Task Automation Contracts in the North of England

Task Automation
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 124 158 193
Rank change year-on-year +34 +35 +20
Contract jobs citing Task Automation 42 27 27
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 1.27% 0.57% 0.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.42% 0.66% 0.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 22 16
10th Percentile £411 £401 £483
25th Percentile £463 £415 £521
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £488 £613
Median % change year-on-year -2.56% -20.41% +11.36%
75th Percentile £544 £538 £700
90th Percentile £585 £643 -
England median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

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 of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,966 4,089 5,288
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 90.02% 85.76% 90.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,908 2,506 3,674
10th Percentile £263 £300 £302
25th Percentile £378 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £563 £588 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 154 355 207
10th Percentile £13.83 £11.03 £10.63
25th Percentile £18.20 £12.45 £15.25
Median hourly rate £28.75 £17.50 £27.70
Median % change year-on-year +64.29% -36.82% +49.73%
75th Percentile £55.76 £44.41 £45.05
90th Percentile £82.56 £53.90 £65.00
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Task Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Task Automation in the North of England

Task Automation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Task Automation in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Task Automation in the North of England

Task Automation
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Task Automation in the North of England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Task Automation in the North of England

Task Automation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Task Automation in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for Task Automation in the North of England

Task Automation
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 of England region over the 6 months to 1 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
North West +40 30 £475 +18.75% 73
Yorkshire +3 11 £498 -4.33% 53
North East 0 4 £470 +1.62% 18
Task Automation
England

Task Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 17 (40.48%) SharePoint
2 5 (11.90%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (4.76%) Confluence
4 1 (2.38%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 2 (4.76%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (2.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.38%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 17 (40.48%) Microsoft 365
2 12 (28.57%) Power Automate
2 12 (28.57%) Power Platform
2 12 (28.57%) PowerApps
3 9 (21.43%) Azure
4 4 (9.52%) AWS
4 4 (9.52%) Entra ID
4 4 (9.52%) GCP
4 4 (9.52%) SaaS
5 3 (7.14%) GitHub
6 2 (4.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 2 (4.76%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (4.76%) Amazon ECS
6 2 (4.76%) Amazon EKS
6 2 (4.76%) Amazon S3
6 2 (4.76%) Apigee
6 2 (4.76%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (4.76%) AWS CloudTrail
6 2 (4.76%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (4.76%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 5 (11.90%) DNS
2 4 (9.52%) Firewall
3 2 (4.76%) NAS
3 2 (4.76%) Network Security
3 2 (4.76%) SAN
3 2 (4.76%) TCP/IP
4 1 (2.38%) Cisco Nexus
4 1 (2.38%) DHCP
4 1 (2.38%) DWDM
4 1 (2.38%) LAN
4 1 (2.38%) SMTP
4 1 (2.38%) VPN
4 1 (2.38%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (14.29%) SQL Server
2 4 (9.52%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (7.14%) MongoDB
4 1 (2.38%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (2.38%) Big Data
4 1 (2.38%) BigQuery
4 1 (2.38%) Metadata
4 1 (2.38%) NoSQL
4 1 (2.38%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (2.38%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 9 (21.43%) JIRA
2 8 (19.05%) Jenkins
3 6 (14.29%) Git
4 4 (9.52%) GitLab
5 2 (4.76%) CircleCI
5 2 (4.76%) Cypress.io
6 1 (2.38%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (2.38%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 20 (47.62%) Social Skills
2 7 (16.67%) Public Sector
3 3 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (2.38%) Back Office
4 1 (2.38%) Banking
4 1 (2.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (2.38%) Marketing
4 1 (2.38%) Military
4 1 (2.38%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 14 (33.33%) Developer
2 11 (26.19%) Microsoft 365 Developer
3 9 (21.43%) Software Developer
4 5 (11.90%) Senior
5 3 (7.14%) Architect
5 3 (7.14%) DevOps Engineer
5 3 (7.14%) Power Platform Developer
6 2 (4.76%) Automation Developer
6 2 (4.76%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
6 2 (4.76%) Network Engineer
6 2 (4.76%) Senior Software Engineer
6 2 (4.76%) SharePoint Developer
6 2 (4.76%) Software Engineer
6 2 (4.76%) Unix Engineer
7 1 (2.38%) Database Engineer
7 1 (2.38%) IT Operations Analyst
7 1 (2.38%) Microsoft Developer
7 1 (2.38%) Network Specialist
7 1 (2.38%) Operations Analyst
7 1 (2.38%) Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (26.19%) CSS
1 11 (26.19%) HTML
1 11 (26.19%) React
2 9 (21.43%) SPFx
3 3 (7.14%) Node.js
4 2 (4.76%) GraphQL
4 2 (4.76%) Playwright
4 2 (4.76%) Puppeteer
4 2 (4.76%) RESTful
5 1 (2.38%) ARM Templates
5 1 (2.38%) AWS Amplify
5 1 (2.38%) OAuth
5 1 (2.38%) REST
5 1 (2.38%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 2 (4.76%) Cloud Native
1 2 (4.76%) Data Protection Act
1 2 (4.76%) Management Information System
1 2 (4.76%) Onboarding
2 1 (2.38%) Blog
2 1 (2.38%) CMDB
2 1 (2.38%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (2.38%) Mainframe
2 1 (2.38%) Product Ownership
2 1 (2.38%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (2.38%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 4 (9.52%) Linux
2 3 (7.14%) Unix
3 2 (4.76%) AIX
3 2 (4.76%) CentOS
3 2 (4.76%) HPUX
3 2 (4.76%) Mac OS
3 2 (4.76%) Solaris
3 2 (4.76%) Ubuntu
3 2 (4.76%) Windows
4 1 (2.38%) Android
4 1 (2.38%) Apple iOS
4 1 (2.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (2.38%) Windows 10
4 1 (2.38%) Windows Server
4 1 (2.38%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (2.38%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (30.95%) CI/CD
2 12 (28.57%) DevOps
2 12 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
3 11 (26.19%) Web Development
4 10 (23.81%) Configuration Management
5 9 (21.43%) Migration
6 8 (19.05%) Agile
7 5 (11.90%) Data Migration
7 5 (11.90%) High Availability
7 5 (11.90%) Infrastructure as Code
7 5 (11.90%) Problem Management
7 5 (11.90%) Technical Leadership
7 5 (11.90%) Test Automation
8 4 (9.52%) Incident Management
8 4 (9.52%) Infrastructure Management
8 4 (9.52%) Root Cause Analysis
8 4 (9.52%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 3 (7.14%) Disaster Recovery
9 3 (7.14%) ITSM
9 3 (7.14%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 23 (54.76%) PowerShell
2 19 (45.24%) Python
3 15 (35.71%) Bash
4 11 (26.19%) JavaScript
4 11 (26.19%) TypeScript
5 8 (19.05%) SQL
6 3 (7.14%) Shell Script
7 2 (4.76%) Java
7 2 (4.76%) Perl
8 1 (2.38%) AppleScript
8 1 (2.38%) Go
8 1 (2.38%) Groovy
8 1 (2.38%) Scala
8 1 (2.38%) VB
8 1 (2.38%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 10 (23.81%) Security Cleared
2 8 (19.05%) SC Cleared
3 4 (9.52%) CCNA
3 4 (9.52%) Cisco Certification
4 3 (7.14%) CCNP
5 2 (4.76%) AWS Certification
5 2 (4.76%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 2 (4.76%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (4.76%) Degree
6 1 (2.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (2.38%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (2.38%) JNCIA
6 1 (2.38%) JNCIS
6 1 (2.38%) MCP
6 1 (2.38%) MCSA
6 1 (2.38%) MCSE
6 1 (2.38%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (2.38%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.76%) GDPR
2 1 (2.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.38%) NCSC
2 1 (2.38%) PCI DSS
2 1 (2.38%) SOC 2
System Software
1 6 (14.29%) Active Directory
2 3 (7.14%) Docker
2 3 (7.14%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (4.76%) KVM
4 1 (2.38%) BitLocker
4 1 (2.38%) Microsoft App-V
4 1 (2.38%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 14 (33.33%) Ansible
2 10 (23.81%) Kubernetes
3 6 (14.29%) Progress Chef
4 5 (11.90%) Terraform
5 4 (9.52%) Single Sign-On
6 3 (7.14%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 3 (7.14%) Grafana
6 3 (7.14%) Microsoft Intune
6 3 (7.14%) Prometheus
7 2 (4.76%) Puppet
8 1 (2.38%) Control-M
8 1 (2.38%) Docker Swarm
8 1 (2.38%) Jamf Pro
8 1 (2.38%) Nagios
8 1 (2.38%) SCCM
8 1 (2.38%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 20 (47.62%) Microsoft
2 4 (9.52%) Google
2 4 (9.52%) Oracle
3 3 (7.14%) Databricks
3 3 (7.14%) Red Hat
3 3 (7.14%) VMware
4 2 (4.76%) Cisco
4 2 (4.76%) Fortinet
4 2 (4.76%) Infoblox
4 2 (4.76%) PagerDuty
4 2 (4.76%) ServiceNow
5 1 (2.38%) Apple
5 1 (2.38%) Arista
5 1 (2.38%) BMC
5 1 (2.38%) Dynatrace
5 1 (2.38%) McAfee
5 1 (2.38%) SolarWinds
5 1 (2.38%) Symantec
5 1 (2.38%) Tenable