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 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 148 118 199
Rank change year-on-year -30 +81 -45
Permanent jobs citing Task Automation 17 15 13
As % of all permanent jobs in the East Midlands 0.35% 0.75% 0.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.50% 0.84% 0.32%
Number of salaries quoted 15 7 11
10th Percentile - - £45,500
25th Percentile £25,500 £32,500 £45,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,500 £35,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% -30.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £33,750 £39,500 -
90th Percentile - £48,700 £95,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -4.35% -8.00% -1.57%

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 3,420 1,781 4,111
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 70.91% 89.54% 76.06%
Number of salaries quoted 2,191 921 2,828
10th Percentile £28,000 £25,625 £25,750
25th Percentile £35,000 £30,375 £32,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £42,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% -5.56% -14.29%
75th Percentile £62,500 £58,750 £56,250
90th Percentile £76,134 £72,500 £68,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -12.00%

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 June 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 June 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
Lincolnshire -10 8 £32,500 -20.73% 1
Nottinghamshire -20 6 £26,000 -25.71% 1
Derbyshire 0 2 - - 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 9 (52.94%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (47.06%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 16 (94.12%) Azure
2 9 (52.94%) Entra ID
2 9 (52.94%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (11.76%) AWS
4 1 (5.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (5.88%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (5.88%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (5.88%) Azure AKS
4 1 (5.88%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (5.88%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (5.88%) Datadog
4 1 (5.88%) GitHub
4 1 (5.88%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (5.88%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 9 (52.94%) DHCP
1 9 (52.94%) DNS
1 9 (52.94%) VLAN
1 9 (52.94%) VPN
2 8 (47.06%) TCP/IP
2 8 (47.06%) VoIP
3 1 (5.88%) Broadband
3 1 (5.88%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.88%) KNIME
1 1 (5.88%) NoSQL
1 1 (5.88%) RDBMS
1 1 (5.88%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 6 (35.29%) JIRA
2 1 (5.88%) Jaeger
2 1 (5.88%) Jenkins
General
1 9 (52.94%) Social Skills
2 8 (47.06%) Legal
3 6 (35.29%) Law
4 1 (5.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 9 (52.94%) IT Support
2 8 (47.06%) 2nd/3rd Line Support
2 8 (47.06%) 3rd Line Support
3 6 (35.29%) 2nd Line Support
4 1 (5.88%) AWS DevOps
4 1 (5.88%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) AWS Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Azure Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) IT Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Lead
4 1 (5.88%) Lead DevOps
4 1 (5.88%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.88%) ARM Templates
1 1 (5.88%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (5.88%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.88%) Data Centre
1 1 (5.88%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 9 (52.94%) Windows
2 8 (47.06%) Mac OS
2 8 (47.06%) Windows 10
3 2 (11.76%) Linux
4 1 (5.88%) Unix
4 1 (5.88%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (47.06%) Application Packaging
1 8 (47.06%) CRM
1 8 (47.06%) E-Commerce
1 8 (47.06%) Identity Management
1 8 (47.06%) ITSM
1 8 (47.06%) Service Delivery
2 6 (35.29%) Computer Science
2 6 (35.29%) Service Management
3 3 (17.65%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (11.76%) Containerisation
4 2 (11.76%) Continuous Integration
4 2 (11.76%) DevOps
4 2 (11.76%) Mentoring
4 2 (11.76%) Runbook
5 1 (5.88%) Analytics
5 1 (5.88%) Budget Control
5 1 (5.88%) Continuous Improvement
5 1 (5.88%) High Availability
5 1 (5.88%) Product Management
5 1 (5.88%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 16 (94.12%) PowerShell
2 2 (11.76%) Bash
2 2 (11.76%) Bicep
2 2 (11.76%) Python
3 1 (5.88%) Go
3 1 (5.88%) Java
3 1 (5.88%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 14 (82.35%) Degree
2 9 (52.94%) Microsoft Certification
3 6 (35.29%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (11.76%) AWS Certification
4 2 (11.76%) Azure Certification
5 1 (5.88%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (52.94%) Cyber Essentials
2 8 (47.06%) GDPR
3 1 (5.88%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 9 (52.94%) Active Directory
2 2 (11.76%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (47.06%) Jamf Pro
1 8 (47.06%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (11.76%) Kubernetes
2 2 (11.76%) Prometheus
2 2 (11.76%) Terraform
3 1 (5.88%) Ansible
3 1 (5.88%) Argo
3 1 (5.88%) Grafana
3 1 (5.88%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 10 (58.82%) Microsoft
2 8 (47.06%) Apple
2 8 (47.06%) Logitech
2 8 (47.06%) Yealink
3 6 (35.29%) Cisco
3 6 (35.29%) Meraki
4 1 (5.88%) Google
4 1 (5.88%) LogicMonitor
4 1 (5.88%) SolarWinds