Task Automation Contracts in the North of England

Task Automation
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for Task Automation skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Task Automation over the 6 months to 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 155 193 220
Rank change year-on-year +38 +27 -54
Contract jobs citing Task Automation 30 24 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.64% 0.41% 0.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.75% 0.46% 0.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 15 15
10th Percentile £393 £499 £383
25th Percentile £425 £524 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £650 £550
Median % change year-on-year -26.92% +18.18% +22.22%
75th Percentile £538 £700 £588
90th Percentile £637 - £647
England median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - +10.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

Task Automation is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,026 5,268 6,350
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 85.79% 90.69% 88.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,465 3,659 4,646
10th Percentile £300 £300 £241
25th Percentile £400 £413 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +10.21%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £563
90th Percentile £675 £688 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +8.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 357 207 257
10th Percentile £11.04 £10.63 £10.63
25th Percentile £12.50 £16.22 £12.75
Median hourly rate £17.72 £29.30 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year -39.52% +58.38% +2.45%
75th Percentile £44.74 £47.25 £29.50
90th Percentile £57.50 £65.00 £52.07
England median hourly rate £36.33 £36.40 £24.35
% change year-on-year -0.18% +49.47% +3.62%

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 5 May 2024.

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 5 May 2024. 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
Yorkshire +23 19 £498 -28.93% 4
North West +28 7 £488 -2.50% 14
North East +19 4 £463 -15.91%
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 6 (20.00%) Confluence
2 3 (10.00%) Apache
2 3 (10.00%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (6.67%) nginx
4 1 (3.33%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 17 (56.67%) AWS
2 13 (43.33%) Azure
3 12 (40.00%) GCP
4 6 (20.00%) Apigee
4 6 (20.00%) GitHub
4 6 (20.00%) Kong
5 4 (13.33%) Datadog
6 3 (10.00%) Amazon EC2
6 3 (10.00%) Amazon S3
6 3 (10.00%) Cloud Computing
6 3 (10.00%) Snowflake
6 3 (10.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 2 (6.67%) Anthos
7 2 (6.67%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 1 (3.33%) Azure AKS
8 1 (3.33%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (3.33%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 8 (26.67%) DNS
2 7 (23.33%) TCP/IP
3 6 (20.00%) Firewall
3 6 (20.00%) HTTP
3 6 (20.00%) VPN
4 2 (6.67%) Cisco Nexus
4 2 (6.67%) Reverse Proxy
4 2 (6.67%) Software-Defined Networking
5 1 (3.33%) DHCP
5 1 (3.33%) DKIM
5 1 (3.33%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (20.00%) Elasticsearch
1 6 (20.00%) MongoDB
2 4 (13.33%) SQL Server
3 3 (10.00%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (10.00%) MySQL
4 1 (3.33%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (3.33%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 10 (33.33%) Git
2 8 (26.67%) GitLab
3 7 (23.33%) Jenkins
4 6 (20.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 6 (20.00%) CircleCI
4 6 (20.00%) JIRA
4 6 (20.00%) Travis CI
5 2 (6.67%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (3.33%) Cucumber
6 1 (3.33%) JUnit
6 1 (3.33%) REST Assured
6 1 (3.33%) Selenium
General
1 10 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 8 (26.67%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (6.67%) Banking
3 2 (6.67%) Finance
4 1 (3.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (23.33%) DevOps Engineer
2 6 (20.00%) Automation Engineer
3 4 (13.33%) Database Specialist
3 4 (13.33%) DBA
3 4 (13.33%) DevOps Automation Engineer
4 3 (10.00%) Cloud Engineer
4 3 (10.00%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (10.00%) Security Engineer
5 2 (6.67%) Analyst
5 2 (6.67%) Automation Tester
5 2 (6.67%) AWS Engineer
5 2 (6.67%) AWS Platform Engineer
5 2 (6.67%) Cloud Platform Engineer
5 2 (6.67%) MongoDB DBA
5 2 (6.67%) Network Engineer
5 2 (6.67%) Platform Engineer
5 2 (6.67%) Site Engineer
5 2 (6.67%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 2 (6.67%) SQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (23.33%) JSON
1 7 (23.33%) XML
2 6 (20.00%) Elastic Stack
2 6 (20.00%) YAML
3 1 (3.33%) Ajax
3 1 (3.33%) AngularJS
3 1 (3.33%) CSS
3 1 (3.33%) Gherkin
3 1 (3.33%) HTML
3 1 (3.33%) Jest
3 1 (3.33%) Kafka
3 1 (3.33%) REST
3 1 (3.33%) SOAP
3 1 (3.33%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 6 (20.00%) Data Structures
1 6 (20.00%) Replication
2 2 (6.67%) Clustering
2 2 (6.67%) CMDB
3 1 (3.33%) Cloud Native
3 1 (3.33%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 8 (26.67%) Linux
1 8 (26.67%) Unix
2 3 (10.00%) Windows
2 3 (10.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (36.67%) Agile
1 11 (36.67%) CI/CD
2 9 (30.00%) DevOps
3 8 (26.67%) Containerisation
3 8 (26.67%) DevSecOps
3 8 (26.67%) Disaster Recovery
3 8 (26.67%) Infrastructure as Code
3 8 (26.67%) Problem-Solving
4 7 (23.33%) Capacity Planning
4 7 (23.33%) Continuous Deployment
4 7 (23.33%) Continuous Integration
4 7 (23.33%) Stakeholder Management
4 7 (23.33%) Use Case
5 6 (20.00%) API Development
5 6 (20.00%) API Integration
5 6 (20.00%) Collaborative Working
5 6 (20.00%) Performance Metrics
5 6 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
5 6 (20.00%) Roadmaps
5 6 (20.00%) Secure Coding
Programming Languages
1 20 (66.67%) Python
2 17 (56.67%) Bash
3 12 (40.00%) PowerShell
4 8 (26.67%) SQL
5 3 (10.00%) Java
6 2 (6.67%) Shell Script
7 1 (3.33%) C#
7 1 (3.33%) Go
7 1 (3.33%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 4 (13.33%) Degree
2 3 (10.00%) CCNA
2 3 (10.00%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (10.00%) MCSE
2 3 (10.00%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (6.67%) CCIE
3 2 (6.67%) CCNP
4 1 (3.33%) Network+ Certification
4 1 (3.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (23.33%) QA
System Software
1 10 (33.33%) Docker
2 2 (6.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 9 (30.00%) Kubernetes
2 8 (26.67%) Ansible
2 8 (26.67%) Prometheus
2 8 (26.67%) Terraform
3 6 (20.00%) Docker Swarm
3 6 (20.00%) Grafana
3 6 (20.00%) Kibana
3 6 (20.00%) logstash
3 6 (20.00%) Progress Chef
3 6 (20.00%) Puppet
4 2 (6.67%) Istio
4 2 (6.67%) Kiali
5 1 (3.33%) Nagios
5 1 (3.33%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 8 (26.67%) Splunk
2 4 (13.33%) Microsoft
2 4 (13.33%) ServiceNow
3 3 (10.00%) Informatica
4 2 (6.67%) Cisco
4 2 (6.67%) VMware
5 1 (3.33%) SolarWinds