Task Automation Jobs in the Thames Valley

Task Automation
South East > Thames Valley

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 233 237 247
Rank change year-on-year +4 +10 -20
Permanent jobs citing Task Automation 15 15 43
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.21% 0.26% 0.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.25% 0.28% 0.63%
Number of salaries quoted 12 13 26
10th Percentile £51,616 £43,485 £26,989
25th Percentile £54,978 £50,000 £27,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,750 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.79% - +7.69%
75th Percentile £74,063 £77,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £115,875 £79,500 -
South East median annual salary £62,500 £44,560 £45,000
% change year-on-year +40.26% -0.98% -18.18%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 5,941 5,401 6,832
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 83.42% 94.65% 93.31%
Number of salaries quoted 3,955 3,005 3,894
10th Percentile £29,000 £30,265 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £40,000 £41,939
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £88,250 £82,500
South East median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%

Task Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Task Automation in the Thames Valley

Task Automation
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Task Automation in the Thames Valley.

Salary trend for Task Automation in the Thames Valley

Task Automation
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing Task Automation in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Task Automation in the Thames Valley

Task Automation
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Task Automation within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 2 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Berkshire +20 10 £70,000 -6.04% 4
Oxfordshire +6 3 £55,000 +34.24% 3
Buckinghamshire -24 2 £60,000 -11.11%
Task Automation
South East

Task Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 2 (13.33%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 7 (46.67%) AWS
2 5 (33.33%) Azure
3 3 (20.00%) GitHub
4 2 (13.33%) Cloud Computing
4 2 (13.33%) GCP
4 2 (13.33%) SaaS
5 1 (6.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (6.67%) Amazon OpenSearch
5 1 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (6.67%) Datadog
5 1 (6.67%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (6.67%) Pulumi
5 1 (6.67%) SonarCloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (13.33%) Firewall
2 1 (6.67%) Internet
2 1 (6.67%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (6.67%) Network Security
2 1 (6.67%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.67%) NoSQL
1 1 (6.67%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (40.00%) Jenkins
2 4 (26.67%) Cucumber
2 4 (26.67%) Selenium
3 3 (20.00%) Git
3 3 (20.00%) REST Assured
3 3 (20.00%) Visual Studio
3 3 (20.00%) WebDriver
4 2 (13.33%) Bitbucket
4 2 (13.33%) Bitbucket Server
4 2 (13.33%) JIRA
4 2 (13.33%) JMeter
4 2 (13.33%) JUnit
4 2 (13.33%) Serenity BDD
4 2 (13.33%) SoapUI
4 2 (13.33%) TestNG
5 1 (6.67%) TeamCity
General
1 3 (20.00%) Aerospace
2 2 (13.33%) Social Skills
3 1 (6.67%) Finance
3 1 (6.67%) Retail
3 1 (6.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (26.67%) Automation Tester
1 4 (26.67%) Tester
2 3 (20.00%) C++ Software Engineer
2 3 (20.00%) Developer
2 3 (20.00%) Software Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Java Automation Tester
3 2 (13.33%) Senior
4 1 (6.67%) Architect
4 1 (6.67%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) DevSecOps Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 1 (6.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Lead
4 1 (6.67%) Lead DevOps
4 1 (6.67%) Monitoring Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Robotic Process Automation Developer
4 1 (6.67%) Security Architect
4 1 (6.67%) Senior Developer
4 1 (6.67%) Senior Front-End Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (20.00%) .NET
1 3 (20.00%) ASP.NET
1 3 (20.00%) Web Services
2 2 (13.33%) Apache Commons
2 2 (13.33%) CSS
2 2 (13.33%) Guava
2 2 (13.33%) HTML
2 2 (13.33%) Java Concurrency
2 2 (13.33%) REST
2 2 (13.33%) RESTful
2 2 (13.33%) SOAP
2 2 (13.33%) WireMock
3 1 (6.67%) React
Miscellaneous
1 1 (6.67%) Data Centre
1 1 (6.67%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (6.67%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.67%) Kali Linux
1 1 (6.67%) Linux
1 1 (6.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (53.33%) Agile
2 7 (46.67%) CI/CD
3 5 (33.33%) Containerisation
4 4 (26.67%) DevOps
4 4 (26.67%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (26.67%) Scrum
4 4 (26.67%) SDET
4 4 (26.67%) Software Engineering
4 4 (26.67%) Software Testing
4 4 (26.67%) Test Automation
5 3 (20.00%) BDD
5 3 (20.00%) Collaborative Working
5 3 (20.00%) Computer Science
5 3 (20.00%) Deployment Automation
5 3 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
6 2 (13.33%) API Testing
6 2 (13.33%) Continuous Deployment
6 2 (13.33%) Front End Development
6 2 (13.33%) Scenario Testing
6 2 (13.33%) Security Operations
Programming Languages
1 7 (46.67%) PowerShell
2 6 (40.00%) Python
3 5 (33.33%) Java
4 4 (26.67%) C++
4 4 (26.67%) JavaScript
5 3 (20.00%) C#
5 3 (20.00%) SQL
6 2 (13.33%) Bash
7 1 (6.67%) AWK
7 1 (6.67%) PL/SQL
7 1 (6.67%) Ruby
7 1 (6.67%) sed
7 1 (6.67%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 4 (26.67%) SC Cleared
1 4 (26.67%) Security Cleared
2 3 (20.00%) Degree
3 2 (13.33%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (6.67%) AWS Certification
4 1 (6.67%) Azure Certification
4 1 (6.67%) CISSP
4 1 (6.67%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (6.67%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
1 1 (6.67%) NIST
1 1 (6.67%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 4 (26.67%) Docker
2 1 (6.67%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 5 (33.33%) Ansible
2 4 (26.67%) Kubernetes
3 2 (13.33%) Terraform
4 1 (6.67%) Nagios
4 1 (6.67%) Progress Chef
4 1 (6.67%) Prometheus
4 1 (6.67%) Salt
4 1 (6.67%) Suricata
Vendors
1 3 (20.00%) Splunk
2 2 (13.33%) Cisco
3 1 (6.67%) Blue Prism
3 1 (6.67%) Dynatrace
3 1 (6.67%) Google
3 1 (6.67%) Juniper
3 1 (6.67%) Microsoft
3 1 (6.67%) New Relic
3 1 (6.67%) Oracle
3 1 (6.67%) Palo Alto
3 1 (6.67%) TSYS