Task Automation Job Trends in Manchester

Task Automation
North West > Manchester

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

6 months to
13 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 154 126 183
Rank change year-on-year -28 +57 +44
Permanent jobs citing Task Automation 12 19 21
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 0.25% 0.95% 0.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.34% 1.00% 0.51%
Number of salaries quoted 7 19 12
10th Percentile - £32,500 -
25th Percentile £32,000 £37,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £36,500 £71,991 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -49.30% +59.98% -5.26%
75th Percentile £66,250 £77,500 £64,688
90th Percentile £75,116 - £79,875
North West median annual salary £36,500 £74,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -51.01% +41.90% +10.53%

All Process & 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 permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Manchester.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,539 1,899 4,113
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 73.36% 95.24% 86.68%
Number of salaries quoted 2,411 1,244 3,321
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £90,822 £82,500
North West median annual salary £52,500 £54,793 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.18% +9.59% -9.09%

Task Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Task Automation job vacancy trend in Manchester

Task Automation
Salary Trend in Manchester

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Task Automation.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Task Automation

Task Automation
Salary Histogram in Manchester

Salary distribution for jobs citing Task Automation in Manchester over the 6 months to 13 April 2026.

Salary histogram for Task Automation in Manchester

Task Automation
Job Locations in Manchester

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Task Automation within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 13 April 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
Salford -13 1 £74,301 +112.29%
Task Automation
North West

Task Automation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (8.33%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 5 (41.67%) AWS
1 5 (41.67%) Azure
2 4 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
2 4 (33.33%) GitHub
3 3 (25.00%) Datadog
3 3 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
4 2 (16.67%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (16.67%) Power Platform
5 1 (8.33%) Amazon ECR
5 1 (8.33%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (8.33%) Amazon ElastiCache
5 1 (8.33%) Amazon OpenSearch
5 1 (8.33%) AWS CodeBuild
5 1 (8.33%) dbt
5 1 (8.33%) Entra ID
5 1 (8.33%) GCP
5 1 (8.33%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (8.33%) Power Automate
5 1 (8.33%) Pulumi
5 1 (8.33%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 1 (8.33%) Intranet
1 1 (8.33%) SSH
1 1 (8.33%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (16.67%) Data Mining
1 2 (16.67%) Power BI
1 2 (16.67%) Tableau
2 1 (8.33%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (8.33%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (8.33%) Redis
Development Applications
1 3 (25.00%) Jenkins
General
1 4 (33.33%) Finance
1 4 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 2 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (16.67%) Banking
2 2 (16.67%) Marketing
2 2 (16.67%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 4 (33.33%) Cloud Engineer
2 3 (25.00%) CloudOps Engineer
2 3 (25.00%) Consultant
2 3 (25.00%) Recruitment Consultant
2 3 (25.00%) Senior
2 3 (25.00%) Site Engineer
2 3 (25.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Data Scientist
3 2 (16.67%) Senior Data Scientist
4 1 (8.33%) Applications Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Applications Support
4 1 (8.33%) Applications Support Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Java Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Java Software Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Node.js Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Platform Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Senior Platform Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Software Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (33.33%) ARM Templates
2 1 (8.33%) Django
2 1 (8.33%) JSON
2 1 (8.33%) Node.js
2 1 (8.33%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (25.00%) Cloud Native
1 3 (25.00%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (8.33%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (8.33%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 2 (16.67%) Linux
2 1 (8.33%) Unix
2 1 (8.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (50.00%) AI
2 5 (41.67%) CI/CD
2 5 (41.67%) Dashboard Development
2 5 (41.67%) DevOps
2 5 (41.67%) Infrastructure as Code
2 5 (41.67%) Observability
2 5 (41.67%) Root Cause Analysis
3 4 (33.33%) Containerisation
3 4 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 4 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
3 4 (33.33%) Incident Response
3 4 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (25.00%) Agile
4 3 (25.00%) Cloud Operations
4 3 (25.00%) Continuous Deployment
4 3 (25.00%) Cost Management
4 3 (25.00%) Cost Optimisation
4 3 (25.00%) Deployment Automation
4 3 (25.00%) Machine Learning
4 3 (25.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 7 (58.33%) Python
2 5 (41.67%) PowerShell
3 3 (25.00%) Bash
4 2 (16.67%) Java
4 2 (16.67%) SQL
5 1 (8.33%) Bicep
5 1 (8.33%) JavaScript
5 1 (8.33%) Shell Script
5 1 (8.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 2 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (8.33%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (16.67%) Data Quality
1 2 (16.67%) QA
System Software
1 4 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (41.67%) Terraform
2 3 (25.00%) Grafana
2 3 (25.00%) Kubernetes
2 3 (25.00%) Prometheus
3 1 (8.33%) AWS Copilot
Vendors
1 1 (8.33%) Google
1 1 (8.33%) Microsoft
1 1 (8.33%) Splunk