Task Automation Contracts in the North West

Task Automation
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 130 152 167
Rank change year-on-year +22 +15 -40
Contract jobs citing Task Automation 7 8 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.25% 0.25% 0.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.29% 0.28% 0.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 4 9
10th Percentile £385 £370 £403
25th Percentile £391 £438 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% -9.09% +33.33%
75th Percentile £469 £538 £634
90th Percentile £510 £560 £664
England median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - +10.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

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 the North West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,385 2,894 3,584
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 86.32% 90.58% 88.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,526 2,058 2,629
10th Percentile £306 £313 £231
25th Percentile £401 £413 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £589 £588 £575
90th Percentile £688 £675 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 243 144 166
10th Percentile £10.95 £16.85 £10.63
25th Percentile £13.28 £21.25 £14.25
Median hourly rate £21.00 £35.00 £20.75
Median % change year-on-year -40.00% +68.72% +9.18%
75th Percentile £45.44 £48.91 £43.75
90th Percentile £57.50 £65.00 £58.75
England median hourly rate £35.50 £37.50 £24.35
% change year-on-year -5.33% +54.00% +1.46%

Task Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing Task Automation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for Task Automation in the North West

Task Automation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Task Automation in the North West

Task Automation
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Task Automation in the North West over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Task Automation in the North West

Task Automation
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 North West region over the 6 months to 28 April 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
Manchester +15 5 £400 +14.29% 7
Merseyside - 2 - - 3
Task Automation
England

Task Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 (14.29%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 1 (14.29%) Azure
1 1 (14.29%) Azure AKS
1 1 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 3 (42.86%) DNS
2 2 (28.57%) Cisco Nexus
2 2 (28.57%) DHCP
2 2 (28.57%) Software-Defined Networking
2 2 (28.57%) TCP/IP
3 1 (14.29%) DKIM
3 1 (14.29%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (14.29%) Relational Database
1 1 (14.29%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 2 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) Analyst
1 2 (28.57%) Automation Engineer
1 2 (28.57%) IT Analyst
1 2 (28.57%) IT Operations Analyst
1 2 (28.57%) Network Engineer
1 2 (28.57%) Operations Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Automation Tester
2 1 (14.29%) Azure DevOps Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Information Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft 365 Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) CMDB
1 2 (28.57%) Management Information System
2 1 (14.29%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (28.57%) Capacity Management
1 2 (28.57%) Capacity Planning
1 2 (28.57%) Change Management
1 2 (28.57%) Configuration Management
1 2 (28.57%) Incident Management
1 2 (28.57%) Incident Response
1 2 (28.57%) ITIL
1 2 (28.57%) Performance Analysis
1 2 (28.57%) Problem Management
1 2 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (28.57%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (14.29%) Agile Testing
2 1 (14.29%) CI/CD
2 1 (14.29%) Continuous Deployment
2 1 (14.29%) Customer Service
2 1 (14.29%) Deployment Automation
2 1 (14.29%) Network Virtualisation
2 1 (14.29%) Observability
2 1 (14.29%) Service-Level Objective
2 1 (14.29%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 5 (71.43%) Python
2 4 (57.14%) PowerShell
2 4 (57.14%) SQL
3 1 (14.29%) C#
3 1 (14.29%) Java
Qualifications
1 4 (57.14%) CCNA
1 4 (57.14%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (28.57%) CCIE
2 2 (28.57%) CCNP
2 2 (28.57%) Network+ Certification
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) Ansible
1 2 (28.57%) Nagios
1 2 (28.57%) ZABBIX
2 1 (14.29%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Cisco
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft
1 2 (28.57%) SolarWinds