Task Automation Contracts in England

Task Automation
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 17 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 293 433 480
Rank change year-on-year +140 +47 -9
Contract jobs citing Task Automation 260 224 318
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.71% 0.47% 0.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.83% 0.52% 0.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 215 145 240
10th Percentile £381 £370 £400
25th Percentile £460 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - +10.00%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £669
90th Percentile £700 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £554
% change year-on-year - -0.72% +16.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 1
10th Percentile - £19.13 -
25th Percentile - £30.94 £77.50
Median hourly rate £23.80 £51.25 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year -53.56% -35.94% +84.81%
75th Percentile - £70.94 £82.50
90th Percentile - £82.38 -
UK median hourly rate £23.80 £51.25 £80.00
% change year-on-year -53.56% -35.94% +45.45%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,491 43,355 63,906
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.40% 90.10% 90.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,622 30,435 45,445
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £450 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £765 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,249 1,535 1,743
10th Percentile £12.92 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.95 £16.13 £15.25
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.25 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.69% +45.00% +7.94%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £36.05 £35.65 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.11% +38.82% +5.90%

Task Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Task Automation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Task Automation in England

Task Automation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Task Automation in England.

Daily rate trend for Task Automation in England

Task Automation
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Task Automation in England over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Task Automation in England

Task Automation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Task Automation in England.

Hourly rate trend for Task Automation in England

Task Automation
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Task Automation within the England region over the 6 months to 17 May 2024. 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +61 120 £570 +7.04% 83
South West +29 41 £700 +27.27% 14
South East +49 40 £500 +7.82% 18
North of England +35 35 £475 -17.39% 18
Yorkshire +18 21 £520 -25.71% 4
Midlands +26 12 £613 +13.95% 14
West Midlands +26 10 £650 -10.34% 11
North West +18 10 £463 -7.50% 12
East of England +10 5 £513 -6.82% 17
North East +17 4 £463 -15.91% 2
East Midlands +8 2 £512 -2.48% 3
Task Automation
UK

Task Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 34 (13.08%) Confluence
2 14 (5.38%) SharePoint
3 8 (3.08%) Microsoft Exchange
4 5 (1.92%) Apache
4 5 (1.92%) nginx
5 3 (1.15%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.77%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.77%) IIS
7 1 (0.38%) Apache Solr
7 1 (0.38%) SharePoint 2010
7 1 (0.38%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 3 (1.15%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.77%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.38%) InfoPath
3 1 (0.38%) InVision
3 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.38%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.38%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 7 (2.69%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 78 (30.00%) Azure
2 49 (18.85%) AWS
3 31 (11.92%) GCP
4 30 (11.54%) GitHub
5 21 (8.08%) Microsoft 365
5 21 (8.08%) OpenShift
6 14 (5.38%) Entra ID
7 12 (4.62%) Azure DevOps
8 10 (3.85%) Apigee
8 10 (3.85%) Kong
9 8 (3.08%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 6 (2.31%) Power Platform
11 5 (1.92%) CloudFront
11 5 (1.92%) Power Automate
11 5 (1.92%) PowerApps
11 5 (1.92%) WhatsApp
12 4 (1.54%) Amazon EC2
12 4 (1.54%) Amazon S3
12 4 (1.54%) Datadog
12 4 (1.54%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 31 (11.92%) DNS
2 20 (7.69%) VPN
3 16 (6.15%) TCP/IP
4 15 (5.77%) Firewall
5 13 (5.00%) HTTP
6 11 (4.23%) DHCP
7 10 (3.85%) Network Security
8 9 (3.46%) SAN
9 7 (2.69%) LAN
10 6 (2.31%) Reverse Proxy
10 6 (2.31%) Software-Defined Networking
11 5 (1.92%) BIG-IP
11 5 (1.92%) Cisco Nexus
11 5 (1.92%) IPv4
11 5 (1.92%) Remote Desktop
11 5 (1.92%) VLAN
11 5 (1.92%) WAN
12 4 (1.54%) Fibre Channel
12 4 (1.54%) NAS
12 4 (1.54%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (10.77%) PostgreSQL
2 25 (9.62%) MongoDB
3 20 (7.69%) Elasticsearch
3 20 (7.69%) SQL Server
4 11 (4.23%) MySQL
4 11 (4.23%) Sybase ASE
5 9 (3.46%) DB2
5 9 (3.46%) KDB
5 9 (3.46%) Relational Database
6 6 (2.31%) RDBMS
7 5 (1.92%) Amazon RDS
8 3 (1.15%) Metadata
8 3 (1.15%) NoSQL
9 2 (0.77%) Power BI
9 2 (0.77%) Redis
9 2 (0.77%) Tableau
10 1 (0.38%) Azure SQL Database
10 1 (0.38%) BigQuery
10 1 (0.38%) Couchbase
10 1 (0.38%) Flink
Development Applications
1 51 (19.62%) Jenkins
2 35 (13.46%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 35 (13.46%) JIRA
3 33 (12.69%) Git
4 28 (10.77%) GitLab
5 24 (9.23%) Bitbucket
6 9 (3.46%) CircleCI
6 9 (3.46%) Travis CI
7 8 (3.08%) NUnit
7 8 (3.08%) Visual Studio
8 7 (2.69%) Postman
8 7 (2.69%) Sonatype Nexus
9 5 (1.92%) TeamCity
10 4 (1.54%) Artifactory
10 4 (1.54%) Selenium
11 3 (1.15%) Cucumber
11 3 (1.15%) Cypress.io
11 3 (1.15%) InstallShield
11 3 (1.15%) JUnit
11 3 (1.15%) MSI
General
1 91 (35.00%) Social Skills
2 54 (20.77%) Analytical Skills
3 31 (11.92%) Finance
4 19 (7.31%) Aerospace
5 14 (5.38%) Public Sector
6 12 (4.62%) Banking
7 11 (4.23%) Retail
8 5 (1.92%) Marketing
9 4 (1.54%) Telecoms
10 3 (1.15%) Advertising
10 3 (1.15%) Automotive
10 3 (1.15%) Electronics
10 3 (1.15%) Investment Banking
10 3 (1.15%) Law
10 3 (1.15%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.77%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (0.77%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 42 (16.15%) Developer
2 32 (12.31%) Senior
3 29 (11.15%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 28 (10.77%) Site Engineer
5 25 (9.62%) DevOps Engineer
6 21 (8.08%) DBA
7 17 (6.54%) Administrator
7 17 (6.54%) Cloud Engineer
8 13 (5.00%) Database Specialist
8 13 (5.00%) Security Engineer
9 12 (4.62%) Automation Engineer
10 11 (4.23%) Analyst
10 11 (4.23%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 11 (4.23%) Senior Developer
11 10 (3.85%) Python Engineer
12 9 (3.46%) KDB Developer
12 9 (3.46%) Sybase DBA
13 8 (3.08%) Applications Engineer
13 8 (3.08%) Azure Engineer
14 7 (2.69%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (13.08%) .NET
2 24 (9.23%) .NET Core
2 24 (9.23%) Kafka
3 13 (5.00%) XML
4 11 (4.23%) AngularJS
4 11 (4.23%) JSON
4 11 (4.23%) RabbitMQ
5 10 (3.85%) Elastic Stack
5 10 (3.85%) RESTful
5 10 (3.85%) YAML
6 9 (3.46%) CSS
6 9 (3.46%) REST
7 7 (2.69%) GraphQL
7 7 (2.69%) HTML
7 7 (2.69%) Playwright
8 6 (2.31%) jQuery
8 6 (2.31%) React
8 6 (2.31%) SAML
9 5 (1.92%) Node.js
9 5 (1.92%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 32 (12.31%) Replication
2 22 (8.46%) Linux Command Line
3 20 (7.69%) Cloud Native
4 19 (7.31%) Data Structures
5 14 (5.38%) Clustering
6 12 (4.62%) Algorithms
6 12 (4.62%) Distributed Systems
7 9 (3.46%) Fixed Income
8 8 (3.08%) PKI
9 6 (2.31%) Public Cloud
10 5 (1.92%) Cyberattack
10 5 (1.92%) Data Centre
10 5 (1.92%) Hybrid Cloud
10 5 (1.92%) Management Information System
11 4 (1.54%) CMDB
11 4 (1.54%) Data Protection Act
12 3 (1.15%) Mobile App
12 3 (1.15%) Security Posture
12 3 (1.15%) Taxonomies
13 2 (0.77%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 94 (36.15%) Linux
2 55 (21.15%) Windows
3 20 (7.69%) Unix
4 17 (6.54%) Windows Server
5 12 (4.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (2.31%) CentOS
6 6 (2.31%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.77%) Android
7 2 (0.77%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.77%) VMS
7 2 (0.77%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (0.77%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.38%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.38%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 89 (34.23%) CI/CD
2 78 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
3 74 (28.46%) DevOps
4 55 (21.15%) Agile
5 40 (15.38%) Continuous Integration
6 38 (14.62%) Configuration Management
7 35 (13.46%) Deployment Automation
8 34 (13.08%) Infrastructure as Code
9 32 (12.31%) Disaster Recovery
9 32 (12.31%) Migration
9 32 (12.31%) Performance Tuning
10 30 (11.54%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 29 (11.15%) Microservices
12 28 (10.77%) Containerisation
12 28 (10.77%) Incident Response
12 28 (10.77%) Infrastructure Automation
13 26 (10.00%) OO
13 26 (10.00%) Scrum
14 25 (9.62%) ITIL
14 25 (9.62%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 132 (50.77%) Python
2 106 (40.77%) PowerShell
3 55 (21.15%) Bash
4 38 (14.62%) SQL
5 21 (8.08%) Java
6 17 (6.54%) Go
7 16 (6.15%) JavaScript
8 15 (5.77%) Shell Script
9 14 (5.38%) Perl
10 10 (3.85%) C#
11 8 (3.08%) TypeScript
12 7 (2.69%) C++
12 7 (2.69%) T-SQL
13 3 (1.15%) ActionScript
13 3 (1.15%) Groovy
14 2 (0.77%) Kusto Query Language
14 2 (0.77%) PHP
14 2 (0.77%) Ruby
15 1 (0.38%) Bicep
15 1 (0.38%) C
Qualifications
1 70 (26.92%) Security Cleared
2 61 (23.46%) SC Cleared
3 24 (9.23%) Degree
4 11 (4.23%) Microsoft Certification
5 9 (3.46%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (3.46%) DV Cleared
6 7 (2.69%) AWS Certification
6 7 (2.69%) Cisco Certification
7 6 (2.31%) MCSE
8 5 (1.92%) CCNA
8 5 (1.92%) CCNP
9 2 (0.77%) CCIE
9 2 (0.77%) Network+ Certification
9 2 (0.77%) RHCE
10 1 (0.38%) GIAC
10 1 (0.38%) JNCIA
10 1 (0.38%) JNCIS
10 1 (0.38%) Linux+ Certification
10 1 (0.38%) LPIC
10 1 (0.38%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (8.85%) QA
2 10 (3.85%) Accessibility
3 4 (1.54%) SLA
4 3 (1.15%) GDPR
5 1 (0.38%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.38%) NIST
5 1 (0.38%) PMO
System Software
1 43 (16.54%) Docker
2 41 (15.77%) Active Directory
3 29 (11.15%) VMware Infrastructure
4 16 (6.15%) vSphere
5 9 (3.46%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 9 (3.46%) VMware NSX
6 7 (2.69%) Hyper-V
6 7 (2.69%) VMware ESXi
7 5 (1.92%) Veritas Cluster Server
8 4 (1.54%) VMware Server
9 2 (0.77%) BitLocker
9 2 (0.77%) Firmware
9 2 (0.77%) Microsoft App-V
9 2 (0.77%) Virtual Machines
10 1 (0.38%) KVM
10 1 (0.38%) Virtual Desktop
10 1 (0.38%) Xen
Systems Management
1 65 (25.00%) Ansible
2 50 (19.23%) Kubernetes
3 48 (18.46%) Terraform
4 37 (14.23%) Prometheus
5 34 (13.08%) Grafana
6 23 (8.85%) PowerCLI
7 19 (7.31%) Kibana
8 18 (6.92%) Puppet
9 13 (5.00%) Progress Chef
10 12 (4.62%) Argo
10 12 (4.62%) Istio
11 10 (3.85%) Consul
12 9 (3.46%) Docker Swarm
12 9 (3.46%) logstash
13 7 (2.69%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
14 6 (2.31%) Microsoft Intune
14 6 (2.31%) SCCM
14 6 (2.31%) vCenter Server
15 4 (1.54%) VxRail
16 3 (1.15%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 72 (27.69%) Microsoft
2 34 (13.08%) VMware
3 27 (10.38%) Dell
4 24 (9.23%) Atlassian
4 24 (9.23%) HP
5 18 (6.92%) Oracle
6 16 (6.15%) Splunk
7 15 (5.77%) Red Hat
7 15 (5.77%) SAP
7 15 (5.77%) SolarWinds
8 13 (5.00%) ServiceNow
9 11 (4.23%) Sybase
10 10 (3.85%) Google
10 10 (3.85%) IBM
11 9 (3.46%) SaltStack
12 8 (3.08%) Cisco
13 7 (2.69%) F5
14 6 (2.31%) Veritas
15 5 (1.92%) CrowdStrike
15 5 (1.92%) Sun