Task Automation Contracts in the UK excluding London

Task 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 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 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 245 373 385
Rank change year-on-year +128 +12 -24
Contract jobs citing Task Automation 144 71 126
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.71% 0.31% 0.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.84% 0.34% 0.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 110 50 104
10th Percentile £411 £412 £313
25th Percentile £458 £494 £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £516
Median % change year-on-year - +6.54% +14.72%
75th Percentile £645 £694 £600
90th Percentile £700 £739 £669
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £554
% change year-on-year - -0.72% +16.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £12.50 -
UK median hourly rate £23.80 £51.25 £80.00
% change year-on-year -53.56% -35.94% +45.45%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,112 20,583 27,136
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.30% 89.45% 89.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,220 14,187 18,951
10th Percentile £250 £258 £235
25th Percentile £381 £400 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £480
Median % change year-on-year - +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £656
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +7.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,064 1,254 1,350
10th Percentile £12.35 £10.63 £12.25
25th Percentile £15.25 £15.25 £14.25
Median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -4.99%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £47.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £73.74 £61.52
UK median hourly rate £36.05 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +0.13% +40.19% +7.00%

Task Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Task Automation in the UK excluding London

Task Automation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Task Automation in the UK excluding London

Task Automation
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Task Automation in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Task Automation in the UK excluding London

Task Automation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Task Automation in the UK excluding London

Task 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 Task Automation within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 18 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
South West +34 41 £700 +27.27% 14
South East +65 40 £500 +7.82% 26
North of England +41 35 £475 -17.39% 20
Yorkshire +20 21 £520 -25.71% 4
Scotland +53 13 £446 +8.12% 5
Midlands +19 12 £613 +13.95% 13
West Midlands +24 10 £650 -10.34% 10
North West +22 10 £463 -7.50% 13
East of England +4 5 £513 -6.82% 17
North East +15 4 £463 -15.91% 3
East Midlands +9 2 £512 -2.48% 3
Northern Ireland - 2 - - 4
Task Automation
UK

Task 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 33 (22.92%) Confluence
2 5 (3.47%) Apache
3 4 (2.78%) SharePoint
4 3 (2.08%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (1.39%) nginx
6 1 (0.69%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.69%) SharePoint 2010
6 1 (0.69%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 2 (1.39%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.69%) InfoPath
2 1 (0.69%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 7 (4.86%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 39 (27.08%) Azure
2 34 (23.61%) AWS
3 18 (12.50%) GCP
4 17 (11.81%) GitHub
5 16 (11.11%) OpenShift
6 9 (6.25%) Kong
7 8 (5.56%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 7 (4.86%) Azure DevOps
9 6 (4.17%) Apigee
9 6 (4.17%) Entra ID
10 5 (3.47%) CloudFront
11 4 (2.78%) Amazon EC2
11 4 (2.78%) Amazon S3
11 4 (2.78%) Microsoft 365
12 3 (2.08%) Cloud Computing
12 3 (2.08%) Datadog
12 3 (2.08%) IaaS
12 3 (2.08%) OneDrive
12 3 (2.08%) Power Platform
12 3 (2.08%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 27 (18.75%) DNS
2 17 (11.81%) VPN
3 15 (10.42%) TCP/IP
4 11 (7.64%) HTTP
5 10 (6.94%) DHCP
6 9 (6.25%) Firewall
7 7 (4.86%) Network Security
8 5 (3.47%) Remote Desktop
8 5 (3.47%) Reverse Proxy
8 5 (3.47%) SAN
8 5 (3.47%) VLAN
9 4 (2.78%) Fibre Channel
9 4 (2.78%) LAN
9 4 (2.78%) WAN
10 3 (2.08%) BIG-IP
10 3 (2.08%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
10 3 (2.08%) IPv4
10 3 (2.08%) OSPF
10 3 (2.08%) Software-Defined Networking
10 3 (2.08%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (18.06%) PostgreSQL
2 19 (13.19%) Elasticsearch
3 13 (9.03%) SQL Server
4 11 (7.64%) MongoDB
5 8 (5.56%) MySQL
6 4 (2.78%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (2.08%) Relational Database
8 2 (1.39%) Metadata
9 1 (0.69%) Amazon Athena
9 1 (0.69%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (0.69%) InfluxDB
9 1 (0.69%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 36 (25.00%) Jenkins
2 34 (23.61%) JIRA
3 33 (22.92%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 23 (15.97%) Bitbucket
4 23 (15.97%) Git
5 21 (14.58%) GitLab
6 9 (6.25%) CircleCI
6 9 (6.25%) Travis CI
7 6 (4.17%) NUnit
7 6 (4.17%) Visual Studio
8 5 (3.47%) Postman
9 4 (2.78%) Artifactory
10 2 (1.39%) Selenium
10 2 (1.39%) Sonatype Nexus
11 1 (0.69%) Appium
11 1 (0.69%) Cypress.io
11 1 (0.69%) JUnit
11 1 (0.69%) REST Assured
11 1 (0.69%) Subversion
11 1 (0.69%) TeamCity
General
1 50 (34.72%) Social Skills
2 36 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
3 19 (13.19%) Aerospace
4 13 (9.03%) Finance
5 10 (6.94%) Public Sector
6 5 (3.47%) Banking
6 5 (3.47%) Retail
7 1 (0.69%) Electronics
7 1 (0.69%) Investment Banking
7 1 (0.69%) Law
7 1 (0.69%) Manufacturing
7 1 (0.69%) Marketing
7 1 (0.69%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 26 (18.06%) Developer
2 18 (12.50%) DevOps Engineer
2 18 (12.50%) Site Engineer
2 18 (12.50%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 13 (9.03%) Database Specialist
4 10 (6.94%) Cloud Engineer
4 10 (6.94%) Senior
5 9 (6.25%) Administrator
5 9 (6.25%) Automation Engineer
6 8 (5.56%) Security Engineer
7 7 (4.86%) Analyst
7 7 (4.86%) DBA
7 7 (4.86%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 7 (4.86%) VMware Engineer
8 6 (4.17%) DevOps Automation Engineer
8 6 (4.17%) Platform Specialist
8 6 (4.17%) Python Engineer
8 6 (4.17%) Virtualisation Engineer
9 5 (3.47%) Azure Engineer
9 5 (3.47%) Senior Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (20.83%) .NET
2 24 (16.67%) .NET Core
3 12 (8.33%) XML
4 11 (7.64%) Kafka
5 10 (6.94%) JSON
6 9 (6.25%) Elastic Stack
6 9 (6.25%) YAML
7 8 (5.56%) AngularJS
8 7 (4.86%) Middleware
9 5 (3.47%) CSS
9 5 (3.47%) GraphQL
9 5 (3.47%) HTML
9 5 (3.47%) jQuery
9 5 (3.47%) OAuth
9 5 (3.47%) OAuth2
9 5 (3.47%) Playwright
9 5 (3.47%) REST
9 5 (3.47%) SAML
10 4 (2.78%) React
11 3 (2.08%) SPFx
Miscellaneous
1 18 (12.50%) Cloud Native
2 15 (10.42%) Replication
3 11 (7.64%) Clustering
3 11 (7.64%) Linux Command Line
4 9 (6.25%) Data Structures
5 5 (3.47%) Management Information System
6 4 (2.78%) PKI
7 3 (2.08%) CMDB
7 3 (2.08%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (2.08%) Mobile App
8 2 (1.39%) Distributed Applications
8 2 (1.39%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (1.39%) Taxonomies
9 1 (0.69%) Algorithms
9 1 (0.69%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.69%) Grid Computing
9 1 (0.69%) Private Cloud
9 1 (0.69%) Public Cloud
9 1 (0.69%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 65 (45.14%) Linux
2 25 (17.36%) Windows
3 13 (9.03%) Windows Server
4 10 (6.94%) Unix
5 9 (6.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (4.17%) CentOS
6 6 (4.17%) Ubuntu
7 2 (1.39%) Android
7 2 (1.39%) Apple iOS
7 2 (1.39%) VMS
7 2 (1.39%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (1.39%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.69%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.69%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (36.81%) CI/CD
2 46 (31.94%) DevOps
3 45 (31.25%) Problem-Solving
4 39 (27.08%) Agile
5 35 (24.31%) Containerisation
6 34 (23.61%) Configuration Management
7 33 (22.92%) Continuous Integration
8 32 (22.22%) OO
9 30 (20.83%) Performance Tuning
10 25 (17.36%) Deployment Automation
10 25 (17.36%) Infrastructure Automation
10 25 (17.36%) OOP
11 24 (16.67%) Collaborative Working
12 22 (15.28%) Disaster Recovery
13 20 (13.89%) Infrastructure as Code
13 20 (13.89%) Scrum
13 20 (13.89%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 19 (13.19%) Incident Response
15 17 (11.81%) Migration
16 15 (10.42%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 74 (51.39%) Python
2 60 (41.67%) PowerShell
3 43 (29.86%) Bash
4 25 (17.36%) SQL
5 7 (4.86%) Perl
6 5 (3.47%) C#
6 5 (3.47%) Java
6 5 (3.47%) JavaScript
6 5 (3.47%) Shell Script
6 5 (3.47%) TypeScript
7 3 (2.08%) ActionScript
8 2 (1.39%) Go
9 1 (0.69%) R
Qualifications
1 60 (41.67%) Security Cleared
2 50 (34.72%) SC Cleared
3 13 (9.03%) Degree
4 9 (6.25%) DV Cleared
5 6 (4.17%) Microsoft Certification
6 5 (3.47%) AWS Certification
6 5 (3.47%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (2.78%) CCNA
7 4 (2.78%) Cisco Certification
7 4 (2.78%) MCSE
8 2 (1.39%) CCIE
8 2 (1.39%) CCNP
8 2 (1.39%) Network+ Certification
8 2 (1.39%) RHCE
9 1 (0.69%) GIAC
9 1 (0.69%) Linux+ Certification
9 1 (0.69%) LPIC
9 1 (0.69%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.69%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (7.64%) QA
2 5 (3.47%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.39%) GDPR
4 1 (0.69%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (0.69%) SLA
System Software
1 31 (21.53%) VMware Infrastructure
2 30 (20.83%) Docker
3 17 (11.81%) Active Directory
4 14 (9.72%) vSphere
5 7 (4.86%) VMware NSX
6 6 (4.17%) VMware ESXi
7 4 (2.78%) Hyper-V
7 4 (2.78%) VMware Server
8 1 (0.69%) Firmware
8 1 (0.69%) KVM
8 1 (0.69%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.69%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.69%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.69%) Xen
Systems Management
1 50 (34.72%) Ansible
2 33 (22.92%) Kubernetes
3 32 (22.22%) Terraform
4 27 (18.75%) Prometheus
5 25 (17.36%) Grafana
6 23 (15.97%) PowerCLI
7 19 (13.19%) Kibana
8 16 (11.11%) Puppet
9 13 (9.03%) Progress Chef
10 12 (8.33%) Argo
10 12 (8.33%) Istio
11 9 (6.25%) Docker Swarm
11 9 (6.25%) logstash
12 7 (4.86%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
13 5 (3.47%) vCenter Server
14 3 (2.08%) SCCM
15 2 (1.39%) Kiali
15 2 (1.39%) Kustomize
15 2 (1.39%) Nagios
15 2 (1.39%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 34 (23.61%) VMware
2 25 (17.36%) Dell
3 24 (16.67%) Atlassian
4 22 (15.28%) HP
5 20 (13.89%) Microsoft
6 14 (9.72%) Red Hat
7 13 (9.03%) SolarWinds
7 13 (9.03%) Splunk
8 10 (6.94%) Oracle
9 4 (2.78%) ServiceNow
10 3 (2.08%) F5
10 3 (2.08%) Informatica
10 3 (2.08%) SAP
11 2 (1.39%) Cisco
12 1 (0.69%) Arqiva
12 1 (0.69%) Citrix
12 1 (0.69%) Google
12 1 (0.69%) Qualys
12 1 (0.69%) Sage
12 1 (0.69%) Veritas