Task Automation Contract Job Trends in Hampshire

Task Automation
South East > Hampshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Hampshire requiring Task Automation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 92 62 93
Rank change year-on-year -30 +31 +7
Contract jobs citing Task Automation 11 5 6
As % of all contract jobs in Hampshire 0.65% 0.69% 0.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.83% 0.76% 0.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 1 3
10th Percentile £313 - £280
25th Percentile £320 - £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £700 £400
Median % change year-on-year -33.00% +75.00% -27.27%
75th Percentile £499 - £450
90th Percentile £544 - £480
South East median daily rate £401 £411 £500
% change year-on-year -2.25% -17.90% -14.89%

All Process & 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 1,330 656 1,339
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 78.93% 90.11% 83.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 859 472 710
10th Percentile £348 £316 £387
25th Percentile £463 £447 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £581
Median % change year-on-year - -5.38% +10.71%
75th Percentile £672 £614 £675
90th Percentile £750 £675 £738
South East median daily rate £513 £500 £501
% change year-on-year +2.50% -0.10% -1.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 98 40 163
10th Percentile £12.70 £20.10 £13.05
25th Percentile £15.72 £29.38 £25.68
Median hourly rate £39.13 £57.63 £57.35
Median % change year-on-year -32.10% +0.48% +9.24%
75th Percentile £51.00 £71.88 £62.50
90th Percentile £68.55 £75.00 £76.86
South East median hourly rate £51.00 £28.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year +82.14% -41.05% -5.00%

Task Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Hampshire

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

Task Automation job vacancy trend in Hampshire

Task Automation
Daily Rate Trend in Hampshire

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

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

Task Automation
Daily Rate Histogram in Hampshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Task Automation in Hampshire over the 6 months to 27 April 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Task Automation in Hampshire

Task Automation
Hourly Rate Trend in Hampshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing Task Automation.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing Task Automation

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 27 April 2026. 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
Farnborough - 6 £320 -
Havant - 2 £547 -
Portsmouth -2 1 £469 -33.00%
Andover - 1 £500 -
Basingstoke - 1 £495 - 1
Task Automation
South East

Task Automation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hampshire 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 (9.09%) Confluence
1 1 (9.09%) Oracle SOA Suite
1 1 (9.09%) Oracle Workflow
1 1 (9.09%) WebLogic
Applications
1 1 (9.09%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (9.09%) Oracle EBS R12
1 1 (9.09%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 3 (27.27%) AWS
2 2 (18.18%) Azure
2 2 (18.18%) PaaS
3 1 (9.09%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (9.09%) Amazon S3
3 1 (9.09%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (9.09%) Azure Storage
3 1 (9.09%) GCP
3 1 (9.09%) IaaS
3 1 (9.09%) OCI
3 1 (9.09%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (9.09%) Firewall
1 1 (9.09%) Intrusion Detection
1 1 (9.09%) IPv4
1 1 (9.09%) IPv6
1 1 (9.09%) LAN
1 1 (9.09%) Network Security
1 1 (9.09%) TCP/IP
1 1 (9.09%) VLAN
1 1 (9.09%) VPN
1 1 (9.09%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (18.18%) Oracle Database
2 1 (9.09%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (9.09%) Oracle BI EE
2 1 (9.09%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 5 (45.45%) Gatling
1 5 (45.45%) JMeter
1 5 (45.45%) LoadRunner
2 2 (18.18%) GitLab
2 2 (18.18%) Jenkins
3 1 (9.09%) JIRA
3 1 (9.09%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 2 (18.18%) Social Skills
2 1 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (9.09%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (27.27%) Analyst
1 3 (27.27%) Performance Analyst
1 3 (27.27%) Testing Analyst
2 2 (18.18%) DBA
2 2 (18.18%) Oracle DBA
3 1 (9.09%) Design Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Network Design Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Network Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Platform Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Security Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Senior
3 1 (9.09%) Senior DevOps
3 1 (9.09%) Senior DevOps Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Site Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (9.09%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 1 (9.09%) Cloud Native
1 1 (9.09%) Data Centre
1 1 (9.09%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 3 (27.27%) Linux
2 1 (9.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (9.09%) Unix
2 1 (9.09%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (72.73%) CI/CD
2 7 (63.64%) Performance Testing
3 6 (54.55%) Incident Response
3 6 (54.55%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 5 (45.45%) Performance Metrics
4 5 (45.45%) Root Cause Analysis
4 5 (45.45%) Test Strategy
5 3 (27.27%) DevOps
5 3 (27.27%) Performance Tuning
6 2 (18.18%) Capacity Planning
6 2 (18.18%) Configuration Management
6 2 (18.18%) Containerisation
6 2 (18.18%) Continuous Improvement
6 2 (18.18%) Infrastructure as Code
6 2 (18.18%) Platform Engineering
6 2 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (18.18%) Runbook
7 1 (9.09%) Change Management
7 1 (9.09%) Disaster Recovery
7 1 (9.09%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 6 (54.55%) Python
2 3 (27.27%) Bash
3 2 (18.18%) SQL
4 1 (9.09%) Perl
4 1 (9.09%) PL/SQL
4 1 (9.09%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 3 (27.27%) Security Cleared
2 1 (9.09%) Azure Certification
2 1 (9.09%) CCNA
2 1 (9.09%) CCNP
2 1 (9.09%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (9.09%) DV Cleared
2 1 (9.09%) JNCIA
2 1 (9.09%) JNCIS
2 1 (9.09%) OCP
2 1 (9.09%) Oracle Certification
2 1 (9.09%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.09%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (9.09%) KVM
1 1 (9.09%) Oracle RAC
1 1 (9.09%) RHEV
1 1 (9.09%) Virtual Machines
1 1 (9.09%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (9.09%) Xen
Systems Management
1 7 (63.64%) Grafana
2 6 (54.55%) Prometheus
2 6 (54.55%) Terraform
3 5 (45.45%) Ansible
4 4 (36.36%) Kubernetes
5 2 (18.18%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
5 2 (18.18%) Oracle RMAN
6 1 (9.09%) Data Guard
6 1 (9.09%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
6 1 (9.09%) Nagios
6 1 (9.09%) Proxmox
6 1 (9.09%) systemd
Vendors
1 2 (18.18%) Oracle
2 1 (9.09%) Atlassian
2 1 (9.09%) Cisco
2 1 (9.09%) F5
2 1 (9.09%) Juniper
2 1 (9.09%) Red Hat
2 1 (9.09%) SolarWinds
2 1 (9.09%) VMware