Robotic Process Automation Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Robotics Process Automation (RPA)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Robotic Process Automation skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 496 536 549
Rank change year-on-year +40 +13 +89
Permanent jobs citing Robotic Process Automation 10 36 18
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.024% 0.10% 0.052%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.030% 0.11% 0.059%
Number of salaries quoted 10 11 17
10th Percentile £15,500 £36,250 £40,200
25th Percentile £40,000 £40,380 £42,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,000 £51,251 £49,990
Median % change year-on-year -18.05% +2.52% -8.91%
75th Percentile £56,780 £55,941 £57,500
90th Percentile £92,500 £68,250 £72,024
UK median annual salary £42,000 £60,000 £59,500
% change year-on-year -30.00% +0.84% +8.41%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 33,128 31,909 30,715
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 78.51% 88.95% 88.65%
Number of salaries quoted 19,079 14,313 22,914
10th Percentile £27,750 £31,250 £28,000
25th Percentile £33,500 £41,250 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +5.77% -5.45%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £66,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Robotic Process Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Robotic Process Automation job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Robotic Process Automation
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Robotic Process Automation

Robotic Process Automation
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Robotic Process Automation in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 13 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Robotic Process Automation in the UK excluding London

Robotic Process Automation
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Robotic Process Automation within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 13 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
North of England +29 5 £42,000 +1.82% 1
Yorkshire - 5 £42,000 -
South East +14 4 £51,500 - 3
Midlands +9 1 £59,527 +13.45% 1
West Midlands +7 1 £59,527 +13.45% 1
Robotic Process Automation
UK

Robotic Process Automation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 4 (40.00%) Apache
1 4 (40.00%) Apache Airflow
1 4 (40.00%) Appian
Business Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Integrated Workplace Management System
Cloud Services
1 9 (90.00%) AWS
2 5 (50.00%) Entra ID
2 5 (50.00%) Power Automate
2 5 (50.00%) Power Platform
3 4 (40.00%) Amazon S3
3 4 (40.00%) Azure
3 4 (40.00%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (40.00%) MinIO
4 1 (10.00%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (10.00%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (40.00%) Airbyte
Development Applications
1 4 (40.00%) Robot Framework
1 4 (40.00%) Selenium
1 4 (40.00%) Snyk
General
1 1 (10.00%) Finance
1 1 (10.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 1 (10.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (50.00%) Applications Specialist
1 5 (50.00%) Applications Support
1 5 (50.00%) Applications Support Specialist
1 5 (50.00%) Support Specialist
2 4 (40.00%) Applications Architect
2 4 (40.00%) Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (50.00%) .NET
1 5 (50.00%) CSS
1 5 (50.00%) HTML
1 5 (50.00%) Microsoft Graph
2 4 (40.00%) Apache NiFi
2 4 (40.00%) Kafka
3 1 (10.00%) EDI
Miscellaneous
1 5 (50.00%) Low-Code
1 5 (50.00%) Product Ownership
2 4 (40.00%) Cloud Native
3 1 (10.00%) AI Agents
3 1 (10.00%) IoT
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (60.00%) SDLC
2 5 (50.00%) Agile
2 5 (50.00%) Data Integration
2 5 (50.00%) DevOps
2 5 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (50.00%) Web Development
3 4 (40.00%) API Management
3 4 (40.00%) Application Security
3 4 (40.00%) Architectural Patterns
3 4 (40.00%) CI/CD
3 4 (40.00%) Data Pipeline
3 4 (40.00%) DevSecOps
3 4 (40.00%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
3 4 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 4 (40.00%) Interactive Application Security Testing
3 4 (40.00%) Microservices
3 4 (40.00%) Secrets Management
3 4 (40.00%) Technical Leadership
3 4 (40.00%) Use Case
3 4 (40.00%) Web Design
Programming Languages
1 9 (90.00%) Python
2 5 (50.00%) C#
2 5 (50.00%) Java
2 5 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 5 (50.00%) PHP
2 5 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 5 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (20.00%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) Accessibility
Systems Management
1 4 (40.00%) Ansible
1 4 (40.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (60.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (40.00%) BiZZdesign
2 4 (40.00%) Black Duck
2 4 (40.00%) Blue Prism
2 4 (40.00%) Coverity
2 4 (40.00%) UiPath
2 4 (40.00%) VMware
3 1 (10.00%) Planon
3 1 (10.00%) Salesforce
3 1 (10.00%) ServiceNow