Task Automation Job Trends in Cardiff

Task Automation
South Wales > Cardiff

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Cardiff requiring Task Automation skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 43 30 54
Rank change year-on-year -13 +24 +13
Permanent jobs citing Task Automation 2 2 5
As % of all permanent jobs in Cardiff 0.46% 1.23% 0.81%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.67% 1.34% 1.00%
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 5
10th Percentile £65,381 - -
25th Percentile £65,953 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,401 - £45,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -5.26%
75th Percentile £75,342 - £56,250
90th Percentile £77,411 - -
South Wales median annual salary £69,401 - £45,000
% change year-on-year - - -5.26%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Cardiff

Task Automation falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Cardiff.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 300 149 501
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cardiff 68.49% 91.41% 81.60%
Number of salaries quoted 195 114 451
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £31,125
25th Percentile £43,750 £37,500 £39,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £54,059 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.74% +8.12% -
75th Percentile £69,576 £67,029 £67,500
90th Percentile £78,790 £76,815 £77,500
South Wales median annual salary £50,000 £52,592 £47,500
% change year-on-year -4.93% +10.72% +2.15%

Task Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Cardiff

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

Task Automation job vacancy trend in Cardiff

Task Automation
Salary Trend in Cardiff

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cardiff citing Task Automation.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cardiff citing Task Automation

Task Automation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cardiff 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 1 (50.00%) Amazon ECR
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon ECS
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon ElastiCache
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (50.00%) AWS CodeBuild
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Computing
1 1 (50.00%) dbt
1 1 (50.00%) GCP
1 1 (50.00%) PaaS
1 1 (50.00%) Pulumi
1 1 (50.00%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) BGP
1 1 (50.00%) DHCP
1 1 (50.00%) DNS
1 1 (50.00%) MPLS
1 1 (50.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (50.00%) VPN
1 1 (50.00%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (50.00%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (50.00%) Redis
General
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Senior
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Services Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Platform Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Linux Command Line
1 1 (50.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Unix
2 1 (50.00%) Windows
2 1 (50.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Agile
1 1 (50.00%) Application Performance Monitoring
1 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (50.00%) Clean Code
1 1 (50.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (50.00%) Continuous Delivery
1 1 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) ITIL
1 1 (50.00%) Migration
1 1 (50.00%) Observability
1 1 (50.00%) Open Source
1 1 (50.00%) Performance Monitoring
1 1 (50.00%) Platform Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) Prototyping
1 1 (50.00%) SIEM
1 1 (50.00%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Java
1 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (50.00%) Degree
2 1 (50.00%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
1 1 (50.00%) VMware ESXi
1 1 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (50.00%) VMware NSX
1 1 (50.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Ansible
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Copilot
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
1 1 (50.00%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Google
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) Splunk
1 1 (50.00%) VMware