Task Automation Contracts in England

Task Automation
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Task Automation skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Task Automation over the 6 months to 7 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 313 430 472
Rank change year-on-year +117 +42 -7
Contract jobs citing Task Automation 247 218 330
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.68% 0.44% 0.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.78% 0.49% 0.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 206 142 242
10th Percentile £378 £401 £406
25th Percentile £463 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - +10.00%
75th Percentile £675 £686 £656
90th Percentile £700 £750 £713
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - +10.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 2
10th Percentile - £19.13 £27.58
25th Percentile - £30.94 £35.90
Median hourly rate £23.80 £51.25 £51.14
Median % change year-on-year -53.56% +0.22% +18.14%
75th Percentile - £70.94 £67.51
90th Percentile - £82.38 £76.50
UK median hourly rate £23.80 £51.25 £51.14
% change year-on-year -53.56% +0.22% -7.02%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Task Automation is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,661 44,294 64,052
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.54% 90.18% 90.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,752 31,074 45,519
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £444 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £650 £674 £650
90th Percentile £750 £763 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,232 1,569 1,736
10th Percentile £12.87 £10.73 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £36.50 £37.34 £24.30
Median % change year-on-year -2.25% +53.69% +3.38%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.75
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year +1.39% +44.00% +2.04%

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 7 May 2024.

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
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 7 May 2024. 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 +69 121 £550 +1.85% 73
South West +40 38 £700 +27.27% 12
South East +48 35 £500 +2.04% 20
North of England +30 29 £475 -26.92% 17
Yorkshire +29 19 £498 -28.93% 3
Midlands +27 10 £650 +20.93% 11
West Midlands +25 9 £650 -10.34% 8
North West +23 6 £488 -2.50% 13
East of England +3 5 £513 -6.82% 12
North East +17 4 £463 -15.91% 1
East Midlands +14 1 £575 +9.52% 3
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 30 (12.15%) Confluence
2 14 (5.67%) SharePoint
3 8 (3.24%) Microsoft Exchange
4 5 (2.02%) nginx
5 3 (1.21%) Apache
5 3 (1.21%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.81%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.81%) IIS
7 1 (0.40%) Apache Solr
7 1 (0.40%) SharePoint 2010
7 1 (0.40%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 3 (1.21%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.81%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.40%) InfoPath
3 1 (0.40%) InVision
3 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.40%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.40%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 7 (2.83%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 72 (29.15%) Azure
2 43 (17.41%) AWS
3 28 (11.34%) GCP
4 27 (10.93%) GitHub
5 21 (8.50%) Microsoft 365
6 17 (6.88%) OpenShift
7 14 (5.67%) Entra ID
8 12 (4.86%) Azure DevOps
9 11 (4.45%) Power Platform
10 10 (4.05%) Apigee
10 10 (4.05%) PowerApps
11 8 (3.24%) Power Automate
11 8 (3.24%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 7 (2.83%) Kong
13 5 (2.02%) CloudFront
13 5 (2.02%) Datadog
13 5 (2.02%) WhatsApp
14 4 (1.62%) Amazon EC2
14 4 (1.62%) Amazon S3
14 4 (1.62%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 25 (10.12%) DNS
2 17 (6.88%) VPN
3 12 (4.86%) Firewall
4 10 (4.05%) Network Security
4 10 (4.05%) TCP/IP
5 9 (3.64%) HTTP
5 9 (3.64%) SAN
6 8 (3.24%) DHCP
7 7 (2.83%) LAN
8 6 (2.43%) Software-Defined Networking
9 5 (2.02%) Cisco Nexus
9 5 (2.02%) IPv4
9 5 (2.02%) WAN
10 4 (1.62%) Fibre Channel
10 4 (1.62%) NAS
10 4 (1.62%) Remote Desktop
10 4 (1.62%) Wireless
11 3 (1.21%) OSPF
11 3 (1.21%) VLAN
12 2 (0.81%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (9.31%) MongoDB
1 23 (9.31%) PostgreSQL
2 17 (6.88%) SQL Server
3 15 (6.07%) Elasticsearch
4 10 (4.05%) Sybase ASE
5 9 (3.64%) MySQL
6 8 (3.24%) DB2
6 8 (3.24%) Relational Database
7 7 (2.83%) KDB
8 5 (2.02%) Amazon RDS
8 5 (2.02%) Power BI
8 5 (2.02%) RDBMS
9 3 (1.21%) Metadata
9 3 (1.21%) NoSQL
10 2 (0.81%) Redis
10 2 (0.81%) Tableau
11 1 (0.40%) Azure SQL Database
11 1 (0.40%) BigQuery
11 1 (0.40%) Couchbase
11 1 (0.40%) Flink
Development Applications
1 46 (18.62%) Jenkins
2 31 (12.55%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 31 (12.55%) JIRA
3 28 (11.34%) Git
4 25 (10.12%) GitLab
5 24 (9.72%) Bitbucket
6 8 (3.24%) NUnit
6 8 (3.24%) Sonatype Nexus
6 8 (3.24%) Visual Studio
7 7 (2.83%) Postman
8 6 (2.43%) CircleCI
8 6 (2.43%) TeamCity
8 6 (2.43%) Travis CI
9 4 (1.62%) Artifactory
9 4 (1.62%) Selenium
10 3 (1.21%) Cypress.io
10 3 (1.21%) InstallShield
10 3 (1.21%) JUnit
10 3 (1.21%) Maven
10 3 (1.21%) MSI
General
1 84 (34.01%) Social Skills
2 48 (19.43%) Analytical Skills
3 32 (12.96%) Finance
4 19 (7.69%) Aerospace
5 12 (4.86%) Retail
6 10 (4.05%) Banking
7 9 (3.64%) Public Sector
8 5 (2.02%) Marketing
9 4 (1.62%) Law
9 4 (1.62%) Telecoms
10 3 (1.21%) Advertising
10 3 (1.21%) Automotive
10 3 (1.21%) Electronics
10 3 (1.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (1.21%) Investment Banking
10 3 (1.21%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.81%) Local Government
11 2 (0.81%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (0.81%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 42 (17.00%) Developer
2 31 (12.55%) Senior
3 27 (10.93%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 26 (10.53%) Site Engineer
5 22 (8.91%) DevOps Engineer
6 20 (8.10%) DBA
7 17 (6.88%) Administrator
7 17 (6.88%) Cloud Engineer
8 13 (5.26%) Database Specialist
8 13 (5.26%) Security Engineer
9 12 (4.86%) Senior Developer
10 11 (4.45%) Python Engineer
11 10 (4.05%) Automation Engineer
12 9 (3.64%) Analyst
12 9 (3.64%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 8 (3.24%) Applications Engineer
13 8 (3.24%) Azure Engineer
13 8 (3.24%) Sybase DBA
14 7 (2.83%) Test Automation Engineer
14 7 (2.83%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (14.57%) .NET
2 24 (9.72%) .NET Core
3 22 (8.91%) Kafka
4 11 (4.45%) RabbitMQ
5 10 (4.05%) JSON
5 10 (4.05%) RESTful
5 10 (4.05%) XML
6 9 (3.64%) AngularJS
6 9 (3.64%) REST
7 7 (2.83%) CSS
7 7 (2.83%) Elastic Stack
7 7 (2.83%) GraphQL
7 7 (2.83%) Playwright
8 6 (2.43%) SAML
8 6 (2.43%) YAML
9 5 (2.02%) HTML
9 5 (2.02%) OAuth
9 5 (2.02%) OAuth2
10 4 (1.62%) jQuery
10 4 (1.62%) React
Miscellaneous
1 30 (12.15%) Replication
2 21 (8.50%) Linux Command Line
3 18 (7.29%) Cloud Native
4 16 (6.48%) Data Structures
5 14 (5.67%) Clustering
6 12 (4.86%) Algorithms
6 12 (4.86%) Distributed Systems
7 8 (3.24%) PKI
8 7 (2.83%) Fixed Income
9 5 (2.02%) Cyberattack
9 5 (2.02%) Data Centre
9 5 (2.02%) Public Cloud
10 4 (1.62%) Data Protection Act
10 4 (1.62%) Hybrid Cloud
10 4 (1.62%) Management Information System
11 3 (1.21%) CMDB
11 3 (1.21%) Security Posture
11 3 (1.21%) Taxonomies
12 2 (0.81%) Operational Technology
12 2 (0.81%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 90 (36.44%) Linux
2 49 (19.84%) Windows
3 19 (7.69%) Unix
4 14 (5.67%) Windows Server
5 11 (4.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (2.43%) CentOS
6 6 (2.43%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.40%) VMS
7 1 (0.40%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.40%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (0.40%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.40%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 84 (34.01%) CI/CD
2 69 (27.94%) Problem-Solving
3 67 (27.13%) DevOps
4 52 (21.05%) Agile
5 37 (14.98%) Continuous Integration
6 35 (14.17%) Configuration Management
6 35 (14.17%) Deployment Automation
7 32 (12.96%) Disaster Recovery
7 32 (12.96%) Migration
8 29 (11.74%) Infrastructure as Code
8 29 (11.74%) Performance Tuning
9 28 (11.34%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 27 (10.93%) Microservices
11 26 (10.53%) Infrastructure Automation
11 26 (10.53%) OO
12 25 (10.12%) Incident Response
12 25 (10.12%) OOP
13 23 (9.31%) ITIL
13 23 (9.31%) Scrum
14 21 (8.50%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 123 (49.80%) Python
2 99 (40.08%) PowerShell
3 50 (20.24%) Bash
4 32 (12.96%) SQL
5 22 (8.91%) Java
6 17 (6.88%) Go
7 16 (6.48%) JavaScript
8 15 (6.07%) Shell Script
9 13 (5.26%) Perl
10 10 (4.05%) C#
11 8 (3.24%) TypeScript
12 7 (2.83%) C++
13 6 (2.43%) T-SQL
14 3 (1.21%) Groovy
15 2 (0.81%) Kusto Query Language
15 2 (0.81%) PHP
15 2 (0.81%) Ruby
15 2 (0.81%) VB.NET
16 1 (0.40%) Bicep
16 1 (0.40%) C
Qualifications
1 64 (25.91%) Security Cleared
2 58 (23.48%) SC Cleared
3 23 (9.31%) Degree
4 10 (4.05%) Microsoft Certification
5 9 (3.64%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (2.83%) AWS Certification
7 6 (2.43%) Cisco Certification
7 6 (2.43%) MCSE
8 5 (2.02%) CCNP
8 5 (2.02%) DV Cleared
9 4 (1.62%) CCNA
10 2 (0.81%) CCIE
10 2 (0.81%) RHCE
11 1 (0.40%) JNCIA
11 1 (0.40%) JNCIS
11 1 (0.40%) Linux+ Certification
11 1 (0.40%) LPIC
11 1 (0.40%) Network+ Certification
11 1 (0.40%) PRINCE2 Certification
11 1 (0.40%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (7.69%) QA
2 10 (4.05%) Accessibility
3 4 (1.62%) SLA
4 3 (1.21%) GDPR
5 1 (0.40%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.40%) NIST
5 1 (0.40%) PMO
System Software
1 38 (15.38%) Active Directory
1 38 (15.38%) Docker
2 25 (10.12%) VMware Infrastructure
3 15 (6.07%) vSphere
4 9 (3.64%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 9 (3.64%) VMware NSX
5 6 (2.43%) VMware ESXi
6 5 (2.02%) Hyper-V
7 4 (1.62%) Veritas Cluster Server
7 4 (1.62%) VMware Server
8 2 (0.81%) BitLocker
8 2 (0.81%) Microsoft App-V
9 1 (0.40%) Firmware
9 1 (0.40%) KVM
9 1 (0.40%) Virtual Machines
9 1 (0.40%) Xen
Systems Management
1 60 (24.29%) Ansible
2 44 (17.81%) Terraform
3 43 (17.41%) Kubernetes
4 30 (12.15%) Prometheus
5 27 (10.93%) Grafana
6 23 (9.31%) PowerCLI
7 15 (6.07%) Puppet
8 14 (5.67%) Kibana
9 10 (4.05%) Consul
9 10 (4.05%) Istio
9 10 (4.05%) Progress Chef
10 8 (3.24%) Argo
11 7 (2.83%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
12 6 (2.43%) Docker Swarm
12 6 (2.43%) logstash
12 6 (2.43%) Microsoft Intune
12 6 (2.43%) vCenter Server
13 5 (2.02%) SCCM
14 4 (1.62%) VxRail
15 3 (1.21%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 74 (29.96%) Microsoft
2 30 (12.15%) VMware
3 27 (10.93%) Dell
4 24 (9.72%) HP
5 23 (9.31%) Atlassian
6 16 (6.48%) Oracle
7 14 (5.67%) Red Hat
7 14 (5.67%) SolarWinds
8 13 (5.26%) SAP
8 13 (5.26%) Splunk
9 12 (4.86%) ServiceNow
10 10 (4.05%) Google
10 10 (4.05%) Sybase
11 9 (3.64%) IBM
11 9 (3.64%) SaltStack
12 8 (3.24%) Cisco
13 5 (2.02%) Blue Prism
13 5 (2.02%) CrowdStrike
13 5 (2.02%) UiPath
13 5 (2.02%) Veritas