Task Automation Contracts in England

Task Automation
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 3 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 294 427 454
Rank change year-on-year +133 +27 +26
Contract jobs citing Task Automation 276 223 361
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.75% 0.47% 0.51%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.88% 0.52% 0.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 227 148 266
10th Percentile £381 £360 £376
25th Percentile £457 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £553 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.45% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £654
90th Percentile £704 £741 £725
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - +15.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 2
10th Percentile - £19.13 £48.25
25th Percentile - £30.94 £53.13
Median hourly rate £23.80 £51.25 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year -53.56% -18.00% -13.79%
75th Percentile - £70.94 £73.13
90th Percentile - £82.38 £78.75
UK median hourly rate £23.80 £51.25 £62.50
% change year-on-year -53.56% -18.00% -1.96%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,458 42,946 64,590
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.64% 89.97% 90.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,501 30,170 46,065
10th Percentile £300 £325 £338
25th Percentile £413 £444 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £545
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +0.92% +9.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £769 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,315 1,518 1,726
10th Percentile £12.83 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.66 £15.25
Median hourly rate £37.50 £37.15 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.94% +48.60% +11.11%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £49.48
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.50 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +10.45%

Task Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Task Automation in England

Task Automation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Task Automation in England

Task Automation
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Task Automation in England over the 6 months to 3 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Task Automation in England

Task Automation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Task Automation in England

Task Automation
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 3 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
London +91 130 £575 +4.55% 84
South East +47 43 £500 +1.01% 16
South West +37 41 £663 +20.45% 10
North of England +35 36 £475 -13.64% 23
Yorkshire +21 21 £520 -25.71% 6
Midlands +19 14 £548 -4.78% 11
North West +10 11 £463 +23.33% 15
West Midlands +14 10 £650 -10.34% 8
East of England +4 5 £513 -6.82% 13
North East +14 4 £463 -15.91% 2
East Midlands +7 4 £485 -7.71% 3
Task Automation
UK

Task Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 35 (12.68%) Confluence
2 13 (4.71%) SharePoint
3 9 (3.26%) Microsoft Exchange
4 5 (1.81%) Apache
4 5 (1.81%) nginx
5 3 (1.09%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (1.09%) IIS
6 2 (0.72%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.36%) Apache Solr
7 1 (0.36%) SharePoint 2010
7 1 (0.36%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 3 (1.09%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.72%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.36%) InfoPath
3 1 (0.36%) InVision
3 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.36%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.36%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 7 (2.54%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 84 (30.43%) Azure
2 55 (19.93%) AWS
3 32 (11.59%) GCP
4 31 (11.23%) GitHub
5 22 (7.97%) OpenShift
6 20 (7.25%) Microsoft 365
7 16 (5.80%) Azure DevOps
7 16 (5.80%) Entra ID
8 10 (3.62%) Apigee
8 10 (3.62%) Kong
9 8 (2.90%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 5 (1.81%) Amazon EC2
10 5 (1.81%) CloudFront
10 5 (1.81%) WhatsApp
11 4 (1.45%) Amazon S3
11 4 (1.45%) Azure ExpressRoute
11 4 (1.45%) GitHub Actions
11 4 (1.45%) Nutanix
11 4 (1.45%) Power Platform
11 4 (1.45%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 35 (12.68%) DNS
2 22 (7.97%) VPN
3 17 (6.16%) Firewall
4 16 (5.80%) TCP/IP
5 15 (5.43%) HTTP
6 13 (4.71%) DHCP
7 11 (3.99%) Network Security
8 10 (3.62%) SAN
9 8 (2.90%) LAN
10 6 (2.17%) Remote Desktop
10 6 (2.17%) Reverse Proxy
10 6 (2.17%) Software-Defined Networking
11 5 (1.81%) BIG-IP
11 5 (1.81%) Cisco Nexus
11 5 (1.81%) IPv4
11 5 (1.81%) NAS
11 5 (1.81%) VLAN
11 5 (1.81%) WAN
11 5 (1.81%) Wireless
12 4 (1.45%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (10.87%) PostgreSQL
2 28 (10.14%) MongoDB
3 24 (8.70%) SQL Server
4 21 (7.61%) Elasticsearch
5 11 (3.99%) MySQL
5 11 (3.99%) Sybase ASE
6 10 (3.62%) KDB
6 10 (3.62%) Relational Database
7 9 (3.26%) DB2
8 6 (2.17%) RDBMS
9 5 (1.81%) Amazon RDS
10 3 (1.09%) NoSQL
11 2 (0.72%) Metadata
11 2 (0.72%) Power BI
11 2 (0.72%) Redis
11 2 (0.72%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 2 (0.72%) Tableau
12 1 (0.36%) Amazon Athena
12 1 (0.36%) Amazon Aurora
12 1 (0.36%) Flink
Development Applications
1 52 (18.84%) Jenkins
2 37 (13.41%) JIRA
3 35 (12.68%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 34 (12.32%) Git
5 29 (10.51%) GitLab
6 24 (8.70%) Bitbucket
7 10 (3.62%) CircleCI
8 9 (3.26%) Travis CI
9 8 (2.90%) NUnit
9 8 (2.90%) Visual Studio
10 7 (2.54%) Postman
11 6 (2.17%) Sonatype Nexus
12 4 (1.45%) Artifactory
12 4 (1.45%) TeamCity
13 3 (1.09%) Cypress.io
13 3 (1.09%) InstallShield
13 3 (1.09%) MSI
14 2 (0.72%) Jaeger
14 2 (0.72%) Selenium
15 1 (0.36%) REST Assured
General
1 97 (35.14%) Social Skills
2 56 (20.29%) Analytical Skills
3 31 (11.23%) Finance
4 19 (6.88%) Aerospace
4 19 (6.88%) Public Sector
5 14 (5.07%) Banking
6 11 (3.99%) Retail
7 5 (1.81%) Investment Banking
7 5 (1.81%) Marketing
8 4 (1.45%) Telecoms
9 3 (1.09%) Advertising
9 3 (1.09%) Automotive
9 3 (1.09%) Electronics
9 3 (1.09%) Manufacturing
10 2 (0.72%) Law
10 2 (0.72%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (0.72%) Retail Banking
11 1 (0.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.36%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 48 (17.39%) Developer
2 36 (13.04%) Senior
3 32 (11.59%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 31 (11.23%) Site Engineer
5 26 (9.42%) DevOps Engineer
6 21 (7.61%) DBA
7 18 (6.52%) Cloud Engineer
8 15 (5.43%) Administrator
9 14 (5.07%) Security Engineer
9 14 (5.07%) Senior Developer
10 13 (4.71%) Database Specialist
10 13 (4.71%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 12 (4.35%) Automation Engineer
12 11 (3.99%) Analyst
12 11 (3.99%) Azure Engineer
13 10 (3.62%) Applications Engineer
13 10 (3.62%) KDB Developer
14 9 (3.26%) Python Engineer
14 9 (3.26%) Sybase DBA
15 8 (2.90%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (12.32%) .NET
2 27 (9.78%) Kafka
3 24 (8.70%) .NET Core
4 13 (4.71%) RabbitMQ
4 13 (4.71%) RESTful
4 13 (4.71%) XML
5 12 (4.35%) AngularJS
6 11 (3.99%) Elastic Stack
6 11 (3.99%) JSON
6 11 (3.99%) YAML
7 9 (3.26%) REST
8 8 (2.90%) CSS
9 7 (2.54%) GraphQL
9 7 (2.54%) Playwright
9 7 (2.54%) React
10 6 (2.17%) HTML
10 6 (2.17%) Node.js
10 6 (2.17%) SAML
10 6 (2.17%) SOAP
11 5 (1.81%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 32 (11.59%) Replication
2 23 (8.33%) Linux Command Line
3 21 (7.61%) Cloud Native
3 21 (7.61%) Data Structures
4 14 (5.07%) Clustering
4 14 (5.07%) Distributed Systems
5 13 (4.71%) Algorithms
6 10 (3.62%) Fixed Income
7 9 (3.26%) PKI
8 6 (2.17%) Data Centre
8 6 (2.17%) Hybrid Cloud
8 6 (2.17%) Management Information System
8 6 (2.17%) Public Cloud
9 5 (1.81%) Cyberattack
10 4 (1.45%) CMDB
10 4 (1.45%) Data Protection Act
10 4 (1.45%) Virtual Team
11 3 (1.09%) Grid Computing
11 3 (1.09%) Mobile App
11 3 (1.09%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 102 (36.96%) Linux
2 63 (22.83%) Windows
3 21 (7.61%) Unix
3 21 (7.61%) Windows Server
4 15 (5.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (2.17%) CentOS
5 6 (2.17%) Ubuntu
6 2 (0.72%) Android
6 2 (0.72%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.72%) VMS
6 2 (0.72%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (0.72%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.36%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.36%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 94 (34.06%) CI/CD
2 84 (30.43%) Problem-Solving
3 81 (29.35%) DevOps
4 59 (21.38%) Agile
5 40 (14.49%) Continuous Integration
6 39 (14.13%) Infrastructure as Code
7 38 (13.77%) Configuration Management
8 36 (13.04%) Deployment Automation
9 35 (12.68%) Performance Tuning
10 34 (12.32%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 33 (11.96%) Disaster Recovery
11 33 (11.96%) Migration
12 32 (11.59%) Microservices
13 31 (11.23%) Containerisation
14 30 (10.87%) Incident Response
15 28 (10.14%) Infrastructure Automation
16 27 (9.78%) ITIL
17 26 (9.42%) Collaborative Working
17 26 (9.42%) OO
17 26 (9.42%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 140 (50.72%) Python
2 114 (41.30%) PowerShell
3 57 (20.65%) Bash
4 40 (14.49%) SQL
5 21 (7.61%) Shell Script
6 20 (7.25%) Go
6 20 (7.25%) Java
7 18 (6.52%) JavaScript
8 16 (5.80%) Perl
9 10 (3.62%) C#
10 9 (3.26%) C++
10 9 (3.26%) T-SQL
11 8 (2.90%) TypeScript
12 3 (1.09%) ActionScript
12 3 (1.09%) Groovy
12 3 (1.09%) Ruby
13 2 (0.72%) Bicep
13 2 (0.72%) Kusto Query Language
13 2 (0.72%) PHP
14 1 (0.36%) C
Qualifications
1 75 (27.17%) Security Cleared
2 65 (23.55%) SC Cleared
3 26 (9.42%) Degree
4 13 (4.71%) Microsoft Certification
5 10 (3.62%) AWS Certification
5 10 (3.62%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (3.62%) DV Cleared
6 8 (2.90%) MCSE
7 7 (2.54%) Cisco Certification
8 5 (1.81%) CCNA
8 5 (1.81%) CCNP
9 3 (1.09%) RHCE
10 2 (0.72%) CCIE
10 2 (0.72%) CESG Certified Professional
10 2 (0.72%) Citrix Certification
10 2 (0.72%) MCSA
10 2 (0.72%) Network+ Certification
11 1 (0.36%) Azure Certification
11 1 (0.36%) Master's Degree
11 1 (0.36%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (7.61%) QA
2 10 (3.62%) Accessibility
3 5 (1.81%) SLA
4 2 (0.72%) GDPR
4 2 (0.72%) NIST
5 1 (0.36%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.36%) PMO
System Software
1 45 (16.30%) Active Directory
2 43 (15.58%) Docker
3 36 (13.04%) VMware Infrastructure
4 18 (6.52%) vSphere
5 12 (4.35%) Hyper-V
6 11 (3.99%) Apache ZooKeeper
7 10 (3.62%) VMware NSX
8 8 (2.90%) VMware ESXi
9 5 (1.81%) Microsoft App-V
9 5 (1.81%) Veritas Cluster Server
10 4 (1.45%) VMware Server
11 3 (1.09%) BitLocker
12 2 (0.72%) Firmware
12 2 (0.72%) Virtual Desktop
12 2 (0.72%) Virtual Machines
12 2 (0.72%) XenApp
12 2 (0.72%) XenDesktop
13 1 (0.36%) KVM
13 1 (0.36%) Xen
Systems Management
1 67 (24.28%) Ansible
2 53 (19.20%) Kubernetes
3 49 (17.75%) Terraform
4 41 (14.86%) Prometheus
5 38 (13.77%) Grafana
6 23 (8.33%) PowerCLI
7 20 (7.25%) Kibana
8 18 (6.52%) Puppet
9 13 (4.71%) Argo
9 13 (4.71%) Istio
9 13 (4.71%) Progress Chef
10 12 (4.35%) Consul
11 9 (3.26%) Docker Swarm
11 9 (3.26%) logstash
11 9 (3.26%) SCCM
12 7 (2.54%) Microsoft Intune
12 7 (2.54%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
12 7 (2.54%) vCenter Server
13 6 (2.17%) SCOM
14 5 (1.81%) VxRail
Vendors
1 80 (28.99%) Microsoft
2 41 (14.86%) VMware
3 28 (10.14%) Dell
4 25 (9.06%) HP
5 24 (8.70%) Atlassian
6 18 (6.52%) Oracle
6 18 (6.52%) Red Hat
7 17 (6.16%) SAP
8 16 (5.80%) SolarWinds
8 16 (5.80%) Splunk
9 13 (4.71%) ServiceNow
10 11 (3.99%) Google
10 11 (3.99%) SaltStack
10 11 (3.99%) Sybase
11 10 (3.62%) IBM
12 9 (3.26%) Cisco
13 8 (2.90%) F5
14 6 (2.17%) Veritas
15 5 (1.81%) Citrix
15 5 (1.81%) Sun