Task Automation Contract Job Trends in Cheshire

Task Automation
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cheshire requiring Task Automation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 65 54 -
Rank change year-on-year -11 - -
Contract jobs citing Task Automation 12 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in Cheshire 1.79% 0.21% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.01% 0.24% -
Number of daily rates quoted 10 1 0
10th Percentile £275 - -
25th Percentile £322 £402 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £436 £405 -
Median % change year-on-year +7.66% - -
75th Percentile £480 £407 -
90th Percentile £497 - -
North West median daily rate £439 £461 £400
% change year-on-year -4.82% +15.31% -33.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £65.75 - -
Median hourly rate £66.50 - -
75th Percentile £67.25 - -
90th Percentile - - -
North West median hourly rate £66.50 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cheshire

Task 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 598 420 355
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 88.99% 88.61% 90.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 440 249 224
10th Percentile £268 £325 £265
25th Percentile £358 £390 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £496 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.90% -0.77% +11.11%
75th Percentile £537 £569 £550
90th Percentile £688 £638 £592
North West median daily rate £450 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 25 23
10th Percentile £15.50 £16.00 £16.66
25th Percentile £18.87 £19.00 £17.38
Median hourly rate £23.18 £24.18 £23.61
Median % change year-on-year -4.16% +2.41% +54.82%
75th Percentile £40.00 £35.00 £35.38
90th Percentile £70.55 £82.60 £40.00
North West median hourly rate £29.60 £32.50 £35.50
% change year-on-year -8.92% -8.45% +46.15%

Task Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Task Automation job vacancy trend in Cheshire

Task Automation
Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing Task Automation.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing Task Automation

Task Automation
Daily Rate Histogram in Cheshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Task Automation in Cheshire over the 6 months to 13 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Task Automation in Cheshire

Task Automation
Hourly Rate Trend in Cheshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing Task Automation.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing Task Automation

Task 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 Task Automation within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 13 December 2025. 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
Knutsford -15 8 £402 -0.62% 4
Warrington - 3 £425 - 2
Task Automation
North West

Task 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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (33.33%) Apache
1 4 (33.33%) IIS
1 4 (33.33%) iPlanet
1 4 (33.33%) JBoss
1 4 (33.33%) WebSphere
1 4 (33.33%) WebSphere Application Server
Cloud Services
1 6 (50.00%) AWS
2 4 (33.33%) Azure
2 4 (33.33%) OpenShift
3 2 (16.67%) AWS CloudFormation
3 2 (16.67%) Datadog
3 2 (16.67%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 4 (33.33%) Firewall
1 4 (33.33%) Kerberos
1 4 (33.33%) Network Security
2 3 (25.00%) LAN
2 3 (25.00%) TCP/IP
2 3 (25.00%) WAN
2 3 (25.00%) WLAN
3 2 (16.67%) BGP
3 2 (16.67%) Cisco IOS
3 2 (16.67%) NX-OS
3 2 (16.67%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (33.33%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 6 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 4 (33.33%) Bitbucket Server
2 4 (33.33%) CA Release Automation
2 4 (33.33%) Git
2 4 (33.33%) Sonatype Nexus
3 2 (16.67%) CircleCI
3 2 (16.67%) GitLab
General
1 3 (25.00%) Finance
2 1 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (8.33%) Banking
2 1 (8.33%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (8.33%) Public Sector
2 1 (8.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (41.67%) DevOps Engineer
1 5 (41.67%) Senior
2 4 (33.33%) Network Engineer
3 3 (25.00%) Senior DevOps
3 3 (25.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 2 (16.67%) Analyst
4 2 (16.67%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Firewall Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Network Security Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Security Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Senior Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (33.33%) LDAP
1 4 (33.33%) OAuth
1 4 (33.33%) OpenID
1 4 (33.33%) SAML
2 2 (16.67%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 1 (8.33%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 4 (33.33%) Linux
1 4 (33.33%) Unix
1 4 (33.33%) Windows
2 3 (25.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 6 (50.00%) DevOps
2 4 (33.33%) Deployment Automation
2 4 (33.33%) Identity Access Management
3 2 (16.67%) Agile
3 2 (16.67%) Change Control
3 2 (16.67%) Configuration Management
3 2 (16.67%) Cryptography
3 2 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
3 2 (16.67%) Fintech
3 2 (16.67%) High Availability
3 2 (16.67%) Incident Response
3 2 (16.67%) Information Security
3 2 (16.67%) ITIL
3 2 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (16.67%) Root Cause Analysis
3 2 (16.67%) Security Operations
3 2 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (16.67%) Test Automation
3 2 (16.67%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 7 (58.33%) Python
2 4 (33.33%) Groovy
2 4 (33.33%) Shell Script
3 3 (25.00%) PowerShell
4 2 (16.67%) Bash
4 2 (16.67%) Perl
Qualifications
1 2 (16.67%) CCDP
1 2 (16.67%) CCNP
1 2 (16.67%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (16.67%) ITIL Certification
1 2 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 2 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (8.33%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (16.67%) QA
System Software
1 4 (33.33%) Active Directory
1 4 (33.33%) Docker
1 4 (33.33%) Tivoli Directory Server
Systems Management
1 4 (33.33%) CA Single Sign-On
1 4 (33.33%) CA Wily
1 4 (33.33%) Progress Chef
1 4 (33.33%) Single Sign-On
1 4 (33.33%) Tivoli
2 2 (16.67%) Ansible
2 2 (16.67%) Grafana
2 2 (16.67%) Prometheus
2 2 (16.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (33.33%) AppDynamics
1 4 (33.33%) Broadcom
1 4 (33.33%) IBM
1 4 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 4 (33.33%) Oracle
1 4 (33.33%) Splunk
2 3 (25.00%) Cisco
2 3 (25.00%) F5
2 3 (25.00%) Meraki
2 3 (25.00%) Palo Alto
3 2 (16.67%) Gemalto
3 2 (16.67%) SolarWinds
3 2 (16.67%) Thales