Task Automation Contracts in the Thames Valley

Task Automation
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 14 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 103 100 135
Rank change year-on-year -3 +35 +29
Contract jobs citing Task Automation 12 23 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.72% 0.99% 0.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.78% 1.17% 0.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 18 5
10th Percentile £398 £442 £448
25th Percentile £406 £464 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £508 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.96% +1.50% -4.76%
75th Percentile £539 £594 £550
90th Percentile £546 £633 £580
South East median daily rate £493 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.50% - -4.76%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 the Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,536 1,959 2,537
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 91.98% 84.62% 90.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 921 1,113 1,712
10th Percentile £300 £263 £308
25th Percentile £403 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £515
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% -0.97% +3.00%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £623
90th Percentile £675 £688 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £515 £518
% change year-on-year -2.91% -0.58% +3.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 110 115 85
10th Percentile £14.20 £14.50 £14.90
25th Percentile £15.12 £26.01 £24.50
Median hourly rate £24.00 £56.89 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -57.81% +13.77% +150.00%
75th Percentile £46.30 £67.25 £66.00
90th Percentile £77.75 £85.65 £75.50
South East median hourly rate £21.41 £57.35 £50.00
% change year-on-year -62.67% +14.70% +100.00%

Task Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing Task Automation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for Task Automation in the Thames Valley

Task Automation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Task Automation in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Task Automation in the Thames Valley

Task Automation
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Task Automation in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 14 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Task Automation in the Thames Valley

Task Automation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Task Automation in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for Task Automation in the Thames Valley

Task Automation
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 14 August 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
Berkshire +1 12 £493 +1.03% 8
Task Automation
South East

Task Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 (25.00%) Oracle SOA Suite
1 3 (25.00%) Oracle Workflow
1 3 (25.00%) WebLogic
2 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (8.33%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 3 (25.00%) Oracle EBS
1 3 (25.00%) Oracle EBS R12
1 3 (25.00%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 5 (41.67%) AWS
1 5 (41.67%) Azure
1 5 (41.67%) GCP
2 3 (25.00%) OCI
3 1 (8.33%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (8.33%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (25.00%) Oracle BI EE
2 2 (16.67%) Oracle Database
General
1 7 (58.33%) Social Skills
2 3 (25.00%) Legal
2 3 (25.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (25.00%) Analyst
1 3 (25.00%) DBA
1 3 (25.00%) Oracle DBA
1 3 (25.00%) Site Engineer
1 3 (25.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
1 3 (25.00%) SOC Analyst
2 2 (16.67%) Senior
3 1 (8.33%) Developer
3 1 (8.33%) Junior
3 1 (8.33%) Microsoft 365 Developer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (41.67%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (25.00%) Cyber Threat
2 3 (25.00%) Management Information System
2 3 (25.00%) Security Operations Centre
3 1 (8.33%) Onboarding
3 1 (8.33%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 3 (25.00%) Linux
1 3 (25.00%) Unix
1 3 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (66.67%) Disaster Recovery
2 7 (58.33%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (50.00%) High Availability
4 5 (41.67%) Business Continuity
4 5 (41.67%) CI/CD
4 5 (41.67%) Release Management
4 5 (41.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 3 (25.00%) Behavioural Analysis
5 3 (25.00%) Capacity Planning
5 3 (25.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
5 3 (25.00%) Data Privacy
5 3 (25.00%) Database Tuning
5 3 (25.00%) Forensic Analysis
5 3 (25.00%) Incident Response
5 3 (25.00%) Malware Analysis
5 3 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
5 3 (25.00%) Proactive Monitoring
5 3 (25.00%) Security Operations
5 3 (25.00%) SIEM
5 3 (25.00%) Threat Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 8 (66.67%) Python
2 5 (41.67%) Go
2 5 (41.67%) Java
3 4 (33.33%) PowerShell
4 3 (25.00%) Perl
4 3 (25.00%) PL/SQL
4 3 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (58.33%) Security Cleared
2 5 (41.67%) SC Cleared
3 3 (25.00%) CFCE
3 3 (25.00%) CISSP
3 3 (25.00%) GCFA
3 3 (25.00%) GCIA
3 3 (25.00%) GCIH
3 3 (25.00%) GIAC
4 1 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (8.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (25.00%) GDPR
1 3 (25.00%) HIPAA
1 3 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (25.00%) NIST
2 1 (8.33%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (25.00%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 5 (41.67%) Kubernetes
2 3 (25.00%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
2 3 (25.00%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
2 3 (25.00%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
2 3 (25.00%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 6 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (25.00%) ArcSight
2 3 (25.00%) CrowdStrike
2 3 (25.00%) LogRhythm
2 3 (25.00%) Oracle
2 3 (25.00%) Splunk