Task Automation Contracts in the Midlands

Task Automation
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 29 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 104 121 139
Rank change year-on-year +17 +18 +46
Contract jobs citing Task Automation 18 13 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.89% 0.47% 0.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.01% 0.57% 0.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 11 14
10th Percentile £282 £300 £464
25th Percentile £370 £362 £508
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £575 £563
Median % change year-on-year -17.39% +2.22% +27.84%
75th Percentile £531 £675 £738
90th Percentile £541 - £790
England median daily rate £500 £553 £550
% change year-on-year -9.50% +0.45% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £11.25
Median hourly rate - - £12.50
75th Percentile - - £13.75
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £46.75 £23.80 £51.25
% change year-on-year +96.43% -53.56% -18.00%

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 1,781 2,261 2,859
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 88.30% 81.71% 88.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,168 1,528 2,004
10th Percentile £203 £234 £258
25th Percentile £356 £356 £370
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% -5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £550 £600 £600
90th Percentile £639 £688 £690
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 104 172 98
10th Percentile £12.62 £11.07 £12.35
25th Percentile £13.81 £13.81 £14.64
Median hourly rate £18.63 £18.50 £22.46
Median % change year-on-year +0.68% -17.61% +27.88%
75th Percentile £26.51 £34.20 £45.25
90th Percentile £48.20 £55.00 £59.75
England median hourly rate £28.00 £37.18 £37.32
% change year-on-year -24.69% -0.38% +49.28%

Task Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Task Automation in the Midlands

Task Automation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Task Automation in the Midlands

Task Automation
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Task Automation in the Midlands over the 6 months to 29 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Task Automation in the Midlands

Task Automation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Task Automation in the Midlands

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 29 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
West Midlands +15 10 £500 -23.08% 143
East Midlands +12 8 £390 -13.14% 102
Task Automation
England

Task Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 2 (11.11%) Confluence
1 2 (11.11%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 2 (11.11%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 7 (38.89%) Azure
2 5 (27.78%) AWS
3 4 (22.22%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (22.22%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (16.67%) Amazon EC2
4 3 (16.67%) Amazon S3
5 2 (11.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 2 (11.11%) Amazon SQS
5 2 (11.11%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (11.11%) AWS CodeCommit
5 2 (11.11%) AWS CodeDeploy
5 2 (11.11%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (11.11%) Azure Logic Apps
5 2 (11.11%) Boomi
5 2 (11.11%) GCP
5 2 (11.11%) OCI
5 2 (11.11%) PaaS
5 2 (11.11%) Power Platform
5 2 (11.11%) SaaS
5 2 (11.11%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (11.11%) Firewall
1 2 (11.11%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (5.56%) PBX
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (11.11%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (11.11%) Relational Database
2 1 (5.56%) Power BI
2 1 (5.56%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (16.67%) JIRA
1 3 (16.67%) SonarQube
2 2 (11.11%) Chocolatey
2 2 (11.11%) Git
3 1 (5.56%) GitLab
3 1 (5.56%) Jenkins
3 1 (5.56%) Snyk
3 1 (5.56%) Visual Studio
General
1 6 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 3 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (11.11%) Finance
3 2 (11.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (5.56%) Law
4 1 (5.56%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 5 (27.78%) DevOps Engineer
2 4 (22.22%) Analyst
2 4 (22.22%) Developer
3 3 (16.67%) Operations Analyst
4 2 (11.11%) AWS Developer
4 2 (11.11%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) Python Developer
4 2 (11.11%) Security Analyst
4 2 (11.11%) Security Operations Analyst
4 2 (11.11%) Senior
4 2 (11.11%) Senior Developer
4 2 (11.11%) Senior Python Developer
4 2 (11.11%) Site Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) IT Analyst
5 1 (5.56%) Lead
5 1 (5.56%) Microsoft 365 Specialist
5 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Power Apps Developer
5 1 (5.56%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (16.67%) .NET
2 2 (11.11%) Django
2 2 (11.11%) MACH
3 1 (5.56%) Blazor
3 1 (5.56%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (5.56%) SailPoint
3 1 (5.56%) WPF
3 1 (5.56%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.11%) Security Posture
2 1 (5.56%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 2 (11.11%) Windows
2 1 (5.56%) Linux
2 1 (5.56%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (44.44%) Infrastructure as Code
2 7 (38.89%) CI/CD
2 7 (38.89%) Containerisation
2 7 (38.89%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (27.78%) Agile
3 5 (27.78%) DevOps
3 5 (27.78%) Incident Response
3 5 (27.78%) SIEM
4 4 (22.22%) Microservices
5 3 (16.67%) API Integration
5 3 (16.67%) Computer Science
5 3 (16.67%) Data Management
5 3 (16.67%) ITIL
5 3 (16.67%) Root Cause Analysis
5 3 (16.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 2 (11.11%) CRM
6 2 (11.11%) Data Pipeline
6 2 (11.11%) Security Monitoring
6 2 (11.11%) Service Catalogue
6 2 (11.11%) Threat Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 11 (61.11%) Python
2 9 (50.00%) PowerShell
3 8 (44.44%) Bash
4 3 (16.67%) C#
4 3 (16.67%) JavaScript
4 3 (16.67%) SQL
5 2 (11.11%) Java
5 2 (11.11%) Kusto Query Language
5 2 (11.11%) R
6 1 (5.56%) T-SQL
6 1 (5.56%) VB
Qualifications
1 3 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (16.67%) Degree
2 2 (11.11%) Security Cleared
3 1 (5.56%) ACSP
3 1 (5.56%) Azure Certification
3 1 (5.56%) DV Cleared
3 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (5.56%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.11%) SLA
System Software
1 10 (55.56%) Docker
2 1 (5.56%) Active Directory
2 1 (5.56%) Hyper-V
2 1 (5.56%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 10 (55.56%) Kubernetes
2 7 (38.89%) Ansible
2 7 (38.89%) Terraform
3 1 (5.56%) Argo
3 1 (5.56%) Grafana
3 1 (5.56%) Jamf Pro
3 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (5.56%) Podman
3 1 (5.56%) Prometheus
3 1 (5.56%) Puppet
Vendors
1 7 (38.89%) Microsoft
2 2 (11.11%) Oracle
2 2 (11.11%) ServiceNow
3 1 (5.56%) Apple
3 1 (5.56%) BT
3 1 (5.56%) Google
3 1 (5.56%) Okta
3 1 (5.56%) Red Hat
3 1 (5.56%) VMware