Task Automation Contract Job Trends in Wokingham

Task Automation
Berkshire > Wokingham

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Wokingham requiring Task Automation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 53 27 13
Rank change year-on-year -26 -14 -
Contract jobs citing Task Automation 11 3 10
As % of all contract jobs in Wokingham 2.46% 1.92% 10.99%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.91% 2.07% 11.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 2 9
10th Percentile £367 £479 £479
25th Percentile £369 £503 £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £563 £493
Median % change year-on-year -33.33% +14.10% -
75th Percentile £395 £628 £500
90th Percentile £424 £656 -
Berkshire median daily rate £430 £390 £500
% change year-on-year +10.19% -22.00% -21.26%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Wokingham

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 Wokingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 378 145 88
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wokingham 84.56% 92.95% 96.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 281 84 61
10th Percentile £268 £350 £310
25th Percentile £350 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £500 £491
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% +1.90% -6.54%
75th Percentile £500 £575 £575
90th Percentile £600 £675 £623
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -2.91%

Task Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Wokingham

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

Task Automation job vacancy trend in Wokingham

Task Automation
Daily Rate Trend in Wokingham

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Wokingham citing Task Automation

Task Automation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Wokingham 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:

Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (18.18%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 8 (72.73%) Azure
2 7 (63.64%) AWS
3 5 (45.45%) GCP
4 2 (18.18%) Entra ID
5 1 (9.09%) Azure AKS
5 1 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (9.09%) Azure Key Vault
5 1 (9.09%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (9.09%) OpenShift
5 1 (9.09%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (27.27%) Firewall
2 2 (18.18%) DHCP
2 2 (18.18%) DNS
2 2 (18.18%) LAN
2 2 (18.18%) NAS
2 2 (18.18%) SAN
2 2 (18.18%) SD-WAN
2 2 (18.18%) WAN
3 1 (9.09%) VPN
Development Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Git
1 1 (9.09%) Jenkins
1 1 (9.09%) JIRA
General
1 7 (63.64%) Social Skills
2 2 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (18.18%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (18.18%) Architect
1 2 (18.18%) Infrastructure Architect
2 1 (9.09%) Azure DevOps Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) Deployment Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) Platform Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) Site Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (18.18%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (45.45%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (18.18%) Analytical Mindset
2 2 (18.18%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 1 (9.09%) Linux
1 1 (9.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (90.91%) Problem-Solving
2 7 (63.64%) CI/CD
2 7 (63.64%) Disaster Recovery
2 7 (63.64%) High Availability
3 6 (54.55%) Business Continuity
3 6 (54.55%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 5 (45.45%) Release Management
5 3 (27.27%) DevOps
5 3 (27.27%) ITIL
5 3 (27.27%) Migration
5 3 (27.27%) Storage Management
6 2 (18.18%) Agile
6 2 (18.18%) Identity Access Management
6 2 (18.18%) Incident Management
6 2 (18.18%) Infrastructure as Code
6 2 (18.18%) Operations Management
6 2 (18.18%) Performance Monitoring
6 2 (18.18%) Proactive Management
6 2 (18.18%) Root Cause Analysis
6 2 (18.18%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 7 (63.64%) Python
2 5 (45.45%) Go
2 5 (45.45%) Java
3 1 (9.09%) Bash
3 1 (9.09%) Bicep
3 1 (9.09%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 6 (54.55%) Security Cleared
2 5 (45.45%) SC Cleared
3 1 (9.09%) Degree
3 1 (9.09%) PMI Certification
3 1 (9.09%) PMP
3 1 (9.09%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (18.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (18.18%) NIST
2 1 (9.09%) GDPR
System Software
1 2 (18.18%) Active Directory
1 2 (18.18%) Hyper-V
1 2 (18.18%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (9.09%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (63.64%) Kubernetes
2 2 (18.18%) BMC PATROL
3 1 (9.09%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (27.27%) ServiceNow
2 2 (18.18%) BMC
2 2 (18.18%) Remedy
2 2 (18.18%) VMware
3 1 (9.09%) Red Hat