Office Automation Contract Job Trends

Office Automation
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Office Automation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 557 551 636
Rank change year-on-year -6 +85 +167
Contract jobs citing Office Automation 1 7 1
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.003% 0.019% 0.002%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.003% 0.022% 0.002%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 0
10th Percentile - £187 -
25th Percentile £413 £189 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £198 -
Median % change year-on-year +115.19% - -
75th Percentile £438 £204 -
90th Percentile - £206 -
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £198 -
% change year-on-year +115.19% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Median hourly rate - £20.00 £24.97
Median % change year-on-year - -19.90% -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 30,906 31,244 41,572
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.14% 86.04% 88.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 19,304 18,785 28,083
10th Percentile £297 £310 £311
25th Percentile £404 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £535
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -1.87% -2.73%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £738 £745
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,997 1,107 1,583
10th Percentile £14.39 £15.02 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.45 £20.00 £18.94
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.36 £44.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.87% -19.64% +25.71%
75th Percentile £43.20 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £67.00 £73.75 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.63 £35.00 £43.95
% change year-on-year -35.34% -20.36% +51.55%

Office Automation
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Office Automation job vacancy trend in the UK

Office Automation
Daily Rate Trend

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Office Automation

Office Automation
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Office Automation.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Office Automation

Office Automation
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 Office Automation within the UK over the 6 months to 3 November 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
South West +7 1 £425 -
England -22 1 £425 +115.19% 1
UK excluding London -33 1 £425 +115.19% 2

Office Automation
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:

Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Remedy ITSM
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Skype
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Service Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Service Desk Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Management
1 1 (100.00%) ITSM
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Office Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Operations Management
1 1 (100.00%) Service Management
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Remedy