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 10 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 179 93 169
Rank change year-on-year -86 +76 -15
Permanent jobs citing Task Automation 17 69 18
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 0.23% 2.87% 0.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.31% 3.21% 0.54%
Number of salaries quoted 10 23 4
10th Percentile - £31,250 £49,500
25th Percentile £33,750 £32,500 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £35,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -41.67% -2.04%
75th Percentile £62,188 £37,500 -
90th Percentile £65,125 £55,850 -
North West median annual salary £45,000 £35,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +28.57% -36.36% -8.33%

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 5,538 2,151 3,361
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 75.64% 89.59% 82.42%
Number of salaries quoted 4,266 1,232 1,842
10th Percentile £32,000 £29,500 £31,025
25th Percentile £45,000 £35,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £80,000 £70,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £86,925 £83,750
North West median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £50,500
% change year-on-year +10.00% -0.99% -8.18%

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 10 September 2026.

Salary histogram for Task Automation in Manchester

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 7 (41.18%) SharePoint
2 6 (35.29%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (5.88%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 7 (41.18%) Microsoft 365
2 6 (35.29%) Azure
2 6 (35.29%) Entra ID
2 6 (35.29%) Microsoft Copilot
2 6 (35.29%) Microsoft Purview
3 4 (23.53%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (23.53%) GitHub
3 4 (23.53%) GitHub Actions
4 3 (17.65%) AWS
4 3 (17.65%) Datadog
5 2 (11.76%) Power Platform
6 1 (5.88%) Azure AKS
6 1 (5.88%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (5.88%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.88%) Internet
1 1 (5.88%) SAN
1 1 (5.88%) Skype
1 1 (5.88%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (11.76%) Data Mining
1 2 (11.76%) Power BI
1 2 (11.76%) Tableau
2 1 (5.88%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (17.65%) Jenkins
2 1 (5.88%) Git
General
1 9 (52.94%) Analytical Skills
1 9 (52.94%) Social Skills
2 5 (29.41%) Finance
3 2 (11.76%) Banking
3 2 (11.76%) Marketing
3 2 (11.76%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (5.88%) Advertising
4 1 (5.88%) Retail
Job Titles
1 7 (41.18%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
2 6 (35.29%) Microsoft Engineer
2 6 (35.29%) Support Engineer
3 4 (23.53%) Applications Support
4 3 (17.65%) Applications Engineer
4 3 (17.65%) Applications Support Engineer
4 3 (17.65%) Cloud Engineer
4 3 (17.65%) CloudOps Engineer
4 3 (17.65%) Site Engineer
4 3 (17.65%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 2 (11.76%) Data Scientist
5 2 (11.76%) Senior
5 2 (11.76%) Senior Data Scientist
6 1 (5.88%) Azure Engineer
6 1 (5.88%) Head of AI
6 1 (5.88%) Kubernetes Engineer
6 1 (5.88%) Lead
6 1 (5.88%) Linux Engineer
6 1 (5.88%) Unix Engineer
6 1 (5.88%) Unix Linux Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (23.53%) ARM Templates
1 4 (23.53%) Terraform
2 1 (5.88%) CSS
2 1 (5.88%) HTML
2 1 (5.88%) WebSphere MQ
Miscellaneous
1 6 (35.29%) Onboarding
2 4 (23.53%) Cloud Native
3 3 (17.65%) Analytical Mindset
3 3 (17.65%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (5.88%) Blackberry
4 1 (5.88%) Handset
4 1 (5.88%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (5.88%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 3 (17.65%) Linux
2 1 (5.88%) Android
2 1 (5.88%) Oracle Linux
2 1 (5.88%) SUSE
2 1 (5.88%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
2 1 (5.88%) Unix
2 1 (5.88%) Windows
2 1 (5.88%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (47.06%) Problem-Solving
1 8 (47.06%) Root Cause Analysis
2 6 (35.29%) Client Onboarding
2 6 (35.29%) Knowledge Management
3 5 (29.41%) AI
3 5 (29.41%) Dashboard Development
3 5 (29.41%) Incident Response
3 5 (29.41%) Observability
4 4 (23.53%) Analytics
4 4 (23.53%) CI/CD
4 4 (23.53%) Containerisation
4 4 (23.53%) Continuous Improvement
4 4 (23.53%) Cost Optimisation
4 4 (23.53%) DevOps
4 4 (23.53%) Infrastructure as Code
4 4 (23.53%) Migration
4 4 (23.53%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 3 (17.65%) Identity Management
5 3 (17.65%) Software Engineering
5 3 (17.65%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 12 (70.59%) PowerShell
2 8 (47.06%) Python
3 5 (29.41%) Bash
4 4 (23.53%) SQL
5 2 (11.76%) Bicep
6 1 (5.88%) JavaScript
6 1 (5.88%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 1 (5.88%) Azure Certification
1 1 (5.88%) HP ASE
1 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (5.88%) SC Cleared
1 1 (5.88%) Security Cleared
1 1 (5.88%) VCAP
1 1 (5.88%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.76%) Data Quality
1 2 (11.76%) QA
System Software
1 4 (23.53%) Docker
2 1 (5.88%) EMC RecoverPoint
2 1 (5.88%) Firmware
2 1 (5.88%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (5.88%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (5.88%) VMware NSX
2 1 (5.88%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 5 (29.41%) Grafana
2 4 (23.53%) Kubernetes
2 4 (23.53%) Prometheus
3 1 (5.88%) Ansible
3 1 (5.88%) Argo
3 1 (5.88%) Istio
3 1 (5.88%) linkerd
3 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (5.88%) VxRail
Vendors
1 10 (58.82%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.88%) AppDynamics
2 1 (5.88%) Broadcom
2 1 (5.88%) Dell
2 1 (5.88%) IBM
2 1 (5.88%) Moogsoft
2 1 (5.88%) Oracle
2 1 (5.88%) ServiceNow
2 1 (5.88%) Splunk
2 1 (5.88%) Veeam
2 1 (5.88%) VMware
2 1 (5.88%) Zerto