Task Automation Contract Job Trends in Devon

Task Automation
South West > Devon

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Devon requiring Task Automation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 27 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Task Automation 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Devon 0.61% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.71% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 - -
South West median daily rate £525 £470 £638
% change year-on-year +11.70% -26.27% +23.53%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Devon

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 Devon.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 140 192 232
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Devon 85.89% 84.21% 87.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 112 187
10th Percentile £238 £314 £385
25th Percentile £283 £409 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £501 £575
Median % change year-on-year -10.09% -12.96% +9.52%
75th Percentile £556 £620 £644
90th Percentile £600 £685 £700
South West median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 9 17
10th Percentile £16.98 £32.97 £19.22
25th Percentile - £46.25 £31.05
Median hourly rate £25.15 £60.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -58.08% +50.00% -19.19%
75th Percentile £33.09 £70.00 £57.50
90th Percentile £46.00 £73.00 £80.00
South West median hourly rate £25.15 £65.00 £59.84
% change year-on-year -61.31% +8.62% -7.94%

Task Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Devon

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

Task Automation job vacancy trend in Devon

Task Automation
Daily Rate Trend in Devon

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

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

Task Automation
Contract Job Locations in Devon

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 Devon region over the 6 months to 13 December 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
Exeter - 1 £520 -
Task Automation
South West

Task Automation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Devon 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 (100.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Data Factory
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Monitor
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (100.00%) DynamoDB
1 1 (100.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Database Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) DBA
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Data Management
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (100.00%) Database Security
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (100.00%) MCSE
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) GDPR
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft