Robotic Process Automation Contract Job Trends in South Yorkshire

Robotics Process Automation (RPA)
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South Yorkshire requiring Robotic Process Automation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 106 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Robotic Process Automation 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 0.087% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.097% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 - -
Yorkshire median daily rate £519 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
South Yorkshire

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 South Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,036 356 399
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 90.32% 93.93% 88.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 686 225 240
10th Percentile £363 £224 £360
25th Percentile £421 £381 £412
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% - -13.64%
75th Percentile £555 £575 £588
90th Percentile £669 £647 £638
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £475 £490
% change year-on-year +5.26% -3.06% -6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 5 14
10th Percentile £15.28 - £10.90
25th Percentile £15.34 £18.10 £12.64
Median hourly rate £19.34 £18.51 £17.62
Median % change year-on-year +4.48% +5.08% +65.71%
75th Percentile £24.29 £18.87 £23.75
90th Percentile - - -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £22.81 £21.24 £13.50
% change year-on-year +7.39% +57.33% +27.00%

Robotic Process Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Robotic Process Automation job vacancy trend in South Yorkshire

Robotic Process Automation
Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing Robotic Process Automation.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing Robotic Process Automation

Robotic Process Automation
Contract Job Locations in South Yorkshire

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 South Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 22 May 2026. 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
Sheffield - 1 £519 -
Robotic Process Automation
Yorkshire

Robotic Process Automation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Yorkshire 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Power Platform
1 1 (100.00%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Power BI
1 1 (100.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) REST
1 1 (100.00%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Low-Code
1 1 (100.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Architectural Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) SDLC
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Debt
1 1 (100.00%) Translating Business Requirements
1 1 (100.00%) Unit Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) GRC
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft