Task Automation Job Trends in Cheshire

Task Automation
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Cheshire requiring Task Automation skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 71 55 61
Rank change year-on-year -16 +6 +32
Permanent jobs citing Task Automation 2 3 6
As % of all permanent jobs in Cheshire 0.15% 0.53% 1.02%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.18% 0.59% 1.23%
Number of salaries quoted 1 2 6
10th Percentile - £79,300 £43,625
25th Percentile - £82,750 £46,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £88,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -43.50% +77.00% +66.67%
75th Percentile - £94,250 £63,750
90th Percentile - £97,700 £67,500
North West median annual salary £35,000 £75,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -53.33% +50.00% +5.26%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Cheshire

Task Automation falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Cheshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,086 506 487
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cheshire 83.41% 89.24% 82.54%
Number of salaries quoted 430 254 398
10th Percentile £27,500 £32,500 £23,850
25th Percentile £35,000 £39,000 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £60,000 £58,750 £66,997
90th Percentile £75,000 £68,750 £77,500
North West median annual salary £50,000 £52,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -4.55%

Task Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Task Automation relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Cheshire.

Task Automation job vacancy trend in Cheshire

Task Automation
Salary Trend in Cheshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing Task Automation.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing Task Automation

Task Automation
Job Locations in Cheshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Task Automation within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 13 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Knutsford - 1 - -
Macclesfield - 1 £50,000 -
Task Automation
North West

Task Automation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cheshire 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 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Datadog
1 1 (50.00%) GCP
1 1 (50.00%) SaaS
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) CircleCI
1 1 (50.00%) GitLab
1 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Django Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Full-Stack Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Full-Stack Python Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Python Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Python/Django Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Django
1 1 (50.00%) Elastic Stack
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Agile
1 1 (50.00%) API Design
1 1 (50.00%) Change Control
1 1 (50.00%) Change Management
1 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (50.00%) Cost Optimisation
1 1 (50.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) DevSecOps
1 1 (50.00%) Front End Development
1 1 (50.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 1 (50.00%) High Availability
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Management
1 1 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (50.00%) User Experience
1 1 (50.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
1 1 (50.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) Bash
2 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Ansible
1 1 (50.00%) Grafana
1 1 (50.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform