Task Automation Contracts in England

Task Automation
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 247 291 426
Rank change year-on-year +44 +135 +18
Contract jobs citing Task Automation 249 273 217
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.04% 0.74% 0.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.13% 0.86% 0.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 141 226 142
10th Percentile £363 £381 £363
25th Percentile £424 £457 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £553 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.50% +0.45% -
75th Percentile £588 £675 £688
90th Percentile £700 £700 £749
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 2 2
10th Percentile £23.33 - £19.13
25th Percentile £27.19 - £30.94
Median hourly rate £46.75 £23.80 £51.25
Median % change year-on-year +96.43% -53.56% -18.00%
75th Percentile £65.34 - £70.94
90th Percentile £65.62 - £82.38
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £23.80 £51.25
% change year-on-year +21.85% -53.56% -18.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 21,947 31,578 42,765
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.31% 85.86% 89.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,275 20,635 30,003
10th Percentile £305 £300 £325
25th Percentile £410 £413 £449
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £766
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 956 2,303 1,521
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.84 £10.63
25th Percentile £17.87 £16.00 £15.81
Median hourly rate £28.17 £37.50 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -24.89% - +50.00%
75th Percentile £59.93 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £36.50 £37.00
% change year-on-year -24.66% -1.35% +44.08%

Task Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Task Automation in England

Task Automation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Task Automation in England

Task Automation
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Task Automation in England over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Task Automation in England

Task Automation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Task Automation in England

Task Automation
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Task Automation in England over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Task Automation in England

Task 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 Task Automation within the England region over the 6 months to 30 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
London +36 118 £531 -7.61% 186
North of England +10 34 £475 - 304
East of England +52 24 £500 -2.44% 205
South West +26 23 £500 -24.53% 148
North West +22 23 £475 +2.70% 136
Midlands +22 18 £475 -17.39% 258
South East +32 17 £411 -17.90% 386
West Midlands +16 10 £500 -23.08% 135
Yorkshire +7 9 £463 -11.06% 123
East Midlands +15 8 £390 -13.14% 108
North East -2 2 £375 -18.92% 46
Task Automation
UK

Task 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 21 (8.43%) SharePoint
2 16 (6.43%) Microsoft Exchange
3 10 (4.02%) Confluence
4 4 (1.61%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 4 (1.61%) Oracle Workflow
4 4 (1.61%) WebLogic
5 2 (0.80%) Apache
5 2 (0.80%) CMS
5 2 (0.80%) IIS
5 2 (0.80%) SharePoint Server
6 1 (0.40%) IBM Domino
6 1 (0.40%) OpenStack
Applications
1 7 (2.81%) Microsoft Excel
1 7 (2.81%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.20%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.40%) AutoCAD
3 1 (0.40%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.40%) MadCap Flare
Business Applications
1 4 (1.61%) Oracle EBS
1 4 (1.61%) Oracle EBS R12
1 4 (1.61%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (0.80%) NetSuite
2 2 (0.80%) SAP CO
2 2 (0.80%) SAP FI
2 2 (0.80%) SAP FI/CO
2 2 (0.80%) Workday HCM
3 1 (0.40%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.40%) IBM Planning Analytics
3 1 (0.40%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.40%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 92 (36.95%) Azure
2 73 (29.32%) AWS
3 38 (15.26%) GCP
4 32 (12.85%) Microsoft 365
5 28 (11.24%) Entra ID
6 15 (6.02%) Amazon S3
6 15 (6.02%) GitHub
7 14 (5.62%) Power Platform
8 13 (5.22%) Power Automate
9 12 (4.82%) Amazon EC2
9 12 (4.82%) AWS Lambda
9 12 (4.82%) Serverless
9 12 (4.82%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 10 (4.02%) SaaS
11 9 (3.61%) AWS CloudFormation
11 9 (3.61%) Azure DevOps
11 9 (3.61%) OneDrive
12 8 (3.21%) GitHub Actions
13 6 (2.41%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 6 (2.41%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 37 (14.86%) Firewall
2 22 (8.84%) DNS
3 18 (7.23%) Network Security
4 14 (5.62%) VPN
5 8 (3.21%) TCP/IP
6 7 (2.81%) DHCP
7 6 (2.41%) Cisco Nexus
7 6 (2.41%) SAN
8 5 (2.01%) WAN
9 4 (1.61%) BGP
9 4 (1.61%) Intrusion Detection
9 4 (1.61%) LAN
9 4 (1.61%) NAS
9 4 (1.61%) SSL
9 4 (1.61%) VLAN
10 3 (1.20%) BIG-IP
10 3 (1.20%) Fibre Channel
10 3 (1.20%) iSCSI
10 3 (1.20%) Software-Defined Networking
10 3 (1.20%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (7.23%) SQL Server
2 7 (2.81%) Data Warehouse
2 7 (2.81%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (2.81%) Relational Database
3 6 (2.41%) MongoDB
3 6 (2.41%) Oracle Database
4 5 (2.01%) Amazon RDS
4 5 (2.01%) MySQL
4 5 (2.01%) Power BI
5 4 (1.61%) NoSQL
5 4 (1.61%) Oracle BI EE
6 3 (1.20%) Amazon Redshift
6 3 (1.20%) Azure SQL Database
6 3 (1.20%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 2 (0.80%) Big Data
7 2 (0.80%) BigQuery
7 2 (0.80%) CockroachDB
7 2 (0.80%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (0.80%) Metadata
8 1 (0.40%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 27 (10.84%) Jenkins
2 26 (10.44%) GitLab
3 25 (10.04%) JIRA
4 21 (8.43%) Git
5 7 (2.81%) Sonatype Nexus
6 6 (2.41%) CircleCI
7 4 (1.61%) Cypress.io
7 4 (1.61%) SonarQube
8 3 (1.20%) Postman
8 3 (1.20%) Selenium
8 3 (1.20%) TeamCity
9 2 (0.80%) Artifactory
9 2 (0.80%) Chocolatey
9 2 (0.80%) JUnit
9 2 (0.80%) Subversion
9 2 (0.80%) TestNG
10 1 (0.40%) JMeter
10 1 (0.40%) LoadRunner
10 1 (0.40%) LSMW
10 1 (0.40%) Visual Studio
General
1 61 (24.50%) Social Skills
2 47 (18.88%) Analytical Skills
3 39 (15.66%) Finance
4 15 (6.02%) Banking
5 14 (5.62%) Public Sector
6 10 (4.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 7 (2.81%) Documentation Skills
8 6 (2.41%) Legal
9 5 (2.01%) Marketing
9 5 (2.01%) Military
10 4 (1.61%) Manufacturing
10 4 (1.61%) Telecoms
11 3 (1.20%) Investment Banking
12 2 (0.80%) Electronics
12 2 (0.80%) Local Government
12 2 (0.80%) Publishing
12 2 (0.80%) Retail
13 1 (0.40%) Automotive
13 1 (0.40%) Games
13 1 (0.40%) Law
Job Titles
1 30 (12.05%) DevOps Engineer
1 30 (12.05%) Senior
2 24 (9.64%) Developer
3 16 (6.43%) Administrator
4 13 (5.22%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
5 11 (4.42%) Analyst
5 11 (4.42%) Network Engineer
6 10 (4.02%) AWS Engineer
6 10 (4.02%) DBA
6 10 (4.02%) Support Engineer
7 9 (3.61%) Architect
7 9 (3.61%) AWS Specialist
7 9 (3.61%) Consultant
7 9 (3.61%) Linux Engineer
7 9 (3.61%) Microsoft Engineer
8 8 (3.21%) AWS DevOps
8 8 (3.21%) Data Engineer
8 8 (3.21%) IAM Specialist
8 8 (3.21%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 8 (3.21%) Mac Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (3.61%) .NET
1 9 (3.61%) OpenID
1 9 (3.61%) RESTful
1 9 (3.61%) SailPoint
1 9 (3.61%) SAML
2 8 (3.21%) Elastic Stack
2 8 (3.21%) OAuth
3 6 (2.41%) Node.js
4 4 (1.61%) LDAP
4 4 (1.61%) Playwright
4 4 (1.61%) React
4 4 (1.61%) Regular Expression
4 4 (1.61%) REST
5 3 (1.20%) GraphQL
5 3 (1.20%) Puppeteer
6 2 (0.80%) ARM Templates
6 2 (0.80%) Django
6 2 (0.80%) MACH
6 2 (0.80%) Web Services
6 2 (0.80%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (3.61%) Management Information System
2 8 (3.21%) Cloud Native
2 8 (3.21%) Enterprise Software
3 6 (2.41%) Cyber Threat
3 6 (2.41%) Data Protection Act
3 6 (2.41%) Data Structures
3 6 (2.41%) Onboarding
4 5 (2.01%) Analytical Mindset
4 5 (2.01%) Hybrid Cloud
4 5 (2.01%) Linux Command Line
4 5 (2.01%) Public Cloud
5 4 (1.61%) Clustering
5 4 (1.61%) CMDB
5 4 (1.61%) Product Ownership
5 4 (1.61%) Replication
5 4 (1.61%) Security Posture
6 3 (1.20%) Data Centre
6 3 (1.20%) Mainframe
6 3 (1.20%) Private Cloud
6 3 (1.20%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 50 (20.08%) Linux
2 39 (15.66%) Windows
3 17 (6.83%) Unix
4 11 (4.42%) Windows Server
5 10 (4.02%) Mac OS
6 9 (3.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 6 (2.41%) Solaris
7 6 (2.41%) Windows 10
8 4 (1.61%) CentOS
9 3 (1.20%) AIX
9 3 (1.20%) Windows Server 2016
9 3 (1.20%) Windows Server 2019
10 2 (0.80%) Android
10 2 (0.80%) Apple iOS
10 2 (0.80%) HPUX
10 2 (0.80%) Rocky
10 2 (0.80%) Ubuntu
11 1 (0.40%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
11 1 (0.40%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (34.94%) Problem-Solving
2 69 (27.71%) DevOps
3 68 (27.31%) CI/CD
4 45 (18.07%) Containerisation
5 42 (16.87%) High Availability
5 42 (16.87%) Infrastructure as Code
6 40 (16.06%) Agile
7 32 (12.85%) Migration
8 28 (11.24%) Configuration Management
9 26 (10.44%) Disaster Recovery
10 24 (9.64%) Cloud Security
10 24 (9.64%) Test Automation
11 21 (8.43%) Performance Tuning
12 20 (8.03%) Analytics
13 19 (7.63%) Software Engineering
14 18 (7.23%) Identity Access Management
15 17 (6.83%) Identity Management
15 17 (6.83%) Incident Response
15 17 (6.83%) ITIL
16 16 (6.43%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 137 (55.02%) Python
2 79 (31.73%) PowerShell
3 65 (26.10%) Bash
4 42 (16.87%) SQL
5 19 (7.63%) Perl
6 16 (6.43%) Java
7 12 (4.82%) Shell Script
8 11 (4.42%) C#
8 11 (4.42%) JavaScript
9 5 (2.01%) Kusto Query Language
9 5 (2.01%) PL/SQL
10 4 (1.61%) TypeScript
10 4 (1.61%) VB
11 3 (1.20%) R
12 2 (0.80%) AppleScript
12 2 (0.80%) Bicep
12 2 (0.80%) PHP
12 2 (0.80%) Ruby
12 2 (0.80%) VBA
12 2 (0.80%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 59 (23.69%) Security Cleared
2 43 (17.27%) SC Cleared
3 28 (11.24%) Degree
4 14 (5.62%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (4.42%) DV Cleared
6 9 (3.61%) Cisco Certification
7 8 (3.21%) CCNP
8 7 (2.81%) AWS Certification
8 7 (2.81%) CCNA
9 6 (2.41%) Microsoft Certification
10 4 (1.61%) ACSP
10 4 (1.61%) Azure Certification
11 3 (1.20%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 3 (1.20%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 3 (1.20%) JNCIA
11 3 (1.20%) JNCIS
12 2 (0.80%) DBS Check
12 2 (0.80%) MCP
12 2 (0.80%) MCSA
12 2 (0.80%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (6.43%) GDPR
2 13 (5.22%) HIPAA
3 9 (3.61%) Data Quality
4 8 (3.21%) QA
4 8 (3.21%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 7 (2.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 7 (2.81%) NIST
5 7 (2.81%) SLA
6 6 (2.41%) PCI DSS
7 5 (2.01%) SOC 2
8 2 (0.80%) GRC
8 2 (0.80%) NCSC
9 1 (0.40%) IFRS
System Software
1 42 (16.87%) Docker
2 35 (14.06%) Active Directory
3 21 (8.43%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (2.01%) Oracle RAC
5 4 (1.61%) Virtual Desktop
5 4 (1.61%) VMware ESXi
5 4 (1.61%) VMware NSX
6 3 (1.20%) Hyper-V
6 3 (1.20%) vSphere
7 2 (0.80%) BitLocker
7 2 (0.80%) Firmware
7 2 (0.80%) KVM
7 2 (0.80%) Microsoft App-V
7 2 (0.80%) NFS
7 2 (0.80%) Veritas Cluster Server
7 2 (0.80%) Veritas File System
7 2 (0.80%) Veritas Volume Manager
8 1 (0.40%) Ceph
8 1 (0.40%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 83 (33.33%) Ansible
2 56 (22.49%) Kubernetes
3 54 (21.69%) Terraform
4 18 (7.23%) Prometheus
5 17 (6.83%) Grafana
6 16 (6.43%) Microsoft Intune
6 16 (6.43%) Puppet
7 15 (6.02%) Single Sign-On
8 9 (3.61%) Progress Chef
9 6 (2.41%) Jamf Pro
10 5 (2.01%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 5 (2.01%) Oracle RMAN
11 4 (1.61%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 4 (1.61%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
11 4 (1.61%) Nagios
11 4 (1.61%) SCCM
12 3 (1.20%) Automic
12 3 (1.20%) vCenter Server
12 3 (1.20%) WMI
12 3 (1.20%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 56 (22.49%) Microsoft
2 27 (10.84%) VMware
3 22 (8.84%) Oracle
4 21 (8.43%) Red Hat
5 20 (8.03%) Google
6 16 (6.43%) ServiceNow
7 11 (4.42%) Cisco
8 9 (3.61%) Okta
8 9 (3.61%) Ping Identity
9 7 (2.81%) F5
10 6 (2.41%) Apple
10 6 (2.41%) BeyondTrust
10 6 (2.41%) Databricks
10 6 (2.41%) Fortinet
10 6 (2.41%) NetApp
10 6 (2.41%) Palo Alto
10 6 (2.41%) Qualys
10 6 (2.41%) Splunk
11 5 (2.01%) Dell
11 5 (2.01%) IBM