Intelligent Automation Contract Job Trends in the North of England

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

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring Intelligent Automation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 197 164 181
Rank change year-on-year -33 +17 -
Contract jobs citing Intelligent Automation 9 2 5
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 0.20% 0.053% 0.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.22% 0.061% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 2 5
10th Percentile £420 - £611
25th Percentile £479 - £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £356 £645
Median % change year-on-year +47.47% -44.81% -
75th Percentile £539 - -
90th Percentile £542 - -
England median daily rate £550 £356 £588
% change year-on-year +54.49% -39.40% +17.50%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North 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 North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,102 3,255 4,200
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 88.96% 85.93% 88.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,734 1,824 2,801
10th Percentile £213 £263 £281
25th Percentile £363 £390 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.11% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £550 £575 £600
90th Percentile £650 £663 £675
England median daily rate £505 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -3.81% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 252 170 190
10th Percentile £15.25 £15.00 £15.98
25th Percentile £19.05 £17.44 £17.75
Median hourly rate £25.15 £29.00 £28.30
Median % change year-on-year -13.28% +2.47% +31.63%
75th Percentile £45.88 £46.18 £46.18
90th Percentile £69.25 £68.33 £61.99
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +18.67%

Intelligent Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Intelligent Automation job vacancy trend in the North of England

Intelligent Automation
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

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

Intelligent Automation
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Intelligent Automation in the North of England over the 6 months to 10 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Intelligent Automation in the North of England

Intelligent Automation
Contract Job Locations in the North 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 North of England region over the 6 months to 10 December 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
Yorkshire - 5 £525 - 3
North West -14 3 - - 3
North East - 1 £380 - 1
Intelligent Automation
England

Intelligent Automation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North 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:

Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 4 (44.44%) AtomSphere
1 4 (44.44%) Boomi
1 4 (44.44%) SaaS
2 3 (33.33%) Azure
2 3 (33.33%) Azure AKS
2 3 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (33.33%) Metadata
1 3 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
General
1 3 (33.33%) Finance
2 1 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (77.78%) Developer
2 4 (44.44%) Integration Developer
3 3 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
4 2 (22.22%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
5 1 (11.11%) Applications Engineer
5 1 (11.11%) Automation Developer
5 1 (11.11%) Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (44.44%) JSON
1 4 (44.44%) REST
1 4 (44.44%) SOAP
1 4 (44.44%) XML
2 3 (33.33%) Hugging Face
2 3 (33.33%) OpenCV
2 3 (33.33%) PyTorch
2 3 (33.33%) Regular Expression
2 3 (33.33%) SpaCy
2 3 (33.33%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 3 (33.33%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (88.89%) Agile
2 7 (77.78%) DevOps
3 5 (55.56%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (44.44%) CI/CD
4 4 (44.44%) Customer Engagement
4 4 (44.44%) Integration Patterns
4 4 (44.44%) Software Engineering
4 4 (44.44%) Translating Business Requirements
4 4 (44.44%) Validation
5 3 (33.33%) AI
5 3 (33.33%) Code Quality
5 3 (33.33%) Deep Learning
5 3 (33.33%) Generative AI
5 3 (33.33%) Image Processing
5 3 (33.33%) KYC
5 3 (33.33%) LLM
5 3 (33.33%) Machine Learning
5 3 (33.33%) Natural Language Processing
5 3 (33.33%) Open Source
5 3 (33.33%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 4 (44.44%) C#
1 4 (44.44%) Groovy
1 4 (44.44%) Java
1 4 (44.44%) JavaScript
1 4 (44.44%) T-SQL
2 3 (33.33%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) QA
Systems Management
1 3 (33.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (44.44%) Microsoft
2 1 (11.11%) Automation Anywhere