Hybrid/Remote Intelligent Automation Contract Job Trends

Intelligent Automation (Intelligent Process Automation)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Intelligent Automation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 290 310 368
Rank change year-on-year +20 +58 +174
Contract jobs citing Intelligent Automation 24 4 6
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.23% 0.034% 0.035%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.26% 0.038% 0.040%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 2 6
10th Percentile - £414 -
25th Percentile £294 £450 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £346 £521 £535
Median % change year-on-year -33.48% -2.71% -33.93%
75th Percentile £395 £604 £645
90th Percentile £538 £647 -
UK median daily rate £538 £374 £620
% change year-on-year +43.91% -39.76% -17.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £55.95 - -
Median hourly rate £57.30 - -
75th Percentile £58.65 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £31.49 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

Intelligent 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 with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 9,289 10,391 15,174
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 90.88% 89.11% 88.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,123 6,538 10,363
10th Percentile £331 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £638
90th Percentile £720 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 330 211 367
10th Percentile £15.30 £18.10 £19.69
25th Percentile £20.50 £22.00 £27.50
Median hourly rate £42.50 £36.00 £54.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.06% -33.33% -2.35%
75th Percentile £65.00 £64.30 £70.98
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £86.90
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £43.33
% change year-on-year -22.62% -24.99% +23.80%

Intelligent Automation
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Intelligent Automation and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Intelligent Automation job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

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Daily Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Intelligent Automation.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Intelligent Automation

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Daily Rate Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Intelligent Automation over the 6 months to 19 December 2025.

Intelligent Automation daily rate histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Applications
1 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (4.17%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 6 (25.00%) AtomSphere
1 6 (25.00%) AWS
1 6 (25.00%) Boomi
1 6 (25.00%) SaaS
2 4 (16.67%) Power Platform
3 2 (8.33%) Amazon EC2
3 2 (8.33%) Amazon S3
3 2 (8.33%) AWS CloudFormation
3 2 (8.33%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (8.33%) Salesforce Einstein
3 2 (8.33%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
3 2 (8.33%) Salesforce Service Cloud
3 2 (8.33%) Serverless
4 1 (4.17%) Anthropic Claude
4 1 (4.17%) ChatGPT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (8.33%) Metadata
1 2 (8.33%) Pinecone
General
1 9 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 8 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (25.00%) Finance
4 2 (8.33%) Banking
4 2 (8.33%) Corporate Banking
4 2 (8.33%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (8.33%) Investment Banking
4 2 (8.33%) Retail
4 2 (8.33%) Retail Banking
5 1 (4.17%) Manufacturing
5 1 (4.17%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 11 (45.83%) Developer
2 6 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 6 (25.00%) Integration Developer
3 4 (16.67%) Automation Developer
3 4 (16.67%) Implementation Engineer
4 3 (12.50%) Robotic Process Automation Developer
5 2 (8.33%) Architect
5 2 (8.33%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
5 2 (8.33%) Automation Engineer
5 2 (8.33%) Gen AI Engineer
5 2 (8.33%) Software Engineer
6 1 (4.17%) ABAP Developer
6 1 (4.17%) Applications Engineer
6 1 (4.17%) AWS Engineer
6 1 (4.17%) Process Manager
6 1 (4.17%) Python Engineer
6 1 (4.17%) SAP Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (25.00%) JSON
1 6 (25.00%) REST
1 6 (25.00%) SOAP
1 6 (25.00%) XML
2 3 (12.50%) LangChain
3 2 (8.33%) LangGraph
3 2 (8.33%) Lightning Web Components
3 2 (8.33%) Middleware
4 1 (4.17%) BAPI
4 1 (4.17%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 4 (16.67%) AI Agents
2 3 (12.50%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (4.17%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (4.17%) Autonomous Agent
3 1 (4.17%) IoT
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (62.50%) Agile
1 15 (62.50%) AI
2 10 (41.67%) CI/CD
3 9 (37.50%) Machine Learning
4 8 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
4 8 (33.33%) Validation
5 7 (29.17%) LLM
5 7 (29.17%) Use Case
6 6 (25.00%) Customer Engagement
6 6 (25.00%) DevOps
6 6 (25.00%) Integration Patterns
6 6 (25.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
6 6 (25.00%) Translating Business Requirements
6 6 (25.00%) Workflow
7 5 (20.83%) Generative AI
7 5 (20.83%) Prompt Engineering
7 5 (20.83%) Roadmaps
8 4 (16.67%) MLOps
9 3 (12.50%) Analytics
9 3 (12.50%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 7 (29.17%) Java
2 6 (25.00%) C#
2 6 (25.00%) Groovy
2 6 (25.00%) JavaScript
2 6 (25.00%) T-SQL
3 5 (20.83%) Python
3 5 (20.83%) SQL
4 2 (8.33%) Apex Code
5 1 (4.17%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 4 (16.67%) MCP
2 1 (4.17%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (4.17%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (4.17%) Degree
2 1 (4.17%) SC Cleared
2 1 (4.17%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.17%) QA
Systems Management
1 2 (8.33%) Terraform
2 1 (4.17%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (20.83%) Microsoft
2 3 (12.50%) Blue Prism
3 2 (8.33%) Salesforce
3 2 (8.33%) SAP
4 1 (4.17%) Automation Anywhere