Task Automation Contract Job Trends in Glasgow

Task Automation
Scotland > Glasgow

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Glasgow requiring Task Automation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 64 67 66
Rank change year-on-year +3 -1 +8
Contract jobs citing Task Automation 16 10 12
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 2.12% 1.32% 1.36%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.44% 1.48% 1.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 9 6
10th Percentile £319 £396 £400
25th Percentile £358 £424 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £365 £550 £542
Median % change year-on-year -33.64% +1.43% -
75th Percentile £465 £603 £626
90th Percentile £529 £660 -
Scotland median daily rate £362 £525 £467
% change year-on-year -31.14% +12.42% -15.09%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Glasgow

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 Glasgow.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 656 677 804
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 86.89% 89.67% 90.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 420 441 538
10th Percentile £299 £306 £348
25th Percentile £381 £363 £412
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £538 £538 £625
90th Percentile £625 £675 £700
Scotland median daily rate £464 £450 £493
% change year-on-year +3.06% -8.63% +3.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 14 17
10th Percentile £15.16 £16.75 £12.08
25th Percentile £17.18 £17.32 £12.13
Median hourly rate £26.21 £19.59 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +33.79% +10.55% -40.38%
75th Percentile £47.45 £26.86 £19.50
90th Percentile £60.00 £40.10 £36.70
Scotland median hourly rate £20.00 £22.94 £19.18
% change year-on-year -12.81% +19.59% +3.68%

Task Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Task Automation relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow.

Task Automation job vacancy trend in Glasgow

Task Automation
Daily Rate Trend in Glasgow

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing Task Automation.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing Task Automation

Task Automation
Daily Rate Histogram in Glasgow

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Task Automation in Glasgow over the 6 months to 13 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Task Automation in Glasgow

Task Automation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Glasgow by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (6.25%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 6 (37.50%) AWS
2 3 (18.75%) Cloud Computing
2 3 (18.75%) GCP
2 3 (18.75%) OpenShift
3 2 (12.50%) AWS CloudFormation
3 2 (12.50%) Azure
4 1 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (6.25%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 1 (6.25%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.25%) DNS
1 1 (6.25%) TCP/IP
1 1 (6.25%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (25.00%) NoSQL
1 4 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (18.75%) Big Data
2 3 (18.75%) Redis
3 2 (12.50%) SQL Server
4 1 (6.25%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (6.25%) Data Lake
4 1 (6.25%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (6.25%) Relational Database
4 1 (6.25%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 4 (25.00%) Jenkins
2 3 (18.75%) Artifactory
3 1 (6.25%) Cucumber
3 1 (6.25%) JUnit
3 1 (6.25%) Mockito
General
1 6 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 3 (18.75%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (18.75%) Finance
2 3 (18.75%) Public Sector
3 2 (12.50%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (6.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (6.25%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (31.25%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 3 (18.75%) Data Engineer
2 3 (18.75%) Python Data Engineer
2 3 (18.75%) Python Engineer
2 3 (18.75%) Site Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Senior
3 2 (12.50%) Support Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Technical Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Technical Support
3 2 (12.50%) Technical Support Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Azure Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Consultant
4 1 (6.25%) Developer
4 1 (6.25%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Full-Stack Developer
4 1 (6.25%) Full-Stack Java Developer
4 1 (6.25%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Java Developer
4 1 (6.25%) Oracle Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (18.75%) FastAPI
1 3 (18.75%) Flask
1 3 (18.75%) Hugging Face
1 3 (18.75%) Kafka
1 3 (18.75%) LangChain
1 3 (18.75%) LangGraph
1 3 (18.75%) Loki
1 3 (18.75%) OAuth
1 3 (18.75%) OAuth2
1 3 (18.75%) OpenTelemetry
1 3 (18.75%) PyTorch
1 3 (18.75%) RESTful
1 3 (18.75%) TensorFlow
2 2 (12.50%) REST
3 1 (6.25%) AngularJS
3 1 (6.25%) J2EE
3 1 (6.25%) SOAP
3 1 (6.25%) Spring Boot
3 1 (6.25%) Spring Cloud
3 1 (6.25%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (18.75%) AI Agents
1 3 (18.75%) Private Cloud
2 2 (12.50%) IVR
3 1 (6.25%) Data Structures
3 1 (6.25%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (6.25%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (6.25%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 3 (18.75%) Linux
2 2 (12.50%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (56.25%) CI/CD
1 9 (56.25%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 8 (50.00%) DevOps
3 7 (43.75%) Containerisation
4 6 (37.50%) Computer Science
4 6 (37.50%) Configuration Management
4 6 (37.50%) Root Cause Analysis
4 6 (37.50%) Software Engineering
5 5 (31.25%) Agile
5 5 (31.25%) Incident Response
5 5 (31.25%) Observability
5 5 (31.25%) Performance Tuning
6 4 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
6 4 (25.00%) Microservices
6 4 (25.00%) Proactive Monitoring
6 4 (25.00%) SDLC
7 3 (18.75%) Data Engineering
7 3 (18.75%) Data Privacy
7 3 (18.75%) Secure Coding
7 3 (18.75%) Systems Engineering
Programming Languages
1 13 (81.25%) Python
2 8 (50.00%) PowerShell
3 6 (37.50%) SQL
4 5 (31.25%) Bash
5 3 (18.75%) Go
6 1 (6.25%) Bicep
6 1 (6.25%) Groovy
6 1 (6.25%) Java
6 1 (6.25%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 6 (37.50%) Computer Science Degree
1 6 (37.50%) Degree
2 3 (18.75%) Master's Degree
2 3 (18.75%) Security Cleared
3 2 (12.50%) AWS Certification
4 1 (6.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.25%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (18.75%) Docker
2 1 (6.25%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (6.25%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 8 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 4 (25.00%) Ansible
2 4 (25.00%) Terraform
3 3 (18.75%) Grafana
3 3 (18.75%) Kustomize
3 3 (18.75%) Prometheus
4 2 (12.50%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 3 (18.75%) Google
2 2 (12.50%) Oracle
2 2 (12.50%) Pega
2 2 (12.50%) Splunk
3 1 (6.25%) Greenplum
3 1 (6.25%) Informatica
3 1 (6.25%) Microsoft
3 1 (6.25%) Talend
3 1 (6.25%) VMware