Task Automation Contracts in South Yorkshire

Task Automation
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South Yorkshire requiring Task Automation skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Task Automation over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 48 52 48
Rank change year-on-year +4 -4 -17
Contract jobs citing Task Automation 17 6 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 3.51% 1.20% 3.42%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.05% 1.30% 3.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 3 17
10th Percentile £411 - -
25th Percentile £425 £625 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £650 £300
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +116.67% -40.00%
75th Percentile £631 £688 £450
90th Percentile £645 £695 £505
Yorkshire median daily rate £520 £700 £375
% change year-on-year -25.71% +86.67% -25.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South Yorkshire

Task Automation falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in South Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 420 462 480
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 86.60% 92.77% 91.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 235 286 366
10th Percentile £360 £300 £305
25th Percentile £413 £473 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £550 £495
Median % change year-on-year -11.36% +11.11% +16.47%
75th Percentile £588 £675 £563
90th Percentile £622 £743 £650
Yorkshire median daily rate £495 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -5.71% +5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 37 20
10th Percentile £10.90 - £10.97
25th Percentile £12.55 £9.80 £11.00
Median hourly rate £12.83 £10.63 £17.06
Median % change year-on-year +20.70% -37.67% -20.67%
75th Percentile £21.50 - £22.33
90th Percentile £23.75 - £23.78
Yorkshire median hourly rate £13.50 £10.63 £18.50
% change year-on-year +27.00% -42.54% -6.06%

Task Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Task Automation in South Yorkshire

Task Automation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Task Automation in South Yorkshire

Task Automation
Daily Rate Histogram in South Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Task Automation in South Yorkshire over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Task Automation in South Yorkshire

Task Automation
Contract Job Locations in South Yorkshire

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 South Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 12 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
Sheffield -2 16 £571 -12.15% 2
Task Automation
Yorkshire

Task Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Yorkshire 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 9 (52.94%) Confluence
2 2 (11.76%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 15 (88.24%) AWS
1 15 (88.24%) Azure
1 15 (88.24%) GCP
2 9 (52.94%) GitHub
2 9 (52.94%) Kong
3 6 (35.29%) Apigee
4 2 (11.76%) Anthos
4 2 (11.76%) Datadog
4 2 (11.76%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 9 (52.94%) DNS
1 9 (52.94%) Firewall
1 9 (52.94%) HTTP
1 9 (52.94%) TCP/IP
1 9 (52.94%) VPN
2 5 (29.41%) Reverse Proxy
3 3 (17.65%) BIG-IP
3 3 (17.65%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
3 3 (17.65%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (52.94%) Elasticsearch
2 6 (35.29%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 10 (58.82%) GitLab
1 10 (58.82%) Jenkins
2 9 (52.94%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 9 (52.94%) CircleCI
2 9 (52.94%) Git
2 9 (52.94%) JIRA
2 9 (52.94%) Travis CI
General
1 11 (64.71%) Social Skills
2 9 (52.94%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (47.06%) DevOps Engineer
2 6 (35.29%) Automation Engineer
2 6 (35.29%) DevOps Automation Engineer
3 4 (23.53%) Database Specialist
4 3 (17.65%) Security Engineer
5 2 (11.76%) DBA
5 2 (11.76%) MongoDB DBA
5 2 (11.76%) Site Engineer
5 2 (11.76%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (52.94%) Elastic Stack
1 9 (52.94%) JSON
1 9 (52.94%) XML
1 9 (52.94%) YAML
2 1 (5.88%) OLE
Miscellaneous
1 9 (52.94%) Data Structures
2 6 (35.29%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 8 (47.06%) Linux
1 8 (47.06%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (64.71%) Agile
1 11 (64.71%) Containerisation
1 11 (64.71%) DevOps
1 11 (64.71%) Infrastructure as Code
2 10 (58.82%) CI/CD
3 9 (52.94%) API Integration
3 9 (52.94%) Collaborative Working
3 9 (52.94%) Continuous Deployment
3 9 (52.94%) Continuous Integration
3 9 (52.94%) DevSecOps
3 9 (52.94%) Problem-Solving
3 9 (52.94%) Project Management
3 9 (52.94%) Scrum
3 9 (52.94%) Secure Coding
3 9 (52.94%) Stakeholder Management
3 9 (52.94%) Use Case
3 9 (52.94%) Workflow
4 6 (35.29%) Capacity Planning
4 6 (35.29%) Disaster Recovery
4 6 (35.29%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 17 (100.00%) Bash
2 16 (94.12%) Python
3 9 (52.94%) PowerShell
4 3 (17.65%) ActionScript
5 2 (11.76%) Shell Script
6 1 (5.88%) Go
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (52.94%) QA
System Software
1 11 (64.71%) Docker
2 2 (11.76%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 11 (64.71%) Kubernetes
1 11 (64.71%) Prometheus
1 11 (64.71%) Terraform
2 9 (52.94%) Ansible
2 9 (52.94%) Docker Swarm
2 9 (52.94%) Grafana
2 9 (52.94%) Kibana
2 9 (52.94%) logstash
2 9 (52.94%) Progress Chef
2 9 (52.94%) Puppet
3 2 (11.76%) Istio
3 2 (11.76%) Kiali
Vendors
1 11 (64.71%) Splunk
2 3 (17.65%) F5
3 2 (11.76%) VMware