Task Automation Jobs with Work from Home Options

Task Automation
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for Task Automation skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries 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 415 501 499
Rank change year-on-year +86 -2 -36
Permanent jobs citing Task Automation 188 149 442
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.54% 0.39% 0.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.60% 0.40% 0.61%
Number of salaries quoted 144 111 229
10th Percentile £40,958 £40,000 £31,270
25th Percentile £51,250 £50,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +23.81% -15.16%
75th Percentile £76,250 £87,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £95,000 £75,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,500 £58,375
% change year-on-year -0.83% +3.64% -0.21%

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 permanent job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,355 37,000 72,372
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 90.11% 96.01% 97.15%
Number of salaries quoted 23,586 26,257 41,808
10th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,899 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.69% +1.50% +9.09%

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
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Task Automation salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Task Automation
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Task Automation over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Task Automation salary histogram 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 27 (14.36%) Apache
1 27 (14.36%) IIS
1 27 (14.36%) Tomcat
2 5 (2.66%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.60%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (1.06%) nginx
5 1 (0.53%) Apache Solr
5 1 (0.53%) SAS
Applications
1 10 (5.32%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.06%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 30 (15.96%) NEC Housing
2 7 (3.72%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 90 (47.87%) Azure
2 38 (20.21%) Microsoft 365
3 37 (19.68%) Entra ID
4 33 (17.55%) AWS
5 30 (15.96%) Power Platform
6 18 (9.57%) Nutanix
7 16 (8.51%) PowerApps
8 15 (7.98%) Power Automate
9 14 (7.45%) Azure DevOps
9 14 (7.45%) IaaS
10 12 (6.38%) Dynamics 365
11 11 (5.85%) GCP
12 9 (4.79%) GitHub
12 9 (4.79%) Serverless
13 8 (4.26%) Azure Storage
14 7 (3.72%) SaaS
15 6 (3.19%) Azure Event Grid
15 6 (3.19%) Azure Functions
15 6 (3.19%) Azure Logic Apps
16 5 (2.66%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 26 (13.83%) DNS
2 8 (4.26%) Firewall
3 5 (2.66%) Network Security
3 5 (2.66%) VPN
4 4 (2.13%) Intrusion Detection
4 4 (2.13%) NetScaler
4 4 (2.13%) TCP/IP
5 3 (1.60%) DHCP
5 3 (1.60%) VLAN
6 2 (1.06%) HTTP
6 2 (1.06%) IPv4
6 2 (1.06%) OSPF
6 2 (1.06%) SAN
7 1 (0.53%) SD-WAN
7 1 (0.53%) SMS
7 1 (0.53%) WAN
7 1 (0.53%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (16.49%) Oracle Database
2 20 (10.64%) SQL Server
3 18 (9.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 12 (6.38%) MySQL
4 12 (6.38%) Power BI
5 11 (5.85%) Data Warehouse
5 11 (5.85%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 11 (5.85%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 4 (2.13%) Azure SQL Database
6 4 (2.13%) PowerPivot
7 3 (1.60%) Ingres
8 2 (1.06%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (1.06%) NoSQL
8 2 (1.06%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (1.06%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.53%) Amazon QuickSight
9 1 (0.53%) BigQuery
9 1 (0.53%) Data Lake
9 1 (0.53%) Dremio
9 1 (0.53%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 13 (6.91%) Git
2 7 (3.72%) Jenkins
3 3 (1.60%) JIRA
3 3 (1.60%) Selenium
4 2 (1.06%) Bitbucket
4 2 (1.06%) Bitbucket Server
4 2 (1.06%) Cucumber
4 2 (1.06%) JMeter
4 2 (1.06%) Serenity BDD
4 2 (1.06%) SoapUI
5 1 (0.53%) GitLab
5 1 (0.53%) Octopus Deploy
5 1 (0.53%) REST Assured
5 1 (0.53%) TeamCity
5 1 (0.53%) Travis CI
5 1 (0.53%) WebDriver
General
1 93 (49.47%) Finance
2 38 (20.21%) Social Skills
3 31 (16.49%) Police
4 27 (14.36%) Local Government
4 27 (14.36%) Public Sector
5 14 (7.45%) Analytical Skills
6 12 (6.38%) General Ledger
7 10 (5.32%) Retail
8 7 (3.72%) Law
8 7 (3.72%) Telecoms
9 6 (3.19%) Banking
9 6 (3.19%) Organisational Skills
10 5 (2.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (1.60%) Billing
11 3 (1.60%) Marketing
12 2 (1.06%) Advertising
13 1 (0.53%) Documentation Skills
13 1 (0.53%) Games
13 1 (0.53%) German Language
13 1 (0.53%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 38 (20.21%) Senior
2 28 (14.89%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 27 (14.36%) Applications Support
4 25 (13.30%) Analyst
5 22 (11.70%) DBA
6 18 (9.57%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 12 (6.38%) Senior Analyst
8 11 (5.85%) Security Engineer
9 10 (5.32%) DevOps Engineer
9 10 (5.32%) SQL DBA
9 10 (5.32%) Support Analyst
10 9 (4.79%) IT Analyst
10 9 (4.79%) IT Security Analyst
10 9 (4.79%) Security Analyst
11 7 (3.72%) Administrator
11 7 (3.72%) Data Migration Specialist
11 7 (3.72%) Developer
11 7 (3.72%) SQL Server DBA
11 7 (3.72%) Technical Analyst
11 7 (3.72%) Technical Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (15.43%) Web Services
2 7 (3.72%) .NET
3 6 (3.19%) ARM Templates
3 6 (3.19%) YAML
4 5 (2.66%) HTML
5 4 (2.13%) SOAP
6 3 (1.60%) ASP.NET
6 3 (1.60%) CSS
6 3 (1.60%) JSON
6 3 (1.60%) XML
7 2 (1.06%) .NET Framework
7 2 (1.06%) AngularJS
7 2 (1.06%) React
7 2 (1.06%) REST
7 2 (1.06%) RESTful
8 1 (0.53%) Kafka
8 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Graph
8 1 (0.53%) OAuth
8 1 (0.53%) OAuth2
8 1 (0.53%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 27 (14.36%) Public Cloud
2 14 (7.45%) IoT
3 12 (6.38%) Management Information System
4 9 (4.79%) Cyberattack
5 8 (4.26%) Cyber Threat
6 7 (3.72%) Clustering
6 7 (3.72%) Housing Association
7 4 (2.13%) Data Centre
7 4 (2.13%) Data Structures
8 3 (1.60%) Blog
8 3 (1.60%) Onboarding
9 2 (1.06%) Algorithms
9 2 (1.06%) Client/Server
9 2 (1.06%) Cloud Native
9 2 (1.06%) EPoS
9 2 (1.06%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 2 (1.06%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (1.06%) PropTech
10 1 (0.53%) Contract for Difference
10 1 (0.53%) Online Banking
Operating Systems
1 96 (51.06%) Windows
2 50 (26.60%) Linux
3 31 (16.49%) Unix
4 27 (14.36%) Solaris
5 15 (7.98%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.53%) AIX
6 1 (0.53%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.53%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (24.47%) DevOps
1 46 (24.47%) Problem-Solving
2 35 (18.62%) Data Security
3 31 (16.49%) Disaster Recovery
4 29 (15.43%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 28 (14.89%) Server Management
6 27 (14.36%) Decision-Making
6 27 (14.36%) Network Architecture
7 25 (13.30%) CI/CD
8 24 (12.77%) Incident Response
8 24 (12.77%) ITIL
9 23 (12.23%) Agile
10 22 (11.70%) Cybersecurity
11 19 (10.11%) Business Intelligence
12 18 (9.57%) Security Operations
13 17 (9.04%) Roadmaps
14 16 (8.51%) Infrastructure Automation
14 16 (8.51%) Migration
14 16 (8.51%) Network Virtualisation
15 15 (7.98%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 68 (36.17%) PowerShell
2 42 (22.34%) Python
3 40 (21.28%) SQL
4 32 (17.02%) Bash
4 32 (17.02%) Shell Script
5 17 (9.04%) Perl
5 17 (9.04%) T-SQL
6 15 (7.98%) PL/SQL
7 8 (4.26%) JavaScript
8 6 (3.19%) Bicep
8 6 (3.19%) Kusto Query Language
9 5 (2.66%) Java
10 4 (2.13%) C#
11 3 (1.60%) TypeScript
12 2 (1.06%) Ruby
13 1 (0.53%) C
13 1 (0.53%) C++
Qualifications
1 43 (22.87%) Degree
2 38 (20.21%) Security Cleared
3 9 (4.79%) SC Cleared
4 7 (3.72%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (2.13%) CISM
5 4 (2.13%) CISSP
6 3 (1.60%) HND
7 2 (1.06%) CCA
7 2 (1.06%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (1.06%) Citrix Certification
7 2 (1.06%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.53%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.53%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.53%) CCNA
8 1 (0.53%) CCNP
8 1 (0.53%) IBM Certification
8 1 (0.53%) LPIC
8 1 (0.53%) MCP
8 1 (0.53%) MCSE
8 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (14.36%) Accessibility
2 14 (7.45%) Data Quality
3 8 (4.26%) GRC
4 2 (1.06%) SLA
5 1 (0.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.53%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.53%) QA
System Software
1 72 (38.30%) Active Directory
2 28 (14.89%) VMware Infrastructure
3 22 (11.70%) Virtual Machines
4 10 (5.32%) Virtual Desktop
5 8 (4.26%) Docker
6 6 (3.19%) Hyper-V
7 4 (2.13%) XenApp
7 4 (2.13%) XenDesktop
8 2 (1.06%) Citrix Hypervisor
8 2 (1.06%) Microsoft App-V
8 2 (1.06%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 25 (13.30%) Terraform
2 14 (7.45%) Ansible
3 12 (6.38%) Kubernetes
4 10 (5.32%) Nagios
5 9 (4.79%) SCCM
6 7 (3.72%) Foglight
6 7 (3.72%) Microsoft Clustering
7 3 (1.60%) Prometheus
8 2 (1.06%) Puppet
8 2 (1.06%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (1.06%) SysTrack
8 2 (1.06%) vCenter Server
9 1 (0.53%) Grafana
9 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.53%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.53%) Salt
Vendors
1 80 (42.55%) Microsoft
2 33 (17.55%) Oracle
3 30 (15.96%) NEC
4 29 (15.43%) VMware
5 17 (9.04%) CrowdStrike
6 10 (5.32%) Splunk
7 9 (4.79%) Qualys
8 8 (4.26%) Citrix
9 7 (3.72%) ArcSight
9 7 (3.72%) HP
10 4 (2.13%) Google
10 4 (2.13%) ServiceNow
11 3 (1.60%) New Relic
12 2 (1.06%) Cisco
12 2 (1.06%) Dynatrace
12 2 (1.06%) F5
12 2 (1.06%) Fortinet
12 2 (1.06%) Ivanti
12 2 (1.06%) Palo Alto
12 2 (1.06%) SolarWinds