Task Automation Contracts in Manchester

Task Automation
North West > Manchester

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester with a requirement for Task Automation skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Task Automation over the 6 months to 23 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 93 113 135
Rank change year-on-year +20 +22 -44
Contract jobs citing Task Automation 5 5 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 0.33% 0.26% 0.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.38% 0.29% 0.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 6
10th Percentile £385 - £413
25th Percentile £391 £325 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £350 £513
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -31.71% +88.07%
75th Percentile £469 £375 £578
90th Percentile £510 - £644
North West median daily rate £400 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -23.81% -4.55% +33.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Manchester

Task Automation is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,332 1,752 2,272
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 87.12% 92.26% 88.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 917 1,281 1,803
10th Percentile £313 £313 £258
25th Percentile £406 £413 £397
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year - +2.56% +8.94%
75th Percentile £588 £594 £575
90th Percentile £694 £675 £663
North West median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 71 66 49
10th Percentile £12.40 £15.75 £11.36
25th Percentile £13.50 £20.00 £11.75
Median hourly rate £24.19 £36.15 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year -33.08% +141.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £57.50 £46.89 £23.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £70.00 £34.00
North West median hourly rate £21.00 £35.00 £21.00
% change year-on-year -40.00% +66.67% +15.21%

Task Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Task Automation in Manchester

Task Automation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Daily rate trend for Task Automation in Manchester

Task Automation
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Task Automation in Manchester over the 6 months to 23 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Task Automation in Manchester

Task Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (20.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) Azure
1 1 (20.00%) Azure AKS
1 1 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 3 (60.00%) DNS
2 2 (40.00%) DHCP
2 2 (40.00%) TCP/IP
3 1 (20.00%) DKIM
3 1 (20.00%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (20.00%) Relational Database
1 1 (20.00%) SQL Server
General
1 2 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Analyst
1 2 (40.00%) IT Analyst
1 2 (40.00%) IT Operations Analyst
1 2 (40.00%) Operations Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Automation Tester
2 1 (20.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Information Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft 365 Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) CMDB
1 2 (40.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Capacity Management
1 2 (40.00%) Capacity Planning
1 2 (40.00%) Change Management
1 2 (40.00%) Configuration Management
1 2 (40.00%) Incident Management
1 2 (40.00%) Incident Response
1 2 (40.00%) ITIL
1 2 (40.00%) Performance Analysis
1 2 (40.00%) Problem Management
1 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (40.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (20.00%) Agile Testing
2 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (20.00%) Customer Service
2 1 (20.00%) Deployment Automation
2 1 (20.00%) Information Governance
2 1 (20.00%) Network Virtualisation
2 1 (20.00%) Observability
2 1 (20.00%) Performance Monitoring
2 1 (20.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) PowerShell
1 4 (80.00%) SQL
2 3 (60.00%) Python
3 1 (20.00%) C#
3 1 (20.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) CCNA
1 2 (40.00%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (40.00%) Network+ Certification
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Nagios
1 2 (40.00%) ZABBIX
2 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (40.00%) SolarWinds