Task Automation Jobs in the North West

Task Automation
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 16 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 102 266 284
Rank change year-on-year +164 +18 -18
Permanent jobs citing Task Automation 273 31 19
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 3.41% 0.31% 0.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.56% 0.38% 0.26%
Number of salaries quoted 19 13 17
10th Percentile £32,500 - £29,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,000 £45,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.22% -5.26% -11.34%
75th Percentile £63,125 £63,750 £63,750
90th Percentile £76,300 £83,000 £78,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £63,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% -1.57% +5.83%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

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 West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 7,677 8,179 7,410
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 95.83% 82.75% 95.59%
Number of salaries quoted 3,992 6,212 3,861
10th Percentile £25,895 £27,500 £30,831
25th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £61,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £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 West

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

Job vacancy trend for Task Automation in the North West

Task Automation
Salary Trend in the North West

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

Salary trend for Task Automation in the North West

Task Automation
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Task Automation in the North West over the 6 months to 16 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Task Automation in the North West

Task Automation
Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 16 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
Lancashire +22 167 £50,500 -19.20% 8
Manchester +83 56 £40,000 -11.11% 24
Cheshire - 42 - - 4
Merseyside +40 5 - -
Cumbria - 2 £52,500 -
Task Automation
England

Task Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 3 (1.10%) SharePoint
2 2 (0.73%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.37%) Confluence
3 1 (0.37%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 2 (0.73%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.37%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 7 (2.56%) Azure
2 6 (2.20%) AWS
2 6 (2.20%) Power Automate
3 4 (1.47%) Power Platform
4 3 (1.10%) Pulumi
5 2 (0.73%) Entra ID
5 2 (0.73%) GCP
5 2 (0.73%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (0.37%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (0.37%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (0.37%) Azure Stack
6 1 (0.37%) OneDrive
6 1 (0.37%) PowerApps
6 1 (0.37%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 251 (91.94%) Cisco IOS
2 250 (91.58%) VPN
3 3 (1.10%) Broadband
4 2 (0.73%) DNS
4 2 (0.73%) Firewall
5 1 (0.37%) DHCP
5 1 (0.37%) LAN
5 1 (0.37%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.37%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (1.10%) NoSQL
1 3 (1.10%) RDBMS
1 3 (1.10%) Relational Database
2 2 (0.73%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (0.73%) Power BI
2 2 (0.73%) SQL Server
2 2 (0.73%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 2 (0.73%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 3 (1.10%) Jaeger
2 2 (0.73%) Jenkins
2 2 (0.73%) JIRA
2 2 (0.73%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 1 (0.37%) Bitbucket
3 1 (0.37%) Oracle Forms
General
1 255 (93.41%) Analytical Skills
2 253 (92.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 5 (1.83%) Social Skills
4 2 (0.73%) Games
5 1 (0.37%) Aerospace
5 1 (0.37%) Aviation
5 1 (0.37%) Finance
5 1 (0.37%) Mandarin Language
5 1 (0.37%) Manufacturing
5 1 (0.37%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (0.37%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (0.37%) Public Sector
5 1 (0.37%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 250 (91.58%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 5 (1.83%) 2nd Line Support
3 4 (1.47%) Developer
4 3 (1.10%) Lead
4 3 (1.10%) Team Leader
5 2 (0.73%) Analyst
5 2 (0.73%) Applications Developer
5 2 (0.73%) DBA
5 2 (0.73%) Development DBA
5 2 (0.73%) Senior
5 2 (0.73%) Senior Developer
5 2 (0.73%) Site Engineer
5 2 (0.73%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 1 (0.37%) Cybersecurity Analyst
6 1 (0.37%) Oracle Developer
6 1 (0.37%) Platform Engineer
6 1 (0.37%) Security Analyst
6 1 (0.37%) Senior Oracle Applications Developer
6 1 (0.37%) ServiceNow Developer
6 1 (0.37%) Wintel Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 255 (93.41%) Elastic Stack
2 3 (1.10%) OpenTelemetry
3 1 (0.37%) Regular Expression
Miscellaneous
1 250 (91.58%) Cyberattack
2 2 (0.73%) Management Information System
3 1 (0.37%) Algorithms
3 1 (0.37%) Data Structures
3 1 (0.37%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (0.37%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (0.37%) Onboarding
3 1 (0.37%) Security Operations Centre
3 1 (0.37%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 257 (94.14%) Linux
2 255 (93.41%) Windows
3 251 (91.94%) Android
4 4 (1.47%) Unix
5 3 (1.10%) Mac OS
6 2 (0.73%) Windows 10
6 2 (0.73%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.37%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.37%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.37%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 259 (94.87%) Problem-Solving
2 253 (92.67%) DevOps
3 251 (91.94%) Line Management
3 251 (91.94%) Platform Engineering
4 250 (91.58%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 250 (91.58%) Mathematics
4 250 (91.58%) Risk Management
4 250 (91.58%) Storage Management
5 9 (3.30%) Mentoring
6 5 (1.83%) Agile
6 5 (1.83%) Application Packaging
6 5 (1.83%) Customer Service
6 5 (1.83%) High Availability
6 5 (1.83%) ITIL
7 4 (1.47%) Cost Optimisation
7 4 (1.47%) Infrastructure as Code
7 4 (1.47%) Migration
7 4 (1.47%) Roadmaps
8 3 (1.10%) GitOps
8 3 (1.10%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 261 (95.60%) PowerShell
2 253 (92.67%) Bash
2 253 (92.67%) Python
3 4 (1.47%) JavaScript
4 3 (1.10%) Go
4 3 (1.10%) Java
4 3 (1.10%) SQL
5 2 (0.73%) T-SQL
6 1 (0.37%) PHP
6 1 (0.37%) PL/SQL
6 1 (0.37%) VB
6 1 (0.37%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 4 (1.47%) Degree
2 3 (1.10%) AWS Certification
2 3 (1.10%) SC Cleared
2 3 (1.10%) Security Cleared
3 1 (0.37%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (0.37%) MCP
3 1 (0.37%) MCSA
3 1 (0.37%) MCSE
3 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (1.10%) GDPR
2 1 (0.37%) NCSC
2 1 (0.37%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 253 (92.67%) Docker
2 251 (91.94%) Hyper-V
3 250 (91.58%) VMware NSX
3 250 (91.58%) vSphere
4 3 (1.10%) Active Directory
5 2 (0.73%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.37%) BitLocker
6 1 (0.37%) Microsoft App-V
6 1 (0.37%) RHEV
6 1 (0.37%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.37%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 256 (93.77%) Terraform
2 255 (93.41%) Ansible
3 7 (2.56%) SCCM
4 6 (2.20%) Microsoft Intune
5 5 (1.83%) Prometheus
6 3 (1.10%) Argo
6 3 (1.10%) Kubernetes
6 3 (1.10%) Kustomize
7 2 (0.73%) Grafana
8 1 (0.37%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (0.37%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 251 (91.94%) Cisco
2 250 (91.58%) 3PAR
2 250 (91.58%) Juniper
2 250 (91.58%) Splunk
3 10 (3.66%) Microsoft
4 3 (1.10%) Google
5 2 (0.73%) Symantec
5 2 (0.73%) VMware
6 1 (0.37%) Apple
6 1 (0.37%) Aruba
6 1 (0.37%) Atlassian
6 1 (0.37%) McAfee
6 1 (0.37%) Oracle
6 1 (0.37%) Palo Alto
6 1 (0.37%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.37%) Veeam