Task Automation Contracts in Derbyshire

Task Automation
East Midlands > Derbyshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Derbyshire 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 16 - 30
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Task Automation 3 0 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Derbyshire 3.09% - 0.94%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.90% - 1.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - £379
25th Percentile £275 - £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £300 - £463
75th Percentile £325 - £528
90th Percentile - - £556
East Midlands median daily rate £395 £575 £525
% change year-on-year -31.30% +9.52% +27.27%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Derbyshire

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 Derbyshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 77 110 185
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Derbyshire 79.38% 64.71% 87.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 73 102
10th Percentile £172 £167 £134
25th Percentile £200 £200 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £267 £469
Median % change year-on-year +59.18% -43.04% +17.19%
75th Percentile £550 £438 £552
90th Percentile £644 £588 £638
East Midlands median daily rate £447 £419 £450
% change year-on-year +6.81% -7.00% +2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 15 37
10th Percentile £15.06 £12.13 £13.16
25th Percentile £15.25 £16.25 £16.25
Median hourly rate £22.30 £17.50 £16.83
Median % change year-on-year +27.40% +3.98% -15.85%
75th Percentile £24.30 £22.57 £23.00
90th Percentile £24.81 £26.15 £65.00
East Midlands median hourly rate £18.36 £17.00 £18.56
% change year-on-year +7.97% -8.39% +3.10%

Task Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Derbyshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Task Automation in Derbyshire

Task Automation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Derbyshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Task Automation in Derbyshire.

Daily rate trend for Task Automation in Derbyshire

Task Automation
Contract Job Locations in Derbyshire

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 Derbyshire 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
Derby - 3 £300 - 6
Task Automation
East Midlands

Task Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Derbyshire 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 (33.33%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
2 2 (66.67%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) AWS
3 1 (33.33%) GCP
3 1 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Chocolatey
1 2 (66.67%) Git
1 2 (66.67%) SonarQube
General
1 2 (66.67%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (66.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) IT Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) IT Infrastructure Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) .NET
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) ITIL
2 2 (66.67%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (66.67%) Microservices
2 2 (66.67%) Service Catalogue
2 2 (66.67%) Test Automation
3 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (33.33%) Data Management
3 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (33.33%) Resource Allocation
3 1 (33.33%) Risk Assessment
3 1 (33.33%) Service Delivery
3 1 (33.33%) Service Management
3 1 (33.33%) Virtual Environments
3 1 (33.33%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) PowerShell
2 2 (66.67%) C#
3 1 (33.33%) Bash
3 1 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) Docker
2 1 (33.33%) Hyper-V
2 1 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (66.67%) Ansible
2 2 (66.67%) Terraform
3 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (33.33%) Podman
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) ServiceNow
2 1 (33.33%) Google
2 1 (33.33%) VMware