Task Automation Contract Job Trends in West Yorkshire

Task Automation
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in West Yorkshire requiring Task Automation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 75 64 75
Rank change year-on-year -11 +11 +38
Contract jobs citing Task Automation 12 5 4
As % of all contract jobs in West Yorkshire 1.31% 0.70% 0.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.52% 0.81% 0.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 5 4
10th Percentile £378 - £392
25th Percentile £383 £406 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £424 £413 £513
Median % change year-on-year +2.67% -19.51% -28.32%
75th Percentile £475 £419 £538
90th Percentile £483 - -
Yorkshire median daily rate £450 £413 £525
% change year-on-year +9.09% -21.43% -26.57%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Yorkshire

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 West Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 787 617 1,056
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 85.82% 86.78% 90.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 532 387 677
10th Percentile £288 £300 £313
25th Percentile £400 £384 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £513
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -7.32% -2.38%
75th Percentile £575 £564 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £700
Yorkshire median daily rate £482 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +1.47% -5.00% -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 22 13
10th Percentile £14.25 £15.27 £13.60
25th Percentile £15.59 £17.43 £16.92
Median hourly rate £22.14 £32.50 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -31.88% +71.05% -11.63%
75th Percentile £40.63 £40.81 £21.97
90th Percentile £81.25 £92.60 £29.42
Yorkshire median hourly rate £25.15 £21.75 £21.31
% change year-on-year +15.63% +2.06% +1.48%

Task Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Task Automation relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire.

Task Automation job vacancy trend in West Yorkshire

Task Automation
Daily Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing Task Automation.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing Task Automation

Task Automation
Daily Rate Histogram in West Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Task Automation in West Yorkshire over the 6 months to 17 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Task Automation in West Yorkshire

Task Automation
Contract Job Locations in West Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 17 December 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
Leeds -9 12 £424 +2.67% 1
Task Automation
Yorkshire

Task Automation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Yorkshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 9 (75.00%) AWS
2 8 (66.67%) Azure
2 8 (66.67%) GCP
3 2 (16.67%) GitHub
3 2 (16.67%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (8.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (8.33%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (8.33%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (8.33%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (8.33%) AWS CodePipeline
4 1 (8.33%) AWS KMS
4 1 (8.33%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (8.33%) AWS Step Functions
4 1 (8.33%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 8 (66.67%) Firewall
2 1 (8.33%) DNS
2 1 (8.33%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (66.67%) SQL Server
2 1 (8.33%) DynamoDB
2 1 (8.33%) MongoDB
2 1 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (8.33%) CircleCI
1 1 (8.33%) Git
1 1 (8.33%) GitLab
1 1 (8.33%) Jenkins
1 1 (8.33%) JIRA
1 1 (8.33%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 7 (58.33%) Banking
2 2 (16.67%) Social Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Finance
3 1 (8.33%) Law
3 1 (8.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (58.33%) NetBackup Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) IT Trainer
2 2 (16.67%) Microsoft Trainer
2 2 (16.67%) Trainer
2 2 (16.67%) Veritas Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) AWS DevOps
3 1 (8.33%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) AWS Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Backup Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Database Developer
3 1 (8.33%) Developer
3 1 (8.33%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (8.33%) AWS CDK
1 1 (8.33%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 1 (8.33%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 8 (66.67%) Linux
2 1 (8.33%) Unix
2 1 (8.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (66.67%) Containerisation
1 8 (66.67%) Disaster Recovery
2 7 (58.33%) Business Continuity
2 7 (58.33%) Business Strategy
2 7 (58.33%) Data Protection
2 7 (58.33%) RBAC
2 7 (58.33%) Security Monitoring
3 2 (16.67%) DevOps
3 2 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (16.67%) Observability
3 2 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (8.33%) Dashboard Development
4 1 (8.33%) Data Pipeline
4 1 (8.33%) Deployment Automation
4 1 (8.33%) DevSecOps
4 1 (8.33%) Event-Driven
4 1 (8.33%) Infrastructure Automation
4 1 (8.33%) Operational Stability
4 1 (8.33%) Regulatory Compliance
4 1 (8.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 10 (83.33%) Python
2 9 (75.00%) Bash
3 8 (66.67%) PowerShell
4 2 (16.67%) Kusto Query Language
4 2 (16.67%) SQL
5 1 (8.33%) Go
5 1 (8.33%) Java
5 1 (8.33%) Shell Script
5 1 (8.33%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (16.67%) MCT
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.33%) SLA
System Software
1 8 (66.67%) Docker
2 7 (58.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (58.33%) NetBackup
1 7 (58.33%) Oracle RMAN
2 2 (16.67%) Grafana
2 2 (16.67%) Terraform
3 1 (8.33%) Ansible
3 1 (8.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 8 (66.67%) Oracle
2 7 (58.33%) CyberArk
2 7 (58.33%) Google
2 7 (58.33%) Veritas
2 7 (58.33%) VMware
3 3 (25.00%) Microsoft
4 1 (8.33%) ServiceNow
4 1 (8.33%) Splunk