Robotic Process Automation Jobs

Robotics Process Automation (RPA)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Robotic Process Automation skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries 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 803 737 742
Rank change year-on-year -66 +5 -47
Permanent jobs citing Robotic Process Automation 87 243 560
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.087% 0.25% 0.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.10% 0.26% 0.36%
Number of salaries quoted 81 118 124
10th Percentile £31,250 £35,427 £34,875
25th Percentile £46,250 £47,125 £40,716
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £46,750
Median % change year-on-year - +17.65% -3.61%
75th Percentile £62,200 £66,250 £61,563
90th Percentile £76,250 £73,250 £75,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £54,250 £51,000 £44,850
% change year-on-year +6.37% +13.71% -0.33%

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 permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 85,135 94,784 153,905
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.22% 95.58% 95.76%
Number of salaries quoted 59,872 55,911 82,488
10th Percentile £29,089 £34,000 £33,635
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

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
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Robotic Process Automation in the UK

Robotic Process Automation
Salary Histogram

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

Salary histogram for Robotic Process Automation in the UK

Robotic Process Automation
Top 14 Job Locations

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 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -52 81 £55,000 - 21
UK excluding London -73 64 £54,250 +6.37% 18
Work from Home +14 43 £56,500 +2.95% 15
South West -19 21 £55,000 +0.22%
London +5 20 £56,500 -1.74% 4
North of England +41 17 £47,500 -13.45% 7
West Midlands +22 17 £55,000 +11.68% 3
Midlands 0 17 £55,000 +10.00% 4
North West +9 8 £31,500 -42.60% 5
Yorkshire +66 7 £47,500 -13.45% 2
Wales +8 4 £97,500 +129.41% 1
South East -10 4 £23,500 -47.39% 4
North East - 2 £62,783 -
Scotland -66 1 £30,000 -45.34%

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 15 (17.24%) Confluence
2 7 (8.05%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (2.30%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 18 (20.69%) Power Platform
2 16 (18.39%) Microsoft 365
2 16 (18.39%) Power Automate
3 13 (14.94%) Dynamics 365
4 12 (13.79%) AWS
4 12 (13.79%) PowerApps
5 11 (12.64%) Azure
6 10 (11.49%) SaaS
7 9 (10.34%) Boomi
7 9 (10.34%) iPaaS
8 6 (6.90%) BlazeMeter
8 6 (6.90%) BrowserStack
8 6 (6.90%) GCP
9 3 (3.45%) Amazon EC2
9 3 (3.45%) AWS CloudFormation
9 3 (3.45%) Cloud Computing
9 3 (3.45%) Slack
9 3 (3.45%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 2 (2.30%) PaaS
11 1 (1.15%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.45%) Firewall
1 3 (3.45%) HTTPS
1 3 (3.45%) SSL
2 1 (1.15%) VoIP
2 1 (1.15%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (17.24%) SQL Server
2 11 (12.64%) Power BI
3 9 (10.34%) MySQL
4 1 (1.15%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 16 (18.39%) JIRA
2 9 (10.34%) Git
3 6 (6.90%) Appium
3 6 (6.90%) JMeter
3 6 (6.90%) Selenium
4 3 (3.45%) Cypress.io
4 3 (3.45%) GitLab
5 2 (2.30%) Visual Studio
General
1 21 (24.14%) Finance
2 15 (17.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 10 (11.49%) Social Skills
4 9 (10.34%) Public Sector
5 6 (6.90%) Manufacturing
6 3 (3.45%) Marketing
7 2 (2.30%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (2.30%) Police
8 1 (1.15%) Digital Health
8 1 (1.15%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 26 (29.89%) Developer
2 14 (16.09%) Lead
3 13 (14.94%) Systems Manager
4 12 (13.79%) Business Manager
4 12 (13.79%) Business Systems Manager
5 9 (10.34%) Integration Developer
6 8 (9.20%) Analyst
7 7 (8.05%) Systems Developer
8 6 (6.90%) .NET Developer
8 6 (6.90%) Full Stack .NET Developer
8 6 (6.90%) Full Stack Developer
8 6 (6.90%) QA Leader
9 5 (5.75%) Automation Specialist
9 5 (5.75%) Business Analyst
9 5 (5.75%) PowerShell Developer
9 5 (5.75%) Product Manager
9 5 (5.75%) Support Specialist
10 4 (4.60%) Digital Transformation
10 4 (4.60%) Robotic Process Automation Developer
11 3 (3.45%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (10.34%) .NET
2 6 (6.90%) .NET Core
3 3 (3.45%) Playwright
4 2 (2.30%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 6 (6.90%) Augmented Reality
1 6 (6.90%) Industrial Internet of Things
1 6 (6.90%) Industry 4.0
1 6 (6.90%) PMI
1 6 (6.90%) Robotics
1 6 (6.90%) SCADA
1 6 (6.90%) Virtual Reality
2 5 (5.75%) Onboarding
3 3 (3.45%) IoT
4 2 (2.30%) Life Science
5 1 (1.15%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 9 (10.34%) Linux
2 3 (3.45%) Amazon Linux
2 3 (3.45%) Windows
2 3 (3.45%) Windows Server
2 3 (3.45%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (35.63%) Artificial Intelligence
2 24 (27.59%) Agile
2 24 (27.59%) Change Management
2 24 (27.59%) Project Management
3 22 (25.29%) Continuous Improvement
4 20 (22.99%) DevOps
4 20 (22.99%) Project Delivery
5 19 (21.84%) ITIL
5 19 (21.84%) PRINCE2
6 17 (19.54%) Digital Strategy
6 17 (19.54%) ITSM
6 17 (19.54%) Service Management
7 16 (18.39%) Problem-Solving
8 15 (17.24%) Business Intelligence
8 15 (17.24%) Computer Science
9 13 (14.94%) Business Strategy
9 13 (14.94%) Collaborative Working
9 13 (14.94%) Service Delivery
10 12 (13.79%) Knowledge Transfer
10 12 (13.79%) Target Operating Model
Programming Languages
1 20 (22.99%) SQL
2 17 (19.54%) C#
3 8 (9.20%) Java
3 8 (9.20%) PowerShell
3 8 (9.20%) Shell Script
4 7 (8.05%) Python
5 3 (3.45%) Bash
Qualifications
1 24 (27.59%) Degree
2 18 (20.69%) PMI Certification
3 12 (13.79%) APMG
3 12 (13.79%) PMP
4 7 (8.05%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (2.30%) HND
5 2 (2.30%) SC Cleared
5 2 (2.30%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (10.34%) QA
Systems Management
1 3 (3.45%) Terraform
2 1 (1.15%) PaperCut
Vendors
1 38 (43.68%) Microsoft
2 16 (18.39%) UiPath
3 12 (13.79%) Salesforce
3 12 (13.79%) ServiceNow
4 10 (11.49%) Blue Prism
5 9 (10.34%) Jitterbit
5 9 (10.34%) Talend
6 6 (6.90%) Automation Anywhere
7 5 (5.75%) Pega
8 3 (3.45%) Kofax
9 1 (1.15%) ABBYY
9 1 (1.15%) Equitrac
9 1 (1.15%) OpenText
9 1 (1.15%) Oracle