Office Automation Contracts in the UK excluding London

Office Automation
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Office Automation skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Office 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 388 432 508
Rank change year-on-year +44 +76 -70
Contract jobs citing Office Automation 12 6 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.058% 0.026% 0.052%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.069% 0.030% 0.059%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 6 13
10th Percentile £196 - -
25th Percentile - - £158
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £200 £200 £160
Median % change year-on-year - +25.00% +18.52%
75th Percentile £328 - £163
90th Percentile £713 - -
UK median daily rate £200 £200 £160
% change year-on-year - +25.00% +18.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £17.25
Median hourly rate - - £17.50
75th Percentile - - £17.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - - £17.50
% change year-on-year - - -12.50%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Office 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 UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,348 20,314 27,218
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 83.29% 89.18% 89.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,293 13,939 19,042
10th Percentile £250 £260 £240
25th Percentile £375 £400 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year - +2.56% +9.18%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £694 £663
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,136 1,244 1,338
10th Percentile £12.45 £10.63 £12.47
25th Percentile £15.39 £15.21 £14.25
Median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.91% +75.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £61.30 £64.72 £47.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £74.70 £62.80
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.25 £25.68
% change year-on-year +0.69% +41.16% +9.74%

Office Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Office Automation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Office Automation in the UK excluding London

Office Automation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Office Automation in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Office Automation in the UK excluding London

Office Automation
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Office Automation in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Office Automation in the UK excluding London

Office Automation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Office Automation in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Office Automation in the UK excluding London

Office Automation
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Office Automation within the UK excluding London 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
South East +11 6 £200 - 2
South West - 6 £675 -
Office Automation
UK

Office Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 4 (33.33%) Confluence
2 2 (16.67%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (16.67%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 2 (16.67%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 4 (33.33%) AWS
1 4 (33.33%) Azure
1 4 (33.33%) GCP
1 4 (33.33%) OpenShift
1 4 (33.33%) PaaS
2 2 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 4 (33.33%) VPN
2 2 (16.67%) DHCP
2 2 (16.67%) DNS
2 2 (16.67%) Firewall
2 2 (16.67%) LAN
2 2 (16.67%) Skype
2 2 (16.67%) SMTP
2 2 (16.67%) TCP/IP
2 2 (16.67%) WAN
Development Applications
1 4 (33.33%) Bitbucket
1 4 (33.33%) JIRA
General
1 3 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (16.67%) Military
Job Titles
1 6 (50.00%) IT Support
2 5 (41.67%) IT Support Technician
2 5 (41.67%) IT Technician
2 5 (41.67%) Support Technician
3 4 (33.33%) Architect
3 4 (33.33%) Automation Architect
4 3 (25.00%) Office Automation Architect
5 2 (16.67%) Service Desk Engineer
5 2 (16.67%) Wintel Engineer
6 1 (8.33%) IT Engineer
6 1 (8.33%) IT Support Engineer
6 1 (8.33%) Software Architect
6 1 (8.33%) Software Design Architect
6 1 (8.33%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (33.33%) .NET
1 4 (33.33%) .NET Framework
1 4 (33.33%) ModSecurity
Miscellaneous
1 6 (50.00%) PKI
2 4 (33.33%) Product Ownership
2 4 (33.33%) Public Cloud
2 4 (33.33%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 4 (33.33%) Linux
2 2 (16.67%) Windows
2 2 (16.67%) Windows 10
2 2 (16.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (58.33%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (50.00%) Agile
2 6 (50.00%) Project Management
3 4 (33.33%) ArchiMate
3 4 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence
3 4 (33.33%) Business Strategy
3 4 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 4 (33.33%) Computer Science
3 4 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 4 (33.33%) DevSecOps
3 4 (33.33%) GitOps
3 4 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 4 (33.33%) Infrastructure Automation
3 4 (33.33%) IT Strategy
3 4 (33.33%) Machine Learning
3 4 (33.33%) NsoIT
3 4 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 4 (33.33%) Technology Strategy
3 4 (33.33%) TOGAF
3 4 (33.33%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 6 (50.00%) PowerShell
2 4 (33.33%) Python
3 2 (16.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (50.00%) Degree
1 6 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 6 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 4 (33.33%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (16.67%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (33.33%) Docker
2 4 (33.33%) VMware NSX
3 2 (16.67%) Active Directory
3 2 (16.67%) Microsoft Virtual Server
3 2 (16.67%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (16.67%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 6 (50.00%) OPNET
2 4 (33.33%) Ansible
2 4 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 4 (33.33%) PowerCLI
2 4 (33.33%) Terraform
3 2 (16.67%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 2 (16.67%) SCCM
3 2 (16.67%) SCOM
Vendors
1 6 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 6 (50.00%) VMware
2 4 (33.33%) Atlassian
2 4 (33.33%) Cisco
2 4 (33.33%) Google
3 2 (16.67%) Remedy
3 2 (16.67%) SolarWinds