Task Automation Contract Job Trends in Gloucestershire

Task Automation
South West > Gloucestershire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Gloucestershire requiring Task Automation skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 42 52 54
Rank change year-on-year +10 +2 -
Contract jobs citing Task Automation 1 9 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 0.32% 1.99% 0.81%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.37% 2.29% 0.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 8 4
10th Percentile - - £628
25th Percentile £525 £460 £632
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £510 £709
Median % change year-on-year +7.84% -28.04% -
75th Percentile £575 £588 £781
90th Percentile - £625 £793
South West median daily rate £520 £550 £625
% change year-on-year -5.45% -12.00% +56.25%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Gloucestershire

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 Gloucestershire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 269 393 439
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 87.34% 86.95% 89.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 179 200 261
10th Percentile £220 £363 £375
25th Percentile £356 £472 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £660 £668 £675
90th Percentile £719 £738 £738
South West median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 34 49
10th Percentile £15.26 £22.50 £32.40
25th Percentile £26.43 £28.50 £50.00
Median hourly rate £35.17 £37.52 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% -49.98% +95.44%
75th Percentile £70.00 £71.50 £78.00
90th Percentile £70.50 £73.75 £83.72
South West median hourly rate £25.15 £70.00 £63.00
% change year-on-year -64.07% +11.11% +9.14%

Task Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Gloucestershire

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

Job vacancy trend for Task Automation in Gloucestershire

Task Automation
Daily Rate Trend in Gloucestershire

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

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

Task Automation
Contract Job Locations in Gloucestershire

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 Gloucestershire region over the 6 months to 14 September 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
Cheltenham +21 1 £550 -6.38% 2
Task Automation
South West

Task Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Gloucestershire 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 1 (100.00%) npm
1 1 (100.00%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) RDBMS
1 1 (100.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) Maven
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Applications Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Applications Support
1 1 (100.00%) Applications Support Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) CentOS
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Data Centre Operations
1 1 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Service Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle