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 11 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 178 98 177
Rank change year-on-year -80 +79 -9
Permanent jobs citing Task Automation 13 68 25
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 0.19% 2.73% 0.56%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.26% 2.99% 0.68%
Number of salaries quoted 6 22 10
10th Percentile £43,750 £31,250 -
25th Percentile £54,688 £32,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,250 £35,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +75.00% -22.22% -28.00%
75th Percentile £74,063 £37,500 £58,750
90th Percentile £78,270 £39,075 £62,375
North West median annual salary £61,250 £35,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +75.00% -30.00% -20.00%

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 5,089 2,272 3,674
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 74.37% 91.21% 82.08%
Number of salaries quoted 4,008 1,315 2,394
10th Percentile £33,000 £29,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £36,250 £42,037
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £80,000 £72,500 £69,950
90th Percentile £97,500 £87,500 £83,750
North West median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +10.00% -4.76% -4.55%

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 11 August 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 11 August 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 -20 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 2 (15.38%) SharePoint
2 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (7.69%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 7 (53.85%) Azure
2 4 (30.77%) AWS
2 4 (30.77%) Azure DevOps
2 4 (30.77%) GitHub
2 4 (30.77%) GitHub Actions
3 3 (23.08%) Datadog
4 2 (15.38%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (15.38%) Power Platform
5 1 (7.69%) Amazon ECR
5 1 (7.69%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (7.69%) Amazon OpenSearch
5 1 (7.69%) AWS CodeBuild
5 1 (7.69%) Azure AKS
5 1 (7.69%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (7.69%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (7.69%) dbt
5 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Copilot
5 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Purview
5 1 (7.69%) Pulumi
5 1 (7.69%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.69%) Internet
1 1 (7.69%) SAN
1 1 (7.69%) Skype
1 1 (7.69%) TCP/IP
1 1 (7.69%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (15.38%) Data Mining
1 2 (15.38%) Power BI
1 2 (15.38%) Tableau
2 1 (7.69%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (7.69%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (7.69%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (7.69%) Redis
2 1 (7.69%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (23.08%) Jenkins
2 1 (7.69%) Git
General
1 5 (38.46%) Finance
2 4 (30.77%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (30.77%) Social Skills
3 2 (15.38%) Banking
3 2 (15.38%) Marketing
3 2 (15.38%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (7.69%) Advertising
4 1 (7.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (7.69%) Retail
Job Titles
1 3 (23.08%) Cloud Engineer
1 3 (23.08%) CloudOps Engineer
1 3 (23.08%) Senior
1 3 (23.08%) Site Engineer
1 3 (23.08%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) Data Scientist
2 2 (15.38%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) Senior Data Scientist
3 1 (7.69%) Applications Support
3 1 (7.69%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Head of AI
3 1 (7.69%) Kubernetes Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Lead
3 1 (7.69%) Linux Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Platform Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Senior Platform Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Support Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Unix Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Unix Linux Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (30.77%) ARM Templates
2 1 (7.69%) CSS
2 1 (7.69%) Django
2 1 (7.69%) HTML
2 1 (7.69%) WebSphere MQ
Miscellaneous
1 4 (30.77%) Cloud Native
2 3 (23.08%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (7.69%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (7.69%) Blackberry
3 1 (7.69%) Handset
3 1 (7.69%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (7.69%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (7.69%) Onboarding
3 1 (7.69%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 4 (30.77%) Linux
2 2 (15.38%) Unix
3 1 (7.69%) Android
3 1 (7.69%) Oracle Linux
3 1 (7.69%) SUSE
3 1 (7.69%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
3 1 (7.69%) Windows
3 1 (7.69%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (61.54%) Root Cause Analysis
2 6 (46.15%) Incident Response
2 6 (46.15%) Observability
3 5 (38.46%) AI
3 5 (38.46%) CI/CD
3 5 (38.46%) Containerisation
3 5 (38.46%) Dashboard Development
3 5 (38.46%) DevOps
3 5 (38.46%) Infrastructure as Code
3 5 (38.46%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (30.77%) Analytics
4 4 (30.77%) Continuous Improvement
4 4 (30.77%) Continuous Integration
4 4 (30.77%) Cost Optimisation
4 4 (30.77%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 3 (23.08%) Cloud Operations
5 3 (23.08%) Cost Management
5 3 (23.08%) Deployment Automation
5 3 (23.08%) Infrastructure Management
5 3 (23.08%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 9 (69.23%) Python
2 7 (53.85%) PowerShell
3 5 (38.46%) Bash
4 4 (30.77%) SQL
5 2 (15.38%) Bicep
6 1 (7.69%) Java
6 1 (7.69%) JavaScript
6 1 (7.69%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 2 (15.38%) SC Cleared
1 2 (15.38%) Security Cleared
2 1 (7.69%) Azure Certification
2 1 (7.69%) HP ASE
2 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (7.69%) VCAP
2 1 (7.69%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (15.38%) Data Quality
1 2 (15.38%) QA
System Software
1 5 (38.46%) Docker
2 1 (7.69%) EMC RecoverPoint
2 1 (7.69%) Firmware
2 1 (7.69%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (7.69%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (7.69%) VMware NSX
2 1 (7.69%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 5 (38.46%) Grafana
1 5 (38.46%) Terraform
2 4 (30.77%) Kubernetes
2 4 (30.77%) Prometheus
3 1 (7.69%) Ansible
3 1 (7.69%) Argo
3 1 (7.69%) AWS Copilot
3 1 (7.69%) Istio
3 1 (7.69%) linkerd
3 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (7.69%) VxRail
Vendors
1 5 (38.46%) Microsoft
2 1 (7.69%) AppDynamics
2 1 (7.69%) Broadcom
2 1 (7.69%) Dell
2 1 (7.69%) Google
2 1 (7.69%) IBM
2 1 (7.69%) Moogsoft
2 1 (7.69%) Oracle
2 1 (7.69%) ServiceNow
2 1 (7.69%) Splunk
2 1 (7.69%) Veeam
2 1 (7.69%) VMware
2 1 (7.69%) Zerto