Task Automation Job Trends in the East Midlands

Task Automation
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the East Midlands requiring Task Automation skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
20 Jan 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 133 113 129
Rank change year-on-year -20 +16 +18
Permanent jobs citing Task Automation 3 15 4
As % of all permanent jobs in the East Midlands 0.12% 0.70% 0.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.15% 0.79% 0.22%
Number of salaries quoted 2 11 2
10th Percentile £34,875 £53,750 £35,922
25th Percentile £40,313 £65,375 £36,555
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,250 £77,000 £39,117
Median % change year-on-year -33.44% +96.85% -42.05%
75th Percentile £62,813 £100,000 £41,686
90th Percentile £68,625 - £42,324
England median annual salary £58,750 £77,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -23.70% +28.33% -6.45%

All Process & Methodology Skills
East Midlands

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 the East Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,038 1,893 1,850
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 78.99% 88.25% 84.82%
Number of salaries quoted 1,269 828 1,475
10th Percentile £26,000 £27,675 £26,250
25th Percentile £30,250 £35,000 £34,834
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £47,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% - -9.52%
75th Percentile £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £76,900 £75,000 £70,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £58,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +2.56% -6.40%

Task Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

Task Automation job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

Task Automation
Salary Trend in the East Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Task Automation.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Task Automation

Task Automation
Salary Histogram in the East Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Task Automation in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 20 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Task Automation in the East Midlands

Task Automation
Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Task Automation within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 20 January 2026. 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads		 Median Salary
Past 6 Months		 Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year		 Live
Jobs
Northamptonshire +5 1 £70,000 -9.09% 2
Derbyshire -20 1 - - 3
Lincolnshire - 1 £32,500 - 2
Task Automation
England

Task Automation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (33.33%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) AWS
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) Entra ID
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (33.33%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) Broadband
1 1 (33.33%) DHCP
1 1 (33.33%) DNS
1 1 (33.33%) TCP/IP
1 1 (33.33%) VLAN
1 1 (33.33%) VoIP
1 1 (33.33%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) NoSQL
1 1 (33.33%) RDBMS
1 1 (33.33%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) GitLab
1 1 (33.33%) Jaeger
1 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (33.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 1 (33.33%) Legal
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) 2nd/3rd Line Support
1 1 (33.33%) 3rd Line Support
1 1 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Integration Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Lead
1 1 (33.33%) Lead DevOps
1 1 (33.33%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (33.33%) OpenTelemetry
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
1 1 (33.33%) Mac OS
1 1 (33.33%) Unix
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
1 1 (33.33%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Agile
1 2 (66.67%) Containerisation
1 2 (66.67%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Application Packaging
2 1 (33.33%) Budget Control
2 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 1 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (33.33%) Cost Optimisation
2 1 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (33.33%) GitOps
2 1 (33.33%) High Availability
2 1 (33.33%) Identity Management
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (33.33%) ITSM
2 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
2 1 (33.33%) Performance Optimisation
2 1 (33.33%) Product Management
2 1 (33.33%) Resource Management
2 1 (33.33%) Roadmaps
2 1 (33.33%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Bash
1 2 (66.67%) PowerShell
1 2 (66.67%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) Go
2 1 (33.33%) Java
2 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) AWS Certification
1 1 (33.33%) Degree
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (33.33%) GDPR
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Docker
2 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Ansible
1 2 (66.67%) Kubernetes
1 2 (66.67%) Terraform
2 1 (33.33%) Argo
2 1 (33.33%) Jamf Pro
2 1 (33.33%) Kustomize
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (33.33%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Apple
1 1 (33.33%) Google
1 1 (33.33%) Logitech
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 1 (33.33%) Yealink
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