Task Automation Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Task Automation
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent remote or hybrid work 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 298 428 513
Rank change year-on-year +130 +85 -11
Permanent jobs citing Task Automation 101 168 162
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.68% 0.50% 0.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.73% 0.54% 0.39%
Number of salaries quoted 80 140 116
10th Percentile £46,250 £41,208 £40,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £52,188 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -7.69% +18.18%
75th Percentile £85,000 £76,250 £86,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £85,250 £95,000
UK median annual salary £74,500 £60,000 £63,500
% change year-on-year +24.17% -5.51% +5.83%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,930 31,014 41,082
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 93.15% 91.65% 96.09%
Number of salaries quoted 9,709 23,583 28,561
10th Percentile £30,000 £33,930 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -8.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £102,500 £95,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -10.57% +2.50%

Task Automation
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Task Automation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Task Automation trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Task Automation
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Task Automation.

Task Automation salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Task Automation
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Task Automation over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Task Automation salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Task Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 8 (7.92%) SharePoint
2 4 (3.96%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.99%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (1.98%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.99%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.99%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.99%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (4.95%) Elite 3E
2 1 (0.99%) ION Anvil
2 1 (0.99%) ION MarketView
2 1 (0.99%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 48 (47.52%) Azure
2 22 (21.78%) AWS
3 15 (14.85%) Power Platform
4 14 (13.86%) Microsoft 365
5 11 (10.89%) Entra ID
5 11 (10.89%) Power Automate
5 11 (10.89%) Serverless
6 10 (9.90%) GCP
6 10 (9.90%) PowerApps
7 9 (8.91%) Azure DevOps
7 9 (8.91%) Azure Logic Apps
8 6 (5.94%) AWS Lambda
9 5 (4.95%) Azure AKS
9 5 (4.95%) Azure Functions
10 4 (3.96%) Adobe Analytics
10 4 (3.96%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 4 (3.96%) Cloud Computing
11 3 (2.97%) Azure Sentinel
11 3 (2.97%) GitHub
11 3 (2.97%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 8 (7.92%) Firewall
2 6 (5.94%) OSPF
3 4 (3.96%) BGP
3 4 (3.96%) BIG-IP
3 4 (3.96%) Cisco IOS
3 4 (3.96%) Cisco ISE
3 4 (3.96%) Cisco Nexus
3 4 (3.96%) IPv4
3 4 (3.96%) LAN
3 4 (3.96%) SD-WAN
3 4 (3.96%) TACACS
3 4 (3.96%) VPN
3 4 (3.96%) WAN
3 4 (3.96%) Wireless
3 4 (3.96%) WLAN
4 3 (2.97%) DNS
5 2 (1.98%) Network Security
5 2 (1.98%) OpenVPN
5 2 (1.98%) VLAN
6 1 (0.99%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (8.91%) Power BI
2 5 (4.95%) SQL Server
3 4 (3.96%) Power Query
3 4 (3.96%) PowerPivot
4 3 (2.97%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (1.98%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (1.98%) BusinessObjects
5 2 (1.98%) MySQL
5 2 (1.98%) Oracle Database
5 2 (1.98%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (0.99%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.99%) BigQuery
6 1 (0.99%) Geospatial Data
6 1 (0.99%) GIS
6 1 (0.99%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 12 (11.88%) Git
2 7 (6.93%) JIRA
3 6 (5.94%) Jenkins
4 4 (3.96%) Sonatype Nexus
5 2 (1.98%) GitLab
6 1 (0.99%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.99%) Gradle
6 1 (0.99%) JUnit
6 1 (0.99%) Maven
6 1 (0.99%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (0.99%) Oracle Forms
6 1 (0.99%) Postman
6 1 (0.99%) Selenium
6 1 (0.99%) SpecFlow
6 1 (0.99%) TestNG
6 1 (0.99%) WebDriver
General
1 34 (33.66%) Social Skills
2 24 (23.76%) Finance
3 17 (16.83%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (14.85%) Retail
5 8 (7.92%) Banking
5 8 (7.92%) Games
6 6 (5.94%) Front Office
6 6 (5.94%) Legal
6 6 (5.94%) Marketing
7 4 (3.96%) Law
7 4 (3.96%) Telecoms
8 3 (2.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (2.97%) Investment Banking
9 2 (1.98%) Back Office
9 2 (1.98%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (1.98%) Police
10 1 (0.99%) Agriculture
10 1 (0.99%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 22 (21.78%) Developer
2 17 (16.83%) Senior
3 9 (8.91%) Lead
4 8 (7.92%) Cloud Engineer
4 8 (7.92%) Site Engineer
4 8 (7.92%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 7 (6.93%) Power Platform Developer
6 6 (5.94%) Automation Engineer
6 6 (5.94%) Azure Engineer
7 5 (4.95%) Administrator
7 5 (4.95%) Front Office Developer
7 5 (4.95%) Security Engineer
7 5 (4.95%) Support Engineer
7 5 (4.95%) Systems Engineer
8 4 (3.96%) C# Developer
8 4 (3.96%) Cisco Engineer
8 4 (3.96%) Cisco Network Engineer
8 4 (3.96%) DBA
8 4 (3.96%) Security Specialist
8 4 (3.96%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (10.89%) .NET
2 8 (7.92%) AngularJS
3 7 (6.93%) CSS
3 7 (6.93%) HTML
4 6 (5.94%) Angular 2
4 6 (5.94%) jQuery
5 5 (4.95%) ARM Templates
5 5 (4.95%) Elastic Stack
6 4 (3.96%) 802.1X
6 4 (3.96%) JSON
6 4 (3.96%) RESTful
7 3 (2.97%) Node.js
7 3 (2.97%) REST
7 3 (2.97%) Spring
7 3 (2.97%) XML
8 2 (1.98%) .NET Core
8 2 (1.98%) React
8 2 (1.98%) SPFx
8 2 (1.98%) Spring Boot
8 2 (1.98%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 7 (6.93%) Hybrid Cloud
2 6 (5.94%) Hedge funds
3 5 (4.95%) Public Cloud
4 3 (2.97%) Equities
4 3 (2.97%) Management Information System
4 3 (2.97%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (1.98%) Cloud Native
5 2 (1.98%) Data Centre
5 2 (1.98%) Mobile App
5 2 (1.98%) Onboarding
5 2 (1.98%) Security Operations Centre
5 2 (1.98%) Security Posture
5 2 (1.98%) Virtual Team
6 1 (0.99%) Cyber Defence
6 1 (0.99%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (0.99%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.99%) Data Structures
6 1 (0.99%) Life Science
6 1 (0.99%) Product Ownership
6 1 (0.99%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 23 (22.77%) Windows
2 15 (14.85%) Linux
3 9 (8.91%) Windows Server
4 4 (3.96%) Windows Server 2019
5 3 (2.97%) Unix
5 3 (2.97%) Windows Server 2012
5 3 (2.97%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (1.98%) Mac OS
6 2 (1.98%) VMS
7 1 (0.99%) Android
7 1 (0.99%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.99%) Solaris
7 1 (0.99%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (29.70%) DevOps
2 20 (19.80%) Problem-Solving
3 19 (18.81%) CI/CD
3 19 (18.81%) Infrastructure as Code
4 16 (15.84%) Agile
5 15 (14.85%) Computer Science
5 15 (14.85%) Cybersecurity
5 15 (14.85%) Mentoring
6 12 (11.88%) Disaster Recovery
7 11 (10.89%) Analytics
7 11 (10.89%) Continuous Improvement
7 11 (10.89%) Workflow
8 10 (9.90%) Business Intelligence
8 10 (9.90%) Incident Management
9 9 (8.91%) Data Pipeline
9 9 (8.91%) Decision-Making
9 9 (8.91%) Incident Response
9 9 (8.91%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 9 (8.91%) Security Operations
10 8 (7.92%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 48 (47.52%) PowerShell
2 35 (34.65%) Python
3 20 (19.80%) SQL
4 18 (17.82%) Bash
5 16 (15.84%) JavaScript
6 15 (14.85%) C#
7 11 (10.89%) R
8 8 (7.92%) TypeScript
9 6 (5.94%) Java
10 4 (3.96%) Bicep
11 2 (1.98%) Kusto Query Language
12 1 (0.99%) Perl
12 1 (0.99%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.99%) VB
12 1 (0.99%) VBScript
12 1 (0.99%) X++
Qualifications
1 20 (19.80%) Degree
2 11 (10.89%) Computer Science Degree
3 10 (9.90%) Microsoft Certification
4 7 (6.93%) AWS Certification
5 5 (4.95%) Azure Certification
5 5 (4.95%) CCNP
5 5 (4.95%) Cisco Certification
6 3 (2.97%) CCIE
7 2 (1.98%) SC Cleared
7 2 (1.98%) Security Cleared
8 1 (0.99%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 1 (0.99%) CCNA
8 1 (0.99%) ISTQB
8 1 (0.99%) MCSE
8 1 (0.99%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.96%) GDPR
2 2 (1.98%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (1.98%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 2 (1.98%) Data Quality
2 2 (1.98%) QA
2 2 (1.98%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 2 (1.98%) SLA
3 1 (0.99%) HIPAA
3 1 (0.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.99%) NIST
3 1 (0.99%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 16 (15.84%) Active Directory
2 6 (5.94%) Docker
3 3 (2.97%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.98%) vSphere
5 1 (0.99%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.99%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 22 (21.78%) Terraform
2 20 (19.80%) Ansible
3 11 (10.89%) Kubernetes
4 10 (9.90%) Grafana
4 10 (9.90%) Prometheus
5 9 (8.91%) Microsoft Intune
6 6 (5.94%) Single Sign-On
7 4 (3.96%) Puppet
8 3 (2.97%) SCCM
9 2 (1.98%) Jamf Pro
10 1 (0.99%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 1 (0.99%) Argo
10 1 (0.99%) Control-M
10 1 (0.99%) Nagios
10 1 (0.99%) Opsview
Vendors
1 32 (31.68%) Microsoft
2 7 (6.93%) Google
3 6 (5.94%) Cisco
4 5 (4.95%) Intapp
4 5 (4.95%) Palo Alto
5 4 (3.96%) Adobe
5 4 (3.96%) F5
5 4 (3.96%) Oracle
5 4 (3.96%) TikTok
5 4 (3.96%) VMware
6 3 (2.97%) Citrix
6 3 (2.97%) iManage
6 3 (2.97%) LogicMonitor
6 3 (2.97%) Riverbed
6 3 (2.97%) Zscaler
7 2 (1.98%) Meraki
7 2 (1.98%) SolarWinds
7 2 (1.98%) Splunk
8 1 (0.99%) Red Hat
8 1 (0.99%) SEEBURGER