Task Automation Contracts in Hertfordshire

Task Automation
East of England > Hertfordshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Hertfordshire 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 9 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 70 70 -
Rank change year-on-year 0 - -
Contract jobs citing Task Automation 2 6 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 0.24% 0.78% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.27% 0.90% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 6 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £525 -
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% - -
East of England median daily rate £513 £525 £463
% change year-on-year -2.38% +13.51% +15.63%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Hertfordshire

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 Hertfordshire with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 740 670 706
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 87.47% 86.90% 88.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 256 370 428
10th Percentile £219 £260 £205
25th Percentile £313 £363 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £405 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -19.00% - +0.45%
75th Percentile £588 £676 £625
90th Percentile £700 £750 £708
East of England median daily rate £450 £478 £475
% change year-on-year -5.76% +0.53% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 312 139 85
10th Percentile £38.12 £21.00 £17.75
25th Percentile £40.00 £52.84 £36.16
Median hourly rate £50.00 £62.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +25.00% +25.00%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £75.25 £77.60 -
East of England median hourly rate £40.00 £21.30 £15.50
% change year-on-year +87.79% +37.42% -3.13%

Task Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Task Automation in Hertfordshire

Task Automation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Daily rate trend for Task Automation in Hertfordshire

Task Automation
Contract Job Locations in Hertfordshire

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 Hertfordshire region over the 6 months to 9 June 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
Stevenage -10 1 £600 +27.66%
Hatfield -11 1 - -
Task Automation
East of England

Task Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Hertfordshire 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) DHCP
1 1 (50.00%) DNS
1 1 (50.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (50.00%) VLAN
General
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Linux Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Server Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Windows Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Windows Server Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) CentOS
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Ubuntu
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
1 1 (50.00%) Windows Server
1 1 (50.00%) Windows Server 2016
1 1 (50.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (50.00%) Configuration Management
1 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (50.00%) Patch Management
1 1 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (50.00%) Security Hardening
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (50.00%) Python
1 1 (50.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
1 1 (50.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Linux+ Certification
1 1 (50.00%) LPIC
1 1 (50.00%) RHCE
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (50.00%) Docker
2 1 (50.00%) Hyper-V
2 1 (50.00%) KVM
2 1 (50.00%) Xen
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Ansible
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (50.00%) Progress Chef
1 1 (50.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) VMware
2 1 (50.00%) Red Hat