Task Automation Contracts in Manchester

Task Automation
North West > Manchester

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester with a requirement for Task Automation skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Task Automation over the 6 months to 8 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 87 101 139
Rank change year-on-year +14 +38 -48
Contract jobs citing Task Automation 7 8 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 0.48% 0.45% 0.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.57% 0.50% 0.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 4 4
10th Percentile £353 £176 £454
25th Percentile £400 £184 £516
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £196 £563
Median % change year-on-year +142.04% -65.11% +26.76%
75th Percentile £498 £247 £591
90th Percentile £519 £331 £596
North West median daily rate £463 £375 £588
% change year-on-year +23.33% -36.17% +32.39%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Manchester

Task Automation is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,237 1,602 2,355
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 85.55% 90.51% 88.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 826 1,184 1,824
10th Percentile £325 £319 £263
25th Percentile £413 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +11.11%
75th Percentile £588 £594 £588
90th Percentile £694 £675 £663
North West median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 78 51 53
10th Percentile £12.47 £15.72 £11.44
25th Percentile £13.66 £16.85 £14.25
Median hourly rate £26.00 £25.00 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +35.14% +13.99%
75th Percentile £60.94 £39.18 £56.25
90th Percentile £73.10 £66.00 £75.00
North West median hourly rate £27.50 £30.54 £23.39
% change year-on-year -9.95% +30.57% +29.12%

Task Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Job postings citing Task Automation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Job vacancy trend for Task Automation in Manchester

Task Automation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Task Automation in Manchester.

Daily rate trend for Task Automation in Manchester

Task Automation
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Task Automation in Manchester over the 6 months to 8 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Task Automation in Manchester

Task Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (14.29%) Azure
1 1 (14.29%) Azure AKS
1 1 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 4 (57.14%) DNS
2 3 (42.86%) DHCP
2 3 (42.86%) TCP/IP
3 1 (14.29%) Network Security
3 1 (14.29%) VLAN
3 1 (14.29%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) SQL Server
2 1 (14.29%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (14.29%) Relational Database
General
1 3 (42.86%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (42.86%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) Analyst
1 2 (28.57%) IT Analyst
1 2 (28.57%) IT Operations Analyst
1 2 (28.57%) Operations Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Automation Tester
2 1 (14.29%) Azure DevOps Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Developer
2 1 (14.29%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Server Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) ServiceNow Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Tester
2 1 (14.29%) VMware Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Windows Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Windows Server Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) Ajax
1 1 (14.29%) AngularJS
1 1 (14.29%) CSS
1 1 (14.29%) HTML
1 1 (14.29%) JSON
1 1 (14.29%) Kafka
1 1 (14.29%) SOAP
1 1 (14.29%) Web Services
1 1 (14.29%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) CMDB
2 2 (28.57%) Management Information System
3 1 (14.29%) Cloud Native
3 1 (14.29%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) VMS
1 1 (14.29%) Windows
1 1 (14.29%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (42.86%) Capacity Planning
2 3 (42.86%) Incident Response
3 2 (28.57%) Agile
3 2 (28.57%) Capacity Management
3 2 (28.57%) Change Management
3 2 (28.57%) Configuration Management
3 2 (28.57%) Incident Management
3 2 (28.57%) ITIL
3 2 (28.57%) Network Virtualisation
3 2 (28.57%) Performance Analysis
3 2 (28.57%) Performance Monitoring
3 2 (28.57%) Problem Management
3 2 (28.57%) Root Cause Analysis
4 1 (14.29%) Continuous Integration
4 1 (14.29%) Integration Testing
4 1 (14.29%) Test Management
4 1 (14.29%) Test Scripting
4 1 (14.29%) Use Case
4 1 (14.29%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 5 (71.43%) PowerShell
1 5 (71.43%) SQL
2 4 (57.14%) Python
3 1 (14.29%) C#
3 1 (14.29%) Java
3 1 (14.29%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) CCNA
1 2 (28.57%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (28.57%) Degree
1 2 (28.57%) Network+ Certification
2 1 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
2 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (28.57%) VMware ESXi
1 2 (28.57%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (14.29%) Active Directory
2 1 (14.29%) Docker
2 1 (14.29%) Firmware
2 1 (14.29%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (14.29%) VMware NSX
2 1 (14.29%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) Nagios
1 2 (28.57%) ZABBIX
2 1 (14.29%) Kubernetes
2 1 (14.29%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft
1 2 (28.57%) SolarWinds
1 2 (28.57%) VMware
2 1 (14.29%) ServiceNow