Task Automation Contracts in Sheffield

Task Automation
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Sheffield 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 41 44 50
Rank change year-on-year +3 +6 -23
Contract jobs citing Task Automation 13 6 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Sheffield 3.43% 1.35% 0.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.71% 1.41% 0.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 3 1
10th Percentile £411 - -
25th Percentile £422 £625 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £650 £575
Median % change year-on-year -25.77% +13.04% +15.00%
75th Percentile £630 £688 £588
90th Percentile £645 £695 -
South Yorkshire median daily rate £520 £650 £575
% change year-on-year -20.00% +13.04% +15.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Sheffield

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 Sheffield with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 350 425 349
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 92.35% 95.51% 92.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 203 292 280
10th Percentile £375 £363 £350
25th Percentile £420 £474 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% +25.00%
75th Percentile £588 £675 £563
90th Percentile £650 £700 £650
South Yorkshire median daily rate £474 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -13.91% +10.00% +25.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 3 11
10th Percentile £10.90 £11.05 £9.49
25th Percentile £11.33 £11.13 £12.00
Median hourly rate £22.00 £11.50 £16.00
Median % change year-on-year +91.30% -28.13% +18.06%
75th Percentile £23.75 £25.88 £18.57
90th Percentile - £34.35 £24.00
South Yorkshire median hourly rate £17.62 £10.63 £16.75
% change year-on-year +65.71% -36.54% +38.83%

Task Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

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

Job vacancy trend for Task Automation in Sheffield

Task Automation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Sheffield

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

Daily rate trend for Task Automation in Sheffield

Task Automation
Daily Rate Histogram in Sheffield

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Task Automation in Sheffield over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Task Automation in Sheffield

Task Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Sheffield 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 (46.15%) Confluence
2 1 (7.69%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 12 (92.31%) AWS
1 12 (92.31%) Azure
1 12 (92.31%) GCP
2 6 (46.15%) Apigee
2 6 (46.15%) GitHub
2 6 (46.15%) Kong
3 1 (7.69%) Anthos
3 1 (7.69%) Datadog
3 1 (7.69%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 6 (46.15%) DNS
1 6 (46.15%) Firewall
1 6 (46.15%) HTTP
1 6 (46.15%) TCP/IP
1 6 (46.15%) VPN
2 1 (7.69%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (46.15%) Elasticsearch
1 6 (46.15%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 7 (53.85%) GitLab
1 7 (53.85%) Jenkins
2 6 (46.15%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 6 (46.15%) CircleCI
2 6 (46.15%) Git
2 6 (46.15%) JIRA
2 6 (46.15%) Travis CI
General
1 8 (61.54%) Social Skills
2 6 (46.15%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (38.46%) DevOps Engineer
2 4 (30.77%) Automation Engineer
2 4 (30.77%) Database Specialist
2 4 (30.77%) DevOps Automation Engineer
3 3 (23.08%) Security Engineer
4 2 (15.38%) DBA
4 2 (15.38%) MongoDB DBA
5 1 (7.69%) Site Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (46.15%) Elastic Stack
1 6 (46.15%) JSON
1 6 (46.15%) XML
1 6 (46.15%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (46.15%) Data Structures
1 6 (46.15%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 7 (53.85%) Linux
1 7 (53.85%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (53.85%) Agile
1 7 (53.85%) CI/CD
1 7 (53.85%) Containerisation
1 7 (53.85%) DevOps
1 7 (53.85%) Infrastructure as Code
2 6 (46.15%) API Development
2 6 (46.15%) API Integration
2 6 (46.15%) Capacity Planning
2 6 (46.15%) Collaborative Working
2 6 (46.15%) Continuous Deployment
2 6 (46.15%) Continuous Integration
2 6 (46.15%) Disaster Recovery
2 6 (46.15%) Performance Metrics
2 6 (46.15%) Performance Tuning
2 6 (46.15%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (46.15%) Project Management
2 6 (46.15%) Secure Coding
2 6 (46.15%) Stakeholder Management
2 6 (46.15%) Use Case
2 6 (46.15%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 13 (100.00%) Bash
1 13 (100.00%) Python
2 6 (46.15%) PowerShell
3 1 (7.69%) Go
3 1 (7.69%) Shell Script
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (46.15%) QA
System Software
1 7 (53.85%) Docker
2 1 (7.69%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (53.85%) Kubernetes
1 7 (53.85%) Prometheus
1 7 (53.85%) Terraform
2 6 (46.15%) Ansible
2 6 (46.15%) Docker Swarm
2 6 (46.15%) Grafana
2 6 (46.15%) Kibana
2 6 (46.15%) logstash
2 6 (46.15%) Progress Chef
2 6 (46.15%) Puppet
3 1 (7.69%) Istio
3 1 (7.69%) Kiali
Vendors
1 7 (53.85%) Splunk
2 1 (7.69%) VMware