Task Automation Contracts in South Yorkshire

Task Automation
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South Yorkshire 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 40 42 51
Rank change year-on-year +2 +9 +6
Contract jobs citing Task Automation 8 14 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 2.14% 3.06% 1.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.25% 3.42% 1.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 13 3
10th Percentile - £411 -
25th Percentile £470 £425 £625
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £520 £650
Median % change year-on-year +0.96% -20.00% +13.04%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £688
90th Percentile £645 £645 £695
Yorkshire median daily rate £498 £520 £700
% change year-on-year -4.33% -25.71% +40.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 356 409 494
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 95.44% 89.50% 93.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 230 245 322
10th Percentile £219 £316 £300
25th Percentile £385 £411 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -13.64% +10.00%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £663
90th Percentile £650 £650 £700
Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £475 £525
% change year-on-year - -9.52% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 14 38
10th Percentile - £10.90 -
25th Percentile £18.10 £12.64 £9.80
Median hourly rate £18.21 £17.62 £10.63
Median % change year-on-year +3.35% +65.71% -36.54%
75th Percentile £18.41 £23.75 -
90th Percentile £18.47 - -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £21.24 £13.50 £10.63
% change year-on-year +57.33% +27.00% -39.74%

Task Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Task Automation in South Yorkshire

Task Automation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Task Automation in South Yorkshire

Task Automation
Daily Rate Histogram in South Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Task Automation in South Yorkshire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Task Automation in South Yorkshire

Task Automation
Contract Job Locations in South Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 1 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
Sheffield 0 8 £525 +8.81% 7
Task Automation
Yorkshire

Task Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Yorkshire 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 3 (37.50%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (12.50%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 3 (37.50%) Microsoft 365
1 3 (37.50%) Power Automate
1 3 (37.50%) Power Platform
1 3 (37.50%) PowerApps
2 1 (12.50%) GCP
2 1 (12.50%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 2 (25.00%) Firewall
1 2 (25.00%) Network Security
2 1 (12.50%) Cisco Nexus
2 1 (12.50%) DNS
2 1 (12.50%) DWDM
2 1 (12.50%) LAN
2 1 (12.50%) SMTP
2 1 (12.50%) TCP/IP
2 1 (12.50%) VPN
2 1 (12.50%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Git
1 1 (12.50%) Jenkins
1 1 (12.50%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 5 (62.50%) Social Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Banking
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Developer
1 3 (37.50%) Microsoft 365 Developer
1 3 (37.50%) Software Developer
2 2 (25.00%) Network Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Automation Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Consultant
3 1 (12.50%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Power Platform Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Senior
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Architect
3 1 (12.50%) SharePoint Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (37.50%) CSS
1 3 (37.50%) HTML
1 3 (37.50%) React
1 3 (37.50%) SPFx
2 1 (12.50%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (12.50%) Mainframe
2 1 (12.50%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (25.00%) Linux
2 1 (12.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (12.50%) Unix
2 1 (12.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (37.50%) Web Development
2 2 (25.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (25.00%) Containerisation
2 2 (25.00%) Data Protection
2 2 (25.00%) DevOps
2 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure Management
2 2 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (12.50%) Analytics
3 1 (12.50%) Data Pipeline
3 1 (12.50%) Full-Stack Development
3 1 (12.50%) Identity Access Management
3 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Automation
3 1 (12.50%) Mentoring
3 1 (12.50%) Performance Optimisation
3 1 (12.50%) Regulatory Compliance
3 1 (12.50%) Release Automation
3 1 (12.50%) Runbook
3 1 (12.50%) Software Deployment
3 1 (12.50%) Systems Engineering
3 1 (12.50%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 4 (50.00%) PowerShell
2 3 (37.50%) JavaScript
2 3 (37.50%) Python
2 3 (37.50%) TypeScript
3 1 (12.50%) Bash
3 1 (12.50%) Go
3 1 (12.50%) Groovy
3 1 (12.50%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (12.50%) CCNA
1 1 (12.50%) CCNP
1 1 (12.50%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (12.50%) Degree
1 1 (12.50%) JNCIA
1 1 (12.50%) JNCIS
1 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) GDPR
1 1 (12.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (12.50%) PCI DSS
1 1 (12.50%) SOC 2
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (62.50%) Ansible
2 2 (25.00%) Kubernetes
3 1 (12.50%) Control-M
3 1 (12.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (25.00%) Cisco
3 1 (12.50%) Arista
3 1 (12.50%) Databricks
3 1 (12.50%) Google
3 1 (12.50%) Red Hat