Task Automation Contracts in the North West

Task Automation
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 90 130 149
Rank change year-on-year +40 +19 +10
Contract jobs citing Task Automation 30 7 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 1.52% 0.25% 0.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.69% 0.29% 0.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 3 4
10th Percentile £425 £385 £370
25th Percentile £463 £391 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £400 £500
Median % change year-on-year +18.75% -20.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £500 £469 £538
90th Percentile £584 £510 £560
England median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

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 the North West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,776 2,377 2,894
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 90.24% 86.28% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,147 1,519 2,058
10th Percentile £300 £306 £313
25th Percentile £393 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £593 £588
90th Percentile £661 £688 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 108 244 144
10th Percentile £15.97 £10.95 £16.85
25th Percentile £22.66 £13.30 £21.25
Median hourly rate £31.88 £21.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +51.81% -40.00% +70.82%
75th Percentile £60.00 £45.22 £48.91
90th Percentile £83.96 £57.50 £65.00
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Task Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing Task Automation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for Task Automation in the North West

Task Automation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Task Automation in the North West.

Daily rate trend for Task Automation in the North West

Task Automation
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Task Automation in the North West over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Task Automation in the North West

Task Automation
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 North West 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
Manchester +28 16 £473 +18.13% 21
Cheshire - 11 £475 - 9
Cumbria - 2 - -
Task Automation
England

Task Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 14 (46.67%) SharePoint
2 5 (16.67%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (6.67%) Confluence
4 1 (3.33%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 14 (46.67%) Microsoft 365
2 9 (30.00%) Power Automate
2 9 (30.00%) Power Platform
2 9 (30.00%) PowerApps
3 7 (23.33%) Azure
4 4 (13.33%) AWS
4 4 (13.33%) Entra ID
4 4 (13.33%) SaaS
5 2 (6.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 2 (6.67%) Amazon ECS
5 2 (6.67%) Amazon EKS
5 2 (6.67%) Amazon GuardDuty
5 2 (6.67%) Apigee
5 2 (6.67%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (6.67%) AWS CloudTrail
5 2 (6.67%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (6.67%) GCP
5 2 (6.67%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (6.67%) OneDrive
5 2 (6.67%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (13.33%) DNS
2 2 (6.67%) Firewall
2 2 (6.67%) NAS
2 2 (6.67%) SAN
3 1 (3.33%) DHCP
3 1 (3.33%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (16.67%) SQL Server
2 4 (13.33%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (10.00%) MongoDB
4 1 (3.33%) NoSQL
4 1 (3.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (3.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 9 (30.00%) JIRA
2 6 (20.00%) Jenkins
3 4 (13.33%) Git
3 4 (13.33%) GitLab
4 2 (6.67%) CircleCI
4 2 (6.67%) Cypress.io
5 1 (3.33%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 15 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 7 (23.33%) Public Sector
3 3 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (3.33%) Back Office
4 1 (3.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (3.33%) Marketing
4 1 (3.33%) Military
4 1 (3.33%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 11 (36.67%) Developer
2 8 (26.67%) Microsoft 365 Developer
3 6 (20.00%) Software Developer
4 2 (6.67%) Automation Developer
4 2 (6.67%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
4 2 (6.67%) Power Platform Developer
4 2 (6.67%) Senior
4 2 (6.67%) Senior Software Engineer
4 2 (6.67%) Software Engineer
4 2 (6.67%) Unix Engineer
5 1 (3.33%) Automation Specialist
5 1 (3.33%) AWS DevOps
5 1 (3.33%) AWS Engineer
5 1 (3.33%) Azure Architect
5 1 (3.33%) Cloud Engineer
5 1 (3.33%) IT Analyst
5 1 (3.33%) Microsoft 365 Architect
5 1 (3.33%) SailPoint Developer
5 1 (3.33%) Wintel Architect
5 1 (3.33%) Wintel Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (26.67%) CSS
1 8 (26.67%) HTML
1 8 (26.67%) React
2 6 (20.00%) SPFx
3 3 (10.00%) Node.js
4 2 (6.67%) GraphQL
4 2 (6.67%) Playwright
4 2 (6.67%) Puppeteer
4 2 (6.67%) RESTful
5 1 (3.33%) AWS Amplify
5 1 (3.33%) OAuth
5 1 (3.33%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 2 (6.67%) Cloud Native
1 2 (6.67%) Management Information System
1 2 (6.67%) Onboarding
2 1 (3.33%) Blog
2 1 (3.33%) CMDB
2 1 (3.33%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (3.33%) Product Ownership
2 1 (3.33%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 2 (6.67%) AIX
1 2 (6.67%) CentOS
1 2 (6.67%) HPUX
1 2 (6.67%) Linux
1 2 (6.67%) Solaris
1 2 (6.67%) Ubuntu
1 2 (6.67%) Unix
2 1 (3.33%) Android
2 1 (3.33%) Apple iOS
2 1 (3.33%) Mac OS
2 1 (3.33%) Windows
2 1 (3.33%) Windows 10
2 1 (3.33%) Windows Server
2 1 (3.33%) Windows Server 2016
2 1 (3.33%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 9 (30.00%) Configuration Management
2 9 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
3 8 (26.67%) DevOps
3 8 (26.67%) Migration
3 8 (26.67%) Web Development
4 7 (23.33%) Agile
5 5 (16.67%) Data Migration
5 5 (16.67%) Problem Management
6 4 (13.33%) Root Cause Analysis
6 4 (13.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 4 (13.33%) Technical Leadership
6 4 (13.33%) Test Automation
7 3 (10.00%) Data Loss Prevention
7 3 (10.00%) Front End Development
7 3 (10.00%) High Availability
7 3 (10.00%) Infrastructure as Code
7 3 (10.00%) Microservices
7 3 (10.00%) User Experience
7 3 (10.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 19 (63.33%) PowerShell
2 13 (43.33%) Python
3 12 (40.00%) Bash
4 8 (26.67%) JavaScript
4 8 (26.67%) TypeScript
5 7 (23.33%) SQL
6 2 (6.67%) Java
6 2 (6.67%) Perl
6 2 (6.67%) Shell Script
7 1 (3.33%) VB
7 1 (3.33%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 9 (30.00%) Security Cleared
2 8 (26.67%) SC Cleared
3 3 (10.00%) CCNA
3 3 (10.00%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (6.67%) AWS Certification
4 2 (6.67%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 2 (6.67%) CCNP
5 1 (3.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (3.33%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (3.33%) Degree
5 1 (3.33%) MCP
5 1 (3.33%) MCSA
5 1 (3.33%) MCSE
5 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (3.33%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.33%) GDPR
1 1 (3.33%) NCSC
System Software
1 5 (16.67%) Active Directory
2 3 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (6.67%) Docker
3 2 (6.67%) KVM
4 1 (3.33%) BitLocker
4 1 (3.33%) Microsoft App-V
4 1 (3.33%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 8 (26.67%) Ansible
1 8 (26.67%) Kubernetes
2 6 (20.00%) Progress Chef
3 4 (13.33%) Single Sign-On
4 3 (10.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 3 (10.00%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (6.67%) Grafana
5 2 (6.67%) Prometheus
5 2 (6.67%) Puppet
5 2 (6.67%) Terraform
6 1 (3.33%) Nagios
6 1 (3.33%) SCCM
6 1 (3.33%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 15 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (13.33%) Oracle
3 3 (10.00%) VMware
4 2 (6.67%) Fortinet
4 2 (6.67%) Google
4 2 (6.67%) Infoblox
4 2 (6.67%) PagerDuty
4 2 (6.67%) Red Hat
4 2 (6.67%) ServiceNow
5 1 (3.33%) BMC
5 1 (3.33%) McAfee
5 1 (3.33%) SolarWinds
5 1 (3.33%) Symantec
5 1 (3.33%) Tenable