Task Automation Contracts in Yorkshire

Task Automation
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Yorkshire 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 81 84 111
Rank change year-on-year +3 +27 +28
Contract jobs citing Task Automation 11 16 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Yorkshire 1.08% 0.95% 0.69%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.17% 1.10% 0.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 15 11
10th Percentile £385 £411 £524
25th Percentile £453 £425 £594
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £498 £520 £700
Median % change year-on-year -4.33% -25.71% +40.00%
75th Percentile £572 £624 -
90th Percentile £623 £645 -
England median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 940 1,459 2,094
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 92.43% 86.38% 90.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 586 875 1,388
10th Percentile £246 £265 £296
25th Percentile £363 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -9.52% +9.38%
75th Percentile £550 £577 £600
90th Percentile £638 £650 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 64 61
10th Percentile £13.00 £11.30 -
25th Percentile £17.12 £12.15 £9.80
Median hourly rate £21.24 £13.50 £10.63
Median % change year-on-year +57.33% +27.00% -39.74%
75th Percentile £27.10 £22.00 £20.19
90th Percentile £80.10 £53.75 £56.00
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 Yorkshire

Job postings citing Task Automation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire.

Job vacancy trend for Task Automation in Yorkshire

Task Automation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Task Automation in Yorkshire.

Daily rate trend for Task Automation in Yorkshire

Task Automation
Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

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

Daily rate histogram for Task Automation in Yorkshire

Task Automation
Contract Job Locations in 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 Yorkshire 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
South Yorkshire +2 8 £525 +0.96% 3
West Yorkshire +17 4 £475 -9.52% 4
Task Automation
England

Task Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Yorkshire 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 3 (27.27%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (9.09%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 3 (27.27%) Microsoft 365
1 3 (27.27%) Power Automate
1 3 (27.27%) Power Platform
1 3 (27.27%) PowerApps
2 2 (18.18%) GCP
3 1 (9.09%) Azure
3 1 (9.09%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (9.09%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 2 (18.18%) Firewall
1 2 (18.18%) Network Security
2 1 (9.09%) Cisco Nexus
2 1 (9.09%) DNS
2 1 (9.09%) DWDM
2 1 (9.09%) LAN
2 1 (9.09%) SMTP
2 1 (9.09%) TCP/IP
2 1 (9.09%) VPN
2 1 (9.09%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.09%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (9.09%) Big Data
1 1 (9.09%) BigQuery
1 1 (9.09%) Metadata
1 1 (9.09%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Git
1 1 (9.09%) Jenkins
1 1 (9.09%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 5 (45.45%) Social Skills
2 1 (9.09%) Banking
Job Titles
1 3 (27.27%) Developer
1 3 (27.27%) Microsoft 365 Developer
1 3 (27.27%) Software Developer
2 2 (18.18%) Architect
2 2 (18.18%) Network Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Senior
3 1 (9.09%) Administrator
3 1 (9.09%) Automation Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Consultant
3 1 (9.09%) Data Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Mac Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Developer
3 1 (9.09%) Power Platform Developer
3 1 (9.09%) Senior Architect
3 1 (9.09%) Senior Mac Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) SharePoint Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (27.27%) CSS
1 3 (27.27%) HTML
1 3 (27.27%) React
1 3 (27.27%) SPFx
2 1 (9.09%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (9.09%) Mainframe
2 1 (9.09%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (18.18%) Linux
2 1 (9.09%) Mac OS
2 1 (9.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (9.09%) Unix
2 1 (9.09%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (27.27%) DevOps
1 3 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
1 3 (27.27%) Web Development
2 2 (18.18%) Analytics
2 2 (18.18%) CI/CD
2 2 (18.18%) Containerisation
2 2 (18.18%) Data Protection
2 2 (18.18%) Infrastructure Automation
2 2 (18.18%) Infrastructure Management
3 1 (9.09%) Computer Science
3 1 (9.09%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (9.09%) ITSM
3 1 (9.09%) Migration
3 1 (9.09%) Network Architecture
3 1 (9.09%) Network Design
3 1 (9.09%) Network Management
3 1 (9.09%) Resource Management
3 1 (9.09%) Test Automation
3 1 (9.09%) Vulnerability Assessment
3 1 (9.09%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 5 (45.45%) Python
2 4 (36.36%) PowerShell
3 3 (27.27%) JavaScript
3 3 (27.27%) TypeScript
4 2 (18.18%) Bash
5 1 (9.09%) AppleScript
5 1 (9.09%) Go
5 1 (9.09%) Groovy
5 1 (9.09%) Scala
5 1 (9.09%) Shell Script
5 1 (9.09%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (9.09%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (9.09%) CCNA
1 1 (9.09%) CCNP
1 1 (9.09%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (9.09%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (9.09%) Degree
1 1 (9.09%) JNCIA
1 1 (9.09%) JNCIS
1 1 (9.09%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.09%) GDPR
1 1 (9.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (9.09%) PCI DSS
1 1 (9.09%) SOC 2
System Software
1 1 (9.09%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (45.45%) Ansible
2 2 (18.18%) Kubernetes
2 2 (18.18%) Terraform
3 1 (9.09%) Control-M
3 1 (9.09%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 4 (36.36%) Microsoft
2 3 (27.27%) Databricks
3 2 (18.18%) Cisco
3 2 (18.18%) Google
4 1 (9.09%) Apple
4 1 (9.09%) Arista
4 1 (9.09%) Red Hat