Office Automation Contracts in the UK excluding London

Office Automation
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Office Automation skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Office Automation over the 6 months leading up to 23 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 389 424 488
Rank change year-on-year +35 +64 -48
Contract jobs citing Office Automation 12 6 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.056% 0.026% 0.053%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.068% 0.030% 0.059%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 6 13
10th Percentile £196 - -
25th Percentile - - £158
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £200 £200 £160
Median % change year-on-year - +25.00% +18.52%
75th Percentile £202 - £163
90th Percentile £359 - -
UK median daily rate £200 £200 £160
% change year-on-year - +25.00% +18.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £17.25
Median hourly rate - - £17.50
75th Percentile - - £17.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - - £17.50
% change year-on-year - - -12.50%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Office 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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,630 20,207 27,140
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 82.67% 89.05% 89.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,358 13,864 18,970
10th Percentile £250 £260 £246
25th Percentile £375 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £490
Median % change year-on-year - +2.04% +8.89%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £586
90th Percentile £688 £694 £663
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,185 1,244 1,334
10th Percentile £12.50 £10.90 £12.49
25th Percentile £15.48 £15.21 £14.25
Median hourly rate £38.12 £34.90 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.23% +66.18% -
75th Percentile £61.30 £63.75 £47.96
90th Percentile £72.90 £75.00 £63.60
UK median hourly rate £37.00 £35.65 £26.00
% change year-on-year +3.79% +37.12% +13.04%

Office Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Office Automation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Office Automation in the UK excluding London

Office Automation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Office Automation in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Office Automation in the UK excluding London

Office Automation
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Office Automation in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 23 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Office Automation in the UK excluding London

Office Automation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Office Automation in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Office Automation in the UK excluding London

Office Automation
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Office Automation within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 23 June 2024. 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
South East +15 6 £200 - 1
South West - 5 £675 -
West Midlands - 1 £205 - 1
Midlands - 1 £205 - 2
Office Automation
UK

Office Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 4 (33.33%) Confluence
2 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (8.33%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 4 (33.33%) AWS
1 4 (33.33%) Azure
1 4 (33.33%) GCP
1 4 (33.33%) OpenShift
1 4 (33.33%) PaaS
2 1 (8.33%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (8.33%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 4 (33.33%) VPN
2 1 (8.33%) DHCP
2 1 (8.33%) DNS
2 1 (8.33%) Firewall
2 1 (8.33%) LAN
2 1 (8.33%) Skype
2 1 (8.33%) SMTP
2 1 (8.33%) TCP/IP
2 1 (8.33%) WAN
Development Applications
1 4 (33.33%) Bitbucket
1 4 (33.33%) JIRA
General
1 2 (16.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (8.33%) Marketing
2 1 (8.33%) Military
2 1 (8.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (50.00%) IT Support
2 5 (41.67%) IT Support Technician
2 5 (41.67%) IT Technician
2 5 (41.67%) Support Technician
3 4 (33.33%) Architect
3 4 (33.33%) Automation Architect
4 3 (25.00%) Office Automation Architect
5 1 (8.33%) IT Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) IT Support Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Service Desk Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Software Architect
5 1 (8.33%) Software Design Architect
5 1 (8.33%) Support Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Wintel Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (33.33%) .NET
1 4 (33.33%) .NET Framework
1 4 (33.33%) ModSecurity
Miscellaneous
1 5 (41.67%) PKI
2 4 (33.33%) Product Ownership
2 4 (33.33%) Public Cloud
2 4 (33.33%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 4 (33.33%) Linux
2 1 (8.33%) Windows
2 1 (8.33%) Windows 10
2 1 (8.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (41.67%) Agile
2 5 (41.67%) Project Management
3 4 (33.33%) Architectural Patterns
3 4 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence
3 4 (33.33%) Business Strategy
3 4 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 4 (33.33%) Computer Science
3 4 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 4 (33.33%) DevSecOps
3 4 (33.33%) GitOps
3 4 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 4 (33.33%) Infrastructure Automation
3 4 (33.33%) LLM
3 4 (33.33%) Machine Learning
3 4 (33.33%) NsoIT
3 4 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 4 (33.33%) Technology Strategy
3 4 (33.33%) TOGAF
3 4 (33.33%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 5 (41.67%) PowerShell
2 4 (33.33%) Python
3 1 (8.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (41.67%) Degree
1 5 (41.67%) SC Cleared
1 5 (41.67%) Security Cleared
2 4 (33.33%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.33%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (41.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (33.33%) Docker
2 4 (33.33%) VMware NSX
3 1 (8.33%) Active Directory
3 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Virtual Server
3 1 (8.33%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (8.33%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 5 (41.67%) OPNET
2 4 (33.33%) Ansible
2 4 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 4 (33.33%) PowerCLI
2 4 (33.33%) Terraform
3 1 (8.33%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (8.33%) SCCM
3 1 (8.33%) SCOM
Vendors
1 5 (41.67%) Microsoft
1 5 (41.67%) VMware
2 4 (33.33%) Atlassian
2 4 (33.33%) Cisco
2 4 (33.33%) Google
3 1 (8.33%) Remedy
3 1 (8.33%) SolarWinds