Task Automation Contract Job Trends in South Wales

Task Automation
Wales > South Wales

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South Wales requiring Task Automation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 35 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Task Automation 6 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in South Wales 1.69% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.10% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £256 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £263 - -
75th Percentile £438 - -
90th Percentile £516 - -
Wales median daily rate £263 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
South Wales

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 South Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 286 314 321
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Wales 80.34% 86.50% 89.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 196 182 244
10th Percentile £206 £167 £165
25th Percentile £289 £214 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £408 £413 £450
Median % change year-on-year -1.21% -8.33% -5.26%
75th Percentile £502 £550 £588
90th Percentile £606 £686 £650
Wales median daily rate £410 £425 £425
% change year-on-year -3.53% - -10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 42 24
10th Percentile £13.08 - £17.30
25th Percentile £15.11 £20.12 £21.32
Median hourly rate £19.19 £25.36 £26.58
Median % change year-on-year -24.33% -4.60% +33.21%
75th Percentile £25.53 £40.00 £52.81
90th Percentile £85.00 £48.75 £55.25
Wales median hourly rate £18.59 £25.36 £26.58
% change year-on-year -26.70% -4.60% +33.51%

Task Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

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

Task Automation job vacancy trend in South Wales

Task Automation
Daily Rate Trend in South Wales

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Wales citing Task Automation

Task Automation
Daily Rate Histogram in South Wales

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Task Automation in South Wales over the 6 months to 18 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Task Automation in South Wales

Task Automation
Contract Job Locations in South Wales

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 South Wales region over the 6 months to 18 December 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
Glamorgan - 4 £263 - 1
Cardiff - 2 £506 - 2
Task Automation
Wales

Task Automation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Wales 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 2 (33.33%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
1 2 (33.33%) Power Automate
1 2 (33.33%) Power Platform
1 2 (33.33%) PowerApps
2 1 (16.67%) Azure
2 1 (16.67%) Azure Functions
2 1 (16.67%) Azure Logic Apps
2 1 (16.67%) Entra ID
2 1 (16.67%) Serverless
Development Applications
1 4 (66.67%) Git
1 4 (66.67%) Jenkins
1 4 (66.67%) Sonatype Nexus
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) DevOps Engineer
1 4 (66.67%) Support Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Consultant
2 1 (16.67%) Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft 365 Consultant
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Consultant
2 1 (16.67%) Security Consultant
2 1 (16.67%) Security Technical Consultant
2 1 (16.67%) SharePoint Consultant
2 1 (16.67%) SharePoint Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Technical Consultant
2 1 (16.67%) Technical Security Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) REST
1 2 (33.33%) SPFx
2 1 (16.67%) React
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) CI/CD
1 4 (66.67%) DevOps
2 2 (33.33%) Workflow
3 1 (16.67%) B2B
3 1 (16.67%) Data Loss Prevention
3 1 (16.67%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) PowerShell
2 4 (66.67%) Bash
2 4 (66.67%) Python
3 1 (16.67%) TypeScript
System Software
1 4 (66.67%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 4 (66.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft