Task Automation Contracts in Yorkshire

Task Automation
England > Yorkshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Yorkshire 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 17 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 84 102 134
Rank change year-on-year +18 +32 -41
Contract jobs citing Task Automation 21 16 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Yorkshire 1.26% 0.72% 0.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.47% 0.79% 0.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 11 7
10th Percentile £411 £524 -
25th Percentile £425 £594 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £700 £300
Median % change year-on-year -25.71% +133.33% -40.00%
75th Percentile £624 - £425
90th Percentile £645 - £565
England median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - +10.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,432 2,016 2,422
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 85.95% 90.85% 90.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 859 1,327 1,776
10th Percentile £275 £275 £261
25th Percentile £400 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £525 £486
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +7.97% +10.51%
75th Percentile £582 £600 £561
90th Percentile £650 £700 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 66 63 81
10th Percentile £11.30 - £10.63
25th Percentile £12.15 £9.80 £12.00
Median hourly rate £13.50 £10.63 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year +27.00% -40.94% -9.74%
75th Percentile £22.00 £20.97 £22.75
90th Percentile £53.75 £55.23 £27.50
England median hourly rate £36.50 £36.25 £25.00
% change year-on-year +0.69% +45.00% +7.94%

Task Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Task Automation in Yorkshire

Task Automation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Task Automation in Yorkshire

Task Automation
Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Task Automation in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Task Automation in Yorkshire

Task Automation
Contract Job Locations in 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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 17 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 Yorkshire +6 17 £520 -20.00%
West Yorkshire +22 4 £463 -33.93% 4
Task Automation
England

Task Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 (42.86%) Confluence
2 3 (14.29%) Apache
2 3 (14.29%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (9.52%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 19 (90.48%) AWS
2 15 (71.43%) Azure
2 15 (71.43%) GCP
3 9 (42.86%) GitHub
3 9 (42.86%) Kong
4 6 (28.57%) Apigee
5 3 (14.29%) Amazon EC2
5 3 (14.29%) Amazon S3
5 3 (14.29%) Cloud Computing
5 3 (14.29%) Datadog
5 3 (14.29%) Snowflake
5 3 (14.29%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 2 (9.52%) Anthos
6 2 (9.52%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 9 (42.86%) DNS
1 9 (42.86%) Firewall
1 9 (42.86%) HTTP
1 9 (42.86%) TCP/IP
1 9 (42.86%) VPN
2 5 (23.81%) Reverse Proxy
3 3 (14.29%) BIG-IP
3 3 (14.29%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
3 3 (14.29%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (42.86%) Elasticsearch
2 6 (28.57%) MongoDB
3 3 (14.29%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (14.29%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 12 (57.14%) Git
2 10 (47.62%) GitLab
2 10 (47.62%) Jenkins
3 9 (42.86%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 9 (42.86%) CircleCI
3 9 (42.86%) JIRA
3 9 (42.86%) Travis CI
General
1 11 (52.38%) Social Skills
2 9 (42.86%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (38.10%) DevOps Engineer
2 6 (28.57%) Automation Engineer
2 6 (28.57%) DevOps Automation Engineer
3 4 (19.05%) Database Specialist
4 3 (14.29%) Cloud Engineer
4 3 (14.29%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (14.29%) Security Engineer
5 2 (9.52%) DBA
5 2 (9.52%) MongoDB DBA
5 2 (9.52%) Site Engineer
5 2 (9.52%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) AWS Platform Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) Junior
6 1 (4.76%) Junior Cloud Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) Lead
6 1 (4.76%) Lead Cloud Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) Platform Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) Senior
6 1 (4.76%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (42.86%) Elastic Stack
1 9 (42.86%) JSON
1 9 (42.86%) XML
1 9 (42.86%) YAML
2 1 (4.76%) OLE
Miscellaneous
1 9 (42.86%) Data Structures
2 6 (28.57%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 8 (38.10%) Linux
1 8 (38.10%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (61.90%) CI/CD
2 11 (52.38%) Agile
2 11 (52.38%) Containerisation
2 11 (52.38%) DevOps
2 11 (52.38%) Infrastructure as Code
3 10 (47.62%) DevSecOps
4 9 (42.86%) API Integration
4 9 (42.86%) Collaborative Working
4 9 (42.86%) Continuous Deployment
4 9 (42.86%) Continuous Integration
4 9 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
4 9 (42.86%) Project Management
4 9 (42.86%) Scrum
4 9 (42.86%) Secure Coding
4 9 (42.86%) Stakeholder Management
4 9 (42.86%) Use Case
4 9 (42.86%) Workflow
5 6 (28.57%) Capacity Planning
5 6 (28.57%) Disaster Recovery
5 6 (28.57%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 20 (95.24%) Bash
2 19 (90.48%) Python
3 9 (42.86%) PowerShell
4 3 (14.29%) ActionScript
4 3 (14.29%) SQL
5 2 (9.52%) Shell Script
6 1 (4.76%) Go
6 1 (4.76%) Java
Qualifications
1 3 (14.29%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (42.86%) QA
System Software
1 11 (52.38%) Docker
2 2 (9.52%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 11 (52.38%) Kubernetes
1 11 (52.38%) Prometheus
1 11 (52.38%) Terraform
2 9 (42.86%) Ansible
2 9 (42.86%) Docker Swarm
2 9 (42.86%) Grafana
2 9 (42.86%) Kibana
2 9 (42.86%) logstash
2 9 (42.86%) Progress Chef
2 9 (42.86%) Puppet
3 2 (9.52%) Istio
3 2 (9.52%) Kiali
Vendors
1 11 (52.38%) Splunk
2 3 (14.29%) F5
2 3 (14.29%) Informatica
3 2 (9.52%) VMware