Robotic Process Automation Contracts

Robotics Process Automation (RPA)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 2 December 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 581 760 724
Rank change year-on-year +179 -36 -184
Contract jobs citing Robotic Process Automation 25 55 147
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.055% 0.071% 0.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.063% 0.078% 0.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 35 92
10th Percentile £273 £363 £364
25th Percentile £403 £405 £436
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -9.09% +22.22%
75th Percentile £568 £675 £625
90th Percentile £669 £745 £761
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £468 £523
% change year-on-year -9.09% -10.53% +22.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 4
10th Percentile - - £20.13
25th Percentile - £23.33 £20.69
Median hourly rate - £24.58 £21.25
Median % change year-on-year - +15.67% +4.94%
75th Percentile - £25.83 £24.37
90th Percentile - - £26.39
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £24.58 £21.00
% change year-on-year - +17.05% +3.70%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 39,878 70,129 81,160
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 88.53% 90.19% 90.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,689 48,551 56,740
10th Percentile £310 £340 £319
25th Percentile £425 £450 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £550 £520
Median % change year-on-year -3.09% +5.77% +9.47%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £620
90th Percentile £745 £750 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £463
% change year-on-year - +8.11% +7.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,538 1,701 2,012
10th Percentile £14.36 £13.41 £11.91
25th Percentile £19.06 £17.38 £13.50
Median hourly rate £43.63 £35.00 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +24.64% +62.79% -15.69%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £46.88
90th Percentile £77.50 £72.00 £62.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.95 £31.21 £18.00
% change year-on-year +40.82% +73.39% -20.00%

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 2 December 2023.

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 11 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 2 December 2023. 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 +172 24 £450 -10.00% 38
UK excluding London +97 15 £425 -9.09% 15
Work from Home +159 13 £440 -31.38% 13
London +150 8 £663 +25.00% 28
North of England +55 5 £413 -34.78% 3
South East +48 5 £425 -10.53% 5
North West +50 3 £375 - 3
East of England +25 3 £427 +15.47% 1
West Midlands +65 2 £425 +3.03% 2
Midlands +59 2 £425 +3.03% 3
Yorkshire +27 2 £450 -28.85%

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 5 (20.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (8.00%) Chatbot
1 2 (8.00%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (8.00%) MS Visio
2 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (4.00%) Misys Opics
1 1 (4.00%) Oracle General Ledger
1 1 (4.00%) Oracle Receivables
1 1 (4.00%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 6 (24.00%) Azure
2 5 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (16.00%) Power Platform
4 3 (12.00%) Datadog
5 2 (8.00%) AWS
5 2 (8.00%) ChatGPT
5 2 (8.00%) OneDrive
6 1 (4.00%) Azure API Management
6 1 (4.00%) Azure Cognitive Services
6 1 (4.00%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (4.00%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (4.00%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (4.00%) Azure Service Bus
6 1 (4.00%) FinancialForce
6 1 (4.00%) NuGet
6 1 (4.00%) PaaS
6 1 (4.00%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (16.00%) SQL Server
2 3 (12.00%) Power BI
3 1 (4.00%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (4.00%) DB2
3 1 (4.00%) Hadoop
3 1 (4.00%) RDBMS
3 1 (4.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (4.00%) Git
1 1 (4.00%) Robot Framework
General
1 9 (36.00%) Finance
2 8 (32.00%) Social Skills
3 4 (16.00%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (12.00%) Retail
5 2 (8.00%) Automotive
5 2 (8.00%) Banking
5 2 (8.00%) Public Sector
6 1 (4.00%) General Ledger
6 1 (4.00%) Health Technology
6 1 (4.00%) Marketing
6 1 (4.00%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (36.00%) Developer
2 8 (32.00%) Analyst
3 7 (28.00%) Robotic Process Automation Developer
4 4 (16.00%) Business Analyst
5 3 (12.00%) Business Systems Analyst
5 3 (12.00%) Lead
5 3 (12.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 2 (8.00%) Architect
6 2 (8.00%) Digital Analyst
6 2 (8.00%) Engineering Manager
6 2 (8.00%) SharePoint Analyst
6 2 (8.00%) SharePoint Support
6 2 (8.00%) Site Reliability Manager
6 2 (8.00%) Software Engineer
6 2 (8.00%) Support Analyst
6 2 (8.00%) Systems Analyst
7 1 (4.00%) Azure Architect
7 1 (4.00%) Full Stack Developer
7 1 (4.00%) Integration Specialist
7 1 (4.00%) PMO Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (16.00%) .NET
2 3 (12.00%) SOAP
3 2 (8.00%) HTML
3 2 (8.00%) XML
4 1 (4.00%) CSS
4 1 (4.00%) GraphQL
4 1 (4.00%) REST
4 1 (4.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (16.00%) Low-Code
2 3 (12.00%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (4.00%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (4.00%) IBM Mainframe
3 1 (4.00%) Mainframe
3 1 (4.00%) Management Information System
3 1 (4.00%) Wiki
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (40.00%) Agile
2 7 (28.00%) Roadmaps
2 7 (28.00%) Scrum
3 6 (24.00%) Change Management
4 5 (20.00%) Requirements Gathering
4 5 (20.00%) Time Management
5 4 (16.00%) Analytics
5 4 (16.00%) Artificial Intelligence
5 4 (16.00%) Disaster Recovery
5 4 (16.00%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (12.00%) Business Continuity
6 3 (12.00%) Business Intelligence
6 3 (12.00%) Business Transformation
6 3 (12.00%) ERP
6 3 (12.00%) Migration
6 3 (12.00%) Natural Language Processing
6 3 (12.00%) Portfolio Management
6 3 (12.00%) Process Improvement
6 3 (12.00%) Service Management
6 3 (12.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (20.00%) SQL
2 4 (16.00%) C#
2 4 (16.00%) PowerShell
2 4 (16.00%) Python
3 3 (12.00%) JavaScript
4 2 (8.00%) PL/SQL
4 2 (8.00%) VB.NET
5 1 (4.00%) Bicep
5 1 (4.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (4.00%) VBA
Qualifications
1 6 (24.00%) Degree
2 1 (4.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (4.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (12.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (4.00%) PMO
System Software
1 1 (4.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (12.00%) Grafana
1 3 (12.00%) Nagios
1 3 (12.00%) Prometheus
1 3 (12.00%) ZABBIX
2 1 (4.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (24.00%) Blue Prism
1 6 (24.00%) Microsoft
1 6 (24.00%) UiPath
2 2 (8.00%) Oracle
3 1 (4.00%) IBM
3 1 (4.00%) ServiceNow
3 1 (4.00%) Workday