Robotics Contracts

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 4 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 526 530 648
Rank change year-on-year +4 +118 +132
Contract jobs citing Robotics 25 65 32
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.079% 0.15% 0.057%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.23% 0.49% 0.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 27 21
10th Percentile £265 £425 £375
25th Percentile £304 £456 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +3.75% - -8.26%
75th Percentile £608 £681 £538
90th Percentile £738 £688 £600
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £463
% change year-on-year +5.26% +2.70% -11.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 1
Median hourly rate £60.00 £60.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year - +20.00% -2.44%
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 10,952 13,139 18,444
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 34.66% 30.25% 32.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,792 8,337 12,690
10th Percentile £300 £281 £313
25th Percentile £406 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% -
75th Percentile £650 £663 £678
90th Percentile £775 £800 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 506 918 570
10th Percentile £15.49 £12.25 £10.63
25th Percentile £18.87 £15.39 £11.87
Median hourly rate £30.25 £36.27 £23.33
Median % change year-on-year -16.60% +55.51% -13.55%
75th Percentile £57.50 £62.50 £62.44
90th Percentile £78.10 £72.50 £75.58
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.00 £35.83 £23.90
% change year-on-year -16.26% +49.93% +11.14%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Robotics in the UK

Robotics
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Robotics over the 6 months to 4 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Robotics in the UK

Robotics
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Robotics in the UK

Robotics
Top 12 Contract 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 4 July 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 +23 24 £500 - 1,102
UK excluding London +1 21 £500 +5.26% 614
North of England +8 9 £294 -34.61% 139
Work from Home +40 7 £540 +13.58% 296
South East +5 5 £550 -12.00% 183
South West +38 3 £160 -73.36% 53
London +28 3 £675 +8.00% 520
East of England +25 3 - - 112
North West -1 3 £276 -38.78% 78
North East - 3 £325 - 17
Yorkshire - 3 £538 - 45
Scotland - 1 £540 - 43

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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (12.00%) SaaS
2 2 (8.00%) Power Automate
3 1 (4.00%) AWS
3 1 (4.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.00%) Firewall
Development Applications
1 1 (4.00%) Git
General
1 8 (32.00%) Social Skills
2 6 (24.00%) Manufacturing
3 3 (12.00%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (12.00%) Banking
3 3 (12.00%) Finance
4 2 (8.00%) Automotive
4 2 (8.00%) Aviation
4 2 (8.00%) Fire and Rescue
4 2 (8.00%) Police
4 2 (8.00%) Swedish Language
5 1 (4.00%) Games
5 1 (4.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (4.00%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (4.00%) Public Sector
5 1 (4.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 5 (20.00%) Project Manager
2 3 (12.00%) Lead
2 3 (12.00%) Senior
3 2 (8.00%) Design Engineer
3 2 (8.00%) Developer
3 2 (8.00%) Linux Engineer
3 2 (8.00%) Network Engineer
3 2 (8.00%) PCB Design Engineer
3 2 (8.00%) PCB Engineer
3 2 (8.00%) Security Engineer
3 2 (8.00%) Senior Manager
3 2 (8.00%) Senior Project Manager
3 2 (8.00%) Systems Engineer
4 1 (4.00%) Analyst
4 1 (4.00%) Automation Analyst
4 1 (4.00%) Business Analyst
4 1 (4.00%) Deployment Engineer
4 1 (4.00%) Operations Manager
4 1 (4.00%) Product Manager
4 1 (4.00%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.00%) CSS
1 1 (4.00%) HTML
1 1 (4.00%) ONNX
1 1 (4.00%) OpenVINO
1 1 (4.00%) PyTorch
1 1 (4.00%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 4 (16.00%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (8.00%) Algorithms
2 2 (8.00%) Data Centre
2 2 (8.00%) Embedded Systems
2 2 (8.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (8.00%) Self-Driving Car
3 1 (4.00%) Data Structures
3 1 (4.00%) Hackathon
3 1 (4.00%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 5 (20.00%) Linux
2 4 (16.00%) Windows
3 3 (12.00%) Windows Server
4 2 (8.00%) Embedded Linux
4 2 (8.00%) Unix
5 1 (4.00%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (28.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 6 (24.00%) Project Management
3 5 (20.00%) Agile
3 5 (20.00%) Migration
4 4 (16.00%) Data Protection
4 4 (16.00%) Mechatronics
4 4 (16.00%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (16.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 3 (12.00%) Analytics
5 3 (12.00%) CI/CD
5 3 (12.00%) Customer Experience
5 3 (12.00%) Data Migration
5 3 (12.00%) Machine Learning
5 3 (12.00%) Process Improvement
5 3 (12.00%) Project Governance
5 3 (12.00%) Roadmaps
5 3 (12.00%) Robotic Process Automation
5 3 (12.00%) Scrum
5 3 (12.00%) Software Engineering
5 3 (12.00%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 4 (16.00%) Python
2 3 (12.00%) JavaScript
3 2 (8.00%) C#
4 1 (4.00%) C++
4 1 (4.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (8.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (8.00%) Degree
2 1 (4.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 2 (8.00%) FortiGate
1 2 (8.00%) Grafana
2 1 (4.00%) Control-M
Vendors
1 2 (8.00%) Blue Prism
1 2 (8.00%) Facebook
1 2 (8.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (8.00%) Ribbon
1 2 (8.00%) Tenable
2 1 (4.00%) UiPath