Task Automation Contracts in Scotland

Task Automation
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 116 161 159
Rank change year-on-year +45 -2 -7
Contract jobs citing Task Automation 14 2 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.63% 0.070% 0.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.71% 0.076% 0.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 12
10th Percentile £407 - £551
25th Percentile £411 £406 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £446 £413 £600
Median % change year-on-year +8.12% -31.25% +60.00%
75th Percentile £480 £419 -
90th Percentile £489 - -
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - +11.11%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,976 2,647 3,269
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 88.57% 92.62% 92.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,202 1,908 2,318
10th Percentile £233 £260 £243
25th Percentile £400 £406 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £465
Median % change year-on-year - +2.15% +9.41%
75th Percentile £588 £554 £550
90th Percentile £675 £650 £623
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 95 56 49
10th Percentile £12.38 £10.63 £14.94
25th Percentile £16.00 £12.04 £17.50
Median hourly rate £19.50 £17.72 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.05% -46.30% -21.43%
75th Percentile £44.47 £53.94 £48.75
90th Percentile £60.75 £67.03 £55.75
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £37.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -5.41% +48.00% -

Task Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing Task Automation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for Task Automation in Scotland

Task Automation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Task Automation in Scotland.

Daily rate trend for Task Automation in Scotland

Task Automation
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

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 Scotland region over the 6 months to 26 April 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
Glasgow +19 14 £446 - 4
Task Automation
UK

Task Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (14.29%) IaaS
2 1 (7.14%) AWS
2 1 (7.14%) Azure
2 1 (7.14%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (14.29%) DNS
1 2 (14.29%) TCP/IP
2 1 (7.14%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (7.14%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (28.57%) Artifactory
General
1 3 (21.43%) Finance
2 2 (14.29%) Banking
2 2 (14.29%) Investment Banking
2 2 (14.29%) Social Skills
3 1 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (7.14%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 6 (42.86%) Python Engineer
2 6 (42.86%) Virtualisation Engineer
2 6 (42.86%) VMware Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) DBA
3 1 (7.14%) Developer
3 1 (7.14%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Infrastructure Services Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Linux Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Linux Specialist
3 1 (7.14%) Python Developer
3 1 (7.14%) Software Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) SQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (50.00%) Middleware
2 2 (14.29%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 2 (14.29%) Distributed Applications
2 1 (7.14%) Clustering
2 1 (7.14%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (7.14%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 12 (85.71%) Linux
2 1 (7.14%) Windows
2 1 (7.14%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (64.29%) DevOps
2 8 (57.14%) Containerisation
3 6 (42.86%) OO
4 4 (28.57%) Observability
5 3 (21.43%) Load Balancing
5 3 (21.43%) Problem Management
6 2 (14.29%) High Availability
6 2 (14.29%) Investment Management
6 2 (14.29%) SDLC
6 2 (14.29%) Service-Level Objective
6 2 (14.29%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 2 (14.29%) Software Distribution
6 2 (14.29%) Software Testing
6 2 (14.29%) Technical Debt
6 2 (14.29%) Wealth Management
7 1 (7.14%) Analytical Thinking
7 1 (7.14%) Continuous Improvement
7 1 (7.14%) Decision-Making
7 1 (7.14%) Problem-Solving
7 1 (7.14%) Value Proposition
Programming Languages
1 10 (71.43%) Python
2 7 (50.00%) Perl
3 3 (21.43%) SQL
4 1 (7.14%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (7.14%) MCSE
1 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (7.14%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 8 (57.14%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (7.14%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 5 (35.71%) Kubernetes
2 3 (21.43%) Grafana
2 3 (21.43%) Prometheus
3 2 (14.29%) Terraform
4 1 (7.14%) Ansible
4 1 (7.14%) Progress Chef
4 1 (7.14%) Puppet
Vendors
1 8 (57.14%) VMware
2 2 (14.29%) Splunk
3 1 (7.14%) Microsoft