Task Automation Contracts in Leeds

Task Automation
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Leeds 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 57 61 86
Rank change year-on-year +4 +25 +20
Contract jobs citing Task Automation 3 2 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Leeds 0.65% 0.25% 0.75%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.70% 0.29% 0.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 8
10th Percentile £360 - £520
25th Percentile £375 £513 £553
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £525 £700
Median % change year-on-year -23.81% -25.00% +55.56%
75th Percentile £525 £538 -
90th Percentile £570 - £715
West Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £525 £700
% change year-on-year -9.52% -25.00% +55.56%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Leeds

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 Leeds.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 428 692 1,211
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 92.04% 86.61% 91.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 282 421 872
10th Percentile £263 £300 £388
25th Percentile £350 £413 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £500 £540
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% -7.41% +8.00%
75th Percentile £550 £586 £620
90th Percentile £638 £669 £700
West Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 24 12
10th Percentile £17.08 £11.75 £12.38
25th Percentile £31.54 £12.15 £16.87
Median hourly rate £41.00 £12.30 £58.25
Median % change year-on-year +233.33% -78.88% +158.37%
75th Percentile £98.08 £12.53 £70.00
90th Percentile £102.00 £14.82 -
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £27.50 £12.53 £25.25
% change year-on-year +119.47% -50.38% +40.28%

Task Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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

Job vacancy trend for Task Automation in Leeds

Task Automation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

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

Daily rate trend for Task Automation in Leeds

Task Automation
Daily Rate Histogram in Leeds

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Task Automation in Leeds over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Task Automation in Leeds

Task Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Leeds 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 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) Azure Data Factory
1 1 (33.33%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (33.33%) Big Data
1 1 (33.33%) Metadata
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Git
1 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Data Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Mac Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Senior
1 1 (33.33%) Senior Mac Engineer
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
1 1 (33.33%) Mac OS
1 1 (33.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Analytics
2 1 (33.33%) Big Data Analytics
2 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
2 1 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (33.33%) Data Analytics
2 1 (33.33%) Data Governance
2 1 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (33.33%) Dependency Management
2 1 (33.33%) High Availability
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Automation
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Management
2 1 (33.33%) Resource Management
2 1 (33.33%) Software Deployment
2 1 (33.33%) Test Automation
2 1 (33.33%) Workflow
2 1 (33.33%) Workflow Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) AppleScript
1 1 (33.33%) Bash
1 1 (33.33%) Groovy
1 1 (33.33%) Python
1 1 (33.33%) Shell Script
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Ansible
1 1 (33.33%) Jamf Pro
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Databricks
2 1 (33.33%) Apple
2 1 (33.33%) Google
2 1 (33.33%) Red Hat