Task Automation Contract Job Trends in the Midlands

Task Automation
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring Task Automation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 122 110 117
Rank change year-on-year -12 +7 +74
Contract jobs citing Task Automation 42 22 17
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 1.36% 0.88% 0.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.56% 1.04% 0.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 17 17
10th Percentile £456 £403 -
25th Percentile £500 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £484 £445
Median % change year-on-year +7.44% +8.76% +39.06%
75th Percentile £588 £525 £500
90th Percentile - - £519
England median daily rate £485 £482 £517
% change year-on-year +0.52% -6.77% -13.83%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,688 2,125 2,274
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 86.96% 84.70% 84.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,695 1,322 1,557
10th Percentile £250 £250 £250
25th Percentile £373 £375 £376
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +2.56% -1.52%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £700 £689
England median daily rate £505 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -3.81% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 206 80 104
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.70 £14.04
25th Percentile £16.35 £16.94 £17.41
Median hourly rate £18.87 £22.25 £23.80
Median % change year-on-year -15.19% -6.51% +41.41%
75th Percentile £25.15 £34.06 £51.50
90th Percentile £31.00 £52.50 £67.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +18.67%

Task Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Task Automation job vacancy trend in the Midlands

Task Automation
Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Task Automation

Task Automation
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Task Automation in the Midlands over the 6 months to 13 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Task Automation in the Midlands

Task Automation
Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Task Automation

Task Automation
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 13 December 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
West Midlands -3 41 £535 +8.74% 10
East Midlands -20 1 £450 +5.88% 3
Task Automation
England

Task Automation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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 4 (9.52%) Confluence
1 4 (9.52%) OpenStack
Applications
1 6 (14.29%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (4.76%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 17 (40.48%) Azure
2 11 (26.19%) GCP
3 10 (23.81%) Azure DevOps
4 9 (21.43%) AWS
4 9 (21.43%) Serverless
5 8 (19.05%) OpenShift
6 7 (16.67%) GitHub
6 7 (16.67%) GitHub Actions
7 6 (14.29%) Amazon EKS
7 6 (14.29%) Apigee
7 6 (14.29%) Cloud Functions
8 4 (9.52%) AWS CloudFormation
8 4 (9.52%) Azure AKS
8 4 (9.52%) Datadog
8 4 (9.52%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 4 (9.52%) npm
8 4 (9.52%) Pulumi
9 3 (7.14%) Amazon EC2
9 3 (7.14%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (7.14%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (7.14%) Network Security
2 1 (2.38%) PBX
2 1 (2.38%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (21.43%) Relational Database
2 6 (14.29%) MySQL
2 6 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (7.14%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (7.14%) Elasticsearch
3 3 (7.14%) InfluxDB
4 2 (4.76%) Oracle Database
4 2 (4.76%) Oracle Database 12c
5 1 (2.38%) Metadata
5 1 (2.38%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 11 (26.19%) Git
2 8 (19.05%) Bitbucket
2 8 (19.05%) Jenkins
3 5 (11.90%) GitLab
3 5 (11.90%) JIRA
4 4 (9.52%) Artifactory
4 4 (9.52%) CircleCI
4 4 (9.52%) Cypress.io
4 4 (9.52%) Gradle
4 4 (9.52%) JUnit
4 4 (9.52%) Maven
4 4 (9.52%) Postman
4 4 (9.52%) Selenium
4 4 (9.52%) Snyk
4 4 (9.52%) SonarQube
4 4 (9.52%) Sonatype Nexus
4 4 (9.52%) webpack
5 1 (2.38%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 13 (30.95%) Analytical Skills
1 13 (30.95%) Social Skills
2 6 (14.29%) Public Sector
3 3 (7.14%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (4.76%) Electronics
4 2 (4.76%) Finance
4 2 (4.76%) Manufacturing
4 2 (4.76%) Marketing
4 2 (4.76%) Telecoms
5 1 (2.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (2.38%) Military
Job Titles
1 6 (14.29%) Administrator
1 6 (14.29%) Cloud Developer
1 6 (14.29%) Developer
1 6 (14.29%) DevOps Engineer
1 6 (14.29%) GCP Developer
2 4 (9.52%) JIRA Administrator
3 3 (7.14%) Kubernetes Specialist
3 3 (7.14%) Migration Specialist
3 3 (7.14%) Site Engineer
3 3 (7.14%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 3 (7.14%) Splunk Specialist
4 2 (4.76%) DBA
4 2 (4.76%) DV Cleared DBA
4 2 (4.76%) Oracle DBA
4 2 (4.76%) SC Cleared DBA
5 1 (2.38%) Analyst
5 1 (2.38%) Architect
5 1 (2.38%) CyberArk Engineer
5 1 (2.38%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (2.38%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (16.67%) Elastic Stack
2 6 (14.29%) Node.js
3 5 (11.90%) REST
3 5 (11.90%) YAML
4 4 (9.52%) JSON
5 3 (7.14%) RabbitMQ
6 2 (4.76%) .NET
7 1 (2.38%) LDAP
7 1 (2.38%) Middleware
7 1 (2.38%) OAuth
7 1 (2.38%) OAuth2
7 1 (2.38%) OpenID
7 1 (2.38%) RESTful
7 1 (2.38%) SAML
7 1 (2.38%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 6 (14.29%) Cloud Native
2 4 (9.52%) Private Cloud
3 3 (7.14%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (2.38%) Client/Server
4 1 (2.38%) Mobile App
4 1 (2.38%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 17 (40.48%) Linux
2 12 (28.57%) Windows
3 9 (21.43%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (45.24%) Problem-Solving
2 18 (42.86%) CI/CD
3 14 (33.33%) DevOps
4 11 (26.19%) Identity Access Management
5 9 (21.43%) Containerisation
6 8 (19.05%) Cloud Security
6 8 (19.05%) Software Engineering
7 7 (16.67%) Configuration Management
7 7 (16.67%) ITIL
7 7 (16.67%) Regulatory Compliance
7 7 (16.67%) Unit Testing
8 6 (14.29%) API Management
8 6 (14.29%) Data Pipeline
8 6 (14.29%) ETL
8 6 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
8 6 (14.29%) Migration
8 6 (14.29%) Observability
8 6 (14.29%) SIEM
8 6 (14.29%) SOAR
9 5 (11.90%) Agile
Programming Languages
1 23 (54.76%) Python
2 14 (33.33%) PowerShell
3 12 (28.57%) SQL
4 6 (14.29%) VBA
5 5 (11.90%) Bash
5 5 (11.90%) Go
6 4 (9.52%) Java
7 3 (7.14%) Bicep
7 3 (7.14%) Shell Script
8 2 (4.76%) JavaScript
8 2 (4.76%) PL/SQL
9 1 (2.38%) Groovy
9 1 (2.38%) Ruby
9 1 (2.38%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 20 (47.62%) Security Cleared
2 13 (30.95%) SC Cleared
3 9 (21.43%) DV Cleared
4 3 (7.14%) Azure Certification
5 2 (4.76%) Degree
5 2 (4.76%) OCP
5 2 (4.76%) Oracle Certification
6 1 (2.38%) AWS Certification
6 1 (2.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (2.38%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (2.38%) CISM
6 1 (2.38%) CISSP
6 1 (2.38%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.38%) GDPR
1 1 (2.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (2.38%) NIST
1 1 (2.38%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 8 (19.05%) Docker
2 4 (9.52%) Firmware
3 2 (4.76%) Active Directory
3 2 (4.76%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (2.38%) Hyper-V
4 1 (2.38%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 15 (35.71%) Kubernetes
2 12 (28.57%) Ansible
2 12 (28.57%) Terraform
3 7 (16.67%) Grafana
3 7 (16.67%) Progress Chef
3 7 (16.67%) Prometheus
4 5 (11.90%) Puppet
5 4 (9.52%) Podman
5 4 (9.52%) SCCM
6 3 (7.14%) Kibana
6 3 (7.14%) logstash
7 2 (4.76%) BMC PATROL
7 2 (4.76%) Data Guard
7 2 (4.76%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (4.76%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
7 2 (4.76%) Oracle RMAN
8 1 (2.38%) Argo
8 1 (2.38%) Docker Swarm
8 1 (2.38%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 9 (21.43%) Microsoft
2 8 (19.05%) CyberArk
3 7 (16.67%) BeyondTrust
3 7 (16.67%) Splunk
4 6 (14.29%) Atlassian
4 6 (14.29%) Google
5 2 (4.76%) BMC
5 2 (4.76%) Oracle
5 2 (4.76%) Remedy
5 2 (4.76%) SAP
5 2 (4.76%) ServiceNow
6 1 (2.38%) ForgeRock
6 1 (2.38%) iManage
6 1 (2.38%) Ping Identity
6 1 (2.38%) VMware