Task Automation Contracts in the East Midlands

Task Automation
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East Midlands 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 51 65 78
Rank change year-on-year +14 +13 +16
Contract jobs citing Task Automation 5 1 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 0.93% 0.13% 0.67%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.08% 0.17% 0.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 6
10th Percentile £295 - £408
25th Percentile £324 £563 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £395 £575 £525
Median % change year-on-year -31.30% +9.52% +27.27%
75th Percentile £471 £588 £566
90th Percentile £504 - £588
England median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £11.25
Median hourly rate - - £12.50
75th Percentile - - £13.75
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £46.87 £23.80 £51.25
% change year-on-year +96.94% -53.56% +130.03%

All Process and Methodology Skills
East Midlands

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 East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 462 603 918
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 86.19% 78.01% 88.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 298 404 692
10th Percentile £200 £192 £213
25th Percentile £323 £269 £330
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £419 £450
Median % change year-on-year +6.81% -7.00% +2.27%
75th Percentile £525 £553 £573
90th Percentile £591 £625 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 57 74
10th Percentile - £11.41 £12.07
25th Percentile £13.81 £12.75 £16.25
Median hourly rate £18.36 £17.00 £18.56
Median % change year-on-year +7.97% -8.39% +3.10%
75th Percentile £24.54 £26.15 £31.50
90th Percentile £33.15 £45.79 £58.50
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Task Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Task Automation in the East Midlands

Task Automation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Task Automation in the East Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Task Automation in the East Midlands

Task Automation
Daily Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Task Automation in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Task Automation in the East Midlands

Task Automation
Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

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 East Midlands 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
Derbyshire - 3 £300 -
Northamptonshire - 1 £500 - 3
Nottinghamshire - 1 £395 - 1
Task Automation
England

Task Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 (20.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) Azure
2 2 (40.00%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (40.00%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (20.00%) AWS
3 1 (20.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) PBX
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Chocolatey
1 2 (40.00%) Git
1 2 (40.00%) SonarQube
General
1 2 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (40.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) IT Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) IT Infrastructure Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Mac Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft 365 Specialist
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) .NET
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Windows
2 1 (20.00%) Linux
2 1 (20.00%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) ITIL
2 2 (40.00%) Agile
2 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (40.00%) DevOps
2 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (40.00%) Microservices
2 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (40.00%) Service Catalogue
2 2 (40.00%) Test Automation
3 1 (20.00%) Containerisation
3 1 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (20.00%) Data Management
3 1 (20.00%) Fintech
3 1 (20.00%) Incident Management
3 1 (20.00%) Resource Allocation
3 1 (20.00%) Risk Assessment
3 1 (20.00%) Service Management
3 1 (20.00%) Virtual Environments
3 1 (20.00%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) PowerShell
2 2 (40.00%) Bash
2 2 (40.00%) C#
2 2 (40.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) ACSP
1 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 3 (60.00%) Docker
2 1 (20.00%) Hyper-V
2 1 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (60.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (40.00%) Ansible
2 2 (40.00%) Terraform
3 1 (20.00%) Jamf Pro
3 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (20.00%) Podman
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) ServiceNow
2 1 (20.00%) Apple
2 1 (20.00%) Google
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) VMware