Task Automation Contracts in Edinburgh

Task Automation
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh 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 53 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Task Automation 14 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 2.24% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.36% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £150 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £173 - -
75th Percentile £256 - -
90th Percentile £361 - -
Scotland median daily rate £473 £446 £413
% change year-on-year +5.94% +8.12% -31.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £21.00 - -
Median hourly rate £22.44 - -
75th Percentile £24.38 - -
90th Percentile £29.48 - -
Scotland median hourly rate £22.44 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Edinburgh

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 Edinburgh.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 594 720 1,240
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 95.04% 88.34% 95.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 333 422 884
10th Percentile £214 £233 £254
25th Percentile £403 £413 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £471 £484 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.59% +1.79% -
75th Percentile £541 £575 £545
90th Percentile £630 £663 £625
Scotland median daily rate £463 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -2.63% - +2.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 31 11
10th Percentile - £15.10 £13.16
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.25 £17.72
Median hourly rate £22.44 £22.87 £21.26
Median % change year-on-year -1.89% +7.57% -46.85%
75th Percentile £25.59 £60.75 £53.75
90th Percentile £42.35 - £54.50
Scotland median hourly rate £21.59 £19.34 £17.72
% change year-on-year +11.66% +9.11% -55.69%

Task Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Job vacancy trend for Task Automation in Edinburgh

Task Automation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

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

Daily rate trend for Task Automation in Edinburgh

Task Automation
Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

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

Daily rate histogram for Task Automation in Edinburgh

Task Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (14.29%) AWS
2 1 (7.14%) Amazon EMR
2 1 (7.14%) Amazon S3
2 1 (7.14%) Azure
2 1 (7.14%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (7.14%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 1 (7.14%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (7.14%) Cloud Run
2 1 (7.14%) GCP
2 1 (7.14%) GitHub
2 1 (7.14%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (7.14%) Google Compute Engine
2 1 (7.14%) Google Kubernetes Engine
2 1 (7.14%) Snowflake
2 1 (7.14%) Stackdriver
Communications & Networking
1 9 (64.29%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.14%) Amazon Athena
1 1 (7.14%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (7.14%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (7.14%) Data Lake
1 1 (7.14%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (7.14%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (7.14%) GitLab
1 1 (7.14%) Jenkins
General
1 11 (78.57%) Social Skills
2 4 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (28.57%) Banking
2 4 (28.57%) Finance
3 1 (7.14%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (7.14%) Public Sector
3 1 (7.14%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 7 (50.00%) Service Desk Engineer
2 5 (35.71%) Service Desk Support
2 5 (35.71%) Support Engineer
2 5 (35.71%) Windows Engineer
2 5 (35.71%) Windows Support Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Desktop Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Desktop Support
3 2 (14.29%) Desktop Support Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Splunk Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) 2nd Line Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Administrator
4 1 (7.14%) Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Data Administrator
4 1 (7.14%) Data Analytics Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Data Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Lead
4 1 (7.14%) Service Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Service Desk Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 9 (64.29%) Device Driver
2 2 (14.29%) Clustering
2 2 (14.29%) Mainframe
2 2 (14.29%) Onboarding
3 1 (7.14%) Team-Oriented Environment
3 1 (7.14%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 11 (78.57%) Windows
2 2 (14.29%) Unix
2 2 (14.29%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (64.29%) Customer Service
1 9 (64.29%) ITIL
1 9 (64.29%) Problem-Solving
2 8 (57.14%) Customer Experience
3 4 (28.57%) High Availability
4 3 (21.43%) Time Management
5 2 (14.29%) Agile
5 2 (14.29%) CI/CD
5 2 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (14.29%) Dashboard Development
5 2 (14.29%) Performance Tuning
6 1 (7.14%) Data Engineering
6 1 (7.14%) Identity Access Management
6 1 (7.14%) Infrastructure Automation
6 1 (7.14%) Performance Metrics
6 1 (7.14%) Performance Optimisation
6 1 (7.14%) Service-Level Objective
6 1 (7.14%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 1 (7.14%) SQL Optimisation
6 1 (7.14%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 9 (64.29%) PowerShell
2 2 (14.29%) Python
2 2 (14.29%) SQL
3 1 (7.14%) Shell Script
3 1 (7.14%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (64.29%) Microsoft Certification
2 8 (57.14%) A+ Certification
3 1 (7.14%) Azure Certification
3 1 (7.14%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (14.29%) QA
2 1 (7.14%) Data Quality
2 1 (7.14%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 1 (7.14%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (7.14%) Ansible
1 1 (7.14%) Kubernetes
1 1 (7.14%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (64.29%) Microsoft
2 3 (21.43%) Splunk
3 1 (7.14%) Databricks
3 1 (7.14%) Dynatrace
3 1 (7.14%) Google
3 1 (7.14%) Teradata