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 10 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 569 525 523
Rank change year-on-year -44 -2 +88
Contract jobs citing Robotics 103 25 40
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.19% 0.076% 0.10%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.56% 0.21% 0.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 14 19
10th Percentile £172 £180 £292
25th Percentile £420 £270 £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £638 £359 £505
Median % change year-on-year +77.58% -28.91% -3.81%
75th Percentile £738 £653 £554
90th Percentile £788 £738 £678
UK excluding London median daily rate £575 £336 £505
% change year-on-year +71.39% -33.56% +5.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 2 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £57.50
Median hourly rate £12.84 £60.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -78.60% - -
75th Percentile £18.75 - £68.75
90th Percentile £42.50 - £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £12.84 £60.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -78.60% - -

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 18,469 11,725 11,622
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 33.89% 35.54% 30.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,102 7,189 7,187
10th Percentile £320 £300 £300
25th Percentile £424 £406 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £515 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.94% -6.36% -
75th Percentile £638 £638 £675
90th Percentile £745 £763 £820
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,141 579 500
10th Percentile £14.15 £15.13 £14.06
25th Percentile £18.00 £18.87 £21.25
Median hourly rate £37.50 £30.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -36.84% +8.35%
75th Percentile £67.84 £56.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £83.00 £75.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £30.00 £57.35
% change year-on-year +33.33% -47.69% +25.00%

Robotics
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Robotics job vacancy trend 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 10 September 2026.

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
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Robotics over the 6 months to 10 September 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Robotics in the UK

Robotics
Top 14 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 10 September 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
England -46 98 £638 +77.58% 447
UK excluding London -56 79 £575 +71.39% 307
South East -29 39 £725 - 94
London -62 20 £725 +3.57% 157
East of England -14 16 £185 - 56
Midlands - 11 £625 - 49
North of England -71 9 £334 +6.79% 55
Work from Home -64 8 £338 -6.25% 104
Yorkshire -39 7 £194 - 17
East Midlands - 5 £600 - 18
West Midlands - 4 £625 - 30
South West -45 2 £300 +175.23% 36
North West -57 2 £475 +51.76% 29
Scotland - 2 - - 22

Robotics
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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (1.94%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (1.94%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.97%) Apache
2 1 (0.97%) Confluence
2 1 (0.97%) Oracle Workflow
2 1 (0.97%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 5 (4.85%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (1.94%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 8 (7.77%) Azure
2 5 (4.85%) AWS
3 3 (2.91%) SaaS
4 2 (1.94%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (0.97%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (0.97%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (0.97%) Amazon S3
5 1 (0.97%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (0.97%) Boomi
5 1 (0.97%) Dagster
5 1 (0.97%) dbt
5 1 (0.97%) Miro
5 1 (0.97%) OpenShift
5 1 (0.97%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 5 (4.85%) 3GPP
1 5 (4.85%) RTP
1 5 (4.85%) VLAN
1 5 (4.85%) VPN
1 5 (4.85%) Wireshark
2 4 (3.88%) DHCP
2 4 (3.88%) DNS
2 4 (3.88%) Firewall
2 4 (3.88%) Network Security
2 4 (3.88%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.97%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (2.91%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (1.94%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (0.97%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (0.97%) Apache Iceberg
3 1 (0.97%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 11 (10.68%) Git
2 5 (4.85%) TeamCity
3 1 (0.97%) JIRA
3 1 (0.97%) Vite
General
1 18 (17.48%) Manufacturing
2 16 (15.53%) Social Skills
3 14 (13.59%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (10.68%) Automotive
5 10 (9.71%) Aviation
6 8 (7.77%) Games
7 7 (6.80%) Law
8 5 (4.85%) Fire and Rescue
8 5 (4.85%) Police
8 5 (4.85%) Retail
9 4 (3.88%) Finance
10 2 (1.94%) Aerospace
10 2 (1.94%) Cyber-Physical System
10 2 (1.94%) Electronics
10 2 (1.94%) Legal
10 2 (1.94%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (1.94%) Pharmaceutical
10 2 (1.94%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (1.94%) Public Sector
11 1 (0.97%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 10 (9.71%) Senior
2 9 (8.74%) Robotics Engineer
3 7 (6.80%) Architect
3 7 (6.80%) Solutions Architect
4 6 (5.83%) Software Engineer
5 5 (4.85%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 4 (3.88%) IT Manager
6 4 (3.88%) IT Project Manager
6 4 (3.88%) Lead
6 4 (3.88%) Network Engineer
6 4 (3.88%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
6 4 (3.88%) Product Lead
6 4 (3.88%) Product Manager
6 4 (3.88%) Project Manager
6 4 (3.88%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 4 (3.88%) Senior Manager
6 4 (3.88%) Senior Network Engineer
7 3 (2.91%) Embedded Engineer
7 3 (2.91%) Support Technician
8 2 (1.94%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (6.80%) .NET
2 5 (4.85%) .NET Core
2 5 (4.85%) Terraform
3 4 (3.88%) 802.1X
4 3 (2.91%) CSS
5 2 (1.94%) HTML
5 2 (1.94%) Middleware
5 2 (1.94%) NumPy
5 2 (1.94%) PySpark
5 2 (1.94%) React
5 2 (1.94%) REST
6 1 (0.97%) FFmpeg
6 1 (0.97%) Jest
6 1 (0.97%) Kafka
6 1 (0.97%) Matplotlib
6 1 (0.97%) OpenCV
6 1 (0.97%) Pandas
6 1 (0.97%) Redux
6 1 (0.97%) SciPy
6 1 (0.97%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 13 (12.62%) Algorithms
2 6 (5.83%) Animation
3 5 (4.85%) Industry 4.0
3 5 (4.85%) PKI
3 5 (4.85%) Self-Driving Car
3 5 (4.85%) Social Media
4 4 (3.88%) Hybrid Cloud
4 4 (3.88%) Lidar
4 4 (3.88%) Life Science
4 4 (3.88%) Linux Command Line
4 4 (3.88%) Public Cloud
5 3 (2.91%) Embedded Systems
6 2 (1.94%) Cloud Native
6 2 (1.94%) Educational Technology
6 2 (1.94%) FMCG
6 2 (1.94%) Legacy Applications
6 2 (1.94%) Operational Technology
7 1 (0.97%) AI Agents
7 1 (0.97%) Low-Code
7 1 (0.97%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 10 (9.71%) Linux
2 5 (4.85%) Ubuntu
3 2 (1.94%) Robot Operating System
4 1 (0.97%) Debian
4 1 (0.97%) Windows
4 1 (0.97%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.97%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (34.95%) AI
2 27 (26.21%) Software Engineering
3 23 (22.33%) Logistics
4 15 (14.56%) Problem-Solving
5 12 (11.65%) Computer Science
6 11 (10.68%) Agile
6 11 (10.68%) DevOps
6 11 (10.68%) Validation
7 10 (9.71%) Cybersecurity
8 8 (7.77%) Edge Computing
8 8 (7.77%) Machine Learning
9 7 (6.80%) Mentoring
9 7 (6.80%) Stakeholder Management
10 6 (5.83%) CI/CD
10 6 (5.83%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 6 (5.83%) Product Strategy
11 5 (4.85%) Analytics
11 5 (4.85%) Infrastructure as Code
11 5 (4.85%) Pedagogy
11 5 (4.85%) Robotic Process Automation
Programming Languages
1 20 (19.42%) Python
2 10 (9.71%) C#
2 10 (9.71%) SQL
3 8 (7.77%) C++
4 5 (4.85%) Bash
5 3 (2.91%) Embedded C++
6 2 (1.94%) Java
6 2 (1.94%) JavaScript
6 2 (1.94%) PowerShell
6 2 (1.94%) TypeScript
7 1 (0.97%) Ladder Logic
7 1 (0.97%) MATLAB
7 1 (0.97%) Scala
7 1 (0.97%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 16 (15.53%) Degree
2 10 (9.71%) Computer Science Degree
3 9 (8.74%) Security Cleared
4 6 (5.83%) DBS Check
4 6 (5.83%) SC Cleared
5 4 (3.88%) CCNP
5 4 (3.88%) Cisco Certification
5 4 (3.88%) JNCIP
5 4 (3.88%) JNCIS
6 1 (0.97%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.97%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.91%) Automotive SPICE
2 2 (1.94%) MISRA
2 2 (1.94%) QA
3 1 (0.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.97%) NIST
System Software
1 9 (8.74%) Docker
2 1 (0.97%) Embedded Firmware
2 1 (0.97%) Firmware
2 1 (0.97%) KVM
2 1 (0.97%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 5 (4.85%) Ansible
2 4 (3.88%) systemd
3 3 (2.91%) Functional Safety
3 3 (2.91%) Kubernetes
4 2 (1.94%) Grafana
4 2 (1.94%) MOM
4 2 (1.94%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.97%) Dell DRAC
Vendors
1 5 (4.85%) Cisco
1 5 (4.85%) Workday
2 4 (3.88%) Juniper
2 4 (3.88%) Microsoft
2 4 (3.88%) MikroTik
3 2 (1.94%) Pega
3 2 (1.94%) SAP
3 2 (1.94%) SYSPRO
4 1 (0.97%) Blue Prism
4 1 (0.97%) Databricks
4 1 (0.97%) Dell
4 1 (0.97%) Informatica
4 1 (0.97%) Meraki
4 1 (0.97%) MuleSoft
4 1 (0.97%) NVIDIA
4 1 (0.97%) Oracle