Task Automation Contract Job Trends in the East of England

Task Automation
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring Task Automation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 97 77 94
Rank change year-on-year -20 +17 +36
Contract jobs citing Task Automation 11 9 13
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 0.69% 0.78% 0.75%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.82% 0.93% 0.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 5 8
10th Percentile £490 £314 £214
25th Percentile £494 £413 £328
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £425 £438
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% -2.86% -20.45%
75th Percentile £606 £800 £545
90th Percentile £663 £845 £578
England median daily rate £498 £484 £515
% change year-on-year +2.79% -5.97% -14.21%

All Process and Methodology Skills
East of England

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 of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,342 968 1,535
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 84.67% 83.66% 88.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 558 410 812
10th Percentile £187 £239 £238
25th Percentile £363 £334 £393
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £491 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +3.39% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £580 £580 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £700
England median daily rate £506 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -3.62% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 430 195 360
10th Percentile £14.23 - £14.16
25th Percentile £16.42 £15.62 £14.61
Median hourly rate £21.00 £30.00 £21.39
Median % change year-on-year -30.00% +40.29% -9.00%
75th Percentile £63.75 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £77.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.25
% change year-on-year -28.14% -20.90% +18.63%

Task Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Task Automation job vacancy trend in the East of England

Task Automation
Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Task Automation.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Task Automation

Task Automation
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Task Automation in the East of England over the 6 months to 14 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Task Automation in the East of England

Task Automation
Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Task Automation.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Task Automation

Task Automation
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

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 of England region over the 6 months to 14 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
Cambridgeshire -8 5 £650 +52.94% 3
Hertfordshire -11 4 - - 5
Bedfordshire -3 1 £500 -37.50% 2
Suffolk - 1 £500 - 6
Task Automation
England

Task Automation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 8 (72.73%) Azure
2 5 (45.45%) Azure Sentinel
3 4 (36.36%) AWS
3 4 (36.36%) GCP
4 3 (27.27%) Entra ID
5 2 (18.18%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (18.18%) Azure Logic Apps
5 2 (18.18%) Google Workspace
6 1 (9.09%) Azure Functions
6 1 (9.09%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (9.09%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 7 (63.64%) Firewall
2 2 (18.18%) DHCP
2 2 (18.18%) DNS
2 2 (18.18%) TCP/IP
3 1 (9.09%) Internet
3 1 (9.09%) Modbus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (18.18%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (18.18%) GitLab
Job Titles
1 5 (45.45%) Automation Engineer
1 5 (45.45%) Security Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Network Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Senior
2 2 (18.18%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Platform Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Security Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (18.18%) REST
2 1 (9.09%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 5 (45.45%) Cyber Threat
1 5 (45.45%) Onboarding
2 2 (18.18%) PKI
3 1 (9.09%) Cyber Defence
3 1 (9.09%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (9.09%) Operational Technology
3 1 (9.09%) SCADA
3 1 (9.09%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 3 (27.27%) Windows
2 2 (18.18%) Linux
2 2 (18.18%) VMS
2 2 (18.18%) Windows Server
3 1 (9.09%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (54.55%) Security Operations
1 6 (54.55%) SIEM
2 5 (45.45%) Actionable Insight
2 5 (45.45%) Case Management
2 5 (45.45%) Cloud Security
2 5 (45.45%) Cyber Intelligence
2 5 (45.45%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
2 5 (45.45%) Cybersecurity
2 5 (45.45%) Data Enrichment
2 5 (45.45%) Incident Response
2 5 (45.45%) Migration
2 5 (45.45%) SOAR
2 5 (45.45%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
2 5 (45.45%) Threat Intelligence
2 5 (45.45%) Vulnerability Management
3 3 (27.27%) Identity Access Management
3 3 (27.27%) Platform Engineering
4 2 (18.18%) CI/CD
4 2 (18.18%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 2 (18.18%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 8 (72.73%) PowerShell
1 8 (72.73%) Python
2 1 (9.09%) Kusto Query Language
2 1 (9.09%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 3 (27.27%) Degree
2 2 (18.18%) BPSS Clearance
2 2 (18.18%) SC Cleared
2 2 (18.18%) Security Cleared
3 1 (9.09%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (9.09%) NIST
System Software
1 3 (27.27%) Active Directory
2 2 (18.18%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (27.27%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (18.18%) Terraform
2 2 (18.18%) vCenter Server
3 1 (9.09%) FortiGate
3 1 (9.09%) SCCM
Vendors
1 8 (72.73%) Microsoft
2 6 (54.55%) Google
3 4 (36.36%) Palo Alto
3 4 (36.36%) Splunk
4 2 (18.18%) Citrix
4 2 (18.18%) VMware
4 2 (18.18%) Wyse
5 1 (9.09%) Fortinet
5 1 (9.09%) Veeam
5 1 (9.09%) Zscaler