Task Automation Contracts in Glasgow

Task Automation
Scotland > Glasgow

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Glasgow 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 2 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 59 60 78
Rank change year-on-year +1 +18 -4
Contract jobs citing Task Automation 24 6 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Glasgow 3.00% 0.86% 0.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.28% 0.96% 0.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 4 2
10th Percentile £395 £387 -
25th Percentile £460 £396 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £412 £400
Median % change year-on-year +21.36% +3.00% -33.33%
75th Percentile £540 £442 -
90th Percentile £600 £474 -
Scotland median daily rate £474 £412 £400
% change year-on-year +14.99% +3.00% -33.33%

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 731 624 811
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 91.49% 89.91% 92.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 472 443 536
10th Percentile £300 £260 £338
25th Percentile £370 £363 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% -10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £550 £538 £575
90th Percentile £600 £652 £666
Scotland median daily rate £466 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +3.56% -5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 23 31
10th Percentile £15.82 £15.13 £12.13
25th Percentile £16.84 £19.05 £12.94
Median hourly rate £19.59 £40.94 £14.50
Median % change year-on-year -52.15% +182.34% -61.26%
75th Percentile £25.68 £42.49 £41.37
90th Percentile £32.47 £61.50 £62.50
Scotland median hourly rate £20.00 £19.59 £18.33
% change year-on-year +2.09% +6.90% -47.64%

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
Daily Rate Histogram in Glasgow

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Task Automation in Glasgow over the 6 months to 2 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram 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 14 (58.33%) Cloud Computing
2 10 (41.67%) OpenShift
3 7 (29.17%) AWS
3 7 (29.17%) Azure
4 6 (25.00%) Amazon S3
4 6 (25.00%) Cohesity
5 1 (4.17%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 6 (25.00%) NAS
1 6 (25.00%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (12.50%) Big Data
1 3 (12.50%) NoSQL
1 3 (12.50%) Redis
2 1 (4.17%) MongoDB
2 1 (4.17%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (4.17%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 9 (37.50%) Jenkins
2 7 (29.17%) Git
3 3 (12.50%) Artifactory
4 1 (4.17%) JIRA
General
1 20 (83.33%) Social Skills
2 11 (45.83%) Finance
3 8 (33.33%) Banking
3 8 (33.33%) Investment Banking
4 5 (20.83%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (12.50%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 10 (41.67%) Python Engineer
2 9 (37.50%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 8 (33.33%) JavaScript Engineer
4 3 (12.50%) Administrator
4 3 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (12.50%) NetBackup Engineer
4 3 (12.50%) Systems Administrator
5 2 (8.33%) Backup Engineer
5 2 (8.33%) Data Engineer
5 2 (8.33%) Python Data Engineer
6 1 (4.17%) Applications Engineer
6 1 (4.17%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 1 (4.17%) Azure Engineer
6 1 (4.17%) Backup Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (4.17%) DevOps Engineer
6 1 (4.17%) Platform Engineer
6 1 (4.17%) Senior
6 1 (4.17%) Senior Applications Engineer
6 1 (4.17%) Systems Engineer
6 1 (4.17%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (12.50%) FastAPI
1 3 (12.50%) Flask
1 3 (12.50%) Hugging Face
1 3 (12.50%) Kafka
1 3 (12.50%) LangChain
1 3 (12.50%) LangGraph
1 3 (12.50%) LDAP
1 3 (12.50%) Loki
1 3 (12.50%) OAuth
1 3 (12.50%) OAuth2
1 3 (12.50%) OpenTelemetry
1 3 (12.50%) PyTorch
1 3 (12.50%) RESTful
1 3 (12.50%) TensorFlow
1 3 (12.50%) X-Windows
2 1 (4.17%) REST
2 1 (4.17%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 10 (41.67%) Management Information System
2 8 (33.33%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (12.50%) AI Agents
3 3 (12.50%) Private Cloud
4 1 (4.17%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (4.17%) IVR
Operating Systems
1 9 (37.50%) Unix
1 9 (37.50%) Windows
1 9 (37.50%) Windows Server
2 3 (12.50%) Linux
2 3 (12.50%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (58.33%) Problem-Solving
2 13 (54.17%) Decision-Making
3 11 (45.83%) Artificial Intelligence
3 11 (45.83%) CI/CD
3 11 (45.83%) Machine Learning
4 8 (33.33%) Community of Practice
4 8 (33.33%) Critical Thinking
4 8 (33.33%) Data Science
4 8 (33.33%) Data Security
4 8 (33.33%) Data-Driven Decision Making
4 8 (33.33%) Experimental Design
4 8 (33.33%) Natural Language Processing
4 8 (33.33%) Risk Management
4 8 (33.33%) Statistical Analysis
5 6 (25.00%) Data Deduplication
5 6 (25.00%) Data Protection
5 6 (25.00%) Information Security
6 5 (20.83%) DevOps
6 5 (20.83%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 5 (20.83%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 19 (79.17%) Python
2 8 (33.33%) Java
2 8 (33.33%) JavaScript
2 8 (33.33%) TypeScript
3 6 (25.00%) PowerShell
4 3 (12.50%) Shell Script
4 3 (12.50%) SQL
5 1 (4.17%) Bash
5 1 (4.17%) Bicep
5 1 (4.17%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 4 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
1 4 (16.67%) Degree
2 3 (12.50%) Master's Degree
3 1 (4.17%) AWS Certification
3 1 (4.17%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (12.50%) Cyber Essentials
1 3 (12.50%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 1 (4.17%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 3 (12.50%) Active Directory
1 3 (12.50%) Docker
1 3 (12.50%) Hyper-V
1 3 (12.50%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 10 (41.67%) Kubernetes
2 6 (25.00%) NetBackup
2 6 (25.00%) Oracle RMAN
3 3 (12.50%) Grafana
3 3 (12.50%) Kustomize
3 3 (12.50%) Prometheus
4 1 (4.17%) Ansible
4 1 (4.17%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 6 (25.00%) Veritas
2 3 (12.50%) Microsoft
3 1 (4.17%) Oracle
3 1 (4.17%) Pega