Task Automation Contracts in London

Task Automation
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London 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 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 276 353 404
Rank change year-on-year +77 +51 -25
Contract jobs citing Task Automation 120 143 198
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.69% 0.55% 0.51%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.77% 0.61% 0.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 100 89 147
10th Percentile £348 £350 £463
25th Percentile £450 £456 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £570 £540 £575
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -6.09% +15.00%
75th Percentile £688 £675 £688
90th Percentile £780 £750 £750
England median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £77.50
Median hourly rate £23.80 £90.00 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year -73.56% +12.50% +84.81%
75th Percentile - - £82.50
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £23.80 £51.25 £80.00
% change year-on-year -53.56% -35.94% +84.81%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

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 London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,492 23,515 35,613
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.65% 90.89% 92.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,111 16,974 26,028
10th Percentile £343 £375 £388
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £593 £575
Median % change year-on-year -7.17% +3.04% +9.52%
75th Percentile £681 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 307 266 415
10th Percentile £15.77 £18.25 £17.18
25th Percentile £20.00 £22.43 £23.91
Median hourly rate £27.84 £37.17 £37.00
Median % change year-on-year -25.10% +0.46% +13.85%
75th Percentile £48.75 £63.75 £51.00
90th Percentile £66.85 £82.38 £67.88
England median hourly rate £36.50 £36.40 £25.00
% change year-on-year +0.29% +45.58% +8.70%

Task Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Task Automation in London

Task Automation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Task Automation in London

Task Automation
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Task Automation in London over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Task Automation in London

Task Automation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Task Automation in London

Task Automation
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 18 May 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
Central London +50 26 £600 +24.03% 4
West London +16 3 £469 +6.53% 6
North London - 2 £250 - 1
Task Automation
England

Task Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 9 (7.50%) SharePoint
2 7 (5.83%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (2.50%) nginx
4 2 (1.67%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.67%) IIS
5 1 (0.83%) Apache Solr
5 1 (0.83%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (1.67%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.83%) InVision
2 1 (0.83%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.83%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.83%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 36 (30.00%) Azure
2 16 (13.33%) Microsoft 365
3 14 (11.67%) AWS
4 13 (10.83%) GCP
5 12 (10.00%) GitHub
6 8 (6.67%) Entra ID
7 5 (4.17%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (4.17%) OpenShift
7 5 (4.17%) WhatsApp
8 4 (3.33%) Apigee
9 3 (2.50%) Amazon ECS
9 3 (2.50%) Amazon EKS
9 3 (2.50%) Power Platform
10 2 (1.67%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 2 (1.67%) Azure Monitor
10 2 (1.67%) Figma
10 2 (1.67%) GitHub Actions
10 2 (1.67%) Power Automate
10 2 (1.67%) PowerApps
10 2 (1.67%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 6 (5.00%) Firewall
2 5 (4.17%) DNS
3 4 (3.33%) NAS
3 4 (3.33%) SAN
3 4 (3.33%) Wireless
4 3 (2.50%) Cisco Nexus
4 3 (2.50%) LAN
4 3 (2.50%) Network Security
4 3 (2.50%) Software-Defined Networking
4 3 (2.50%) TCP/IP
4 3 (2.50%) VPN
5 2 (1.67%) BIG-IP
5 2 (1.67%) Cisco ASA
5 2 (1.67%) DHCP
5 2 (1.67%) DKIM
5 2 (1.67%) DMARC
5 2 (1.67%) Extranet
5 2 (1.67%) HTTP
5 2 (1.67%) Internet
5 2 (1.67%) IPv4
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (10.83%) MongoDB
2 11 (9.17%) Sybase ASE
3 9 (7.50%) DB2
3 9 (7.50%) KDB
4 7 (5.83%) SQL Server
5 6 (5.00%) Relational Database
6 5 (4.17%) RDBMS
7 4 (3.33%) PostgreSQL
8 3 (2.50%) MySQL
8 3 (2.50%) NoSQL
9 2 (1.67%) Power BI
9 2 (1.67%) Redis
9 2 (1.67%) Tableau
10 1 (0.83%) Amazon Aurora
10 1 (0.83%) Amazon RDS
10 1 (0.83%) BigQuery
10 1 (0.83%) Couchbase
10 1 (0.83%) Elasticsearch
10 1 (0.83%) Flink
10 1 (0.83%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 15 (12.50%) Jenkins
2 10 (8.33%) Git
3 7 (5.83%) GitLab
4 5 (4.17%) Sonatype Nexus
5 4 (3.33%) Artifactory
5 4 (3.33%) TeamCity
6 3 (2.50%) InstallShield
6 3 (2.50%) MSI
7 2 (1.67%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 2 (1.67%) Cucumber
7 2 (1.67%) Cypress.io
7 2 (1.67%) Gradle
7 2 (1.67%) Jaeger
7 2 (1.67%) JMeter
7 2 (1.67%) JUnit
7 2 (1.67%) Maven
7 2 (1.67%) NUnit
7 2 (1.67%) Postman
7 2 (1.67%) Selenium
7 2 (1.67%) Visual Studio
General
1 41 (34.17%) Social Skills
2 18 (15.00%) Finance
3 17 (14.17%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (5.00%) Retail
5 4 (3.33%) Banking
5 4 (3.33%) Marketing
5 4 (3.33%) Public Sector
6 3 (2.50%) Advertising
6 3 (2.50%) Automotive
6 3 (2.50%) Investment Banking
6 3 (2.50%) Telecoms
7 2 (1.67%) Electronics
7 2 (1.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (1.67%) Law
7 2 (1.67%) Manufacturing
7 2 (1.67%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 22 (18.33%) Senior
2 17 (14.17%) Developer
3 13 (10.83%) DBA
3 13 (10.83%) DevOps Engineer
4 11 (9.17%) Senior Developer
4 11 (9.17%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 10 (8.33%) Python Engineer
5 10 (8.33%) Site Engineer
6 9 (7.50%) KDB Developer
6 9 (7.50%) Sybase DBA
7 6 (5.00%) Administrator
7 6 (5.00%) Architect
7 6 (5.00%) Cloud Engineer
8 5 (4.17%) Security Engineer
9 4 (3.33%) Analyst
9 4 (3.33%) Applications Specialist
9 4 (3.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 4 (3.33%) Java Engineer
9 4 (3.33%) Platform Engineer
9 4 (3.33%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (10.83%) Kafka
2 11 (9.17%) RabbitMQ
3 10 (8.33%) RESTful
4 6 (5.00%) REST
5 4 (3.33%) .NET
5 4 (3.33%) CSS
6 3 (2.50%) AngularJS
6 3 (2.50%) Node.js
6 3 (2.50%) SailPoint
7 2 (1.67%) Gherkin
7 2 (1.67%) GraphQL
7 2 (1.67%) HTML
7 2 (1.67%) Jest
7 2 (1.67%) LDAP
7 2 (1.67%) Playwright
7 2 (1.67%) React
7 2 (1.67%) Software Packaging
7 2 (1.67%) WebGL
8 1 (0.83%) JMS
8 1 (0.83%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 16 (13.33%) Replication
2 12 (10.00%) Distributed Systems
3 11 (9.17%) Algorithms
3 11 (9.17%) Linux Command Line
4 10 (8.33%) Data Structures
5 9 (7.50%) Fixed Income
6 5 (4.17%) Cyberattack
6 5 (4.17%) Data Centre
7 4 (3.33%) PKI
8 3 (2.50%) Clustering
8 3 (2.50%) Hybrid Cloud
8 3 (2.50%) Public Cloud
8 3 (2.50%) Security Posture
9 2 (1.67%) Cloud Native
9 2 (1.67%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (1.67%) Fat Client
9 2 (1.67%) Media Streaming
9 2 (1.67%) Operational Technology
9 2 (1.67%) Product Ownership
9 2 (1.67%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 33 (27.50%) Linux
2 22 (18.33%) Windows
3 9 (7.50%) Unix
4 3 (2.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (2.50%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (30.00%) CI/CD
1 36 (30.00%) DevOps
2 32 (26.67%) Problem-Solving
3 20 (16.67%) Microservices
4 18 (15.00%) Agile
5 16 (13.33%) ITIL
6 15 (12.50%) Migration
7 14 (11.67%) Analytics
7 14 (11.67%) Infrastructure as Code
8 12 (10.00%) Incident Management
8 12 (10.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 11 (9.17%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 10 (8.33%) Analytical Thinking
10 10 (8.33%) Root Cause Analysis
10 10 (8.33%) Test Automation
11 9 (7.50%) Data Analytics
11 9 (7.50%) Disaster Recovery
11 9 (7.50%) Electronic Trading
11 9 (7.50%) Incident Response
12 8 (6.67%) Security Operations
Programming Languages
1 65 (54.17%) Python
2 43 (35.83%) PowerShell
3 16 (13.33%) Java
4 15 (12.50%) Go
4 15 (12.50%) SQL
5 14 (11.67%) Perl
6 11 (9.17%) JavaScript
7 10 (8.33%) Bash
7 10 (8.33%) Shell Script
8 7 (5.83%) C++
8 7 (5.83%) T-SQL
9 5 (4.17%) C#
10 3 (2.50%) Groovy
10 3 (2.50%) TypeScript
11 2 (1.67%) Kusto Query Language
11 2 (1.67%) PHP
11 2 (1.67%) Ruby
12 1 (0.83%) C
Qualifications
1 13 (10.83%) Degree
2 10 (8.33%) SC Cleared
2 10 (8.33%) Security Cleared
3 5 (4.17%) Microsoft Certification
4 4 (3.33%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (2.50%) CCNP
5 3 (2.50%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (1.67%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.67%) MCSE
7 1 (0.83%) CCNA
7 1 (0.83%) JNCIA
7 1 (0.83%) JNCIS
7 1 (0.83%) Tableau Certification
7 1 (0.83%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (10.00%) QA
2 5 (4.17%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.67%) SLA
4 1 (0.83%) GDPR
4 1 (0.83%) NIST
4 1 (0.83%) PMO
System Software
1 23 (19.17%) Active Directory
2 13 (10.83%) Docker
3 9 (7.50%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 6 (5.00%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (4.17%) Veritas Cluster Server
6 2 (1.67%) BitLocker
6 2 (1.67%) Hyper-V
6 2 (1.67%) Microsoft App-V
6 2 (1.67%) VMware NSX
6 2 (1.67%) vSphere
7 1 (0.83%) Firmware
7 1 (0.83%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 22 (18.33%) Kubernetes
2 16 (13.33%) Terraform
3 13 (10.83%) Ansible
3 13 (10.83%) Prometheus
4 12 (10.00%) Grafana
5 10 (8.33%) Consul
6 6 (5.00%) Microsoft Intune
7 3 (2.50%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 3 (2.50%) Puppet
7 3 (2.50%) SCCM
7 3 (2.50%) VxRail
8 2 (1.67%) Backup Exec
8 2 (1.67%) NetBackup
8 2 (1.67%) SCOM
8 2 (1.67%) SCVMM
9 1 (0.83%) Microsoft Clustering
9 1 (0.83%) Nagios
9 1 (0.83%) Packer
9 1 (0.83%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.83%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 45 (37.50%) Microsoft
2 12 (10.00%) SAP
3 11 (9.17%) Sybase
4 10 (8.33%) IBM
5 9 (7.50%) Google
5 9 (7.50%) SaltStack
6 8 (6.67%) Oracle
6 8 (6.67%) ServiceNow
6 8 (6.67%) VMware
7 6 (5.00%) Cisco
8 5 (4.17%) CrowdStrike
8 5 (4.17%) Splunk
8 5 (4.17%) Sun
8 5 (4.17%) Veritas
9 4 (3.33%) F5
10 3 (2.50%) CheckPoint
11 2 (1.67%) Forcepoint
11 2 (1.67%) Mitel
11 2 (1.67%) MobileIron
11 2 (1.67%) Wyse