Task Automation Contract Job Trends in the North East

Task Automation
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North East requiring Task Automation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 49 36 34
Rank change year-on-year -13 -2 +22
Contract jobs citing Task Automation 6 4 4
As % of all contract jobs in the North East 1.08% 1.26% 1.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.31% 1.55% 1.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 3 4
10th Percentile £253 - £345
25th Percentile £295 - £396
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £365 £470 £463
Median % change year-on-year -22.34% +1.62% -15.91%
75th Percentile £426 £523 £491
90th Percentile £463 £554 £496
England median daily rate £475 £500 £550
% change year-on-year -5.00% -9.09% -

All Process & Methodology Skills
North East

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 North East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 458 258 272
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East 82.37% 81.39% 80.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 302 181 129
10th Percentile £306 £225 £228
25th Percentile £386 £358 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £470 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.26% -6.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £538 £575 £588
90th Percentile £613 £650 £655
England median daily rate £507 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.48% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 52 12 47
10th Percentile £17.00 - £11.44
25th Percentile £35.94 £11.60 £11.81
Median hourly rate £65.00 £14.07 £15.46
Median % change year-on-year +361.98% -8.99% -62.06%
75th Percentile £70.00 £46.82 £47.47
90th Percentile £72.50 £51.68 £50.00
England median hourly rate £44.00 £30.45 £35.50
% change year-on-year +44.50% -14.23% -5.33%

Task Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

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

Task Automation job vacancy trend in the North East

Task Automation
Daily Rate Trend in the North East

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

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

Task Automation
Daily Rate Histogram in the North East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Task Automation in the North East over the 6 months to 29 April 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Task Automation in the North East

Task Automation
Contract Job Locations in the North East

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 North East region over the 6 months to 29 April 2026. 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
Tyne and Wear -19 6 £365 -33.64% 1
Task Automation
England

Task Automation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North East 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 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 3 (50.00%) Power Automate
2 2 (33.33%) AWS
2 2 (33.33%) Azure
2 2 (33.33%) OCI
2 2 (33.33%) SaaS
3 1 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (16.67%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 2 (33.33%) BGP
1 2 (33.33%) BIG-IP
1 2 (33.33%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
1 2 (33.33%) Firewall
1 2 (33.33%) OSPF
1 2 (33.33%) SD-WAN
1 2 (33.33%) VXLAN
1 2 (33.33%) Wi-Fi
1 2 (33.33%) WLAN
2 1 (16.67%) Ethernet VPN
2 1 (16.67%) Network Security
2 1 (16.67%) NGFW
2 1 (16.67%) WAN
2 1 (16.67%) Wireless
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) GitLab
General
1 3 (50.00%) Finance
1 3 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Public Sector
3 1 (16.67%) Legal
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Analyst
1 3 (50.00%) Governance Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Network Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Network Security Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Security Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Senior
2 1 (16.67%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Data Centre
1 2 (33.33%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (16.67%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (16.67%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Windows
1 1 (16.67%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Actionable Insight
1 3 (50.00%) Budgeting and Forecasting
1 3 (50.00%) Contract Management
1 3 (50.00%) Dashboard Development
1 3 (50.00%) Financial Modelling
1 3 (50.00%) Performance Metrics
1 3 (50.00%) Process Improvement
2 2 (33.33%) Cost Optimisation
2 2 (33.33%) Data Analysis
2 2 (33.33%) Data Protection
2 2 (33.33%) High Availability
2 2 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (33.33%) Zero Trust
3 1 (16.67%) Backlog Management
3 1 (16.67%) Budgeting
3 1 (16.67%) CI/CD
3 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (16.67%) Network Segmentation
3 1 (16.67%) Project Delivery
3 1 (16.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) PowerShell
1 1 (16.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Active Directory
1 1 (16.67%) Virtual Desktop
1 1 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Ansible
1 1 (16.67%) Jamf Pro
1 1 (16.67%) SCCM
1 1 (16.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) F5
1 2 (33.33%) Palo Alto
2 1 (16.67%) Arista
2 1 (16.67%) Aruba
2 1 (16.67%) CheckPoint
2 1 (16.67%) Citrix
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (16.67%) VMware