Task Automation Contracts with Work from Home Options

Task Automation
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 250 345 390
Rank change year-on-year +95 +45 -5
Contract jobs citing Task Automation 97 123 243
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.66% 0.50% 0.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.74% 0.56% 0.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 72 65 184
10th Percentile £405 £418 £375
25th Percentile £500 £495 £466
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £551 £588 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.17% +6.82% +21.15%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £638
90th Percentile £700 £765 £700
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £554
% change year-on-year - -0.72% +16.63%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with a WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,021 22,109 40,018
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.98% 89.70% 91.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,736 15,644 29,065
10th Percentile £325 £363 £361
25th Percentile £425 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.82% +2.90% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £631
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 565 507 537
10th Percentile £14.93 £18.63 £14.15
25th Percentile £25.00 £27.86 £20.75
Median hourly rate £43.00 £53.35 £39.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.40% +35.06% +61.22%
75th Percentile £60.00 £68.75 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.15 £80.00 £71.00
UK median hourly rate £36.27 £35.65 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.75% +38.82% +5.35%

Task Automation
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Task Automation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Task Automation trend for jobs with a WFH option

Task Automation
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Task Automation.

Task Automation daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Task Automation
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Task Automation over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Task Automation daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Task Automation
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Task Automation.

Task Automation hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Task Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 6 (6.19%) Confluence
2 3 (3.09%) SharePoint
3 2 (2.06%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (1.03%) Apache Solr
4 1 (1.03%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (1.03%) Chatbot
1 1 (1.03%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 39 (40.21%) Azure
2 23 (23.71%) AWS
3 14 (14.43%) GCP
4 10 (10.31%) GitHub
5 9 (9.28%) OpenShift
6 8 (8.25%) Entra ID
7 7 (7.22%) Amazon ECS
7 7 (7.22%) Amazon EKS
7 7 (7.22%) Microsoft 365
8 5 (5.15%) CloudFront
8 5 (5.15%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 4 (4.12%) Azure DevOps
9 4 (4.12%) Kong
10 3 (3.09%) PaaS
11 2 (2.06%) Apigee
11 2 (2.06%) Azure Monitor
11 2 (2.06%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 2 (2.06%) Slack
11 2 (2.06%) WhatsApp
12 1 (1.03%) Anthos
Communications & Networking
1 11 (11.34%) DNS
2 8 (8.25%) VPN
3 7 (7.22%) HTTP
3 7 (7.22%) TCP/IP
4 6 (6.19%) Network Security
5 5 (5.15%) Firewall
6 3 (3.09%) Reverse Proxy
7 2 (2.06%) Cisco Nexus
7 2 (2.06%) DHCP
7 2 (2.06%) Software-Defined Networking
8 1 (1.03%) BIG-IP
8 1 (1.03%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
8 1 (1.03%) Fibre Channel
8 1 (1.03%) IPv4
8 1 (1.03%) LAN
8 1 (1.03%) Remote Desktop
8 1 (1.03%) SAN
8 1 (1.03%) SSL
8 1 (1.03%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (12.37%) MongoDB
2 8 (8.25%) SQL Server
3 5 (5.15%) Elasticsearch
4 3 (3.09%) Sybase ASE
5 2 (2.06%) DB2
5 2 (2.06%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (2.06%) Redis
5 2 (2.06%) Relational Database
6 1 (1.03%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (1.03%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (1.03%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (1.03%) BigQuery
6 1 (1.03%) Couchbase
6 1 (1.03%) Metadata
6 1 (1.03%) MySQL
6 1 (1.03%) NoSQL
6 1 (1.03%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 1 (1.03%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (1.03%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 20 (20.62%) Git
2 17 (17.53%) Jenkins
3 13 (13.40%) GitLab
4 12 (12.37%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 6 (6.19%) JIRA
6 4 (4.12%) Bitbucket
6 4 (4.12%) Sonatype Nexus
7 3 (3.09%) CircleCI
7 3 (3.09%) Cypress.io
7 3 (3.09%) NUnit
7 3 (3.09%) Postman
7 3 (3.09%) TeamCity
7 3 (3.09%) Travis CI
7 3 (3.09%) Visual Studio
8 2 (2.06%) Artifactory
8 2 (2.06%) Gradle
8 2 (2.06%) Maven
9 1 (1.03%) Cucumber
9 1 (1.03%) REST Assured
9 1 (1.03%) Selenium
General
1 32 (32.99%) Social Skills
2 21 (21.65%) Finance
3 17 (17.53%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (6.19%) Public Sector
4 6 (6.19%) Retail
5 5 (5.15%) Banking
6 4 (4.12%) Telecoms
7 3 (3.09%) Electronics
7 3 (3.09%) Manufacturing
7 3 (3.09%) Marketing
8 2 (2.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (2.06%) Law
9 1 (1.03%) Advertising
9 1 (1.03%) Automotive
9 1 (1.03%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 24 (24.74%) DevOps Engineer
2 16 (16.49%) Python Engineer
3 12 (12.37%) DBA
3 12 (12.37%) Site Engineer
3 12 (12.37%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 10 (10.31%) Security Engineer
4 10 (10.31%) Senior
5 8 (8.25%) Cloud Engineer
6 7 (7.22%) Automation Engineer
6 7 (7.22%) VMware Engineer
7 6 (6.19%) Applications Engineer
7 6 (6.19%) Virtualisation Engineer
8 4 (4.12%) Administrator
8 4 (4.12%) Azure Engineer
8 4 (4.12%) Developer
8 4 (4.12%) DevOps Automation Engineer
8 4 (4.12%) Java Engineer
8 4 (4.12%) SQL DBA
8 4 (4.12%) Test Engineer
9 3 (3.09%) Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (10.31%) Kafka
2 9 (9.28%) RabbitMQ
2 9 (9.28%) RESTful
3 6 (6.19%) .NET
3 6 (6.19%) Middleware
3 6 (6.19%) XML
4 5 (5.15%) AngularJS
4 5 (5.15%) JSON
4 5 (5.15%) OAuth
4 5 (5.15%) OAuth2
4 5 (5.15%) REST
4 5 (5.15%) SAML
5 4 (4.12%) CSS
5 4 (4.12%) HTML
5 4 (4.12%) YAML
6 3 (3.09%) Ajax
6 3 (3.09%) Elastic Stack
6 3 (3.09%) GraphQL
6 3 (3.09%) SOAP
6 3 (3.09%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 12 (12.37%) Data Structures
2 9 (9.28%) Algorithms
2 9 (9.28%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (8.25%) Replication
4 7 (7.22%) Cloud Native
5 4 (4.12%) Clustering
6 3 (3.09%) CMDB
6 3 (3.09%) Cyberattack
6 3 (3.09%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (2.06%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (2.06%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (2.06%) Management Information System
8 1 (1.03%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (1.03%) PKI
8 1 (1.03%) Product Ownership
8 1 (1.03%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 31 (31.96%) Linux
2 19 (19.59%) Windows
3 8 (8.25%) Windows Server
4 4 (4.12%) Unix
5 1 (1.03%) CentOS
5 1 (1.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (1.03%) Ubuntu
5 1 (1.03%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (1.03%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (1.03%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (51.55%) DevOps
2 43 (44.33%) CI/CD
3 25 (25.77%) Problem-Solving
4 24 (24.74%) Agile
5 16 (16.49%) Infrastructure as Code
6 13 (13.40%) Containerisation
6 13 (13.40%) Incident Response
7 12 (12.37%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 11 (11.34%) Microservices
9 10 (10.31%) Configuration Management
9 10 (10.31%) OO
9 10 (10.31%) Use Case
10 9 (9.28%) Analytical Thinking
10 9 (9.28%) Infrastructure Automation
10 9 (9.28%) Test Automation
11 8 (8.25%) Computer Science
11 8 (8.25%) Continuous Improvement
11 8 (8.25%) DevSecOps
11 8 (8.25%) Infrastructure Management
12 7 (7.22%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 58 (59.79%) Python
2 30 (30.93%) PowerShell
3 18 (18.56%) Bash
4 17 (17.53%) Go
5 15 (15.46%) Perl
6 12 (12.37%) Shell Script
7 11 (11.34%) Java
8 10 (10.31%) SQL
9 8 (8.25%) JavaScript
10 6 (6.19%) C++
11 3 (3.09%) PHP
11 3 (3.09%) TypeScript
12 1 (1.03%) ActionScript
12 1 (1.03%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 14 (14.43%) Degree
2 8 (8.25%) Computer Science Degree
2 8 (8.25%) Security Cleared
3 7 (7.22%) Microsoft Certification
4 6 (6.19%) AWS Certification
5 5 (5.15%) MCSE
5 5 (5.15%) SC Cleared
6 2 (2.06%) CCIE
6 2 (2.06%) CCNA
6 2 (2.06%) CCNP
6 2 (2.06%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (2.06%) DV Cleared
7 1 (1.03%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.12%) QA
2 3 (3.09%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.03%) PMO
System Software
1 21 (21.65%) Docker
2 15 (15.46%) Active Directory
3 11 (11.34%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (9.28%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 2 (2.06%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (2.06%) VMware NSX
5 2 (2.06%) vSphere
6 1 (1.03%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 29 (29.90%) Kubernetes
2 18 (18.56%) Terraform
3 16 (16.49%) Prometheus
4 15 (15.46%) Grafana
5 14 (14.43%) Ansible
6 9 (9.28%) Consul
7 4 (4.12%) Argo
7 4 (4.12%) Kibana
7 4 (4.12%) Puppet
8 3 (3.09%) Docker Swarm
8 3 (3.09%) logstash
8 3 (3.09%) PowerCLI
8 3 (3.09%) Progress Chef
9 2 (2.06%) Istio
9 2 (2.06%) Kustomize
9 2 (2.06%) vCenter Server
10 1 (1.03%) Kiali
10 1 (1.03%) Nessus
10 1 (1.03%) SCCM
10 1 (1.03%) WSUS
Vendors
1 27 (27.84%) Microsoft
2 12 (12.37%) VMware
3 9 (9.28%) SaltStack
4 8 (8.25%) ServiceNow
5 6 (6.19%) SAP
6 4 (4.12%) Google
6 4 (4.12%) HP
6 4 (4.12%) Splunk
7 3 (3.09%) Atlassian
7 3 (3.09%) CrowdStrike
7 3 (3.09%) Dell
7 3 (3.09%) IBM
7 3 (3.09%) Sybase
8 2 (2.06%) Cisco
9 1 (1.03%) BMC
9 1 (1.03%) CheckPoint
9 1 (1.03%) Citrix
9 1 (1.03%) Databricks
9 1 (1.03%) F5
9 1 (1.03%) Qualys