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 18 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 245 452 578
Rank change year-on-year +207 +126 -93
Permanent jobs citing Task Automation 743 512 425
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.33% 0.51% 0.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.41% 0.60% 0.45%
Number of salaries quoted 204 335 296
10th Percentile £32,500 £40,833 £36,151
25th Percentile £51,250 £47,772 £46,157
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £63,820
Median % change year-on-year - -5.99% +10.27%
75th Percentile £77,500 £76,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £88,875 £91,250 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% +5.26%

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 52,544 85,078 94,862
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.81% 85.26% 95.59%
Number of salaries quoted 26,695 59,840 55,939
10th Percentile £29,750 £29,071 £34,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £61,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -9.84% +1.67%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,645 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +3.29% -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 18 May 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 18 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
England +209 715 £60,000 -4.00% 395
Work from Home +298 568 £70,000 +16.67% 221
UK excluding London +230 452 £55,000 +4.76% 250
North of England +213 287 £50,000 +11.11% 57
North West +162 273 £46,000 +2.22% 27
London +106 179 £75,000 +7.14% 211
South East +62 58 £57,500 -8.00% 85
East of England +66 39 £32,500 -35.00% 26
Midlands +36 30 £54,344 +8.69% 36
South West +81 29 £55,000 +15.79% 24
East Midlands +29 18 £35,000 -28.21% 9
Yorkshire +69 13 £71,250 +90.00% 18
West Midlands +21 11 £57,500 +27.78% 27
Scotland +89 8 £55,000 +22.22% 21
North East +35 1 - - 13
Wales +27 1 £52,500 - 5
Isle of Man - 1 £34,500 -

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 32 (4.31%) Microsoft Exchange
2 31 (4.17%) SharePoint
3 4 (0.54%) Confluence
4 2 (0.27%) Apache
4 2 (0.27%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.27%) IIS
5 1 (0.13%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.13%) CICS
5 1 (0.13%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 11 (1.48%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (0.94%) MS Visio
3 4 (0.54%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (0.67%) Elite 3E
2 2 (0.27%) Oracle Applications
2 2 (0.27%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.13%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.13%) ION Anvil
3 1 (0.13%) ION MarketView
Cloud Services
1 272 (36.61%) AWS
2 215 (28.94%) Pulumi
3 107 (14.40%) Azure
4 41 (5.52%) Entra ID
5 37 (4.98%) Microsoft 365
6 28 (3.77%) Power Platform
7 27 (3.63%) Power Automate
8 22 (2.96%) GCP
9 20 (2.69%) OneDrive
10 19 (2.56%) Azure DevOps
11 14 (1.88%) Serverless
12 13 (1.75%) Azure Monitor
13 10 (1.35%) Azure Logic Apps
13 10 (1.35%) GitHub
13 10 (1.35%) SaaS
14 9 (1.21%) PowerApps
15 8 (1.08%) AWS Lambda
16 6 (0.81%) Azure Functions
16 6 (0.81%) Azure Key Vault
16 6 (0.81%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 286 (38.49%) VPN
2 270 (36.34%) Cisco IOS
3 215 (28.94%) Broadband
4 57 (7.67%) DNS
5 50 (6.73%) Firewall
6 32 (4.31%) DHCP
6 32 (4.31%) TCP/IP
7 20 (2.69%) Network Security
8 16 (2.15%) LAN
9 15 (2.02%) SMTP
10 14 (1.88%) WAN
11 12 (1.62%) Cisco Nexus
12 10 (1.35%) OSPF
13 9 (1.21%) HTTP
13 9 (1.21%) NAS
13 9 (1.21%) VLAN
14 8 (1.08%) BGP
14 8 (1.08%) SAN
14 8 (1.08%) Wireless
15 6 (0.81%) DWDM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 216 (29.07%) Relational Database
2 215 (28.94%) NoSQL
2 215 (28.94%) RDBMS
3 20 (2.69%) Power BI
4 18 (2.42%) SQL Server
5 13 (1.75%) MySQL
6 7 (0.94%) Amazon RDS
6 7 (0.94%) Data Warehouse
7 5 (0.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 5 (0.67%) Tableau
8 4 (0.54%) Azure SQL Database
8 4 (0.54%) Oracle Database
8 4 (0.54%) Power Query
8 4 (0.54%) PowerPivot
9 3 (0.40%) BusinessObjects
9 3 (0.40%) Elasticsearch
9 3 (0.40%) Oracle Reports
10 2 (0.27%) Data Mining
10 2 (0.27%) Oracle Exadata
10 2 (0.27%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 215 (28.94%) Jaeger
2 15 (2.02%) Git
3 12 (1.62%) Sonatype Nexus
4 11 (1.48%) JIRA
5 8 (1.08%) Jenkins
6 5 (0.67%) GitLab
7 2 (0.27%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.27%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 2 (0.27%) Visual Studio
8 1 (0.13%) CircleCI
8 1 (0.13%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.13%) Gradle
8 1 (0.13%) JUnit
8 1 (0.13%) Maven
8 1 (0.13%) Octopus Deploy
8 1 (0.13%) Oracle Forms
8 1 (0.13%) Selenium
8 1 (0.13%) SpecFlow
8 1 (0.13%) TestNG
8 1 (0.13%) WebDriver
General
1 501 (67.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 306 (41.18%) Analytical Skills
3 81 (10.90%) Social Skills
4 43 (5.79%) Finance
5 21 (2.83%) Law
6 20 (2.69%) Legal
7 19 (2.56%) Telecoms
8 12 (1.62%) Health Technology
8 12 (1.62%) Retail
9 11 (1.48%) Banking
10 9 (1.21%) Pharmaceutical
11 8 (1.08%) Marketing
12 7 (0.94%) Games
13 6 (0.81%) Front Office
13 6 (0.81%) Investment Banking
14 5 (0.67%) Billing
15 4 (0.54%) Organisational Skills
16 3 (0.40%) Manufacturing
16 3 (0.40%) Presentation Skills
17 2 (0.27%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 278 (37.42%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 229 (30.82%) Lead
3 216 (29.07%) Team Leader
4 41 (5.52%) Senior
5 30 (4.04%) Developer
6 26 (3.50%) Analyst
6 26 (3.50%) Cloud Engineer
7 24 (3.23%) Support Engineer
8 22 (2.96%) Security Engineer
9 19 (2.56%) Automation Engineer
10 17 (2.29%) Network Engineer
11 13 (1.75%) Support Specialist
12 10 (1.35%) Azure Engineer
12 10 (1.35%) Data Migration Specialist
12 10 (1.35%) DBA
12 10 (1.35%) Information Security Engineer
12 10 (1.35%) IT Support
12 10 (1.35%) Migration Specialist
12 10 (1.35%) Site Engineer
12 10 (1.35%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 479 (64.47%) Elastic Stack
2 215 (28.94%) OpenTelemetry
3 14 (1.88%) .NET
4 8 (1.08%) AngularJS
4 8 (1.08%) YAML
5 7 (0.94%) CSS
5 7 (0.94%) HTML
6 6 (0.81%) 802.1X
6 6 (0.81%) Angular 2
6 6 (0.81%) jQuery
6 6 (0.81%) Middleware
7 5 (0.67%) RESTful
8 4 (0.54%) JSON
8 4 (0.54%) Node.js
8 4 (0.54%) React
9 3 (0.40%) .NET Core
9 3 (0.40%) ARM Templates
9 3 (0.40%) Blazor
9 3 (0.40%) REST
9 3 (0.40%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 262 (35.26%) Cyberattack
2 18 (2.42%) Management Information System
3 14 (1.88%) Clustering
4 13 (1.75%) Hybrid Cloud
5 11 (1.48%) Cyber Threat
6 8 (1.08%) Hedge funds
7 7 (0.94%) Legacy Systems
8 6 (0.81%) PKI
8 6 (0.81%) Security Posture
9 5 (0.67%) Cloud Native
9 5 (0.67%) Public Cloud
10 4 (0.54%) Data Centre
10 4 (0.54%) Equities
11 3 (0.40%) Algorithms
11 3 (0.40%) Analytical Mindset
11 3 (0.40%) Data Protection Act
11 3 (0.40%) Onboarding
11 3 (0.40%) Security Operations Centre
11 3 (0.40%) Self-Motivation
12 2 (0.27%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 518 (69.72%) Linux
2 318 (42.80%) Windows
3 265 (35.67%) Android
4 230 (30.96%) Unix
5 33 (4.44%) Windows Server
6 6 (0.81%) Windows 10
6 6 (0.81%) Windows Server 2012
6 6 (0.81%) Windows Server 2019
7 5 (0.67%) Mac OS
8 4 (0.54%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 2 (0.27%) VMS
10 1 (0.13%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.13%) Mac OS X
10 1 (0.13%) Solaris
10 1 (0.13%) Windows Server 2003
10 1 (0.13%) Windows Server 2008
10 1 (0.13%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 531 (71.47%) DevOps
2 341 (45.90%) Problem-Solving
3 284 (38.22%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 273 (36.74%) Platform Engineering
5 268 (36.07%) Storage Management
6 266 (35.80%) Mathematics
7 264 (35.53%) Line Management
7 264 (35.53%) Risk Management
8 249 (33.51%) High Availability
9 248 (33.38%) Infrastructure as Code
10 243 (32.71%) Mentoring
11 235 (31.63%) Agile
12 230 (30.96%) Roadmaps
13 223 (30.01%) Containerisation
14 222 (29.88%) Continuous Integration
15 221 (29.74%) Cost Optimisation
16 219 (29.48%) Resource Management
17 216 (29.07%) Performance Optimisation
18 215 (28.94%) GitOps
18 215 (28.94%) Product Management
Programming Languages
1 566 (76.18%) Python
2 500 (67.29%) Bash
3 371 (49.93%) PowerShell
4 235 (31.63%) JavaScript
5 229 (30.82%) Java
6 215 (28.94%) Go
7 77 (10.36%) SQL
8 21 (2.83%) C#
9 16 (2.15%) PL/SQL
10 11 (1.48%) Bicep
10 11 (1.48%) R
11 8 (1.08%) TypeScript
12 6 (0.81%) Perl
13 5 (0.67%) Shell Script
14 4 (0.54%) T-SQL
14 4 (0.54%) VB
15 2 (0.27%) Kusto Query Language
15 2 (0.27%) VBA
15 2 (0.27%) VBScript
16 1 (0.13%) PHP
Qualifications
1 223 (30.01%) AWS Certification
2 63 (8.48%) Degree
3 28 (3.77%) Security Cleared
4 27 (3.63%) Computer Science Degree
5 17 (2.29%) Cisco Certification
6 16 (2.15%) CCNP
6 16 (2.15%) DV Cleared
7 12 (1.62%) Microsoft Certification
8 10 (1.35%) CCNA
8 10 (1.35%) SC Cleared
9 9 (1.21%) Azure Certification
10 7 (0.94%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 6 (0.81%) JNCIA
11 6 (0.81%) JNCIS
12 3 (0.40%) CCIE
13 2 (0.27%) A+ Certification
13 2 (0.27%) CISSP
13 2 (0.27%) GCIH
13 2 (0.27%) MCSA
13 2 (0.27%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (2.02%) GDPR
2 9 (1.21%) NIST
3 8 (1.08%) Accessibility
4 7 (0.94%) Cyber Essentials
5 4 (0.54%) Data Quality
6 3 (0.40%) QA
6 3 (0.40%) SLA
7 2 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 2 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.27%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.13%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.13%) NCSC
8 1 (0.13%) PMO
8 1 (0.13%) SOC 2
System Software
1 495 (66.62%) Docker
2 280 (37.69%) Hyper-V
3 276 (37.15%) vSphere
4 262 (35.26%) VMware NSX
5 45 (6.06%) Active Directory
6 20 (2.69%) Virtual Machines
6 20 (2.69%) VMware Infrastructure
7 13 (1.75%) VMware ESXi
8 7 (0.94%) BitLocker
8 7 (0.94%) Microsoft App-V
9 6 (0.81%) Terminal Services
10 1 (0.13%) Firmware
10 1 (0.13%) RHEV
10 1 (0.13%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 525 (70.66%) Ansible
2 514 (69.18%) Terraform
3 239 (32.17%) Kubernetes
4 223 (30.01%) Prometheus
5 216 (29.07%) Argo
6 215 (28.94%) Kustomize
7 34 (4.58%) Microsoft Intune
8 23 (3.10%) SCCM
9 20 (2.69%) Single Sign-On
10 16 (2.15%) Puppet
11 12 (1.62%) vCenter Server
11 12 (1.62%) vMotion
12 11 (1.48%) Grafana
13 6 (0.81%) Nagios
13 6 (0.81%) PowerCLI
13 6 (0.81%) vRealize
14 4 (0.54%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 3 (0.40%) Jamf Pro
15 3 (0.40%) Progress Chef
16 2 (0.27%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 281 (37.82%) Cisco
2 268 (36.07%) Splunk
3 262 (35.26%) 3PAR
3 262 (35.26%) Juniper
4 242 (32.57%) Google
5 100 (13.46%) Microsoft
6 23 (3.10%) VMware
7 15 (2.02%) Citrix
8 14 (1.88%) Veeam
9 13 (1.75%) HP
10 10 (1.35%) Oracle
10 10 (1.35%) Palo Alto
11 9 (1.21%) Databricks
12 8 (1.08%) Atlassian
12 8 (1.08%) Symantec
13 7 (0.94%) Meraki
14 6 (0.81%) Arista
14 6 (0.81%) F5
14 6 (0.81%) Intapp
14 6 (0.81%) LogicMonitor