Task Automation Jobs in England

Task Automation
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England requiring Task Automation skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Task Automation over the 6 months leading up to 13 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 229 458 495
Rank change year-on-year +229 +37 +3
Permanent jobs citing Task Automation 737 462 406
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 1.40% 0.51% 0.54%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.55% 0.62% 0.56%
Number of salaries quoted 199 285 304
10th Percentile £32,500 £41,750 £40,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £51,250 £44,560
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +8.33% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £85,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £86,250 £92,500 £90,525
UK median annual salary £58,250 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -6.80% +4.17% +4.35%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 47,414 74,331 72,160
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 90.32% 82.64% 95.46%
Number of salaries quoted 25,139 52,156 47,143
10th Percentile £28,500 £29,750 £33,750
25th Percentile £39,750 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £62,450
Median % change year-on-year - -11.93% +4.08%
75th Percentile £75,000 £73,750 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £93,750 £102,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £60,249
% change year-on-year - -8.71% +0.42%

Task Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Task Automation in England

Task Automation
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Task Automation in England.

Salary trend for Task Automation in England

Task Automation
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Task Automation in England over the 6 months to 13 July 2025.

Salary histogram for Task Automation in England

Task Automation
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Task Automation within the England region over the 6 months to 13 July 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North of England +192 295 £40,442 -32.60% 71
North West +169 278 £35,000 -36.36% 46
London +79 174 £75,000 +4.90% 159
South East +55 59 £57,500 -8.00% 61
East of England +72 55 £47,500 -5.00% 33
Midlands +56 36 £57,000 -0.87% 38
South West +80 28 £55,000 +12.18% 33
East Midlands +51 18 £35,000 -30.00% 14
Yorkshire +36 16 £75,000 -6.25% 20
West Midlands +30 15 £58,250 +1.30% 25
North East +39 1 - - 5
Task Automation
UK

Task Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 45 (6.11%) Microsoft Exchange
2 26 (3.53%) SharePoint
3 3 (0.41%) Confluence
4 2 (0.27%) IIS
5 1 (0.14%) Apache
5 1 (0.14%) nginx
5 1 (0.14%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 9 (1.22%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (0.81%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.27%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.14%) AutoCAD
4 1 (0.14%) Autodesk Inventor
4 1 (0.14%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.14%) SOLIDWORKS
4 1 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (0.27%) Elite 3E
2 1 (0.14%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.14%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 276 (37.45%) AWS
2 215 (29.17%) Pulumi
3 105 (14.25%) Azure
4 51 (6.92%) Microsoft 365
5 36 (4.88%) Entra ID
6 27 (3.66%) GCP
7 19 (2.58%) Power Automate
7 19 (2.58%) Power Platform
8 14 (1.90%) Serverless
9 13 (1.76%) Azure DevOps
9 13 (1.76%) GitHub
10 11 (1.49%) SaaS
11 10 (1.36%) Azure Monitor
11 10 (1.36%) OneDrive
12 9 (1.22%) Microsoft Copilot
12 9 (1.22%) PowerApps
13 8 (1.09%) AWS Lambda
13 8 (1.09%) GitHub Actions
13 8 (1.09%) Microsoft Purview
14 7 (0.95%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 288 (39.08%) VPN
2 265 (35.96%) Cisco IOS
3 215 (29.17%) Broadband
4 51 (6.92%) DNS
5 37 (5.02%) Firewall
6 34 (4.61%) TCP/IP
7 29 (3.93%) DHCP
8 20 (2.71%) Network Security
9 15 (2.04%) SMTP
9 15 (2.04%) WAN
10 14 (1.90%) LAN
11 13 (1.76%) VLAN
12 11 (1.49%) OSPF
13 10 (1.36%) BGP
13 10 (1.36%) HTTP
14 9 (1.22%) SAN
15 8 (1.09%) NAS
16 7 (0.95%) Cisco Nexus
17 6 (0.81%) Remote Desktop
17 6 (0.81%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 218 (29.58%) Relational Database
2 215 (29.17%) NoSQL
2 215 (29.17%) RDBMS
3 18 (2.44%) SQL Server
4 17 (2.31%) Power BI
5 7 (0.95%) Amazon RDS
6 5 (0.68%) MySQL
6 5 (0.68%) Power Query
7 4 (0.54%) Elasticsearch
7 4 (0.54%) PostgreSQL
7 4 (0.54%) PowerPivot
8 3 (0.41%) Azure SQL Database
8 3 (0.41%) Data Warehouse
8 3 (0.41%) Oracle Database
9 2 (0.27%) Data Mining
9 2 (0.27%) Tableau
10 1 (0.14%) KDB
10 1 (0.14%) MongoDB
10 1 (0.14%) Oracle Exadata
10 1 (0.14%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 215 (29.17%) Jaeger
2 19 (2.58%) Git
3 11 (1.49%) Jenkins
4 9 (1.22%) JIRA
5 7 (0.95%) Sonatype Nexus
6 5 (0.68%) GitLab
7 2 (0.27%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.27%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.14%) Gradle
8 1 (0.14%) JUnit
8 1 (0.14%) Maven
8 1 (0.14%) Octopus Deploy
8 1 (0.14%) Selenium
8 1 (0.14%) TestNG
8 1 (0.14%) WebDriver
General
1 505 (68.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 308 (41.79%) Analytical Skills
3 90 (12.21%) Social Skills
4 38 (5.16%) Finance
5 21 (2.85%) Law
6 17 (2.31%) Legal
6 17 (2.31%) Telecoms
7 9 (1.22%) Banking
7 9 (1.22%) Pharmaceutical
8 8 (1.09%) Manufacturing
8 8 (1.09%) Marketing
9 7 (0.95%) Investment Banking
10 6 (0.81%) Games
10 6 (0.81%) Health Technology
10 6 (0.81%) Public Sector
10 6 (0.81%) Retail
11 5 (0.68%) Documentation Skills
11 5 (0.68%) Front Office
12 4 (0.54%) Billing
13 2 (0.27%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 286 (38.81%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 230 (31.21%) Lead
3 217 (29.44%) Team Leader
4 44 (5.97%) Support Engineer
5 37 (5.02%) Senior
6 24 (3.26%) Security Engineer
7 22 (2.99%) Developer
8 21 (2.85%) 3rd Line Engineer
8 21 (2.85%) 3rd Line Support
9 20 (2.71%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
9 20 (2.71%) Analyst
9 20 (2.71%) Azure Engineer
9 20 (2.71%) Network Engineer
10 16 (2.17%) Cloud Engineer
11 13 (1.76%) Automation Engineer
11 13 (1.76%) Infrastructure Support
11 13 (1.76%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
11 13 (1.76%) Support Specialist
12 12 (1.63%) Implementation Manager
12 12 (1.63%) Support Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 480 (65.13%) Elastic Stack
2 215 (29.17%) OpenTelemetry
3 13 (1.76%) .NET
4 8 (1.09%) AngularJS
5 6 (0.81%) CSS
5 6 (0.81%) HTML
5 6 (0.81%) REST
6 5 (0.68%) Angular 2
6 5 (0.68%) ARM Templates
6 5 (0.68%) jQuery
6 5 (0.68%) React
6 5 (0.68%) YAML
7 4 (0.54%) Node.js
8 3 (0.41%) RESTful
8 3 (0.41%) Vue
9 2 (0.27%) .NET Core
9 2 (0.27%) 802.1X
9 2 (0.27%) Django
9 2 (0.27%) Middleware
9 2 (0.27%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 262 (35.55%) Cyberattack
2 14 (1.90%) Clustering
2 14 (1.90%) Hedge funds
3 12 (1.63%) Hybrid Cloud
4 10 (1.36%) Management Information System
5 8 (1.09%) Enterprise Software
5 8 (1.09%) Legacy Systems
5 8 (1.09%) Onboarding
6 7 (0.95%) PKI
7 6 (0.81%) Analytical Mindset
7 6 (0.81%) Cyber Threat
8 5 (0.68%) Public Cloud
9 4 (0.54%) Cloud Native
9 4 (0.54%) Data Centre
9 4 (0.54%) Equities
9 4 (0.54%) Product Ownership
9 4 (0.54%) Self-Motivation
10 3 (0.41%) Algorithms
10 3 (0.41%) Security Posture
11 2 (0.27%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 522 (70.83%) Linux
2 332 (45.05%) Windows
3 264 (35.82%) Android
4 229 (31.07%) Unix
5 50 (6.78%) Windows Server
6 18 (2.44%) Windows Server 2019
7 7 (0.95%) Windows Server 2012
8 5 (0.68%) Mac OS
9 4 (0.54%) Windows 10
10 2 (0.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 2 (0.27%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.14%) Apple iOS
11 1 (0.14%) CentOS
11 1 (0.14%) Debian
11 1 (0.14%) Mac OS X
11 1 (0.14%) Solaris
11 1 (0.14%) Windows Server 2003
11 1 (0.14%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 526 (71.37%) DevOps
2 342 (46.40%) Problem-Solving
3 292 (39.62%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 277 (37.58%) Platform Engineering
5 271 (36.77%) Risk Management
6 268 (36.36%) Storage Management
7 267 (36.23%) Mathematics
8 263 (35.69%) Line Management
9 244 (33.11%) High Availability
10 243 (32.97%) Mentoring
11 242 (32.84%) Infrastructure as Code
12 232 (31.48%) Agile
13 228 (30.94%) Continuous Integration
14 225 (30.53%) Roadmaps
15 220 (29.85%) Cost Optimisation
16 219 (29.72%) Containerisation
16 219 (29.72%) Resource Management
17 216 (29.31%) GitOps
18 215 (29.17%) Budget Control
18 215 (29.17%) Product Management
Programming Languages
1 574 (77.88%) Python
2 506 (68.66%) Bash
3 365 (49.53%) PowerShell
4 234 (31.75%) Java
4 234 (31.75%) JavaScript
5 219 (29.72%) Go
6 51 (6.92%) SQL
7 20 (2.71%) C#
8 10 (1.36%) Bicep
8 10 (1.36%) R
9 9 (1.22%) PL/SQL
9 9 (1.22%) Shell Script
10 8 (1.09%) Perl
10 8 (1.09%) TypeScript
11 2 (0.27%) VBA
12 1 (0.14%) Kusto Query Language
12 1 (0.14%) PHP
12 1 (0.14%) Ruby
12 1 (0.14%) VB
12 1 (0.14%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 223 (30.26%) AWS Certification
2 59 (8.01%) Degree
3 28 (3.80%) Security Cleared
4 25 (3.39%) Computer Science Degree
5 16 (2.17%) DV Cleared
6 13 (1.76%) Cisco Certification
7 12 (1.63%) CCNP
8 9 (1.22%) CCNA
8 9 (1.22%) Microsoft Certification
8 9 (1.22%) SC Cleared
9 6 (0.81%) JNCIA
9 6 (0.81%) JNCIS
9 6 (0.81%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 5 (0.68%) Azure Certification
11 2 (0.27%) CISSP
11 2 (0.27%) ISTQB
11 2 (0.27%) MCSA
11 2 (0.27%) MCSE
12 1 (0.14%) CCSP
12 1 (0.14%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (1.76%) GDPR
2 8 (1.09%) Cyber Essentials
2 8 (1.09%) NIST
2 8 (1.09%) QA
3 5 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (0.54%) Accessibility
4 4 (0.54%) SLA
5 2 (0.27%) Data Quality
5 2 (0.27%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.14%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (0.14%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.14%) NCSC
6 1 (0.14%) PMO
6 1 (0.14%) SOC 2
System Software
1 498 (67.57%) Docker
2 297 (40.30%) Hyper-V
3 274 (37.18%) vSphere
4 262 (35.55%) VMware NSX
5 41 (5.56%) Active Directory
6 34 (4.61%) VMware Infrastructure
7 12 (1.63%) VMware ESXi
8 9 (1.22%) Virtual Machines
9 7 (0.95%) BitLocker
9 7 (0.95%) Microsoft App-V
10 6 (0.81%) Terminal Services
11 4 (0.54%) Virtual Desktop
12 2 (0.27%) vCloud
13 1 (0.14%) Firmware
13 1 (0.14%) RHEV
Systems Management
1 524 (71.10%) Ansible
2 505 (68.52%) Terraform
3 243 (32.97%) Kubernetes
4 223 (30.26%) Prometheus
5 216 (29.31%) Argo
6 215 (29.17%) Kustomize
7 25 (3.39%) Microsoft Intune
8 17 (2.31%) Puppet
9 15 (2.04%) Backup Exec
9 15 (2.04%) SCCM
9 15 (2.04%) Single Sign-On
10 13 (1.76%) Grafana
11 12 (1.63%) vCenter Server
11 12 (1.63%) vMotion
12 8 (1.09%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 6 (0.81%) Nagios
13 6 (0.81%) PowerCLI
13 6 (0.81%) vRealize
14 5 (0.68%) Progress Chef
15 4 (0.54%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 278 (37.72%) Cisco
2 271 (36.77%) Splunk
3 263 (35.69%) Juniper
4 262 (35.55%) 3PAR
5 243 (32.97%) Google
6 112 (15.20%) Microsoft
7 41 (5.56%) VMware
8 30 (4.07%) Veeam
9 13 (1.76%) Citrix
9 13 (1.76%) HP
10 8 (1.09%) Oracle
11 7 (0.95%) Arista
11 7 (0.95%) Symantec
12 6 (0.81%) Meraki
13 5 (0.68%) Atlassian
13 5 (0.68%) Databricks
13 5 (0.68%) Dynatrace
13 5 (0.68%) Palo Alto
13 5 (0.68%) Sage
13 5 (0.68%) Zscaler