Task Automation Contracts

Task Automation
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 3 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 258 287 458
Rank change year-on-year +29 +171 +12
Contract jobs citing Task Automation 315 346 233
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.01% 0.80% 0.42%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.11% 0.93% 0.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 169 264 142
10th Percentile £306 £381 £363
25th Percentile £408 £454 £462
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £544 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.05% -1.14% -
75th Percentile £582 £675 £700
90th Percentile £679 £710 £749
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £520 £550
% change year-on-year -8.65% -5.45% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 3 1
10th Percentile £19.91 - -
25th Percentile £21.00 - -
Median hourly rate £29.50 £23.80 £90.00
Median % change year-on-year +23.95% -73.56% +44.00%
75th Percentile £65.25 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £23.33 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 28,438 37,047 49,962
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.78% 85.22% 89.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,912 23,635 34,414
10th Percentile £300 £300 £325
25th Percentile £405 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% -4.55% +1.38%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,399 2,530 1,711
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.75 £11.87
25th Percentile £17.44 £16.06 £16.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -32.93% +4.17% +38.46%
75th Percentile £53.75 £61.30 £64.81
90th Percentile £70.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.66 £38.12 £35.00
% change year-on-year -35.31% +8.91% +64.71%

Task Automation
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Task Automation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Task Automation in the UK

Task Automation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Task Automation in the UK

Task Automation
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Task Automation over the 6 months to 3 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Task Automation in the UK

Task Automation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Task Automation in the UK

Task Automation
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Task Automation over the 6 months to 3 July 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Task Automation in the UK

Task Automation
Top 16 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 3 July 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
England +3 242 £500 -9.09% 417
UK excluding London +15 143 £475 -8.65% 200
London +26 125 £505 -12.13% 246
Work from Home +24 106 £519 -5.73% 200
Scotland +33 41 £458 +11.04% 14
North of England -9 27 £475 +1.33% 42
East of England +43 23 £450 -12.20% 33
Midlands +13 18 £488 -6.25% 28
South West +8 18 £520 -25.71% 22
North West +8 15 £475 +2.70% 28
South East +6 13 £500 - 59
West Midlands +7 11 £500 -23.08% 13
Yorkshire -10 10 £400 -23.08% 11
East Midlands +3 7 £385 -14.25% 16
Wales +8 3 £263 -46.15% 3
North East -1 2 £375 -18.92% 3

Task Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 10 (3.17%) Confluence
2 9 (2.86%) SharePoint
3 6 (1.90%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (1.27%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 4 (1.27%) Oracle Workflow
4 4 (1.27%) WebLogic
5 3 (0.95%) Apache
6 2 (0.63%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.63%) CMS
6 2 (0.63%) OpenEdge
7 1 (0.32%) IBM Domino
7 1 (0.32%) IIS
7 1 (0.32%) OpenStack
Applications
1 9 (2.86%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.59%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.95%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.32%) AutoCAD
5 1 (0.32%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.32%) MadCap Flare
5 1 (0.32%) Siemens NX
5 1 (0.32%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (1.27%) Oracle EBS
1 4 (1.27%) Oracle EBS R12
1 4 (1.27%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (0.63%) NetSuite
2 2 (0.63%) Oracle Applications
2 2 (0.63%) SAP CO
2 2 (0.63%) SAP FI
2 2 (0.63%) SAP FI/CO
3 1 (0.32%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.32%) IBM Planning Analytics
3 1 (0.32%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.32%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.32%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 98 (31.11%) AWS
2 96 (30.48%) Azure
3 51 (16.19%) GCP
4 24 (7.62%) Amazon S3
5 22 (6.98%) Cloud Computing
5 22 (6.98%) GitHub
6 20 (6.35%) Microsoft 365
7 19 (6.03%) OpenShift
8 16 (5.08%) Amazon EC2
8 16 (5.08%) Entra ID
9 15 (4.76%) AWS Lambda
9 15 (4.76%) Serverless
10 14 (4.44%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 12 (3.81%) Azure DevOps
11 12 (3.81%) GitHub Actions
12 11 (3.49%) AWS CloudFormation
13 10 (3.17%) PaaS
13 10 (3.17%) Power Platform
14 9 (2.86%) Azure Logic Apps
15 7 (2.22%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 43 (13.65%) Firewall
2 23 (7.30%) DNS
3 17 (5.40%) VPN
4 15 (4.76%) Network Security
5 10 (3.17%) SAN
5 10 (3.17%) TCP/IP
6 9 (2.86%) DHCP
6 9 (2.86%) Remote Desktop
7 8 (2.54%) NAS
8 6 (1.90%) Cisco Nexus
9 5 (1.59%) SSL
9 5 (1.59%) VoIP
10 4 (1.27%) HTTP
10 4 (1.27%) PSTN
10 4 (1.27%) Software-Defined Networking
10 4 (1.27%) VLAN
10 4 (1.27%) VSAN
10 4 (1.27%) WAN
11 3 (0.95%) Cisco ASA
11 3 (0.95%) Cisco Firepower
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (5.71%) SQL Server
2 11 (3.49%) Data Warehouse
3 10 (3.17%) Oracle Database
3 10 (3.17%) Relational Database
4 9 (2.86%) Amazon RDS
4 9 (2.86%) NoSQL
5 8 (2.54%) BigQuery
5 8 (2.54%) PostgreSQL
6 7 (2.22%) Big Data
6 7 (2.22%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 6 (1.90%) MongoDB
7 6 (1.90%) Power BI
8 5 (1.59%) Amazon Redshift
8 5 (1.59%) Azure SQL Database
8 5 (1.59%) MySQL
9 4 (1.27%) DynamoDB
9 4 (1.27%) Oracle BI EE
10 3 (0.95%) RDBMS
10 3 (0.95%) Redis
10 3 (0.95%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 41 (13.02%) Git
1 41 (13.02%) Jenkins
2 31 (9.84%) GitLab
3 27 (8.57%) JIRA
4 10 (3.17%) Sonatype Nexus
5 6 (1.90%) CircleCI
5 6 (1.90%) Selenium
6 5 (1.59%) Cypress.io
6 5 (1.59%) SonarQube
7 4 (1.27%) Artifactory
7 4 (1.27%) ER Studio
7 4 (1.27%) Postman
8 3 (0.95%) Bitbucket
8 3 (0.95%) JUnit
8 3 (0.95%) TeamCity
8 3 (0.95%) TestNG
9 2 (0.63%) Appium
9 2 (0.63%) JMeter
9 2 (0.63%) LoadRunner
9 2 (0.63%) Subversion
General
1 95 (30.16%) Social Skills
2 66 (20.95%) Finance
3 58 (18.41%) Analytical Skills
4 33 (10.48%) Banking
5 22 (6.98%) Public Sector
6 15 (4.76%) Investment Banking
7 10 (3.17%) Manufacturing
7 10 (3.17%) Marketing
8 9 (2.86%) Documentation Skills
8 9 (2.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 9 (2.86%) Legal
9 8 (2.54%) Telecoms
10 7 (2.22%) Electronics
11 4 (1.27%) Law
12 3 (0.95%) Influencing Skills
12 3 (0.95%) Organisational Skills
13 2 (0.63%) German Language
13 2 (0.63%) Local Government
13 2 (0.63%) Military
13 2 (0.63%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 38 (12.06%) DevOps Engineer
2 30 (9.52%) Senior
3 29 (9.21%) Developer
4 18 (5.71%) Administrator
5 17 (5.40%) Analyst
6 15 (4.76%) DBA
7 14 (4.44%) AWS Engineer
7 14 (4.44%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 13 (4.13%) Python Engineer
9 12 (3.81%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 12 (3.81%) Consultant
9 12 (3.81%) Network Engineer
10 11 (3.49%) AWS DevOps
10 11 (3.49%) AWS Specialist
10 11 (3.49%) Data Engineer
10 11 (3.49%) Support Engineer
10 11 (3.49%) Windows Engineer
11 10 (3.17%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 10 (3.17%) IAM Specialist
11 10 (3.17%) JavaScript Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (3.81%) OAuth
1 12 (3.81%) RESTful
2 11 (3.49%) OpenID
2 11 (3.49%) SAML
3 10 (3.17%) .NET
3 10 (3.17%) Elastic Stack
3 10 (3.17%) SailPoint
4 8 (2.54%) Node.js
5 7 (2.22%) Kafka
5 7 (2.22%) LDAP
5 7 (2.22%) REST
6 6 (1.90%) React
6 6 (1.90%) YAML
7 5 (1.59%) ARM Templates
7 5 (1.59%) Flask
8 4 (1.27%) Loki
8 4 (1.27%) Playwright
8 4 (1.27%) Regular Expression
9 3 (0.95%) ADO
9 3 (0.95%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 19 (6.03%) Management Information System
2 15 (4.76%) Enterprise Software
3 13 (4.13%) Distributed Systems
4 9 (2.86%) Cyber Threat
4 9 (2.86%) Onboarding
5 8 (2.54%) Cloud Native
5 8 (2.54%) Data Structures
5 8 (2.54%) Device Driver
5 8 (2.54%) Replication
6 7 (2.22%) Clustering
6 7 (2.22%) Data Protection Act
7 6 (1.90%) Security Posture
8 5 (1.59%) Algorithms
8 5 (1.59%) Linux Command Line
8 5 (1.59%) Public Cloud
9 4 (1.27%) Analytical Mindset
9 4 (1.27%) Private Cloud
10 3 (0.95%) AI Agents
10 3 (0.95%) Legacy Code
10 3 (0.95%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 62 (19.68%) Linux
2 52 (16.51%) Windows
3 32 (10.16%) Unix
4 15 (4.76%) Windows Server
5 10 (3.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 8 (2.54%) Mac OS
7 7 (2.22%) Windows 10
8 4 (1.27%) CentOS
8 4 (1.27%) Solaris
9 2 (0.63%) Rocky
9 2 (0.63%) Ubuntu
9 2 (0.63%) VMS
10 1 (0.32%) AIX
10 1 (0.32%) Debian
10 1 (0.32%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
10 1 (0.32%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.32%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 113 (35.87%) Problem-Solving
2 102 (32.38%) CI/CD
3 87 (27.62%) DevOps
4 62 (19.68%) Containerisation
5 57 (18.10%) Infrastructure as Code
6 55 (17.46%) Agile
7 48 (15.24%) High Availability
8 40 (12.70%) Disaster Recovery
9 39 (12.38%) Migration
10 33 (10.48%) Configuration Management
11 30 (9.52%) Analytics
11 30 (9.52%) Test Automation
12 28 (8.89%) Data Protection
13 26 (8.25%) ITIL
13 26 (8.25%) Performance Tuning
14 25 (7.94%) Artificial Intelligence
15 24 (7.62%) Identity Access Management
16 23 (7.30%) Business Intelligence
16 23 (7.30%) Cloud Security
16 23 (7.30%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 187 (59.37%) Python
2 95 (30.16%) PowerShell
3 75 (23.81%) Bash
4 58 (18.41%) SQL
5 32 (10.16%) Java
6 26 (8.25%) JavaScript
7 20 (6.35%) Shell Script
8 19 (6.03%) Perl
9 16 (5.08%) TypeScript
10 12 (3.81%) C#
11 9 (2.86%) PL/SQL
12 6 (1.90%) Bicep
12 6 (1.90%) Kusto Query Language
13 5 (1.59%) T-SQL
14 4 (1.27%) VB
15 3 (0.95%) R
15 3 (0.95%) Tcl
16 2 (0.63%) AppleScript
16 2 (0.63%) Groovy
16 2 (0.63%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 54 (17.14%) Security Cleared
2 45 (14.29%) SC Cleared
3 28 (8.89%) Degree
4 16 (5.08%) Computer Science Degree
5 13 (4.13%) Microsoft Certification
6 9 (2.86%) AWS Certification
6 9 (2.86%) CCNP
6 9 (2.86%) Cisco Certification
7 7 (2.22%) A+ Certification
8 6 (1.90%) CCNA
8 6 (1.90%) DV Cleared
9 5 (1.59%) Azure Certification
10 3 (0.95%) JNCIA
10 3 (0.95%) JNCIS
11 2 (0.63%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 2 (0.63%) CISSP
11 2 (0.63%) GIAC
11 2 (0.63%) MCSE
11 2 (0.63%) OCP
11 2 (0.63%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (6.35%) GDPR
2 16 (5.08%) HIPAA
3 12 (3.81%) QA
4 11 (3.49%) Data Quality
5 10 (3.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 8 (2.54%) NIST
7 6 (1.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 5 (1.59%) PCI DSS
9 4 (1.27%) SOC 2
10 3 (0.95%) Cyber Essentials
10 3 (0.95%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 3 (0.95%) SLA
11 2 (0.63%) Actionable Recommendations
11 2 (0.63%) Disclosure Scotland
11 2 (0.63%) GRC
11 2 (0.63%) PMO
12 1 (0.32%) IFRS
System Software
1 59 (18.73%) Docker
2 24 (7.62%) VMware Infrastructure
3 20 (6.35%) Active Directory
4 7 (2.22%) Hyper-V
4 7 (2.22%) Oracle RAC
5 5 (1.59%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (1.27%) Firmware
6 4 (1.27%) Veritas Cluster Server
6 4 (1.27%) VMware ESXi
6 4 (1.27%) VMware NSX
7 3 (0.95%) Virtual Desktop
7 3 (0.95%) Virtual Servers
7 3 (0.95%) vSphere
8 2 (0.63%) NFS
8 2 (0.63%) Veritas File System
8 2 (0.63%) Veritas Volume Manager
9 1 (0.32%) Ceph
9 1 (0.32%) iptables
9 1 (0.32%) KVM
Systems Management
1 87 (27.62%) Ansible
2 74 (23.49%) Kubernetes
3 71 (22.54%) Terraform
4 27 (8.57%) Prometheus
5 26 (8.25%) Grafana
6 16 (5.08%) Oracle RMAN
7 14 (4.44%) Puppet
8 13 (4.13%) Single Sign-On
9 11 (3.49%) Progress Chef
10 10 (3.17%) NetBackup
11 7 (2.22%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
12 6 (1.90%) Microsoft Intune
13 4 (1.27%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
14 3 (0.95%) Automic
14 3 (0.95%) Control-M
14 3 (0.95%) Data Guard
14 3 (0.95%) SCCM
14 3 (0.95%) vCenter Server
14 3 (0.95%) WMI
15 2 (0.63%) Nagios
Vendors
1 65 (20.63%) Microsoft
2 33 (10.48%) Google
3 30 (9.52%) VMware
4 25 (7.94%) Oracle
5 18 (5.71%) Red Hat
6 16 (5.08%) ServiceNow
7 13 (4.13%) Veritas
8 11 (3.49%) Cisco
8 11 (3.49%) Ping Identity
8 11 (3.49%) SAP
8 11 (3.49%) Splunk
9 10 (3.17%) Okta
10 8 (2.54%) Databricks
11 7 (2.22%) CyberArk
11 7 (2.22%) F5
12 6 (1.90%) BeyondTrust
12 6 (1.90%) Fortinet
12 6 (1.90%) Infoblox
12 6 (1.90%) Palo Alto
12 6 (1.90%) Qualys