Robotic Process Automation Developer Contracts in England

Robotics Process Automation Developer (RPA Developer)
UK > England

The median Robotics Process Automation Developer (RPA Developer) daily rate in England is £390, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 463 530 639
Rank change year-on-year +67 +109 +107
Contract jobs requiring a Robotic Process Automation Developer 22 12 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.090% 0.032% 0.028%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.098% 0.035% 0.029%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 12 8
10th Percentile £364 £364 £348
25th Percentile £382 £403 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £390 £500 £435
Median % change year-on-year -22.00% +14.94% -8.42%
75th Percentile £416 £516 £491
90th Percentile £475 £596 £523
UK median daily rate £390 £500 £420
% change year-on-year -22.00% +19.05% -11.58%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in England. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in England with a recognized job title 22,549 34,488 47,741
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.59% 92.73% 94.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,007 22,894 33,903
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £409 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £643 £663
90th Percentile £750 £750 £763
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 900 2,432 1,409
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.00 £14.35
25th Percentile £18.51 £16.30 £20.00
Median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%
75th Percentile £63.75 £61.25 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £76.60
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

Robotic Process Automation Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured Robotic Process Automation Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Robotic Process Automation Developer in England

Robotic Process Automation Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Robotic Process Automation Developer in England

Robotic Process Automation Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Robotic Process Automation Developer in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Robotic Process Automation Developer in England

Robotic Process Automation Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Robotic Process Automation Developer in England

Robotic Process Automation Developer
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 Developer within the England region over the 6 months to 1 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +40 10 £390 -22.00% 6
Midlands +27 6 £395 +36.21% 3
West Midlands +19 6 £395 +36.21% 3
North of England +21 3 - - 1
South East +47 2 £440 +3.53% 4
North West +18 2 - - 1
North East - 1 - -
Robotic Process Automation Developer
UK

Robotic Process Automation Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Robotic Process Automation Developer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the England region featuring Robotic Process Automation Developer in the job title.

1 10 (45.45%) SQL
1 10 (45.45%) Blue Prism
1 10 (45.45%) UiPath
2 9 (40.91%) Social Skills
3 7 (31.82%) Robotic Process Automation
3 7 (31.82%) C#
4 6 (27.27%) Oracle
4 6 (27.27%) SQL Server
4 6 (27.27%) User Acceptance Testing
4 6 (27.27%) Root Cause Analysis
5 5 (22.73%) Data Reconciliation
5 5 (22.73%) Continuous Improvement
5 5 (22.73%) .NET
5 5 (22.73%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (22.73%) Power Automate
5 5 (22.73%) Finance
6 4 (18.18%) Microsoft
6 4 (18.18%) Data Analysis
6 4 (18.18%) Business Case
7 3 (13.64%) Public Sector
7 3 (13.64%) Power Platform
7 3 (13.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (13.64%) Agile
7 3 (13.64%) Banking
7 3 (13.64%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 3 (13.64%) Security Cleared
7 3 (13.64%) Microsoft Excel
7 3 (13.64%) VBA
8 2 (9.09%) VB
8 2 (9.09%) Business Intelligence

Robotic Process Automation Developer Skill Set
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:

Applications
1 3 (13.64%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 5 (22.73%) Power Automate
2 3 (13.64%) Power Platform
3 1 (4.55%) Azure
3 1 (4.55%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (27.27%) SQL Server
2 3 (13.64%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 2 (9.09%) BusinessObjects
3 2 (9.09%) Power BI
General
1 9 (40.91%) Social Skills
2 5 (22.73%) Finance
3 3 (13.64%) Banking
3 3 (13.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 3 (13.64%) Public Sector
4 1 (4.55%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (4.55%) Local Government
4 1 (4.55%) Spanish Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (22.73%) .NET
2 1 (4.55%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 1 (4.55%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (31.82%) Robotic Process Automation
2 6 (27.27%) Root Cause Analysis
2 6 (27.27%) User Acceptance Testing
3 5 (22.73%) Continuous Improvement
3 5 (22.73%) Data Reconciliation
3 5 (22.73%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (18.18%) Business Case
4 4 (18.18%) Data Analysis
5 3 (13.64%) Agile
6 2 (9.09%) API Integration
6 2 (9.09%) Business Intelligence
6 2 (9.09%) Change Management
6 2 (9.09%) Collaborative Working
6 2 (9.09%) Data Cleansing
6 2 (9.09%) Test Automation
7 1 (4.55%) Knowledge Transfer
7 1 (4.55%) Requirements Gathering
7 1 (4.55%) Software Delivery
7 1 (4.55%) Translating Business Requirements
7 1 (4.55%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 10 (45.45%) SQL
2 7 (31.82%) C#
3 3 (13.64%) VBA
4 2 (9.09%) VB
5 1 (4.55%) Python
5 1 (4.55%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 3 (13.64%) Security Cleared
2 2 (9.09%) SC Cleared
3 1 (4.55%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (9.09%) Data Quality
2 1 (4.55%) QA
System Software
1 1 (4.55%) Virtual Machines
Vendors
1 10 (45.45%) Blue Prism
1 10 (45.45%) UiPath
2 6 (27.27%) Oracle
3 4 (18.18%) Microsoft
4 1 (4.55%) Google