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

6 months to
20 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 234 449 542
Rank change year-on-year +215 +93 -41
Permanent jobs citing Task Automation 716 442 410
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 1.44% 0.51% 0.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.53% 0.60% 0.48%
Number of salaries quoted 185 286 287
10th Percentile £32,500 £40,400 £36,250
25th Percentile £51,000 £50,000 £46,204
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £64,140
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% -2.56% +6.90%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,188 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,600 £90,625 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £64,140
% change year-on-year - -6.45% +11.55%

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 46,835 73,609 84,636
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 94.17% 85.09% 95.60%
Number of salaries quoted 23,750 53,947 50,379
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,000 £34,324
25th Percentile £41,750 £40,000 £46,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £73,250 £82,500
90th Percentile £98,474 £93,750 £102,500
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 20 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 20 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
North of England +216 287 £50,000 +11.11% 69
North West +154 273 £46,000 +2.22% 31
London +106 179 £75,000 +7.14% 257
South East +61 58 £57,500 -8.00% 87
East of England +66 41 £32,500 -35.00% 28
South West +75 29 £55,000 +15.79% 28
Midlands +29 29 £53,688 +7.38% 45
East Midlands +30 18 £35,000 -28.21% 11
Yorkshire +74 13 £71,250 +90.00% 22
West Midlands +31 10 £55,594 +23.54% 34
North East +40 1 - - 17
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 35 (4.89%) Microsoft Exchange
2 27 (3.77%) SharePoint
3 3 (0.42%) Confluence
4 2 (0.28%) Apache
4 2 (0.28%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.28%) IIS
5 1 (0.14%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.14%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 11 (1.54%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (0.98%) MS Visio
3 4 (0.56%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (0.56%) Elite 3E
2 2 (0.28%) Oracle Applications
2 2 (0.28%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.14%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.14%) ION Anvil
3 1 (0.14%) ION MarketView
Cloud Services
1 270 (37.71%) AWS
2 215 (30.03%) Pulumi
3 103 (14.39%) Azure
4 42 (5.87%) Entra ID
5 37 (5.17%) Microsoft 365
6 23 (3.21%) Power Automate
6 23 (3.21%) Power Platform
7 21 (2.93%) GCP
8 20 (2.79%) OneDrive
9 17 (2.37%) Azure DevOps
10 14 (1.96%) Serverless
11 13 (1.82%) Azure Monitor
12 10 (1.40%) GitHub
12 10 (1.40%) SaaS
13 8 (1.12%) AWS Lambda
13 8 (1.12%) Azure Logic Apps
14 6 (0.84%) Azure Functions
14 6 (0.84%) Azure Key Vault
14 6 (0.84%) Cloud Computing
14 6 (0.84%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 285 (39.80%) VPN
2 270 (37.71%) Cisco IOS
3 215 (30.03%) Broadband
4 57 (7.96%) DNS
5 46 (6.42%) Firewall
6 33 (4.61%) TCP/IP
7 32 (4.47%) DHCP
8 19 (2.65%) Network Security
9 17 (2.37%) LAN
10 15 (2.09%) SMTP
10 15 (2.09%) WAN
11 12 (1.68%) Cisco Nexus
12 10 (1.40%) OSPF
13 9 (1.26%) HTTP
13 9 (1.26%) VLAN
14 8 (1.12%) BGP
14 8 (1.12%) NAS
14 8 (1.12%) Wireless
15 7 (0.98%) SAN
16 6 (0.84%) TACACS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 216 (30.17%) Relational Database
2 215 (30.03%) NoSQL
2 215 (30.03%) RDBMS
3 18 (2.51%) Power BI
4 17 (2.37%) SQL Server
5 7 (0.98%) Amazon RDS
5 7 (0.98%) Data Warehouse
6 5 (0.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 4 (0.56%) Azure SQL Database
7 4 (0.56%) Oracle Database
7 4 (0.56%) Power Query
7 4 (0.56%) PowerPivot
7 4 (0.56%) Tableau
8 3 (0.42%) BusinessObjects
8 3 (0.42%) Elasticsearch
9 2 (0.28%) Data Mining
9 2 (0.28%) MySQL
9 2 (0.28%) Oracle Exadata
9 2 (0.28%) Oracle Reports
9 2 (0.28%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 215 (30.03%) Jaeger
2 15 (2.09%) Git
3 12 (1.68%) Sonatype Nexus
4 11 (1.54%) JIRA
5 7 (0.98%) Jenkins
6 4 (0.56%) GitLab
7 2 (0.28%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.28%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 2 (0.28%) Visual Studio
8 1 (0.14%) CircleCI
8 1 (0.14%) Gradle
8 1 (0.14%) JUnit
8 1 (0.14%) Maven
8 1 (0.14%) MLflow
8 1 (0.14%) Octopus Deploy
8 1 (0.14%) Oracle Forms
8 1 (0.14%) Selenium
8 1 (0.14%) TestNG
8 1 (0.14%) WebDriver
General
1 501 (69.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 299 (41.76%) Analytical Skills
3 73 (10.20%) Social Skills
4 39 (5.45%) Finance
5 21 (2.93%) Law
6 20 (2.79%) Legal
7 19 (2.65%) Telecoms
8 11 (1.54%) Retail
9 10 (1.40%) Banking
10 9 (1.26%) Pharmaceutical
11 8 (1.12%) Marketing
12 7 (0.98%) Games
13 6 (0.84%) Front Office
13 6 (0.84%) Investment Banking
14 5 (0.70%) Billing
15 3 (0.42%) Health Technology
15 3 (0.42%) Manufacturing
15 3 (0.42%) Organisational Skills
15 3 (0.42%) Presentation Skills
16 2 (0.28%) Police
Job Titles
1 281 (39.25%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 228 (31.84%) Lead
3 216 (30.17%) Team Leader
4 41 (5.73%) Senior
5 26 (3.63%) Cloud Engineer
5 26 (3.63%) Developer
5 26 (3.63%) Support Engineer
6 20 (2.79%) Security Engineer
7 19 (2.65%) Analyst
7 19 (2.65%) Automation Engineer
8 16 (2.23%) Network Engineer
9 13 (1.82%) Support Specialist
10 12 (1.68%) Azure Engineer
11 11 (1.54%) 3rd Line Engineer
11 11 (1.54%) 3rd Line Support
12 10 (1.40%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
12 10 (1.40%) Information Security Engineer
12 10 (1.40%) IT Support
13 9 (1.26%) Development Engineer
13 9 (1.26%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 479 (66.90%) Elastic Stack
2 215 (30.03%) OpenTelemetry
3 14 (1.96%) .NET
4 8 (1.12%) AngularJS
4 8 (1.12%) YAML
5 7 (0.98%) CSS
5 7 (0.98%) HTML
6 6 (0.84%) 802.1X
6 6 (0.84%) Angular 2
6 6 (0.84%) jQuery
6 6 (0.84%) Middleware
7 4 (0.56%) JSON
7 4 (0.56%) Node.js
7 4 (0.56%) React
7 4 (0.56%) RESTful
8 3 (0.42%) .NET Core
8 3 (0.42%) ARM Templates
8 3 (0.42%) Blazor
8 3 (0.42%) REST
8 3 (0.42%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 262 (36.59%) Cyberattack
2 16 (2.23%) Management Information System
3 14 (1.96%) Clustering
4 13 (1.82%) Hybrid Cloud
5 11 (1.54%) Cyber Threat
6 9 (1.26%) Hedge funds
7 7 (0.98%) Legacy Systems
8 6 (0.84%) PKI
8 6 (0.84%) Security Posture
9 5 (0.70%) Cloud Native
9 5 (0.70%) Public Cloud
10 4 (0.56%) Equities
11 3 (0.42%) Algorithms
11 3 (0.42%) Analytical Mindset
11 3 (0.42%) Data Centre
11 3 (0.42%) Data Protection Act
11 3 (0.42%) Onboarding
11 3 (0.42%) Security Operations Centre
11 3 (0.42%) Self-Motivation
12 2 (0.28%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 516 (72.07%) Linux
2 320 (44.69%) Windows
3 265 (37.01%) Android
4 230 (32.12%) Unix
5 35 (4.89%) Windows Server
6 8 (1.12%) Windows Server 2019
7 7 (0.98%) Windows Server 2012
8 6 (0.84%) Windows 10
9 5 (0.70%) Mac OS
10 4 (0.56%) Windows Server 2016
11 2 (0.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 2 (0.28%) VMS
12 1 (0.14%) Apple iOS
12 1 (0.14%) Mac OS X
12 1 (0.14%) Solaris
12 1 (0.14%) Windows Server 2003
12 1 (0.14%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 526 (73.46%) DevOps
2 334 (46.65%) Problem-Solving
3 287 (40.08%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 273 (38.13%) Platform Engineering
5 267 (37.29%) Storage Management
6 266 (37.15%) Mathematics
7 264 (36.87%) Line Management
7 264 (36.87%) Risk Management
8 248 (34.64%) High Availability
9 247 (34.50%) Infrastructure as Code
10 239 (33.38%) Mentoring
11 232 (32.40%) Agile
12 228 (31.84%) Roadmaps
13 222 (31.01%) Containerisation
13 222 (31.01%) Continuous Integration
14 221 (30.87%) Cost Optimisation
15 219 (30.59%) Resource Management
16 216 (30.17%) Performance Optimisation
17 215 (30.03%) GitOps
17 215 (30.03%) Product Management
Programming Languages
1 563 (78.63%) Python
2 499 (69.69%) Bash
3 368 (51.40%) PowerShell
4 234 (32.68%) JavaScript
5 228 (31.84%) Java
6 215 (30.03%) Go
7 67 (9.36%) SQL
8 20 (2.79%) C#
9 11 (1.54%) Bicep
9 11 (1.54%) R
10 8 (1.12%) TypeScript
11 7 (0.98%) PL/SQL
12 6 (0.84%) Perl
13 5 (0.70%) Shell Script
14 4 (0.56%) T-SQL
14 4 (0.56%) VB
15 2 (0.28%) Kusto Query Language
15 2 (0.28%) VBA
15 2 (0.28%) VBScript
16 1 (0.14%) PHP
Qualifications
1 223 (31.15%) AWS Certification
2 60 (8.38%) Degree
3 28 (3.91%) Security Cleared
4 25 (3.49%) Computer Science Degree
5 16 (2.23%) DV Cleared
6 15 (2.09%) CCNP
6 15 (2.09%) Cisco Certification
7 10 (1.40%) SC Cleared
8 8 (1.12%) Azure Certification
8 8 (1.12%) CCNA
9 7 (0.98%) Microsoft Certification
10 6 (0.84%) JNCIA
10 6 (0.84%) JNCIS
10 6 (0.84%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 3 (0.42%) CCIE
12 2 (0.28%) A+ Certification
12 2 (0.28%) ISTQB
12 2 (0.28%) Master's Degree
12 2 (0.28%) MCSA
12 2 (0.28%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (1.68%) GDPR
2 7 (0.98%) Cyber Essentials
3 6 (0.84%) NIST
4 5 (0.70%) Accessibility
5 4 (0.56%) Data Quality
6 3 (0.42%) QA
6 3 (0.42%) SLA
7 2 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 2 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.28%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.28%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.14%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.14%) NCSC
8 1 (0.14%) PMO
8 1 (0.14%) SOC 2
System Software
1 494 (68.99%) Docker
2 281 (39.25%) Hyper-V
3 276 (38.55%) vSphere
4 262 (36.59%) VMware NSX
5 45 (6.28%) Active Directory
6 21 (2.93%) VMware Infrastructure
7 19 (2.65%) Virtual Machines
8 13 (1.82%) VMware ESXi
9 7 (0.98%) BitLocker
9 7 (0.98%) Microsoft App-V
10 6 (0.84%) Terminal Services
11 1 (0.14%) Firmware
11 1 (0.14%) RHEV
11 1 (0.14%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 524 (73.18%) Ansible
2 513 (71.65%) Terraform
3 238 (33.24%) Kubernetes
4 223 (31.15%) Prometheus
5 216 (30.17%) Argo
6 215 (30.03%) Kustomize
7 34 (4.75%) Microsoft Intune
8 23 (3.21%) SCCM
9 21 (2.93%) Single Sign-On
10 16 (2.23%) Puppet
11 12 (1.68%) vCenter Server
11 12 (1.68%) vMotion
12 11 (1.54%) Grafana
13 6 (0.84%) Nagios
13 6 (0.84%) PowerCLI
13 6 (0.84%) vRealize
14 5 (0.70%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 3 (0.42%) Backup Exec
15 3 (0.42%) Jamf Pro
15 3 (0.42%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 280 (39.11%) Cisco
2 267 (37.29%) Splunk
3 262 (36.59%) 3PAR
3 262 (36.59%) Juniper
4 241 (33.66%) Google
5 98 (13.69%) Microsoft
6 24 (3.35%) VMware
7 16 (2.23%) Veeam
8 15 (2.09%) Citrix
9 13 (1.82%) HP
10 9 (1.26%) Databricks
10 9 (1.26%) Oracle
10 9 (1.26%) Palo Alto
11 8 (1.12%) Atlassian
11 8 (1.12%) Symantec
12 7 (0.98%) Meraki
13 6 (0.84%) Arista
13 6 (0.84%) F5
13 6 (0.84%) LogicMonitor
14 5 (0.70%) Intapp