Intelligent Automation Contract Job Trends in the East of England

Intelligent Automation (Intelligent Process Automation)
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring Intelligent Automation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 101 85 111
Rank change year-on-year -16 +26 -
Contract jobs citing Intelligent Automation 3 1 2
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 0.18% 0.091% 0.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.21% 0.11% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 2
10th Percentile - - £583
25th Percentile - - £586
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - £594
75th Percentile £663 - £598
90th Percentile £730 - £599
England median daily rate £550 £356 £425
% change year-on-year +54.49% -16.24% -37.34%

All Process & Methodology Skills
East of England

Intelligent Automation falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the East of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,404 938 1,576
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 82.30% 85.66% 86.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 615 417 804
10th Percentile £196 £243 £250
25th Percentile £350 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £581 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £688 £707
England median daily rate £501 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.67% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 441 165 425
10th Percentile £13.80 £15.62 £14.00
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.22 £15.00
Median hourly rate £20.09 £40.00 £30.48
Median % change year-on-year -49.78% +31.26% +38.52%
75th Percentile £60.00 £68.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £85.00 £77.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £34.31 £36.34
% change year-on-year -26.69% -5.59% +3.81%

Intelligent Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Intelligent Automation relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Intelligent Automation job vacancy trend in the East of England

Intelligent Automation
Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Intelligent Automation.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Intelligent Automation

Intelligent Automation
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Intelligent Automation in the East of England over the 6 months to 30 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Intelligent Automation in the East of England

Intelligent Automation
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Intelligent Automation within the East of England region over the 6 months to 30 January 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Suffolk - 2 £550 -
Hertfordshire -14 1 £750 - 2
Intelligent Automation
England

Intelligent Automation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
2 2 (66.67%) Azure AI
2 2 (66.67%) Azure Cognitive Search
2 2 (66.67%) Azure Functions
2 2 (66.67%) Azure Logic Apps
2 2 (66.67%) Power Platform
2 2 (66.67%) Serverless
3 1 (33.33%) AWS
3 1 (33.33%) GCP
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Data Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) JSON
1 2 (66.67%) Node.js
1 2 (66.67%) REST
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) AI
1 3 (100.00%) Machine Learning
2 2 (66.67%) CRM
2 2 (66.67%) ERP
2 2 (66.67%) Generative AI
2 2 (66.67%) Kalman Filter
2 2 (66.67%) LLM
2 2 (66.67%) OCR
2 2 (66.67%) Prompt Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
2 2 (66.67%) Software Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) Workflow
3 1 (33.33%) Analytics
3 1 (33.33%) Conversational AI
3 1 (33.33%) Conversational UI
3 1 (33.33%) Data Science
3 1 (33.33%) Event-Driven
3 1 (33.33%) Event-Driven Architecture
3 1 (33.33%) Integration Patterns
3 1 (33.33%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) C#
1 2 (66.67%) Python
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Foundry
1 2 (66.67%) OpenAI
2 1 (33.33%) Databricks