Task Automation Contracts in Sheffield

Task Automation
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Sheffield 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 29 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 48 40 45
Rank change year-on-year -8 +5 0
Contract jobs citing Task Automation 5 16 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Sheffield 1.41% 4.16% 1.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.50% 4.62% 1.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 14 3
10th Percentile £499 £411 -
25th Percentile £516 £425 £625
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £571 £650
Median % change year-on-year -1.49% -12.15% +116.67%
75th Percentile £591 £634 £688
90th Percentile £596 £645 £695
South Yorkshire median daily rate £563 £520 £650
% change year-on-year +8.17% -20.00% +116.67%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Sheffield

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 Sheffield.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 334 346 427
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 94.35% 89.87% 96.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 215 199 285
10th Percentile £231 £375 £363
25th Percentile £381 £425 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £474 £485 £588
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% -17.45% +17.50%
75th Percentile £551 £588 £700
90th Percentile £647 £639 £744
South Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £475 £550
% change year-on-year - -13.64% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 8 3
10th Percentile £18.10 - £12.45
25th Percentile £18.20 £10.90 £14.63
Median hourly rate £18.69 £17.38 £20.50
Median % change year-on-year +7.57% -15.24% +22.39%
75th Percentile £18.87 £22.44 £31.38
90th Percentile - £23.75 £36.55
South Yorkshire median hourly rate £18.69 £12.83 £10.63
% change year-on-year +45.67% +20.70% -38.77%

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
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:

Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (20.00%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 3 (60.00%) Firewall
2 2 (40.00%) Network Security
2 2 (40.00%) TCP/IP
3 1 (20.00%) Cisco Nexus
3 1 (20.00%) DNS
3 1 (20.00%) DWDM
3 1 (20.00%) LAN
3 1 (20.00%) VPN
3 1 (20.00%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Git
1 2 (40.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (20.00%) Postman
2 1 (20.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 1 (20.00%) Finance
1 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Network Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Automation Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Linux Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Linux Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Technical Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Technical Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (20.00%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 3 (60.00%) Linux
2 2 (40.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (40.00%) Unix
3 1 (20.00%) AIX
3 1 (20.00%) Solaris
3 1 (20.00%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Containerisation
1 2 (40.00%) Data Protection
1 2 (40.00%) DevOps
1 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Management
1 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (20.00%) API Integration
2 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (20.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (20.00%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (20.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Automation
2 1 (20.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (20.00%) Migration
2 1 (20.00%) Performance Optimisation
2 1 (20.00%) Regulatory Compliance
2 1 (20.00%) Release Automation
2 1 (20.00%) Resource Management
2 1 (20.00%) Runbook
2 1 (20.00%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (20.00%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) Python
2 1 (20.00%) Go
2 1 (20.00%) Groovy
2 1 (20.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) CCNA
1 1 (20.00%) CCNP
1 1 (20.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (20.00%) Degree
1 1 (20.00%) JNCIA
1 1 (20.00%) JNCIS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) GDPR
1 1 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (20.00%) PCI DSS
1 1 (20.00%) SOC 2
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Veritas Cluster Server
1 1 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (100.00%) Ansible
2 2 (40.00%) Kubernetes
3 1 (20.00%) Control-M
3 1 (20.00%) Puppet
3 1 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Cisco
1 2 (40.00%) Red Hat
2 1 (20.00%) Arista
2 1 (20.00%) Databricks
2 1 (20.00%) Google
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) MuleSoft
2 1 (20.00%) VMware