Task Automation Contracts with Work from Home Options

Task Automation
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 244 345 383
Rank change year-on-year +101 +38 -11
Contract jobs citing Task Automation 97 123 245
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.64% 0.49% 0.56%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.73% 0.55% 0.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 73 63 182
10th Percentile £405 £425 £391
25th Percentile £500 £495 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £588 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.38% +6.82% +18.41%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £638
90th Percentile £700 £770 £700
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - +11.11%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,268 22,513 39,948
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 88.01% 89.73% 91.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,896 15,904 28,997
10th Percentile £325 £363 £362
25th Percentile £425 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £630
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 573 519 530
10th Percentile £15.03 £18.63 £13.73
25th Percentile £25.50 £30.00 £20.06
Median hourly rate £43.00 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.82% +57.14% +41.16%
75th Percentile £60.00 £68.75 £55.63
90th Percentile £75.20 £80.25 £67.50
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.18
% change year-on-year +1.39% +42.97% +2.78%

Task Automation
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Task Automation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Task Automation trend for jobs with a WFH option

Task Automation
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Task Automation.

Task Automation daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Task Automation
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Task Automation over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Task Automation daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Task Automation
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Task Automation.

Task Automation hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Task Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 5 (5.15%) Confluence
2 3 (3.09%) SharePoint
3 2 (2.06%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (1.03%) Apache Solr
4 1 (1.03%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (1.03%) Chatbot
1 1 (1.03%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 37 (38.14%) Azure
2 19 (19.59%) AWS
3 13 (13.40%) GCP
4 10 (10.31%) GitHub
5 8 (8.25%) Entra ID
6 7 (7.22%) Amazon ECS
6 7 (7.22%) Amazon EKS
6 7 (7.22%) Microsoft 365
6 7 (7.22%) OpenShift
7 5 (5.15%) CloudFront
7 5 (5.15%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 4 (4.12%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (4.12%) Power Platform
8 4 (4.12%) PowerApps
9 3 (3.09%) Azure Monitor
9 3 (3.09%) Kong
9 3 (3.09%) Power Automate
10 2 (2.06%) Apigee
10 2 (2.06%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 2 (2.06%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 10 (10.31%) DNS
2 7 (7.22%) VPN
3 6 (6.19%) HTTP
3 6 (6.19%) Network Security
3 6 (6.19%) TCP/IP
4 4 (4.12%) Firewall
5 2 (2.06%) Cisco Nexus
5 2 (2.06%) DHCP
5 2 (2.06%) Reverse Proxy
5 2 (2.06%) Software-Defined Networking
6 1 (1.03%) Fibre Channel
6 1 (1.03%) IPv4
6 1 (1.03%) LAN
6 1 (1.03%) Remote Desktop
6 1 (1.03%) SAN
6 1 (1.03%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (12.37%) MongoDB
2 8 (8.25%) SQL Server
3 4 (4.12%) Elasticsearch
4 3 (3.09%) Sybase ASE
5 2 (2.06%) DB2
5 2 (2.06%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (2.06%) Power BI
5 2 (2.06%) Redis
5 2 (2.06%) Relational Database
6 1 (1.03%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (1.03%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (1.03%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (1.03%) BigQuery
6 1 (1.03%) Couchbase
6 1 (1.03%) Metadata
6 1 (1.03%) MySQL
6 1 (1.03%) NoSQL
6 1 (1.03%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 1 (1.03%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (1.03%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 16 (16.49%) Git
2 14 (14.43%) Jenkins
3 13 (13.40%) GitLab
4 11 (11.34%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 5 (5.15%) JIRA
5 5 (5.15%) Sonatype Nexus
6 4 (4.12%) Bitbucket
6 4 (4.12%) TeamCity
7 3 (3.09%) Cypress.io
7 3 (3.09%) Gradle
7 3 (3.09%) Maven
7 3 (3.09%) NUnit
7 3 (3.09%) Postman
7 3 (3.09%) Visual Studio
8 2 (2.06%) Artifactory
8 2 (2.06%) CircleCI
8 2 (2.06%) Travis CI
9 1 (1.03%) Cucumber
9 1 (1.03%) JUnit
9 1 (1.03%) Selenium
General
1 30 (30.93%) Social Skills
2 22 (22.68%) Finance
3 16 (16.49%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (6.19%) Retail
5 5 (5.15%) Banking
6 4 (4.12%) Public Sector
6 4 (4.12%) Telecoms
7 3 (3.09%) Electronics
7 3 (3.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (3.09%) Law
7 3 (3.09%) Manufacturing
7 3 (3.09%) Marketing
8 1 (1.03%) Advertising
8 1 (1.03%) Automotive
8 1 (1.03%) Investment Banking
8 1 (1.03%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 22 (22.68%) DevOps Engineer
2 17 (17.53%) Python Engineer
3 12 (12.37%) DBA
3 12 (12.37%) Site Engineer
3 12 (12.37%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 10 (10.31%) Security Engineer
4 10 (10.31%) Senior
5 8 (8.25%) Cloud Engineer
6 7 (7.22%) Developer
6 7 (7.22%) VMware Engineer
7 6 (6.19%) Applications Engineer
7 6 (6.19%) Automation Engineer
7 6 (6.19%) Virtualisation Engineer
8 4 (4.12%) Administrator
8 4 (4.12%) Azure Engineer
8 4 (4.12%) Java Engineer
8 4 (4.12%) SQL DBA
8 4 (4.12%) Test Engineer
9 3 (3.09%) Senior Developer
9 3 (3.09%) Sybase DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (10.31%) Kafka
2 9 (9.28%) RabbitMQ
2 9 (9.28%) RESTful
3 7 (7.22%) .NET
4 6 (6.19%) Middleware
4 6 (6.19%) REST
4 6 (6.19%) XML
5 5 (5.15%) AngularJS
5 5 (5.15%) JSON
5 5 (5.15%) OAuth
5 5 (5.15%) OAuth2
5 5 (5.15%) SAML
6 4 (4.12%) CSS
6 4 (4.12%) HTML
7 3 (3.09%) .NET Core
7 3 (3.09%) Ajax
7 3 (3.09%) Playwright
7 3 (3.09%) SOAP
7 3 (3.09%) Web Services
7 3 (3.09%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (11.34%) Data Structures
2 9 (9.28%) Algorithms
2 9 (9.28%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (8.25%) Replication
4 7 (7.22%) Cloud Native
5 4 (4.12%) Clustering
6 3 (3.09%) CMDB
6 3 (3.09%) Cyberattack
6 3 (3.09%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (2.06%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (2.06%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (2.06%) Management Information System
8 1 (1.03%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (1.03%) PKI
8 1 (1.03%) Product Ownership
8 1 (1.03%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 28 (28.87%) Linux
2 17 (17.53%) Windows
3 8 (8.25%) Windows Server
4 4 (4.12%) Unix
5 1 (1.03%) CentOS
5 1 (1.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (1.03%) Ubuntu
5 1 (1.03%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (1.03%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (1.03%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (48.45%) DevOps
2 41 (42.27%) CI/CD
3 25 (25.77%) Agile
4 21 (21.65%) Problem-Solving
5 13 (13.40%) Incident Response
5 13 (13.40%) Infrastructure as Code
6 12 (12.37%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 11 (11.34%) Microservices
8 10 (10.31%) Containerisation
8 10 (10.31%) Continuous Improvement
8 10 (10.31%) OO
8 10 (10.31%) Test Automation
9 9 (9.28%) Analytical Thinking
9 9 (9.28%) Use Case
10 8 (8.25%) Configuration Management
10 8 (8.25%) Infrastructure Management
11 7 (7.22%) Computer Science
11 7 (7.22%) Disaster Recovery
11 7 (7.22%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 7 (7.22%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 56 (57.73%) Python
2 28 (28.87%) PowerShell
3 17 (17.53%) Go
4 15 (15.46%) Bash
4 15 (15.46%) Perl
5 12 (12.37%) Java
6 11 (11.34%) Shell Script
7 10 (10.31%) SQL
8 9 (9.28%) JavaScript
9 6 (6.19%) C++
10 3 (3.09%) PHP
10 3 (3.09%) TypeScript
11 1 (1.03%) C#
11 1 (1.03%) T-SQL
11 1 (1.03%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 14 (14.43%) Degree
2 7 (7.22%) Computer Science Degree
2 7 (7.22%) Microsoft Certification
3 6 (6.19%) AWS Certification
3 6 (6.19%) Security Cleared
4 5 (5.15%) MCSE
4 5 (5.15%) SC Cleared
5 2 (2.06%) CCIE
5 2 (2.06%) CCNA
5 2 (2.06%) CCNP
5 2 (2.06%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.09%) Accessibility
1 3 (3.09%) QA
2 1 (1.03%) PMO
System Software
1 19 (19.59%) Docker
2 15 (15.46%) Active Directory
3 11 (11.34%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (9.28%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 2 (2.06%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (2.06%) VMware NSX
5 2 (2.06%) vSphere
6 1 (1.03%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 26 (26.80%) Kubernetes
2 16 (16.49%) Terraform
3 13 (13.40%) Prometheus
4 12 (12.37%) Grafana
5 11 (11.34%) Ansible
6 9 (9.28%) Consul
7 3 (3.09%) Kibana
7 3 (3.09%) PowerCLI
7 3 (3.09%) Puppet
8 2 (2.06%) Docker Swarm
8 2 (2.06%) Istio
8 2 (2.06%) logstash
8 2 (2.06%) Progress Chef
8 2 (2.06%) vCenter Server
9 1 (1.03%) Argo
9 1 (1.03%) Kiali
9 1 (1.03%) Nessus
9 1 (1.03%) SCCM
9 1 (1.03%) WSUS
Vendors
1 31 (31.96%) Microsoft
2 12 (12.37%) VMware
3 9 (9.28%) SaltStack
4 8 (8.25%) ServiceNow
5 6 (6.19%) SAP
6 4 (4.12%) Google
6 4 (4.12%) HP
7 3 (3.09%) Atlassian
7 3 (3.09%) Blue Prism
7 3 (3.09%) CrowdStrike
7 3 (3.09%) Dell
7 3 (3.09%) IBM
7 3 (3.09%) Splunk
7 3 (3.09%) Sybase
7 3 (3.09%) UiPath
8 2 (2.06%) Cisco
9 1 (1.03%) BMC
9 1 (1.03%) CheckPoint
9 1 (1.03%) Citrix
9 1 (1.03%) Qualys