Task Automation Contract Job Trends in Milton Keynes

Task Automation
Buckinghamshire > Milton Keynes

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Milton Keynes requiring Task Automation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 38 39 -
Rank change year-on-year +1 - -
Contract jobs citing Task Automation 3 5 0
As % of all contract jobs in Milton Keynes 1.14% 1.68% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.24% 1.96% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 4 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £588 -
Median % change year-on-year -40.43% - -
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £350 £588 -
% change year-on-year -40.43% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Milton Keynes

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 Milton Keynes.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 241 255 565
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 91.29% 85.86% 93.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 165 184 446
10th Percentile £239 £240 £279
25th Percentile £350 £363 £412
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £463 £515
Median % change year-on-year -5.41% -10.19% +5.10%
75th Percentile £538 £540 £613
90th Percentile £635 £626 £700
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £438 £465 £522
% change year-on-year -5.81% -10.97% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 8 10
10th Percentile £14.71 £14.25 £13.16
25th Percentile £15.81 £17.83 £13.27
Median hourly rate £23.81 £26.25 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -9.31% +38.16% +49.02%
75th Percentile £29.61 £36.19 £23.44
90th Percentile - £37.12 £24.00
Buckinghamshire median hourly rate £18.00 £30.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year -40.00% +57.89% +28.81%

Task Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Milton Keynes

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

Task Automation job vacancy trend in Milton Keynes

Task Automation
Daily Rate Trend in Milton Keynes

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Milton Keynes citing Task Automation.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Milton Keynes citing Task Automation

Task Automation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Milton Keynes 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:

Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) Firewall
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Administrator
1 3 (100.00%) DBA
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Change Control
1 3 (100.00%) Data Security
1 3 (100.00%) Incident Management
1 3 (100.00%) ITIL
1 3 (100.00%) Migration
1 3 (100.00%) Storage Management
2 2 (66.67%) Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Bash
1 3 (100.00%) Python
1 3 (100.00%) Shell Script