Task Automation Contracts

Task Automation
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 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 297 431 452
Rank change year-on-year +134 +21 +45
Contract jobs citing Task Automation 311 260 451
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.72% 0.46% 0.51%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.84% 0.51% 0.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 246 161 328
10th Percentile £388 £363 £376
25th Percentile £456 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - +15.79%
75th Percentile £675 £683 £650
90th Percentile £705 £738 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £550 £500
% change year-on-year - +10.00% +11.11%
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% -1.96%
75th Percentile - £70.94 £73.13
90th Percentile - £82.38 £78.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £12.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year - -72.22% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,816 50,571 79,556
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.44% 89.70% 90.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,638 35,025 55,934
10th Percentile £300 £325 £348
25th Percentile £413 £438 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £644
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £488
% change year-on-year - +2.56% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,533 1,671 1,865
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.57 £15.63
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +9.70%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.91% +75.00% -4.88%

Task Automation
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Task Automation in the UK

Task Automation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Task Automation in the UK

Task Automation
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Task Automation over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Task Automation in the UK

Task Automation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Task Automation in the UK

Task Automation
Top 16 Contract Locations

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 UK 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +143 276 £553 +0.45% 159
UK excluding London +117 147 £550 - 81
London +93 130 £575 +4.55% 85
Work from Home +96 103 £553 -5.96% 76
South East +43 43 £500 +1.01% 16
South West +38 41 £663 +20.45% 11
North of England +37 36 £475 -13.64% 23
Yorkshire +27 21 £520 -25.71% 6
Midlands +20 14 £548 -4.78% 11
North West +16 11 £463 +23.33% 15
Scotland +50 10 £425 +3.03% 6
West Midlands +13 10 £650 -10.34% 8
East of England +6 5 £513 -6.82% 13
North East +14 4 £463 -15.91% 2
East Midlands +7 4 £485 -7.71% 3
Northern Ireland - 2 - -

Task 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 35 (11.25%) Confluence
2 13 (4.18%) SharePoint
3 9 (2.89%) Microsoft Exchange
4 5 (1.61%) Apache
4 5 (1.61%) nginx
5 3 (0.96%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.96%) IIS
6 2 (0.64%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.32%) Apache Solr
7 1 (0.32%) SharePoint 2010
7 1 (0.32%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 3 (0.96%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.64%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.32%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.32%) InfoPath
3 1 (0.32%) InVision
3 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.32%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.32%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 7 (2.25%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 96 (30.87%) Azure
2 66 (21.22%) AWS
3 40 (12.86%) GCP
4 35 (11.25%) GitHub
5 28 (9.00%) OpenShift
6 21 (6.75%) Microsoft 365
7 18 (5.79%) Azure DevOps
8 16 (5.14%) Entra ID
9 10 (3.22%) Apigee
9 10 (3.22%) Kong
10 9 (2.89%) Amazon ECS
10 9 (2.89%) Amazon EKS
11 8 (2.57%) GitHub Actions
11 8 (2.57%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 7 (2.25%) Serverless
13 5 (1.61%) Amazon EC2
13 5 (1.61%) Amazon S3
13 5 (1.61%) CloudFront
13 5 (1.61%) PaaS
13 5 (1.61%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 35 (11.25%) DNS
2 22 (7.07%) VPN
3 18 (5.79%) Firewall
3 18 (5.79%) TCP/IP
4 17 (5.47%) HTTP
5 13 (4.18%) DHCP
6 11 (3.54%) Network Security
7 10 (3.22%) SAN
8 8 (2.57%) LAN
9 6 (1.93%) Remote Desktop
9 6 (1.93%) Reverse Proxy
9 6 (1.93%) Software-Defined Networking
10 5 (1.61%) BIG-IP
10 5 (1.61%) Cisco Nexus
10 5 (1.61%) IPv4
10 5 (1.61%) NAS
10 5 (1.61%) VLAN
10 5 (1.61%) WAN
10 5 (1.61%) Wireless
11 4 (1.29%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (11.58%) PostgreSQL
2 28 (9.00%) MongoDB
2 28 (9.00%) SQL Server
3 21 (6.75%) Elasticsearch
4 12 (3.86%) Relational Database
5 11 (3.54%) MySQL
5 11 (3.54%) Sybase ASE
6 10 (3.22%) KDB
7 9 (2.89%) DB2
8 6 (1.93%) RDBMS
9 5 (1.61%) Amazon RDS
10 3 (0.96%) NoSQL
10 3 (0.96%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 2 (0.64%) Metadata
11 2 (0.64%) Power BI
11 2 (0.64%) Redis
11 2 (0.64%) Tableau
12 1 (0.32%) Amazon Aurora
12 1 (0.32%) Data Lake
12 1 (0.32%) Flink
Development Applications
1 60 (19.29%) Jenkins
2 46 (14.79%) Git
3 41 (13.18%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 37 (11.90%) JIRA
5 36 (11.58%) GitLab
6 24 (7.72%) Bitbucket
7 10 (3.22%) CircleCI
8 9 (2.89%) Travis CI
9 8 (2.57%) Artifactory
9 8 (2.57%) NUnit
9 8 (2.57%) Visual Studio
10 7 (2.25%) Postman
11 6 (1.93%) Sonatype Nexus
12 4 (1.29%) TeamCity
13 3 (0.96%) Cypress.io
13 3 (0.96%) InstallShield
13 3 (0.96%) MSI
14 2 (0.64%) Jaeger
14 2 (0.64%) Selenium
15 1 (0.32%) REST Assured
General
1 109 (35.05%) Social Skills
2 60 (19.29%) Analytical Skills
3 37 (11.90%) Finance
4 22 (7.07%) Public Sector
5 19 (6.11%) Aerospace
6 16 (5.14%) Banking
7 11 (3.54%) Retail
8 5 (1.61%) Investment Banking
8 5 (1.61%) Marketing
8 5 (1.61%) Telecoms
9 4 (1.29%) Automotive
10 3 (0.96%) Advertising
10 3 (0.96%) Electronics
10 3 (0.96%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.64%) Law
11 2 (0.64%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (0.64%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (0.64%) Retail Banking
11 2 (0.64%) Wearables
12 1 (0.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 52 (16.72%) Developer
2 40 (12.86%) DevOps Engineer
3 38 (12.22%) Senior
4 33 (10.61%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 32 (10.29%) Site Engineer
6 25 (8.04%) DBA
7 18 (5.79%) Cloud Engineer
8 16 (5.14%) Administrator
8 16 (5.14%) Senior Developer
9 14 (4.50%) Automation Engineer
9 14 (4.50%) Azure Engineer
9 14 (4.50%) Python Engineer
9 14 (4.50%) Security Engineer
10 13 (4.18%) Database Specialist
10 13 (4.18%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 12 (3.86%) Analyst
12 10 (3.22%) Applications Engineer
12 10 (3.22%) KDB Developer
12 10 (3.22%) VMware Engineer
13 9 (2.89%) Sybase DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (10.93%) .NET
2 27 (8.68%) Kafka
3 24 (7.72%) .NET Core
4 15 (4.82%) XML
5 13 (4.18%) AngularJS
5 13 (4.18%) RabbitMQ
5 13 (4.18%) RESTful
6 12 (3.86%) JSON
6 12 (3.86%) REST
7 11 (3.54%) Elastic Stack
7 11 (3.54%) YAML
8 10 (3.22%) CSS
9 8 (2.57%) HTML
9 8 (2.57%) Node.js
9 8 (2.57%) SOAP
10 7 (2.25%) GraphQL
10 7 (2.25%) Playwright
10 7 (2.25%) React
11 6 (1.93%) Middleware
11 6 (1.93%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 33 (10.61%) Replication
2 25 (8.04%) Linux Command Line
3 23 (7.40%) Cloud Native
4 21 (6.75%) Data Structures
5 17 (5.47%) Clustering
6 14 (4.50%) Distributed Systems
7 13 (4.18%) Algorithms
8 10 (3.22%) Fixed Income
9 9 (2.89%) PKI
10 6 (1.93%) CMDB
10 6 (1.93%) Cyberattack
10 6 (1.93%) Data Centre
10 6 (1.93%) Hybrid Cloud
10 6 (1.93%) Management Information System
10 6 (1.93%) Public Cloud
11 4 (1.29%) Data Protection Act
11 4 (1.29%) Virtual Team
12 3 (0.96%) Fat Client
12 3 (0.96%) Grid Computing
12 3 (0.96%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 113 (36.33%) Linux
2 68 (21.86%) Windows
3 25 (8.04%) Windows Server
4 22 (7.07%) Unix
5 15 (4.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (1.93%) CentOS
6 6 (1.93%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.64%) Android
7 2 (0.64%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.64%) VMS
7 2 (0.64%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (0.64%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.32%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.32%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 107 (34.41%) CI/CD
2 101 (32.48%) DevOps
3 90 (28.94%) Problem-Solving
4 73 (23.47%) Agile
5 46 (14.79%) Infrastructure as Code
6 42 (13.50%) Continuous Integration
7 40 (12.86%) Configuration Management
8 38 (12.22%) Containerisation
9 37 (11.90%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 36 (11.58%) Deployment Automation
10 36 (11.58%) Disaster Recovery
10 36 (11.58%) Performance Tuning
11 34 (10.93%) Migration
12 33 (10.61%) Incident Response
13 32 (10.29%) Microservices
13 32 (10.29%) OO
14 31 (9.97%) ITIL
15 29 (9.32%) Infrastructure Automation
16 26 (8.36%) Collaborative Working
16 26 (8.36%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 162 (52.09%) Python
2 121 (38.91%) PowerShell
3 66 (21.22%) Bash
4 46 (14.79%) SQL
5 28 (9.00%) Go
6 27 (8.68%) Perl
7 23 (7.40%) Shell Script
8 22 (7.07%) JavaScript
9 20 (6.43%) Java
10 10 (3.22%) C#
10 10 (3.22%) T-SQL
11 9 (2.89%) C++
12 8 (2.57%) TypeScript
13 5 (1.61%) Ruby
14 3 (0.96%) ActionScript
14 3 (0.96%) Bicep
14 3 (0.96%) Groovy
14 3 (0.96%) PHP
15 2 (0.64%) Kusto Query Language
16 1 (0.32%) BeanShell
Qualifications
1 76 (24.44%) Security Cleared
2 65 (20.90%) SC Cleared
3 34 (10.93%) Degree
4 17 (5.47%) Microsoft Certification
5 16 (5.14%) Computer Science Degree
6 11 (3.54%) MCSE
7 10 (3.22%) AWS Certification
7 10 (3.22%) DV Cleared
8 7 (2.25%) Cisco Certification
9 5 (1.61%) CCNA
9 5 (1.61%) CCNP
10 3 (0.96%) RHCE
11 2 (0.64%) Azure Certification
11 2 (0.64%) CCIE
11 2 (0.64%) CESG Certified Professional
11 2 (0.64%) Citrix Certification
11 2 (0.64%) Master's Degree
11 2 (0.64%) MCSA
11 2 (0.64%) Network+ Certification
12 1 (0.32%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (6.75%) QA
2 10 (3.22%) Accessibility
3 5 (1.61%) SLA
4 2 (0.64%) GDPR
4 2 (0.64%) NIST
5 1 (0.32%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.32%) PMO
System Software
1 48 (15.43%) Active Directory
1 48 (15.43%) Docker
2 42 (13.50%) VMware Infrastructure
3 18 (5.79%) vSphere
4 12 (3.86%) Hyper-V
5 11 (3.54%) Apache ZooKeeper
6 10 (3.22%) VMware NSX
7 8 (2.57%) VMware ESXi
8 5 (1.61%) Microsoft App-V
8 5 (1.61%) Veritas Cluster Server
9 4 (1.29%) VMware Server
10 3 (0.96%) BitLocker
10 3 (0.96%) Virtual Desktop
10 3 (0.96%) Virtual Machines
11 2 (0.64%) Firmware
11 2 (0.64%) XenApp
11 2 (0.64%) XenDesktop
12 1 (0.32%) KVM
12 1 (0.32%) Xen
Systems Management
1 70 (22.51%) Ansible
2 67 (21.54%) Kubernetes
3 54 (17.36%) Terraform
4 44 (14.15%) Prometheus
5 41 (13.18%) Grafana
6 23 (7.40%) PowerCLI
7 20 (6.43%) Kibana
7 20 (6.43%) Puppet
8 15 (4.82%) Progress Chef
9 14 (4.50%) Argo
10 13 (4.18%) Istio
11 12 (3.86%) Consul
12 9 (2.89%) Docker Swarm
12 9 (2.89%) logstash
12 9 (2.89%) SCCM
13 7 (2.25%) Microsoft Intune
13 7 (2.25%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
13 7 (2.25%) vCenter Server
14 6 (1.93%) SCOM
15 5 (1.61%) VxRail
Vendors
1 87 (27.97%) Microsoft
2 47 (15.11%) VMware
3 28 (9.00%) Dell
4 26 (8.36%) HP
5 24 (7.72%) Atlassian
6 18 (5.79%) Oracle
6 18 (5.79%) Red Hat
6 18 (5.79%) Splunk
7 17 (5.47%) SAP
7 17 (5.47%) ServiceNow
8 16 (5.14%) SolarWinds
9 12 (3.86%) Google
10 11 (3.54%) IBM
10 11 (3.54%) SaltStack
10 11 (3.54%) Sybase
11 9 (2.89%) Cisco
12 8 (2.57%) F5
13 6 (1.93%) CrowdStrike
13 6 (1.93%) Veritas
14 5 (1.61%) Citrix