Task Automation Contracts in Manchester

Task Automation
North West > Manchester

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester 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 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 95 114 142
Rank change year-on-year +19 +28 -49
Contract jobs citing Task Automation 5 4 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 0.34% 0.22% 0.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.39% 0.23% 0.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 5
10th Percentile £401 - -
25th Percentile £431 - £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 - £550
Median % change year-on-year - - +101.83%
75th Percentile £516 - £588
90th Percentile £529 - £655
North West median daily rate £488 £500 £550
% change year-on-year -2.50% -9.09% +33.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,295 1,705 2,312
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 87.26% 91.72% 88.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 884 1,254 1,817
10th Percentile £325 £318 £263
25th Percentile £413 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +11.11%
75th Percentile £596 £600 £586
90th Percentile £694 £675 £663
North West median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 73 58 49
10th Percentile £12.42 £16.85 £11.36
25th Percentile £13.50 £20.00 £11.75
Median hourly rate £26.00 £37.40 £15.50
Median % change year-on-year -30.48% +141.29% -3.13%
75th Percentile £57.50 £46.89 £25.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £70.00 £34.00
North West median hourly rate £22.11 £37.30 £21.00
% change year-on-year -40.72% +77.62% +14.50%

Task Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Task Automation in Manchester

Task Automation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Daily rate trend for Task Automation in Manchester

Task Automation
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Task Automation in Manchester over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Task Automation in Manchester

Task Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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 1 (20.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) Azure
1 1 (20.00%) Azure AKS
1 1 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) DNS
2 1 (20.00%) DHCP
2 1 (20.00%) DKIM
2 1 (20.00%) Network Security
2 1 (20.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (20.00%) Relational Database
1 1 (20.00%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (20.00%) Analyst
1 1 (20.00%) Automation Tester
1 1 (20.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) Azure Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) Developer
1 1 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) Information Manager
1 1 (20.00%) IT Analyst
1 1 (20.00%) IT Operations Analyst
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft 365 Manager
1 1 (20.00%) Operations Analyst
1 1 (20.00%) ServiceNow Developer
1 1 (20.00%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) Ajax
1 1 (20.00%) AngularJS
1 1 (20.00%) CSS
1 1 (20.00%) HTML
1 1 (20.00%) JSON
1 1 (20.00%) Kafka
1 1 (20.00%) SOAP
1 1 (20.00%) Web Services
1 1 (20.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) CMDB
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (20.00%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Agile
1 2 (40.00%) Incident Response
2 1 (20.00%) Capacity Planning
2 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (20.00%) Continuous Deployment
2 1 (20.00%) Customer Requirements
2 1 (20.00%) Customer Service
2 1 (20.00%) Deployment Automation
2 1 (20.00%) Information Management
2 1 (20.00%) Network Virtualisation
2 1 (20.00%) Observability
2 1 (20.00%) Problem Management
2 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (20.00%) Records Management
2 1 (20.00%) Security Operations
2 1 (20.00%) Service-Level Objective
2 1 (20.00%) System Integration Testing
2 1 (20.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (20.00%) Threat Intelligence
2 1 (20.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) PowerShell
1 3 (60.00%) SQL
2 2 (40.00%) Python
3 1 (20.00%) C#
3 1 (20.00%) Java
3 1 (20.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) CCNA
1 1 (20.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (20.00%) Network+ Certification
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (20.00%) Nagios
1 1 (20.00%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) ServiceNow
2 1 (20.00%) SolarWinds