Task Automation Job Trends in England

Task Automation
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring Task Automation skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 500 242 411
Rank change year-on-year -258 +169 +19
Permanent jobs citing Task Automation 251 558 386
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.27% 1.27% 0.53%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.36% 1.43% 0.65%
Number of salaries quoted 149 242 228
10th Percentile £26,625 £32,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £39,625 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £57,500 £66,750
Median % change year-on-year -6.09% -13.86% +3.38%
75th Percentile £70,000 £75,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £92,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £65,500
% change year-on-year -4.35% -12.21% +4.80%

All Process & 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 69,329 39,151 59,081
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.66% 89.41% 81.35%
Number of salaries quoted 48,879 22,544 38,747
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -12.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £76,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.84%

Task Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Task Automation job vacancy trend in England

Task Automation
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Task Automation.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Task Automation

Task Automation
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Task Automation in England over the 6 months to 13 August 2026.

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 August 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
London -83 86 £72,500 -4.92% 111
South East -31 45 £55,000 -4.35% 27
Midlands -29 40 £41,250 -30.08% 15
North of England -214 36 £47,500 +35.71% 24
South West -51 28 £60,500 +10.00% 13
East Midlands -21 22 £26,000 -25.71% 3
North West -168 20 £61,250 +75.00% 16
West Midlands -21 18 £55,000 -7.56% 12
East of England -37 14 £37,500 -21.05% 12
Yorkshire -28 11 £26,750 -63.73% 4
North East - 5 £47,500 - 4
Task Automation
UK

Task Automation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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 31 (12.35%) Microsoft Exchange
2 25 (9.96%) SharePoint
3 6 (2.39%) Confluence
4 4 (1.59%) Apache Spark
5 3 (1.20%) CMS
5 3 (1.20%) IIS
6 2 (0.80%) WebLogic
7 1 (0.40%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.40%) Oracle Application Server
7 1 (0.40%) WebSphere
7 1 (0.40%) WordPress
Applications
1 13 (5.18%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (3.98%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (1.99%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.80%) SOLIDWORKS
5 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.40%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.40%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (1.20%) Shopify
2 2 (0.80%) Infor CloudSuite
2 2 (0.80%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
3 1 (0.40%) FLEXCUBE
3 1 (0.40%) IBM Planning Analytics
Cloud Services
1 128 (51.00%) Azure
2 72 (28.69%) AWS
3 37 (14.74%) Microsoft 365
4 35 (13.94%) Power Platform
5 31 (12.35%) GCP
6 29 (11.55%) Entra ID
6 29 (11.55%) GitHub
7 27 (10.76%) Azure DevOps
8 24 (9.56%) PaaS
9 22 (8.76%) IaaS
10 21 (8.37%) Datadog
11 17 (6.77%) Serverless
12 13 (5.18%) Azure Functions
12 13 (5.18%) Azure Key Vault
12 13 (5.18%) Azure Monitor
13 12 (4.78%) AWS CloudFormation
13 12 (4.78%) Azure ExpressRoute
14 11 (4.38%) OpenShift
15 9 (3.59%) Power Automate
15 9 (3.59%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 38 (15.14%) VPN
2 29 (11.55%) DNS
3 22 (8.76%) Firewall
4 17 (6.77%) DHCP
5 12 (4.78%) TCP/IP
6 9 (3.59%) VLAN
7 7 (2.79%) SSH
8 6 (2.39%) Software-Defined Networking
8 6 (2.39%) VoIP
8 6 (2.39%) WAN
9 5 (1.99%) LAN
9 5 (1.99%) Wi-Fi
10 4 (1.59%) Broadband
10 4 (1.59%) Cisco ASA
10 4 (1.59%) IPv4
11 3 (1.20%) WinSCP
11 3 (1.20%) Wireless
12 2 (0.80%) BGP
12 2 (0.80%) Internet
12 2 (0.80%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (12.75%) Power BI
2 30 (11.95%) SQL Server
3 17 (6.77%) Azure SQL Database
4 13 (5.18%) PostgreSQL
5 12 (4.78%) MySQL
5 12 (4.78%) Tableau
6 9 (3.59%) Amazon RDS
6 9 (3.59%) Redis
7 8 (3.19%) Data Warehouse
8 7 (2.79%) MongoDB
8 7 (2.79%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 6 (2.39%) Relational Database
10 4 (1.59%) Big Data
10 4 (1.59%) Elasticsearch
10 4 (1.59%) Hadoop
11 3 (1.20%) Data Lake
11 3 (1.20%) NoSQL
11 3 (1.20%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 2 (0.80%) KNIME
12 2 (0.80%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 36 (14.34%) Git
2 27 (10.76%) JIRA
3 23 (9.16%) Jenkins
4 13 (5.18%) GitLab
5 7 (2.79%) Claude Code
6 6 (2.39%) Bitbucket
7 4 (1.59%) Visual Studio
8 2 (0.80%) Ant
8 2 (0.80%) Apache Ivy
8 2 (0.80%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 2 (0.80%) IBM UrbanCode
8 2 (0.80%) Maven
8 2 (0.80%) Postman
9 1 (0.40%) JMeter
9 1 (0.40%) MSI
9 1 (0.40%) Oracle APEX
9 1 (0.40%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.40%) TeamCity
General
1 96 (38.25%) Social Skills
2 76 (30.28%) Finance
3 58 (23.11%) Analytical Skills
4 43 (17.13%) Law
5 30 (11.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 18 (7.17%) Marketing
7 13 (5.18%) Banking
8 11 (4.38%) Documentation Skills
8 11 (4.38%) Legal
8 11 (4.38%) Organisational Skills
9 9 (3.59%) Telecoms
10 8 (3.19%) Aerospace
11 7 (2.79%) Retail
12 5 (1.99%) Investment Banking
12 5 (1.99%) Manufacturing
12 5 (1.99%) Public Sector
13 4 (1.59%) Financial Institution
13 4 (1.59%) Presentation Skills
14 3 (1.20%) Front Office
15 2 (0.80%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 43 (17.13%) Senior
2 30 (11.95%) Analyst
3 29 (11.55%) IT Support
4 22 (8.76%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 21 (8.37%) Site Engineer
6 18 (7.17%) 2nd Line Support
6 18 (7.17%) Administrator
7 17 (6.77%) Developer
7 17 (6.77%) IT Engineer
8 13 (5.18%) Lead
9 12 (4.78%) Cloud Engineer
9 12 (4.78%) Infrastructure Analyst
9 12 (4.78%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 12 (4.78%) Network Engineer
10 11 (4.38%) Automation Engineer
10 11 (4.38%) Python Engineer
11 10 (3.98%) Platform Engineer
12 9 (3.59%) DevOps Engineer
12 9 (3.59%) Principal Engineer
12 9 (3.59%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (5.58%) JSON
2 12 (4.78%) ARM Templates
2 12 (4.78%) YAML
3 9 (3.59%) Jinja
3 9 (3.59%) REST
4 7 (2.79%) .NET
4 7 (2.79%) Django
4 7 (2.79%) React
5 6 (2.39%) XML
6 5 (1.99%) HTML
7 4 (1.59%) Apache NiFi
7 4 (1.59%) boto
7 4 (1.59%) CSS
7 4 (1.59%) Model Context Protocol
7 4 (1.59%) Node.js
7 4 (1.59%) YANG
8 3 (1.20%) ASP.NET
8 3 (1.20%) ASP.NET Core
8 3 (1.20%) Entity Framework
9 2 (0.80%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 21 (8.37%) Self-Motivation
2 20 (7.97%) Cloud Native
2 20 (7.97%) Distributed Systems
3 19 (7.57%) Public Cloud
4 12 (4.78%) Podcast
4 12 (4.78%) Security Posture
5 11 (4.38%) Data Centre
5 11 (4.38%) Linux Command Line
6 10 (3.98%) AI Agents
6 10 (3.98%) Algorithms
6 10 (3.98%) Hybrid Cloud
7 9 (3.59%) Blog
7 9 (3.59%) Management Information System
8 8 (3.19%) Onboarding
9 7 (2.79%) PKI
9 7 (2.79%) Replication
10 6 (2.39%) Marketing Technology
11 5 (1.99%) Private Cloud
12 4 (1.59%) Clustering
13 3 (1.20%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 66 (26.29%) Windows
2 51 (20.32%) Linux
3 32 (12.75%) Windows Server
4 24 (9.56%) Unix
5 12 (4.78%) VMS
6 10 (3.98%) Windows 10
7 8 (3.19%) Apple iOS
7 8 (3.19%) Mac OS
8 7 (2.79%) Android
9 3 (1.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 3 (1.20%) Ubuntu
10 2 (0.80%) AIX
10 2 (0.80%) Solaris
10 2 (0.80%) SUSE
10 2 (0.80%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
11 1 (0.40%) Debian
11 1 (0.40%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 93 (37.05%) Problem-Solving
2 76 (30.28%) CI/CD
3 74 (29.48%) AI
4 68 (27.09%) Analytics
4 68 (27.09%) DevOps
5 67 (26.69%) Continuous Improvement
6 64 (25.50%) Infrastructure as Code
7 59 (23.51%) Root Cause Analysis
8 57 (22.71%) Agile
9 55 (21.91%) Observability
10 49 (19.52%) Containerisation
11 42 (16.73%) Computer Science
12 38 (15.14%) Business Intelligence
13 34 (13.55%) ITIL
14 33 (13.15%) Mentoring
15 32 (12.75%) Disaster Recovery
15 32 (12.75%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 29 (11.55%) Cloud Security
17 27 (10.76%) Migration
17 27 (10.76%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 129 (51.39%) Python
2 104 (41.43%) PowerShell
3 73 (29.08%) SQL
4 44 (17.53%) Bash
5 26 (10.36%) Bicep
6 15 (5.98%) Java
7 14 (5.58%) JavaScript
8 12 (4.78%) Kusto Query Language
9 6 (2.39%) C#
9 6 (2.39%) R
9 6 (2.39%) VBA
10 5 (1.99%) Go
10 5 (1.99%) Shell Script
10 5 (1.99%) VBScript
11 4 (1.59%) TypeScript
11 4 (1.59%) VB
12 2 (0.80%) C
12 2 (0.80%) C++
12 2 (0.80%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 2 (0.80%) Korn
Qualifications
1 56 (22.31%) Degree
2 27 (10.76%) Microsoft Certification
3 25 (9.96%) Computer Science Degree
4 20 (7.97%) Security Cleared
5 19 (7.57%) Azure Certification
6 15 (5.98%) SC Cleared
7 9 (3.59%) AWS Certification
8 7 (2.79%) Cisco Certification
8 7 (2.79%) PhD
9 6 (2.39%) BPSS Clearance
9 6 (2.39%) DV Cleared
9 6 (2.39%) RHCE
9 6 (2.39%) RHCSA
10 5 (1.99%) ISTQB
11 4 (1.59%) CCNA
11 4 (1.59%) OSCP
12 2 (0.80%) CCNP
12 2 (0.80%) CISSP
12 2 (0.80%) IBM AIX Certification
12 2 (0.80%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (7.57%) Data Quality
2 13 (5.18%) GDPR
3 10 (3.98%) QA
3 10 (3.98%) SLA
4 9 (3.59%) Cyber Essentials
4 9 (3.59%) NIST
5 7 (2.79%) Accessibility
5 7 (2.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 7 (2.79%) PCI DSS
6 3 (1.20%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 3 (1.20%) ISO 9001
6 3 (1.20%) ISO/IEC 42001
6 3 (1.20%) SOC 2
7 2 (0.80%) PMO
8 1 (0.40%) DICOM
System Software
1 55 (21.91%) Active Directory
2 48 (19.12%) Docker
3 26 (10.36%) VMware Infrastructure
4 18 (7.17%) vSphere
5 13 (5.18%) Virtual Desktop
6 12 (4.78%) Hyper-V
7 8 (3.19%) Virtual Machines
8 7 (2.79%) BitLocker
9 5 (1.99%) VMware NSX
10 4 (1.59%) Squid
11 3 (1.20%) iptables
12 1 (0.40%) EMC RecoverPoint
12 1 (0.40%) Firmware
12 1 (0.40%) KVM
12 1 (0.40%) Oracle RAC
12 1 (0.40%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 58 (23.11%) Terraform
2 43 (17.13%) Kubernetes
3 35 (13.94%) Ansible
4 27 (10.76%) Grafana
5 18 (7.17%) Prometheus
6 16 (6.37%) Microsoft Intune
7 14 (5.58%) SCCM
8 4 (1.59%) Jamf Pro
8 4 (1.59%) Packer
8 4 (1.59%) Puppet
8 4 (1.59%) ZABBIX
9 3 (1.20%) AWS Copilot
9 3 (1.20%) Podman
9 3 (1.20%) Progress Chef
9 3 (1.20%) systemd
10 2 (0.80%) Istio
10 2 (0.80%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
11 1 (0.40%) Argo
11 1 (0.40%) linkerd
11 1 (0.40%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 100 (39.84%) Microsoft
2 32 (12.75%) Cisco
3 28 (11.16%) VMware
4 23 (9.16%) Oracle
5 20 (7.97%) Meraki
6 14 (5.58%) Red Hat
7 12 (4.78%) Dynatrace
7 12 (4.78%) ScienceLogic
8 9 (3.59%) Google
9 8 (3.19%) IBM
9 8 (3.19%) Splunk
10 7 (2.79%) ServiceNow
11 5 (1.99%) F5
12 4 (1.59%) Adobe
12 4 (1.59%) Apple
12 4 (1.59%) Juniper
12 4 (1.59%) Logitech
12 4 (1.59%) New Relic
12 4 (1.59%) Palo Alto
12 4 (1.59%) Yealink