Task Automation Contracts in Scotland

Task Automation
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 77 114 155
Rank change year-on-year +37 +41 +3
Contract jobs citing Task Automation 42 10 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 2.53% 0.47% 0.037%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.71% 0.54% 0.041%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 3 1
10th Percentile £204 £407 -
25th Percentile £402 £409 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £458 £425 £413
Median % change year-on-year +7.65% +3.03% -31.25%
75th Percentile £488 £466 £419
90th Percentile £525 £484 -
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £21.00 - -
Median hourly rate £22.44 - -
75th Percentile £24.38 - -
90th Percentile £29.48 - -
UK median hourly rate £29.50 £23.80 £51.25
% change year-on-year +23.95% -53.56% -18.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,549 1,859 2,465
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 93.48% 87.24% 92.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 894 1,152 1,723
10th Percentile £263 £219 £251
25th Percentile £370 £363 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £461 £463 £475
Median % change year-on-year -0.38% -2.53% -
75th Percentile £538 £566 £550
90th Percentile £600 £638 £638
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 49 96 54
10th Percentile £16.00 £12.30 £10.63
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.53 £11.25
Median hourly rate £19.97 £19.34 £14.50
Median % change year-on-year +3.28% +33.34% -61.26%
75th Percentile £25.15 £40.94 £35.00
90th Percentile £61.00 £60.75 £66.09
UK median hourly rate £27.85 £36.50 £36.77
% change year-on-year -23.70% -0.73% +43.19%

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
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Task Automation in Scotland over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Task Automation in Scotland

Task Automation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Task Automation in Scotland.

Hourly 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 31 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
Glasgow +3 24 £473 +11.18% 4
Edinburgh - 18 £431 - 5
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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (4.76%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 18 (42.86%) Cloud Computing
2 9 (21.43%) OpenShift
3 8 (19.05%) AWS
4 7 (16.67%) Amazon S3
4 7 (16.67%) Azure
5 6 (14.29%) Cohesity
6 5 (11.90%) GCP
7 1 (2.38%) Amazon EMR
7 1 (2.38%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (2.38%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (2.38%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 1 (2.38%) Cloud Run
7 1 (2.38%) GitHub
7 1 (2.38%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (2.38%) Google Compute Engine
7 1 (2.38%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 1 (2.38%) Snowflake
7 1 (2.38%) Stackdriver
Communications & Networking
1 9 (21.43%) Remote Desktop
2 6 (14.29%) NAS
2 6 (14.29%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (9.52%) BigQuery
1 4 (9.52%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 3 (7.14%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (4.76%) Looker
3 2 (4.76%) Metadata
3 2 (4.76%) MongoDB
3 2 (4.76%) Snowflake Schema
3 2 (4.76%) Star Schema
4 1 (2.38%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (2.38%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (2.38%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (2.38%) Data Lake
4 1 (2.38%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (2.38%) RDBMS
4 1 (2.38%) Relational Database
4 1 (2.38%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 9 (21.43%) Git
2 7 (16.67%) Jenkins
3 4 (9.52%) ER Studio
4 3 (7.14%) JIRA
5 2 (4.76%) Bitbucket
6 1 (2.38%) GitLab
6 1 (2.38%) JUnit
General
1 33 (78.57%) Social Skills
2 19 (45.24%) Finance
3 13 (30.95%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (28.57%) Banking
5 10 (23.81%) Investment Banking
6 4 (9.52%) Public Sector
7 1 (2.38%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (2.38%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 10 (23.81%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
1 10 (23.81%) JavaScript Engineer
1 10 (23.81%) Python Engineer
2 7 (16.67%) Service Desk Engineer
3 6 (14.29%) Support Engineer
4 5 (11.90%) Service Desk Support
4 5 (11.90%) Windows Engineer
4 5 (11.90%) Windows Support Engineer
5 4 (9.52%) Administrator
5 4 (9.52%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 4 (9.52%) Senior
6 3 (7.14%) Analyst
6 3 (7.14%) NetBackup Engineer
6 3 (7.14%) Systems Administrator
7 2 (4.76%) Applications Engineer
7 2 (4.76%) Applications Support
7 2 (4.76%) Backup Engineer
7 2 (4.76%) Data Analyst
7 2 (4.76%) Data Modeller
7 2 (4.76%) Senior Data Modeller
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (11.90%) Kafka
2 3 (7.14%) LDAP
2 3 (7.14%) X-Windows
3 2 (4.76%) Loki
4 1 (2.38%) JMS
4 1 (2.38%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 12 (28.57%) Management Information System
2 11 (26.19%) Distributed Systems
3 9 (21.43%) Device Driver
4 3 (7.14%) Data Structures
5 1 (2.38%) Algorithms
5 1 (2.38%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (2.38%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 1 (2.38%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 19 (45.24%) Windows
2 13 (30.95%) Unix
3 9 (21.43%) Windows Server
4 5 (11.90%) Linux
5 4 (9.52%) Mac OS
6 2 (4.76%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 16 (38.10%) Decision-Making
3 12 (28.57%) Data Science
4 11 (26.19%) Artificial Intelligence
4 11 (26.19%) Community of Practice
4 11 (26.19%) Critical Thinking
4 11 (26.19%) Data Security
4 11 (26.19%) Data-Driven Decision Making
4 11 (26.19%) Experimental Design
4 11 (26.19%) ITIL
4 11 (26.19%) Machine Learning
4 11 (26.19%) Natural Language Processing
4 11 (26.19%) Risk Management
4 11 (26.19%) Statistical Analysis
5 9 (21.43%) CI/CD
5 9 (21.43%) Customer Service
6 8 (19.05%) Customer Experience
6 8 (19.05%) Observability
7 7 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
7 7 (16.67%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 26 (61.90%) Python
2 14 (33.33%) PowerShell
3 12 (28.57%) Java
4 11 (26.19%) JavaScript
4 11 (26.19%) TypeScript
5 9 (21.43%) Shell Script
6 7 (16.67%) SQL
7 1 (2.38%) Bash
7 1 (2.38%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (21.43%) Microsoft Certification
2 8 (19.05%) A+ Certification
3 1 (2.38%) Azure Certification
3 1 (2.38%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (7.14%) Cyber Essentials
1 3 (7.14%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 2 (4.76%) Disclosure Scotland
2 2 (4.76%) QA
3 1 (2.38%) Data Quality
System Software
1 6 (14.29%) Docker
2 3 (7.14%) Active Directory
2 3 (7.14%) Hyper-V
2 3 (7.14%) Virtual Servers
3 2 (4.76%) Veritas Cluster Server
3 2 (4.76%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 10 (23.81%) Kubernetes
2 6 (14.29%) NetBackup
2 6 (14.29%) Oracle RMAN
3 4 (9.52%) Ansible
4 3 (7.14%) Terraform
5 2 (4.76%) Grafana
5 2 (4.76%) Prometheus
6 1 (2.38%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 13 (30.95%) Microsoft
2 8 (19.05%) Veritas
3 5 (11.90%) Google
4 3 (7.14%) Splunk
5 2 (4.76%) VMware
6 1 (2.38%) Databricks
6 1 (2.38%) Dynatrace
6 1 (2.38%) Teradata