Task Automation Contracts in London

Task Automation
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for Task Automation skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Task Automation over the 6 months to 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 279 351 397
Rank change year-on-year +72 +46 -26
Contract jobs citing Task Automation 114 150 219
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.64% 0.55% 0.56%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.72% 0.61% 0.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 93 92 151
10th Percentile £351 £376 £450
25th Percentile £456 £461 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year +2.36% -4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £683 £669 £675
90th Percentile £765 £750 £725
England median daily rate £553 £550 £550
% change year-on-year +0.45% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £22.03
Median hourly rate £23.80 £90.00 £22.28
Median % change year-on-year -73.56% +303.95% -48.53%
75th Percentile - - £52.52
90th Percentile - - £70.51
England median hourly rate £23.80 £51.25 £22.28
% change year-on-year -53.56% +130.03% -48.53%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

Task Automation is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,803 24,767 35,785
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.42% 91.14% 92.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,321 17,758 26,094
10th Percentile £338 £375 £390
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £590 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.78% +2.61% +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £535
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +9.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 329 288 429
10th Percentile £16.00 £18.63 £17.23
25th Percentile £20.00 £22.86 £23.91
Median hourly rate £30.00 £39.00 £35.50
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% +9.86% +10.18%
75th Percentile £47.50 £62.55 £50.00
90th Percentile £66.10 £78.15 £67.50
England median hourly rate £35.25 £37.50 £24.00
% change year-on-year -6.00% +56.25% -

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 25 April 2024.

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 25 April 2024. 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 +39 23 £600 +24.03% 7
West London +18 3 £469 +6.53% 8
North London - 1 £250 - 1
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 9 (7.89%) SharePoint
2 7 (6.14%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (1.75%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.75%) IIS
3 2 (1.75%) nginx
4 1 (0.88%) Apache Solr
Applications
1 2 (1.75%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.88%) InVision
2 1 (0.88%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.88%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.88%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 36 (31.58%) Azure
2 17 (14.91%) Microsoft 365
3 15 (13.16%) AWS
4 11 (9.65%) GitHub
5 10 (8.77%) GCP
6 9 (7.89%) Entra ID
7 6 (5.26%) Power Platform
7 6 (5.26%) PowerApps
8 5 (4.39%) Power Automate
9 4 (3.51%) Apigee
9 4 (3.51%) Azure DevOps
9 4 (3.51%) Azure Monitor
9 4 (3.51%) OpenShift
10 3 (2.63%) WhatsApp
11 2 (1.75%) Amazon ECS
11 2 (1.75%) Amazon EKS
11 2 (1.75%) Azure ExpressRoute
11 2 (1.75%) Figma
11 2 (1.75%) Mimecast
11 2 (1.75%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 8 (7.02%) Firewall
2 7 (6.14%) DNS
3 5 (4.39%) LAN
3 5 (4.39%) Network Security
3 5 (4.39%) VPN
4 4 (3.51%) Wireless
5 3 (2.63%) Cisco ASA
5 3 (2.63%) Cisco Nexus
5 3 (2.63%) DHCP
5 3 (2.63%) Internet
5 3 (2.63%) NAS
5 3 (2.63%) SAN
5 3 (2.63%) Software-Defined Networking
5 3 (2.63%) TCP/IP
5 3 (2.63%) WAN
5 3 (2.63%) Wi-Fi
6 2 (1.75%) BGP
6 2 (1.75%) EIGRP
6 2 (1.75%) Extranet
6 2 (1.75%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (10.53%) MongoDB
2 10 (8.77%) Sybase ASE
3 8 (7.02%) DB2
4 7 (6.14%) SQL Server
5 6 (5.26%) KDB
5 6 (5.26%) Relational Database
6 5 (4.39%) PostgreSQL
7 4 (3.51%) Power BI
7 4 (3.51%) RDBMS
8 3 (2.63%) NoSQL
9 2 (1.75%) MySQL
9 2 (1.75%) Redis
10 1 (0.88%) Amazon Aurora
10 1 (0.88%) Amazon RDS
10 1 (0.88%) BigQuery
10 1 (0.88%) Couchbase
10 1 (0.88%) Elasticsearch
10 1 (0.88%) Flink
10 1 (0.88%) Metadata
10 1 (0.88%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 15 (13.16%) Jenkins
2 10 (8.77%) Git
3 8 (7.02%) GitLab
4 7 (6.14%) Sonatype Nexus
5 6 (5.26%) TeamCity
6 4 (3.51%) Artifactory
6 4 (3.51%) Gradle
6 4 (3.51%) Maven
7 2 (1.75%) Cucumber
7 2 (1.75%) Cypress.io
7 2 (1.75%) InstallShield
7 2 (1.75%) Jaeger
7 2 (1.75%) JMeter
7 2 (1.75%) JUnit
7 2 (1.75%) MSI
7 2 (1.75%) NUnit
7 2 (1.75%) Postman
7 2 (1.75%) Selenium
7 2 (1.75%) Visual Studio
8 1 (0.88%) Bitbucket
General
1 35 (30.70%) Social Skills
2 18 (15.79%) Finance
3 14 (12.28%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (4.39%) Public Sector
4 5 (4.39%) Retail
5 4 (3.51%) Banking
5 4 (3.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 4 (3.51%) Law
6 3 (2.63%) Advertising
6 3 (2.63%) Automotive
6 3 (2.63%) Investment Banking
6 3 (2.63%) Marketing
7 2 (1.75%) Electronics
7 2 (1.75%) Local Government
7 2 (1.75%) Manufacturing
7 2 (1.75%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (1.75%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 20 (17.54%) Senior
2 17 (14.91%) Developer
3 15 (13.16%) DevOps Engineer
4 12 (10.53%) DBA
5 10 (8.77%) Python Engineer
5 10 (8.77%) Senior Developer
5 10 (8.77%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 9 (7.89%) Site Engineer
7 8 (7.02%) Sybase DBA
8 6 (5.26%) Administrator
8 6 (5.26%) Architect
8 6 (5.26%) KDB Developer
9 5 (4.39%) Cloud Engineer
9 5 (4.39%) Network Engineer
9 5 (4.39%) Security Engineer
10 4 (3.51%) Analyst
10 4 (3.51%) Apigee Architect
10 4 (3.51%) Solutions Architect
11 3 (2.63%) Lead
11 3 (2.63%) Senior DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (10.53%) Kafka
2 10 (8.77%) RabbitMQ
3 9 (7.89%) RESTful
4 8 (7.02%) REST
5 6 (5.26%) .NET
6 3 (2.63%) CSS
7 2 (1.75%) AngularJS
7 2 (1.75%) Gherkin
7 2 (1.75%) GraphQL
7 2 (1.75%) Jest
7 2 (1.75%) JSON
7 2 (1.75%) Middleware
7 2 (1.75%) Node.js
7 2 (1.75%) Playwright
7 2 (1.75%) React
7 2 (1.75%) Software Packaging
7 2 (1.75%) WebGL
7 2 (1.75%) XML
8 1 (0.88%) AWS CDK
8 1 (0.88%) SPFx
Miscellaneous
1 15 (13.16%) Replication
2 11 (9.65%) Distributed Systems
3 9 (7.89%) Algorithms
3 9 (7.89%) Data Structures
3 9 (7.89%) Linux Command Line
4 7 (6.14%) Data Centre
5 6 (5.26%) Fixed Income
6 5 (4.39%) Cyberattack
7 3 (2.63%) Hybrid Cloud
7 3 (2.63%) PKI
7 3 (2.63%) Public Cloud
7 3 (2.63%) Security Posture
8 2 (1.75%) Clustering
8 2 (1.75%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.75%) Fat Client
8 2 (1.75%) Media Streaming
8 2 (1.75%) Operational Technology
8 2 (1.75%) Product Ownership
8 2 (1.75%) Thin Client
8 2 (1.75%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 29 (25.44%) Linux
2 20 (17.54%) Windows
3 8 (7.02%) Unix
4 3 (2.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (2.63%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (29.82%) DevOps
2 33 (28.95%) CI/CD
3 28 (24.56%) Problem-Solving
4 20 (17.54%) Agile
5 18 (15.79%) ITIL
5 18 (15.79%) Microservices
6 15 (13.16%) Migration
7 12 (10.53%) Infrastructure as Code
7 12 (10.53%) Test Automation
8 11 (9.65%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 10 (8.77%) Incident Management
9 10 (8.77%) Root Cause Analysis
10 9 (7.89%) Analytical Thinking
10 9 (7.89%) Analytics
10 9 (7.89%) Continuous Improvement
10 9 (7.89%) Disaster Recovery
10 9 (7.89%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 8 (7.02%) Cybersecurity
11 8 (7.02%) Deployment Automation
11 8 (7.02%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 61 (53.51%) Python
2 42 (36.84%) PowerShell
3 17 (14.91%) Java
4 15 (13.16%) SQL
5 14 (12.28%) Go
6 12 (10.53%) JavaScript
6 12 (10.53%) Perl
7 10 (8.77%) Shell Script
8 8 (7.02%) Bash
9 7 (6.14%) C#
9 7 (6.14%) C++
10 6 (5.26%) T-SQL
11 3 (2.63%) Groovy
11 3 (2.63%) TypeScript
12 2 (1.75%) Kusto Query Language
12 2 (1.75%) PHP
12 2 (1.75%) Ruby
12 2 (1.75%) VB.NET
13 1 (0.88%) C
Qualifications
1 17 (14.91%) Degree
2 10 (8.77%) Security Cleared
3 9 (7.89%) SC Cleared
4 4 (3.51%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (3.51%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (2.63%) AWS Certification
5 3 (2.63%) CCNP
5 3 (2.63%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (0.88%) CCNA
6 1 (0.88%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.88%) JNCIA
6 1 (0.88%) JNCIS
6 1 (0.88%) MCSE
6 1 (0.88%) Tableau Certification
6 1 (0.88%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (8.77%) QA
2 5 (4.39%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.75%) SLA
4 1 (0.88%) NIST
4 1 (0.88%) PMO
System Software
1 21 (18.42%) Active Directory
2 13 (11.40%) Docker
3 8 (7.02%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 6 (5.26%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (3.51%) Veritas Cluster Server
6 2 (1.75%) BitLocker
6 2 (1.75%) Hyper-V
6 2 (1.75%) Microsoft App-V
6 2 (1.75%) VMware NSX
6 2 (1.75%) vSphere
7 1 (0.88%) Firmware
7 1 (0.88%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 20 (17.54%) Kubernetes
2 15 (13.16%) Terraform
3 13 (11.40%) Ansible
4 12 (10.53%) Prometheus
5 11 (9.65%) Grafana
6 8 (7.02%) Consul
7 6 (5.26%) Microsoft Intune
8 4 (3.51%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 4 (3.51%) SCCM
9 3 (2.63%) Puppet
9 3 (2.63%) VxRail
10 2 (1.75%) NetBackup
10 2 (1.75%) SCOM
10 2 (1.75%) SCVMM
11 1 (0.88%) Backup Exec
11 1 (0.88%) CASB
11 1 (0.88%) Jamf Pro
11 1 (0.88%) Nagios
11 1 (0.88%) Progress Chef
11 1 (0.88%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 46 (40.35%) Microsoft
2 11 (9.65%) SAP
3 10 (8.77%) Sybase
4 9 (7.89%) IBM
5 8 (7.02%) Cisco
5 8 (7.02%) Oracle
5 8 (7.02%) SaltStack
5 8 (7.02%) VMware
6 7 (6.14%) Google
6 7 (6.14%) ServiceNow
7 5 (4.39%) CrowdStrike
7 5 (4.39%) Splunk
8 4 (3.51%) Blue Prism
8 4 (3.51%) CheckPoint
8 4 (3.51%) F5
8 4 (3.51%) Juniper
8 4 (3.51%) Sun
8 4 (3.51%) UiPath
8 4 (3.51%) Veritas
9 2 (1.75%) HP