Task Automation Contracts in the City of London

Task Automation
Central London > City of London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London with a requirement for Task Automation skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Task Automation over the 6 months to 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 101 145 180
Rank change year-on-year +44 +35 -23
Contract jobs citing Task Automation 26 27 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 1.21% 0.78% 0.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.33% 0.85% 0.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 19 14
10th Percentile £455 £312 £402
25th Percentile £550 £406 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £655 £473 £540
Median % change year-on-year +38.62% -12.50% -1.37%
75th Percentile £705 £683 £600
90th Percentile £710 £738 £743
Central London median daily rate £638 £473 £550
% change year-on-year +34.92% -14.09% +0.46%

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of London

Task Automation is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,954 3,173 3,854
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 90.63% 91.49% 92.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,367 2,145 2,906
10th Percentile £350 £363 £381
25th Percentile £450 £481 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +4.35% +6.98%
75th Percentile £688 £725 £688
90th Percentile £800 £820 £775
Central London median daily rate £550 £600 £565
% change year-on-year -8.33% +6.19% +7.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 24 44
10th Percentile £19.95 £14.55 £18.50
25th Percentile £20.22 £16.33 £24.25
Median hourly rate £26.63 £35.00 £41.00
Median % change year-on-year -23.93% -14.63% +115.93%
75th Percentile £40.46 £57.50 £55.38
90th Percentile £49.41 £88.30 £62.50
Central London median hourly rate £27.81 £35.00 £41.50
% change year-on-year -20.54% -15.66% +107.50%

Task Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Task Automation in the City of London

Task Automation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Task Automation in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Task Automation in the City of London

Task Automation
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Task Automation in the City of London over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Task Automation in the City of London

Task Automation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Task Automation in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for Task Automation in the City of London

Task Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London 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 1 (3.85%) Apache Solr
1 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (3.85%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 4 (15.38%) Azure
2 2 (7.69%) AWS
2 2 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (7.69%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (3.85%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (3.85%) Entra ID
3 1 (3.85%) GCP
3 1 (3.85%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.85%) IPv4
1 1 (3.85%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (42.31%) MongoDB
2 6 (23.08%) Relational Database
3 5 (19.23%) DB2
3 5 (19.23%) RDBMS
3 5 (19.23%) Sybase ASE
4 3 (11.54%) SQL Server
5 2 (7.69%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (3.85%) BigQuery
6 1 (3.85%) Couchbase
6 1 (3.85%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (3.85%) MySQL
6 1 (3.85%) NoSQL
6 1 (3.85%) Redis
Development Applications
1 1 (3.85%) Jenkins
General
1 17 (65.38%) Social Skills
2 10 (38.46%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (7.69%) Banking
3 2 (7.69%) Finance
3 2 (7.69%) Investment Banking
4 1 (3.85%) Retail
4 1 (3.85%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 10 (38.46%) Site Engineer
1 10 (38.46%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 7 (26.92%) Python Engineer
3 5 (19.23%) DBA
4 4 (15.38%) Applications Engineer
4 4 (15.38%) Java Engineer
4 4 (15.38%) Sybase DBA
5 3 (11.54%) Development Engineer
6 2 (7.69%) Administrator
6 2 (7.69%) Azure Engineer
6 2 (7.69%) Database Engineer
7 1 (3.85%) Applications Specialist
7 1 (3.85%) Developer
7 1 (3.85%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 1 (3.85%) Junior
7 1 (3.85%) Junior Project Manager
7 1 (3.85%) Migration Engineer
7 1 (3.85%) Project Manager
7 1 (3.85%) SAP Administrator
7 1 (3.85%) Technical Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (38.46%) Kafka
1 10 (38.46%) RabbitMQ
1 10 (38.46%) RESTful
2 1 (3.85%) Ajax
2 1 (3.85%) AngularJS
2 1 (3.85%) CSS
2 1 (3.85%) HTML
2 1 (3.85%) JSON
2 1 (3.85%) SailPoint
2 1 (3.85%) SAML
2 1 (3.85%) SOAP
2 1 (3.85%) Web Services
2 1 (3.85%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (38.46%) Algorithms
1 10 (38.46%) Data Structures
1 10 (38.46%) Distributed Systems
2 5 (19.23%) Linux Command Line
2 5 (19.23%) Replication
3 2 (7.69%) Data Centre
3 2 (7.69%) Operational Technology
4 1 (3.85%) Clustering
4 1 (3.85%) CMDB
4 1 (3.85%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 18 (69.23%) Linux
2 5 (19.23%) Unix
3 4 (15.38%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (61.54%) Problem-Solving
2 13 (50.00%) DevOps
3 10 (38.46%) Analytical Thinking
3 10 (38.46%) CI/CD
3 10 (38.46%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 10 (38.46%) Microservices
3 10 (38.46%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 5 (19.23%) Change Data Capture
4 5 (19.23%) Incident Management
4 5 (19.23%) ITIL
4 5 (19.23%) Operational Acceptance Testing
4 5 (19.23%) Root Cause Analysis
5 3 (11.54%) Migration
6 2 (7.69%) Data Migration
6 2 (7.69%) Infrastructure as Code
6 2 (7.69%) Secrets Management
7 1 (3.85%) Customer Requirements
7 1 (3.85%) Decision-Making
7 1 (3.85%) Infrastructure Automation
7 1 (3.85%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 20 (76.92%) Python
2 12 (46.15%) Shell Script
3 10 (38.46%) Java
4 9 (34.62%) SQL
5 8 (30.77%) PowerShell
6 7 (26.92%) C++
6 7 (26.92%) Go
6 7 (26.92%) Perl
6 7 (26.92%) T-SQL
7 1 (3.85%) Bash
7 1 (3.85%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 3 (11.54%) Degree
2 1 (3.85%) AWS Certification
2 1 (3.85%) SC Cleared
2 1 (3.85%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (19.23%) QA
2 1 (3.85%) PMO
System Software
1 10 (38.46%) Apache ZooKeeper
2 5 (19.23%) Active Directory
2 5 (19.23%) Veritas Cluster Server
3 1 (3.85%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 11 (42.31%) Kubernetes
2 10 (38.46%) Consul
2 10 (38.46%) Grafana
2 10 (38.46%) Prometheus
3 2 (7.69%) Ansible
4 1 (3.85%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Clustering
4 1 (3.85%) Puppet
4 1 (3.85%) SCCM
Vendors
1 13 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 10 (38.46%) SaltStack
3 6 (23.08%) ServiceNow
4 5 (19.23%) IBM
4 5 (19.23%) Oracle
4 5 (19.23%) SAP
4 5 (19.23%) Sun
4 5 (19.23%) Sybase
4 5 (19.23%) Veritas
5 1 (3.85%) Google
5 1 (3.85%) VMware