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 10 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 80 72 98
Rank change year-on-year -8 +26 +46
Contract jobs citing Task Automation 10 16 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 0.99% 1.34% 0.84%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.12% 1.55% 0.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 12 8
10th Percentile £293 - £183
25th Percentile £413 £400 £197
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £431 £380
Median % change year-on-year +15.94% +13.49% -35.32%
75th Percentile £525 £495 £416
90th Percentile £608 £534 £552
North West median daily rate £475 £463 £385
% change year-on-year +2.70% +20.13% -38.89%

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 894 1,032 1,598
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 88.87% 86.65% 89.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 571 655 1,169
10th Percentile £305 £350 £285
25th Percentile £400 £413 £402
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £708 £675
North West median daily rate £455 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -9.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 54 48 59
10th Percentile £17.14 £15.98 £14.52
25th Percentile £19.07 £24.89 £16.15
Median hourly rate £22.63 £38.75 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year -41.60% +98.72% +11.43%
75th Percentile £60.00 £64.06 £38.13
90th Percentile £76.75 £86.00 £66.80
North West median hourly rate £27.90 £34.21 £35.00
% change year-on-year -18.44% -2.26% +60.70%

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 10 August 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 10 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
Altrincham - 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 1 (10.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 3 (30.00%) Apigee
1 3 (30.00%) GCP
2 2 (20.00%) Azure
2 2 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (10.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (10.00%) Amazon Cognito
3 1 (10.00%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (10.00%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (10.00%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (10.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
3 1 (10.00%) Amazon Kinesis
3 1 (10.00%) Amazon S3
3 1 (10.00%) Amazon SQS
3 1 (10.00%) AWS
3 1 (10.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (10.00%) AWS CloudTrail
3 1 (10.00%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (10.00%) GitHub
3 1 (10.00%) Power Automate
3 1 (10.00%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) BGP
1 1 (10.00%) Cisco IOS
1 1 (10.00%) DNS
1 1 (10.00%) Firewall
1 1 (10.00%) LAN
1 1 (10.00%) Network Security
1 1 (10.00%) NX-OS
1 1 (10.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (10.00%) WAN
1 1 (10.00%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (30.00%) MongoDB
2 2 (20.00%) NoSQL
3 1 (10.00%) Power BI
3 1 (10.00%) SQL Server
3 1 (10.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (10.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 4 (40.00%) Jenkins
2 3 (30.00%) CircleCI
2 3 (30.00%) Cypress.io
2 3 (30.00%) GitLab
2 3 (30.00%) JIRA
3 1 (10.00%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 3 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Back Office
2 1 (10.00%) Finance
2 1 (10.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (30.00%) Senior
1 3 (30.00%) Senior Software Engineer
1 3 (30.00%) Software Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Automation Specialist
2 1 (10.00%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Database Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Developer
2 1 (10.00%) Graduate
2 1 (10.00%) Network Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Network Specialist
2 1 (10.00%) SharePoint Developer
2 1 (10.00%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (40.00%) Node.js
2 3 (30.00%) GraphQL
2 3 (30.00%) Playwright
2 3 (30.00%) Puppeteer
2 3 (30.00%) React
2 3 (30.00%) RESTful
3 2 (20.00%) OAuth
4 1 (10.00%) AWS Amplify
4 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (10.00%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 4 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (30.00%) API Development
3 3 (30.00%) DevSecOps
3 3 (30.00%) Front End Development
3 3 (30.00%) Incident Management
3 3 (30.00%) Microservices
3 3 (30.00%) Observability
3 3 (30.00%) Software Engineering
3 3 (30.00%) Test Automation
3 3 (30.00%) User Experience
4 2 (20.00%) Agile
4 2 (20.00%) Containerisation
4 2 (20.00%) Data Modelling
4 2 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
4 2 (20.00%) Zero Trust
5 1 (10.00%) Cost Optimisation
5 1 (10.00%) Incident Response
5 1 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (10.00%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 6 (60.00%) Python
2 4 (40.00%) Bash
3 3 (30.00%) Java
3 3 (30.00%) SQL
3 3 (30.00%) TypeScript
4 1 (10.00%) Perl
4 1 (10.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (10.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
1 1 (10.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 1 (10.00%) CCDP
1 1 (10.00%) CCNP
1 1 (10.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (10.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) GDPR
System Software
1 2 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (30.00%) Grafana
1 3 (30.00%) Prometheus
1 3 (30.00%) Terraform
2 2 (20.00%) Kubernetes
3 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 3 (30.00%) Google
1 3 (30.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (30.00%) PagerDuty
2 1 (10.00%) Atlassian
2 1 (10.00%) BMC
2 1 (10.00%) Cisco
2 1 (10.00%) F5
2 1 (10.00%) Meraki
2 1 (10.00%) Palo Alto
2 1 (10.00%) SolarWinds
2 1 (10.00%) Tenable