Task Automation Jobs in England

Task Automation
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England requiring Task Automation skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Task 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 443 548 504
Rank change year-on-year +105 -44 -55
Permanent jobs citing Task Automation 478 387 989
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.50% 0.47% 0.68%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.61% 0.49% 0.71%
Number of salaries quoted 300 284 503
10th Percentile £41,165 £37,500 £31,275
25th Percentile £50,000 £44,560 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £61,250 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.04% +2.08% +2.56%
75th Percentile £78,750 £78,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £91,375 £92,500 £90,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £58,250
% change year-on-year - +3.00% -2.92%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 78,968 78,333 138,622
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 82.62% 95.44% 95.96%
Number of salaries quoted 56,258 48,146 73,664
10th Percentile £29,383 £34,308 £33,349
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,775 £44,178
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £102,500 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,899 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.69% +1.50% +9.09%

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
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Task Automation in England

Task Automation
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Task Automation in England over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Task Automation in England

Task Automation
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Task Automation within the England region 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +105 191 £70,000 -6.67% 104
South East +7 92 £62,500 +40.26% 18
Midlands +12 67 £50,000 -27.80% 10
South West -20 57 £47,500 -20.83% 14
North of England -1 52 £55,000 +11.68% 24
West Midlands +20 44 £45,000 -35.02% 7
North West -7 36 £55,000 +3.77% 13
East of England -23 16 £50,000 +5.26% 7
Yorkshire +39 14 £58,496 +18.77% 10
East Midlands -18 13 £50,000 +5.26% 3
North East -18 2 £85,000 +95.40% 1
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 37 (7.74%) Apache
2 36 (7.53%) IIS
3 26 (5.44%) SharePoint
3 26 (5.44%) Tomcat
4 24 (5.02%) Microsoft Exchange
5 17 (3.56%) Confluence
6 5 (1.05%) nginx
7 4 (0.84%) SAS
8 2 (0.42%) Apache Airflow
9 1 (0.21%) Apache Solr
Applications
1 30 (6.28%) Microsoft Excel
2 20 (4.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 9 (1.88%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.42%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 27 (5.65%) NEC Housing
2 7 (1.46%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 191 (39.96%) Azure
2 83 (17.36%) Microsoft 365
3 62 (12.97%) AWS
4 57 (11.92%) Power Platform
5 52 (10.88%) Azure DevOps
6 48 (10.04%) Entra ID
7 40 (8.37%) Azure AI
7 40 (8.37%) IBM Cloud
8 27 (5.65%) Nutanix
9 25 (5.23%) IaaS
9 25 (5.23%) Power Automate
10 17 (3.56%) PowerApps
11 15 (3.14%) GitHub
12 12 (2.51%) GCP
12 12 (2.51%) SaaS
12 12 (2.51%) Serverless
13 9 (1.88%) Dynamics 365
14 8 (1.67%) AWS CloudFormation
14 8 (1.67%) Azure Storage
15 7 (1.46%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 59 (12.34%) DNS
2 43 (9.00%) Firewall
3 19 (3.97%) DHCP
4 17 (3.56%) SAN
5 16 (3.35%) WAN
6 15 (3.14%) VPN
7 14 (2.93%) Network Security
7 14 (2.93%) TCP/IP
8 13 (2.72%) Remote Desktop
9 11 (2.30%) LAN
10 8 (1.67%) Intrusion Detection
10 8 (1.67%) PBX
11 7 (1.46%) Internet
11 7 (1.46%) IPv4
12 6 (1.26%) VLAN
13 5 (1.05%) BGP
13 5 (1.05%) NetScaler
13 5 (1.05%) OSPF
14 4 (0.84%) Fibre Channel
14 4 (0.84%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (9.41%) SQL Server
2 29 (6.07%) Oracle Database
3 25 (5.23%) MySQL
3 25 (5.23%) Power BI
4 22 (4.60%) PostgreSQL
5 21 (4.39%) Data Warehouse
6 19 (3.97%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 12 (2.51%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 11 (2.30%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 10 (2.09%) NoSQL
9 10 (2.09%) Relational Database
10 7 (1.46%) Redis
11 6 (1.26%) GIS
12 5 (1.05%) Elasticsearch
12 5 (1.05%) Oracle BI EE
12 5 (1.05%) Tableau
13 4 (0.84%) Geospatial Data
13 4 (0.84%) PowerPivot
13 4 (0.84%) Semantic Layer
13 4 (0.84%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 32 (6.69%) Jenkins
2 24 (5.02%) JIRA
3 21 (4.39%) Git
4 10 (2.09%) Bitbucket
4 10 (2.09%) GitLab
5 6 (1.26%) Cucumber
5 6 (1.26%) REST Assured
5 6 (1.26%) Selenium
5 6 (1.26%) WebDriver
6 5 (1.05%) JUnit
6 5 (1.05%) TestNG
7 4 (0.84%) Visual Studio
8 2 (0.42%) git-flow
8 2 (0.42%) MSI
9 1 (0.21%) Bitbucket Server
9 1 (0.21%) JMeter
9 1 (0.21%) Octopus Deploy
9 1 (0.21%) Serenity BDD
9 1 (0.21%) TeamCity
9 1 (0.21%) Travis CI
General
1 165 (34.52%) Finance
2 115 (24.06%) Social Skills
3 92 (19.25%) Analytical Skills
4 65 (13.60%) Public Sector
5 42 (8.79%) Banking
6 41 (8.58%) Retail
7 29 (6.07%) Police
8 27 (5.65%) Investment Banking
9 24 (5.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 24 (5.02%) Local Government
10 23 (4.81%) Law
11 16 (3.35%) Front Office
12 14 (2.93%) Legal
12 14 (2.93%) Organisational Skills
13 10 (2.09%) Telecoms
14 8 (1.67%) Manufacturing
15 7 (1.46%) General Ledger
15 7 (1.46%) Marketing
16 6 (1.26%) Aerospace
17 4 (0.84%) Billing
Job Titles
1 112 (23.43%) Senior
2 67 (14.02%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 44 (9.21%) Analyst
4 34 (7.11%) Administrator
5 31 (6.49%) Lead
6 30 (6.28%) Applications Support
7 28 (5.86%) Systems Engineer
8 22 (4.60%) Security Engineer
8 22 (4.60%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
9 21 (4.39%) Architect
10 19 (3.97%) DBA
10 19 (3.97%) Senior Analyst
11 18 (3.77%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
11 18 (3.77%) Support Engineer
12 16 (3.35%) Azure Engineer
12 16 (3.35%) Senior Manager
12 16 (3.35%) Systems Administrator
13 15 (3.14%) Consultant
13 15 (3.14%) Developer
13 15 (3.14%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (5.44%) Web Services
2 25 (5.23%) REST
3 16 (3.35%) .NET
4 15 (3.14%) HTML
5 13 (2.72%) CSS
6 8 (1.67%) ARM Templates
7 6 (1.26%) ASP.NET
8 5 (1.05%) .NET Core
8 5 (1.05%) Apache Commons
8 5 (1.05%) Guava
8 5 (1.05%) Java Concurrency
8 5 (1.05%) WebRTC
8 5 (1.05%) WireMock
8 5 (1.05%) YAML
9 4 (0.84%) AngularJS
9 4 (0.84%) Middleware
9 4 (0.84%) PySpark
10 3 (0.63%) LAMP
10 3 (0.63%) SOAP
10 3 (0.63%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 50 (10.46%) Hybrid Cloud
2 40 (8.37%) Blockchain
2 40 (8.37%) Distributed Systems
3 31 (6.49%) Management Information System
4 30 (6.28%) Public Cloud
5 24 (5.02%) Data Centre
6 23 (4.81%) Self-Motivation
7 20 (4.18%) IoT
7 20 (4.18%) Replication
8 19 (3.97%) Clustering
9 14 (2.93%) Derivative
10 9 (1.88%) Cyberattack
11 8 (1.67%) Blog
11 8 (1.67%) PKI
12 7 (1.46%) Credit Risk
12 7 (1.46%) Housing Association
13 6 (1.26%) AS400
13 6 (1.26%) Cyber Threat
14 5 (1.05%) Onboarding
15 4 (0.84%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 166 (34.73%) Windows
2 148 (30.96%) Linux
3 49 (10.25%) CentOS
4 48 (10.04%) Windows Server
5 40 (8.37%) Alpine Linux
5 40 (8.37%) Debian
6 29 (6.07%) Unix
7 24 (5.02%) Solaris
8 16 (3.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 14 (2.93%) Ubuntu
10 11 (2.30%) Mac OS
11 10 (2.09%) Windows 10
12 5 (1.05%) Windows Server 2016
12 5 (1.05%) Windows Server 2019
13 3 (0.63%) VMS
14 2 (0.42%) Windows Server 2012
15 1 (0.21%) AIX
15 1 (0.21%) Android
15 1 (0.21%) Apple iOS
15 1 (0.21%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 155 (32.43%) Problem-Solving
2 116 (24.27%) DevOps
3 83 (17.36%) CI/CD
4 82 (17.15%) Agile
5 72 (15.06%) Disaster Recovery
6 69 (14.44%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 62 (12.97%) Decision-Making
8 61 (12.76%) ITIL
9 60 (12.55%) Data Science
10 57 (11.92%) Cybersecurity
11 51 (10.67%) Computer Science
12 47 (9.83%) Artificial Intelligence
13 45 (9.41%) Co-Creation
14 41 (8.58%) Data Security
15 40 (8.37%) Functional Testing
15 40 (8.37%) Project Management
15 40 (8.37%) Separation of Concerns
15 40 (8.37%) Technology Transformation
16 35 (7.32%) High Availability
17 33 (6.90%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 171 (35.77%) PowerShell
2 133 (27.82%) Python
3 96 (20.08%) Bash
4 87 (18.20%) SQL
5 40 (8.37%) Perl
6 35 (7.32%) Shell Script
7 21 (4.39%) T-SQL
8 19 (3.97%) JavaScript
8 19 (3.97%) PL/SQL
9 16 (3.35%) Java
10 12 (2.51%) Ruby
11 11 (2.30%) C#
12 10 (2.09%) RPG
13 8 (1.67%) Korn
14 5 (1.05%) Bicep
14 5 (1.05%) Kusto Query Language
14 5 (1.05%) R
14 5 (1.05%) TypeScript
14 5 (1.05%) VBA
15 4 (0.84%) C++
Qualifications
1 127 (26.57%) Degree
2 59 (12.34%) Security Cleared
3 56 (11.72%) Microsoft Certification
4 46 (9.62%) Azure Certification
5 44 (9.21%) MCSE
6 43 (9.00%) MCSA
7 34 (7.11%) Computer Science Degree
8 29 (6.07%) SC Cleared
9 18 (3.77%) Cisco Certification
10 16 (3.35%) CISSP
11 11 (2.30%) CCNA
12 7 (1.46%) Master's Degree
13 6 (1.26%) CCNP
13 6 (1.26%) CISM
14 5 (1.05%) DV Cleared
15 4 (0.84%) AWS Certification
16 3 (0.63%) CCIE
16 3 (0.63%) Linux+ Certification
16 3 (0.63%) RHCE
17 2 (0.42%) CCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (6.49%) Accessibility
2 30 (6.28%) Data Quality
3 12 (2.51%) QA
4 10 (2.09%) GRC
5 9 (1.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 7 (1.46%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.42%) GDPR
7 2 (0.42%) HIPAA
7 2 (0.42%) NIST
7 2 (0.42%) SLA
8 1 (0.21%) FedRAMP
8 1 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 109 (22.80%) Active Directory
2 93 (19.46%) VMware Infrastructure
3 67 (14.02%) Docker
4 39 (8.16%) Virtual Machines
5 27 (5.65%) Hyper-V
6 22 (4.60%) VMware ESXi
7 14 (2.93%) XenApp
8 13 (2.72%) XenDesktop
9 12 (2.51%) Virtual Desktop
10 11 (2.30%) VMware NSX
10 11 (2.30%) vSphere
11 10 (2.09%) Firmware
12 9 (1.88%) VMware Server
13 5 (1.05%) Virtual Servers
14 4 (0.84%) Microsoft App-V
15 3 (0.63%) KVM
15 3 (0.63%) Microsoft Virtual Server
16 2 (0.42%) Citrix Hypervisor
Systems Management
1 85 (17.78%) Terraform
2 60 (12.55%) Kubernetes
3 51 (10.67%) Ansible
4 19 (3.97%) Puppet
4 19 (3.97%) SCCM
5 17 (3.56%) SCOM
6 15 (3.14%) Microsoft Intune
7 10 (2.09%) Nagios
8 9 (1.88%) Grafana
9 8 (1.67%) Prometheus
9 8 (1.67%) Red Hat Satellite
9 8 (1.67%) vCenter Server
10 7 (1.46%) Foglight
10 7 (1.46%) Microsoft Clustering
11 6 (1.26%) Progress Chef
12 4 (0.84%) CSIRT
12 4 (0.84%) SCOrch
12 4 (0.84%) vMotion
13 3 (0.63%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 3 (0.63%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 151 (31.59%) Microsoft
2 101 (21.13%) VMware
3 55 (11.51%) Red Hat
4 53 (11.09%) IBM
5 39 (8.16%) Oracle
6 27 (5.65%) NEC
7 25 (5.23%) Splunk
8 20 (4.18%) Citrix
9 15 (3.14%) Veeam
10 14 (2.93%) CrowdStrike
11 13 (2.72%) ArcSight
11 13 (2.72%) Atlassian
11 13 (2.72%) Dell
11 13 (2.72%) ServiceNow
12 11 (2.30%) NetApp
13 10 (2.09%) HP
13 10 (2.09%) Palo Alto
14 8 (1.67%) TOWER Software
15 7 (1.46%) Google
15 7 (1.46%) Qualys