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 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 330 462 480
Rank change year-on-year +132 +18 +4
Contract jobs citing Task Automation 279 262 436
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.65% 0.44% 0.49%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.75% 0.49% 0.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 219 155 314
10th Percentile £381 £400 £400
25th Percentile £461 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - +10.00%
75th Percentile £675 £679 £650
90th Percentile £700 £745 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £550 £506
% change year-on-year - +8.64% +12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 2
10th Percentile - £19.13 £27.58
25th Percentile - £30.94 £35.90
Median hourly rate £23.80 £51.25 £51.14
Median % change year-on-year -53.56% +0.22% -7.02%
75th Percentile - £70.94 £67.51
90th Percentile - £82.38 £76.50
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 37,268 53,074 80,383
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.35% 89.85% 90.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,016 36,805 56,451
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
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% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,439 1,749 1,911
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.95 £35.80 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.42% +43.20% +2.04%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -6.98%

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 5 May 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 5 May 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 +137 245 £550 - 156
UK excluding London +117 128 £550 - 84
London +95 121 £550 +1.85% 83
Work from Home +100 97 £550 -6.38% 72
South West +46 37 £700 +27.27% 12
South East +47 33 £500 -3.85% 21
North of England +38 30 £475 -26.92% 19
Yorkshire +23 19 £498 -28.93% 4
Scotland +53 13 £446 +8.12% 6
Midlands +23 10 £650 +20.93% 12
West Midlands +23 9 £650 -10.34% 9
North West +28 7 £488 -2.50% 15
East of England +16 5 £513 -6.82% 12
North East +19 4 £463 -15.91%
Northern Ireland - 2 - - 4
East Midlands +13 1 £575 +9.52% 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 30 (10.75%) Confluence
2 15 (5.38%) SharePoint
3 8 (2.87%) Microsoft Exchange
4 5 (1.79%) nginx
5 3 (1.08%) Apache
5 3 (1.08%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.72%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.72%) IIS
7 1 (0.36%) Apache Solr
7 1 (0.36%) SharePoint 2010
7 1 (0.36%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 3 (1.08%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.72%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.36%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.36%) InfoPath
3 1 (0.36%) InVision
3 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.36%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.36%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 7 (2.51%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 84 (30.11%) Azure
2 52 (18.64%) AWS
3 36 (12.90%) GCP
4 30 (10.75%) GitHub
5 23 (8.24%) Microsoft 365
6 22 (7.89%) OpenShift
7 14 (5.02%) Entra ID
8 13 (4.66%) Azure DevOps
9 11 (3.94%) Power Platform
9 11 (3.94%) PowerApps
10 10 (3.58%) Apigee
11 9 (3.23%) Amazon ECS
11 9 (3.23%) Amazon EKS
11 9 (3.23%) Power Automate
12 8 (2.87%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 7 (2.51%) Kong
14 5 (1.79%) CloudFront
14 5 (1.79%) Datadog
14 5 (1.79%) WhatsApp
15 4 (1.43%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 27 (9.68%) DNS
2 19 (6.81%) VPN
3 15 (5.38%) Firewall
4 14 (5.02%) TCP/IP
5 12 (4.30%) Network Security
6 11 (3.94%) HTTP
7 9 (3.23%) DHCP
7 9 (3.23%) LAN
7 9 (3.23%) SAN
8 7 (2.51%) WAN
9 6 (2.15%) Software-Defined Networking
10 5 (1.79%) Cisco Nexus
10 5 (1.79%) IPv4
10 5 (1.79%) OSPF
10 5 (1.79%) VLAN
11 4 (1.43%) Fibre Channel
11 4 (1.43%) NAS
11 4 (1.43%) Remote Desktop
11 4 (1.43%) Wireless
12 3 (1.08%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (9.32%) PostgreSQL
2 22 (7.89%) MongoDB
3 21 (7.53%) SQL Server
4 14 (5.02%) Elasticsearch
5 10 (3.58%) Sybase ASE
6 9 (3.23%) MySQL
7 8 (2.87%) DB2
7 8 (2.87%) Relational Database
8 7 (2.51%) KDB
9 5 (1.79%) Amazon RDS
9 5 (1.79%) Power BI
9 5 (1.79%) RDBMS
10 3 (1.08%) Metadata
10 3 (1.08%) NoSQL
11 2 (0.72%) Redis
12 1 (0.36%) Azure SQL Database
12 1 (0.36%) Couchbase
12 1 (0.36%) InfluxDB
12 1 (0.36%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 1 (0.36%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 54 (19.35%) Jenkins
2 37 (13.26%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 36 (12.90%) Git
4 33 (11.83%) GitLab
5 31 (11.11%) JIRA
6 24 (8.60%) Bitbucket
7 9 (3.23%) Sonatype Nexus
8 8 (2.87%) Artifactory
9 7 (2.51%) NUnit
9 7 (2.51%) TeamCity
9 7 (2.51%) Visual Studio
10 6 (2.15%) CircleCI
10 6 (2.15%) Postman
10 6 (2.15%) Travis CI
11 4 (1.43%) Gradle
11 4 (1.43%) Maven
11 4 (1.43%) Selenium
12 3 (1.08%) Cucumber
12 3 (1.08%) Cypress.io
12 3 (1.08%) JUnit
General
1 92 (32.97%) Social Skills
2 51 (18.28%) Analytical Skills
3 39 (13.98%) Finance
4 19 (6.81%) Aerospace
5 13 (4.66%) Banking
6 11 (3.94%) Public Sector
6 11 (3.94%) Retail
7 5 (1.79%) Law
8 4 (1.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (1.43%) Investment Banking
8 4 (1.43%) Marketing
8 4 (1.43%) Telecoms
9 3 (1.08%) Advertising
9 3 (1.08%) Automotive
9 3 (1.08%) Electronics
9 3 (1.08%) Local Government
9 3 (1.08%) Manufacturing
10 2 (0.72%) Pharmaceutical
10 2 (0.72%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (0.72%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 44 (15.77%) Developer
2 38 (13.62%) DevOps Engineer
3 30 (10.75%) Senior
4 26 (9.32%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 25 (8.96%) Site Engineer
6 24 (8.60%) DBA
7 18 (6.45%) Administrator
8 17 (6.09%) Cloud Engineer
9 16 (5.73%) Python Engineer
10 13 (4.66%) Database Specialist
10 13 (4.66%) Security Engineer
11 12 (4.30%) Senior Developer
12 11 (3.94%) Automation Engineer
12 11 (3.94%) Azure Engineer
13 10 (3.58%) Analyst
13 10 (3.58%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 10 (3.58%) VMware Engineer
14 8 (2.87%) Applications Engineer
14 8 (2.87%) Sybase DBA
15 7 (2.51%) SQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (12.54%) .NET
2 24 (8.60%) .NET Core
3 20 (7.17%) Kafka
4 13 (4.66%) REST
5 11 (3.94%) XML
6 10 (3.58%) JSON
6 10 (3.58%) RabbitMQ
7 9 (3.23%) RESTful
8 8 (2.87%) AngularJS
8 8 (2.87%) CSS
8 8 (2.87%) Middleware
9 7 (2.51%) Elastic Stack
10 6 (2.15%) GraphQL
10 6 (2.15%) HTML
10 6 (2.15%) Playwright
10 6 (2.15%) SAML
10 6 (2.15%) YAML
11 5 (1.79%) Node.js
11 5 (1.79%) OAuth
11 5 (1.79%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 31 (11.11%) Replication
2 23 (8.24%) Linux Command Line
3 19 (6.81%) Cloud Native
4 17 (6.09%) Clustering
5 15 (5.38%) Data Structures
6 11 (3.94%) Algorithms
6 11 (3.94%) Distributed Systems
7 8 (2.87%) PKI
8 7 (2.51%) Data Centre
8 7 (2.51%) Fixed Income
9 6 (2.15%) Cyberattack
10 5 (1.79%) Data Protection Act
10 5 (1.79%) Public Cloud
11 4 (1.43%) CMDB
11 4 (1.43%) Hybrid Cloud
11 4 (1.43%) Management Information System
12 3 (1.08%) Security Posture
12 3 (1.08%) Taxonomies
13 2 (0.72%) Distributed Applications
13 2 (0.72%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 102 (36.56%) Linux
2 53 (19.00%) Windows
3 20 (7.17%) Unix
4 18 (6.45%) Windows Server
5 11 (3.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (2.15%) CentOS
6 6 (2.15%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.36%) VMS
7 1 (0.36%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (0.36%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.36%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 94 (33.69%) CI/CD
2 85 (30.47%) DevOps
3 72 (25.81%) Problem-Solving
4 64 (22.94%) Agile
5 39 (13.98%) Continuous Integration
6 38 (13.62%) Configuration Management
7 35 (12.54%) Deployment Automation
7 35 (12.54%) Disaster Recovery
8 34 (12.19%) Infrastructure as Code
9 33 (11.83%) OO
10 32 (11.47%) Migration
11 29 (10.39%) ITIL
11 29 (10.39%) Performance Tuning
11 29 (10.39%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 28 (10.04%) Containerisation
12 28 (10.04%) Infrastructure Automation
13 26 (9.32%) Incident Response
14 25 (8.96%) Microservices
14 25 (8.96%) OOP
15 24 (8.60%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 146 (52.33%) Python
2 105 (37.63%) PowerShell
3 59 (21.15%) Bash
4 37 (13.26%) SQL
5 26 (9.32%) Perl
6 25 (8.96%) Go
7 21 (7.53%) Java
8 18 (6.45%) JavaScript
9 15 (5.38%) Shell Script
10 10 (3.58%) C#
11 7 (2.51%) C++
11 7 (2.51%) T-SQL
11 7 (2.51%) TypeScript
12 4 (1.43%) Ruby
13 3 (1.08%) Groovy
13 3 (1.08%) PHP
14 2 (0.72%) Kusto Query Language
14 2 (0.72%) VB.NET
15 1 (0.36%) Bicep
15 1 (0.36%) C
Qualifications
1 64 (22.94%) Security Cleared
2 57 (20.43%) SC Cleared
3 33 (11.83%) Degree
4 14 (5.02%) Computer Science Degree
5 13 (4.66%) Microsoft Certification
6 9 (3.23%) MCSE
7 7 (2.51%) AWS Certification
8 6 (2.15%) Cisco Certification
9 5 (1.79%) CCNP
9 5 (1.79%) DV Cleared
10 4 (1.43%) CCNA
11 2 (0.72%) CCIE
11 2 (0.72%) RHCE
12 1 (0.36%) JNCIA
12 1 (0.36%) JNCIS
12 1 (0.36%) Linux+ Certification
12 1 (0.36%) LPIC
12 1 (0.36%) Network+ Certification
12 1 (0.36%) PRINCE2 Certification
12 1 (0.36%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (6.81%) QA
2 9 (3.23%) Accessibility
3 4 (1.43%) SLA
4 2 (0.72%) GDPR
5 1 (0.36%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.36%) NIST
5 1 (0.36%) PMO
System Software
1 41 (14.70%) Docker
2 40 (14.34%) Active Directory
3 34 (12.19%) VMware Infrastructure
4 15 (5.38%) vSphere
5 9 (3.23%) VMware NSX
6 8 (2.87%) Apache ZooKeeper
7 6 (2.15%) VMware ESXi
8 5 (1.79%) Hyper-V
9 4 (1.43%) Veritas Cluster Server
9 4 (1.43%) VMware Server
10 2 (0.72%) BitLocker
10 2 (0.72%) Microsoft App-V
11 1 (0.36%) Firmware
11 1 (0.36%) KVM
11 1 (0.36%) Virtual Machines
11 1 (0.36%) Virtual Servers
11 1 (0.36%) Xen
Systems Management
1 64 (22.94%) Ansible
2 56 (20.07%) Kubernetes
3 51 (18.28%) Terraform
4 31 (11.11%) Prometheus
5 28 (10.04%) Grafana
6 23 (8.24%) PowerCLI
7 18 (6.45%) Puppet
8 13 (4.66%) Kibana
8 13 (4.66%) Progress Chef
9 9 (3.23%) Consul
9 9 (3.23%) Istio
10 7 (2.51%) Argo
10 7 (2.51%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
11 6 (2.15%) Docker Swarm
11 6 (2.15%) logstash
11 6 (2.15%) Microsoft Intune
11 6 (2.15%) vCenter Server
12 4 (1.43%) SCCM
12 4 (1.43%) VxRail
13 3 (1.08%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 78 (27.96%) Microsoft
2 39 (13.98%) VMware
3 26 (9.32%) Dell
4 25 (8.96%) HP
5 23 (8.24%) Atlassian
6 16 (5.73%) Oracle
7 15 (5.38%) ServiceNow
7 15 (5.38%) Splunk
8 14 (5.02%) Red Hat
8 14 (5.02%) SolarWinds
9 13 (4.66%) SAP
10 10 (3.58%) Cisco
10 10 (3.58%) Google
10 10 (3.58%) IBM
10 10 (3.58%) Sybase
11 8 (2.87%) SaltStack
12 6 (2.15%) Blue Prism
12 6 (2.15%) CrowdStrike
12 6 (2.15%) UiPath
13 5 (1.79%) Veritas