argo
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) VMware