Task Automation Jobs in the South East

Task Automation
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for Task Automation skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Task Automation over the 6 months to 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 305 356 403
Rank change year-on-year +51 +47 -85
Permanent jobs citing Task Automation 87 48 86
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 0.52% 0.33% 0.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.61% 0.35% 0.45%
Number of salaries quoted 42 36 59
10th Percentile £36,250 £38,135 £26,989
25th Percentile £50,688 - £40,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £40,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +56.25% -11.11% -18.18%
75th Percentile £64,688 £73,063 £72,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £76,250 £75,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £64,140 £60,000
% change year-on-year -2.56% +6.90% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

Task Automation is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 14,226 13,553 19,067
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 84.26% 94.52% 94.49%
Number of salaries quoted 9,862 7,908 11,946
10th Percentile £27,500 £30,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £86,250 £82,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%

Task Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Task Automation in the South East

Task Automation
Salary Trend in the South East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Task Automation in the South East.

Salary trend for Task Automation in the South East

Task Automation
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Task Automation in the South East over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Task Automation in the South East

Task Automation
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Task Automation within the South East region over the 6 months to 20 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Hampshire +15 57 £62,500 +56.25% 8
Surrey +12 23 £62,500 +56.25% 1
Thames Valley +21 14 £68,750 -4.84% 5
Berkshire +22 9 £70,000 -6.04% 2
Oxfordshire +11 3 £55,000 +34.24% 2
Kent - 3 £37,500 - 1
West Sussex +27 2 - -
Buckinghamshire -19 2 £60,000 -11.11% 1
Task Automation
England

Task Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 3 (3.45%) Apache
2 1 (1.15%) Confluence
2 1 (1.15%) IIS
2 1 (1.15%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.15%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.15%) WebSphere
Applications
1 2 (2.30%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.15%) AutoCAD
2 1 (1.15%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.15%) PTC Creo
2 1 (1.15%) SOLIDWORKS
Cloud Services
1 64 (73.56%) Azure
2 42 (48.28%) Azure DevOps
3 40 (45.98%) IBM Cloud
4 15 (17.24%) IaaS
5 14 (16.09%) Nutanix
6 8 (9.20%) AWS
7 4 (4.60%) Entra ID
8 3 (3.45%) GCP
8 3 (3.45%) GitHub
8 3 (3.45%) SaaS
9 2 (2.30%) Cloud Computing
9 2 (2.30%) Microsoft 365
10 1 (1.15%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 1 (1.15%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 1 (1.15%) Datadog
10 1 (1.15%) GitHub Actions
10 1 (1.15%) PaaS
10 1 (1.15%) Power Platform
10 1 (1.15%) Pulumi
10 1 (1.15%) SonarCloud
Communications & Networking
1 18 (20.69%) DNS
2 7 (8.05%) Firewall
3 5 (5.75%) VPN
4 3 (3.45%) DHCP
4 3 (3.45%) TCP/IP
5 2 (2.30%) LAN
5 2 (2.30%) WAN
6 1 (1.15%) Internet
6 1 (1.15%) Intranet
6 1 (1.15%) Intrusion Detection
6 1 (1.15%) Network Security
6 1 (1.15%) Remote Desktop
6 1 (1.15%) SSH
6 1 (1.15%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (3.45%) SQL Server
2 2 (2.30%) MySQL
3 1 (1.15%) MariaDB
3 1 (1.15%) NoSQL
3 1 (1.15%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.15%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 7 (8.05%) Jenkins
2 4 (4.60%) Cucumber
2 4 (4.60%) Selenium
3 3 (3.45%) Git
3 3 (3.45%) REST Assured
3 3 (3.45%) WebDriver
4 2 (2.30%) Bitbucket
4 2 (2.30%) Bitbucket Server
4 2 (2.30%) JIRA
4 2 (2.30%) JMeter
4 2 (2.30%) JUnit
4 2 (2.30%) Serenity BDD
4 2 (2.30%) SoapUI
4 2 (2.30%) TestNG
4 2 (2.30%) Visual Studio
5 1 (1.15%) Chocolatey
5 1 (1.15%) TeamCity
General
1 41 (47.13%) Public Sector
2 19 (21.84%) Analytical Skills
3 18 (20.69%) Finance
4 8 (9.20%) Social Skills
5 4 (4.60%) Telecoms
6 3 (3.45%) Banking
6 3 (3.45%) Billing
6 3 (3.45%) Marketing
7 2 (2.30%) Aerospace
7 2 (2.30%) Law
8 1 (1.15%) Legal
8 1 (1.15%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.15%) Retail
Job Titles
1 19 (21.84%) Senior
2 18 (20.69%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 14 (16.09%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 7 (8.05%) Analyst
5 5 (5.75%) Administrator
6 4 (4.60%) Automation Tester
6 4 (4.60%) Developer
6 4 (4.60%) Tester
7 3 (3.45%) Cybersecurity Analyst
7 3 (3.45%) Linux Support
7 3 (3.45%) Security Analyst
7 3 (3.45%) Senior Analyst
7 3 (3.45%) Senior Cybersecurity Analyst
7 3 (3.45%) Senior Security Analyst
7 3 (3.45%) Software Engineer
7 3 (3.45%) Support Analyst
7 3 (3.45%) Systems Administrator
8 2 (2.30%) Azure Administrator
8 2 (2.30%) Azure Engineer
8 2 (2.30%) DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (3.45%) Web Services
2 2 (2.30%) .NET
2 2 (2.30%) Apache Commons
2 2 (2.30%) ASP.NET
2 2 (2.30%) CSS
2 2 (2.30%) Guava
2 2 (2.30%) HTML
2 2 (2.30%) Java Concurrency
2 2 (2.30%) REST
2 2 (2.30%) RESTful
2 2 (2.30%) SOAP
2 2 (2.30%) WireMock
3 1 (1.15%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (1.15%) PHP-FPM
3 1 (1.15%) React
3 1 (1.15%) XML
3 1 (1.15%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 41 (47.13%) Hybrid Cloud
2 40 (45.98%) Blockchain
2 40 (45.98%) Distributed Systems
3 14 (16.09%) IoT
4 5 (5.75%) Management Information System
5 3 (3.45%) Replication
6 2 (2.30%) Clustering
6 2 (2.30%) Enterprise Storage
7 1 (1.15%) Data Centre
7 1 (1.15%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (1.15%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (1.15%) Operational Technology
7 1 (1.15%) Product Ownership
7 1 (1.15%) Public Cloud
7 1 (1.15%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (1.15%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 49 (56.32%) Linux
2 40 (45.98%) Alpine Linux
2 40 (45.98%) CentOS
2 40 (45.98%) Debian
3 22 (25.29%) Windows
4 2 (2.30%) Windows Server
5 1 (1.15%) Android
5 1 (1.15%) Apple iOS
5 1 (1.15%) Kali Linux
5 1 (1.15%) Ubuntu
5 1 (1.15%) Windows 10
5 1 (1.15%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (67.82%) DevOps
2 49 (56.32%) CI/CD
3 41 (47.13%) Data Science
4 40 (45.98%) Artificial Intelligence
4 40 (45.98%) Co-Creation
4 40 (45.98%) Functional Testing
4 40 (45.98%) Separation of Concerns
4 40 (45.98%) Technology Transformation
5 29 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
6 19 (21.84%) Disaster Recovery
6 19 (21.84%) ITIL
7 18 (20.69%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 16 (18.39%) Decision-Making
8 16 (18.39%) Virtual Infrastructure
9 15 (17.24%) Capacity Planning
9 15 (17.24%) Infrastructure Automation
10 14 (16.09%) Cloud Enablement
10 14 (16.09%) Network Virtualisation
10 14 (16.09%) Storage Management
10 14 (16.09%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 26 (29.89%) Python
2 20 (22.99%) Bash
3 17 (19.54%) Perl
4 13 (14.94%) PowerShell
5 10 (11.49%) SQL
6 6 (6.90%) Java
7 5 (5.75%) JavaScript
7 5 (5.75%) Shell Script
8 3 (3.45%) C++
9 2 (2.30%) C#
10 1 (1.15%) AWK
10 1 (1.15%) C
10 1 (1.15%) MATLAB
10 1 (1.15%) PHP
10 1 (1.15%) PL/SQL
10 1 (1.15%) Ruby
10 1 (1.15%) sed
Qualifications
1 42 (48.28%) Azure Certification
1 42 (48.28%) MCSE
1 42 (48.28%) Microsoft Certification
2 41 (47.13%) MCSA
3 7 (8.05%) Degree
4 4 (4.60%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (4.60%) SC Cleared
4 4 (4.60%) Security Cleared
5 2 (2.30%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.15%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (1.15%) CCNP
6 1 (1.15%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (1.15%) CISSP
6 1 (1.15%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (1.15%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.15%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (18.39%) Data Quality
2 4 (4.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (3.45%) GRC
4 2 (2.30%) QA
5 1 (1.15%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 1 (1.15%) NIST
5 1 (1.15%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 44 (50.57%) Docker
2 19 (21.84%) Active Directory
3 14 (16.09%) Virtual Machines
3 14 (16.09%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (3.45%) Hyper-V
5 1 (1.15%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 44 (50.57%) Kubernetes
2 43 (49.43%) Terraform
3 5 (5.75%) Ansible
4 3 (3.45%) CSIRT
5 2 (2.30%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
5 2 (2.30%) Prometheus
6 1 (1.15%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (1.15%) Grafana
6 1 (1.15%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (1.15%) Nagios
6 1 (1.15%) Progress Chef
6 1 (1.15%) Salt
6 1 (1.15%) SCCM
6 1 (1.15%) SCOM
6 1 (1.15%) Suricata
6 1 (1.15%) systemd
Vendors
1 41 (47.13%) IBM
1 41 (47.13%) Red Hat
2 14 (16.09%) VMware
3 7 (8.05%) Microsoft
4 4 (4.60%) Oracle
5 3 (3.45%) Cisco
5 3 (3.45%) Splunk
6 2 (2.30%) Fortinet
7 1 (1.15%) Blue Prism
7 1 (1.15%) Citrix
7 1 (1.15%) Dynatrace
7 1 (1.15%) Google
7 1 (1.15%) Juniper
7 1 (1.15%) MathWorks
7 1 (1.15%) New Relic
7 1 (1.15%) PTC
7 1 (1.15%) SAP
7 1 (1.15%) TOWER Software
7 1 (1.15%) TSYS
7 1 (1.15%) Veeam