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 15 October 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 572 530 532
Rank change year-on-year -42 +2 +80
Contract jobs citing Robotics 125 31 31
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.23% 0.093% 0.082%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.65% 0.26% 0.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 21 16
10th Percentile £300 £263 £261
25th Percentile £550 £313 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £550 £490
Median % change year-on-year +22.73% +12.24% -16.59%
75th Percentile £738 £638 £508
90th Percentile £788 £738 £610
UK excluding London median daily rate £650 £375 £490
% change year-on-year +73.33% -23.47% -16.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 51 2 2
10th Percentile - £22.29 -
25th Percentile £12.84 £26.78 £57.50
Median hourly rate £14.00 £34.77 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -59.74% -42.05% -
75th Percentile £34.46 £42.51 £62.50
90th Percentile £48.75 £46.85 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £14.00 £34.77 £60.00
% change year-on-year -59.74% -42.05% -

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 19,249 11,971 11,529
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 34.81% 36.05% 30.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,501 7,360 6,875
10th Percentile £320 £293 £280
25th Percentile £425 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £515 £530
Median % change year-on-year +1.94% -2.83% -3.64%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £668
90th Percentile £750 £750 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £493
% change year-on-year +5.26% -3.65% -1.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,363 627 402
10th Percentile £13.81 £14.33 £16.30
25th Percentile £17.50 £18.50 £22.70
Median hourly rate £35.80 £27.33 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +30.99% -40.82% +2.62%
75th Percentile £67.50 £51.25 £70.00
90th Percentile £83.49 £72.50 £75.16
UK excluding London median hourly rate £34.00 £26.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year +28.30% -49.52% +2.46%

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 15 October 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 15 October 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 15 October 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 -39 120 £683 +24.09% 109
UK excluding London -25 95 £650 +73.33% 98
South East -18 52 £725 - 46
London -62 27 £725 - 19
Midlands -39 13 £625 +13.64% 8
North of England -70 11 £334 +6.79% 16
East of England - 10 £450 - 25
Work from Home -69 8 £475 +31.94% 35
South West -35 7 £400 +266.97% 4
North West -49 6 £475 +51.76% 4
West Midlands - 6 £625 - 4
East Midlands -11 5 £600 +9.09% 4
Yorkshire -36 5 £194 - 4
Scotland - 2 - - 4

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 (3.20%) Apache Airflow
1 4 (3.20%) Apache Spark
2 3 (2.40%) Apache
3 1 (0.80%) Oracle Workflow
3 1 (0.80%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 5 (4.00%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (2.40%) Simulink
3 1 (0.80%) CATIA
3 1 (0.80%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (1.60%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 7 (5.60%) Azure
2 6 (4.80%) AWS
3 3 (2.40%) Amazon S3
3 3 (2.40%) Dagster
3 3 (2.40%) dbt
3 3 (2.40%) Snowflake
4 2 (1.60%) Amazon EKS
4 2 (1.60%) SaaS
5 1 (0.80%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (0.80%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (0.80%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (0.80%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 5 (4.00%) VLAN
1 5 (4.00%) VPN
2 4 (3.20%) DHCP
2 4 (3.20%) DNS
2 4 (3.20%) Firewall
2 4 (3.20%) Network Security
2 4 (3.20%) TCP/IP
3 3 (2.40%) 3GPP
3 3 (2.40%) Ethernet
3 3 (2.40%) RTP
3 3 (2.40%) Wireless
3 3 (2.40%) Wireshark
4 2 (1.60%) RS-232
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (4.00%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (2.40%) Amazon Redshift
2 3 (2.40%) Apache Iceberg
2 3 (2.40%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (1.60%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (0.80%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 9 (7.20%) Git
2 3 (2.40%) TeamCity
3 1 (0.80%) Cucumber
3 1 (0.80%) GitLab
3 1 (0.80%) Rational DOORS
General
1 30 (24.00%) Manufacturing
2 17 (13.60%) Automotive
3 16 (12.80%) Social Skills
4 14 (11.20%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (9.60%) Electronics
6 9 (7.20%) Aerospace
6 9 (7.20%) Aviation
7 8 (6.40%) Avionics
7 8 (6.40%) Games
8 6 (4.80%) Law
9 4 (3.20%) Finance
9 4 (3.20%) Retail
10 3 (2.40%) Fire and Rescue
10 3 (2.40%) Police
11 2 (1.60%) Cyber-Physical System
11 2 (1.60%) Legal
11 2 (1.60%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (1.60%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (1.60%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (1.60%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 12 (9.60%) Robotics Engineer
2 10 (8.00%) Lead
2 10 (8.00%) Product Lead
3 8 (6.40%) Architect
3 8 (6.40%) Senior
3 8 (6.40%) Solutions Architect
4 5 (4.00%) Data Engineer
4 5 (4.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 4 (3.20%) IT Manager
5 4 (3.20%) IT Project Manager
5 4 (3.20%) Network Engineer
5 4 (3.20%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
5 4 (3.20%) Project Manager
5 4 (3.20%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 4 (3.20%) Senior Network Engineer
6 3 (2.40%) Analyst
6 3 (2.40%) Business Analyst
6 3 (2.40%) Software Engineer
6 3 (2.40%) Support Technician
6 3 (2.40%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (4.00%) Terraform
2 4 (3.20%) .NET
2 4 (3.20%) 802.1X
2 4 (3.20%) PySpark
3 3 (2.40%) .NET Core
3 3 (2.40%) Kafka
3 3 (2.40%) NumPy
4 2 (1.60%) CSS
4 2 (1.60%) FFmpeg
4 2 (1.60%) HTML
4 2 (1.60%) Middleware
4 2 (1.60%) OpenCV
4 2 (1.60%) Ray
4 2 (1.60%) SciPy
5 1 (0.80%) A2A Protocol
5 1 (0.80%) Gherkin
5 1 (0.80%) LangGraph
5 1 (0.80%) Model Context Protocol
5 1 (0.80%) PyArrow
5 1 (0.80%) scikit-image
Miscellaneous
1 10 (8.00%) Life Science
2 8 (6.40%) Algorithms
2 8 (6.40%) Industry 4.0
2 8 (6.40%) Lidar
2 8 (6.40%) Self-Driving Car
3 6 (4.80%) Animation
4 5 (4.00%) Embedded Systems
4 5 (4.00%) Social Media
5 4 (3.20%) Hybrid Cloud
5 4 (3.20%) Linux Command Line
5 4 (3.20%) PKI
5 4 (3.20%) Public Cloud
6 3 (2.40%) Analogue Electronics
7 2 (1.60%) Educational Technology
7 2 (1.60%) FMCG
7 2 (1.60%) GNSS
7 2 (1.60%) Legacy Applications
7 2 (1.60%) Operational Technology
7 2 (1.60%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.80%) AI Agents
Operating Systems
1 9 (7.20%) Linux
2 6 (4.80%) Windows
3 5 (4.00%) Ubuntu
4 4 (3.20%) Robot Operating System
5 1 (0.80%) Debian
5 1 (0.80%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.80%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (36.80%) AI
2 26 (20.80%) Logistics
3 19 (15.20%) Validation
4 18 (14.40%) Problem-Solving
4 18 (14.40%) Software Engineering
5 11 (8.80%) Product Strategy
6 10 (8.00%) Biotechnology
7 9 (7.20%) Continuous Improvement
7 9 (7.20%) Machine Learning
8 8 (6.40%) Configuration Management
8 8 (6.40%) DevOps
8 8 (6.40%) Edge Computing
9 7 (5.60%) Agile
9 7 (5.60%) Preventative Maintenance
9 7 (5.60%) Stakeholder Management
10 6 (4.80%) Analytics
10 6 (4.80%) Mechatronics
11 5 (4.00%) Computer Science
11 5 (4.00%) Robotic Process Automation
11 5 (4.00%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 18 (14.40%) Python
2 9 (7.20%) C++
2 9 (7.20%) SQL
3 6 (4.80%) C#
4 5 (4.00%) Bash
5 4 (3.20%) MATLAB
6 3 (2.40%) Embedded C++
7 2 (1.60%) C
8 1 (0.80%) Java
8 1 (0.80%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.80%) Ladder Logic
8 1 (0.80%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.80%) Scala
8 1 (0.80%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 17 (13.60%) Security Cleared
2 13 (10.40%) Degree
3 9 (7.20%) SC Cleared
4 7 (5.60%) BPSS Clearance
5 6 (4.80%) DBS Check
6 4 (3.20%) CCNP
6 4 (3.20%) Cisco Certification
6 4 (3.20%) HNC
6 4 (3.20%) HND
6 4 (3.20%) JNCIP
6 4 (3.20%) JNCIS
7 3 (2.40%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.80%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.80%) ISEB
8 1 (0.80%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.80%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.40%) Automotive SPICE
2 2 (1.60%) MISRA
3 1 (0.80%) DO-254
3 1 (0.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.80%) NIST
3 1 (0.80%) QA
System Software
1 7 (5.60%) Firmware
2 6 (4.80%) Docker
3 1 (0.80%) KVM
3 1 (0.80%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 5 (4.00%) Ansible
2 4 (3.20%) systemd
3 3 (2.40%) Functional Safety
4 2 (1.60%) Grafana
4 2 (1.60%) Kubernetes
4 2 (1.60%) MOM
4 2 (1.60%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.80%) Dell DRAC
Vendors
1 5 (4.00%) Cisco
1 5 (4.00%) Workday
2 4 (3.20%) Facebook
2 4 (3.20%) Juniper
2 4 (3.20%) Microsoft
2 4 (3.20%) MikroTik
3 3 (2.40%) Databricks
3 3 (2.40%) EMC
3 3 (2.40%) Oracle
3 3 (2.40%) SAP
4 2 (1.60%) Pega
4 2 (1.60%) Sage
4 2 (1.60%) SYSPRO
5 1 (0.80%) Dell
5 1 (0.80%) Meraki
5 1 (0.80%) Siemens