Robotics Contract Job Trends in Central London

Robotics
London > Central London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Robotics in contract job vacancies in Central London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Robotics over the 6 months leading up to 2 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 127 - 141
Rank change year-on-year - - +42
Contract jobs citing Robotics 1 0 2
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.049% - 0.075%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.13% - 0.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £650 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 - £600
75th Percentile £750 - -
90th Percentile - - -
London median daily rate £725 £438 £600
% change year-on-year +65.71% -27.08% +26.58%

All Generic Skills
Central London

Robotics falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 763 705 856
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 37.75% 31.11% 32.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 557 449 581
10th Percentile £356 £363 £290
25th Percentile £450 £473 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £590 £600
Median % change year-on-year -6.78% -1.67% -
75th Percentile £688 £700 £720
90th Percentile £788 £809 £834
London median daily rate £550 £575 £588
% change year-on-year -4.35% -2.13% -2.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 2 12
10th Percentile £20.62 £30.61 £17.00
25th Percentile - £38.42 £18.45
Median hourly rate £26.11 £55.40 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year -52.87% +130.81% -42.51%
75th Percentile £29.50 £75.92 £30.69
90th Percentile £41.79 £85.87 £45.73
London median hourly rate £26.11 £34.50 £30.00
% change year-on-year -24.32% +15.00% -11.30%

Robotics
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Robotics relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Robotics job vacancy trend in Central London

Robotics
Daily Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Robotics.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Robotics

Robotics
Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Robotics within the Central London region over the 6 months to 2 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
City of London - 1 £700 - 16
Robotics
London

Robotics
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) HTTP
General
1 1 (100.00%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) .NET Software Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Hardware Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Integration Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Software Integration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) gRPC
1 1 (100.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Device Driver
1 1 (100.00%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C#