Task Automation Jobs in the Thames Valley

Task Automation
South East > Thames Valley

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley with a requirement for Task Automation skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Task Automation over the 6 months to 6 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 228 246 231
Rank change year-on-year +18 -15 -17
Permanent jobs citing Task Automation 12 14 48
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.18% 0.23% 0.69%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.21% 0.24% 0.74%
Number of salaries quoted 12 12 30
10th Percentile £55,000 £32,877 £26,989
25th Percentile £63,438 £40,459 £27,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,750 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.79% - -12.50%
75th Percentile £74,063 £77,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £115,875 £79,750 -
South East median annual salary £62,500 £40,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year +56.25% -11.11% -18.18%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

Task Automation is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 5,748 5,795 6,493
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 85.18% 94.69% 92.80%
Number of salaries quoted 3,995 3,149 3,922
10th Percentile £29,000 £29,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £38,000 £40,000 £41,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £87,500 £82,500
South East median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%

Task Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Task Automation in the Thames Valley

Task Automation
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Task Automation in the Thames Valley.

Salary trend for Task Automation in the Thames Valley

Task Automation
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing Task Automation in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Task Automation in the Thames Valley

Task Automation
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Task Automation within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 6 May 2024. 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
Berkshire +24 9 £70,000 -6.04% 4
Oxfordshire +9 2 £56,003 +36.69% 3
Buckinghamshire -15 1 £77,500 +14.81% 1
Task Automation
South East

Task Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 2 (16.67%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 7 (58.33%) AWS
2 5 (41.67%) GitHub
3 4 (33.33%) Azure
3 4 (33.33%) SaaS
4 2 (16.67%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (8.33%) GCP
5 1 (8.33%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (8.33%) Pulumi
5 1 (8.33%) SonarCloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (16.67%) Firewall
2 1 (8.33%) Internet
2 1 (8.33%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (8.33%) Network Security
2 1 (8.33%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (50.00%) Cucumber
1 6 (50.00%) Selenium
2 5 (41.67%) Jenkins
3 4 (33.33%) Bitbucket
3 4 (33.33%) Bitbucket Server
3 4 (33.33%) JIRA
3 4 (33.33%) JMeter
3 4 (33.33%) Serenity BDD
3 4 (33.33%) SoapUI
4 3 (25.00%) REST Assured
4 3 (25.00%) WebDriver
5 2 (16.67%) JUnit
5 2 (16.67%) TestNG
6 1 (8.33%) TeamCity
General
1 1 (8.33%) Retail
1 1 (8.33%) Social Skills
1 1 (8.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 6 (50.00%) Automation Tester
1 6 (50.00%) Tester
2 2 (16.67%) Developer
2 2 (16.67%) Java Automation Tester
2 2 (16.67%) Senior
3 1 (8.33%) Architect
3 1 (8.33%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Developer in Test
3 1 (8.33%) DevSecOps Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 1 (8.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Lead
3 1 (8.33%) Lead DevOps
3 1 (8.33%) Lead DevOps Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Security Architect
3 1 (8.33%) Senior Developer
3 1 (8.33%) Senior Front-End Developer
3 1 (8.33%) Splunk Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Telecoms Architect
3 1 (8.33%) Test Automation Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (41.67%) Web Services
2 4 (33.33%) RESTful
2 4 (33.33%) SOAP
3 2 (16.67%) Apache Commons
3 2 (16.67%) Guava
3 2 (16.67%) Java Concurrency
3 2 (16.67%) REST
3 2 (16.67%) WireMock
4 1 (8.33%) CSS
4 1 (8.33%) HTML
4 1 (8.33%) React
Miscellaneous
1 1 (8.33%) Data Centre
1 1 (8.33%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (8.33%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1 (8.33%) Kali Linux
1 1 (8.33%) Linux
1 1 (8.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 6 (50.00%) Agile
2 6 (50.00%) Scrum
2 6 (50.00%) SDET
2 6 (50.00%) Software Testing
2 6 (50.00%) Test Automation
3 5 (41.67%) Containerisation
4 4 (33.33%) Test Management
5 3 (25.00%) BDD
5 3 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
6 2 (16.67%) API Testing
6 2 (16.67%) Code Quality
6 2 (16.67%) Computer Science
6 2 (16.67%) Continuous Deployment
6 2 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
6 2 (16.67%) Design Patterns
6 2 (16.67%) DevOps
6 2 (16.67%) Scenario Testing
6 2 (16.67%) Security Operations
7 1 (8.33%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (50.00%) Java
2 5 (41.67%) JavaScript
2 5 (41.67%) Python
3 4 (33.33%) PowerShell
3 4 (33.33%) SQL
4 2 (16.67%) Bash
5 1 (8.33%) AWK
5 1 (8.33%) PL/SQL
5 1 (8.33%) Ruby
5 1 (8.33%) sed
5 1 (8.33%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 6 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 6 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (16.67%) Degree
3 1 (8.33%) AWS Certification
3 1 (8.33%) Azure Certification
3 1 (8.33%) CISSP
3 1 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (8.33%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (8.33%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
1 1 (8.33%) NIST
1 1 (8.33%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 4 (33.33%) Docker
2 1 (8.33%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 4 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 2 (16.67%) Ansible
2 2 (16.67%) Terraform
3 1 (8.33%) Progress Chef
3 1 (8.33%) Salt
3 1 (8.33%) Suricata
Vendors
1 2 (16.67%) Cisco
1 2 (16.67%) Splunk
2 1 (8.33%) Juniper
2 1 (8.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (8.33%) Oracle
2 1 (8.33%) Palo Alto