Intelligent Automation Contract Job Trends in Bolton

Intelligent Automation (Intelligent Process Automation)
Manchester > Bolton

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Bolton requiring Intelligent Automation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 8 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Intelligent Automation 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Bolton 7.14% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.41% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - -
Manchester median daily rate £550 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Bolton

Intelligent Automation falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Bolton.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 27 21 26
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bolton 96.43% 84.00% 78.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 10 12
10th Percentile £178 £155 -
25th Percentile £550 £164 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £608 £185 £492
Median % change year-on-year +228.38% -62.36% +3.47%
75th Percentile £624 £236 £500
90th Percentile £650 £274 -
Manchester median daily rate £450 £450 £495
% change year-on-year - -9.09% -1.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 8 5
10th Percentile £13.51 £32.33 -
25th Percentile £25.88 £33.00 £30.00
Median hourly rate £45.75 £48.50 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.67% -1.02% -24.62%
75th Percentile £64.06 £60.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £67.25 - £56.00
Manchester median hourly rate £45.00 £32.50 £26.00
% change year-on-year +38.46% +25.00% -37.62%

Intelligent Automation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bolton by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Azure AI
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Cognitive Search
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Functions
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Logic Apps
1 2 (100.00%) Power Platform
1 2 (100.00%) Serverless
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) JSON
1 2 (100.00%) Node.js
1 2 (100.00%) REST
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) AI
1 2 (100.00%) CRM
1 2 (100.00%) ERP
1 2 (100.00%) Generative AI
1 2 (100.00%) Kalman Filter
1 2 (100.00%) LLM
1 2 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 2 (100.00%) OCR
1 2 (100.00%) Prompt Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
1 2 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) C#
1 2 (100.00%) Python
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Foundry
1 2 (100.00%) OpenAI