Robotic Process Automation Contracts

Robotics Process Automation (RPA)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Robotic Process Automation skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Robotic Process Automation over the 6 months to 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 561 641 772
Rank change year-on-year +80 +131 -125
Contract jobs citing Robotic Process Automation 10 46 72
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.023% 0.081% 0.082%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.027% 0.090% 0.091%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 28 43
10th Percentile £419 £348 £361
25th Percentile £434 £388 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +13.89% -10.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £653 £600 £575
90th Percentile £691 £814 £646
UK excluding London median daily rate £575 £450 £523
% change year-on-year +27.78% -13.88% +12.97%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 7
10th Percentile - - £19.50
25th Percentile - - £20.25
Median hourly rate £12.53 - £21.00
75th Percentile - - £23.75
90th Percentile - - £30.60
UK excluding London median hourly rate £12.53 - £21.00

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Robotic Process Automation is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,673 51,121 79,325
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.13% 89.77% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,631 35,432 55,673
10th Percentile £300 £325 £344
25th Percentile £413 £438 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +7.07%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £480
% change year-on-year - +4.17% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,440 1,683 1,892
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.99 £16.01 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.05 £36.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +0.13% +40.19% +7.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.54
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -4.99%

Robotic Process Automation
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Robotic Process Automation in the UK

Robotic Process Automation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Robotic Process Automation.

Daily rate trend for Robotic Process Automation in the UK

Robotic Process Automation
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Robotic Process Automation over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Robotic Process Automation in the UK

Robotic Process Automation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Robotic Process Automation.

Hourly rate trend for Robotic Process Automation in the UK

Robotic Process Automation
Top 8 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Robotic Process Automation within the UK over the 6 months to 18 May 2024. 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +78 7 £463 - 21
UK excluding London +58 6 £575 +27.78% 18
Work from Home +89 3 £550 +22.22% 15
North of England +35 3 - - 7
Yorkshire +17 3 - - 2
London +71 2 £558 +23.89% 4
Scotland - 2 £675 -
South East +31 1 £475 +5.56% 4

Robotic Process 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 (10.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (30.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 1 (10.00%) AWS
1 1 (10.00%) Azure
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (10.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (20.00%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (10.00%) Power BI
General
1 5 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (20.00%) Finance
3 1 (10.00%) German Language
3 1 (10.00%) Police
3 1 (10.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (30.00%) Analyst
1 3 (30.00%) Lead
1 3 (30.00%) Service Analyst
1 3 (30.00%) Service Desk Analyst
2 2 (20.00%) Consultant
2 2 (20.00%) Test Leader
3 1 (10.00%) Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Automation Consultant
3 1 (10.00%) Automation Specialist
3 1 (10.00%) Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Robotic Process Automation Consultant
3 1 (10.00%) Robotic Process Automation Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Senior
3 1 (10.00%) Senior Consultant
3 1 (10.00%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (10.00%) .NET
1 1 (10.00%) CSS
1 1 (10.00%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Robotics
2 1 (10.00%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (10.00%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 2 (20.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (40.00%) Test Automation
2 3 (30.00%) Change Management
2 3 (30.00%) Computer Science
2 3 (30.00%) Incident Management
2 3 (30.00%) ITIL
2 3 (30.00%) Problem Management
2 3 (30.00%) Process Management
2 3 (30.00%) Service Management
2 3 (30.00%) Test Strategy
2 3 (30.00%) Trend Analysis
2 3 (30.00%) User Acceptance Testing
3 2 (20.00%) Collaborative Culture
3 2 (20.00%) Data Protection
3 2 (20.00%) Decision-Making
3 2 (20.00%) Defect Management
3 2 (20.00%) Impact Assessments
3 2 (20.00%) Integration Testing
3 2 (20.00%) Non-Functional Testing
3 2 (20.00%) Regression Testing
3 2 (20.00%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 1 (10.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (10.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (10.00%) Python
1 1 (10.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (30.00%) Degree
2 2 (20.00%) SC Cleared
2 2 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) Disclosure Scotland
Vendors
1 3 (30.00%) Kofax
1 3 (30.00%) UiPath
2 2 (20.00%) Blue Prism
2 2 (20.00%) Oracle
3 1 (10.00%) Microsoft