Intelligent Automation Contract Job Trends in Manchester

Intelligent Automation (Intelligent Process Automation)
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Manchester 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 89 82 -
Rank change year-on-year -7 - -
Contract jobs citing Intelligent Automation 4 2 0
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 0.32% 0.19% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.36% 0.21% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - -
North West median daily rate £550 £356 -
% change year-on-year +54.49% - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,108 943 1,391
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 88.50% 90.94% 87.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 768 583 991
10th Percentile £305 £294 £306
25th Percentile £375 £391 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £495
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% -1.00%
75th Percentile £573 £558 £575
90th Percentile £638 £675 £675
North West median daily rate £450 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% +1.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 75 33 65
10th Percentile £17.20 £15.93 £12.50
25th Percentile £21.46 £21.25 £13.50
Median hourly rate £45.00 £32.50 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +38.46% +25.00% -37.62%
75th Percentile £61.25 £33.75 £49.00
90th Percentile £73.25 £60.00 £76.75
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 Manchester

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

Intelligent Automation job vacancy trend in Manchester

Intelligent Automation
Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Intelligent Automation.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Intelligent Automation

Intelligent Automation
Contract Job Locations in Manchester

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 Manchester 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
Bolton - 2 £550 -
Intelligent Automation
North West

Intelligent Automation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester 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 (50.00%) AtomSphere
1 2 (50.00%) Azure
1 2 (50.00%) Azure AI
1 2 (50.00%) Azure Cognitive Search
1 2 (50.00%) Azure Functions
1 2 (50.00%) Azure Logic Apps
1 2 (50.00%) Boomi
1 2 (50.00%) Power Platform
1 2 (50.00%) SaaS
1 2 (50.00%) Serverless
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Azure Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Developer
1 2 (50.00%) Integration Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (100.00%) JSON
1 4 (100.00%) REST
2 2 (50.00%) Node.js
2 2 (50.00%) SOAP
2 2 (50.00%) XML
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Agile
1 2 (50.00%) AI
1 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (50.00%) CRM
1 2 (50.00%) Customer Engagement
1 2 (50.00%) DevOps
1 2 (50.00%) ERP
1 2 (50.00%) Generative AI
1 2 (50.00%) Integration Patterns
1 2 (50.00%) Kalman Filter
1 2 (50.00%) LLM
1 2 (50.00%) Machine Learning
1 2 (50.00%) OCR
1 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (50.00%) Prompt Engineering
1 2 (50.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
1 2 (50.00%) Software Engineering
1 2 (50.00%) Translating Business Requirements
1 2 (50.00%) Validation
1 2 (50.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) C#
2 2 (50.00%) Groovy
2 2 (50.00%) Java
2 2 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (50.00%) Python
2 2 (50.00%) T-SQL
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Foundry
1 2 (50.00%) OpenAI