Task Automation Contracts in Hampshire

Task Automation
South East > Hampshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Hampshire 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 64 89 96
Rank change year-on-year +25 +7 +23
Contract jobs citing Task Automation 5 6 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Hampshire 0.67% 0.37% 0.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.75% 0.45% 0.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 3
10th Percentile - £280 £493
25th Percentile - £325 £505
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £400 £550
Median % change year-on-year +75.00% -27.27% +10.00%
75th Percentile - £450 £606
90th Percentile - £480 £625
South East median daily rate £411 £500 £520
% change year-on-year -17.90% -3.85% -5.45%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Hampshire

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 Hampshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 671 1,348 1,247
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 89.95% 83.73% 88.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 484 715 797
10th Percentile £325 £388 £240
25th Percentile £450 £456 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £581 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.25% +10.57% +5.00%
75th Percentile £618 £675 £625
90th Percentile £675 £738 £696
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £508
% change year-on-year - -1.53% +1.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 162 104
10th Percentile £20.10 £13.05 £18.25
25th Percentile £29.38 £25.52 £22.85
Median hourly rate £57.63 £57.35 £53.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.48% +8.21% +113.80%
75th Percentile £71.88 £62.50 £67.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £76.86 £74.63
South East median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -41.05% -5.00% +122.22%

Task Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Hampshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Task Automation in Hampshire

Task Automation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Hampshire

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

Daily rate trend for Task Automation in Hampshire

Task Automation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Hampshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Task Automation in Hampshire.

Hourly rate trend for Task Automation in Hampshire

Task Automation
Contract Job Locations in Hampshire

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 Hampshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Southampton - 3 - - 7
Winchester +2 1 - -
Portsmouth - 1 £700 - 6
Task Automation
South East

Task Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Hampshire 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 (20.00%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (20.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (20.00%) AWS
1 1 (20.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (20.00%) PaaS
1 1 (20.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) GitLab
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) C# Software Engineer
1 3 (60.00%) Software Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) DBA
2 1 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior
2 1 (20.00%) Senior DevOps
2 1 (20.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) SQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Clustering
1 1 (20.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 3 (60.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Software Engineering
2 3 (60.00%) Test Automation
3 2 (40.00%) Containerisation
4 1 (20.00%) Agile
4 1 (20.00%) Artificial Intelligence
4 1 (20.00%) Capacity Management
4 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
4 1 (20.00%) Collaborative Culture
4 1 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (20.00%) Data Migration
4 1 (20.00%) Database Security
4 1 (20.00%) Deployment Automation
4 1 (20.00%) DevOps
4 1 (20.00%) High Availability
4 1 (20.00%) Kanban
4 1 (20.00%) Machine Learning
4 1 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
4 1 (20.00%) Project Delivery
4 1 (20.00%) Software Delivery
4 1 (20.00%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) C#
1 3 (60.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (20.00%) C
2 1 (20.00%) Python
2 1 (20.00%) SQL
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (60.00%) WMI
2 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) SolarWinds