Robotic Process Automation Contracts in the UK excluding London

Robotics Process Automation (RPA)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 329 393 455
Rank change year-on-year +64 +62 +20
Contract jobs citing Robotic Process Automation 7 6 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.055% 0.029% 0.029%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.061% 0.034% 0.032%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 5
10th Percentile - £323 £375
25th Percentile £425 £379 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £483 £450
Median % change year-on-year -6.74% +7.22% -13.46%
75th Percentile £475 £589 £488
90th Percentile - £648 £555
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
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,543 17,602 21,544
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.42% 84.74% 89.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,249 10,520 14,947
10th Percentile £235 £250 £255
25th Percentile £375 £380 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £662 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 825 2,048 1,307
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.33 £11.00
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.28 £16.00
Median hourly rate £27.50 £37.34 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.35% +3.72% +80.00%
75th Percentile £64.50 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £72.98
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 the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Robotic Process Automation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Robotic Process Automation in the UK excluding London

Robotic Process Automation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Robotic Process Automation in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Robotic Process Automation in the UK excluding London

Robotic Process Automation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Robotic Process Automation in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Robotic Process Automation in the UK excluding London

Robotic Process Automation
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London 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
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 the UK excluding London 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 2 (28.57%) BrowserStack
1 2 (28.57%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) BusinessObjects
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Cypress.io
1 2 (28.57%) JMeter
1 2 (28.57%) Postman
1 2 (28.57%) Selenium
1 2 (28.57%) SoapUI
General
1 4 (57.14%) Finance
2 2 (28.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Developer
1 4 (57.14%) Robotic Process Automation Developer
2 2 (28.57%) Automation Developer
2 2 (28.57%) Automation Test Lead
2 2 (28.57%) Lead
2 2 (28.57%) Test Leader
3 1 (14.29%) Product Manager
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Greenfield Project
1 2 (28.57%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (14.29%) Robotics
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (28.57%) Agile
2 2 (28.57%) API Testing
2 2 (28.57%) CI/CD
2 2 (28.57%) Data Cleansing
2 2 (28.57%) Data Migration
2 2 (28.57%) Data Pipeline
2 2 (28.57%) Data Validation
2 2 (28.57%) DevOps
2 2 (28.57%) End-to-End Testing
2 2 (28.57%) Integration Testing
2 2 (28.57%) Migration
2 2 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (28.57%) Test Automation
2 2 (28.57%) Test Strategy
2 2 (28.57%) Validation
2 2 (28.57%) Web Testing
3 1 (14.29%) Product Roadmap
3 1 (14.29%) Project Delivery
3 1 (14.29%) Roadmaps
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (14.29%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) Data Quality
1 2 (28.57%) QA
Vendors
1 4 (57.14%) Blue Prism
2 2 (28.57%) Nintex