Task Automation Contracts in the Midlands

Task Automation
England > Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 125 139 187
Rank change year-on-year +14 +48 -41
Contract jobs citing Task Automation 12 16 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.45% 0.49% 0.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.54% 0.55% 0.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 12 13
10th Percentile £300 £458 £303
25th Percentile £331 £502 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 £538 £500
Median % change year-on-year +13.95% +7.50% +122.22%
75th Percentile £675 £738 £544
90th Percentile - £805 £660
England median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £12.50 -
England median hourly rate £23.80 £51.25 £62.50
% change year-on-year -53.56% -18.00% -13.79%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

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 Midlands with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,205 2,903 4,433
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 82.06% 88.08% 87.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,486 2,037 3,263
10th Percentile £235 £250 £246
25th Percentile £356 £363 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% +14.46%
75th Percentile £600 £594 £575
90th Percentile £700 £688 £663
England median daily rate £525 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 169 103 148
10th Percentile £11.06 £12.10 £10.63
25th Percentile £13.91 £14.76 £13.75
Median hourly rate £18.00 £22.26 £17.53
Median % change year-on-year -19.14% +26.98% +15.14%
75th Percentile £33.25 £37.66 £22.75
90th Percentile £55.00 £57.00 £35.00
England median hourly rate £36.50 £36.54 £25.00
% change year-on-year -0.11% +46.16% +8.70%

Task Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Task Automation in the Midlands

Task Automation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Task Automation in the Midlands

Task Automation
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Task Automation in the Midlands over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Task Automation in the Midlands

Task Automation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Task Automation in the Midlands

Task Automation
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 20 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
West Midlands +22 10 £650 -10.34% 11
East Midlands +12 2 £512 -2.48% 3
Task Automation
England

Task Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 (8.33%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 6 (50.00%) AWS
2 5 (41.67%) Azure
2 5 (41.67%) CloudFront
2 5 (41.67%) Entra ID
2 5 (41.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 1 (8.33%) Amazon EMR
3 1 (8.33%) Amazon Kinesis
3 1 (8.33%) Amazon MSK
3 1 (8.33%) Amazon SageMaker
3 1 (8.33%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 9 (75.00%) DNS
2 5 (41.67%) Network Security
2 5 (41.67%) VPN
3 4 (33.33%) DHCP
3 4 (33.33%) Fibre Channel
3 4 (33.33%) LAN
3 4 (33.33%) Remote Desktop
3 4 (33.33%) SAN
3 4 (33.33%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (16.67%) SQL Server
2 1 (8.33%) Amazon Athena
2 1 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Atlassian Bamboo
1 1 (8.33%) GitLab
1 1 (8.33%) JIRA
General
1 5 (41.67%) Finance
1 5 (41.67%) Retail
2 3 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (16.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (41.67%) Administrator
1 5 (41.67%) Applications Engineer
1 5 (41.67%) Cloud Engineer
1 5 (41.67%) Security Engineer
2 4 (33.33%) Server Administrator
2 4 (33.33%) VMWare Administrator
3 1 (8.33%) Analyst
3 1 (8.33%) Data Analyst
3 1 (8.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Systems Administrator
3 1 (8.33%) Ubuntu Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (41.67%) OAuth
1 5 (41.67%) OAuth2
1 5 (41.67%) SAML
2 1 (8.33%) BREW
Miscellaneous
1 5 (41.67%) Cloud Native
2 4 (33.33%) PKI
3 1 (8.33%) Grid Computing
3 1 (8.33%) Mobile App
3 1 (8.33%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 10 (83.33%) Windows
2 6 (50.00%) Linux
3 5 (41.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (41.67%) Ubuntu
3 5 (41.67%) Windows Server
4 4 (33.33%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (41.67%) Application Security
1 5 (41.67%) CI/CD
1 5 (41.67%) Cloud Security
1 5 (41.67%) Data Security
1 5 (41.67%) Defensive Programming
1 5 (41.67%) DevSecOps
1 5 (41.67%) Identity Access Management
1 5 (41.67%) Incident Response
1 5 (41.67%) Infrastructure Management
1 5 (41.67%) Penetration Testing
1 5 (41.67%) The Twelve-Factor App
2 4 (33.33%) Change Control
2 4 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
2 4 (33.33%) Load Balancing
2 4 (33.33%) Patch Management
2 4 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (33.33%) Virtual Infrastructure
3 1 (8.33%) Data Engineering
3 1 (8.33%) Performance Tuning
3 1 (8.33%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 5 (41.67%) Bash
2 4 (33.33%) PowerShell
3 1 (8.33%) Python
3 1 (8.33%) R
3 1 (8.33%) Shell Script
3 1 (8.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (41.67%) AWS Certification
2 1 (8.33%) Degree
2 1 (8.33%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 9 (75.00%) Active Directory
2 5 (41.67%) Docker
2 5 (41.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (33.33%) VMware ESXi
3 4 (33.33%) VMware NSX
3 4 (33.33%) VMware Server
3 4 (33.33%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 4 (33.33%) vCenter Server
2 1 (8.33%) Red Hat Satellite
2 1 (8.33%) SCCM
2 1 (8.33%) SCOM
2 1 (8.33%) SCSM
Vendors
1 5 (41.67%) Microsoft
1 5 (41.67%) VMware
2 1 (8.33%) Atlassian
2 1 (8.33%) Oracle
2 1 (8.33%) Red Hat
2 1 (8.33%) Sage