Task Automation Contracts in the West Midlands

Task Automation
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 83 105 131
Rank change year-on-year +22 +26 +32
Contract jobs citing Task Automation 14 6 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 1.04% 0.31% 0.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.18% 0.37% 0.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 5 5
10th Percentile £399 - £495
25th Percentile £464 £625 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £650 £725
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% -10.34% +43.21%
75th Percentile £525 £675 £813
90th Percentile £545 - -
England median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

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 in the West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,188 1,636 2,114
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 88.33% 84.03% 88.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 786 1,083 1,452
10th Percentile £195 £275 £263
25th Percentile £381 £375 £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £512
Median % change year-on-year - -2.34% +5.03%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £600
90th Percentile £675 £750 £694
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 59 115 45
10th Percentile £12.62 £11.09 £12.20
25th Percentile £14.14 £14.00 £13.31
Median hourly rate £18.00 £22.50 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +26.98% +4.24%
75th Percentile £23.99 £41.13 £23.75
90th Percentile £38.19 £57.75 £51.25
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Task Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Task Automation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Task Automation in the West Midlands

Task Automation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Task Automation in the West Midlands

Task Automation
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Task Automation in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Task Automation in the West Midlands

Task Automation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Task Automation in the West Midlands

Task Automation
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 West Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Birmingham - 5 £475 - 3
Warwickshire - 4 £500 -
Coventry +6 3 £470 -27.69% 1
Staffordshire - 2 £550 - 8
Task Automation
England

Task Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 4 (28.57%) SharePoint
2 2 (14.29%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 2 (14.29%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 5 (35.71%) AWS
1 5 (35.71%) Microsoft 365
2 4 (28.57%) Azure
2 4 (28.57%) Power Automate
2 4 (28.57%) Power Platform
2 4 (28.57%) PowerApps
3 3 (21.43%) Amazon EC2
3 3 (21.43%) Amazon S3
4 2 (14.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 2 (14.29%) Amazon SQS
4 2 (14.29%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (14.29%) AWS CodeCommit
4 2 (14.29%) AWS CodeDeploy
4 2 (14.29%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (14.29%) Boomi
4 2 (14.29%) GCP
4 2 (14.29%) OCI
4 2 (14.29%) PaaS
4 2 (14.29%) SaaS
4 2 (14.29%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (28.57%) Relational Database
2 2 (14.29%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (14.29%) SQL Server
3 1 (7.14%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 3 (21.43%) JIRA
2 2 (14.29%) Git
3 1 (7.14%) Snyk
3 1 (7.14%) SonarQube
General
1 8 (57.14%) Social Skills
2 2 (14.29%) Finance
3 1 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (7.14%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 6 (42.86%) Developer
2 3 (21.43%) Lead
2 3 (21.43%) Microsoft 365 Developer
2 3 (21.43%) Software Developer
3 2 (14.29%) AWS Developer
3 2 (14.29%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Python Developer
3 2 (14.29%) Senior
3 2 (14.29%) Senior Developer
3 2 (14.29%) Senior Python Developer
3 2 (14.29%) Site Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Applications Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Integration Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Operations Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Power Platform Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Python Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) SharePoint Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (21.43%) CSS
1 3 (21.43%) HTML
1 3 (21.43%) React
1 3 (21.43%) SPFx
2 2 (14.29%) .NET
2 2 (14.29%) Django
2 2 (14.29%) MACH
3 1 (7.14%) SailPoint
3 1 (7.14%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (14.29%) Management Information System
2 1 (7.14%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 2 (14.29%) Linux
1 2 (14.29%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (42.86%) CI/CD
2 5 (35.71%) Agile
2 5 (35.71%) Computer Science
2 5 (35.71%) Containerisation
2 5 (35.71%) Infrastructure as Code
3 4 (28.57%) Continuous Integration
3 4 (28.57%) Microservices
3 4 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (28.57%) Software Delivery
4 3 (21.43%) API Integration
4 3 (21.43%) Incident Response
4 3 (21.43%) Root Cause Analysis
4 3 (21.43%) Scrum
4 3 (21.43%) SIEM
4 3 (21.43%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 3 (21.43%) Web Development
5 2 (14.29%) Change Management
5 2 (14.29%) Regression Testing
5 2 (14.29%) Service Management
5 2 (14.29%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 7 (50.00%) Python
2 5 (35.71%) JavaScript
2 5 (35.71%) PowerShell
3 3 (21.43%) Bash
3 3 (21.43%) TypeScript
4 2 (14.29%) Java
4 2 (14.29%) R
4 2 (14.29%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (35.71%) Degree
2 3 (21.43%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (14.29%) AWS Certification
3 2 (14.29%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (7.14%) Azure Certification
4 1 (7.14%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (7.14%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (14.29%) QA
System Software
1 8 (57.14%) Docker
2 1 (7.14%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 8 (57.14%) Kubernetes
2 4 (28.57%) Ansible
2 4 (28.57%) Terraform
3 1 (7.14%) Argo
Vendors
1 6 (42.86%) Microsoft
2 2 (14.29%) Oracle
3 1 (7.14%) BT
3 1 (7.14%) Okta
3 1 (7.14%) Red Hat