China’s first RPA developer survey report: professional developers’ professional satisfaction is as high as 94%

Technology Industry Research Institute completed China's first RPA developer survey and officially released 161b637b663795 "Chinese RPA Developer Survey Report 2021" . At present, China’s largest RPA developer community , with more than 570,000 registered users in the community. A total of 3212 developers participated in professional developers, civilian developers, The three major groups of campus developers, , are currently the largest survey scale of among similar research reports in the , 161b637b6637a7, aiming to discover the thoughts, needs and demands of hundreds of thousands of Chinese RPA developers in order to better help developers grow. global RPA ecology with manufacturers and partners in the same industry.

Looking back on the development of RPA in China in the past three years, we have witnessed the changes brought about by Chinese companies and organizations by intelligent automation technology represented by RPA—whether it is a global top 500 giant or an individual merchant operator of an e-commerce platform; Whether it is software engineers in technology companies or poverty alleviation workers in the countryside, they are using RPA technology to improve efficiency and achieve breakthroughs in business capabilities.

Through the publication of the report, we hope to help Chinese RPA developers, refer to the experience of practitioners in the same industry, better plan their own career development , to carry out RPA learning and practice; to help companies and organizations in all walks of life that are concerned about the transformation of intelligent automation Research institutions have a more comprehensive understanding of RPA developers, and use better build their own intelligent automation talent strategy .

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On September 29, 2021, in the latest national vocational technical skill standards for "Artificial Intelligence Engineering and Technologists", robotic process automation has been listed as one of the relevant knowledge requirements and is listed in "Integration of Artificial Intelligence Application Products" Vocational direction elementary and intermediate job requirements. RPA technology has become one of the skills related to artificial intelligence engineering that cannot be ignored. As drafting units of , Laiye Technology has also participated in the drafting of national vocational technical skills standards for artificial intelligence engineers and technicians.

From 2020 to the present, China's RPA market and developer ecology are undergoing the "from software development talents with professional backgrounds to business personnel and college students with non-technical backgrounds" . Laiye Technology has taken the lead. From the first day, it launched a community version of RPA products for civilian developers. As early as 2019, it was committed to building a "civilian developer" community, so that "everyone is a developer" become possible.

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Facing the future, 88% of professional developers, 85% of civilian developers, and 83% of campus developers said that optimistic about the prospects of RPA in China .

RPA professional developers’ career is as high as 94% ; RPA civilian developer career background ; among RPA campus developers, more than 78% of fresh graduate respondents believe that RPA skills are useful for future jobs positive influence.

RPA accelerated fall in the industry, developers say civilians found more landing scenario , professional development of staff, said RPA received more development needs .

charity services : Among the RPA developers who are employed, more than 40% expressed their desire to put their RPA skills into charity service scenarios.

Creator + evangelist

RPA professional developers help enterprises to transform intelligent automation

As the first year of RPA’s landing in China, 36.7% of the respondents began to apply RPA to their work in 2019. However, 33.4% of the respondents said that they began to apply RPA to their work before 2019. For the application of RPA in enterprises, has played a powerful evangelistic contribution . Among them, Operation and Marketing (67.9%), Finance (52.9%), Customer Service (49.2%) are the three most widely used RPA scenarios by respondents.

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In 2019, Lai Ye Technology launched a one-stop automated office software robot SaaS trading platform-UB Store. In the UB Store, more than 10,000 RPA developers have started a part-time or full-time career journey , earning income by selling self-developed robots; corporate and individual customers can also purchase them in the UB Store according to their needs Robots and related services provided by developers.

directly accepts customer orders , which is a challenging growth process for developers. How to meet the needs of customers in different industries and understand their business scenarios? How to keep getting RPA orders? How to cultivate customer service capabilities and even establish your own RPA studio while doing a good job in software development? It is not only a problem that developers will encounter in the growth stage, but also a test of an RPA manufacturer 161b637b663a3e has enough determination and ability to build an RPA developer ecosystem .

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Through research, it is further understood that developers’ feelings in 2021 are not limited to revenue growth. customers have a deeper RPA 161b637b663ac1 (70.2%), RPA application scenarios are more abundant (52.9%), business opportunities The increase of (48.6%) is the top 3 performances that developers feel the most about the UB Store platform.

Into the civilian developer

Come from all walks of life, achieve self-worth

Not only pays attention to professional developers, this report also focuses on the experience and feelings of a large number of civilian developers in the RPA community. These developers are mostly in business positions, administrative and financial functional positions, and corporate and organizational management positions. Their non-IT technology background but in their daily work, but through RPA software to achieve different degrees of office automation .

The job roles of the interviewees are mainly enterprise grassroots managers (40%) and executives (32%). At the same time, senior experts and team/department leaders also have obvious proportions. . In retail and e-commerce , Electricity , Finance/Banking/Insurance , Software and Internet and other 4 major industries, the proportions of respondents are all over 15%, and the proportion of respondents is more than 15% and And manufacturing is also an industry with a relatively high proportion of respondents. At the same time, more than 50% of the respondents said that they felt the work efficiency (59.5%), and obtained more career development opportunities (52.3%).

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The rise of new RPA campus developers

Facilitate academic development and enhance professional competitiveness

According to the "Notice of the General Office of the Ministry of Education on Printing and Distributing Higher Vocational Education Specialty English and Information Technology Curriculum Standards (2021 Edition)" issued by the Ministry of Education of China in March 2021, robotic process automation has been included in the Higher Vocational Education Specialty Information Technology one expansion module content of the course, the future, more and more college students will join RPA developer team . According to the survey, up to 76.7% of the respondents said that after learning RPA skills, improved the efficiency of study and life affairs , and more than 41% of the respondents also believed that felt that they had obtained more job opportunities , And professionally, won praise from teachers and classmates.

Thanks to the rapid development of digital transformation of Chinese enterprises, the country’s focus on artificial intelligence talent strategies, and the strategic and product deployment of RPA vendors, the Chinese RPA developers is growing rapidly, and the developer background is showing diversified performance , Distributed in different job roles in multiple industries such as finance, power, communications, retail and e-commerce, industrial manufacturing; RPA professional positions show the characteristics of high satisfaction, high education background, and high sense of identity ; at the same time, colleges and universities Students are also actively participating in the learning and application of RPA and related intelligent automation technology .

Technology will also continue to promote the community version to more developers , to test whether product innovation solves their concerns and whether the ease of use is recognized by them; at the same time, through a simple and convenient experience, Let more financial personnel, business personnel, and IT consultants who are interested in RPA and hope to improve efficiency enjoy the value brought by intelligent automation products as soon as possible. allows front-line business personnel to no longer be blocked from the wave of digitization, automation and intelligence due to language barriers and the high threshold of programming ; use visual programming, drag-and-drop construction, and dialogue guidance to let more A group of civilian developers with no computer foundation and no programming experience gathered together to realize the deep implementation of RPA+AI in all walks of life.

RPA developers are not only RPA learners, explorers, but also evangelists of RPA technology in all walks of life. We also hope that this report will arouse the attention of more companies and organizations to RPA developers: A growing group of developers has become the backbone of the RPA industry and is contributing unique creations to China’s economic and social digital transformation Force .

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as of November 24, 2021

The registered users of Laiye Technology RPA Developer Community have exceeded 57 million ;
Access to primary and intermediate developers RPA certified total 30,000 + name ;
UB Store professional developers settled in 1000+ ;
In 2020, the cumulative order revenue of a single developer up to 200,000 yuan ;
In 2021, the income of some studios has exceeded 500,000 yuan , which is expected to impact the annual income of 1 million yuan.

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