Robotics Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Robotics
Central London > City of London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Robotics in contract job vacancies in the City of London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Robotics over the 6 months leading up to 3 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 120 - 127
Rank change year-on-year - - +60
Contract jobs citing Robotics 1 0 2
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.055% - 0.081%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.15% - 0.26%
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 - - -
Central London median daily rate £700 - £600

All Generic Skills
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 685 618 778
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 37.35% 31.21% 31.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 505 385 511
10th Percentile £350 £368 £300
25th Percentile £440 £475 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -
75th Percentile £688 £708 £717
90th Percentile £788 £825 £825
Central London median daily rate £550 £588 £600
% change year-on-year -6.38% -2.08% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 1 9
10th Percentile £20.30 - -
25th Percentile £22.18 £77.50 £17.00
Median hourly rate £27.75 £85.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -67.35% +240.00% -41.86%
75th Percentile £38.69 £92.50 £36.50
90th Percentile £41.85 - £52.15
Central London median hourly rate £26.11 £55.40 £24.00
% change year-on-year -52.87% +130.81% -42.51%

Robotics
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Robotics job vacancy trend in the City of London

Robotics
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Robotics.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Robotics

Robotics
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of 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#