Task Automation Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Task Automation
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Task Automation skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 430 280 451
Rank change year-on-year -150 +171 +8
Permanent jobs citing Task Automation 112 260 260
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.21% 0.94% 0.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.28% 1.02% 0.51%
Number of salaries quoted 92 175 156
10th Percentile £28,456 £43,700 £36,250
25th Percentile £31,750 £53,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £75,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -40.00% +42.86% -
75th Percentile £63,750 £88,125 £63,750
90th Percentile £74,875 £100,000 £79,375
UK median annual salary £60,000 £75,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -20.00% +30.43% -10.35%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 40,195 25,394 50,694
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 75.10% 92.08% 85.67%
Number of salaries quoted 23,951 13,564 37,864
10th Percentile £28,250 £29,750 £27,300
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £66,250 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £77,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -11.41%

Task Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Task Automation job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Task Automation
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Task Automation.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Task Automation

Task Automation
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Task Automation in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 17 March 2026.

Salary histogram for Task Automation in the UK excluding London

Task Automation
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Task Automation within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 17 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
South East -29 41 £47,500 -38.31% 25
North of England -74 27 £34,000 -54.67% 22
Midlands -41 22 £32,500 -49.02% 8
East Midlands -34 14 £32,500 -57.79% 5
South West -33 13 £66,763 +13.64% 7
Yorkshire -52 12 £28,375 -63.15% 9
North West -41 10 £50,000 -33.33% 8
West Midlands -11 8 £49,500 -17.50% 3
North East -22 5 £33,500 -56.49% 5
Scotland -28 4 £72,500 +9.85% 3
Northern Ireland -35 2 £73,801 -26.20% 1
East of England -56 2 £28,456 -63.04% 4
Wales -18 1 £73,801 +49.09% 3
Task Automation
UK

Task Automation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 23 (20.54%) Microsoft Exchange
2 18 (16.07%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.79%) Confluence
3 2 (1.79%) Oracle Application Server
Applications
1 1 (0.89%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (3.57%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 59 (52.68%) Azure
2 27 (24.11%) Microsoft 365
3 26 (23.21%) AWS
4 21 (18.75%) SaaS
5 20 (17.86%) Entra ID
6 16 (14.29%) AWS CloudFormation
7 11 (9.82%) OpenShift
8 9 (8.04%) PaaS
8 9 (8.04%) Power Platform
9 7 (6.25%) Amazon ECS
9 7 (6.25%) GitHub
10 6 (5.36%) Amazon EKS
10 6 (5.36%) Azure DevOps
10 6 (5.36%) Datadog
10 6 (5.36%) Pulumi
11 5 (4.46%) Apigee
11 5 (4.46%) GCP
11 5 (4.46%) IaaS
11 5 (4.46%) Kong
11 5 (4.46%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 17 (15.18%) Firewall
2 14 (12.50%) VPN
3 13 (11.61%) TCP/IP
4 11 (9.82%) VoIP
5 10 (8.93%) VLAN
6 9 (8.04%) DHCP
6 9 (8.04%) DNS
7 5 (4.46%) Cisco ASA
8 4 (3.57%) Wireless
9 2 (1.79%) Asterisk PBX
9 2 (1.79%) Broadband
9 2 (1.79%) Intranet
9 2 (1.79%) PSTN
10 1 (0.89%) Ethernet
10 1 (0.89%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (10.71%) PostgreSQL
1 12 (10.71%) SQL Server
2 8 (7.14%) Amazon RDS
2 8 (7.14%) MySQL
2 8 (7.14%) Power BI
2 8 (7.14%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 4 (3.57%) Elasticsearch
3 4 (3.57%) Redis
4 3 (2.68%) Relational Database
5 2 (1.79%) CockroachDB
5 2 (1.79%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (1.79%) Metadata
5 2 (1.79%) NoSQL
5 2 (1.79%) Oracle BI EE
5 2 (1.79%) Oracle ODI
5 2 (1.79%) Oracle Reports
5 2 (1.79%) RDBMS
5 2 (1.79%) Snowflake Schema
5 2 (1.79%) Star Schema
6 1 (0.89%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 16 (14.29%) GitLab
2 12 (10.71%) Jenkins
3 11 (9.82%) JIRA
4 7 (6.25%) Git
5 2 (1.79%) Checkstyle
5 2 (1.79%) Cypress.io
5 2 (1.79%) ESLint
5 2 (1.79%) Gradle
5 2 (1.79%) Jaeger
5 2 (1.79%) JUnit
5 2 (1.79%) Maven
5 2 (1.79%) Mockito
5 2 (1.79%) Oracle APEX
5 2 (1.79%) Selenium
5 2 (1.79%) SonarQube
5 2 (1.79%) TestNG
6 1 (0.89%) Browser DevTools
6 1 (0.89%) CircleCI
General
1 45 (40.18%) Social Skills
2 25 (22.32%) Analytical Skills
3 12 (10.71%) Telecoms
4 9 (8.04%) Finance
5 8 (7.14%) Law
5 8 (7.14%) Legal
6 7 (6.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 7 (6.25%) Organisational Skills
7 5 (4.46%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (2.68%) Advertising
8 3 (2.68%) Retail
9 2 (1.79%) Public Sector
10 1 (0.89%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.89%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.89%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 13 (11.61%) Senior
2 12 (10.71%) IT Support
2 12 (10.71%) Support Engineer
3 11 (9.82%) 3rd Line Support
3 11 (9.82%) Analyst
3 11 (9.82%) Data Analyst
3 11 (9.82%) Network Engineer
4 10 (8.93%) Automation Engineer
4 10 (8.93%) Telecoms Engineer
5 8 (7.14%) 2nd Line Support
5 8 (7.14%) 2nd/3rd Line Support
5 8 (7.14%) Azure Engineer
5 8 (7.14%) Business Intelligence Analyst
5 8 (7.14%) Business Intelligence Data Analyst
5 8 (7.14%) SQL Analyst
5 8 (7.14%) SQL Data Analyst
5 8 (7.14%) SSRS Analyst
6 7 (6.25%) Applications Support
6 7 (6.25%) Applications Support Engineer
6 7 (6.25%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (19.64%) JSON
2 16 (14.29%) XML
3 11 (9.82%) YAML
4 10 (8.93%) ARM Templates
4 10 (8.93%) Jinja
4 10 (8.93%) REST
5 5 (4.46%) Django
5 5 (4.46%) Elastic Stack
5 5 (4.46%) YANG
6 3 (2.68%) AWS CDK
6 3 (2.68%) OAuth
6 3 (2.68%) OAuth2
6 3 (2.68%) Oracle Fusion
7 2 (1.79%) JWT
7 2 (1.79%) OpenAPI
7 2 (1.79%) OpenTelemetry
7 2 (1.79%) Spring Boot
7 2 (1.79%) Spring MVC
7 2 (1.79%) Spring Security
7 2 (1.79%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 20 (17.86%) Onboarding
2 8 (7.14%) Data Structures
3 7 (6.25%) Cloud Native
4 6 (5.36%) Driving Licence
5 5 (4.46%) Linux Command Line
5 5 (4.46%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (2.68%) CMDB
7 2 (1.79%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (1.79%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.79%) Private Cloud
8 1 (0.89%) IoT
8 1 (0.89%) Mobile App
8 1 (0.89%) Reference Data
8 1 (0.89%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 21 (18.75%) Windows
2 16 (14.29%) Linux
3 11 (9.82%) Unix
4 9 (8.04%) Windows 10
5 8 (7.14%) Mac OS
6 4 (3.57%) Windows Server
7 2 (1.79%) Android
7 2 (1.79%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.89%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (33.04%) DevOps
2 33 (29.46%) CI/CD
3 32 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
4 26 (23.21%) Containerisation
5 24 (21.43%) Infrastructure as Code
6 17 (15.18%) Agile
7 14 (12.50%) Computer Science
7 14 (12.50%) Data Modelling
7 14 (12.50%) Service Delivery
8 13 (11.61%) Business Intelligence
8 13 (11.61%) Continuous Improvement
8 13 (11.61%) Observability
8 13 (11.61%) Validation
9 11 (9.82%) Analytics
9 11 (9.82%) Root Cause Analysis
10 10 (8.93%) AI
10 10 (8.93%) API Management
10 10 (8.93%) Data Analysis
10 10 (8.93%) Incident Response
10 10 (8.93%) ITSM
Programming Languages
1 51 (45.54%) PowerShell
2 49 (43.75%) Python
3 21 (18.75%) SQL
4 12 (10.71%) Bash
4 12 (10.71%) Java
5 9 (8.04%) Bicep
5 9 (8.04%) JavaScript
6 8 (7.14%) T-SQL
7 4 (3.57%) TypeScript
8 3 (2.68%) Go
9 2 (1.79%) C#
10 1 (0.89%) Groovy
10 1 (0.89%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 24 (21.43%) Degree
2 14 (12.50%) Microsoft Certification
3 9 (8.04%) Computer Science Degree
3 9 (8.04%) Security Cleared
4 6 (5.36%) SC Cleared
5 4 (3.57%) Azure Certification
6 3 (2.68%) AWS Certification
7 2 (1.79%) CCNP
7 2 (1.79%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (1.79%) CompTIA Security+
7 2 (1.79%) Network+ Certification
8 1 (0.89%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.89%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.89%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (10.71%) Data Quality
2 8 (7.14%) Cyber Essentials
2 8 (7.14%) GDPR
2 8 (7.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 7 (6.25%) QA
4 4 (3.57%) NIST
4 4 (3.57%) PCI DSS
4 4 (3.57%) SLA
5 3 (2.68%) Accessibility
System Software
1 26 (23.21%) Active Directory
2 17 (15.18%) Docker
3 3 (2.68%) Hyper-V
3 3 (2.68%) Microsoft Virtual Server
3 3 (2.68%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (0.89%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.89%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.89%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 19 (16.96%) Terraform
2 12 (10.71%) Kubernetes
3 9 (8.04%) Jamf Pro
4 8 (7.14%) Ansible
4 8 (7.14%) Microsoft Intune
4 8 (7.14%) Prometheus
5 6 (5.36%) Grafana
6 4 (3.57%) AWS Copilot
6 4 (3.57%) SCCM
7 2 (1.79%) Argo
7 2 (1.79%) Kustomize
7 2 (1.79%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.89%) Control-M
8 1 (0.89%) Docker Swarm
8 1 (0.89%) Kibana
8 1 (0.89%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 31 (27.68%) Microsoft
2 20 (17.86%) Cisco
3 14 (12.50%) Oracle
4 10 (8.93%) Red Hat
5 9 (8.04%) Google
6 8 (7.14%) Apple
6 8 (7.14%) Logitech
6 8 (7.14%) Meraki
6 8 (7.14%) Yealink
7 5 (4.46%) F5
7 5 (4.46%) Juniper
7 5 (4.46%) Palo Alto
8 4 (3.57%) Dynatrace
8 4 (3.57%) IFS
9 3 (2.68%) LogicMonitor
9 3 (2.68%) SolarWinds
9 3 (2.68%) Splunk
10 1 (0.89%) ForgeRock
10 1 (0.89%) VMware
10 1 (0.89%) Zoho