Task Automation Jobs in the West Midlands

Task Automation
England > West Midlands

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

6 months to
12 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 178 220 251
Rank change year-on-year +42 +31 +6
Permanent jobs citing Task Automation 19 38 19
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.43% 0.51% 0.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.48% 0.62% 0.31%
Number of salaries quoted 15 15 14
10th Percentile £53,688 - £40,500
25th Percentile £56,875 £41,250 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £45,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +38.89% -35.71% +55.56%
75th Percentile £77,000 £60,625 £80,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £77,500 £94,250
England median annual salary £75,000 £62,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +20.00% - +4.17%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

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 West Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,999 6,115 6,191
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 91.30% 82.87% 96.81%
Number of salaries quoted 1,681 4,561 3,202
10th Percentile £29,000 £26,250 £31,000
25th Percentile £37,716 £35,700 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -5.66% +6.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £63,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £78,750
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%

Task Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Task Automation in the West Midlands

Task Automation
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

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

Salary trend for Task Automation in the West Midlands

Task Automation
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Task Automation in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 12 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Task Automation in the West Midlands

Task Automation
Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Task Automation within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 12 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
Staffordshire +25 7 £60,000 +20.00% 11
Birmingham +32 5 £72,500 -1.69% 8
Coventry - 3 £100,000 - 2
Shropshire +15 2 - - 1
Herefordshire - 2 - -
Task Automation
England

Task Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (5.26%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 9 (47.37%) AWS
2 2 (10.53%) Azure
2 2 (10.53%) Power Platform
2 2 (10.53%) Pulumi
3 1 (5.26%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (5.26%) GCP
3 1 (5.26%) GitHub
3 1 (5.26%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (5.26%) GitHub Copilot
3 1 (5.26%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 2 (10.53%) Broadband
1 2 (10.53%) Network Security
1 2 (10.53%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (15.79%) Oracle Database
2 2 (10.53%) BusinessObjects
2 2 (10.53%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (10.53%) NoSQL
2 2 (10.53%) Power BI
2 2 (10.53%) RDBMS
2 2 (10.53%) Relational Database
2 2 (10.53%) SQL Server
2 2 (10.53%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (5.26%) Oracle Exadata
3 1 (5.26%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 2 (10.53%) Jaeger
2 1 (5.26%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 4 (21.05%) Analytical Skills
1 4 (21.05%) Retail
1 4 (21.05%) Social Skills
2 2 (10.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 2 (10.53%) Police
3 1 (5.26%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 6 (31.58%) Machine Learning Engineer
2 3 (15.79%) Service Manager
3 2 (10.53%) Developer
3 2 (10.53%) Lead
3 2 (10.53%) Network Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) Senior
3 2 (10.53%) Senior Network Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) SQL Developer
3 2 (10.53%) Team Leader
4 1 (5.26%) Administrator
4 1 (5.26%) DBA
4 1 (5.26%) IT Manager
4 1 (5.26%) IT Services Manager
4 1 (5.26%) Oracle DBA
4 1 (5.26%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (15.79%) .NET
2 2 (10.53%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (10.53%) JSON
2 2 (10.53%) OpenTelemetry
2 2 (10.53%) XML
3 1 (5.26%) ADO
3 1 (5.26%) Middleware
3 1 (5.26%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (5.26%) Oracle GoldenGate
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.53%) Mobile App
2 1 (5.26%) Cloud Native
2 1 (5.26%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 3 (15.79%) Linux
1 3 (15.79%) Unix
2 1 (5.26%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (36.84%) Artificial Intelligence
2 6 (31.58%) API Integration
2 6 (31.58%) Decision-Making
2 6 (31.58%) Generative AI
2 6 (31.58%) Incident Management
2 6 (31.58%) LLM
2 6 (31.58%) Machine Learning
2 6 (31.58%) Workflow
3 4 (21.05%) Customer Service
3 4 (21.05%) Disaster Recovery
3 4 (21.05%) Major Incident Management
3 4 (21.05%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (15.79%) DevOps
5 2 (10.53%) Change Data Capture
5 2 (10.53%) Infrastructure Management
5 2 (10.53%) Mentoring
5 2 (10.53%) Network Monitoring
5 2 (10.53%) Network Segmentation
5 2 (10.53%) Performance Optimisation
5 2 (10.53%) SFIA
Programming Languages
1 11 (57.89%) Python
2 3 (15.79%) PowerShell
2 3 (15.79%) SQL
3 2 (10.53%) Bash
3 2 (10.53%) C#
3 2 (10.53%) Go
3 2 (10.53%) Java
3 2 (10.53%) JavaScript
3 2 (10.53%) R
4 1 (5.26%) PL/SQL
4 1 (5.26%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (10.53%) AWS Certification
1 2 (10.53%) CCNA
1 2 (10.53%) CCNP
1 2 (10.53%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (10.53%) DV Cleared
1 2 (10.53%) SC Cleared
1 2 (10.53%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.53%) Data Quality
2 1 (5.26%) Accessibility
System Software
1 2 (10.53%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (15.79%) Kubernetes
1 3 (15.79%) Prometheus
1 3 (15.79%) Terraform
2 2 (10.53%) Ansible
2 2 (10.53%) Argo
2 2 (10.53%) Kustomize
3 1 (5.26%) Grafana
3 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (5.26%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 3 (15.79%) Google
1 3 (15.79%) Oracle
2 1 (5.26%) Microsoft