Hyperautomation Contract Job Trends

Hyperautomation
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Hyperautomation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 589 525 -
Rank change year-on-year -64 - -
Contract jobs citing Hyperautomation 4 9 0
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.010% 0.029% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.012% 0.033% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £575 £650 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £700 -
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% - -
75th Percentile £625 £750 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median daily rate - - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

Hyperautomation 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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 34,716 27,671 39,074
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.89% 89.53% 87.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,993 16,979 25,588
10th Percentile £310 £306 £300
25th Percentile £409 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £638
90th Percentile £721 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £478 £495 £500
% change year-on-year -3.43% -1.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,102 844 2,136
10th Percentile £14.55 £15.62 £13.25
25th Percentile £17.87 £21.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £33.28
Median % change year-on-year -22.62% -2.35% -1.12%
75th Percentile £60.00 £63.75 £60.29
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £73.27
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £30.45 £35.00
% change year-on-year -17.41% -13.00% +7.69%

Hyperautomation
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Hyperautomation relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Hyperautomation job vacancy trend in the UK

Hyperautomation
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Hyperautomation.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Hyperautomation

Hyperautomation
Top 3 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Hyperautomation within the UK over the 6 months to 15 February 2026. 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
London -24 4 £600 -14.29%
England -85 4 £600 -14.29% 3
Work from Home -15 3 - - 2

Hyperautomation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) Azure
1 4 (100.00%) Azure Sentinel
1 4 (100.00%) GCP
2 3 (75.00%) Cloudflare
2 3 (75.00%) OpenDNS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (75.00%) Firewall
General
1 2 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Analyst
1 3 (75.00%) Operations Analyst
1 3 (75.00%) Security Analyst
1 3 (75.00%) Security Operations Analyst
1 3 (75.00%) SOC Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Security Operations Specialist
2 1 (25.00%) Security Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Security Operations Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 4 (100.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
1 4 (100.00%) Network Architecture
1 4 (100.00%) Security Operations
1 4 (100.00%) SIEM
1 4 (100.00%) SOAR
1 4 (100.00%) Zero Trust
2 3 (75.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (75.00%) Penetration Testing
3 2 (50.00%) Threat Detection
4 1 (25.00%) Cloud Security
4 1 (25.00%) Containerisation
4 1 (25.00%) Data Science
4 1 (25.00%) Information Security
4 1 (25.00%) Security Monitoring
4 1 (25.00%) Technical Analysis
4 1 (25.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Bash
1 4 (100.00%) Kusto Query Language
1 4 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 4 (100.00%) Python
System Software
1 4 (100.00%) Docker
2 3 (75.00%) Snort
2 3 (75.00%) Squid
Systems Management
1 4 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 3 (75.00%) Nessus
2 3 (75.00%) Nexpose
2 3 (75.00%) Suricata
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Carbon Black
1 4 (100.00%) CrowdStrike
1 4 (100.00%) Google
1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 4 (100.00%) Splunk
2 3 (75.00%) Blue Coat
2 3 (75.00%) Cisco
2 3 (75.00%) FireEye
2 3 (75.00%) Palo Alto
2 3 (75.00%) Qualys
2 3 (75.00%) Zscaler