Task Automation Contracts in the East of England

Task Automation
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England 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 29 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 58 108 115
Rank change year-on-year +50 +7 +16
Contract jobs citing Task Automation 24 5 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 2.50% 0.26% 0.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.76% 0.31% 0.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 2 6
10th Percentile £233 £431 £454
25th Percentile £400 £459 £474
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -6.82% +18.92%
75th Percentile £725 £559 £594
90th Percentile £794 £584 £656
England median daily rate £500 £553 £550
% change year-on-year -9.50% +0.45% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £65.00 - -
England median hourly rate £46.75 £23.80 £51.25
% change year-on-year +96.43% -53.56% -18.00%

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 868 1,614 1,706
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 90.42% 84.28% 87.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 459 667 997
10th Percentile £230 £200 £207
25th Percentile £400 £325 £335
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% -
75th Percentile £600 £575 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 173 613 325
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.16 £13.41
25th Percentile £16.30 £15.50 £14.25
Median hourly rate £36.00 £40.00 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +81.82% +41.94%
75th Percentile £72.50 £62.50 £64.50
90th Percentile £83.70 £75.00 £70.00
England median hourly rate £28.00 £37.18 £37.32
% change year-on-year -24.69% -0.38% +49.28%

Task Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Task Automation in the East of England

Task Automation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

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

Daily rate trend for Task Automation in the East of England

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 29 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Task Automation in the East of England

Task Automation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Task Automation in the East of England.

Hourly rate trend for Task Automation in the East of England

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 29 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
Cambridgeshire +20 12 £530 - 34
Essex - 6 - - 53
Hertfordshire +30 4 £425 -29.17% 52
Bedfordshire -1 2 £800 - 32
Task Automation
England

Task Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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 2 (8.33%) Confluence
2 1 (4.17%) IBM Domino
Business Applications
1 2 (8.33%) Workday HCM
2 1 (4.17%) SAP CO
2 1 (4.17%) SAP FI
2 1 (4.17%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 11 (45.83%) Azure
2 6 (25.00%) AWS
3 4 (16.67%) GCP
4 3 (12.50%) Azure Sentinel
5 2 (8.33%) AWS Direct Connect
5 2 (8.33%) GitHub
5 2 (8.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 1 (4.17%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (4.17%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (4.17%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (4.17%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 1 (4.17%) IaaS
6 1 (4.17%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 7 (29.17%) Firewall
2 2 (8.33%) BGP
2 2 (8.33%) Intrusion Detection
2 2 (8.33%) Network Security
2 2 (8.33%) OSPF
2 2 (8.33%) VLAN
2 2 (8.33%) VPN
3 1 (4.17%) DNS
3 1 (4.17%) SD-WAN
3 1 (4.17%) SNMP
3 1 (4.17%) VSAN
3 1 (4.17%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (8.33%) SQL Server
2 1 (4.17%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (4.17%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 2 (8.33%) Artifactory
1 2 (8.33%) Git
1 2 (8.33%) JIRA
2 1 (4.17%) Appium
2 1 (4.17%) Cypress.io
2 1 (4.17%) Gatling
2 1 (4.17%) JMeter
2 1 (4.17%) JUnit
2 1 (4.17%) LoadRunner
2 1 (4.17%) Postman
2 1 (4.17%) Selenium
2 1 (4.17%) TestNG
General
1 5 (20.83%) Social Skills
2 4 (16.67%) Finance
3 2 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (4.17%) Legal
4 1 (4.17%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 5 (20.83%) Implementation Manager
1 5 (20.83%) Support Manager
1 5 (20.83%) Technical Implementation Manager
1 5 (20.83%) Technical Manager
1 5 (20.83%) Technical Support
1 5 (20.83%) Technical Support Manager
2 3 (12.50%) Consultant
2 3 (12.50%) Security Engineer
3 2 (8.33%) Administrator
3 2 (8.33%) Automation Engineer
3 2 (8.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (8.33%) Linux Engineer
3 2 (8.33%) Network Administrator
3 2 (8.33%) Network Engineer
3 2 (8.33%) Workday Manager
4 1 (4.17%) Data Engineer
4 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Engineer
4 1 (4.17%) Platform Engineer
4 1 (4.17%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (4.17%) Workday Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.17%) .NET
1 1 (4.17%) Redfish
1 1 (4.17%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 3 (12.50%) Cyber Threat
2 2 (8.33%) Cyber Defence
2 2 (8.33%) Public Cloud
2 2 (8.33%) Virtual Team
3 1 (4.17%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 5 (20.83%) Linux
2 1 (4.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (4.17%) VMS
2 1 (4.17%) Windows
2 1 (4.17%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
2 7 (29.17%) Computer Science
3 6 (25.00%) Vulnerability Management
4 5 (20.83%) CI/CD
4 5 (20.83%) DevOps
4 5 (20.83%) Software Engineering
4 5 (20.83%) System Testing
5 4 (16.67%) Agile
5 4 (16.67%) Cybersecurity
5 4 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 4 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
6 3 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
6 3 (12.50%) Continuous Integration
6 3 (12.50%) Data Analysis
6 3 (12.50%) Incident Management
6 3 (12.50%) Incident Response
6 3 (12.50%) Migration
6 3 (12.50%) Platform Engineering
6 3 (12.50%) SIEM
6 3 (12.50%) SOAR
Programming Languages
1 16 (66.67%) Python
2 6 (25.00%) Bash
3 5 (20.83%) Java
3 5 (20.83%) PowerShell
4 4 (16.67%) Perl
5 2 (8.33%) Shell Script
5 2 (8.33%) Tcl
6 1 (4.17%) C#
6 1 (4.17%) C-shell
6 1 (4.17%) JavaScript
6 1 (4.17%) Kusto Query Language
6 1 (4.17%) R
6 1 (4.17%) SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (29.17%) Computer Science Degree
1 7 (29.17%) Degree
2 1 (4.17%) Azure Certification
2 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (4.17%) SC Cleared
2 1 (4.17%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.17%) VCAP
2 1 (4.17%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (12.50%) Data Quality
2 2 (8.33%) QA
3 1 (4.17%) IFRS
System Software
1 3 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (8.33%) Docker
2 2 (8.33%) vSphere
3 1 (4.17%) Active Directory
3 1 (4.17%) Firmware
3 1 (4.17%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (4.17%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 7 (29.17%) Ansible
2 5 (20.83%) Terraform
3 2 (8.33%) Kubernetes
3 2 (8.33%) Nagios
3 2 (8.33%) vCenter Server
4 1 (4.17%) HAProxy
4 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (4.17%) PowerCLI
4 1 (4.17%) Puppet
4 1 (4.17%) VxRail
Vendors
1 4 (16.67%) Google
1 4 (16.67%) Microsoft
1 4 (16.67%) Red Hat
2 3 (12.50%) VMware
3 2 (8.33%) Dell
3 2 (8.33%) Fortinet
3 2 (8.33%) Huawei
3 2 (8.33%) IBM
3 2 (8.33%) Palo Alto
3 2 (8.33%) Splunk
3 2 (8.33%) Synopsys
3 2 (8.33%) Workday
4 1 (4.17%) Databricks
4 1 (4.17%) HP
4 1 (4.17%) NetApp
4 1 (4.17%) SAP
4 1 (4.17%) ServiceNow
4 1 (4.17%) SolarWinds
4 1 (4.17%) Sun