Robotic Process Automation Job Trends in London

Robotics Process Automation (RPA)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in London requiring Robotic Process 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 359 415 423
Rank change year-on-year +56 +8 +102
Permanent jobs citing Robotic Process Automation 15 18 29
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.11% 0.12% 0.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.12% 0.12% 0.17%
Number of salaries quoted 0 9 17
10th Percentile - £54,250 £52,050
25th Percentile - £60,000 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.14% +27.55%
75th Percentile - £81,250 £77,500
90th Percentile - £102,000 £90,000
England median annual salary £42,000 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -30.00% -4.00% +13.88%

All Process & Methodology Skills
London

Robotic Process 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%

Robotic Process Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Robotic Process Automation job vacancy trend in London

Robotic Process Automation
Salary Trend in London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing Robotic Process Automation.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing Robotic Process Automation

Robotic Process 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 9 (60.00%) Appian
Cloud Services
1 9 (60.00%) Anthropic Claude
1 9 (60.00%) Azure
1 9 (60.00%) Azure AI
1 9 (60.00%) Azure Data Factory
1 9 (60.00%) Power Automate
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (60.00%) Pinecone
1 9 (60.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (6.67%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 9 (60.00%) MLflow
2 1 (6.67%) JIRA
General
1 10 (66.67%) Finance
1 10 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 4 (26.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (6.67%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 9 (60.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
1 9 (60.00%) Automation Engineer
2 4 (26.67%) Analyst
2 4 (26.67%) Data Analyst
2 4 (26.67%) Senior
2 4 (26.67%) Senior Analyst
2 4 (26.67%) Senior Data Analyst
3 2 (13.33%) Developer
4 1 (6.67%) Applications Developer
4 1 (6.67%) Automation Developer
4 1 (6.67%) Python Developer
4 1 (6.67%) Quantitative Developer
4 1 (6.67%) Robotic Process Automation Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (60.00%) Django
1 9 (60.00%) Faiss
1 9 (60.00%) FastAPI
1 9 (60.00%) Flask
1 9 (60.00%) Hugging Face
1 9 (60.00%) JWT
1 9 (60.00%) NumPy
1 9 (60.00%) OAuth
1 9 (60.00%) OpenAPI
1 9 (60.00%) Pandas
1 9 (60.00%) pytest
1 9 (60.00%) PyTorch
1 9 (60.00%) REST
1 9 (60.00%) RESTful
1 9 (60.00%) scikit-learn
1 9 (60.00%) Swagger
1 9 (60.00%) TensorFlow
1 9 (60.00%) Web Services
2 1 (6.67%) AngularJS
2 1 (6.67%) React
Miscellaneous
1 9 (60.00%) Legacy Systems
1 9 (60.00%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (86.67%) Data Modelling
1 13 (86.67%) Machine Learning
2 10 (66.67%) CI/CD
3 9 (60.00%) Change Management
3 9 (60.00%) Clean Code
3 9 (60.00%) Containerisation
3 9 (60.00%) Data Pipeline
3 9 (60.00%) Deployment Automation
3 9 (60.00%) ETL
3 9 (60.00%) Feature Engineering
3 9 (60.00%) Generative AI
3 9 (60.00%) Intelligent Automation
3 9 (60.00%) LLM
3 9 (60.00%) MLOps
3 9 (60.00%) Natural Language Understanding
3 9 (60.00%) OOD
3 9 (60.00%) Prompt Engineering
3 9 (60.00%) Requirements Gathering
3 9 (60.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
3 9 (60.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 11 (73.33%) SQL
2 10 (66.67%) Python
3 1 (6.67%) C#
3 1 (6.67%) C++
Qualifications
1 1 (6.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (60.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 9 (60.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (60.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 11 (73.33%) UiPath
2 9 (60.00%) Automation Anywhere
2 9 (60.00%) OpenAI
3 4 (26.67%) Cisco
3 4 (26.67%) Microsoft
3 4 (26.67%) Salesforce
4 1 (6.67%) Citrix