Task Automation Contract Job Trends in Portsmouth

Task Automation
Hampshire > Portsmouth

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Portsmouth requiring Task Automation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 33 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Task Automation 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Portsmouth 0.73% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.04% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £460 - -
25th Percentile £460 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £472 - -
75th Percentile £485 - -
90th Percentile £487 - -
Hampshire median daily rate £538 £500 £465
% change year-on-year +7.50% +7.48% -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Portsmouth

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 Portsmouth.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 192 117 242
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Portsmouth 69.82% 74.05% 90.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 97 60 96
10th Percentile £335 £379 £381
25th Percentile £450 £418 £448
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 £533 £575
Median % change year-on-year +0.85% -7.39% +15.00%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £668
90th Percentile £695 £675 £775
Hampshire median daily rate £550 £550 £590
% change year-on-year - -6.70% +12.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 49 27 102
10th Percentile £13.48 £32.27 £51.06
25th Percentile £46.25 £41.00 £53.40
Median hourly rate £52.43 £50.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.85% -16.67% +4.35%
75th Percentile £60.90 £58.75 £70.32
90th Percentile £68.55 £63.00 £76.86
Hampshire median hourly rate £38.25 £50.00 £57.35
% change year-on-year -23.50% -12.82% +4.27%

Task Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Portsmouth

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

Task Automation job vacancy trend in Portsmouth

Task Automation
Daily Rate Trend in Portsmouth

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Portsmouth citing Task Automation.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Portsmouth citing Task Automation

Task Automation
Hourly Rate Trend in Portsmouth

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Portsmouth citing Task Automation.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Portsmouth citing Task Automation

Task Automation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Portsmouth 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 (50.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) Remote Desktop
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) JIRA
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Site Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Wintel Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Agile
1 1 (50.00%) Capacity Planning
1 1 (50.00%) Change Management
1 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (50.00%) Configuration Management
1 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (50.00%) Desktop Virtualisation
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) Incident Management
1 1 (50.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (50.00%) Performance Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Platform Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) Runbook
1 1 (50.00%) SFIA
1 1 (50.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) Bash
2 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (50.00%) Hyper-V
1 1 (50.00%) Virtual Desktop
1 1 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (50.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Grafana
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Atlassian
1 1 (50.00%) Citrix
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) VMware