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 24 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 570 666 766
Rank change year-on-year +96 +100 -160
Contract jobs citing Robotic Process Automation 12 46 89
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.028% 0.076% 0.100%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.032% 0.085% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 27 54
10th Percentile £348 £347 £406
25th Percentile £403 £388 £448
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £525
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -14.29% +16.67%
75th Percentile £689 £600 £612
90th Percentile £708 £823 £761
UK excluding London median daily rate £483 £450 £525
% change year-on-year +7.22% -14.29% +16.67%
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 excluding London median hourly rate £12.53 - £21.00

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 37,651 54,096 80,844
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.29% 89.91% 90.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,333 37,469 56,726
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,430 1,787 1,945
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.66 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.50 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +50.00% -
75th Percentile £58.75 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.34 £75.00 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.65 £37.30 £20.00
% change year-on-year -4.42% +86.50% -8.09%

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 24 April 2024.

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 9 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 24 April 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 +93 9 £438 -7.89% 18
UK excluding London +55 6 £483 +7.22% 10
London +76 4 £558 +23.89% 6
Work from Home +105 3 £550 +22.22% 6
North of England +41 3 - - 2
Yorkshire +28 3 - - 1
Scotland - 2 £675 -
Midlands - 1 £290 - 2
West Midlands - 1 £290 - 2

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 3 (25.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (41.67%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (16.67%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 4 (33.33%) Azure
2 3 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (8.33%) AWS
3 1 (8.33%) Azure API Management
3 1 (8.33%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (8.33%) Azure Logic Apps
3 1 (8.33%) Azure Service Bus
3 1 (8.33%) NuGet
3 1 (8.33%) PaaS
3 1 (8.33%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (16.67%) Oracle Reports
1 2 (16.67%) SQL Server
2 1 (8.33%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Git
General
1 5 (41.67%) Public Sector
2 4 (33.33%) Finance
3 2 (16.67%) Social Skills
4 1 (8.33%) Banking
4 1 (8.33%) German Language
4 1 (8.33%) Police
Job Titles
1 3 (25.00%) Analyst
1 3 (25.00%) Developer
1 3 (25.00%) Lead
1 3 (25.00%) Robotic Process Automation Developer
1 3 (25.00%) Service Analyst
1 3 (25.00%) Service Desk Analyst
2 2 (16.67%) Architect
2 2 (16.67%) Test Leader
3 1 (8.33%) Automation Consultant
3 1 (8.33%) Automation Specialist
3 1 (8.33%) Azure Architect
3 1 (8.33%) Azure Data Architect
3 1 (8.33%) Consultant
3 1 (8.33%) Data Architect
3 1 (8.33%) Data Integration Architect
3 1 (8.33%) Data Integration Specialist
3 1 (8.33%) Integration Architect
3 1 (8.33%) Integration Specialist
3 1 (8.33%) Senior Consultant
3 1 (8.33%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (25.00%) .NET
1 3 (25.00%) SOAP
2 2 (16.67%) XML
3 1 (8.33%) CSS
3 1 (8.33%) GraphQL
3 1 (8.33%) HTML
3 1 (8.33%) REST
3 1 (8.33%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (16.67%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (8.33%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (8.33%) Low-Code
2 1 (8.33%) Robotics
2 1 (8.33%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 2 (16.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (33.33%) Change Management
1 4 (33.33%) Scrum
2 3 (25.00%) Agile
2 3 (25.00%) Computer Science
2 3 (25.00%) Data Protection
2 3 (25.00%) Incident Management
2 3 (25.00%) Integration Testing
2 3 (25.00%) ITIL
2 3 (25.00%) Kanban
2 3 (25.00%) Machine Learning
2 3 (25.00%) Problem Management
2 3 (25.00%) Process Management
2 3 (25.00%) Service Management
2 3 (25.00%) Test Automation
2 3 (25.00%) Test Strategy
2 3 (25.00%) Trend Analysis
2 3 (25.00%) User Acceptance Testing
3 2 (16.67%) Non-Functional Testing
3 2 (16.67%) Release Management
3 2 (16.67%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 4 (33.33%) SQL
2 3 (25.00%) C#
3 2 (16.67%) PL/SQL
3 2 (16.67%) PowerShell
3 2 (16.67%) Python
3 2 (16.67%) VB.NET
4 1 (8.33%) Bicep
4 1 (8.33%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 3 (25.00%) Degree
2 2 (16.67%) SC Cleared
2 2 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.33%) Data Quality
1 1 (8.33%) Disclosure Scotland
Systems Management
1 1 (8.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (33.33%) UiPath
2 3 (25.00%) Kofax
3 2 (16.67%) Blue Prism
3 2 (16.67%) Microsoft
3 2 (16.67%) Oracle
4 1 (8.33%) ServiceNow