Intelligent Automation Contracts

Intelligent Automation (Intelligent Process Automation)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Intelligent Automation skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Intelligent Automation over the 6 months to 31 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
31 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 545 687 825
Rank change year-on-year +142 +138 -126
Contract jobs citing Intelligent Automation 22 7 22
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.051% 0.012% 0.025%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.060% 0.014% 0.028%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 4 18
10th Percentile - £361 £456
25th Percentile £205 £466 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £210 £654 £621
Median % change year-on-year -67.88% +5.23% +5.74%
75th Percentile £513 £793 £651
90th Percentile - £805 £759
UK excluding London median daily rate - £423 £559
% change year-on-year - -24.35% +31.41%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Intelligent 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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,764 50,288 79,415
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.53% 89.69% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,622 34,810 55,795
10th Percentile £300 £325 £345
25th Percentile £413 £438 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £644
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £488
% change year-on-year - +2.56% +9.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,524 1,667 1,882
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.50 £15.63
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.54 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year -0.11% +42.29% +9.46%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £49.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.91% +75.00% -4.99%

Intelligent Automation
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Intelligent Automation in the UK

Intelligent Automation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Intelligent Automation in the UK

Intelligent Automation
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Intelligent Automation over the 6 months to 31 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Intelligent Automation in the UK

Intelligent Automation
Top 7 Contract Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 31 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
England +103 13 £210 -67.88% 16
London +92 7 £210 -73.26% 5
UK excluding London +42 6 - - 10
Midlands +25 4 - - 3
West Midlands +19 4 - - 3
East of England - 1 - -
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 1

Intelligent Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 3 (13.64%) Appian
Applications
1 2 (9.09%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (4.55%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 8 (36.36%) AWS
1 8 (36.36%) Power Automate
1 8 (36.36%) Power Platform
2 6 (27.27%) Amazon EC2
3 4 (18.18%) Azure
3 4 (18.18%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (18.18%) GitHub
3 4 (18.18%) GitHub Actions
3 4 (18.18%) PowerApps
4 2 (9.09%) ChatGPT
4 2 (9.09%) Salesforce Einstein
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (18.18%) BusinessObjects
1 4 (18.18%) KNIME
1 4 (18.18%) MySQL
1 4 (18.18%) Power BI
1 4 (18.18%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (18.18%) Visual Studio
2 2 (9.09%) JIRA
General
1 4 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (13.64%) Agriculture
2 3 (13.64%) Automotive
2 3 (13.64%) Finance
2 3 (13.64%) Retail
2 3 (13.64%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 11 (50.00%) Developer
2 4 (18.18%) Automation Developer
2 4 (18.18%) Power Platform Developer
2 4 (18.18%) Windows Engineer
3 3 (13.64%) Appian Developer
3 3 (13.64%) Automation Engineer
3 3 (13.64%) AWS Engineer
3 3 (13.64%) Business Consultant
3 3 (13.64%) Consultant
3 3 (13.64%) Server Engineer
3 3 (13.64%) Windows Server Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) Analyst
4 2 (9.09%) Architect
4 2 (9.09%) AWS DevOps
4 2 (9.09%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) Business Analyst
4 2 (9.09%) DevOps Automation Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) DevOps Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) Management Consultant
4 2 (9.09%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (36.36%) .NET
2 4 (18.18%) .NET Framework
2 4 (18.18%) ASP.NET
2 4 (18.18%) CSS
2 4 (18.18%) Entity Framework
2 4 (18.18%) HTML
2 4 (18.18%) Web Services
2 4 (18.18%) XML
2 4 (18.18%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 4 (18.18%) Data Structures
1 4 (18.18%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 4 (18.18%) Windows
1 4 (18.18%) Windows Server
2 2 (9.09%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (31.82%) Artificial Intelligence
1 7 (31.82%) DevOps
2 6 (27.27%) Agile
3 5 (22.73%) Roadmaps
4 4 (18.18%) Business Intelligence
4 4 (18.18%) CI/CD
4 4 (18.18%) UML
5 3 (13.64%) Analytics
5 3 (13.64%) Business Analysis
5 3 (13.64%) Enterprise Architecture
5 3 (13.64%) Strategic Roadmap
5 3 (13.64%) Use Case
6 2 (9.09%) Chat Support
6 2 (9.09%) Computer Science
6 2 (9.09%) Conversational UI
6 2 (9.09%) Cost Optimisation
6 2 (9.09%) Data Privacy
6 2 (9.09%) Employee Productivity
6 2 (9.09%) Predictive Analytics
6 2 (9.09%) Release Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (36.36%) C#
2 4 (18.18%) JavaScript
2 4 (18.18%) PHP
Qualifications
1 2 (9.09%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (9.09%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (9.09%) California Consumer Privacy Act
1 2 (9.09%) GDPR
Vendors
1 10 (45.45%) UiPath
2 9 (40.91%) Microsoft
3 4 (18.18%) Alteryx
3 4 (18.18%) Automation Anywhere
3 4 (18.18%) Blue Prism
3 4 (18.18%) Oracle
4 2 (9.09%) Salesforce
4 2 (9.09%) Workday