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 29 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 89 104 112
Rank change year-on-year +15 +8 +46
Contract jobs citing Task Automation 10 10 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.72% 0.51% 0.49%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.81% 0.62% 0.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 8 8
10th Percentile £360 £299 £501
25th Percentile £438 £300 £530
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £650 £725
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% -10.34% +64.77%
75th Percentile £539 £675 £756
90th Percentile £555 - £813
England median daily rate £500 £553 £550
% change year-on-year -9.50% +0.45% -

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 1,232 1,619 1,967
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 88.70% 83.32% 88.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 801 1,082 1,334
10th Percentile £200 £271 £263
25th Percentile £375 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.40% -4.76% +6.06%
75th Percentile £582 £625 £609
90th Percentile £663 £750 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 61 117 50
10th Percentile £12.62 £11.10 £12.50
25th Percentile £13.78 £14.13 £13.87
Median hourly rate £19.00 £22.50 £21.69
Median % change year-on-year -15.56% +3.73% +28.92%
75th Percentile £29.33 £40.50 £28.75
90th Percentile £50.00 £58.75 £48.13
England median hourly rate £28.00 £37.18 £37.32
% change year-on-year -24.69% -0.38% +49.28%

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 29 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 29 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 - 24
Staffordshire +5 2 £550 - 32
Warwickshire - 2 £463 - 1
Worcestershire - 1 £525 - 17
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 2 (20.00%) Confluence
2 1 (10.00%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 2 (20.00%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 4 (40.00%) AWS
2 3 (30.00%) Amazon EC2
2 3 (30.00%) Amazon S3
2 3 (30.00%) Azure
3 2 (20.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 2 (20.00%) Amazon SQS
3 2 (20.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 2 (20.00%) AWS CodeCommit
3 2 (20.00%) AWS CodeDeploy
3 2 (20.00%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (20.00%) Boomi
3 2 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (20.00%) OCI
3 2 (20.00%) PaaS
3 2 (20.00%) SaaS
3 2 (20.00%) Serverless
4 1 (10.00%) Entra ID
4 1 (10.00%) GCP
4 1 (10.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (20.00%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (20.00%) Relational Database
2 1 (10.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 3 (30.00%) JIRA
2 1 (10.00%) GitLab
2 1 (10.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (10.00%) Snyk
2 1 (10.00%) SonarQube
General
1 5 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Finance
3 1 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (30.00%) Developer
1 3 (30.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) AWS Developer
2 2 (20.00%) Python Developer
2 2 (20.00%) Senior
2 2 (20.00%) Senior Developer
2 2 (20.00%) Senior Python Developer
2 2 (20.00%) Site Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Applications Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Automation Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Integration Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Lead
3 1 (10.00%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Operations Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Power Apps Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (20.00%) Django
1 2 (20.00%) MACH
2 1 (10.00%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (10.00%) SailPoint
2 1 (10.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) PKI
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (60.00%) Containerisation
1 6 (60.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 5 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 4 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (30.00%) Agile
4 3 (30.00%) API Integration
4 3 (30.00%) Computer Science
4 3 (30.00%) DevOps
4 3 (30.00%) Incident Response
4 3 (30.00%) Root Cause Analysis
4 3 (30.00%) SIEM
4 3 (30.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 2 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
5 2 (20.00%) CRM
5 2 (20.00%) Data Modelling
5 2 (20.00%) Data Pipeline
5 2 (20.00%) ETL
5 2 (20.00%) Load Testing
5 2 (20.00%) Regression Testing
5 2 (20.00%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 6 (60.00%) Python
2 4 (40.00%) Bash
3 2 (20.00%) Java
3 2 (20.00%) JavaScript
3 2 (20.00%) PowerShell
3 2 (20.00%) R
3 2 (20.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (30.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (30.00%) Degree
2 1 (10.00%) Azure Certification
2 1 (10.00%) DV Cleared
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 7 (70.00%) Docker
2 1 (10.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 7 (70.00%) Kubernetes
2 5 (50.00%) Ansible
2 5 (50.00%) Terraform
3 1 (10.00%) Argo
3 1 (10.00%) Grafana
3 1 (10.00%) Prometheus
3 1 (10.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 3 (30.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (20.00%) Oracle
3 1 (10.00%) BT
3 1 (10.00%) Okta
3 1 (10.00%) Red Hat