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 13 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 559 531 517
Rank change year-on-year -28 -14 +113
Contract jobs citing Robotics 101 24 51
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.19% 0.073% 0.13%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.57% 0.21% 0.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 14 26
10th Percentile £171 £180 £401
25th Percentile £347 £270 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £359 £490
Median % change year-on-year +67.13% -26.73% +2.08%
75th Percentile £728 £653 £663
90th Percentile £788 £738 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £336 £475
% change year-on-year +34.13% -29.37% +2.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 2 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £12.84 - £57.50
Median hourly rate £17.50 £60.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -70.83% - -
75th Percentile £30.63 - £68.75
90th Percentile £42.50 - £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.50 £60.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -70.83% - -

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 17,871 11,569 11,823
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 33.49% 35.13% 30.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,838 7,128 7,571
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £425 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £638 £675
90th Percentile £750 £766 £825
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 995 561 607
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.13 £12.45
25th Percentile £19.34 £18.87 £18.31
Median hourly rate £43.50 £29.33 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +48.31% -34.82% +12.74%
75th Percentile £70.00 £56.00 £67.20
90th Percentile £85.00 £77.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.96 £29.27 £45.00
% change year-on-year +50.19% -34.96% +11.59%

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 13 August 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 13 August 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Robotics in the UK

Robotics
Top 15 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 13 August 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 -24 97 £600 +67.13% 390
UK excluding London -46 78 £450 +34.13% 264
East of England +7 29 £185 - 52
South East -43 22 £650 -10.34% 70
London -64 19 £725 +3.57% 149
Midlands - 15 £600 - 35
North of England -62 10 £334 +6.79% 40
Work from Home -49 9 £375 +4.24% 73
West Midlands - 8 £431 - 25
Yorkshire -35 7 £194 - 9
East Midlands - 5 £600 - 10
North West -47 2 £475 +51.76% 22
South West -41 1 £300 +175.23% 46
North East -44 1 - - 9
Scotland - 1 - - 20

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 4 (3.96%) Tuxedo
2 1 (0.99%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.99%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.99%) Confluence
2 1 (0.99%) Red Hat Fuse
2 1 (0.99%) WinCC
Applications
1 20 (19.80%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (1.98%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 7 (6.93%) Azure
2 4 (3.96%) AWS
3 3 (2.97%) SaaS
4 1 (0.99%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (0.99%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (0.99%) Boomi
4 1 (0.99%) Miro
4 1 (0.99%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 19 (18.81%) TCP/IP
2 15 (14.85%) Ethernet
3 5 (4.95%) 3GPP
3 5 (4.95%) RTP
3 5 (4.95%) VLAN
3 5 (4.95%) VPN
3 5 (4.95%) Wireshark
4 4 (3.96%) DHCP
4 4 (3.96%) DNS
4 4 (3.96%) Firewall
4 4 (3.96%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (3.96%) IDMS
2 2 (1.98%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (1.98%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 11 (10.89%) Git
2 5 (4.95%) TeamCity
3 4 (3.96%) CA Gen
4 1 (0.99%) JIRA
4 1 (0.99%) Vite
General
1 32 (31.68%) Social Skills
2 18 (17.82%) Manufacturing
3 16 (15.84%) Presentation Skills
4 15 (14.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 14 (13.86%) Analytical Skills
6 10 (9.90%) Aviation
7 9 (8.91%) Automotive
8 8 (7.92%) Games
9 7 (6.93%) Law
10 5 (4.95%) Fire and Rescue
10 5 (4.95%) Police
10 5 (4.95%) Retail
11 4 (3.96%) Finance
12 3 (2.97%) Pharmaceutical
12 3 (2.97%) Public Sector
13 2 (1.98%) Aerospace
13 2 (1.98%) Cyber-Physical System
13 2 (1.98%) Legal
13 2 (1.98%) Organisational Skills
14 1 (0.99%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 15 (14.85%) Systems Engineer
1 15 (14.85%) Technical Engineer
2 10 (9.90%) Senior
3 7 (6.93%) Architect
3 7 (6.93%) Robotics Engineer
3 7 (6.93%) Software Engineer
3 7 (6.93%) Solutions Architect
4 5 (4.95%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 5 (4.95%) Product Manager
4 5 (4.95%) Senior Manager
5 4 (3.96%) IT Manager
5 4 (3.96%) IT Project Manager
5 4 (3.96%) Network Engineer
5 4 (3.96%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
5 4 (3.96%) Project Manager
5 4 (3.96%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 4 (3.96%) Senior Network Engineer
6 3 (2.97%) Analyst
6 3 (2.97%) Developer
6 3 (2.97%) Support Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (6.93%) .NET
2 5 (4.95%) .NET Core
3 4 (3.96%) 802.1X
4 3 (2.97%) CSS
5 2 (1.98%) HTML
5 2 (1.98%) Middleware
5 2 (1.98%) React
5 2 (1.98%) REST
6 1 (0.99%) FFmpeg
6 1 (0.99%) Jest
6 1 (0.99%) LangChain
6 1 (0.99%) NumPy
6 1 (0.99%) OpenCV
6 1 (0.99%) Playwright
6 1 (0.99%) PySpark
6 1 (0.99%) Redux
6 1 (0.99%) SciPy
6 1 (0.99%) SOAP
6 1 (0.99%) Tailwind CSS
6 1 (0.99%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 20 (19.80%) Industry 4.0
2 12 (11.88%) Algorithms
3 6 (5.94%) Animation
4 5 (4.95%) PKI
4 5 (4.95%) Social Media
5 4 (3.96%) Hybrid Cloud
5 4 (3.96%) Lidar
5 4 (3.96%) Linux Command Line
5 4 (3.96%) Public Cloud
6 3 (2.97%) Embedded Systems
6 3 (2.97%) Operational Technology
6 3 (2.97%) Self-Driving Car
7 2 (1.98%) Cloud Native
7 2 (1.98%) Educational Technology
7 2 (1.98%) FMCG
7 2 (1.98%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (0.99%) Data Centre
8 1 (0.99%) Low-Code
8 1 (0.99%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.99%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 10 (9.90%) Linux
2 5 (4.95%) Ubuntu
3 4 (3.96%) Unix
4 2 (1.98%) Robot Operating System
5 1 (0.99%) Debian
5 1 (0.99%) Windows
5 1 (0.99%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.99%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (30.69%) AI
1 31 (30.69%) Problem-Solving
2 27 (26.73%) Software Engineering
3 19 (18.81%) Decision-Making
4 18 (17.82%) Mechatronics
5 16 (15.84%) Risk Assessment
6 15 (14.85%) Creative Thinking
6 15 (14.85%) Customer Service
6 15 (14.85%) Fault Analysis
7 13 (12.87%) Computer Science
8 12 (11.88%) Agile
9 11 (10.89%) Cybersecurity
9 11 (10.89%) DevOps
10 9 (8.91%) Validation
11 8 (7.92%) Edge Computing
11 8 (7.92%) Logistics
12 7 (6.93%) Machine Learning
12 7 (6.93%) Mentoring
12 7 (6.93%) Stakeholder Management
13 6 (5.94%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 19 (18.81%) Python
2 13 (12.87%) SQL
3 10 (9.90%) C#
4 7 (6.93%) C++
5 5 (4.95%) Bash
6 4 (3.96%) PL/SQL
7 3 (2.97%) Embedded C++
8 2 (1.98%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.99%) Java
9 1 (0.99%) JavaScript
9 1 (0.99%) Ladder Logic
9 1 (0.99%) MATLAB
9 1 (0.99%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.99%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 32 (31.68%) Degree
2 14 (13.86%) Security Cleared
3 11 (10.89%) SC Cleared
4 10 (9.90%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (5.94%) DBS Check
6 4 (3.96%) CCNP
6 4 (3.96%) Cisco Certification
6 4 (3.96%) JNCIP
6 4 (3.96%) JNCIS
7 1 (0.99%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.99%) CEH
7 1 (0.99%) CISA
7 1 (0.99%) CISM
7 1 (0.99%) CISSP
7 1 (0.99%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.99%) GIAC
7 1 (0.99%) HNC
7 1 (0.99%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.97%) Automotive SPICE
2 2 (1.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (1.98%) NIST
2 2 (1.98%) QA
3 1 (0.99%) ISA99
3 1 (0.99%) MISRA
System Software
1 8 (7.92%) Docker
2 1 (0.99%) Embedded Firmware
2 1 (0.99%) Firmware
2 1 (0.99%) KVM
2 1 (0.99%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 5 (4.95%) Ansible
2 4 (3.96%) systemd
2 4 (3.96%) Terraform
3 3 (2.97%) Functional Safety
4 2 (1.98%) Kubernetes
4 2 (1.98%) MOM
5 1 (0.99%) Dell DRAC
5 1 (0.99%) Grafana
5 1 (0.99%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 16 (15.84%) Siemens
2 5 (4.95%) Cisco
2 5 (4.95%) Workday
3 4 (3.96%) Juniper
3 4 (3.96%) Microsoft
3 4 (3.96%) MikroTik
3 4 (3.96%) Oracle
4 2 (1.98%) Pega
4 2 (1.98%) SAP
4 2 (1.98%) SYSPRO
5 1 (0.99%) Blue Prism
5 1 (0.99%) Dell
5 1 (0.99%) Informatica
5 1 (0.99%) Meraki
5 1 (0.99%) MuleSoft
5 1 (0.99%) NVIDIA
5 1 (0.99%) Rockwell