Task Automation Contracts in London

Task Automation
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London 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 224 273 348
Rank change year-on-year +49 +75 +43
Contract jobs citing Task Automation 129 118 148
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.03% 0.66% 0.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.12% 0.75% 0.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 82 97 91
10th Percentile £342 £343 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £544 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.14% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £683 £671
90th Percentile £725 £745 £750
England median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 1
10th Percentile £26.50 - -
25th Percentile £26.88 - -
Median hourly rate £29.00 £23.80 £90.00
Median % change year-on-year +21.85% -73.56% +303.95%
75th Percentile £30.75 - -
90th Percentile £31.80 - -
England median hourly rate £46.87 £23.80 £51.25
% change year-on-year +96.94% -53.56% +130.03%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,564 15,790 24,631
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.16% 88.55% 91.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,847 11,316 17,711
10th Percentile £350 £338 £375
25th Percentile £440 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £590
Median % change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
75th Percentile £688 £675 £700
90th Percentile £813 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 166 324 278
10th Percentile £16.17 £16.00 £18.59
25th Percentile £22.68 £20.00 £22.53
Median hourly rate £31.67 £29.50 £38.13
Median % change year-on-year +7.36% -22.62% +5.90%
75th Percentile £50.75 £47.56 £62.64
90th Percentile £63.75 £65.93 £76.78
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Task Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Task Automation in London

Task Automation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Task Automation in London

Task Automation
Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for Task Automation in London

Task Automation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Task Automation in London

Task Automation
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London 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
Central London +1 20 £575 -4.17% 12
South London - 5 £450 - 1
West London +12 3 £375 -20.00% 16
North London -4 2 £270 +8.00%
Task Automation
England

Task Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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:

Application Platforms
1 12 (9.30%) SharePoint
2 10 (7.75%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (2.33%) Confluence
4 2 (1.55%) IIS
5 1 (0.78%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.78%) nginx
5 1 (0.78%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.78%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (3.10%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.55%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.55%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.78%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.78%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 48 (37.21%) Azure
2 45 (34.88%) AWS
3 25 (19.38%) GCP
4 19 (14.73%) Microsoft 365
5 15 (11.63%) Amazon S3
6 13 (10.08%) AWS Lambda
6 13 (10.08%) Entra ID
6 13 (10.08%) Serverless
7 12 (9.30%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 11 (8.53%) Amazon EC2
8 11 (8.53%) Power Platform
9 10 (7.75%) Power Automate
10 9 (6.98%) OneDrive
11 7 (5.43%) AWS CloudFormation
12 5 (3.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 5 (3.88%) Amazon EKS
12 5 (3.88%) Azure DevOps
12 5 (3.88%) GitHub
12 5 (3.88%) IaaS
12 5 (3.88%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 17 (13.18%) Firewall
2 13 (10.08%) Network Security
2 13 (10.08%) VPN
3 11 (8.53%) DNS
4 7 (5.43%) DHCP
5 5 (3.88%) LAN
5 5 (3.88%) SAN
5 5 (3.88%) TCP/IP
5 5 (3.88%) WAN
6 4 (3.10%) BGP
6 4 (3.10%) OSPF
7 3 (2.33%) Cisco Nexus
7 3 (2.33%) NAS
7 3 (2.33%) SSL
7 3 (2.33%) VLAN
7 3 (2.33%) VoIP
7 3 (2.33%) Wireless
8 2 (1.55%) FCoE
8 2 (1.55%) Fibre Channel
8 2 (1.55%) iSCSI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (4.65%) Amazon RDS
1 6 (4.65%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (3.10%) Amazon Redshift
3 3 (2.33%) Elasticsearch
3 3 (2.33%) MySQL
3 3 (2.33%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (2.33%) Relational Database
3 3 (2.33%) SQL Server
4 2 (1.55%) CockroachDB
4 2 (1.55%) Data Lake
4 2 (1.55%) DynamoDB
4 2 (1.55%) MongoDB
4 2 (1.55%) NoSQL
4 2 (1.55%) Oracle Database
5 1 (0.78%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (0.78%) Amazon QuickSight
5 1 (0.78%) BigQuery
5 1 (0.78%) Kdb+
5 1 (0.78%) Power BI
5 1 (0.78%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 19 (14.73%) GitLab
2 14 (10.85%) Jenkins
3 9 (6.98%) Git
4 8 (6.20%) JIRA
5 4 (3.10%) Sonatype Nexus
6 3 (2.33%) CircleCI
7 2 (1.55%) Selenium
7 2 (1.55%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.78%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (0.78%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.78%) Gemini Tracker
8 1 (0.78%) Gradle
8 1 (0.78%) Jaeger
8 1 (0.78%) JUnit
8 1 (0.78%) Maven
8 1 (0.78%) Mercurial
8 1 (0.78%) PHPUnit
8 1 (0.78%) Subversion
8 1 (0.78%) TestNG
General
1 29 (22.48%) Finance
2 26 (20.16%) Social Skills
3 18 (13.95%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (10.85%) Public Sector
5 13 (10.08%) Banking
6 6 (4.65%) Documentation Skills
6 6 (4.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 6 (4.65%) Marketing
7 5 (3.88%) Telecoms
8 4 (3.10%) Electronics
8 4 (3.10%) Manufacturing
9 3 (2.33%) Investment Banking
9 3 (2.33%) Military
10 2 (1.55%) Local Government
11 1 (0.78%) Retail
11 1 (0.78%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 27 (20.93%) DevOps Engineer
2 17 (13.18%) Senior
3 13 (10.08%) AWS Engineer
3 13 (10.08%) Developer
4 11 (8.53%) AWS DevOps
4 11 (8.53%) Support Engineer
5 10 (7.75%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 10 (7.75%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
6 9 (6.98%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 9 (6.98%) Microsoft Engineer
7 7 (5.43%) Lead
7 7 (5.43%) Senior DevOps
7 7 (5.43%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 7 (5.43%) Windows Engineer
8 6 (4.65%) Infrastructure Specialist
8 6 (4.65%) Linux Engineer
9 5 (3.88%) Architect
9 5 (3.88%) Consultant
9 5 (3.88%) Data Engineer
9 5 (3.88%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (6.20%) Elastic Stack
2 4 (3.10%) HTML
2 4 (3.10%) Regular Expression
2 4 (3.10%) REST
2 4 (3.10%) Web Services
3 3 (2.33%) CSS
3 3 (2.33%) RESTful
3 3 (2.33%) SOAP
3 3 (2.33%) XML
4 2 (1.55%) .NET
4 2 (1.55%) ADO
4 2 (1.55%) AngularJS
4 2 (1.55%) JSON
4 2 (1.55%) Node.js
4 2 (1.55%) React
5 1 (0.78%) .NET Framework
5 1 (0.78%) Ajax
5 1 (0.78%) Classic ASP
5 1 (0.78%) LDAP
5 1 (0.78%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (4.65%) Cloud Native
2 5 (3.88%) Data Structures
2 5 (3.88%) Management Information System
3 3 (2.33%) Analytical Mindset
3 3 (2.33%) CMDB
3 3 (2.33%) Cyber Threat
3 3 (2.33%) Onboarding
3 3 (2.33%) Private Cloud
3 3 (2.33%) Public Cloud
3 3 (2.33%) Replication
3 3 (2.33%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 2 (1.55%) Algorithms
4 2 (1.55%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (1.55%) Insider Threat
4 2 (1.55%) Legacy Applications
4 2 (1.55%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (1.55%) Product Ownership
4 2 (1.55%) Security Posture
4 2 (1.55%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (1.55%) Shadow IT
Operating Systems
1 30 (23.26%) Windows
2 29 (22.48%) Linux
3 11 (8.53%) Windows Server
4 9 (6.98%) Unix
5 5 (3.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (3.10%) Mac OS
6 4 (3.10%) Windows 10
7 2 (1.55%) CentOS
7 2 (1.55%) Rocky
7 2 (1.55%) Solaris
8 1 (0.78%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.78%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (35.66%) DevOps
2 39 (30.23%) CI/CD
3 28 (21.71%) Problem-Solving
4 27 (20.93%) Containerisation
4 27 (20.93%) High Availability
4 27 (20.93%) Infrastructure as Code
5 22 (17.05%) Cloud Security
6 17 (13.18%) Configuration Management
7 16 (12.40%) Infrastructure Automation
7 16 (12.40%) Migration
8 15 (11.63%) Mentoring
9 12 (9.30%) Test Automation
10 11 (8.53%) Agile
10 11 (8.53%) Disaster Recovery
11 10 (7.75%) Continuous Integration
11 10 (7.75%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 10 (7.75%) ITIL
11 10 (7.75%) Validation
12 9 (6.98%) Cybersecurity
13 8 (6.20%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 74 (57.36%) Python
2 45 (34.88%) PowerShell
3 34 (26.36%) Bash
4 15 (11.63%) SQL
5 9 (6.98%) Shell Script
6 6 (4.65%) JavaScript
7 5 (3.88%) Perl
8 4 (3.10%) C#
9 2 (1.55%) Groovy
9 2 (1.55%) Java
9 2 (1.55%) Kusto Query Language
9 2 (1.55%) Ruby
9 2 (1.55%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.78%) AppleScript
10 1 (0.78%) Bicep
10 1 (0.78%) C
10 1 (0.78%) PHP
10 1 (0.78%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.78%) VBA
Qualifications
1 22 (17.05%) Security Cleared
2 20 (15.50%) Degree
3 13 (10.08%) SC Cleared
4 9 (6.98%) AWS Certification
5 6 (4.65%) DV Cleared
6 5 (3.88%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (3.10%) CCNA
7 4 (3.10%) Cisco Certification
8 3 (2.33%) ACSP
8 3 (2.33%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 3 (2.33%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (1.55%) AWS Certified Developer
9 2 (1.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (1.55%) Azure Certification
9 2 (1.55%) CCNP
9 2 (1.55%) CompTIA Security+
9 2 (1.55%) DBS Check
9 2 (1.55%) ITIL Certification
9 2 (1.55%) JNCIA
9 2 (1.55%) JNCIS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (5.43%) NIST
2 6 (4.65%) Data Quality
2 6 (4.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (3.10%) GDPR
3 4 (3.10%) PCI DSS
3 4 (3.10%) QA
3 4 (3.10%) SOC 2
4 3 (2.33%) HIPAA
5 2 (1.55%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.55%) DICOM
5 2 (1.55%) GRC
5 2 (1.55%) HL7
5 2 (1.55%) ISO/IEC 20000
6 1 (0.78%) SLA
System Software
1 23 (17.83%) Active Directory
2 21 (16.28%) Docker
3 6 (4.65%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (2.33%) VMware NSX
5 2 (1.55%) Hyper-V
5 2 (1.55%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.78%) Ceph
6 1 (0.78%) NFS
6 1 (0.78%) Oracle RAC
6 1 (0.78%) Veritas Cluster Server
6 1 (0.78%) Veritas File System
6 1 (0.78%) Veritas Volume Manager
6 1 (0.78%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.78%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.78%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 42 (32.56%) Ansible
2 37 (28.68%) Terraform
3 27 (20.93%) Kubernetes
4 13 (10.08%) Prometheus
5 11 (8.53%) Microsoft Intune
6 10 (7.75%) Grafana
7 9 (6.98%) Puppet
8 4 (3.10%) Jamf Pro
9 3 (2.33%) Progress Chef
9 3 (2.33%) SCCM
10 2 (1.55%) Packer
10 2 (1.55%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (1.55%) ZABBIX
11 1 (0.78%) Data Guard
11 1 (0.78%) FortiGate
11 1 (0.78%) Kibana
11 1 (0.78%) logstash
11 1 (0.78%) Plesk
11 1 (0.78%) QRadar
11 1 (0.78%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 33 (25.58%) Microsoft
2 12 (9.30%) VMware
3 9 (6.98%) Google
4 8 (6.20%) ServiceNow
5 7 (5.43%) Cisco
5 7 (5.43%) Red Hat
6 6 (4.65%) BeyondTrust
6 6 (4.65%) Oracle
7 5 (3.88%) Qualys
7 5 (3.88%) Splunk
8 4 (3.10%) Apple
8 4 (3.10%) CyberArk
8 4 (3.10%) F5
8 4 (3.10%) SAP
9 3 (2.33%) BMC
9 3 (2.33%) Dell
9 3 (2.33%) Hitachi
9 3 (2.33%) Mitel
9 3 (2.33%) Palo Alto
9 3 (2.33%) Tenable