Intelligent Automation Contract Job Trends in Cheshire

Intelligent Automation (Intelligent Process Automation)
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cheshire 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 72 53 -
Rank change year-on-year -19 - -
Contract jobs citing Intelligent Automation 1 2 0
As % of all contract jobs in Cheshire 0.15% 0.44% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.17% 0.49% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £356 -
Median % change year-on-year +68.54% - -
North West median daily rate £550 £356 -
% change year-on-year +54.49% - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Cheshire

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 Cheshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 590 407 444
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 89.26% 90.04% 87.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 425 238 297
10th Percentile £300 £300 £313
25th Percentile £356 £356 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.89% -5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £538 £570 £553
90th Percentile £673 £658 £614
North West median daily rate £450 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% +1.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 28 29
10th Percentile £15.50 £16.00 £15.60
25th Percentile £18.87 £20.53 £17.72
Median hourly rate £22.85 £25.79 £26.66
Median % change year-on-year -11.39% -3.27% +52.82%
75th Percentile £43.00 £79.63 £40.00
90th Percentile £76.05 £86.00 £43.75
North West median hourly rate £41.94 £31.50 £33.16
% change year-on-year +33.14% -5.01% -11.57%

Intelligent Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Intelligent Automation relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire.

Intelligent Automation job vacancy trend in Cheshire

Intelligent Automation
Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Intelligent Automation within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 30 January 2026. 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
Warrington - 1 £600 -
Intelligent Automation
North West

Intelligent Automation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cheshire 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 1 (100.00%) LangSmith
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) MLflow
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) LangChain
1 1 (100.00%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) AI Agents
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (100.00%) Distributed Computing
1 1 (100.00%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Data Science
1 1 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) Identity Management
1 1 (100.00%) LLM
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) MLOps
1 1 (100.00%) Sprint Planning
1 1 (100.00%) Sprint Retrospective
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
1 1 (100.00%) Master's Degree
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Databricks