Task Automation Jobs in the North of England

Task Automation
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North of England requiring Task Automation skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Task Automation over the 6 months leading up to 14 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 123 344 373
Rank change year-on-year +221 +29 -17
Permanent jobs citing Task Automation 309 44 66
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 2.69% 0.25% 0.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.83% 0.30% 0.40%
Number of salaries quoted 47 21 46
10th Percentile £32,500 £32,500 £33,125
25th Percentile £45,875 £37,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £45,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +66.67% -10.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £100,000 £80,000 £62,188
90th Percentile - £85,000 £65,000
England median annual salary £75,000 £62,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +20.00% - +4.17%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

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 the North of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 10,925 14,586 16,705
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 95.01% 83.43% 96.85%
Number of salaries quoted 5,720 11,195 8,014
10th Percentile £25,480 £27,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £38,750 £37,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% -9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £62,500 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £78,658 £80,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%

Task Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Task Automation in the North of England

Task Automation
Salary Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Task Automation in the North of England.

Salary trend for Task Automation in the North of England

Task Automation
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Task Automation in the North of England over the 6 months to 14 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Task Automation in the North of England

Task Automation
Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Task Automation within the North of England region over the 6 months to 14 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North West +165 284 £65,000 +44.44% 24
Yorkshire +86 22 £77,000 +105.33% 19
North East +45 3 £88,500 +4.12% 11
Task Automation
England

Task Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 4 (1.29%) SharePoint
2 2 (0.65%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.32%) Confluence
3 1 (0.32%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 7 (2.27%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (1.94%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.65%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.32%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 31 (10.03%) AWS
2 11 (3.56%) Azure
3 6 (1.94%) Power Automate
4 4 (1.29%) GCP
4 4 (1.29%) Power Platform
4 4 (1.29%) Pulumi
5 2 (0.65%) Entra ID
5 2 (0.65%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (0.32%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (0.32%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (0.32%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (0.32%) Azure Stack
6 1 (0.32%) OCI
6 1 (0.32%) OneDrive
6 1 (0.32%) PowerApps
6 1 (0.32%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 258 (83.50%) VPN
2 253 (81.88%) Cisco IOS
3 9 (2.91%) Firewall
4 8 (2.59%) DNS
4 8 (2.59%) TCP/IP
5 7 (2.27%) LAN
5 7 (2.27%) Network Security
5 7 (2.27%) WAN
6 6 (1.94%) Cisco Nexus
6 6 (1.94%) DWDM
7 4 (1.29%) Broadband
8 1 (0.32%) BGP
8 1 (0.32%) DHCP
8 1 (0.32%) NAS
8 1 (0.32%) OSPF
8 1 (0.32%) VLAN
8 1 (0.32%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (1.29%) NoSQL
1 4 (1.29%) RDBMS
1 4 (1.29%) Relational Database
2 2 (0.65%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (0.65%) Power BI
2 2 (0.65%) SQL Server
2 2 (0.65%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 2 (0.65%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 6 (1.94%) Sonatype Nexus
2 4 (1.29%) Jaeger
3 3 (0.97%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.65%) JIRA
4 2 (0.65%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 1 (0.32%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.32%) GitLab
5 1 (0.32%) Oracle Forms
General
1 256 (82.85%) Analytical Skills
1 256 (82.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 12 (3.88%) Social Skills
3 3 (0.97%) Finance
4 2 (0.65%) Banking
4 2 (0.65%) Games
4 2 (0.65%) Retail
5 1 (0.32%) Aerospace
5 1 (0.32%) Aviation
5 1 (0.32%) Back Office
5 1 (0.32%) Law
5 1 (0.32%) Mandarin Language
5 1 (0.32%) Manufacturing
5 1 (0.32%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (0.32%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (0.32%) Public Sector
5 1 (0.32%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 251 (81.23%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 22 (7.12%) Machine Learning Engineer
3 7 (2.27%) Network Engineer
4 5 (1.62%) 2nd Line Support
4 5 (1.62%) Lead
5 4 (1.29%) Developer
5 4 (1.29%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 4 (1.29%) Team Leader
6 3 (0.97%) Analyst
7 2 (0.65%) Administrator
7 2 (0.65%) Applications Developer
7 2 (0.65%) Automation Engineer
7 2 (0.65%) DBA
7 2 (0.65%) Development DBA
7 2 (0.65%) Senior
7 2 (0.65%) Senior Developer
7 2 (0.65%) Site Engineer
7 2 (0.65%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 2 (0.65%) Systems Administrator
8 1 (0.32%) AWS Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 257 (83.17%) Elastic Stack
2 4 (1.29%) OpenTelemetry
3 1 (0.32%) .NET
3 1 (0.32%) ASP.NET
3 1 (0.32%) ASP.NET MVC
3 1 (0.32%) ASP.NET Web API
3 1 (0.32%) Blazor
3 1 (0.32%) CSS
3 1 (0.32%) HTML
3 1 (0.32%) Regular Expression
Miscellaneous
1 251 (81.23%) Cyberattack
2 2 (0.65%) Management Information System
2 2 (0.65%) Onboarding
3 1 (0.32%) Algorithms
3 1 (0.32%) Data Structures
3 1 (0.32%) Enterprise Storage
3 1 (0.32%) EPoS
3 1 (0.32%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (0.32%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (0.32%) Security Operations Centre
3 1 (0.32%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 262 (84.79%) Linux
2 259 (83.82%) Windows
3 253 (81.88%) Android
4 6 (1.94%) Unix
5 4 (1.29%) Windows Server
6 3 (0.97%) Mac OS
6 3 (0.97%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.32%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.32%) Mac OS X
7 1 (0.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.32%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.32%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 267 (86.41%) Problem-Solving
2 258 (83.50%) DevOps
3 252 (81.55%) Line Management
3 252 (81.55%) Platform Engineering
3 252 (81.55%) Storage Management
4 251 (81.23%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 251 (81.23%) Mathematics
4 251 (81.23%) Risk Management
5 24 (7.77%) Decision-Making
6 23 (7.44%) Workflow
7 22 (7.12%) API Integration
7 22 (7.12%) Artificial Intelligence
7 22 (7.12%) Generative AI
7 22 (7.12%) LLM
7 22 (7.12%) Machine Learning
8 16 (5.18%) Mentoring
9 10 (3.24%) Migration
10 8 (2.59%) Agile
10 8 (2.59%) Computer Science
10 8 (2.59%) Vulnerability Assessment
Programming Languages
1 287 (92.88%) Python
2 264 (85.44%) PowerShell
3 257 (83.17%) Bash
4 6 (1.94%) JavaScript
5 5 (1.62%) SQL
6 4 (1.29%) Go
6 4 (1.29%) Java
7 2 (0.65%) T-SQL
8 1 (0.32%) C#
8 1 (0.32%) PHP
8 1 (0.32%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.32%) VB
8 1 (0.32%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 11 (3.56%) Degree
2 7 (2.27%) CCNP
2 7 (2.27%) Cisco Certification
2 7 (2.27%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (1.94%) CCNA
3 6 (1.94%) JNCIA
3 6 (1.94%) JNCIS
4 4 (1.29%) AWS Certification
5 3 (0.97%) SC Cleared
5 3 (0.97%) Security Cleared
6 2 (0.65%) MCSA
6 2 (0.65%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.32%) MCP
7 1 (0.32%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (0.97%) GDPR
2 1 (0.32%) NCSC
2 1 (0.32%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 256 (82.85%) Docker
2 252 (81.55%) Hyper-V
3 251 (81.23%) VMware NSX
3 251 (81.23%) vSphere
4 4 (1.29%) Active Directory
5 2 (0.65%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.32%) BitLocker
6 1 (0.32%) Microsoft App-V
6 1 (0.32%) RHEV
6 1 (0.32%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.32%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 265 (85.76%) Ansible
1 265 (85.76%) Terraform
2 7 (2.27%) SCCM
3 6 (1.94%) Microsoft Intune
3 6 (1.94%) Prometheus
4 5 (1.62%) Kubernetes
5 4 (1.29%) Argo
5 4 (1.29%) Kustomize
6 2 (0.65%) Grafana
7 1 (0.32%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (0.32%) Jamf Pro
7 1 (0.32%) NetApp OnCommand
Vendors
1 259 (83.82%) Cisco
2 251 (81.23%) 3PAR
2 251 (81.23%) Juniper
2 251 (81.23%) Splunk
3 17 (5.50%) Microsoft
4 6 (1.94%) Arista
5 4 (1.29%) Google
6 2 (0.65%) Symantec
6 2 (0.65%) VMware
7 1 (0.32%) Apple
7 1 (0.32%) Aruba
7 1 (0.32%) Atlassian
7 1 (0.32%) McAfee
7 1 (0.32%) NetApp
7 1 (0.32%) Oracle
7 1 (0.32%) Palo Alto
7 1 (0.32%) Red Hat
7 1 (0.32%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.32%) Veeam
7 1 (0.32%) Xamarin