Intelligent Automation Jobs

Intelligent Automation (Intelligent Process Automation)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Intelligent Automation skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Intelligent Automation over the 6 months leading up to 21 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 658 822 783
Rank change year-on-year +164 -39 +203
Permanent jobs citing Intelligent Automation 60 62 194
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.11% 0.062% 0.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.11% 0.073% 0.20%
Number of salaries quoted 21 55 82
10th Percentile £47,231 £40,988 £41,250
25th Percentile £71,250 £41,250 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £50,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +55.00% -20.00% -0.79%
75th Percentile £83,750 £74,500 £82,000
90th Percentile - £96,539 £136,266
UK excluding London median annual salary £48,507 £55,000 £49,000
% change year-on-year -11.81% +12.24% +9.25%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 52,452 85,111 95,067
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.88% 85.18% 95.58%
Number of salaries quoted 26,389 59,794 56,136
10th Percentile £29,750 £29,071 £34,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £61,180
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -10.10% +1.97%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,645 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +3.29% -9.09% +4.76%

Intelligent Automation
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Intelligent Automation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Intelligent Automation in the UK

Intelligent Automation
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Intelligent Automation.

Salary trend for Intelligent Automation in the UK

Intelligent Automation
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Intelligent Automation over the 6 months to 21 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Intelligent Automation in the UK

Intelligent Automation
Top 10 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Intelligent Automation within the UK over the 6 months to 21 May 2025. 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
England +173 60 £77,500 +55.00% 71
UK excluding London +164 32 £48,507 -11.81% 38
London +138 27 £78,750 +65.79% 41
Midlands +78 23 - - 4
West Midlands +74 23 - - 3
Work from Home +100 21 £78,750 +65.79% 44
South West +126 5 £52,975 -42.90% 2
South East +88 3 - - 19
North East +37 1 £31,500 -24.59%
North of England +18 1 £31,500 -30.00% 2

Intelligent 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 1 (1.67%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 1 (1.67%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.67%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 29 (48.33%) Azure
2 19 (31.67%) Azure DevOps
3 14 (23.33%) GitHub
4 13 (21.67%) GitHub Actions
5 9 (15.00%) AWS
5 9 (15.00%) GCP
6 8 (13.33%) Azure Monitor
6 8 (13.33%) Datadog
6 8 (13.33%) npm
7 7 (11.67%) Power Platform
8 5 (8.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 5 (8.33%) Snowflake
9 4 (6.67%) Power Automate
10 2 (3.33%) Google Ads
10 2 (3.33%) Google Data Studio
10 2 (3.33%) SaaS
11 1 (1.67%) Azure Logic Apps
11 1 (1.67%) Cloud Computing
11 1 (1.67%) Dynamics 365
11 1 (1.67%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.67%) Unified Communications
1 1 (1.67%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (15.00%) BigQuery
2 5 (8.33%) Amazon Redshift
2 5 (8.33%) NoSQL
3 4 (6.67%) SQL Server
4 2 (3.33%) MySQL
4 2 (3.33%) Power BI
4 2 (3.33%) Tableau
5 1 (1.67%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 8 (13.33%) Git
2 5 (8.33%) JIRA
3 4 (6.67%) SonarQube
General
1 39 (65.00%) Finance
2 27 (45.00%) Public Sector
3 21 (35.00%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (31.67%) Social Skills
5 13 (21.67%) Marketing
6 5 (8.33%) Banking
6 5 (8.33%) Retail
7 2 (3.33%) Advertising
7 2 (3.33%) Digital Healthcare
7 2 (3.33%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.67%) Law
8 1 (1.67%) Legal
8 1 (1.67%) Police
Job Titles
1 13 (21.67%) DevOps Engineer
2 6 (10.00%) Architect
2 6 (10.00%) Lead
2 6 (10.00%) Marketing Manager
2 6 (10.00%) Operations Manager
2 6 (10.00%) Senior
3 5 (8.33%) Data Architect
3 5 (8.33%) Developer
3 5 (8.33%) Lead Architect
3 5 (8.33%) Lead Data Architect
3 5 (8.33%) Senior Developer
4 4 (6.67%) Power Platform Developer
4 4 (6.67%) Software Engineer
4 4 (6.67%) Voice Engineer
5 2 (3.33%) Business Development Director
5 2 (3.33%) Consultant
5 2 (3.33%) Development Director
5 2 (3.33%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 2 (3.33%) Product Owner
6 1 (1.67%) Presales Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (28.33%) React
2 6 (10.00%) .NET
3 4 (6.67%) .NET Framework
3 4 (6.67%) ASP.NET
3 4 (6.67%) ASP.NET Core
3 4 (6.67%) CSS
3 4 (6.67%) Entity Framework
3 4 (6.67%) HTML
3 4 (6.67%) HTML5 Canvas
3 4 (6.67%) Node.js
4 2 (3.33%) RabbitMQ
4 2 (3.33%) Spring
4 2 (3.33%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 13 (21.67%) Cloud Native
2 7 (11.67%) Legacy Systems
3 6 (10.00%) Marketing Technology
4 5 (8.33%) Data Structures
5 4 (6.67%) Mobile App
5 4 (6.67%) Robotics
6 3 (5.00%) NHS
7 2 (3.33%) Legacy Applications
7 2 (3.33%) Product Ownership
7 2 (3.33%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (3.33%) Social Media
8 1 (1.67%) Algorithms
8 1 (1.67%) CMDB
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (58.33%) Software Engineering
2 29 (48.33%) Agile
3 24 (40.00%) Artificial Intelligence
3 24 (40.00%) DevOps
4 21 (35.00%) Analytics
4 21 (35.00%) CI/CD
5 19 (31.67%) Migration
6 15 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
7 14 (23.33%) Observability
8 13 (21.67%) DevSecOps
8 13 (21.67%) Software Delivery
9 11 (18.33%) Build Automation
9 11 (18.33%) Business Development
9 11 (18.33%) Data Governance
9 11 (18.33%) Platform Engineering
9 11 (18.33%) Release Automation
9 11 (18.33%) Release Management
9 11 (18.33%) Workflow
10 10 (16.67%) Actionable Insight
10 10 (16.67%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 18 (30.00%) Python
2 16 (26.67%) Java
3 9 (15.00%) PowerShell
4 8 (13.33%) Bash
5 6 (10.00%) JavaScript
5 6 (10.00%) SQL
5 6 (10.00%) TypeScript
6 4 (6.67%) C#
7 1 (1.67%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 3 (5.00%) Degree
2 1 (1.67%) Master's Degree
2 1 (1.67%) Numerate Degree
2 1 (1.67%) PMI Certification
2 1 (1.67%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (11.67%) GDPR
2 6 (10.00%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 6 (10.00%) QA
3 1 (1.67%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.67%) ISO 9001
3 1 (1.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.67%) WCAG
System Software
1 2 (3.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (13.33%) Prometheus
2 3 (5.00%) Terraform
3 2 (3.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 12 (20.00%) Google
2 6 (10.00%) Microsoft
3 4 (6.67%) Automation Anywhere
4 2 (3.33%) Facebook
4 2 (3.33%) Hotjar
4 2 (3.33%) Instagram
4 2 (3.33%) Optimizely
4 2 (3.33%) Oracle
4 2 (3.33%) UiPath
5 1 (1.67%) AppNeta
5 1 (1.67%) Blue Prism
5 1 (1.67%) Broadcom
5 1 (1.67%) Cisco
5 1 (1.67%) Ericsson
5 1 (1.67%) Fortinet
5 1 (1.67%) IBM
5 1 (1.67%) Salesforce