Task Automation Contracts in Cheshire

Task Automation
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cheshire requiring Task Automation skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Task Automation over the 6 months leading up to 14 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 62 51 49
Rank change year-on-year -11 -2 +5
Contract jobs citing Task Automation 10 2 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 1.63% 0.41% 0.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.77% 0.48% 0.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 2 2
10th Percentile £448 - £480
25th Percentile £463 £456 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £463 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.70% -11.90% -4.55%
75th Percentile £549 £469 £563
90th Percentile £584 - £570
North West median daily rate £475 £463 £385
% change year-on-year +2.70% +20.13% -38.89%
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 566 421 389
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 92.03% 85.57% 87.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 429 283 226
10th Percentile £307 £311 £294
25th Percentile £358 £390 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £437 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% -5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £520 £575 £586
90th Percentile £646 £640 £638
North West median daily rate £450 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -10.00% - +0.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 17 33
10th Percentile - £11.15 £17.16
25th Percentile £12.82 £16.25 £22.53
Median hourly rate £32.00 £35.00 £30.54
Median % change year-on-year -8.57% +14.60% +40.22%
75th Percentile £50.00 £43.75 £35.00
90th Percentile £67.25 £47.50 £39.15
North West median hourly rate £27.19 £35.00 £34.00
% change year-on-year -22.32% +2.94% +56.11%

Task Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Task Automation in Cheshire

Task Automation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Daily rate trend for Task Automation in Cheshire

Task Automation
Daily Rate Histogram in Cheshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Task Automation in Cheshire over the 6 months to 14 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Task Automation in Cheshire

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 14 August 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 -13 4 £475 +2.70% 2
Warrington - 3 £425 - 4
Task Automation
North West

Task Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (20.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 6 (60.00%) Firewall
2 4 (40.00%) Network Security
3 3 (30.00%) LAN
3 3 (30.00%) TCP/IP
3 3 (30.00%) WAN
3 3 (30.00%) WLAN
4 2 (20.00%) BGP
4 2 (20.00%) Cisco IOS
4 2 (20.00%) NX-OS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (40.00%) PostgreSQL
1 4 (40.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (40.00%) Git
1 4 (40.00%) JIRA
2 2 (20.00%) GitLab
2 2 (20.00%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (30.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Banking
3 1 (10.00%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Network Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Automation Developer
2 2 (20.00%) Developer
2 2 (20.00%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Firewall Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Network Security Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Security Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Senior
3 1 (10.00%) Senior Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Onboarding
2 1 (10.00%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (60.00%) CI/CD
1 6 (60.00%) Configuration Management
1 6 (60.00%) DevOps
2 4 (40.00%) Data Migration
2 4 (40.00%) Migration
2 4 (40.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 4 (40.00%) Technical Leadership
3 3 (30.00%) Cybersecurity
3 3 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (20.00%) Agile
4 2 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
4 2 (20.00%) Data Ingestion
4 2 (20.00%) Data Integration
4 2 (20.00%) Data Modelling
4 2 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
4 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure Management
4 2 (20.00%) Regulatory Compliance
4 2 (20.00%) Scrum
4 2 (20.00%) Test Automation
4 2 (20.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 9 (90.00%) Python
2 6 (60.00%) Bash
3 5 (50.00%) PowerShell
4 4 (40.00%) SQL
5 2 (20.00%) Perl
Qualifications
1 4 (40.00%) CCNP
1 4 (40.00%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (20.00%) CCDP
2 2 (20.00%) CCNA
2 2 (20.00%) SC Cleared
2 2 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 6 (60.00%) Ansible
1 6 (60.00%) Kubernetes
2 4 (40.00%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 4 (40.00%) Oracle
2 3 (30.00%) Cisco
2 3 (30.00%) F5
2 3 (30.00%) Meraki
2 3 (30.00%) Palo Alto
3 2 (20.00%) Fortinet
3 2 (20.00%) Infoblox
3 2 (20.00%) ServiceNow
3 2 (20.00%) SolarWinds