FactoryTalk Contract Job Trends in the South East

Rockwell Automation FactoryTalk
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South East requiring FactoryTalk skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 205 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing FactoryTalk 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.018% - -
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.24% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £800 - -
England median daily rate £800 £500 -
% change year-on-year +60.00% - -

All Application Platform Skills
South East

FactoryTalk falls under the Application Platforms category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring application platform skills in the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 420 318 385
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 7.40% 10.59% 6.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 287 198 245
10th Percentile £308 £240 £207
25th Percentile £416 £408 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% +11.11% -7.69%
75th Percentile £613 £593 £556
90th Percentile £697 £650 £608
England median daily rate £500 £500 £496
% change year-on-year - +0.91% -5.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 16 28
10th Percentile £17.65 £26.45 £16.00
25th Percentile £37.12 £41.76 £22.61
Median hourly rate £81.00 £55.00 £30.41
Median % change year-on-year +47.27% +80.85% -44.70%
75th Percentile £95.00 £62.81 £65.00
90th Percentile £104.40 £68.13 £75.75
England median hourly rate £35.00 £52.50 £27.51
% change year-on-year -33.33% +90.86% +10.03%

FactoryTalk
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing FactoryTalk relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East.

FactoryTalk job vacancy trend in the South East

FactoryTalk
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing FactoryTalk within the South East region over the 6 months to 17 April 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
Kent - 1 £800 - 1
FactoryTalk
England

FactoryTalk
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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%) MQTT
General
1 1 (100.00%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Industrial Internet of Things
1 1 (100.00%) Manufacturing Execution System
1 1 (100.00%) Operational Technology
1 1 (100.00%) SCADA
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Architectural Design
1 1 (100.00%) Asset Management
1 1 (100.00%) Data Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) EAM
1 1 (100.00%) ERP
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) Operations Management
1 1 (100.00%) PLM
1 1 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) MOM
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) AVEVA
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle
1 1 (100.00%) Rockwell
1 1 (100.00%) SAP
1 1 (100.00%) Siemens