Office Automation Contracts in England

Office Automation
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Office Automation skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Office 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 481 532 644
Rank change year-on-year +51 +112 +114
Contract jobs citing Office Automation 4 10 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.016% 0.027% 0.018%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.018% 0.031% 0.020%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 8 9
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £313 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 £200 £200
Median % change year-on-year +62.50% - +25.00%
75th Percentile £506 £713 -
90th Percentile £608 - £390
UK median daily rate £325 £200 £200
% change year-on-year +62.50% - +25.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £22.00 - -
UK median hourly rate £22.00 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Office 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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 22,202 32,193 45,529
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.16% 86.56% 90.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,534 21,105 31,969
10th Percentile £310 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £765
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 921 2,246 1,592
10th Percentile £14.42 £12.92 £10.87
25th Percentile £18.20 £16.01 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Office Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Office Automation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Office Automation in England

Office Automation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Office Automation in England.

Daily rate trend for Office Automation in England

Office Automation
Daily Rate Histogram in England

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

Daily rate histogram for Office Automation in England

Office Automation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Office Automation in England.

Hourly rate trend for Office Automation in England

Office Automation
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Office Automation within the England 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
East of England - 2 £325 -
South West +44 1 £650 -3.70%
London +37 1 - - 1
Office Automation
UK

Office Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (25.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) DHCP
1 1 (25.00%) DNS
1 1 (25.00%) Firewall
1 1 (25.00%) LAN
1 1 (25.00%) Skype
1 1 (25.00%) SMTP
1 1 (25.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (25.00%) WAN
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (75.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (50.00%) Electronics
2 2 (50.00%) Finance
2 2 (50.00%) Manufacturing
2 2 (50.00%) Marketing
2 2 (50.00%) Telecoms
3 1 (25.00%) Military
3 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) C++ Developer
1 2 (50.00%) Developer
1 2 (50.00%) Developer in Test
1 2 (50.00%) Linux Developer
1 2 (50.00%) Python Developer
2 1 (25.00%) ICT Support
2 1 (25.00%) Wintel Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Virtual Team
2 1 (25.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (25.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 3 (75.00%) Windows
2 2 (50.00%) Linux
2 2 (50.00%) Mac OS
3 1 (25.00%) Windows 10
3 1 (25.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (50.00%) API Testing
2 2 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (50.00%) Digital Marketing
2 2 (50.00%) Microsoft Office Automation
2 2 (50.00%) Programme Management
2 2 (50.00%) Test Automation
3 1 (25.00%) Agile
3 1 (25.00%) Change Management
3 1 (25.00%) Configuration Management
3 1 (25.00%) Data Management
3 1 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (25.00%) Information Security
3 1 (25.00%) ITIL
3 1 (25.00%) ITSM
3 1 (25.00%) PRINCE2
3 1 (25.00%) Project Management
3 1 (25.00%) Service Management
3 1 (25.00%) Statistical Analysis
3 1 (25.00%) Statistics
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) C++
1 2 (50.00%) Groovy
1 2 (50.00%) Python
2 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
1 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Virtual Server
2 1 (25.00%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (25.00%) Virtual Servers
2 1 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
1 1 (25.00%) SCCM
1 1 (25.00%) SCOM
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) HP
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (50.00%) SAP
2 1 (25.00%) Remedy
2 1 (25.00%) SolarWinds
2 1 (25.00%) VMware