Task Automation Jobs in the South East

Task Automation
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 17 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 254 309 352
Rank change year-on-year +55 +43 +49
Permanent jobs citing Task Automation 58 87 47
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 0.60% 0.52% 0.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.66% 0.61% 0.35%
Number of salaries quoted 28 42 35
10th Percentile £31,250 £36,250 £37,762
25th Percentile £55,000 £50,688 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +56.25% -11.11%
75th Percentile £71,563 £67,813 £70,625
90th Percentile £77,500 £90,000 £76,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £64,140
% change year-on-year -4.00% -2.56% +6.90%

All Process and 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 8,818 14,215 13,529
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 91.86% 84.35% 94.54%
Number of salaries quoted 4,316 9,870 7,861
10th Percentile £29,750 £27,500 £30,500
25th Percentile £41,188 £36,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,790 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.58% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £86,250
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%

Task Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Task Automation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Task Automation in the South East

Task Automation
Salary Trend in the South East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Task Automation in the South East.

Salary trend for Task Automation in the South East

Task Automation
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Task Automation in the South East over the 6 months to 17 May 2025.

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 17 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
Surrey +52 27 £75,000 +20.00% 4
Hampshire +30 16 £57,500 -8.00% 2
Middlesex - 6 - -
Thames Valley +47 4 £51,250 -24.07% 23
Kent +34 4 £65,000 +73.33% 1
Buckinghamshire +35 2 £35,000 -41.67% 6
Berkshire +25 2 £67,500 -3.57% 16
Task Automation
England

Task Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 7 (12.07%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.72%) Confluence
2 1 (1.72%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.72%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.72%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.72%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (1.72%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 38 (65.52%) AWS
2 25 (43.10%) Pulumi
3 20 (34.48%) Azure
4 7 (12.07%) Entra ID
5 6 (10.34%) Azure DevOps
5 6 (10.34%) Azure Key Vault
5 6 (10.34%) Azure Monitor
5 6 (10.34%) GCP
5 6 (10.34%) GitHub
5 6 (10.34%) OpenShift
6 1 (1.72%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (1.72%) OneDrive
6 1 (1.72%) PaaS
6 1 (1.72%) Power Automate
6 1 (1.72%) Power Platform
6 1 (1.72%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 25 (43.10%) Broadband
2 22 (37.93%) DNS
3 13 (22.41%) DHCP
4 12 (20.69%) Firewall
5 9 (15.52%) SMTP
6 6 (10.34%) NAS
6 6 (10.34%) Network Security
6 6 (10.34%) Remote Desktop
6 6 (10.34%) SAN
6 6 (10.34%) VPN
6 6 (10.34%) VSAN
7 3 (5.17%) HTTP
7 3 (5.17%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (43.10%) NoSQL
1 25 (43.10%) RDBMS
1 25 (43.10%) Relational Database
2 6 (10.34%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (1.72%) MySQL
3 1 (1.72%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 25 (43.10%) Jaeger
2 1 (1.72%) Git
2 1 (1.72%) Gradle
2 1 (1.72%) JIRA
General
1 40 (68.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 7 (12.07%) Telecoms
3 6 (10.34%) Social Skills
4 4 (6.90%) Billing
5 3 (5.17%) Law
5 3 (5.17%) Pharmaceutical
6 2 (3.45%) Finance
7 1 (1.72%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (1.72%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.72%) Legal
Job Titles
1 25 (43.10%) Lead
1 25 (43.10%) Team Leader
2 12 (20.69%) Support Engineer
3 8 (13.79%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 8 (13.79%) Senior
4 6 (10.34%) Cloud Engineer
4 6 (10.34%) Infrastructure Support
4 6 (10.34%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
4 6 (10.34%) Senior Cloud Engineer
4 6 (10.34%) Support Specialist
4 6 (10.34%) Virtualisation Engineer
4 6 (10.34%) Virtualisation Specialist
4 6 (10.34%) VMware Engineer
4 6 (10.34%) VMware Specialist
4 6 (10.34%) VMware Support Engineer
5 5 (8.62%) Analyst
6 4 (6.90%) Linux Support
6 4 (6.90%) Support Analyst
7 3 (5.17%) Development Engineer
7 3 (5.17%) Information Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (43.10%) Elastic Stack
1 25 (43.10%) OpenTelemetry
2 6 (10.34%) YAML
3 1 (1.72%) Spring
3 1 (1.72%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (20.69%) Clustering
2 6 (10.34%) Legacy Systems
2 6 (10.34%) PKI
3 1 (1.72%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 35 (60.34%) Linux
2 29 (50.00%) Unix
3 12 (20.69%) Windows
3 12 (20.69%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.72%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (74.14%) High Availability
2 33 (56.90%) DevOps
2 33 (56.90%) Infrastructure as Code
3 26 (44.83%) Roadmaps
4 25 (43.10%) Agile
4 25 (43.10%) Budget Control
4 25 (43.10%) Containerisation
4 25 (43.10%) Continuous Integration
4 25 (43.10%) Cost Optimisation
4 25 (43.10%) GitOps
4 25 (43.10%) Mentoring
4 25 (43.10%) Performance Optimisation
4 25 (43.10%) Product Management
4 25 (43.10%) Resource Management
5 18 (31.03%) Incident Management
6 8 (13.79%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 8 (13.79%) Platform Engineering
7 6 (10.34%) CI/CD
7 6 (10.34%) Cost Management
7 6 (10.34%) Log Analytics
Programming Languages
1 37 (63.79%) Python
2 26 (44.83%) Java
3 25 (43.10%) Bash
3 25 (43.10%) Go
3 25 (43.10%) JavaScript
4 21 (36.21%) PowerShell
5 11 (18.97%) SQL
6 6 (10.34%) Bicep
7 4 (6.90%) Perl
8 1 (1.72%) VB
8 1 (1.72%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 25 (43.10%) AWS Certification
2 12 (20.69%) DV Cleared
2 12 (20.69%) Security Cleared
3 6 (10.34%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 4 (6.90%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.72%) GDPR
1 1 (1.72%) HIPAA
System Software
1 38 (65.52%) Docker
2 13 (22.41%) Active Directory
3 12 (20.69%) Hyper-V
3 12 (20.69%) VMware ESXi
3 12 (20.69%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (20.69%) vSphere
4 6 (10.34%) BitLocker
4 6 (10.34%) Microsoft App-V
4 6 (10.34%) Terminal Services
4 6 (10.34%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 37 (63.79%) Ansible
1 37 (63.79%) Kubernetes
2 25 (43.10%) Argo
2 25 (43.10%) Kustomize
2 25 (43.10%) Prometheus
2 25 (43.10%) Terraform
3 12 (20.69%) Puppet
3 12 (20.69%) vCenter Server
3 12 (20.69%) vMotion
4 6 (10.34%) Nagios
4 6 (10.34%) PowerCLI
4 6 (10.34%) vRealize
5 1 (1.72%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 34 (58.62%) Google
2 20 (34.48%) Microsoft
3 12 (20.69%) Citrix
3 12 (20.69%) HP
3 12 (20.69%) VMware
4 6 (10.34%) Atlassian
4 6 (10.34%) Databricks
4 6 (10.34%) Symantec
4 6 (10.34%) Veeam
5 1 (1.72%) Intapp
5 1 (1.72%) Salesforce