Task Automation Contracts in the UK excluding London

Task Automation
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 29 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 185 254 359
Rank change year-on-year +69 +105 +10
Contract jobs citing Task Automation 156 147 74
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.21% 0.71% 0.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.34% 0.85% 0.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 86 112 54
10th Percentile £303 £406 £384
25th Percentile £402 £456 £486
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £551 £550
Median % change year-on-year -13.83% +0.23% +10.00%
75th Percentile £538 £645 £694
90th Percentile £600 £700 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £21.00 - £11.25
Median hourly rate £24.66 - £12.50
75th Percentile £65.00 - £13.75
90th Percentile £65.62 - -
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £23.80 £51.25
% change year-on-year +21.85% -53.56% -18.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,664 17,222 20,402
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.66% 83.58% 89.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,264 10,282 14,009
10th Percentile £235 £250 £260
25th Percentile £375 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +3.04%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £690
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 845 2,110 1,238
10th Percentile £13.83 £12.40 £10.63
25th Percentile £16.95 £15.39 £15.22
Median hourly rate £25.15 £38.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -33.82% +8.57% +75.00%
75th Percentile £60.63 £61.30 £64.63
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £36.50 £36.13
% change year-on-year -24.66% +1.04% +40.67%

Task Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Task Automation in the UK excluding London

Task Automation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Task Automation in the UK excluding London

Task Automation
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Task Automation in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 29 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Task Automation in the UK excluding London

Task Automation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Task Automation in the UK excluding London

Task Automation
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Task Automation in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 29 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Task Automation in the UK excluding London

Task 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 Task Automation within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 29 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
Scotland +42 42 £458 +7.65% 16
North of England +7 34 £475 - 56
East of England +50 24 £500 -2.44% 30
South West +24 23 £500 -24.53% 29
North West +17 23 £475 +2.70% 26
Midlands +17 18 £475 -17.39% 40
South East +17 17 £411 -17.90% 77
West Midlands +15 10 £500 -23.08% 28
Yorkshire -2 9 £463 -11.06% 19
East Midlands +12 8 £390 -13.14% 12
North East -3 2 £375 -18.92% 12
Task Automation
UK

Task 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 11 (7.05%) SharePoint
2 8 (5.13%) Confluence
3 7 (4.49%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (2.56%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 4 (2.56%) Oracle Workflow
4 4 (2.56%) WebLogic
5 2 (1.28%) CMS
5 2 (1.28%) SharePoint Server
6 1 (0.64%) Apache
6 1 (0.64%) IBM Domino
Applications
1 3 (1.92%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.64%) MadCap Flare
2 1 (0.64%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.64%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (2.56%) Oracle EBS
1 4 (2.56%) Oracle EBS R12
1 4 (2.56%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (1.28%) NetSuite
2 2 (1.28%) Workday HCM
3 1 (0.64%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.64%) SAP CO
3 1 (0.64%) SAP FI
3 1 (0.64%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 42 (26.92%) Azure
2 29 (18.59%) AWS
3 18 (11.54%) Cloud Computing
3 18 (11.54%) GCP
4 16 (10.26%) Microsoft 365
5 12 (7.69%) Amazon S3
6 11 (7.05%) OpenShift
7 8 (5.13%) Azure DevOps
7 8 (5.13%) GitHub
8 7 (4.49%) Entra ID
9 6 (3.85%) Cohesity
9 6 (3.85%) GitHub Actions
9 6 (3.85%) OCI
9 6 (3.85%) SaaS
10 5 (3.21%) Amazon EC2
11 4 (2.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 4 (2.56%) AWS CloudFormation
11 4 (2.56%) AWS Lambda
11 4 (2.56%) Serverless
12 3 (1.92%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 17 (10.90%) Firewall
2 10 (6.41%) DNS
3 9 (5.77%) Remote Desktop
4 8 (5.13%) NAS
4 8 (5.13%) SAN
5 7 (4.49%) Network Security
6 4 (2.56%) Intrusion Detection
7 3 (1.92%) TCP/IP
7 3 (1.92%) VPN
8 2 (1.28%) BGP
8 2 (1.28%) OSPF
8 2 (1.28%) VLAN
8 2 (1.28%) WAN
9 1 (0.64%) Cisco Nexus
9 1 (0.64%) DHCP
9 1 (0.64%) DWDM
9 1 (0.64%) LAN
9 1 (0.64%) PBX
9 1 (0.64%) SD-WAN
9 1 (0.64%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (9.62%) SQL Server
2 7 (4.49%) MongoDB
3 5 (3.21%) BigQuery
3 5 (3.21%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (3.21%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 4 (2.56%) Metadata
4 4 (2.56%) Oracle BI EE
5 3 (1.92%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (1.92%) Azure SQL Database
5 3 (1.92%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (1.92%) NoSQL
5 3 (1.92%) Relational Database
6 2 (1.28%) Big Data
6 2 (1.28%) Looker
6 2 (1.28%) Oracle Database
6 2 (1.28%) Power BI
6 2 (1.28%) Snowflake Schema
6 2 (1.28%) Star Schema
7 1 (0.64%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.64%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 24 (15.38%) Jenkins
2 22 (14.10%) Git
3 19 (12.18%) JIRA
4 11 (7.05%) GitLab
5 4 (2.56%) Cypress.io
5 4 (2.56%) ER Studio
5 4 (2.56%) SonarQube
6 3 (1.92%) CircleCI
6 3 (1.92%) Postman
7 2 (1.28%) Artifactory
7 2 (1.28%) Bitbucket
7 2 (1.28%) Chocolatey
7 2 (1.28%) JUnit
7 2 (1.28%) Selenium
8 1 (0.64%) Code Climate
8 1 (0.64%) JMeter
8 1 (0.64%) LoadRunner
8 1 (0.64%) Snyk
8 1 (0.64%) TestNG
8 1 (0.64%) Visual Studio
General
1 62 (39.74%) Social Skills
2 30 (19.23%) Analytical Skills
3 28 (17.95%) Finance
4 12 (7.69%) Banking
5 10 (6.41%) Investment Banking
6 9 (5.77%) Public Sector
7 5 (3.21%) Legal
8 3 (1.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.28%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.28%) Marketing
9 2 (1.28%) Military
9 2 (1.28%) Publishing
9 2 (1.28%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.64%) Back Office
10 1 (0.64%) Electronics
10 1 (0.64%) Law
10 1 (0.64%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.64%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 18 (11.54%) Senior
2 15 (9.62%) Administrator
3 13 (8.33%) Developer
4 11 (7.05%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
4 11 (7.05%) Python Engineer
5 10 (6.41%) DevOps Engineer
5 10 (6.41%) JavaScript Engineer
6 9 (5.77%) Analyst
7 8 (5.13%) DBA
8 7 (4.49%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 7 (4.49%) Service Desk Engineer
8 7 (4.49%) Software Engineer
9 6 (3.85%) Linux Engineer
9 6 (3.85%) Support Engineer
10 5 (3.21%) Consultant
10 5 (3.21%) Implementation Manager
10 5 (3.21%) Support Manager
10 5 (3.21%) Technical Manager
10 5 (3.21%) Technical Support
10 5 (3.21%) Technical Support Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (4.49%) .NET
2 5 (3.21%) Kafka
2 5 (3.21%) Node.js
2 5 (3.21%) RESTful
3 4 (2.56%) Playwright
3 4 (2.56%) React
4 3 (1.92%) GraphQL
4 3 (1.92%) LDAP
4 3 (1.92%) Puppeteer
4 3 (1.92%) X-Windows
5 2 (1.28%) Django
5 2 (1.28%) Loki
5 2 (1.28%) MACH
5 2 (1.28%) OAuth
6 1 (0.64%) ARM Templates
6 1 (0.64%) Blazor
6 1 (0.64%) GatsbyJS
6 1 (0.64%) Hugging Face
6 1 (0.64%) OpenAPI
6 1 (0.64%) Redfish
Miscellaneous
1 15 (9.62%) Management Information System
2 11 (7.05%) Distributed Systems
3 9 (5.77%) Device Driver
4 4 (2.56%) Cloud Native
4 4 (2.56%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (1.92%) Cyber Threat
5 3 (1.92%) Data Structures
5 3 (1.92%) Hybrid Cloud
5 3 (1.92%) Linux Command Line
6 2 (1.28%) Cyber Defence
6 2 (1.28%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.28%) Public Cloud
6 2 (1.28%) Security Posture
6 2 (1.28%) Virtual Team
7 1 (0.64%) Algorithms
7 1 (0.64%) Blog
7 1 (0.64%) CMDB
7 1 (0.64%) PKI
7 1 (0.64%) Social Media
7 1 (0.64%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 31 (19.87%) Windows
2 28 (17.95%) Linux
3 21 (13.46%) Unix
4 12 (7.69%) Windows Server
5 9 (5.77%) Mac OS
6 4 (2.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (2.56%) Windows 10
7 3 (1.92%) AIX
7 3 (1.92%) Solaris
8 2 (1.28%) Android
8 2 (1.28%) Apple iOS
8 2 (1.28%) CentOS
8 2 (1.28%) HPUX
8 2 (1.28%) Ubuntu
8 2 (1.28%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (1.28%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.64%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
9 1 (0.64%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (47.44%) Problem-Solving
2 45 (28.85%) CI/CD
3 30 (19.23%) DevOps
4 28 (17.95%) Agile
5 25 (16.03%) Containerisation
6 24 (15.38%) Disaster Recovery
7 22 (14.10%) High Availability
8 21 (13.46%) ITIL
9 20 (12.82%) Infrastructure as Code
9 20 (12.82%) Migration
9 20 (12.82%) Performance Tuning
10 19 (12.18%) Decision-Making
11 17 (10.90%) Artificial Intelligence
12 15 (9.62%) Configuration Management
12 15 (9.62%) Data Science
13 14 (8.97%) Customer Experience
13 14 (8.97%) Machine Learning
13 14 (8.97%) Risk Management
13 14 (8.97%) Test Automation
14 13 (8.33%) Capacity Planning
Programming Languages
1 86 (55.13%) Python
2 47 (30.13%) PowerShell
3 38 (24.36%) Bash
4 30 (19.23%) SQL
5 25 (16.03%) Java
6 19 (12.18%) JavaScript
7 15 (9.62%) TypeScript
8 14 (8.97%) Shell Script
9 13 (8.33%) Perl
10 7 (4.49%) C#
11 4 (2.56%) PL/SQL
12 3 (1.92%) Kusto Query Language
12 3 (1.92%) R
12 3 (1.92%) VB
13 2 (1.28%) Tcl
13 2 (1.28%) T-SQL
13 2 (1.28%) VBScript
14 1 (0.64%) AppleScript
14 1 (0.64%) C
14 1 (0.64%) PHP
Qualifications
1 32 (20.51%) Security Cleared
2 22 (14.10%) SC Cleared
3 13 (8.33%) Degree
3 13 (8.33%) Microsoft Certification
4 11 (7.05%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (5.13%) A+ Certification
6 6 (3.85%) DV Cleared
7 4 (2.56%) CCNA
7 4 (2.56%) Cisco Certification
8 3 (1.92%) Azure Certification
8 3 (1.92%) CCNP
9 2 (1.28%) AWS Certification
9 2 (1.28%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 2 (1.28%) MCP
9 2 (1.28%) MCSA
9 2 (1.28%) MCSE
10 1 (0.64%) ACSP
10 1 (0.64%) JNCIA
10 1 (0.64%) JNCIS
10 1 (0.64%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (3.85%) SLA
2 5 (3.21%) QA
3 4 (2.56%) Data Quality
4 3 (1.92%) Cyber Essentials
4 3 (1.92%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 2 (1.28%) Disclosure Scotland
5 2 (1.28%) GDPR
5 2 (1.28%) NCSC
6 1 (0.64%) IFRS
6 1 (0.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.64%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.64%) SOC 2
System Software
1 32 (20.51%) Docker
2 15 (9.62%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (8.33%) Active Directory
4 4 (2.56%) Hyper-V
4 4 (2.56%) Oracle RAC
5 3 (1.92%) Veritas Cluster Server
5 3 (1.92%) Virtual Servers
6 2 (1.28%) BitLocker
6 2 (1.28%) KVM
6 2 (1.28%) Microsoft App-V
6 2 (1.28%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (1.28%) vSphere
7 1 (0.64%) Firmware
7 1 (0.64%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.64%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 45 (28.85%) Kubernetes
2 44 (28.21%) Ansible
3 25 (16.03%) Terraform
4 11 (7.05%) Grafana
4 11 (7.05%) Prometheus
5 10 (6.41%) Oracle RMAN
6 8 (5.13%) Puppet
7 7 (4.49%) Progress Chef
8 6 (3.85%) Microsoft Intune
8 6 (3.85%) NetBackup
9 4 (2.56%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 4 (2.56%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
9 4 (2.56%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
9 4 (2.56%) Single Sign-On
10 3 (1.92%) Automic
10 3 (1.92%) Nagios
10 3 (1.92%) WMI
11 2 (1.28%) Jamf Pro
11 2 (1.28%) SCCM
11 2 (1.28%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 36 (23.08%) Microsoft
2 18 (11.54%) VMware
3 16 (10.26%) Google
4 14 (8.97%) Oracle
5 13 (8.33%) Red Hat
6 9 (5.77%) ServiceNow
7 8 (5.13%) Veritas
8 5 (3.21%) Databricks
8 5 (3.21%) NetApp
8 5 (3.21%) Splunk
9 4 (2.56%) Fortinet
10 3 (1.92%) PagerDuty
10 3 (1.92%) SAP
10 3 (1.92%) SolarWinds
11 2 (1.28%) Cisco
11 2 (1.28%) Dell
11 2 (1.28%) Dynatrace
11 2 (1.28%) Infoblox
11 2 (1.28%) Palo Alto
11 2 (1.28%) Synopsys