Task Automation Contracts in the Thames Valley

Task Automation
South East > Thames Valley

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 110 143 147
Rank change year-on-year +33 +4 -20
Contract jobs citing Task Automation 22 7 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.83% 0.24% 0.53%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.97% 0.27% 0.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 4 11
10th Percentile £458 £418 £375
25th Percentile £482 £427 £378
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £469 £475
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -1.32% +427.78%
75th Percentile £594 £500 £513
90th Percentile £633 - £563
South East median daily rate £500 £495 £550
% change year-on-year +1.01% -10.00% +22.22%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,268 2,599 3,223
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 85.88% 90.75% 89.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,245 1,764 2,187
10th Percentile £213 £317 £235
25th Percentile £375 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £505 £485
Median % change year-on-year -0.99% +4.12% +7.78%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £585
90th Percentile £675 £688 £650
South East median daily rate £510 £504 £500
% change year-on-year +1.29% +0.70% +8.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 166 70 89
10th Percentile £14.09 £16.25 £10.77
25th Percentile £19.25 £24.86 £12.25
Median hourly rate £46.25 £52.30 £17.42
Median % change year-on-year -11.57% +200.23% -17.24%
75th Percentile £64.42 £72.69 £24.42
90th Percentile £85.65 £79.19 £63.27
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £52.50 £21.99
% change year-on-year -9.52% +138.80% -20.05%

Task Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Task Automation in the Thames Valley

Task Automation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Daily rate trend for Task Automation in the Thames Valley

Task Automation
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Task Automation in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Task Automation in the Thames Valley

Task Automation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Hourly rate trend for Task Automation in the Thames Valley

Task Automation
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 1 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
Berkshire +6 18 £500 - 5
Buckinghamshire - 3 £625 -
Oxfordshire +5 1 £575 +31.43% 3
Task Automation
South East

Task Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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:

Applications
1 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 15 (68.18%) OpenShift
2 4 (18.18%) AWS
3 3 (13.64%) Azure
4 2 (9.09%) PaaS
4 2 (9.09%) Slack
5 1 (4.55%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (4.55%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (4.55%) Cloudinary
5 1 (4.55%) GCP
5 1 (4.55%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (54.55%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (45.45%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (4.55%) Metadata
3 1 (4.55%) MongoDB
3 1 (4.55%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (13.64%) Git
1 3 (13.64%) Jenkins
2 1 (4.55%) Appium
2 1 (4.55%) MSTest
2 1 (4.55%) NUnit
2 1 (4.55%) Selenium
2 1 (4.55%) SpecFlow
2 1 (4.55%) TeamCity
General
1 3 (13.64%) Public Sector
2 1 (4.55%) Finance
2 1 (4.55%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 13 (59.09%) Site Engineer
1 13 (59.09%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 3 (13.64%) Database Specialist
3 2 (9.09%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (9.09%) PostgreSQL Specialist
3 2 (9.09%) Senior
3 2 (9.09%) Senior DevOps
3 2 (9.09%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) Automation Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) C# Software Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) DBA
4 1 (4.55%) Developer
4 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Specialist
4 1 (4.55%) Project Manager
4 1 (4.55%) Python Developer
4 1 (4.55%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) Software Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) SQL DBA
4 1 (4.55%) SQL Server DBA
4 1 (4.55%) SQL Server Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (45.45%) Kafka
2 2 (9.09%) Fluent Bit
2 2 (9.09%) Loki
3 1 (4.55%) .NET
3 1 (4.55%) .NET Core
3 1 (4.55%) .NET Framework
3 1 (4.55%) ARM Templates
3 1 (4.55%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 13 (59.09%) Cloud Native
2 2 (9.09%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (4.55%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 3 (13.64%) Linux
2 2 (9.09%) Windows
3 1 (4.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (72.73%) DevOps
2 15 (68.18%) GitOps
3 13 (59.09%) Containerisation
3 13 (59.09%) ITSM
3 13 (59.09%) Performance Tuning
3 13 (59.09%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 11 (50.00%) Change Management
4 11 (50.00%) Software Engineering
5 10 (45.45%) Collaborative Working
5 10 (45.45%) Incident Response
5 10 (45.45%) Microservices
6 9 (40.91%) Agile
7 4 (18.18%) Migration
7 4 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
8 3 (13.64%) Capacity Management
8 3 (13.64%) CI/CD
8 3 (13.64%) Configuration Management
8 3 (13.64%) Data Migration
8 3 (13.64%) Disaster Recovery
8 3 (13.64%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 6 (27.27%) Bash
2 3 (13.64%) PowerShell
2 3 (13.64%) Python
3 1 (4.55%) C#
3 1 (4.55%) SQL
Qualifications
1 19 (86.36%) Security Cleared
2 17 (77.27%) SC Cleared
3 2 (9.09%) DV Cleared
4 1 (4.55%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.55%) QA
System Software
1 3 (13.64%) Docker
2 1 (4.55%) Active Directory
2 1 (4.55%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 12 (54.55%) Argo
1 12 (54.55%) Grafana
1 12 (54.55%) Kubernetes
1 12 (54.55%) Prometheus
2 10 (45.45%) Istio
2 10 (45.45%) Kibana
3 6 (27.27%) Terraform
4 3 (13.64%) Ansible
5 2 (9.09%) Kustomize
6 1 (4.55%) Progress Chef
6 1 (4.55%) Puppet
Vendors
1 6 (27.27%) Microsoft
2 2 (9.09%) Red Hat
2 2 (9.09%) SolarWinds
3 1 (4.55%) Google
3 1 (4.55%) VMware