Office Automation Contracts

Office Automation
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Office Automation skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Office Automation over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 570 686 825
Rank change year-on-year +116 +139 -106
Contract jobs citing Office Automation 14 11 23
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.032% 0.020% 0.026%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.038% 0.022% 0.029%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 9 20
10th Percentile £196 £192 -
25th Percentile - - £158
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £200 £200 £160
Median % change year-on-year - +25.00% +18.52%
75th Percentile £202 - £459
90th Percentile £359 £390 £526
UK excluding London median daily rate £200 £200 £160
% change year-on-year - +25.00% +18.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £17.25
Median hourly rate - - £17.50
75th Percentile - - £17.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £17.50

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Office Automation falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,178 49,770 79,013
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.13% 89.61% 90.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,737 34,458 55,587
10th Percentile £300 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £438 £436
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £750 £750 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £490
% change year-on-year - +2.04% +8.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,579 1,678 1,852
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.96 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.75 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.00 £35.65 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.79% +37.12% +13.04%
75th Percentile £61.28 £65.00 £50.15
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £34.90 £21.00
% change year-on-year +9.23% +66.18% -

Office Automation
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Office Automation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Office Automation in the UK

Office Automation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Office Automation in the UK

Office Automation
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Office Automation over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Office Automation in the UK

Office Automation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Office Automation.

Hourly rate trend for Office Automation in the UK

Office Automation
Top 8 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Office Automation within the UK over the 6 months to 12 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +91 14 £200 - 5
UK excluding London +35 12 £200 - 5
Work from Home +113 6 £200 - 3
South East +15 6 £200 - 2
South West - 5 £675 -
London +82 2 - -
Midlands - 1 £205 - 2
West Midlands - 1 £205 - 1

Office Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 4 (28.57%) Confluence
2 2 (14.29%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (7.14%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 4 (28.57%) AWS
1 4 (28.57%) Azure
1 4 (28.57%) GCP
1 4 (28.57%) OpenShift
1 4 (28.57%) PaaS
2 1 (7.14%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (7.14%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 4 (28.57%) VPN
2 1 (7.14%) DHCP
2 1 (7.14%) DNS
2 1 (7.14%) Firewall
2 1 (7.14%) LAN
2 1 (7.14%) Skype
2 1 (7.14%) SMTP
2 1 (7.14%) TCP/IP
2 1 (7.14%) WAN
Development Applications
1 4 (28.57%) Bitbucket
1 4 (28.57%) JIRA
General
1 2 (14.29%) Public Sector
1 2 (14.29%) Social Skills
2 1 (7.14%) Marketing
2 1 (7.14%) Military
Job Titles
1 6 (42.86%) IT Support
1 6 (42.86%) IT Technician
1 6 (42.86%) Support Technician
2 5 (35.71%) IT Support Technician
3 4 (28.57%) Architect
3 4 (28.57%) Automation Architect
4 3 (21.43%) Office Automation Architect
5 1 (7.14%) IT Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) IT Support Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Service Desk Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Software Architect
5 1 (7.14%) Software Design Architect
5 1 (7.14%) Support Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Technical Support
5 1 (7.14%) Wintel Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (28.57%) .NET
1 4 (28.57%) .NET Framework
1 4 (28.57%) ModSecurity
Miscellaneous
1 5 (35.71%) PKI
2 4 (28.57%) Product Ownership
2 4 (28.57%) Public Cloud
2 4 (28.57%) Security Posture
3 1 (7.14%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 4 (28.57%) Linux
2 2 (14.29%) Windows
2 2 (14.29%) Windows Server
3 1 (7.14%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (35.71%) Agile
2 5 (35.71%) Project Management
3 4 (28.57%) ArchiMate
3 4 (28.57%) Artificial Intelligence
3 4 (28.57%) Business Strategy
3 4 (28.57%) CI/CD
3 4 (28.57%) Computer Science
3 4 (28.57%) Continuous Improvement
3 4 (28.57%) DevSecOps
3 4 (28.57%) GitOps
3 4 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
3 4 (28.57%) Infrastructure Automation
3 4 (28.57%) IT Strategy
3 4 (28.57%) Machine Learning
3 4 (28.57%) NsoIT
3 4 (28.57%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 4 (28.57%) Technology Strategy
3 4 (28.57%) TOGAF
3 4 (28.57%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 5 (35.71%) PowerShell
2 4 (28.57%) Python
3 1 (7.14%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (42.86%) Degree
1 6 (42.86%) Security Cleared
2 5 (35.71%) SC Cleared
3 4 (28.57%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (14.29%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (35.71%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (28.57%) Docker
2 4 (28.57%) VMware NSX
3 3 (21.43%) Active Directory
4 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Virtual Server
4 1 (7.14%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (7.14%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 5 (35.71%) OPNET
2 4 (28.57%) Ansible
2 4 (28.57%) Kubernetes
2 4 (28.57%) PowerCLI
2 4 (28.57%) Terraform
3 1 (7.14%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (7.14%) SCCM
3 1 (7.14%) SCOM
Vendors
1 5 (35.71%) Microsoft
1 5 (35.71%) VMware
2 4 (28.57%) Atlassian
2 4 (28.57%) Cisco
2 4 (28.57%) Google
3 1 (7.14%) Remedy
3 1 (7.14%) SolarWinds