Robot Framework Contracts

Robot Framework
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Robot Framework skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Robot Framework over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 494 545 642
Rank change year-on-year +51 +97 +103
Contract jobs citing Robot Framework 25 55 71
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.086% 0.13% 0.12%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.61% 1.06% 0.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 14 50
10th Percentile £358 £383 £511
25th Percentile £456 £472 £560
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £626 £501 £600
Median % change year-on-year +25.07% -16.58% +9.59%
75th Percentile £643 £557 £615
90th Percentile £660 £575 £626
UK excluding London median daily rate £626 £501 £610
% change year-on-year +24.95% -17.87% +17.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 7 6
10th Percentile £52.36 £59.20 £51.63
25th Percentile £55.59 £62.00 £52.19
Median hourly rate £59.13 £62.50 £54.50
Median % change year-on-year -5.40% +14.68% -
75th Percentile £62.50 £67.50 £58.63
90th Percentile £62.63 £70.00 £58.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £59.13 £62.50 £54.50
% change year-on-year -5.40% +14.68% -

All Development Application Skills
UK

Robot Framework 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 4,099 5,176 9,015
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 14.02% 11.87% 15.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,743 3,476 6,340
10th Percentile £340 £356 £385
25th Percentile £413 £425 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £600 £625 £663
90th Percentile £716 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -4.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 66 195 246
10th Percentile £26.77 £32.23 £45.00
25th Percentile £51.30 £46.25 £53.75
Median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £61.50
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +5.69% +21.78%
75th Percentile £75.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £86.38 £81.90 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £61.50
% change year-on-year -3.85% +5.69% +12.84%

Robot Framework
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Robot Framework in the UK

Robot Framework
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Robot Framework in the UK

Robot Framework
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Robot Framework over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Robot Framework in the UK

Robot Framework
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Robot Framework in the UK

Robot Framework
Top 6 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Robot Framework within the UK over the 6 months to 30 April 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 +33 24 £626 +24.95% 27
UK excluding London +29 22 £626 +24.95% 26
South East +18 21 £633 +26.35% 10
Work from Home +52 6 £511 +2.10% 25
London +30 2 £360 -28.00% 2
South West +45 1 £550 - 4

Robot Framework
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:

Application Platforms
1 13 (52.00%) Confluence
2 1 (4.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 7 (28.00%) Azure
2 6 (24.00%) AWS
3 5 (20.00%) GCP
4 1 (4.00%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (4.00%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (4.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (4.00%) BrowserStack
4 1 (4.00%) GitHub
4 1 (4.00%) npm
4 1 (4.00%) Sauce Labs
Communications & Networking
1 10 (40.00%) Software-Defined Radio
2 9 (36.00%) SNMP
3 5 (20.00%) BGP
3 5 (20.00%) MPLS
3 5 (20.00%) TCP/IP
3 5 (20.00%) VLAN
4 3 (12.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.00%) Big Data
1 1 (4.00%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 16 (64.00%) JIRA
2 15 (60.00%) GoogleTest
3 13 (52.00%) Bitbucket
4 12 (48.00%) Eclipse
5 10 (40.00%) Git
5 10 (40.00%) Jenkins
6 6 (24.00%) GitLab
7 3 (12.00%) Postman
7 3 (12.00%) Selenium
8 1 (4.00%) Appium
8 1 (4.00%) Cucumber
8 1 (4.00%) Cypress.io
8 1 (4.00%) HP UFT
8 1 (4.00%) JMeter
8 1 (4.00%) JUnit
8 1 (4.00%) Locust
8 1 (4.00%) REST Assured
8 1 (4.00%) SoapUI
General
1 6 (24.00%) Analytical Skills
1 6 (24.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (20.00%) Telecoms
3 2 (8.00%) Aerospace
3 2 (8.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (4.00%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 10 (40.00%) Test Engineer
2 8 (32.00%) Embedded Engineer
2 8 (32.00%) Software Test Engineer
3 7 (28.00%) Software Engineer
4 6 (24.00%) Embedded Software Engineer
5 5 (20.00%) Automation Tester
5 5 (20.00%) Telecoms Tester
5 5 (20.00%) Tester
6 3 (12.00%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
7 2 (8.00%) Analyst
7 2 (8.00%) Test Analyst
8 1 (4.00%) C++ Software Engineer
8 1 (4.00%) Developer
8 1 (4.00%) Python Developer
8 1 (4.00%) QA Analyst
8 1 (4.00%) QA Test Analyst
8 1 (4.00%) Senior
8 1 (4.00%) Senior Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (36.00%) CSS
1 9 (36.00%) HTML
2 3 (12.00%) Node.js
3 1 (4.00%) Kafka
3 1 (4.00%) Playwright
3 1 (4.00%) pytest
3 1 (4.00%) WireMock
3 1 (4.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (20.00%) Cloud Native
1 5 (20.00%) Self-Motivation
2 2 (8.00%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 16 (64.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (72.00%) Agile
2 16 (64.00%) Scrum
3 13 (52.00%) Software Engineering
4 12 (48.00%) Test Automation
5 10 (40.00%) Software Testing
5 10 (40.00%) Validation
6 9 (36.00%) SysML
6 9 (36.00%) UML
6 9 (36.00%) Verification and Validation
7 8 (32.00%) Problem-Solving
8 7 (28.00%) Prototyping
9 6 (24.00%) Migration
10 5 (20.00%) Containerisation
10 5 (20.00%) Integration Testing
10 5 (20.00%) Test Strategy
11 4 (16.00%) CI/CD
12 3 (12.00%) API Testing
12 3 (12.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 2 (8.00%) Analytics
13 2 (8.00%) Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 14 (56.00%) C++
2 12 (48.00%) Python
3 8 (32.00%) JavaScript
4 2 (8.00%) Java
5 1 (4.00%) Bash
5 1 (4.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 15 (60.00%) Security Cleared
2 14 (56.00%) SC Cleared
3 2 (8.00%) ISTQB
4 1 (4.00%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.00%) QA
System Software
1 6 (24.00%) Docker
2 5 (20.00%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 6 (24.00%) Ansible
1 6 (24.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (4.00%) Grafana
2 1 (4.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 13 (52.00%) Atlassian
1 13 (52.00%) Google
2 6 (24.00%) Intel
3 2 (8.00%) Databricks
4 1 (4.00%) Twitter