Task Automation Contracts

Task Automation
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Task Automation skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Task Automation over the 6 months to 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 331 433 468
Rank change year-on-year +102 +35 -4
Contract jobs citing Task Automation 267 280 439
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.61% 0.47% 0.49%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.71% 0.52% 0.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 208 163 314
10th Percentile £396 £390 £400
25th Percentile £463 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - +11.11%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £650
90th Percentile £700 £748 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £553 £550 £500
% change year-on-year +0.45% +10.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 3
10th Percentile - £19.13 -
25th Percentile - £30.94 £22.03
Median hourly rate £23.80 £51.25 £22.28
Median % change year-on-year -53.56% +130.03% -59.49%
75th Percentile - £70.94 £52.52
90th Percentile - £82.38 £70.51
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £12.50 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Task Automation is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,600 53,916 80,351
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.32% 89.91% 90.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,240 37,368 56,382
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,433 1,775 1,932
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.41% +48.00% -
75th Percentile £59.50 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £36.50 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +4.29% +75.00% -8.34%

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 26 April 2024.

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
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 26 April 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
England +112 233 £551 +0.23% 136
UK excluding London +110 121 £553 +0.45% 83
London +80 117 £557 +1.18% 69
Work from Home +77 92 £550 -8.33% 57
South West +42 36 £700 +27.27% 15
South East +48 33 £500 -14.89% 19
North of England +26 27 £488 -15.22% 13
Yorkshire +20 16 £520 -25.71% 2
Scotland +45 14 £446 +8.12% 6
Midlands +20 7 £650 +23.81% 11
North West +18 7 £400 -20.00% 11
West Midlands +29 6 £650 -10.34% 7
North East +22 4 £463 -15.91%
East of England +11 4 £513 -6.82% 14
Northern Ireland - 2 - - 3
East Midlands +16 1 £575 +9.52% 4

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 29 (10.86%) Confluence
2 14 (5.24%) SharePoint
3 8 (3.00%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (1.50%) nginx
5 2 (0.75%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.75%) IIS
6 1 (0.37%) Apache Solr
Applications
1 3 (1.12%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.75%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.37%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.37%) InVision
3 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.37%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.37%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 7 (2.62%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 81 (30.34%) Azure
2 50 (18.73%) AWS
3 34 (12.73%) GCP
4 29 (10.86%) GitHub
5 23 (8.61%) Microsoft 365
6 21 (7.87%) OpenShift
7 15 (5.62%) Entra ID
8 12 (4.49%) Azure DevOps
9 10 (3.75%) Apigee
9 10 (3.75%) Power Platform
9 10 (3.75%) PowerApps
10 8 (3.00%) Amazon ECS
10 8 (3.00%) Amazon EKS
10 8 (3.00%) Power Automate
11 7 (2.62%) Kong
12 5 (1.87%) CloudFront
12 5 (1.87%) Datadog
12 5 (1.87%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 4 (1.50%) OneDrive
13 4 (1.50%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 27 (10.11%) DNS
2 19 (7.12%) VPN
3 16 (5.99%) Firewall
4 15 (5.62%) TCP/IP
5 13 (4.87%) Network Security
6 10 (3.75%) HTTP
7 8 (3.00%) DHCP
8 6 (2.25%) LAN
8 6 (2.25%) SAN
8 6 (2.25%) Software-Defined Networking
9 5 (1.87%) Cisco Nexus
9 5 (1.87%) IPv4
9 5 (1.87%) OSPF
9 5 (1.87%) VLAN
10 4 (1.50%) NAS
10 4 (1.50%) WAN
10 4 (1.50%) Wireless
11 3 (1.12%) Cisco ASA
11 3 (1.12%) DKIM
11 3 (1.12%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (10.11%) PostgreSQL
2 22 (8.24%) MongoDB
3 21 (7.87%) SQL Server
4 14 (5.24%) Elasticsearch
5 10 (3.75%) Sybase ASE
6 9 (3.37%) Relational Database
7 8 (3.00%) DB2
8 6 (2.25%) KDB
8 6 (2.25%) MySQL
9 5 (1.87%) Power BI
9 5 (1.87%) RDBMS
10 3 (1.12%) Metadata
10 3 (1.12%) NoSQL
11 2 (0.75%) Amazon RDS
11 2 (0.75%) Redis
12 1 (0.37%) BigQuery
12 1 (0.37%) Couchbase
12 1 (0.37%) Data Lake
12 1 (0.37%) Flink
12 1 (0.37%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 54 (20.22%) Jenkins
2 36 (13.48%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 32 (11.99%) Git
4 31 (11.61%) GitLab
5 29 (10.86%) JIRA
6 24 (8.99%) Bitbucket
7 9 (3.37%) Sonatype Nexus
8 8 (3.00%) Artifactory
9 7 (2.62%) TeamCity
10 6 (2.25%) CircleCI
10 6 (2.25%) NUnit
10 6 (2.25%) Travis CI
11 5 (1.87%) Postman
11 5 (1.87%) Visual Studio
12 4 (1.50%) Gradle
12 4 (1.50%) Maven
12 4 (1.50%) Selenium
13 3 (1.12%) InstallShield
13 3 (1.12%) JUnit
13 3 (1.12%) MSI
General
1 87 (32.58%) Social Skills
2 51 (19.10%) Analytical Skills
3 39 (14.61%) Finance
4 19 (7.12%) Aerospace
5 14 (5.24%) Banking
6 12 (4.49%) Public Sector
7 11 (4.12%) Retail
8 5 (1.87%) Investment Banking
8 5 (1.87%) Law
9 4 (1.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (1.50%) Marketing
10 3 (1.12%) Advertising
10 3 (1.12%) Automotive
10 3 (1.12%) Electronics
10 3 (1.12%) Local Government
10 3 (1.12%) Manufacturing
10 3 (1.12%) Telecoms
11 2 (0.75%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (0.75%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (0.75%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 39 (14.61%) Developer
1 39 (14.61%) DevOps Engineer
2 27 (10.11%) Senior
3 26 (9.74%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 25 (9.36%) Site Engineer
5 24 (8.99%) DBA
6 16 (5.99%) Python Engineer
7 15 (5.62%) Administrator
8 14 (5.24%) Cloud Engineer
9 13 (4.87%) Database Specialist
9 13 (4.87%) Security Engineer
10 11 (4.12%) Analyst
10 11 (4.12%) Azure Engineer
10 11 (4.12%) Senior Developer
11 10 (3.75%) Automation Engineer
11 10 (3.75%) VMware Engineer
12 8 (3.00%) Applications Engineer
12 8 (3.00%) Sybase DBA
13 7 (2.62%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 7 (2.62%) SQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (12.36%) .NET
2 24 (8.99%) .NET Core
3 20 (7.49%) Kafka
4 12 (4.49%) REST
5 10 (3.75%) RabbitMQ
6 9 (3.37%) RESTful
6 9 (3.37%) XML
7 8 (3.00%) JSON
7 8 (3.00%) Middleware
8 7 (2.62%) Elastic Stack
9 6 (2.25%) CSS
9 6 (2.25%) SAML
9 6 (2.25%) YAML
10 5 (1.87%) AngularJS
10 5 (1.87%) GraphQL
10 5 (1.87%) OAuth
10 5 (1.87%) OAuth2
10 5 (1.87%) Playwright
11 4 (1.50%) HTML
11 4 (1.50%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 32 (11.99%) Replication
2 22 (8.24%) Linux Command Line
3 19 (7.12%) Cloud Native
4 17 (6.37%) Clustering
5 15 (5.62%) Data Structures
6 11 (4.12%) Distributed Systems
7 10 (3.75%) Algorithms
8 7 (2.62%) Data Centre
9 6 (2.25%) Cyberattack
9 6 (2.25%) Fixed Income
10 5 (1.87%) Data Protection Act
10 5 (1.87%) Management Information System
10 5 (1.87%) PKI
10 5 (1.87%) Public Cloud
11 4 (1.50%) Hybrid Cloud
11 4 (1.50%) Security Posture
12 3 (1.12%) CMDB
12 3 (1.12%) Taxonomies
13 2 (0.75%) Life Science
13 2 (0.75%) Media Streaming
Operating Systems
1 100 (37.45%) Linux
2 51 (19.10%) Windows
3 20 (7.49%) Unix
4 16 (5.99%) Windows Server
5 9 (3.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (1.12%) CentOS
6 3 (1.12%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.37%) VMS
7 1 (0.37%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (0.37%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.37%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 88 (32.96%) CI/CD
2 84 (31.46%) DevOps
3 69 (25.84%) Problem-Solving
4 62 (23.22%) Agile
5 40 (14.98%) Configuration Management
6 38 (14.23%) Continuous Integration
7 36 (13.48%) Deployment Automation
7 36 (13.48%) Disaster Recovery
8 34 (12.73%) Infrastructure as Code
9 33 (12.36%) OO
10 31 (11.61%) ITIL
11 30 (11.24%) Migration
12 29 (10.86%) Containerisation
12 29 (10.86%) Performance Tuning
12 29 (10.86%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 28 (10.49%) Infrastructure Automation
14 25 (9.36%) Incident Response
14 25 (9.36%) Microservices
14 25 (9.36%) OOP
15 23 (8.61%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 140 (52.43%) Python
2 103 (38.58%) PowerShell
3 51 (19.10%) Bash
4 34 (12.73%) SQL
5 25 (9.36%) Perl
6 24 (8.99%) Go
7 21 (7.87%) Java
8 16 (5.99%) Shell Script
9 15 (5.62%) JavaScript
10 9 (3.37%) C#
11 7 (2.62%) C++
11 7 (2.62%) T-SQL
12 6 (2.25%) TypeScript
13 4 (1.50%) Ruby
14 3 (1.12%) Groovy
14 3 (1.12%) PHP
15 2 (0.75%) Kusto Query Language
15 2 (0.75%) VB.NET
16 1 (0.37%) Bicep
16 1 (0.37%) C
Qualifications
1 64 (23.97%) Security Cleared
2 56 (20.97%) SC Cleared
3 30 (11.24%) Degree
4 14 (5.24%) Computer Science Degree
5 13 (4.87%) Microsoft Certification
6 9 (3.37%) MCSE
7 8 (3.00%) AWS Certification
8 7 (2.62%) Cisco Certification
9 6 (2.25%) DV Cleared
10 5 (1.87%) CCNA
10 5 (1.87%) CCNP
11 2 (0.75%) CCIE
11 2 (0.75%) Network+ Certification
11 2 (0.75%) RHCE
12 1 (0.37%) GIAC
12 1 (0.37%) JNCIA
12 1 (0.37%) JNCIS
12 1 (0.37%) Linux+ Certification
12 1 (0.37%) LPIC
12 1 (0.37%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (7.12%) QA
2 8 (3.00%) Accessibility
3 4 (1.50%) SLA
4 2 (0.75%) GDPR
5 1 (0.37%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.37%) NIST
5 1 (0.37%) PMO
System Software
1 40 (14.98%) Docker
2 37 (13.86%) Active Directory
3 32 (11.99%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (4.87%) vSphere
5 8 (3.00%) Apache ZooKeeper
6 7 (2.62%) VMware NSX
7 5 (1.87%) Hyper-V
8 4 (1.50%) Veritas Cluster Server
9 3 (1.12%) VMware ESXi
10 2 (0.75%) BitLocker
10 2 (0.75%) Microsoft App-V
11 1 (0.37%) Firmware
11 1 (0.37%) KVM
11 1 (0.37%) Virtual Machines
11 1 (0.37%) Virtual Servers
11 1 (0.37%) VMware Server
11 1 (0.37%) Xen
Systems Management
1 65 (24.34%) Ansible
2 55 (20.60%) Kubernetes
3 50 (18.73%) Terraform
4 31 (11.61%) Prometheus
5 28 (10.49%) Grafana
6 23 (8.61%) PowerCLI
7 18 (6.74%) Puppet
8 13 (4.87%) Kibana
8 13 (4.87%) Progress Chef
9 9 (3.37%) Istio
10 8 (3.00%) Consul
11 7 (2.62%) Argo
11 7 (2.62%) Microsoft Intune
11 7 (2.62%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
12 6 (2.25%) Docker Swarm
12 6 (2.25%) logstash
13 5 (1.87%) SCCM
14 4 (1.50%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 4 (1.50%) VxRail
15 3 (1.12%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 74 (27.72%) Microsoft
2 37 (13.86%) VMware
3 25 (9.36%) Dell
3 25 (9.36%) HP
4 23 (8.61%) Atlassian
5 16 (5.99%) Oracle
6 15 (5.62%) Red Hat
6 15 (5.62%) SolarWinds
6 15 (5.62%) Splunk
7 14 (5.24%) ServiceNow
8 12 (4.49%) SAP
9 10 (3.75%) Cisco
9 10 (3.75%) IBM
9 10 (3.75%) Sybase
10 9 (3.37%) Google
11 8 (3.00%) SaltStack
12 6 (2.25%) Blue Prism
12 6 (2.25%) CrowdStrike
12 6 (2.25%) UiPath
13 5 (1.87%) Veritas