Task Automation Jobs

Task Automation
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 12 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 244 458 514
Rank change year-on-year +214 +56 -37
Permanent jobs citing Task Automation 774 525 433
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.29% 0.51% 0.50%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.43% 0.61% 0.53%
Number of salaries quoted 215 336 325
10th Percentile £32,500 £41,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £50,000 £44,560
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,250 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.80% +4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £75,000 £83,750 £76,250
90th Percentile £85,750 £92,500 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £53,688 £55,000 £48,000
% change year-on-year -2.39% +14.58% +6.67%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 54,035 85,534 82,014
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 89.93% 82.61% 95.51%
Number of salaries quoted 28,425 58,385 52,665
10th Percentile £27,500 £29,862 £33,750
25th Percentile £38,000 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £60,249
Median % change year-on-year - -8.71% +0.42%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,700 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - -9.09% +4.76%

Task Automation
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Task Automation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Task Automation in the UK

Task Automation
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Task Automation in the UK

Task Automation
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Task Automation over the 6 months to 12 July 2025.

Salary histogram for Task Automation in the UK

Task Automation
Top 17 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 12 July 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
England +207 737 £57,500 -11.54% 314
Work from Home +259 562 £73,750 +22.92% 189
UK excluding London +223 488 £53,688 -2.39% 197
North of England +204 295 £40,442 -29.67% 56
North West +170 278 £35,000 -36.36% 39
London +76 174 £75,000 +6.01% 154
South East +51 59 £57,500 -8.00% 48
East of England +74 55 £47,500 -5.00% 23
Midlands +48 36 £57,000 -0.87% 24
South West +76 28 £55,000 +12.18% 25
East Midlands +48 18 £35,000 -30.00% 8
Yorkshire +40 16 £75,000 -6.25% 14
West Midlands +43 15 £58,250 +8.37% 17
Scotland +83 13 £55,000 +18.92% 18
Wales +24 2 £55,000 +4.76% 2
North East +37 1 - - 3
Isle of Man - 1 £34,500 - 1

Task Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 45 (5.81%) Microsoft Exchange
2 27 (3.49%) SharePoint
3 4 (0.52%) Confluence
4 2 (0.26%) IIS
5 1 (0.13%) Apache
5 1 (0.13%) nginx
5 1 (0.13%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 9 (1.16%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (0.90%) MS Visio
3 3 (0.39%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.13%) AutoCAD
5 1 (0.13%) Autodesk Inventor
5 1 (0.13%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.13%) SOLIDWORKS
5 1 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (0.39%) Elite 3E
2 1 (0.13%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.13%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 286 (36.95%) AWS
2 215 (27.78%) Pulumi
3 110 (14.21%) Azure
4 51 (6.59%) Microsoft 365
5 37 (4.78%) Entra ID
6 29 (3.75%) GCP
7 21 (2.71%) Power Platform
8 20 (2.58%) Power Automate
9 16 (2.07%) Azure DevOps
10 15 (1.94%) Serverless
11 14 (1.81%) GitHub
12 12 (1.55%) SaaS
13 11 (1.42%) Azure Monitor
14 10 (1.29%) OneDrive
14 10 (1.29%) PowerApps
15 9 (1.16%) GitHub Actions
15 9 (1.16%) Microsoft Copilot
16 8 (1.03%) AWS Lambda
16 8 (1.03%) Microsoft Purview
16 8 (1.03%) Zapier
Communications & Networking
1 289 (37.34%) VPN
2 265 (34.24%) Cisco IOS
3 215 (27.78%) Broadband
4 53 (6.85%) DNS
5 40 (5.17%) Firewall
6 34 (4.39%) TCP/IP
7 30 (3.88%) DHCP
8 21 (2.71%) Network Security
9 15 (1.94%) SMTP
9 15 (1.94%) WAN
10 14 (1.81%) LAN
11 13 (1.68%) VLAN
12 11 (1.42%) OSPF
13 10 (1.29%) BGP
13 10 (1.29%) HTTP
13 10 (1.29%) SAN
14 9 (1.16%) NAS
15 7 (0.90%) Cisco Nexus
16 6 (0.78%) DWDM
16 6 (0.78%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 218 (28.17%) Relational Database
2 215 (27.78%) NoSQL
2 215 (27.78%) RDBMS
3 20 (2.58%) SQL Server
4 19 (2.45%) Power BI
5 14 (1.81%) MySQL
6 7 (0.90%) Amazon RDS
7 5 (0.65%) Power Query
8 4 (0.52%) Elasticsearch
8 4 (0.52%) PostgreSQL
8 4 (0.52%) PowerPivot
9 3 (0.39%) Azure SQL Database
9 3 (0.39%) Data Warehouse
9 3 (0.39%) Oracle Database
9 3 (0.39%) Tableau
10 2 (0.26%) Data Mining
10 2 (0.26%) Oracle Reports
11 1 (0.13%) BusinessObjects
11 1 (0.13%) MongoDB
11 1 (0.13%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 215 (27.78%) Jaeger
2 19 (2.45%) Git
3 12 (1.55%) Jenkins
4 9 (1.16%) JIRA
5 7 (0.90%) Sonatype Nexus
6 5 (0.65%) GitLab
7 2 (0.26%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.26%) Octopus Deploy
7 2 (0.26%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.13%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.13%) Gradle
8 1 (0.13%) JUnit
8 1 (0.13%) Maven
8 1 (0.13%) Postman
8 1 (0.13%) Selenium
8 1 (0.13%) SpecFlow
8 1 (0.13%) TestNG
8 1 (0.13%) WebDriver
General
1 513 (66.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 315 (40.70%) Analytical Skills
3 98 (12.66%) Social Skills
4 44 (5.68%) Finance
5 21 (2.71%) Law
6 18 (2.33%) Legal
7 17 (2.20%) Telecoms
8 14 (1.81%) Public Sector
9 13 (1.68%) Health Technology
10 10 (1.29%) Banking
11 9 (1.16%) Pharmaceutical
12 8 (1.03%) Local Government
12 8 (1.03%) Manufacturing
12 8 (1.03%) Marketing
13 7 (0.90%) Investment Banking
14 6 (0.78%) Games
14 6 (0.78%) Retail
15 5 (0.65%) Documentation Skills
15 5 (0.65%) Front Office
16 4 (0.52%) Billing
Job Titles
1 287 (37.08%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 239 (30.88%) Lead
3 217 (28.04%) Team Leader
4 44 (5.68%) Support Engineer
5 37 (4.78%) Senior
6 29 (3.75%) Analyst
7 25 (3.23%) Security Engineer
8 23 (2.97%) Developer
9 21 (2.71%) 3rd Line Engineer
9 21 (2.71%) 3rd Line Support
9 21 (2.71%) Azure Engineer
9 21 (2.71%) Network Engineer
10 20 (2.58%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
11 16 (2.07%) Cloud Engineer
12 13 (1.68%) Automation Engineer
12 13 (1.68%) Infrastructure Support
12 13 (1.68%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
12 13 (1.68%) Support Specialist
13 12 (1.55%) Implementation Manager
13 12 (1.55%) Support Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 480 (62.02%) Elastic Stack
2 215 (27.78%) OpenTelemetry
3 14 (1.81%) .NET
4 8 (1.03%) AngularJS
5 6 (0.78%) ARM Templates
5 6 (0.78%) CSS
5 6 (0.78%) HTML
5 6 (0.78%) REST
6 5 (0.65%) Angular 2
6 5 (0.65%) jQuery
6 5 (0.65%) React
6 5 (0.65%) YAML
7 4 (0.52%) Node.js
7 4 (0.52%) RESTful
8 3 (0.39%) Vue
8 3 (0.39%) Web Services
9 2 (0.26%) .NET Core
9 2 (0.26%) 802.1X
9 2 (0.26%) Middleware
9 2 (0.26%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 262 (33.85%) Cyberattack
2 16 (2.07%) Onboarding
3 14 (1.81%) Clustering
3 14 (1.81%) Hedge funds
4 12 (1.55%) Cloud Native
4 12 (1.55%) Hybrid Cloud
5 11 (1.42%) Management Information System
6 8 (1.03%) Enterprise Software
6 8 (1.03%) Legacy Systems
7 7 (0.90%) PKI
8 6 (0.78%) Analytical Mindset
8 6 (0.78%) Cyber Threat
9 5 (0.65%) Public Cloud
10 4 (0.52%) Data Centre
10 4 (0.52%) Equities
10 4 (0.52%) Product Ownership
10 4 (0.52%) Replication
10 4 (0.52%) Self-Motivation
11 3 (0.39%) Linux Command Line
11 3 (0.39%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 526 (67.96%) Linux
2 334 (43.15%) Windows
3 264 (34.11%) Android
4 229 (29.59%) Unix
5 52 (6.72%) Windows Server
6 18 (2.33%) Windows Server 2019
7 7 (0.90%) Windows Server 2012
8 5 (0.65%) Mac OS
9 4 (0.52%) Windows 10
10 2 (0.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 2 (0.26%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.13%) Apple iOS
11 1 (0.13%) CentOS
11 1 (0.13%) Debian
11 1 (0.13%) Mac OS X
11 1 (0.13%) Solaris
11 1 (0.13%) VMS
11 1 (0.13%) Windows Server 2003
11 1 (0.13%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 529 (68.35%) DevOps
2 359 (46.38%) Problem-Solving
3 293 (37.86%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 277 (35.79%) Platform Engineering
5 271 (35.01%) Line Management
5 271 (35.01%) Risk Management
6 269 (34.75%) Storage Management
7 267 (34.50%) Mathematics
8 246 (31.78%) High Availability
9 245 (31.65%) Mentoring
10 243 (31.40%) Infrastructure as Code
11 235 (30.36%) Agile
12 234 (30.23%) Roadmaps
13 229 (29.59%) Continuous Integration
14 221 (28.55%) Containerisation
15 220 (28.42%) Cost Optimisation
16 219 (28.29%) Resource Management
17 216 (27.91%) GitOps
18 215 (27.78%) Budget Control
18 215 (27.78%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 587 (75.84%) Python
2 507 (65.50%) Bash
3 369 (47.67%) PowerShell
4 235 (30.36%) Java
4 235 (30.36%) JavaScript
5 219 (28.29%) Go
6 68 (8.79%) SQL
7 22 (2.84%) C#
8 16 (2.07%) PL/SQL
9 11 (1.42%) Perl
10 10 (1.29%) Bicep
10 10 (1.29%) R
11 9 (1.16%) Shell Script
12 8 (1.03%) TypeScript
13 2 (0.26%) Ruby
13 2 (0.26%) VBA
14 1 (0.13%) Kusto Query Language
14 1 (0.13%) PHP
14 1 (0.13%) VB
14 1 (0.13%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 223 (28.81%) AWS Certification
2 60 (7.75%) Degree
3 28 (3.62%) Security Cleared
4 25 (3.23%) Computer Science Degree
5 16 (2.07%) DV Cleared
6 14 (1.81%) Cisco Certification
7 12 (1.55%) CCNP
8 11 (1.42%) Microsoft Certification
9 10 (1.29%) CCNA
10 9 (1.16%) SC Cleared
11 8 (1.03%) ITIL Certification
12 7 (0.90%) Azure Certification
12 7 (0.90%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 6 (0.78%) JNCIA
13 6 (0.78%) JNCIS
14 3 (0.39%) CISSP
15 2 (0.26%) ISTQB
15 2 (0.26%) MCSA
15 2 (0.26%) MCSE
16 1 (0.13%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (2.07%) GDPR
2 11 (1.42%) NIST
3 8 (1.03%) Cyber Essentials
3 8 (1.03%) QA
4 7 (0.90%) Accessibility
5 5 (0.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (0.52%) SLA
7 2 (0.26%) Data Quality
7 2 (0.26%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.13%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (0.13%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.13%) NCSC
8 1 (0.13%) PMO
8 1 (0.13%) SOC 2
System Software
1 500 (64.60%) Docker
2 298 (38.50%) Hyper-V
3 274 (35.40%) vSphere
4 262 (33.85%) VMware NSX
5 44 (5.68%) Active Directory
6 35 (4.52%) VMware Infrastructure
7 12 (1.55%) VMware ESXi
8 10 (1.29%) Virtual Machines
9 7 (0.90%) BitLocker
9 7 (0.90%) Microsoft App-V
10 6 (0.78%) Terminal Services
11 4 (0.52%) Virtual Desktop
12 2 (0.26%) vCloud
13 1 (0.13%) Firmware
13 1 (0.13%) RHEV
Systems Management
1 525 (67.83%) Ansible
2 507 (65.50%) Terraform
3 245 (31.65%) Kubernetes
4 223 (28.81%) Prometheus
5 216 (27.91%) Argo
6 215 (27.78%) Kustomize
7 25 (3.23%) Microsoft Intune
8 17 (2.20%) Puppet
9 15 (1.94%) Backup Exec
9 15 (1.94%) SCCM
9 15 (1.94%) Single Sign-On
10 13 (1.68%) Grafana
11 12 (1.55%) vCenter Server
11 12 (1.55%) vMotion
12 8 (1.03%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 6 (0.78%) Nagios
13 6 (0.78%) PowerCLI
13 6 (0.78%) vRealize
14 5 (0.65%) Progress Chef
15 4 (0.52%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 279 (36.05%) Cisco
2 272 (35.14%) Splunk
3 263 (33.98%) Juniper
4 262 (33.85%) 3PAR
5 252 (32.56%) Google
6 123 (15.89%) Microsoft
7 42 (5.43%) VMware
8 30 (3.88%) Veeam
9 13 (1.68%) Citrix
9 13 (1.68%) HP
10 9 (1.16%) Apple
10 9 (1.16%) Oracle
11 8 (1.03%) Zscaler
12 7 (0.90%) Arista
12 7 (0.90%) Symantec
13 6 (0.78%) Meraki
13 6 (0.78%) Palo Alto
14 5 (0.65%) Atlassian
14 5 (0.65%) Databricks
14 5 (0.65%) Dynatrace