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 17 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 60 37 39
Rank change year-on-year -23 +2 -
Contract jobs citing Task Automation 10 3 4
As % of all contract jobs in Milton Keynes 1.44% 1.24% 1.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.85% 1.36% 1.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 1 4
10th Percentile £480 - -
25th Percentile £515 - £535
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £350 £588
Median % change year-on-year +61.42% -40.43% -
75th Percentile £622 - £625
90th Percentile £623 - -
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £565 £350 £588
% change year-on-year +61.42% -40.43% -

All Process & 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 541 220 253
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 78.07% 91.29% 86.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 388 154 186
10th Percentile £360 £216 £234
25th Percentile £456 £350 £376
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £425 £463
Median % change year-on-year +23.53% -8.11% -7.50%
75th Percentile £598 £538 £539
90th Percentile £638 £632 £632
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £525 £435 £454
% change year-on-year +20.69% -4.13% -11.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 8 7
10th Percentile £13.78 £14.08 £17.31
25th Percentile £15.05 £14.98 £19.98
Median hourly rate £17.50 £16.50 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +6.09% -45.02% +121.08%
75th Percentile £43.75 £18.00 £36.37
90th Percentile £54.35 £28.73 £37.25
Buckinghamshire median hourly rate £13.75 £15.91 £30.00
% change year-on-year -13.58% -46.97% +82.93%

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
Daily Rate Histogram in Milton Keynes

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Task Automation in Milton Keynes over the 6 months to 17 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Task Automation in Milton Keynes

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:

Cloud Services
1 10 (100.00%) Azure
2 8 (80.00%) Azure Monitor
3 4 (40.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 3 (30.00%) Azure Sentinel
4 3 (30.00%) Entra ID
5 2 (20.00%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (50.00%) DHCP
1 5 (50.00%) DNS
1 5 (50.00%) Firewall
1 5 (50.00%) SSH
1 5 (50.00%) TCP/IP
1 5 (50.00%) VPN
2 4 (40.00%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) MySQL
1 1 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (10.00%) SQL Server
General
1 4 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Military
Job Titles
1 7 (70.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 6 (60.00%) Senior
2 6 (60.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
3 5 (50.00%) Platform Engineer
4 3 (30.00%) Monitoring Engineer
4 3 (30.00%) Senior Platform Engineer
5 1 (10.00%) Azure Engineer
5 1 (10.00%) Azure Platform Engineer
5 1 (10.00%) Cloud Engineer
5 1 (10.00%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (10.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
5 1 (10.00%) DBA
5 1 (10.00%) SC Cleared DBA
5 1 (10.00%) SQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (60.00%) Terraform
2 5 (50.00%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 8 (80.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 5 (50.00%) Onboarding
3 3 (30.00%) ARM Cortex
3 3 (30.00%) Management Information System
4 1 (10.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 8 (80.00%) Windows
1 8 (80.00%) Windows Server
2 5 (50.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (90.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 8 (80.00%) Analytics
2 8 (80.00%) Log Analytics
3 6 (60.00%) Deployment Automation
3 6 (60.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 6 (60.00%) ITIL
3 6 (60.00%) Observability
3 6 (60.00%) Validation
4 5 (50.00%) Data Collection
4 5 (50.00%) Infrastructure Monitoring
4 5 (50.00%) Platform Engineering
4 5 (50.00%) RBAC
4 5 (50.00%) Resource Management
4 5 (50.00%) Security Hardening
4 5 (50.00%) Server Patching
4 5 (50.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
5 4 (40.00%) CI/CD
5 4 (40.00%) Cybersecurity
5 4 (40.00%) Network Virtualisation
5 4 (40.00%) Security Operations
Programming Languages
1 9 (90.00%) PowerShell
2 6 (60.00%) Bash
3 5 (50.00%) Bicep
4 2 (20.00%) Python
4 2 (20.00%) SQL
5 1 (10.00%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 7 (70.00%) DV Cleared
3 4 (40.00%) Degree
3 4 (40.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) QA
System Software
1 5 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 3 (30.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (10.00%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 4 (40.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (30.00%) Ansible
2 3 (30.00%) SCCM
2 3 (30.00%) SCOM
Vendors
1 10 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (30.00%) CrowdStrike
2 3 (30.00%) VMware