Robotic Process Automation Contracts in the UK excluding London

Robotics Process Automation (RPA)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Robotic Process Automation skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Robotic Process Automation over the 6 months to 1 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 391 437 473
Rank change year-on-year +46 +36 -60
Contract jobs citing Robotic Process Automation 6 7 37
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.029% 0.029% 0.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.034% 0.033% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 5 21
10th Percentile £323 £375 £425
25th Percentile £379 - £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £450 £520
Median % change year-on-year +7.22% -13.46% +15.56%
75th Percentile £589 £488 £558
90th Percentile £648 £555 £620
UK median daily rate £500 £450 £510
% change year-on-year +11.11% -11.76% +13.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 7
10th Percentile - - £19.50
25th Percentile - - £20.25
Median hourly rate £12.53 - £21.00
75th Percentile - - £23.75
90th Percentile - - £30.60
UK median hourly rate £12.53 - £21.00

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Robotic Process Automation is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,590 21,477 27,470
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.75% 89.51% 88.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,508 14,895 19,183
10th Percentile £250 £255 £231
25th Percentile £380 £400 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.63%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,055 1,305 1,364
10th Percentile £12.32 £11.00 £12.00
25th Percentile £15.22 £15.81 £14.00
Median hourly rate £36.50 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.29% +75.00% -8.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £46.11
90th Percentile £72.50 £72.98 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £35.50 £36.42 £25.00
% change year-on-year -2.53% +45.69% -

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
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Robotic Process Automation in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram 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 2024. 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
North of England +32 3 - - 2
Yorkshire +29 3 - - 2
Scotland - 2 £675 -
Midlands - 1 £290 -
West Midlands - 1 £290 -
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (16.67%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (66.67%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (16.67%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 1 (16.67%) Azure
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (16.67%) SQL Server
General
1 5 (83.33%) Public Sector
2 3 (50.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Analyst
1 3 (50.00%) Service Analyst
1 3 (50.00%) Service Desk Analyst
2 2 (33.33%) Lead
2 2 (33.33%) Test Leader
3 1 (16.67%) Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Robotic Process Automation Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) .NET
1 1 (16.67%) SOAP
1 1 (16.67%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 2 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Change Management
1 3 (50.00%) Computer Science
1 3 (50.00%) Incident Management
1 3 (50.00%) ITIL
1 3 (50.00%) Problem Management
1 3 (50.00%) Process Management
1 3 (50.00%) Service Management
1 3 (50.00%) Trend Analysis
2 2 (33.33%) Decision-Making
2 2 (33.33%) Defect Management
2 2 (33.33%) Impact Assessments
2 2 (33.33%) Integration Testing
2 2 (33.33%) Non-Functional Testing
2 2 (33.33%) Regression Testing
2 2 (33.33%) SDLC
2 2 (33.33%) Test Automation
2 2 (33.33%) Test Strategy
2 2 (33.33%) User Acceptance Testing
3 1 (16.67%) Data Protection
3 1 (16.67%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) C#
1 1 (16.67%) PL/SQL
1 1 (16.67%) SQL
1 1 (16.67%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 3 (50.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) Disclosure Scotland
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Kofax
2 2 (33.33%) Oracle
3 1 (16.67%) UiPath