Task Automation Jobs in the UK excluding London

Task Automation
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 27 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 241 473 547
Rank change year-on-year +232 +74 +19
Permanent jobs citing Task Automation 457 301 206
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.18% 0.41% 0.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.27% 0.50% 0.37%
Number of salaries quoted 98 148 139
10th Percentile £31,250 £37,350 £34,681
25th Percentile £37,563 £42,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £63,750 £63,750 £64,375
90th Percentile £76,625 £85,000 £75,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £63,820
% change year-on-year - -5.99% +7.71%

All Process and 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 35,974 60,639 55,898
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 92.75% 82.65% 95.57%
Number of salaries quoted 17,037 41,817 28,998
10th Percentile £26,500 £27,300 £30,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,645 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.29% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £82,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% -9.84% +1.67%

Task Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Task Automation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Task Automation in the UK excluding London

Task Automation
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Task Automation in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Task Automation in the UK excluding London

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 27 May 2025.

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 27 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 +220 289 £53,750 +19.44% 324
North West +157 274 £42,384 -5.81% 148
South East +54 57 £57,500 -8.00% 396
East of England +65 41 £32,500 -35.00% 216
Midlands +37 30 £53,688 +7.38% 280
South West +80 28 £55,000 +15.79% 167
East Midlands +45 18 £35,000 -30.00% 109
Yorkshire +67 14 £75,000 +87.50% 129
Scotland +93 11 £55,000 +22.22% 72
West Midlands +40 11 £57,500 +27.78% 154
North East +48 1 - - 48
Wales +36 1 £52,500 - 34
Isle of Man - 1 £34,500 -
Task Automation
UK

Task Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 16 (3.50%) Microsoft Exchange
2 9 (1.97%) SharePoint
3 4 (0.88%) Confluence
4 1 (0.22%) IIS
4 1 (0.22%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 7 (1.53%) Microsoft Office
1 7 (1.53%) MS Visio
2 4 (0.88%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.22%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.22%) Oracle Applications
1 1 (0.22%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 99 (21.66%) AWS
2 65 (14.22%) Pulumi
3 41 (8.97%) Azure
4 15 (3.28%) GCP
5 14 (3.06%) Entra ID
6 11 (2.41%) Microsoft 365
6 11 (2.41%) Power Platform
7 8 (1.75%) Power Automate
8 7 (1.53%) Azure Monitor
8 7 (1.53%) GitHub
9 6 (1.31%) Azure DevOps
9 6 (1.31%) Azure Key Vault
9 6 (1.31%) OpenShift
10 5 (1.09%) AWS Lambda
10 5 (1.09%) OneDrive
10 5 (1.09%) Serverless
11 4 (0.88%) OCI
12 2 (0.44%) Azure Data Factory
12 2 (0.44%) SaaS
13 1 (0.22%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 280 (61.27%) VPN
2 262 (57.33%) Cisco IOS
3 65 (14.22%) Broadband
4 33 (7.22%) DNS
5 26 (5.69%) Firewall
6 19 (4.16%) Network Security
7 16 (3.50%) DHCP
8 14 (3.06%) TCP/IP
9 9 (1.97%) SMTP
10 8 (1.75%) NAS
10 8 (1.75%) VLAN
11 7 (1.53%) LAN
11 7 (1.53%) SAN
11 7 (1.53%) WAN
12 6 (1.31%) Cisco Nexus
12 6 (1.31%) DWDM
12 6 (1.31%) OSPF
12 6 (1.31%) Remote Desktop
12 6 (1.31%) VSAN
13 5 (1.09%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 65 (14.22%) NoSQL
1 65 (14.22%) RDBMS
1 65 (14.22%) Relational Database
2 12 (2.63%) SQL Server
3 8 (1.75%) Power BI
4 6 (1.31%) Amazon RDS
5 5 (1.09%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (0.88%) Elasticsearch
6 4 (0.88%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 3 (0.66%) MySQL
7 3 (0.66%) Oracle Database
8 2 (0.44%) BusinessObjects
8 2 (0.44%) Data Mining
8 2 (0.44%) Oracle Reports
8 2 (0.44%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 1 (0.22%) Oracle Exadata
9 1 (0.22%) PostgreSQL
9 1 (0.22%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 65 (14.22%) Jaeger
2 6 (1.31%) Sonatype Nexus
3 4 (0.88%) GitLab
3 4 (0.88%) Jenkins
4 3 (0.66%) JIRA
5 2 (0.44%) Git
5 2 (0.44%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 1 (0.22%) Gradle
6 1 (0.22%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (0.22%) Oracle Forms
6 1 (0.22%) Visual Studio
General
1 341 (74.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 280 (61.27%) Analytical Skills
3 35 (7.66%) Social Skills
4 12 (2.63%) Finance
5 11 (2.41%) Telecoms
6 7 (1.53%) Law
7 4 (0.88%) Billing
7 4 (0.88%) Manufacturing
8 3 (0.66%) Pharmaceutical
9 2 (0.44%) Banking
9 2 (0.44%) Games
9 2 (0.44%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (0.44%) Police
9 2 (0.44%) Retail
10 1 (0.22%) Advertising
10 1 (0.22%) Aviation
10 1 (0.22%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.22%) Health Technology
10 1 (0.22%) Marketing
10 1 (0.22%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 271 (59.30%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 69 (15.10%) Lead
3 65 (14.22%) Team Leader
4 22 (4.81%) Analyst
5 21 (4.60%) Senior
6 16 (3.50%) Support Engineer
7 13 (2.84%) Network Engineer
8 11 (2.41%) Cloud Engineer
8 11 (2.41%) Support Specialist
9 9 (1.97%) Developer
10 8 (1.75%) DBA
10 8 (1.75%) Infrastructure Support
10 8 (1.75%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
10 8 (1.75%) Security Analyst
10 8 (1.75%) Senior Cloud Engineer
11 7 (1.53%) Implementation Manager
11 7 (1.53%) Site Reliability Engineer
11 7 (1.53%) Support Manager
11 7 (1.53%) Technical Manager
11 7 (1.53%) Technical Support Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 328 (71.77%) Elastic Stack
2 65 (14.22%) OpenTelemetry
3 6 (1.31%) YAML
4 4 (0.88%) .NET
5 3 (0.66%) Middleware
5 3 (0.66%) Node.js
6 2 (0.44%) JSON
6 2 (0.44%) XML
7 1 (0.22%) ADO
7 1 (0.22%) Blazor
7 1 (0.22%) boto
7 1 (0.22%) Oracle Fusion
7 1 (0.22%) Oracle GoldenGate
7 1 (0.22%) Spring
7 1 (0.22%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 260 (56.89%) Cyberattack
2 13 (2.84%) Clustering
3 6 (1.31%) Hybrid Cloud
3 6 (1.31%) Legacy Systems
3 6 (1.31%) PKI
4 4 (0.88%) Management Information System
4 4 (0.88%) Public Cloud
5 3 (0.66%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (0.44%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (0.44%) Replication
6 2 (0.44%) Security Operations Centre
6 2 (0.44%) Security Posture
6 2 (0.44%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.22%) Cloud Native
7 1 (0.22%) Cyber Defence
7 1 (0.22%) Cyber Threat
7 1 (0.22%) Data Centre
7 1 (0.22%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.22%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (0.22%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 353 (77.24%) Linux
2 298 (65.21%) Windows
3 262 (57.33%) Android
4 72 (15.75%) Unix
5 23 (5.03%) Windows Server
6 4 (0.88%) Mac OS
6 4 (0.88%) Windows Server 2019
7 3 (0.66%) Windows 10
8 2 (0.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.22%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.22%) CentOS
9 1 (0.22%) Debian
9 1 (0.22%) Mac OS X
9 1 (0.22%) Windows Server 2003
9 1 (0.22%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 346 (75.71%) DevOps
2 308 (67.40%) Problem-Solving
3 271 (59.30%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 270 (59.08%) Platform Engineering
5 267 (58.42%) Storage Management
6 264 (57.77%) Mathematics
7 262 (57.33%) Risk Management
8 261 (57.11%) Line Management
9 87 (19.04%) High Availability
10 82 (17.94%) Infrastructure as Code
11 78 (17.07%) Mentoring
12 71 (15.54%) Roadmaps
13 70 (15.32%) Agile
14 66 (14.44%) Containerisation
14 66 (14.44%) Cost Optimisation
15 65 (14.22%) Budget Control
15 65 (14.22%) Continuous Integration
15 65 (14.22%) GitOps
15 65 (14.22%) Performance Optimisation
15 65 (14.22%) Product Management
Programming Languages
1 371 (81.18%) Python
2 335 (73.30%) Bash
3 308 (67.40%) PowerShell
4 74 (16.19%) Java
5 69 (15.10%) JavaScript
6 65 (14.22%) Go
7 27 (5.91%) SQL
8 6 (1.31%) Bicep
8 6 (1.31%) Perl
8 6 (1.31%) R
9 3 (0.66%) C#
9 3 (0.66%) PL/SQL
9 3 (0.66%) T-SQL
10 2 (0.44%) VB
10 2 (0.44%) VBA
11 1 (0.22%) PHP
11 1 (0.22%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.22%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 69 (15.10%) AWS Certification
2 36 (7.88%) Degree
3 22 (4.81%) Security Cleared
4 16 (3.50%) DV Cleared
5 14 (3.06%) Computer Science Degree
6 11 (2.41%) Cisco Certification
7 10 (2.19%) CCNA
7 10 (2.19%) CCNP
8 8 (1.75%) SC Cleared
9 7 (1.53%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 6 (1.31%) JNCIA
10 6 (1.31%) JNCIS
11 3 (0.66%) Microsoft Certification
12 2 (0.44%) MCSA
13 1 (0.22%) CISSP
13 1 (0.22%) GCIH
13 1 (0.22%) ISTQB
13 1 (0.22%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 1 (0.22%) PMI Certification
13 1 (0.22%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (2.63%) GDPR
2 8 (1.75%) Accessibility
2 8 (1.75%) NIST
3 6 (1.31%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (0.44%) Data Quality
4 2 (0.44%) QA
5 1 (0.22%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.22%) NCSC
5 1 (0.22%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 340 (74.40%) Docker
2 278 (60.83%) Hyper-V
3 272 (59.52%) vSphere
4 260 (56.89%) VMware NSX
5 24 (5.25%) Active Directory
6 18 (3.94%) VMware Infrastructure
7 12 (2.63%) VMware ESXi
8 8 (1.75%) Virtual Machines
9 7 (1.53%) BitLocker
9 7 (1.53%) Microsoft App-V
10 6 (1.31%) Terminal Services
11 1 (0.22%) RHEV
11 1 (0.22%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 357 (78.12%) Ansible
2 338 (73.96%) Terraform
3 80 (17.51%) Kubernetes
4 68 (14.88%) Prometheus
5 65 (14.22%) Argo
5 65 (14.22%) Kustomize
6 17 (3.72%) Puppet
7 13 (2.84%) Microsoft Intune
8 12 (2.63%) vCenter Server
8 12 (2.63%) vMotion
9 8 (1.75%) SCCM
10 6 (1.31%) Nagios
10 6 (1.31%) PowerCLI
10 6 (1.31%) vRealize
11 3 (0.66%) Backup Exec
11 3 (0.66%) Grafana
12 2 (0.44%) Jamf Pro
13 1 (0.22%) Kibana
13 1 (0.22%) Opsview
13 1 (0.22%) QRadar
Vendors
1 269 (58.86%) Cisco
2 263 (57.55%) Splunk
3 260 (56.89%) 3PAR
3 260 (56.89%) Juniper
4 78 (17.07%) Google
5 48 (10.50%) Microsoft
6 20 (4.38%) VMware
7 16 (3.50%) Veeam
8 12 (2.63%) Citrix
8 12 (2.63%) HP
9 8 (1.75%) Atlassian
10 7 (1.53%) Symantec
11 6 (1.31%) Arista
11 6 (1.31%) Databricks
12 5 (1.09%) Meraki
12 5 (1.09%) Oracle
12 5 (1.09%) Sage
13 3 (0.66%) Palo Alto
13 3 (0.66%) ServiceNow
14 2 (0.44%) SolarWinds