Robotics Contract Job Trends

Robotics
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Robotics in contract job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Robotics over the 6 months leading up to 20 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 536 520 610
Rank change year-on-year -16 +90 +167
Contract jobs citing Robotics 26 37 34
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.079% 0.096% 0.068%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.22% 0.32% 0.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 18 29
10th Percentile £192 £282 £388
25th Percentile £272 £420 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £360 £505 £561
Median % change year-on-year -28.71% -9.98% +12.20%
75th Percentile £688 £577 £587
90th Percentile £760 £679 £630
UK excluding London median daily rate £336 £505 £561
% change year-on-year -33.56% -9.98% +16.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 0
Median hourly rate £60.00 £60.00 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £60.00 £60.00 -

All Generic Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 11,723 11,709 16,151
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.63% 30.39% 32.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,179 7,145 11,046
10th Percentile £300 £294 £300
25th Percentile £406 £414 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.63% -1.82% -
75th Percentile £638 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £807 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 587 471 458
10th Percentile £15.08 £14.50 £16.79
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.25 £21.00
Median hourly rate £30.00 £50.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -40.00% +12.36% +71.15%
75th Percentile £55.00 £70.00 £66.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £75.00 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.00 £57.35 £48.37
% change year-on-year -47.69% +18.58% +122.06%

Robotics
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Robotics in the UK

Robotics
Daily Rate Trend

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Robotics

Robotics
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Robotics over the 6 months to 20 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Robotics in the UK

Robotics
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Robotics

Robotics
Top 11 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Robotics within the UK over the 6 months to 20 September 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 +5 26 £360 -28.71% 204
UK excluding London -2 19 £336 -33.56% 177
North of England -27 9 £313 -38.02% 24
Work from Home +32 6 £360 -24.21% 57
London +10 6 £725 +18.37% 64
South West +29 5 £109 -81.85% 16
North West -14 5 £313 -38.02% 11
South East +4 3 £725 +52.63% 77
North East - 3 £325 - 6
East of England - 2 - - 28
Yorkshire - 1 - - 7

Robotics
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 (3.85%) Siemens NX
Cloud Services
1 5 (19.23%) SaaS
2 2 (7.69%) Azure
3 1 (3.85%) AWS
3 1 (3.85%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.85%) Firewall
Development Applications
1 2 (7.69%) Git
2 1 (3.85%) CMake
2 1 (3.85%) GoogleTest
General
1 6 (23.08%) Manufacturing
1 6 (23.08%) Social Skills
2 2 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (3.85%) Aerospace
3 1 (3.85%) Aviation
3 1 (3.85%) Banking
3 1 (3.85%) Electronics
3 1 (3.85%) Finance
3 1 (3.85%) Fire and Rescue
3 1 (3.85%) Games
3 1 (3.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (3.85%) Police
3 1 (3.85%) Public Sector
3 1 (3.85%) Retail
3 1 (3.85%) Swedish Language
Job Titles
1 5 (19.23%) Lead
2 3 (11.54%) Project Manager
3 2 (7.69%) Design Engineer
3 2 (7.69%) Developer
3 2 (7.69%) PCB Design Engineer
3 2 (7.69%) PCB Engineer
3 2 (7.69%) Robotics Engineer
3 2 (7.69%) Senior
3 2 (7.69%) Systems Engineer
4 1 (3.85%) Deployment Engineer
4 1 (3.85%) Healthcare Consultant
4 1 (3.85%) Implementation Consultant
4 1 (3.85%) Product Manager
4 1 (3.85%) Programmer
4 1 (3.85%) Robotics Programmer
4 1 (3.85%) Security Architect
4 1 (3.85%) Security Engineer
4 1 (3.85%) Senior Software Engineer
4 1 (3.85%) Support Technician
4 1 (3.85%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.85%) Boost C++ Libraries
1 1 (3.85%) CSS
1 1 (3.85%) HTML
1 1 (3.85%) ONNX
1 1 (3.85%) OpenCV
1 1 (3.85%) OpenVINO
1 1 (3.85%) PyTorch
1 1 (3.85%) TensorFlow
1 1 (3.85%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (15.38%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (7.69%) Algorithms
2 2 (7.69%) Embedded Systems
2 2 (7.69%) IoT
2 2 (7.69%) NHS
3 1 (3.85%) Arduino
3 1 (3.85%) CUDA
3 1 (3.85%) Data Centre
3 1 (3.85%) Data Structures
3 1 (3.85%) Hackathon
3 1 (3.85%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (3.85%) Onboarding
3 1 (3.85%) Raspberry Pi
3 1 (3.85%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 2 (7.69%) Linux
1 2 (7.69%) Robot Operating System
1 2 (7.69%) Windows
2 1 (3.85%) Android
2 1 (3.85%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (26.92%) Artificial Intelligence
2 5 (19.23%) Data Management
2 5 (19.23%) Data Migration
2 5 (19.23%) Mechatronics
2 5 (19.23%) Migration
2 5 (19.23%) Project Governance
3 4 (15.38%) Agile
3 4 (15.38%) CI/CD
3 4 (15.38%) Data Protection
3 4 (15.38%) Machine Learning
3 4 (15.38%) Stakeholder Management
4 3 (11.54%) CAD
4 3 (11.54%) Cybersecurity
4 3 (11.54%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (11.54%) Process Improvement
4 3 (11.54%) Project Management
4 3 (11.54%) Roadmaps
4 3 (11.54%) Software Engineering
5 2 (7.69%) Analytics
5 2 (7.69%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 5 (19.23%) Python
2 3 (11.54%) C#
2 3 (11.54%) C++
2 3 (11.54%) JavaScript
3 1 (3.85%) C
3 1 (3.85%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (7.69%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.85%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (3.85%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (3.85%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.85%) QA
System Software
1 1 (3.85%) Docker
1 1 (3.85%) Embedded Firmware
1 1 (3.85%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 1 (3.85%) FortiGate
1 1 (3.85%) Grafana
Vendors
1 2 (7.69%) Facebook
2 1 (3.85%) Google
2 1 (3.85%) NVIDIA
2 1 (3.85%) Ribbon
2 1 (3.85%) Siemens
2 1 (3.85%) Tenable
2 1 (3.85%) UiPath