Robotics Contracts in the North of England

Robotics
England > North of England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Robotics in contract job vacancies in the North of England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Robotics over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 162 175 217
Rank change year-on-year +13 +42 +12
Contract jobs citing Robotics 4 10 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.12% 0.21% 0.051%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.40% 0.77% 0.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £494 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £450 £425
Median % change year-on-year +19.44% +5.88% -
75th Percentile £581 £494 £438
90th Percentile - £505 -
England median daily rate £538 £600 £490
% change year-on-year -10.42% +22.45% -10.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £60.00 -
England median hourly rate £60.00 £60.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year - +20.00% -2.44%

All Generic Skills
North of England

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 North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 1,008 1,302 1,799
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 30.59% 27.31% 30.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 647 801 1,220
10th Percentile £220 £263 £285
25th Percentile £367 £400 £412
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £582 £584 £623
90th Percentile £665 £653 £688
England median daily rate £548 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -0.36% -4.35% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 48 154 88
10th Percentile £21.00 £12.15 £9.80
25th Percentile £24.25 £13.00 £10.63
Median hourly rate £30.88 £15.14 £18.62
Median % change year-on-year +104.00% -18.70% +0.11%
75th Percentile £44.08 £26.62 £45.00
90th Percentile £74.00 £47.98 £66.00
England median hourly rate £33.00 £30.16 £22.50
% change year-on-year +9.42% +34.04% -16.67%

Robotics
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing Robotics as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Robotics in the North of England

Robotics
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Robotics in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Robotics in the North of England

Robotics
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Robotics in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for Robotics in the North of England

Robotics
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Robotics within the North of England region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
Yorkshire - 4 £538 - 147
Robotics
England

Robotics
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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:

Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) Firewall
2 1 (25.00%) HTTPS
2 1 (25.00%) SSH
2 1 (25.00%) SSL
General
1 2 (50.00%) Aviation
1 2 (50.00%) Banking
1 2 (50.00%) Fire and Rescue
1 2 (50.00%) Police
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
1 2 (50.00%) Swedish Language
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Security Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Data Centre
1 2 (50.00%) Data Protection Act
1 2 (50.00%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Windows
2 3 (75.00%) Linux
3 2 (50.00%) Windows Server
4 1 (25.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Data Protection
1 2 (50.00%) Identity Access Management
1 2 (50.00%) Incident Response
1 2 (50.00%) Security Operations
1 2 (50.00%) SIEM
1 2 (50.00%) SOAR
1 2 (50.00%) Software Engineering
1 2 (50.00%) Threat Detection
1 2 (50.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
1 2 (50.00%) Vulnerability Management
1 2 (50.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
2 1 (25.00%) Cryptography
2 1 (25.00%) Data Security
2 1 (25.00%) Key Management
2 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (25.00%) Release Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) ActionScript
1 1 (25.00%) ActionScript 2.0
1 1 (25.00%) C
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) FortiGate
1 2 (50.00%) Grafana
2 1 (25.00%) Control-M
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Ribbon
1 2 (50.00%) Tenable
2 1 (25.00%) IBM
2 1 (25.00%) IBM Sterling