Task Automation Contracts in Manchester

Task Automation
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 63 91 113
Rank change year-on-year +28 +22 +23
Contract jobs citing Task Automation 16 5 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 1.73% 0.33% 0.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.93% 0.38% 0.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 3 1
10th Percentile £455 £385 -
25th Percentile £463 £391 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £473 £400 £350
Median % change year-on-year +18.13% +14.29% -36.36%
75th Percentile £506 £469 £375
90th Percentile £525 £510 -
North West median daily rate £475 £400 £500
% change year-on-year +18.75% -20.00% -9.09%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 830 1,321 1,738
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 89.63% 87.08% 91.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 577 898 1,273
10th Percentile £300 £319 £315
25th Percentile £400 £407 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £468 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.40% - +1.73%
75th Percentile £575 £595 £594
90th Percentile £675 £694 £663
North West median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 73 61
10th Percentile £15.18 £12.42 £14.65
25th Percentile £19.25 £13.50 £20.00
Median hourly rate £32.50 £24.19 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year +34.35% -35.15% +140.65%
75th Percentile £63.75 £57.50 £47.50
90th Percentile £77.00 £72.50 £70.00
North West median hourly rate £31.88 £21.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +51.81% -40.00% +70.82%

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 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Task Automation in Manchester

Task 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 Task Automation within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Altrincham - 1 - - 1
Task Automation
North West

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 8 (50.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 8 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
1 8 (50.00%) Power Automate
1 8 (50.00%) Power Platform
1 8 (50.00%) PowerApps
2 2 (12.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 2 (12.50%) Amazon EC2
2 2 (12.50%) Amazon ECS
2 2 (12.50%) Amazon EKS
2 2 (12.50%) Amazon GuardDuty
2 2 (12.50%) Amazon S3
2 2 (12.50%) Apigee
2 2 (12.50%) AWS
2 2 (12.50%) AWS CloudFormation
2 2 (12.50%) AWS CloudTrail
2 2 (12.50%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (12.50%) GCP
2 2 (12.50%) GitHub
2 2 (12.50%) GitHub Actions
2 2 (12.50%) Serverless
3 1 (6.25%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (18.75%) DNS
2 1 (6.25%) DHCP
2 1 (6.25%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (18.75%) MongoDB
2 1 (6.25%) NoSQL
2 1 (6.25%) SQL Server
2 1 (6.25%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (6.25%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 4 (25.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (12.50%) CircleCI
2 2 (12.50%) Cypress.io
2 2 (12.50%) GitLab
2 2 (12.50%) JIRA
3 1 (6.25%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 11 (68.75%) Social Skills
2 6 (37.50%) Public Sector
3 1 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (6.25%) Back Office
3 1 (6.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (6.25%) Marketing
3 1 (6.25%) Military
Job Titles
1 8 (50.00%) Developer
2 7 (43.75%) Microsoft 365 Developer
3 6 (37.50%) Software Developer
4 2 (12.50%) Senior
4 2 (12.50%) Senior Software Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Software Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Analyst
5 1 (6.25%) Automation Specialist
5 1 (6.25%) AWS DevOps
5 1 (6.25%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Cloud Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Database Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) DevOps Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) IT Operations Analyst
5 1 (6.25%) Network Specialist
5 1 (6.25%) Operations Analyst
5 1 (6.25%) Power Platform Developer
5 1 (6.25%) Product Manager
5 1 (6.25%) SailPoint Developer
5 1 (6.25%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (50.00%) CSS
1 8 (50.00%) HTML
1 8 (50.00%) React
2 6 (37.50%) SPFx
3 3 (18.75%) Node.js
4 2 (12.50%) GraphQL
4 2 (12.50%) Playwright
4 2 (12.50%) Puppeteer
4 2 (12.50%) RESTful
5 1 (6.25%) AWS Amplify
5 1 (6.25%) OAuth
5 1 (6.25%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 2 (12.50%) Cloud Native
2 1 (6.25%) Blog
2 1 (6.25%) CMDB
2 1 (6.25%) Management Information System
2 1 (6.25%) Product Ownership
2 1 (6.25%) Social Media
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (50.00%) Web Development
2 4 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 3 (18.75%) Front End Development
3 3 (18.75%) Incident Management
3 3 (18.75%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (18.75%) Microservices
3 3 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (18.75%) User Experience
4 2 (12.50%) Agile
4 2 (12.50%) API Development
4 2 (12.50%) DevOps
4 2 (12.50%) DevSecOps
4 2 (12.50%) Load Balancing
4 2 (12.50%) Observability
4 2 (12.50%) Software Engineering
4 2 (12.50%) Test Automation
5 1 (6.25%) Change Management
5 1 (6.25%) Configuration Management
5 1 (6.25%) Disaster Recovery
5 1 (6.25%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 9 (56.25%) PowerShell
2 8 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 8 (50.00%) TypeScript
3 5 (31.25%) Python
4 4 (25.00%) Bash
5 3 (18.75%) SQL
6 2 (12.50%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (12.50%) AWS Certification
1 2 (12.50%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
1 2 (12.50%) Security Cleared
2 1 (6.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (6.25%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (6.25%) CCNA
2 1 (6.25%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (6.25%) Network+ Certification
2 1 (6.25%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.25%) GDPR
System Software
1 2 (12.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (12.50%) Grafana
1 2 (12.50%) Kubernetes
1 2 (12.50%) Prometheus
1 2 (12.50%) Terraform
2 1 (6.25%) Nagios
2 1 (6.25%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 9 (56.25%) Microsoft
2 2 (12.50%) Google
2 2 (12.50%) PagerDuty
3 1 (6.25%) BMC
3 1 (6.25%) SolarWinds
3 1 (6.25%) Tenable