Task Automation Contracts in Glasgow

Task Automation
Scotland > Glasgow

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Glasgow 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 70 85 80
Rank change year-on-year +15 -5 -
Contract jobs citing Task Automation 14 1 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Glasgow 1.60% 0.11% 0.79%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.74% 0.12% 0.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 5
10th Percentile £407 - £578
25th Percentile £411 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £446 - £600
75th Percentile £480 - -
90th Percentile £489 - £645
Scotland median daily rate £446 £413 £600
% change year-on-year +8.12% -31.25% +60.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Glasgow

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 Glasgow with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 806 864 934
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 91.90% 94.43% 92.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 515 629 709
10th Percentile £280 £325 £256
25th Percentile £400 £410 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +5.56% +9.76%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £538
90th Percentile £675 £701 £600
Scotland median daily rate £475 £475 £470
% change year-on-year - +1.06% +10.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 27 12
10th Percentile £13.75 - £17.85
25th Percentile £16.00 £10.63 £21.00
Median hourly rate £21.13 £13.50 £32.90
Median % change year-on-year +56.50% -58.97% +31.61%
75th Percentile £44.14 £35.00 £44.63
90th Percentile £63.75 £59.47 £49.39
Scotland median hourly rate £19.34 £17.72 £33.00
% change year-on-year +9.11% -46.30% -21.43%

Task Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

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

Job vacancy trend for Task Automation in Glasgow

Task Automation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Glasgow

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

Daily rate trend for Task Automation in Glasgow

Task Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Glasgow 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%) IaaS
2 1 (7.14%) AWS
2 1 (7.14%) Azure
2 1 (7.14%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (14.29%) DNS
1 2 (14.29%) TCP/IP
2 1 (7.14%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (7.14%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (28.57%) Artifactory
General
1 3 (21.43%) Finance
2 2 (14.29%) Banking
2 2 (14.29%) Investment Banking
2 2 (14.29%) Social Skills
3 1 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (7.14%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 6 (42.86%) Python Engineer
2 6 (42.86%) Virtualisation Engineer
2 6 (42.86%) VMware Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) DBA
3 1 (7.14%) Developer
3 1 (7.14%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Infrastructure Services Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Linux Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Linux Specialist
3 1 (7.14%) Python Developer
3 1 (7.14%) Software Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) SQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (50.00%) Middleware
2 2 (14.29%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 2 (14.29%) Distributed Applications
2 1 (7.14%) Clustering
2 1 (7.14%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (7.14%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 12 (85.71%) Linux
2 1 (7.14%) Windows
2 1 (7.14%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (64.29%) DevOps
2 8 (57.14%) Containerisation
3 6 (42.86%) OO
4 4 (28.57%) Observability
5 3 (21.43%) Load Balancing
5 3 (21.43%) Problem Management
6 2 (14.29%) High Availability
6 2 (14.29%) Investment Management
6 2 (14.29%) SDLC
6 2 (14.29%) Service-Level Objective
6 2 (14.29%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 2 (14.29%) Software Distribution
6 2 (14.29%) Software Testing
6 2 (14.29%) Technical Debt
6 2 (14.29%) Wealth Management
7 1 (7.14%) Analytical Thinking
7 1 (7.14%) Decision-Making
7 1 (7.14%) Infrastructure as Code
7 1 (7.14%) Infrastructure Automation
7 1 (7.14%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 10 (71.43%) Python
2 7 (50.00%) Perl
3 3 (21.43%) SQL
4 1 (7.14%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (7.14%) MCSE
1 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (7.14%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 8 (57.14%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (7.14%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 5 (35.71%) Kubernetes
2 3 (21.43%) Grafana
2 3 (21.43%) Prometheus
3 2 (14.29%) Terraform
4 1 (7.14%) Ansible
4 1 (7.14%) Progress Chef
4 1 (7.14%) Puppet
Vendors
1 8 (57.14%) VMware
2 2 (14.29%) Splunk
3 1 (7.14%) Microsoft