Intelligent Automation Contracts in Scotland

Intelligent Automation (Intelligent Process Automation)
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland requiring Intelligent Automation skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Intelligent Automation over the 6 months leading up to 2 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 124 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Intelligent Automation 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.058% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.063% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £513 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 - -
75th Percentile £538 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £600 £675 £645
% change year-on-year -11.11% +4.65% +5.31%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,595 1,659 2,406
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 91.82% 86.95% 91.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 888 1,026 1,621
10th Percentile £263 £208 £250
25th Percentile £370 £357 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £466 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +3.56% -5.26% -
75th Percentile £538 £550 £550
90th Percentile £600 £662 £626
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 86 59 56
10th Percentile £16.59 £12.30 £12.13
25th Percentile £17.44 £14.25 £13.15
Median hourly rate £20.00 £19.59 £18.33
Median % change year-on-year +2.09% +6.90% -47.64%
75th Percentile £25.15 £40.94 £55.00
90th Percentile £28.19 £54.00 £63.75
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £40.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -37.90% -4.71% +62.40%

Intelligent Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing Intelligent Automation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for Intelligent Automation in Scotland

Intelligent Automation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Intelligent Automation in Scotland.

Daily rate trend for Intelligent Automation in Scotland

Intelligent Automation
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

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 Scotland region over the 6 months to 2 August 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
Edinburgh - 1 £525 - 3
Intelligent Automation
UK

Intelligent Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (100.00%) Serverless
1 1 (100.00%) Textract
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) PyTorch
1 1 (100.00%) SpaCy
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) MLOps
1 1 (100.00%) Natural Language Processing
1 1 (100.00%) OCR
1 1 (100.00%) Predictive Modelling
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) TypeScript
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana