Robotic Process Automation Contracts

Robotics Process Automation (RPA)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 495 570 674
Rank change year-on-year +75 +104 +99
Contract jobs citing Robotic Process Automation 25 12 44
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.085% 0.028% 0.074%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.094% 0.032% 0.082%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 8 26
10th Percentile £376 £348 £346
25th Percentile £385 £403 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +11.11% -11.76%
75th Percentile £585 £689 £600
90th Percentile £635 £708 £831
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £483 £450
% change year-on-year -6.74% +7.22% -13.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £12.53 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £12.53 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 26,594 37,597 53,655
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.84% 86.31% 89.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,149 24,227 37,238
10th Percentile £308 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £743 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £483 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,071 2,443 1,746
10th Percentile £14.41 £12.75 £11.00
25th Percentile £18.21 £16.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%
75th Percentile £60.38 £59.98 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £37.34 £36.00
% change year-on-year -26.35% +3.72% +80.00%

Robotic Process Automation
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Robotic Process Automation in the UK

Robotic Process Automation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Robotic Process Automation in the UK

Robotic Process Automation
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Robotic Process Automation over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Robotic Process Automation in the UK

Robotic Process Automation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Robotic Process Automation.

Hourly rate trend for Robotic Process Automation in the UK

Robotic Process Automation
Top 10 Contract Locations

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 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
England +71 23 £450 +2.86% 54
London +49 15 £425 -23.77% 28
Work from Home +46 8 £390 -29.09% 37
UK excluding London +64 7 £450 -6.74% 34
Midlands +25 4 £450 +55.17% 6
North of England +18 2 - - 8
West Midlands +15 2 £450 +55.17% 5
East Midlands - 2 £450 - 1
North West - 2 - - 7
East of England - 1 - - 1

Robotic Process 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 4 (16.00%) SharePoint
2 2 (8.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 5 (20.00%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (8.00%) Aladdin
1 2 (8.00%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 5 (20.00%) Power Platform
2 4 (16.00%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (12.00%) Azure
3 3 (12.00%) OneDrive
3 3 (12.00%) Power Automate
3 3 (12.00%) PowerApps
4 2 (8.00%) AWS
4 2 (8.00%) BrowserStack
4 2 (8.00%) Entra ID
4 2 (8.00%) Microsoft Copilot
4 2 (8.00%) Mimecast
4 2 (8.00%) SaaS
5 1 (4.00%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.00%) DHCP
1 2 (8.00%) DNS
1 2 (8.00%) Firewall
1 2 (8.00%) SD-WAN
1 2 (8.00%) VLAN
1 2 (8.00%) WAN
2 1 (4.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (28.00%) SQL Server
2 5 (20.00%) Power BI
2 5 (20.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 2 (8.00%) BusinessObjects
4 1 (4.00%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 2 (8.00%) Cypress.io
1 2 (8.00%) JIRA
1 2 (8.00%) JMeter
1 2 (8.00%) Postman
1 2 (8.00%) Selenium
1 2 (8.00%) SoapUI
General
1 12 (48.00%) Finance
2 8 (32.00%) Social Skills
3 3 (12.00%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (12.00%) Banking
4 2 (8.00%) Front Office
4 2 (8.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (4.00%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (4.00%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (4.00%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 11 (44.00%) Developer
2 7 (28.00%) Automation Developer
2 7 (28.00%) Robotic Process Automation Developer
3 4 (16.00%) Analyst
3 4 (16.00%) Lead
4 3 (12.00%) Automation Engineer
5 2 (8.00%) Applications Developer
5 2 (8.00%) Applications Support
5 2 (8.00%) Applications Support Analyst
5 2 (8.00%) Automation Test Lead
5 2 (8.00%) Business Analyst
5 2 (8.00%) Consultant
5 2 (8.00%) Lead Consultant
5 2 (8.00%) Microsoft 365 Consultant
5 2 (8.00%) Support Analyst
5 2 (8.00%) Test Leader
6 1 (4.00%) ABAP Developer
6 1 (4.00%) Product Manager
6 1 (4.00%) SAP Developer
6 1 (4.00%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (20.00%) .NET
2 1 (4.00%) JSON
2 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Graph
2 1 (4.00%) Middleware
2 1 (4.00%) REST
2 1 (4.00%) RESTful
2 1 (4.00%) SAP Fiori
2 1 (4.00%) SOAP
2 1 (4.00%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 2 (8.00%) Data Centre
1 2 (8.00%) Data Protection Act
1 2 (8.00%) Greenfield Project
1 2 (8.00%) Legacy Systems
1 2 (8.00%) Robotics
2 1 (4.00%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 3 (12.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (24.00%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (20.00%) Agile
2 5 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
2 5 (20.00%) Data Analysis
2 5 (20.00%) DevOps
2 5 (20.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 5 (20.00%) User Acceptance Testing
3 4 (16.00%) Business Case
3 4 (16.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 4 (16.00%) Data Reconciliation
3 4 (16.00%) Test Automation
4 3 (12.00%) CI/CD
4 3 (12.00%) Computer Science
4 3 (12.00%) Validation
5 2 (8.00%) Business Continuity
5 2 (8.00%) Integration Testing
5 2 (8.00%) Migration
5 2 (8.00%) Project Management
5 2 (8.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 2 (8.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 7 (28.00%) SQL
2 5 (20.00%) C#
3 1 (4.00%) ABAP
3 1 (4.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (12.00%) Degree
2 2 (8.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (4.00%) CAPM
3 1 (4.00%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.00%) Data Quality
1 2 (8.00%) QA
2 1 (4.00%) PMO
System Software
1 2 (8.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (8.00%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 2 (8.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (8.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 8 (32.00%) UiPath
2 5 (20.00%) Blue Prism
2 5 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 5 (20.00%) Oracle
3 2 (8.00%) Ariba
3 2 (8.00%) eFront
3 2 (8.00%) Nintex
3 2 (8.00%) Salesforce
3 2 (8.00%) SAP
4 1 (4.00%) Citrix