Task Automation Contracts with Work from Home Options

Task Automation
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 9 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 238 340 375
Rank change year-on-year +102 +35 +18
Contract jobs citing Task Automation 102 113 262
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.70% 0.47% 0.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.80% 0.53% 0.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 78 65 211
10th Percentile £405 £418 £363
25th Percentile £500 £495 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £553 £588 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.96% +6.82% +22.22%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £638
90th Percentile £710 £750 £700
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - +15.79%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 12,810 21,394 40,150
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.31% 89.63% 91.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,622 15,186 29,240
10th Percentile £325 £363 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +6.06%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 573 497 521
10th Percentile £14.90 £18.50 £14.50
25th Percentile £23.75 £25.75 £20.75
Median hourly rate £43.00 £52.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.10% +31.25% +68.42%
75th Percentile £60.00 £67.50 £59.00
90th Percentile £74.40 £78.30 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £35.80 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.96% +39.41% +11.65%

Task Automation
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Task Automation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Task Automation trend for jobs with a WFH option

Task Automation
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Task Automation.

Task Automation daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Task Automation
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Task Automation over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Task Automation daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Task Automation
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Task Automation.

Task Automation hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Task Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 5 (4.90%) Confluence
2 3 (2.94%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.96%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.98%) Apache Solr
4 1 (0.98%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (0.98%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.98%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 39 (38.24%) Azure
2 26 (25.49%) AWS
3 14 (13.73%) GCP
4 11 (10.78%) GitHub
5 9 (8.82%) Entra ID
5 9 (8.82%) OpenShift
6 7 (6.86%) Amazon ECS
6 7 (6.86%) Amazon EKS
6 7 (6.86%) Microsoft 365
7 5 (4.90%) CloudFront
7 5 (4.90%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 4 (3.92%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (3.92%) Kong
9 3 (2.94%) PaaS
9 3 (2.94%) Serverless
10 2 (1.96%) Apigee
10 2 (1.96%) AWS CodePipeline
10 2 (1.96%) Sentry
10 2 (1.96%) Slack
10 2 (1.96%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 13 (12.75%) DNS
2 9 (8.82%) VPN
3 7 (6.86%) HTTP
3 7 (6.86%) Network Security
3 7 (6.86%) TCP/IP
4 6 (5.88%) Firewall
5 3 (2.94%) DHCP
5 3 (2.94%) Reverse Proxy
6 2 (1.96%) Cisco Nexus
6 2 (1.96%) Software-Defined Networking
7 1 (0.98%) BIG-IP
7 1 (0.98%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
7 1 (0.98%) Fibre Channel
7 1 (0.98%) Internet
7 1 (0.98%) IPv4
7 1 (0.98%) NetScaler
7 1 (0.98%) Remote Desktop
7 1 (0.98%) SAN
7 1 (0.98%) SSL
7 1 (0.98%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (13.73%) MongoDB
2 8 (7.84%) SQL Server
3 5 (4.90%) Elasticsearch
4 4 (3.92%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (3.92%) Relational Database
5 3 (2.94%) Sybase ASE
6 2 (1.96%) DB2
6 2 (1.96%) Redis
7 1 (0.98%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (0.98%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.98%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.98%) BigQuery
7 1 (0.98%) Couchbase
7 1 (0.98%) Metadata
7 1 (0.98%) MySQL
7 1 (0.98%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.98%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 1 (0.98%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (0.98%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 22 (21.57%) Git
2 16 (15.69%) Jenkins
3 12 (11.76%) GitLab
4 11 (10.78%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 5 (4.90%) JIRA
6 3 (2.94%) Bitbucket
6 3 (2.94%) CircleCI
6 3 (2.94%) Cypress.io
6 3 (2.94%) NUnit
6 3 (2.94%) Postman
6 3 (2.94%) Sonatype Nexus
6 3 (2.94%) Travis CI
6 3 (2.94%) Visual Studio
7 2 (1.96%) Artifactory
7 2 (1.96%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.98%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.98%) Gradle
8 1 (0.98%) JUnit
8 1 (0.98%) Maven
8 1 (0.98%) Selenium
General
1 35 (34.31%) Social Skills
2 21 (20.59%) Finance
3 19 (18.63%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (6.86%) Public Sector
5 6 (5.88%) Retail
6 5 (4.90%) Banking
7 4 (3.92%) Telecoms
8 3 (2.94%) Electronics
8 3 (2.94%) Manufacturing
8 3 (2.94%) Marketing
9 2 (1.96%) Automotive
10 1 (0.98%) Advertising
10 1 (0.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.98%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.98%) Law
Job Titles
1 22 (21.57%) DevOps Engineer
2 14 (13.73%) Python Engineer
2 14 (13.73%) Site Engineer
2 14 (13.73%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 12 (11.76%) DBA
3 12 (11.76%) Senior
4 11 (10.78%) Security Engineer
5 8 (7.84%) Applications Engineer
5 8 (7.84%) Cloud Engineer
6 7 (6.86%) Automation Engineer
6 7 (6.86%) Developer
6 7 (6.86%) VMware Engineer
7 5 (4.90%) Azure Engineer
7 5 (4.90%) Virtualisation Engineer
8 4 (3.92%) Administrator
8 4 (3.92%) DevOps Automation Engineer
8 4 (3.92%) Java Engineer
8 4 (3.92%) SQL DBA
8 4 (3.92%) Test Engineer
9 3 (2.94%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (11.76%) Kafka
2 11 (10.78%) RabbitMQ
2 11 (10.78%) RESTful
3 6 (5.88%) XML
4 5 (4.90%) .NET
4 5 (4.90%) AngularJS
4 5 (4.90%) CSS
4 5 (4.90%) HTML
4 5 (4.90%) JSON
4 5 (4.90%) Middleware
4 5 (4.90%) OAuth
4 5 (4.90%) OAuth2
4 5 (4.90%) REST
4 5 (4.90%) SAML
5 4 (3.92%) YAML
6 3 (2.94%) Elastic Stack
6 3 (2.94%) GraphQL
6 3 (2.94%) Playwright
6 3 (2.94%) SOAP
6 3 (2.94%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 14 (13.73%) Data Structures
2 11 (10.78%) Algorithms
2 11 (10.78%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (7.84%) Replication
4 7 (6.86%) Cloud Native
5 4 (3.92%) Clustering
6 3 (2.94%) CMDB
6 3 (2.94%) Cyberattack
6 3 (2.94%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (1.96%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (1.96%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (1.96%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.98%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 1 (0.98%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.98%) PKI
8 1 (0.98%) Product Ownership
8 1 (0.98%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 32 (31.37%) Linux
2 20 (19.61%) Windows
3 9 (8.82%) Windows Server
4 4 (3.92%) Unix
5 1 (0.98%) CentOS
5 1 (0.98%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.98%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.98%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (0.98%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (0.98%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (49.02%) DevOps
2 45 (44.12%) CI/CD
3 29 (28.43%) Problem-Solving
4 25 (24.51%) Agile
5 19 (18.63%) Infrastructure as Code
6 14 (13.73%) Containerisation
6 14 (13.73%) Incident Response
6 14 (13.73%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 13 (12.75%) Microservices
8 11 (10.78%) Analytical Thinking
9 10 (9.80%) Use Case
10 9 (8.82%) Computer Science
10 9 (8.82%) Configuration Management
10 9 (8.82%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 9 (8.82%) Test Automation
11 8 (7.84%) DevSecOps
11 8 (7.84%) Infrastructure Automation
11 8 (7.84%) Infrastructure Management
11 8 (7.84%) OO
11 8 (7.84%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 61 (59.80%) Python
2 32 (31.37%) PowerShell
3 19 (18.63%) Go
4 18 (17.65%) Bash
5 15 (14.71%) Shell Script
6 14 (13.73%) Perl
7 13 (12.75%) Java
8 10 (9.80%) JavaScript
8 10 (9.80%) SQL
9 8 (7.84%) C++
10 3 (2.94%) PHP
10 3 (2.94%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.98%) ActionScript
11 1 (0.98%) Bicep
11 1 (0.98%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 14 (13.73%) Degree
2 9 (8.82%) Computer Science Degree
3 8 (7.84%) Microsoft Certification
3 8 (7.84%) Security Cleared
4 7 (6.86%) AWS Certification
5 6 (5.88%) MCSE
6 5 (4.90%) SC Cleared
7 2 (1.96%) CCIE
7 2 (1.96%) CCNA
7 2 (1.96%) CCNP
7 2 (1.96%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (1.96%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.98%) CESG Certified Professional
8 1 (0.98%) Citrix Certification
8 1 (0.98%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.98%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.92%) QA
2 3 (2.94%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.98%) GDPR
3 1 (0.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.98%) NIST
3 1 (0.98%) PMO
System Software
1 22 (21.57%) Docker
2 17 (16.67%) Active Directory
3 12 (11.76%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (10.78%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 3 (2.94%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (2.94%) VMware NSX
5 3 (2.94%) vSphere
6 1 (0.98%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.98%) Microsoft App-V
6 1 (0.98%) VMware Server
6 1 (0.98%) XenApp
6 1 (0.98%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 30 (29.41%) Kubernetes
2 18 (17.65%) Prometheus
2 18 (17.65%) Terraform
3 17 (16.67%) Grafana
4 13 (12.75%) Ansible
5 11 (10.78%) Consul
6 4 (3.92%) Argo
6 4 (3.92%) Kibana
6 4 (3.92%) Puppet
7 3 (2.94%) Docker Swarm
7 3 (2.94%) logstash
7 3 (2.94%) Progress Chef
7 3 (2.94%) vCenter Server
8 2 (1.96%) Istio
8 2 (1.96%) Kustomize
8 2 (1.96%) PowerCLI
9 1 (0.98%) Kiali
9 1 (0.98%) Nessus
9 1 (0.98%) SCCM
9 1 (0.98%) WSUS
Vendors
1 29 (28.43%) Microsoft
2 13 (12.75%) VMware
3 11 (10.78%) SaltStack
4 8 (7.84%) ServiceNow
5 6 (5.88%) SAP
6 4 (3.92%) Google
6 4 (3.92%) Splunk
7 3 (2.94%) CrowdStrike
7 3 (2.94%) HP
7 3 (2.94%) IBM
7 3 (2.94%) Sybase
8 2 (1.96%) Atlassian
8 2 (1.96%) Cisco
8 2 (1.96%) Citrix
8 2 (1.96%) Dell
8 2 (1.96%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.98%) BMC
9 1 (0.98%) F5
9 1 (0.98%) Ivanti
9 1 (0.98%) Qualys