Rational Robot Contract Job Trends

IBM Rational Robot
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Rational Robot skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 616 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Rational Robot 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.002% - -
As % of the Development Applications category 0.017% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
UK excluding London median daily rate - - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £46.80 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £46.80 - -

All Development Application Skills
UK

Rational Robot falls under the Development Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring development application skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 5,784 4,131 5,094
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.48% 14.02% 11.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,852 2,777 3,452
10th Percentile £343 £338 £356
25th Percentile £404 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £582 £600 £625
90th Percentile £686 £712 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 224 67 183
10th Percentile £39.53 £26.92 £31.97
25th Percentile £60.68 £51.53 £45.88
Median hourly rate £67.50 £62.50 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +8.00% - +1.63%
75th Percentile £75.44 £76.88 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £86.15 £85.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.50 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year +8.00% - +1.63%

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Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Rational Robot relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Rational Robot job vacancy trend in the UK

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Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Rational Robot.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Rational Robot

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Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Rational Robot.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Rational Robot

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Top 5 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Rational Robot within the UK over the 6 months to 22 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
North West - 1 - - 1
England - 1 - - 1
Work from Home - 1 - - 1
UK excluding London - 1 - - 1
North of England - 1 - - 1

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) ClearCase
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) Team Foundation Server
1 1 (100.00%) Visual Studio
1 1 (100.00%) Visual Studio Coded UI
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) C# Developer
1 1 (100.00%) C# Software Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) .NET Framework
1 1 (100.00%) COM
1 1 (100.00%) Entity Framework
1 1 (100.00%) WinForms
1 1 (100.00%) WPF
1 1 (100.00%) XML
1 1 (100.00%) XSD
1 1 (100.00%) XSLT
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Design Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Project Planning
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) SOLID
1 1 (100.00%) TDD
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) VB
1 1 (100.00%) VB6
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle