Task Automation Jobs with Work from Home Options

Task Automation
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for Task Automation skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Task Automation over the 6 months to 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 423 503 494
Rank change year-on-year +80 -9 -60
Permanent jobs citing Task Automation 167 161 384
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.49% 0.38% 0.56%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.54% 0.40% 0.58%
Number of salaries quoted 140 117 234
10th Percentile £41,208 £40,000 £31,275
25th Percentile £52,188 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £54,653
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +18.93% -15.92%
75th Percentile £76,250 £86,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £85,250 £95,000 £75,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £63,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -5.51% +5.83% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

Task Automation is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 30,939 40,754 65,870
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 91.60% 96.10% 96.90%
Number of salaries quoted 23,489 28,301 41,422
10th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £45,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.57% +2.50% +9.09%

Task Automation
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Task Automation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Task Automation trend for jobs with a WFH option

Task Automation
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option 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 a work from home option citing Task Automation over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

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 14 (8.38%) Apache
1 14 (8.38%) IIS
1 14 (8.38%) Tomcat
2 5 (2.99%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.20%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (1.20%) nginx
4 1 (0.60%) Apache Solr
4 1 (0.60%) SAS
Applications
1 10 (5.99%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.60%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.60%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.60%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 17 (10.18%) NEC Housing
2 8 (4.79%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 79 (47.31%) Azure
2 34 (20.36%) Microsoft 365
3 31 (18.56%) AWS
4 29 (17.37%) Entra ID
4 29 (17.37%) Power Platform
5 19 (11.38%) Nutanix
6 17 (10.18%) PowerApps
7 16 (9.58%) Power Automate
8 15 (8.98%) IaaS
9 13 (7.78%) Dynamics 365
10 11 (6.59%) GitHub
11 10 (5.99%) GCP
12 9 (5.39%) SaaS
12 9 (5.39%) Serverless
13 8 (4.79%) Azure DevOps
14 5 (2.99%) Azure Functions
15 4 (2.40%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 3 (1.80%) AWS CloudFormation
16 3 (1.80%) OneDrive
16 3 (1.80%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 26 (15.57%) DNS
2 4 (2.40%) Firewall
2 4 (2.40%) NetScaler
2 4 (2.40%) TCP/IP
2 4 (2.40%) VPN
3 3 (1.80%) VLAN
4 2 (1.20%) DHCP
4 2 (1.20%) HTTP
4 2 (1.20%) IPv4
4 2 (1.20%) OSPF
4 2 (1.20%) SAN
5 1 (0.60%) Network Security
5 1 (0.60%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.60%) SMS
5 1 (0.60%) WAN
5 1 (0.60%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (11.98%) SQL Server
2 19 (11.38%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 18 (10.78%) Oracle Database
4 13 (7.78%) MySQL
4 13 (7.78%) Power BI
5 11 (6.59%) Data Warehouse
5 11 (6.59%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 11 (6.59%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 4 (2.40%) Azure SQL Database
6 4 (2.40%) PowerPivot
7 3 (1.80%) Ingres
8 2 (1.20%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (1.20%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.60%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (0.60%) BigQuery
9 1 (0.60%) Couchbase
9 1 (0.60%) Data Lake
9 1 (0.60%) Dremio
9 1 (0.60%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (0.60%) Redis
Development Applications
1 9 (5.39%) Jenkins
2 8 (4.79%) Git
3 6 (3.59%) Selenium
4 5 (2.99%) JIRA
5 4 (2.40%) Bitbucket
5 4 (2.40%) Bitbucket Server
5 4 (2.40%) Cucumber
5 4 (2.40%) JMeter
5 4 (2.40%) Serenity BDD
5 4 (2.40%) SoapUI
6 2 (1.20%) GitLab
7 1 (0.60%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (0.60%) REST Assured
7 1 (0.60%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.60%) Travis CI
7 1 (0.60%) WebDriver
General
1 77 (46.11%) Finance
2 32 (19.16%) Social Skills
3 18 (10.78%) Police
4 15 (8.98%) Analytical Skills
5 14 (8.38%) Local Government
5 14 (8.38%) Public Sector
6 12 (7.19%) General Ledger
7 11 (6.59%) Retail
8 7 (4.19%) Law
8 7 (4.19%) Telecoms
9 6 (3.59%) Banking
10 5 (2.99%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (1.80%) Billing
11 3 (1.80%) Marketing
12 2 (1.20%) Advertising
12 2 (1.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 1 (0.60%) Games
13 1 (0.60%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 41 (24.55%) Senior
2 28 (16.77%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 26 (15.57%) Analyst
4 23 (13.77%) DBA
5 19 (11.38%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 14 (8.38%) Applications Support
7 13 (7.78%) Senior Analyst
8 11 (6.59%) Support Analyst
9 10 (5.99%) DevOps Engineer
9 10 (5.99%) SQL DBA
10 9 (5.39%) IT Analyst
10 9 (5.39%) IT Security Analyst
10 9 (5.39%) Security Analyst
11 8 (4.79%) Data Migration Specialist
11 8 (4.79%) Migration Specialist
11 8 (4.79%) Technical Analyst
11 8 (4.79%) Technical Support
11 8 (4.79%) Technical Support Analyst
12 7 (4.19%) IT Engineer
12 7 (4.19%) IT Security Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (10.78%) Web Services
2 7 (4.19%) .NET
3 6 (3.59%) SOAP
4 4 (2.40%) HTML
4 4 (2.40%) RESTful
5 3 (1.80%) ASP.NET
5 3 (1.80%) JSON
5 3 (1.80%) XML
6 2 (1.20%) .NET Framework
6 2 (1.20%) AngularJS
6 2 (1.20%) CSS
6 2 (1.20%) React
6 2 (1.20%) REST
7 1 (0.60%) Flash
7 1 (0.60%) Kafka
7 1 (0.60%) Microsoft Graph
7 1 (0.60%) OAuth
7 1 (0.60%) OAuth2
7 1 (0.60%) SailPoint
7 1 (0.60%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 15 (8.98%) IoT
2 14 (8.38%) Public Cloud
3 9 (5.39%) Cyberattack
3 9 (5.39%) Management Information System
4 8 (4.79%) Cyber Threat
4 8 (4.79%) Housing Association
5 7 (4.19%) Clustering
6 4 (2.40%) Cloud Native
6 4 (2.40%) Data Structures
7 3 (1.80%) Blog
7 3 (1.80%) Data Centre
7 3 (1.80%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.20%) Algorithms
8 2 (1.20%) Client/Server
8 2 (1.20%) EPoS
8 2 (1.20%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 2 (1.20%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (1.20%) PropTech
9 1 (0.60%) Enterprise Software
9 1 (0.60%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 84 (50.30%) Windows
2 39 (23.35%) Linux
3 18 (10.78%) Unix
4 14 (8.38%) Solaris
5 13 (7.78%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.60%) AIX
6 1 (0.60%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (26.95%) Problem-Solving
2 38 (22.75%) DevOps
3 30 (17.96%) Disaster Recovery
4 28 (16.77%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 25 (14.97%) ITIL
6 24 (14.37%) Decision-Making
7 23 (13.77%) CI/CD
7 23 (13.77%) Data Security
8 21 (12.57%) Agile
8 21 (12.57%) Business Intelligence
9 17 (10.18%) Cybersecurity
9 17 (10.18%) Incident Response
9 17 (10.18%) Security Operations
10 16 (9.58%) Infrastructure Automation
10 16 (9.58%) Migration
10 16 (9.58%) Network Virtualisation
10 16 (9.58%) Risk Register
10 16 (9.58%) Roadmaps
10 16 (9.58%) Storage Management
10 16 (9.58%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 57 (34.13%) PowerShell
2 43 (25.75%) SQL
3 41 (24.55%) Python
4 33 (19.76%) Bash
5 19 (11.38%) Shell Script
6 18 (10.78%) Perl
6 18 (10.78%) T-SQL
7 17 (10.18%) PL/SQL
8 10 (5.99%) JavaScript
9 7 (4.19%) Java
10 6 (3.59%) C#
11 3 (1.80%) TypeScript
12 2 (1.20%) Ruby
13 1 (0.60%) C
Qualifications
1 27 (16.17%) Security Cleared
2 26 (15.57%) Degree
3 11 (6.59%) SC Cleared
4 3 (1.80%) HND
5 2 (1.20%) CCA
5 2 (1.20%) Citrix Certification
5 2 (1.20%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.20%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.60%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.60%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.60%) CCNP
6 1 (0.60%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (0.60%) IBM Certification
6 1 (0.60%) LPIC
6 1 (0.60%) MCP
6 1 (0.60%) MCSE
6 1 (0.60%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (8.98%) Data Quality
2 14 (8.38%) Accessibility
3 8 (4.79%) GRC
4 2 (1.20%) QA
4 2 (1.20%) SLA
5 1 (0.60%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 65 (38.92%) Active Directory
2 28 (16.77%) VMware Infrastructure
3 17 (10.18%) Virtual Machines
4 8 (4.79%) Docker
5 5 (2.99%) Hyper-V
6 4 (2.40%) Virtual Desktop
6 4 (2.40%) XenApp
6 4 (2.40%) XenDesktop
7 2 (1.20%) Citrix Hypervisor
7 2 (1.20%) Microsoft App-V
8 1 (0.60%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 18 (10.78%) Terraform
2 15 (8.98%) Ansible
3 13 (7.78%) Kubernetes
4 8 (4.79%) Nagios
4 8 (4.79%) SCCM
5 7 (4.19%) Foglight
5 7 (4.19%) Microsoft Clustering
6 3 (1.80%) Puppet
7 2 (1.20%) Prometheus
7 2 (1.20%) Salt
7 2 (1.20%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (1.20%) SysTrack
8 1 (0.60%) Grafana
8 1 (0.60%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.60%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.60%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 64 (38.32%) Microsoft
2 29 (17.37%) VMware
3 20 (11.98%) Oracle
4 17 (10.18%) CrowdStrike
4 17 (10.18%) NEC
5 9 (5.39%) Qualys
6 7 (4.19%) ArcSight
6 7 (4.19%) Citrix
6 7 (4.19%) HP
7 4 (2.40%) Splunk
8 3 (1.80%) Google
9 2 (1.20%) Cisco
9 2 (1.20%) F5
9 2 (1.20%) Fortinet
9 2 (1.20%) Ivanti
9 2 (1.20%) New Relic
10 1 (0.60%) CyberArk
10 1 (0.60%) Dynatrace
10 1 (0.60%) Liquidlogic
10 1 (0.60%) Palo Alto