Intelligent Automation Contract Job Trends in the South West

Intelligent Automation (Intelligent Process Automation)
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South West requiring Intelligent Automation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 121 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Intelligent Automation 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 0.15% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.16% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £550 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 - -
75th Percentile £671 - -
90th Percentile £684 - -
England median daily rate £585 £356 £594
% change year-on-year +64.33% -40.04% -1.04%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South West

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 South West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,833 2,079 2,774
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 89.72% 84.44% 87.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,054 1,228 1,889
10th Percentile £221 £308 £308
25th Percentile £375 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £734 £725
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 270 173 283
10th Percentile £15.23 £16.46 £20.30
25th Percentile £18.87 £36.25 £45.50
Median hourly rate £25.15 £65.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -61.60% +9.17% -6.05%
75th Percentile £63.75 £71.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £74.00 £83.40
England median hourly rate £25.15 £40.33 £44.50
% change year-on-year -37.63% -9.38% +27.14%

Intelligent Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Intelligent Automation job vacancy trend in the South West

Intelligent Automation
Daily Rate Trend in the South West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Intelligent Automation.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Intelligent Automation

Intelligent Automation
Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 South West region over the 6 months to 25 October 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
Bristol - 2 £600 - 1
Wiltshire - 1 £655 -
Intelligent Automation
England

Intelligent Automation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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 2 (66.67%) OCI
2 1 (33.33%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) GCP
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) GitLab
1 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
1 1 (33.33%) SonarQube
General
1 2 (66.67%) Public Sector
2 1 (33.33%) Aerospace
2 1 (33.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Consultant
1 2 (66.67%) Oracle Consultant
2 1 (33.33%) DevSecOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) Elastic Stack
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) AI
1 2 (66.67%) Customer Experience
2 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Security
2 1 (33.33%) Configuration Management
2 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
2 1 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) DevSecOps
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Automation
2 1 (33.33%) OWASP
2 1 (33.33%) SDLC
2 1 (33.33%) Secure Coding
2 1 (33.33%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Bash
1 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
1 1 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (33.33%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Ansible
1 1 (33.33%) Grafana
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
1 1 (33.33%) Prometheus
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Oracle
2 1 (33.33%) Splunk