Robotic Process Automation Contracts in England

Robotics Process Automation (RPA)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Robotic Process Automation skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Robotic Process Automation over the 6 months to 13 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 534 606 706
Rank change year-on-year +72 +100 -136
Contract jobs citing Robotic Process Automation 7 39 63
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.019% 0.079% 0.089%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.022% 0.088% 0.098%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 22 40
10th Percentile £416 £350 £350
25th Percentile £422 £413 £439
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £463 £499
Median % change year-on-year - -7.27% +19.10%
75th Percentile £539 £600 £575
90th Percentile £633 £866 £643
UK median daily rate £513 £450 £510
% change year-on-year +13.89% -11.76% +13.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 7
10th Percentile - - £19.50
25th Percentile - - £20.25
Median hourly rate £12.53 - £21.00
75th Percentile - - £23.75
90th Percentile - - £30.60
UK median hourly rate £12.53 - £21.00

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Robotic Process 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 England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,610 44,349 64,316
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.47% 90.16% 90.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,692 31,129 45,727
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £446 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £764 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,241 1,561 1,760
10th Percentile £12.87 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £36.50 £37.34 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.25% +49.36% +6.38%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +4.82%

Robotic Process Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Robotic Process Automation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Robotic Process Automation in England

Robotic Process Automation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Robotic Process Automation in England.

Daily rate trend for Robotic Process Automation in England

Robotic Process Automation
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Robotic Process Automation in England over the 6 months to 13 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Robotic Process Automation in England

Robotic Process Automation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Robotic Process Automation in England.

Hourly rate trend for Robotic Process Automation in England

Robotic Process Automation
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Robotic Process Automation within the England region over the 6 months to 13 May 2024. 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North of England +24 3 - - 2
Yorkshire +22 3 - - 2
London +59 2 £558 +23.89% 6
South East +15 1 £475 +5.56% 4
Robotic Process Automation
UK

Robotic Process Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 1 (14.29%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (42.86%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 1 (14.29%) Azure
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (14.29%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) Power BI
General
1 3 (42.86%) Public Sector
2 1 (14.29%) German Language
2 1 (14.29%) Police
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Analyst
1 3 (42.86%) Service Analyst
1 3 (42.86%) Service Desk Analyst
2 2 (28.57%) Consultant
3 1 (14.29%) Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Automation Consultant
3 1 (14.29%) Automation Specialist
3 1 (14.29%) Lead
3 1 (14.29%) Robotic Process Automation Consultant
3 1 (14.29%) Senior
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Consultant
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Robotics
2 1 (14.29%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (14.29%) Low-Code
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) Change Management
1 3 (42.86%) Computer Science
1 3 (42.86%) Incident Management
1 3 (42.86%) ITIL
1 3 (42.86%) Problem Management
1 3 (42.86%) Process Management
1 3 (42.86%) Service Management
1 3 (42.86%) Trend Analysis
2 2 (28.57%) Collaborative Culture
2 2 (28.57%) Data Protection
2 2 (28.57%) Test Automation
3 1 (14.29%) Backlog Management
3 1 (14.29%) Data Security
3 1 (14.29%) Deployment Automation
3 1 (14.29%) End-to-End Testing
3 1 (14.29%) LLM
3 1 (14.29%) Machine Learning
3 1 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (14.29%) User Acceptance Testing
3 1 (14.29%) Visualisation
Qualifications
1 3 (42.86%) Degree
2 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
2 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Kofax
2 2 (28.57%) UiPath
3 1 (14.29%) Blue Prism
3 1 (14.29%) Microsoft