Task Automation Contracts in South Wales

Task Automation
Wales > South Wales

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South Wales 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 24 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 30 42 -
Rank change year-on-year +12 - -
Contract jobs citing Task Automation 2 1 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Wales 0.84% 0.29% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.92% 0.38% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £256 £469 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £263 £488 -
Median % change year-on-year -46.15% - -
75th Percentile £269 £506 -
90th Percentile - - -
Wales median daily rate £263 £488 -
% change year-on-year -46.15% - -

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 217 263 393
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Wales 91.18% 75.14% 88.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 151 172 300
10th Percentile £190 £143 £190
25th Percentile £289 £261 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% -10.00% -
75th Percentile £488 £553 £588
90th Percentile £625 £625 £650
Wales median daily rate £400 £488 £500
% change year-on-year -17.95% -2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 30 25
10th Percentile £12.99 £11.69 £16.52
25th Percentile £14.23 £15.48 £16.98
Median hourly rate £16.00 £20.24 £19.49
Median % change year-on-year -20.93% +3.82% -3.71%
75th Percentile £28.13 £49.50 £23.75
90th Percentile £45.00 £86.18 £49.50
Wales median hourly rate £22.50 £20.24 £18.82
% change year-on-year +11.19% +7.55% -6.49%

Task Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for Task Automation in South Wales

Task Automation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South Wales

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

Daily rate trend 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 24 June 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 - 2 £263 - 2
Task Automation
Wales

Task Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Wales 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:

Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Git
1 2 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (100.00%) Sonatype Nexus
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Support Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Bash
1 2 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 2 (100.00%) Python
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform