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 8 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 388 452 544
Rank change year-on-year +64 +92 -29
Permanent jobs citing Task Automation 317 428 426
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.66% 0.50% 0.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.70% 0.58% 0.49%
Number of salaries quoted 263 286 296
10th Percentile £36,500 £40,400 £35,000
25th Percentile £54,125 £50,000 £46,157
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £62,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% - +4.17%
75th Percentile £90,000 £76,250 £78,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £90,625 £95,000
UK median annual salary £73,250 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +22.08% -4.00% +4.17%

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 45,051 73,216 87,464
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 94.07% 85.60% 95.65%
Number of salaries quoted 23,853 53,906 51,671
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,000 £34,308
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £46,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £76,250 £73,750 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £93,750 £101,250
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,180
% change year-on-year +4.55% -10.10% +1.97%

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 8 May 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 8 May 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
London +49 119 £77,500 +10.71% 215
North of England +85 55 £75,000 +66.67% 50
South East +73 52 £75,000 +20.00% 72
Midlands +28 35 £60,000 +20.00% 28
North West +10 33 £68,496 +52.21% 27
East of England +65 25 £77,000 +54.00% 30
South West +88 23 £55,000 +15.79% 18
Yorkshire +70 20 £77,000 +120.00% 15
East Midlands +44 17 £57,500 +17.95% 9
West Midlands +28 17 £62,500 +38.89% 18
North East +50 2 £88,500 +4.12% 9
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 31 (9.78%) Microsoft Exchange
2 27 (8.52%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.26%) Confluence
4 3 (0.95%) Apache
5 2 (0.63%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.63%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.63%) IIS
6 1 (0.32%) CICS
6 1 (0.32%) SAS
6 1 (0.32%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 11 (3.47%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (2.21%) MS Visio
3 4 (1.26%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.32%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (1.26%) Elite 3E
2 2 (0.63%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.63%) Oracle Applications
2 2 (0.63%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.32%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (0.32%) Finacle
3 1 (0.32%) ION Anvil
3 1 (0.32%) ION MarketView
Cloud Services
1 132 (41.64%) AWS
2 105 (33.12%) Azure
3 41 (12.93%) Entra ID
4 33 (10.41%) Microsoft 365
5 26 (8.20%) Power Platform
6 24 (7.57%) GCP
7 23 (7.26%) Power Automate
8 20 (6.31%) OneDrive
9 18 (5.68%) Azure DevOps
10 15 (4.73%) Serverless
11 13 (4.10%) Azure Monitor
12 10 (3.15%) GitHub
13 9 (2.84%) AWS Lambda
14 8 (2.52%) Azure Logic Apps
14 8 (2.52%) SaaS
15 7 (2.21%) Cloud Computing
16 6 (1.89%) Azure Data Factory
16 6 (1.89%) Azure Functions
16 6 (1.89%) Azure Key Vault
16 6 (1.89%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 56 (17.67%) DNS
2 45 (14.20%) Firewall
3 31 (9.78%) DHCP
4 30 (9.46%) TCP/IP
5 21 (6.62%) VPN
6 17 (5.36%) Network Security
7 16 (5.05%) LAN
8 15 (4.73%) SMTP
9 14 (4.42%) WAN
10 12 (3.79%) Cisco Nexus
11 9 (2.84%) HTTP
12 8 (2.52%) Cisco IOS
12 8 (2.52%) NAS
12 8 (2.52%) OSPF
12 8 (2.52%) Wireless
13 7 (2.21%) SAN
13 7 (2.21%) VLAN
14 6 (1.89%) BGP
14 6 (1.89%) BIG-IP
14 6 (1.89%) DWDM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (6.31%) Power BI
1 20 (6.31%) SQL Server
2 8 (2.52%) Data Warehouse
3 7 (2.21%) Amazon RDS
4 6 (1.89%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 5 (1.58%) Azure SQL Database
5 5 (1.58%) Tableau
6 4 (1.26%) Oracle Database
6 4 (1.26%) Power Query
6 4 (1.26%) PowerPivot
7 3 (0.95%) BusinessObjects
7 3 (0.95%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (0.63%) Data Lake
8 2 (0.63%) Data Mining
8 2 (0.63%) MySQL
8 2 (0.63%) OLTP
8 2 (0.63%) Oracle Exadata
8 2 (0.63%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (0.63%) RavenDB
8 2 (0.63%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 16 (5.05%) Git
2 14 (4.42%) JIRA
3 12 (3.79%) Sonatype Nexus
4 6 (1.89%) Jenkins
5 5 (1.58%) GitLab
6 3 (0.95%) Bitbucket
6 3 (0.95%) Visual Studio
7 2 (0.63%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 1 (0.32%) CircleCI
8 1 (0.32%) Gradle
8 1 (0.32%) JUnit
8 1 (0.32%) Maven
8 1 (0.32%) MLflow
8 1 (0.32%) Octopus Deploy
8 1 (0.32%) Oracle Forms
8 1 (0.32%) Selenium
8 1 (0.32%) TestNG
8 1 (0.32%) WebDriver
General
1 73 (23.03%) Social Skills
2 43 (13.56%) Finance
3 34 (10.73%) Analytical Skills
4 24 (7.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 22 (6.94%) Law
6 19 (5.99%) Legal
6 19 (5.99%) Telecoms
7 16 (5.05%) Retail
8 14 (4.42%) Banking
9 9 (2.84%) Marketing
9 9 (2.84%) Pharmaceutical
10 8 (2.52%) Games
11 6 (1.89%) Front Office
12 5 (1.58%) Billing
12 5 (1.58%) Investment Banking
13 3 (0.95%) Aerospace
13 3 (0.95%) Financial Institution
13 3 (0.95%) Health Technology
13 3 (0.95%) Manufacturing
13 3 (0.95%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 73 (23.03%) Machine Learning Engineer
2 44 (13.88%) Senior
3 27 (8.52%) Developer
4 26 (8.20%) Cloud Engineer
5 23 (7.26%) Support Engineer
6 19 (5.99%) Automation Engineer
6 19 (5.99%) Security Engineer
7 18 (5.68%) Analyst
8 16 (5.05%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 15 (4.73%) Lead
10 14 (4.42%) Network Engineer
11 13 (4.10%) Support Specialist
12 11 (3.47%) Administrator
13 10 (3.15%) DBA
13 10 (3.15%) Information Security Engineer
13 10 (3.15%) IT Support
13 10 (3.15%) Site Engineer
13 10 (3.15%) Site Reliability Engineer
14 9 (2.84%) Development Engineer
15 8 (2.52%) Senior IT Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (5.05%) .NET
2 8 (2.52%) AngularJS
2 8 (2.52%) YAML
3 7 (2.21%) CSS
3 7 (2.21%) HTML
3 7 (2.21%) Middleware
4 6 (1.89%) 802.1X
4 6 (1.89%) Angular 2
4 6 (1.89%) jQuery
4 6 (1.89%) Node.js
5 4 (1.26%) Blazor
5 4 (1.26%) Elastic Stack
5 4 (1.26%) JSON
5 4 (1.26%) React
5 4 (1.26%) RESTful
6 3 (0.95%) .NET Core
6 3 (0.95%) ARM Templates
6 3 (0.95%) REST
6 3 (0.95%) Spring
6 3 (0.95%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 16 (5.05%) Management Information System
2 14 (4.42%) Clustering
2 14 (4.42%) Hybrid Cloud
3 11 (3.47%) Cyber Threat
4 8 (2.52%) Hedge funds
5 7 (2.21%) Legacy Systems
6 6 (1.89%) PKI
7 5 (1.58%) Cloud Native
7 5 (1.58%) Public Cloud
7 5 (1.58%) Security Posture
8 4 (1.26%) Equities
9 3 (0.95%) Algorithms
9 3 (0.95%) Analytical Mindset
9 3 (0.95%) Data Centre
9 3 (0.95%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (0.95%) Onboarding
9 3 (0.95%) Self-Motivation
10 2 (0.63%) Distributed Computing
10 2 (0.63%) Product Ownership
10 2 (0.63%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 56 (17.67%) Windows
2 41 (12.93%) Linux
3 33 (10.41%) Windows Server
4 13 (4.10%) Unix
5 6 (1.89%) Windows 10
5 6 (1.89%) Windows Server 2012
6 5 (1.58%) Windows Server 2019
7 4 (1.26%) Mac OS
7 4 (1.26%) Windows Server 2016
8 3 (0.95%) Android
9 2 (0.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 2 (0.63%) VMS
10 1 (0.32%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.32%) Mac OS X
10 1 (0.32%) Solaris
10 1 (0.32%) Windows Server 2003
10 1 (0.32%) Windows Server 2008
10 1 (0.32%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 93 (29.34%) Artificial Intelligence
2 88 (27.76%) Workflow
3 87 (27.44%) Decision-Making
4 81 (25.55%) API Integration
5 77 (24.29%) Machine Learning
6 74 (23.34%) Generative AI
7 73 (23.03%) LLM
8 71 (22.40%) Problem-Solving
9 57 (17.98%) DevOps
10 43 (13.56%) CI/CD
11 42 (13.25%) Cybersecurity
12 35 (11.04%) Incident Management
12 35 (11.04%) Infrastructure as Code
13 33 (10.41%) Computer Science
13 33 (10.41%) High Availability
14 31 (9.78%) Analytics
15 24 (7.57%) Agile
15 24 (7.57%) Mentoring
16 23 (7.26%) Business Intelligence
16 23 (7.26%) Information Security
Programming Languages
1 161 (50.79%) Python
2 103 (32.49%) PowerShell
3 67 (21.14%) SQL
4 25 (7.89%) Bash
5 22 (6.94%) JavaScript
6 21 (6.62%) C#
7 11 (3.47%) Java
7 11 (3.47%) R
8 10 (3.15%) Bicep
9 8 (2.52%) TypeScript
10 6 (1.89%) Perl
11 5 (1.58%) T-SQL
11 5 (1.58%) VB
12 4 (1.26%) PL/SQL
13 3 (0.95%) Shell Script
14 2 (0.63%) Kusto Query Language
14 2 (0.63%) VBA
14 2 (0.63%) VBScript
15 1 (0.32%) COBOL
15 1 (0.32%) PHP
Qualifications
1 60 (18.93%) Degree
2 29 (9.15%) Security Cleared
3 26 (8.20%) Computer Science Degree
4 16 (5.05%) DV Cleared
5 15 (4.73%) CCNP
5 15 (4.73%) Cisco Certification
6 11 (3.47%) SC Cleared
7 10 (3.15%) Azure Certification
8 9 (2.84%) Microsoft Certification
9 8 (2.52%) AWS Certification
9 8 (2.52%) CCNA
10 6 (1.89%) JNCIA
10 6 (1.89%) JNCIS
10 6 (1.89%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 3 (0.95%) CCIE
11 3 (0.95%) DBS Check
12 2 (0.63%) ISTQB
12 2 (0.63%) Master's Degree
12 2 (0.63%) MCSA
12 2 (0.63%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (4.42%) GDPR
2 7 (2.21%) Cyber Essentials
3 6 (1.89%) NIST
4 5 (1.58%) Accessibility
4 5 (1.58%) Data Quality
4 5 (1.58%) QA
5 3 (0.95%) SLA
6 2 (0.63%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 2 (0.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.63%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.63%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.32%) Basel III
7 1 (0.32%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.32%) MiFID
7 1 (0.32%) NCSC
7 1 (0.32%) PMO
7 1 (0.32%) PSD2
7 1 (0.32%) SOC 2
System Software
1 46 (14.51%) Active Directory
2 22 (6.94%) Docker
3 19 (5.99%) Virtual Machines
4 18 (5.68%) VMware Infrastructure
5 16 (5.05%) Hyper-V
6 14 (4.42%) vSphere
7 13 (4.10%) VMware ESXi
8 7 (2.21%) BitLocker
8 7 (2.21%) Microsoft App-V
9 6 (1.89%) Terminal Services
10 1 (0.32%) Firmware
10 1 (0.32%) RHEV
10 1 (0.32%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 49 (15.46%) Ansible
2 37 (11.67%) Terraform
3 34 (10.73%) Microsoft Intune
4 28 (8.83%) Kubernetes
5 23 (7.26%) SCCM
6 20 (6.31%) Single Sign-On
7 16 (5.05%) Puppet
8 12 (3.79%) vCenter Server
8 12 (3.79%) vMotion
9 9 (2.84%) Grafana
9 9 (2.84%) Prometheus
10 7 (2.21%) Nagios
11 6 (1.89%) PowerCLI
11 6 (1.89%) vRealize
12 4 (1.26%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 3 (0.95%) Jamf Pro
14 2 (0.63%) Oracle RMAN
15 1 (0.32%) Failover Clustering
15 1 (0.32%) Progress Chef
15 1 (0.32%) SCOM
Vendors
1 98 (30.91%) Microsoft
2 28 (8.83%) Google
3 21 (6.62%) VMware
4 18 (5.68%) Cisco
5 15 (4.73%) Citrix
6 13 (4.10%) HP
6 13 (4.10%) Veeam
7 10 (3.15%) Palo Alto
8 9 (2.84%) Atlassian
8 9 (2.84%) Databricks
8 9 (2.84%) Symantec
9 7 (2.21%) Meraki
10 6 (1.89%) Arista
10 6 (1.89%) F5
10 6 (1.89%) LogicMonitor
10 6 (1.89%) Oracle
11 5 (1.58%) Intapp
11 5 (1.58%) Sage
11 5 (1.58%) Salesforce
12 4 (1.26%) iManage