Mechatronics Contracts

Mechatronics
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Mechatronics skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Mechatronics over the 6 months leading up to 7 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 548 565 648
Rank change year-on-year +17 +83 +218
Contract jobs citing Mechatronics 6 4 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.018% 0.010% 0.017%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.020% 0.012% 0.019%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 3
10th Percentile £283 - £555
25th Percentile £313 £600 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £601 £600
Median % change year-on-year -37.55% +0.08% +33.33%
75th Percentile £469 £601 £638
90th Percentile £518 - £645
UK excluding London median daily rate £375 £601 -
% change year-on-year -37.55% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 1
Median hourly rate - £31.25 £79.00
Median % change year-on-year - -60.44% -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £31.25 £79.00
% change year-on-year - -60.44% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Mechatronics falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 29,761 33,371 47,375
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.43% 85.51% 89.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,624 21,366 32,450
10th Percentile £300 £310 £320
25th Percentile £404 £413 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% 0.00%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £729 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,659 1,868 1,540
10th Percentile £14.13 £14.00 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.30 £18.13 £18.81
Median hourly rate £25.15 £40.33 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -37.63% -5.12% +60.70%
75th Percentile £49.88 £64.25 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £74.51 £77.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £23.00 £40.94 £40.00
% change year-on-year -43.82% +2.35% +86.05%

Mechatronics
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Mechatronics as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Mechatronics in the UK

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Mechatronics.

Daily rate trend for Mechatronics in the UK

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Mechatronics over the 6 months to 7 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Mechatronics in the UK

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Mechatronics.

Hourly rate trend for Mechatronics in the UK

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Top 5 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Mechatronics within the UK over the 6 months to 7 August 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
England +23 5 £375 -37.55% 87
UK excluding London +17 4 £375 -37.55% 80
North of England - 3 £325 - 6
North East - 3 £325 -
South East - 1 £500 - 15

Mechatronics
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (16.67%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 1 (16.67%) Asana
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) JIRA
General
1 3 (50.00%) Manufacturing
2 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Electronics
3 1 (16.67%) Finance
3 1 (16.67%) Marketing
3 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
3 1 (16.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Project Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Delivery Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Deployment Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Engineering Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Junior
2 1 (16.67%) Junior Project Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Operations Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Robotics Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (66.67%) Robotics
2 3 (50.00%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Data Protection
1 3 (50.00%) Project Management
1 3 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (33.33%) Manufacturing Engineering
3 1 (16.67%) Agile
3 1 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (16.67%) Coaching
3 1 (16.67%) Configuration Management
3 1 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (16.67%) Digital Marketing
3 1 (16.67%) People Management
3 1 (16.67%) Process Improvement
3 1 (16.67%) Programme Management
3 1 (16.67%) Scrum
3 1 (16.67%) V-Model
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) DO-254
1 1 (16.67%) ISO 9001
1 1 (16.67%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) SAP