Task Automation Job Trends in the South East

Task Automation
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South East requiring Task Automation skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 239 210 265
Rank change year-on-year -29 +55 +72
Permanent jobs citing Task Automation 45 56 76
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.38% 0.75% 0.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.49% 0.83% 0.67%
Number of salaries quoted 41 37 49
10th Percentile £32,500 £44,450 £36,250
25th Percentile £39,625 £69,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £77,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -41.56% +23.20% +47.06%
75th Percentile £63,750 £100,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £77,500 - £73,750
England median annual salary £57,500 £77,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -25.32% +28.33% -6.45%

All Process & Methodology Skills
South East

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 South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 9,212 6,731 11,315
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 77.07% 90.16% 85.80%
Number of salaries quoted 5,713 3,223 8,388
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £27,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £42,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +15.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £65,000 £73,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £78,413
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +13.64% -12.00%

Task Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Task Automation job vacancy trend in the South East

Task Automation
Salary Trend in the South East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Task Automation.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Task Automation

Task Automation
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Task Automation in the South East over the 6 months to 5 March 2026.

Salary histogram for Task Automation in the South East

Task Automation
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Task Automation within the South East region over the 6 months to 5 March 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
Thames Valley -1 16 £55,000 -28.57% 12
Surrey -27 11 £42,500 -44.08% 2
Berkshire -3 10 £45,000 -49.15% 8
Hampshire +5 8 £57,500 -11.20% 3
Buckinghamshire +2 6 £75,000 +81.82% 4
East Sussex -1 6 £30,000 -66.10%
West Sussex - 4 £70,000 - 1
Task Automation
England

Task Automation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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 8 (17.78%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (6.67%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (2.22%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 26 (57.78%) Azure
2 15 (33.33%) SaaS
3 12 (26.67%) Entra ID
4 11 (24.44%) Microsoft 365
5 8 (17.78%) Power Platform
6 5 (11.11%) GitHub
7 4 (8.89%) AWS CloudFormation
7 4 (8.89%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (8.89%) Azure Key Vault
7 4 (8.89%) GitHub Actions
7 4 (8.89%) IaaS
7 4 (8.89%) OpenShift
7 4 (8.89%) PaaS
8 3 (6.67%) AWS
9 2 (4.44%) Apigee
9 2 (4.44%) Kong
10 1 (2.22%) ChatGPT
10 1 (2.22%) Datadog
10 1 (2.22%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 9 (20.00%) Firewall
2 5 (11.11%) VPN
3 3 (6.67%) Wireless
4 2 (4.44%) Cisco ASA
4 2 (4.44%) TCP/IP
5 1 (2.22%) DNS
5 1 (2.22%) Intranet
5 1 (2.22%) Intrusion Detection
5 1 (2.22%) IPv4
5 1 (2.22%) IPv6
5 1 (2.22%) LAN
5 1 (2.22%) Network Security
5 1 (2.22%) VLAN
5 1 (2.22%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (17.78%) MySQL
1 8 (17.78%) PostgreSQL
1 8 (17.78%) Power BI
1 8 (17.78%) SQL Server
1 8 (17.78%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 4 (8.89%) Relational Database
3 1 (2.22%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 6 (13.33%) Git
2 4 (8.89%) GitLab
2 4 (8.89%) Jenkins
2 4 (8.89%) JIRA
3 1 (2.22%) Browser DevTools
General
1 23 (51.11%) Social Skills
2 18 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (8.89%) Finance
3 4 (8.89%) Telecoms
4 2 (4.44%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (4.44%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (22.22%) Analyst
1 10 (22.22%) Data Analyst
2 9 (20.00%) Applications Engineer
2 9 (20.00%) Applications Support
2 9 (20.00%) Applications Support Engineer
2 9 (20.00%) Support Engineer
3 8 (17.78%) Business Intelligence Analyst
3 8 (17.78%) Business Intelligence Data Analyst
3 8 (17.78%) Senior
3 8 (17.78%) SQL Analyst
3 8 (17.78%) SQL Data Analyst
3 8 (17.78%) SSRS Analyst
4 5 (11.11%) Lead
4 5 (11.11%) Network Engineer
5 4 (8.89%) Automation Engineer
5 4 (8.89%) Platform Engineer
5 4 (8.89%) Senior Applications Engineer
5 4 (8.89%) Senior Support Engineer
5 4 (8.89%) Technical Support
5 4 (8.89%) Telecoms Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (26.67%) JSON
2 10 (22.22%) XML
3 8 (17.78%) ARM Templates
3 8 (17.78%) REST
4 4 (8.89%) Jinja
4 4 (8.89%) SOAP
4 4 (8.89%) YAML
5 2 (4.44%) YANG
6 1 (2.22%) React
Miscellaneous
1 22 (48.89%) Onboarding
2 8 (17.78%) Data Structures
3 5 (11.11%) Cloud Native
4 4 (8.89%) Linux Command Line
5 3 (6.67%) Driving Licence
6 2 (4.44%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (2.22%) Data Centre
7 1 (2.22%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (2.22%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (2.22%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 5 (11.11%) Windows
2 4 (8.89%) VMS
3 3 (6.67%) Linux
3 3 (6.67%) Windows Server
4 2 (4.44%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (44.44%) Problem-Solving
2 14 (31.11%) Data Analysis
3 13 (28.89%) CI/CD
3 13 (28.89%) Containerisation
3 13 (28.89%) Validation
4 10 (22.22%) Business Intelligence
4 10 (22.22%) Data Modelling
4 10 (22.22%) DevOps
5 9 (20.00%) Data Validation
5 9 (20.00%) Root Cause Analysis
6 8 (17.78%) Cloud Operations
6 8 (17.78%) Collaborative Working
6 8 (17.78%) Network Virtualisation
6 8 (17.78%) RBAC
7 7 (15.56%) Analytics
7 7 (15.56%) Continuous Improvement
8 6 (13.33%) Infrastructure as Code
9 5 (11.11%) Observability
9 5 (11.11%) Problem Management
9 5 (11.11%) Security Operations
Programming Languages
1 25 (55.56%) PowerShell
1 25 (55.56%) Python
2 19 (42.22%) SQL
3 8 (17.78%) T-SQL
4 5 (11.11%) Bash
5 4 (8.89%) Bicep
5 4 (8.89%) C#
6 3 (6.67%) JavaScript
7 1 (2.22%) Java
Qualifications
1 5 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
1 5 (11.11%) Degree
1 5 (11.11%) Security Cleared
2 1 (2.22%) CCNA
2 1 (2.22%) CCNP
2 1 (2.22%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (2.22%) JNCIA
2 1 (2.22%) JNCIS
2 1 (2.22%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (22.22%) Data Quality
2 8 (17.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 8 (17.78%) QA
3 4 (8.89%) NIST
3 4 (8.89%) PCI DSS
3 4 (8.89%) SLA
System Software
1 15 (33.33%) Active Directory
2 9 (20.00%) Docker
3 3 (6.67%) Hyper-V
4 1 (2.22%) KVM
4 1 (2.22%) RHEV
4 1 (2.22%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (2.22%) Xen
Systems Management
1 9 (20.00%) Kubernetes
2 8 (17.78%) Terraform
3 1 (2.22%) Ansible
3 1 (2.22%) Control-M
3 1 (2.22%) Kibana
3 1 (2.22%) Nagios
3 1 (2.22%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 15 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 5 (11.11%) Cisco
3 4 (8.89%) Red Hat
3 4 (8.89%) Zoho
4 3 (6.67%) F5
4 3 (6.67%) Juniper
5 2 (4.44%) Dynatrace
5 2 (4.44%) Oracle
5 2 (4.44%) Palo Alto
6 1 (2.22%) SolarWinds
6 1 (2.22%) VMware