Intelligent Automation Job Trends in London

Intelligent Automation (Intelligent Process Automation)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in London requiring Intelligent Automation skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 314 425 449
Rank change year-on-year +111 +24 +165
Permanent jobs citing Intelligent Automation 60 8 3
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.43% 0.052% 0.016%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.49% 0.055% 0.018%
Number of salaries quoted 37 4 3
10th Percentile - - £65,500
25th Percentile £38,750 £73,750 £66,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £88,750 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -26.76% +26.79% +11.41%
75th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £73,125
90th Percentile £101,000 - £73,500
England median annual salary £42,500 £77,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -45.16% +3.33% +16.28%

All Process & Methodology Skills
London

Intelligent Automation falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 12,179 14,601 16,983
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 87.59% 94.58% 92.42%
Number of salaries quoted 7,774 8,034 13,619
10th Percentile £36,250 £43,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £51,263 £56,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £74,250 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.00% - -
75th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £117,500 £120,875 £115,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Intelligent Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Intelligent Automation relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in London.

Intelligent Automation job vacancy trend in London

Intelligent Automation
Salary Trend in London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing Intelligent Automation.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing Intelligent Automation

Intelligent Automation
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Intelligent Automation in London over the 6 months to 12 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Intelligent Automation in London

Intelligent Automation
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Intelligent Automation within the London region over the 6 months to 12 January 2026. 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South London - 15 £42,500 -
Central London - 9 £95,000 - 4
West London - 1 £65,000 - 1
Intelligent Automation
England

Intelligent Automation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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:

Application Platforms
1 14 (23.33%) Appian
2 4 (6.67%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (3.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (5.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 24 (40.00%) Power Platform
2 23 (38.33%) Azure
3 16 (26.67%) Azure AI
4 14 (23.33%) Power Automate
5 12 (20.00%) Azure Data Factory
6 11 (18.33%) Anthropic Claude
7 7 (11.67%) GitHub
8 6 (10.00%) GCP
8 6 (10.00%) GitHub Actions
8 6 (10.00%) Microsoft Copilot
9 4 (6.67%) AWS
9 4 (6.67%) Datadog
9 4 (6.67%) n8n
9 4 (6.67%) Prefect
10 3 (5.00%) ChatGPT
10 3 (5.00%) Copilot Studio
11 2 (3.33%) Matillion
11 2 (3.33%) Microsoft 365
11 2 (3.33%) Snowflake
11 2 (3.33%) Zapier
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.67%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (21.67%) Pinecone
2 9 (15.00%) SQL Server
3 4 (6.67%) Relational Database
3 4 (6.67%) Weaviate
4 3 (5.00%) Power BI
4 3 (5.00%) Power Query
5 2 (3.33%) MongoDB
5 2 (3.33%) NoSQL
5 2 (3.33%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 9 (15.00%) MLflow
2 1 (1.67%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 34 (56.67%) Finance
2 22 (36.67%) Social Skills
3 5 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (6.67%) Financial Institution
4 4 (6.67%) Health Technology
5 3 (5.00%) Marketing
6 2 (3.33%) Electronics
6 2 (3.33%) Legal
6 2 (3.33%) Manufacturing
6 2 (3.33%) Public Sector
6 2 (3.33%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 17 (28.33%) Developer
2 14 (23.33%) Automation Developer
3 11 (18.33%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 11 (18.33%) Senior
4 9 (15.00%) Automation Engineer
4 9 (15.00%) Power Platform Developer
4 9 (15.00%) Robotic Process Automation Developer
5 8 (13.33%) Analyst
6 7 (11.67%) Lead
7 6 (10.00%) Automation Analyst
7 6 (10.00%) Senior Software Engineer
7 6 (10.00%) Software Engineer
8 5 (8.33%) Python Developer
9 4 (6.67%) Development Manager
10 3 (5.00%) Azure Developer
10 3 (5.00%) Business Intelligence Manager
10 3 (5.00%) Lead Developer
10 3 (5.00%) Low-Code Developer
10 3 (5.00%) Senior Developer
10 3 (5.00%) Senior Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (25.00%) REST
2 13 (21.67%) Django
2 13 (21.67%) FastAPI
2 13 (21.67%) PyTorch
2 13 (21.67%) scikit-learn
2 13 (21.67%) TensorFlow
2 13 (21.67%) Web Services
3 11 (18.33%) RESTful
4 9 (15.00%) Faiss
4 9 (15.00%) Flask
4 9 (15.00%) Hugging Face
4 9 (15.00%) JWT
4 9 (15.00%) NumPy
4 9 (15.00%) OAuth
4 9 (15.00%) OpenAPI
4 9 (15.00%) Pandas
4 9 (15.00%) pytest
4 9 (15.00%) Swagger
5 8 (13.33%) Node.js
5 8 (13.33%) React
Miscellaneous
1 17 (28.33%) Greenfield Project
2 16 (26.67%) Low-Code
3 11 (18.33%) Cloud Native
4 9 (15.00%) Legacy Systems
5 6 (10.00%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (6.67%) Hackathon
7 3 (5.00%) e-Learning
8 2 (3.33%) AI Agents
9 1 (1.67%) Enterprise Software
9 1 (1.67%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (95.00%) AI
2 24 (40.00%) LLM
2 24 (40.00%) User Acceptance Testing
3 23 (38.33%) Roadmaps
4 21 (35.00%) Agile
5 18 (30.00%) Workflow
6 17 (28.33%) CI/CD
7 16 (26.67%) Machine Learning
8 15 (25.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
8 15 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
9 14 (23.33%) Prompt Engineering
10 13 (21.67%) Change Management
10 13 (21.67%) Containerisation
10 13 (21.67%) MLOps
10 13 (21.67%) Open Source
11 12 (20.00%) Analytics
11 12 (20.00%) Data Modelling
11 12 (20.00%) Requirements Gathering
12 11 (18.33%) Asynchronous Programming
12 11 (18.33%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 31 (51.67%) Python
2 30 (50.00%) SQL
3 8 (13.33%) TypeScript
4 6 (10.00%) JavaScript
5 4 (6.67%) C#
5 4 (6.67%) Go
5 4 (6.67%) Java
6 1 (1.67%) Bicep
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (16.67%) Data Quality
2 4 (6.67%) SLA
System Software
1 14 (23.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 14 (23.33%) Kubernetes
2 4 (6.67%) Ansible
2 4 (6.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 29 (48.33%) Microsoft
2 15 (25.00%) Blue Prism
2 15 (25.00%) OpenAI
3 11 (18.33%) UiPath
4 9 (15.00%) Automation Anywhere
5 2 (3.33%) Google
5 2 (3.33%) iManage
5 2 (3.33%) SAP
6 1 (1.67%) Foundry
6 1 (1.67%) ServiceNow