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 16 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 145 136 183
Rank change year-on-year -9 +47 +26
Contract jobs citing Task Automation 28 45 26
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.74% 0.96% 0.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.83% 1.15% 0.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 34 18
10th Percentile £306 £387 £197
25th Percentile £413 £415 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £469 £549
Median % change year-on-year +1.33% -14.58% +21.94%
75th Percentile £575 £536 £675
90th Percentile £600 £642 £700
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 3,363 3,928 4,945
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 88.66% 83.97% 89.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,168 2,367 3,349
10th Percentile £268 £299 £300
25th Percentile £375 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £493 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.97% -1.40% -
75th Percentile £556 £580 £600
90th Percentile £650 £663 £688
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 194 358 209
10th Percentile £12.82 £11.25 £14.00
25th Percentile £17.45 £12.55 £17.00
Median hourly rate £24.56 £22.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +11.64% -12.00% +24.19%
75th Percentile £46.89 £45.88 £43.48
90th Percentile £73.38 £66.61 £53.68
England median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £41.50
% change year-on-year -34.02% -8.14% +59.62%

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 16 July 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 16 July 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 +11 16 £475 +2.70% 40
Yorkshire -12 10 £400 -23.08% 18
North East -5 2 £375 -18.92% 5
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 1 (3.57%) CMS
1 1 (3.57%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (7.14%) Siemens NX
2 1 (3.57%) MadCap Flare
2 1 (3.57%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (3.57%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (3.57%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (7.14%) Teamcenter
2 1 (3.57%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 5 (17.86%) GCP
2 4 (14.29%) Azure
3 3 (10.71%) Apigee
4 2 (7.14%) AWS
4 2 (7.14%) GitHub
4 2 (7.14%) GitHub Actions
4 2 (7.14%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (3.57%) Amazon Cognito
5 1 (3.57%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (3.57%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (3.57%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (3.57%) Amazon GuardDuty
5 1 (3.57%) Amazon Kinesis
5 1 (3.57%) Amazon S3
5 1 (3.57%) Amazon SQS
5 1 (3.57%) Azure Cognitive Search
5 1 (3.57%) Azure Cognitive Services
5 1 (3.57%) Microsoft Purview
5 1 (3.57%) Power Automate
5 1 (3.57%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 5 (17.86%) Firewall
2 2 (7.14%) DNS
2 2 (7.14%) TCP/IP
3 1 (3.57%) Cisco Nexus
3 1 (3.57%) DWDM
3 1 (3.57%) LAN
3 1 (3.57%) Network Security
3 1 (3.57%) VPN
3 1 (3.57%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (21.43%) SQL Server
2 4 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (10.71%) MongoDB
4 2 (7.14%) NoSQL
5 1 (3.57%) Big Data
5 1 (3.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (3.57%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 10 (35.71%) Jenkins
2 8 (28.57%) Git
3 7 (25.00%) JIRA
4 5 (17.86%) GitLab
5 3 (10.71%) CircleCI
5 3 (10.71%) Cypress.io
6 1 (3.57%) Postman
6 1 (3.57%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (3.57%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 6 (21.43%) Social Skills
2 2 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (7.14%) Finance
2 2 (7.14%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (3.57%) Back Office
3 1 (3.57%) Banking
3 1 (3.57%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (25.00%) Senior
2 3 (10.71%) Developer
2 3 (10.71%) Senior Software Engineer
2 3 (10.71%) Software Engineer
3 2 (7.14%) Applications Engineer
3 2 (7.14%) Automation Developer
3 2 (7.14%) Configuration Engineer
3 2 (7.14%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (7.14%) Linux Engineer
3 2 (7.14%) Mac Engineer
3 2 (7.14%) Senior Mac Engineer
4 1 (3.57%) Automation Specialist
4 1 (3.57%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (3.57%) DevOps Platform Engineer
4 1 (3.57%) NetBackup Engineer
4 1 (3.57%) Senior DevOps
4 1 (3.57%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 1 (3.57%) Senior Linux Engineer
4 1 (3.57%) Senior Platform Engineer
4 1 (3.57%) SharePoint Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (17.86%) Node.js
2 4 (14.29%) Playwright
2 4 (14.29%) React
3 3 (10.71%) GraphQL
3 3 (10.71%) Puppeteer
3 3 (10.71%) RESTful
4 2 (7.14%) OAuth
5 1 (3.57%) ARM Templates
5 1 (3.57%) AWS Amplify
5 1 (3.57%) GatsbyJS
5 1 (3.57%) HTML
5 1 (3.57%) JSON
5 1 (3.57%) Microsoft Graph
5 1 (3.57%) Next.js
5 1 (3.57%) OpenAPI
5 1 (3.57%) REST
5 1 (3.57%) Swagger
5 1 (3.57%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (10.71%) Cloud Native
2 2 (7.14%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (7.14%) Onboarding
3 1 (3.57%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (3.57%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 5 (17.86%) Linux
2 2 (7.14%) Mac OS
2 2 (7.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (7.14%) Unix
3 1 (3.57%) AIX
3 1 (3.57%) Solaris
3 1 (3.57%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
3 1 (3.57%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 10 (35.71%) DevOps
3 7 (25.00%) Configuration Management
4 6 (21.43%) Agile
4 6 (21.43%) Incident Management
4 6 (21.43%) Migration
4 6 (21.43%) Test Automation
5 5 (17.86%) Data Migration
5 5 (17.86%) Infrastructure as Code
5 5 (17.86%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (17.86%) Technical Leadership
6 4 (14.29%) Containerisation
6 4 (14.29%) Data Modelling
6 4 (14.29%) DevSecOps
6 4 (14.29%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 4 (14.29%) User Experience
7 3 (10.71%) Data Protection
7 3 (10.71%) High Availability
7 3 (10.71%) Software Engineering
7 3 (10.71%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 15 (53.57%) Python
2 13 (46.43%) Bash
3 7 (25.00%) PowerShell
3 7 (25.00%) SQL
4 4 (14.29%) TypeScript
5 3 (10.71%) Java
6 1 (3.57%) AppleScript
6 1 (3.57%) Groovy
6 1 (3.57%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 3 (10.71%) CCNA
1 3 (10.71%) CCNP
1 3 (10.71%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (3.57%) AWS Certification
2 1 (3.57%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 1 (3.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (3.57%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (3.57%) Degree
2 1 (3.57%) JNCIA
2 1 (3.57%) JNCIS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.57%) GDPR
System Software
1 4 (14.29%) Docker
2 3 (10.71%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (3.57%) Veritas Cluster Server
3 1 (3.57%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 12 (42.86%) Ansible
2 9 (32.14%) Kubernetes
3 5 (17.86%) Terraform
4 4 (14.29%) Grafana
4 4 (14.29%) Progress Chef
4 4 (14.29%) Prometheus
5 1 (3.57%) Control-M
5 1 (3.57%) Docker Swarm
5 1 (3.57%) Jamf Pro
5 1 (3.57%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (3.57%) NetBackup
5 1 (3.57%) Oracle RMAN
5 1 (3.57%) Puppet
Vendors
1 7 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 5 (17.86%) Google
2 5 (17.86%) Oracle
3 3 (10.71%) PagerDuty
3 3 (10.71%) VMware
4 2 (7.14%) Fortinet
4 2 (7.14%) Infoblox
4 2 (7.14%) Red Hat
4 2 (7.14%) ServiceNow
4 2 (7.14%) Siemens
5 1 (3.57%) Apple
5 1 (3.57%) Atlassian
5 1 (3.57%) BMC
5 1 (3.57%) Cisco
5 1 (3.57%) Citrix
5 1 (3.57%) CyberArk
5 1 (3.57%) Databricks
5 1 (3.57%) Dynatrace
5 1 (3.57%) MuleSoft
5 1 (3.57%) Veritas