Robotic Process Automation Contracts in England

Robotics Process Automation (RPA)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Robotic Process Automation skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Robotic Process Automation over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 462 533 615
Rank change year-on-year +71 +82 +97
Contract jobs citing Robotic Process Automation 23 9 38
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.094% 0.024% 0.075%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.10% 0.028% 0.083%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 6 22
10th Percentile £374 £330 £350
25th Percentile £385 £384 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £438 £463
Median % change year-on-year +2.86% -5.41% -7.27%
75th Percentile £585 £640 £600
90th Percentile £600 £716 £866
UK median daily rate £450 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -10.00% +11.11% -11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £12.53 -
UK median hourly rate - £12.53 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Robotic Process 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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 22,202 32,193 45,529
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.16% 86.56% 90.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,534 21,105 31,969
10th Percentile £310 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £765
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 921 2,246 1,592
10th Percentile £14.42 £12.92 £10.87
25th Percentile £18.20 £16.01 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

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 1 May 2025.

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 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 +49 15 £425 -23.77% 26
Midlands +25 4 £450 +55.17% 6
North of England +18 2 - - 9
West Midlands +15 2 £450 +55.17% 5
North West - 2 - - 8
East Midlands - 2 £450 - 1
East of England - 1 - - 1
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 3 (13.04%) SharePoint
2 2 (8.70%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 5 (21.74%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (8.70%) Aladdin
2 1 (4.35%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 4 (17.39%) Power Platform
2 3 (13.04%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (8.70%) AWS
3 2 (8.70%) Azure
3 2 (8.70%) BrowserStack
3 2 (8.70%) Entra ID
3 2 (8.70%) Microsoft Copilot
3 2 (8.70%) Mimecast
3 2 (8.70%) OneDrive
3 2 (8.70%) Power Automate
3 2 (8.70%) PowerApps
3 2 (8.70%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.70%) DHCP
1 2 (8.70%) DNS
1 2 (8.70%) Firewall
1 2 (8.70%) SD-WAN
1 2 (8.70%) VLAN
1 2 (8.70%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (30.43%) SQL Server
2 5 (21.74%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 4 (17.39%) Power BI
4 2 (8.70%) BusinessObjects
5 1 (4.35%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 2 (8.70%) Cypress.io
1 2 (8.70%) JIRA
1 2 (8.70%) JMeter
1 2 (8.70%) Postman
1 2 (8.70%) Selenium
1 2 (8.70%) SoapUI
General
1 12 (52.17%) Finance
2 7 (30.43%) Social Skills
3 3 (13.04%) Banking
4 2 (8.70%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (8.70%) Front Office
4 2 (8.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (4.35%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (4.35%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (4.35%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 10 (43.48%) Developer
2 7 (30.43%) Automation Developer
2 7 (30.43%) Robotic Process Automation Developer
3 4 (17.39%) Analyst
3 4 (17.39%) Lead
4 2 (8.70%) Applications Developer
4 2 (8.70%) Applications Support
4 2 (8.70%) Applications Support Analyst
4 2 (8.70%) Automation Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) Automation Test Lead
4 2 (8.70%) Business Analyst
4 2 (8.70%) Consultant
4 2 (8.70%) Lead Consultant
4 2 (8.70%) Microsoft 365 Consultant
4 2 (8.70%) Support Analyst
4 2 (8.70%) Test Leader
5 1 (4.35%) Automation Analyst
5 1 (4.35%) Product Manager
5 1 (4.35%) Project Manager
5 1 (4.35%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (21.74%) .NET
2 1 (4.35%) Middleware
2 1 (4.35%) SAP Fiori
2 1 (4.35%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 2 (8.70%) Data Centre
1 2 (8.70%) Data Protection Act
1 2 (8.70%) Greenfield Project
1 2 (8.70%) Legacy Systems
1 2 (8.70%) Robotics
2 1 (4.35%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 3 (13.04%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (21.74%) Agile
1 5 (21.74%) Data Analysis
1 5 (21.74%) DevOps
1 5 (21.74%) Problem-Solving
1 5 (21.74%) Root Cause Analysis
1 5 (21.74%) User Acceptance Testing
2 4 (17.39%) Business Case
2 4 (17.39%) Business Intelligence
2 4 (17.39%) Continuous Improvement
2 4 (17.39%) Data Reconciliation
2 4 (17.39%) Test Automation
3 3 (13.04%) CI/CD
3 3 (13.04%) Computer Science
3 3 (13.04%) Validation
4 2 (8.70%) Containerisation
4 2 (8.70%) End-to-End Testing
4 2 (8.70%) Migration
4 2 (8.70%) Order Management
4 2 (8.70%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (8.70%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 7 (30.43%) SQL
2 5 (21.74%) C#
3 1 (4.35%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (13.04%) Degree
2 2 (8.70%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.70%) Data Quality
1 2 (8.70%) QA
2 1 (4.35%) PMO
System Software
1 2 (8.70%) Active Directory
1 2 (8.70%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 2 (8.70%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (8.70%) SCCM
Vendors
1 8 (34.78%) UiPath
2 5 (21.74%) Blue Prism
2 5 (21.74%) Oracle
3 4 (17.39%) Microsoft
4 2 (8.70%) eFront
4 2 (8.70%) Nintex
4 2 (8.70%) Salesforce
5 1 (4.35%) Ariba
5 1 (4.35%) Citrix
5 1 (4.35%) SAP