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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 504 524 676
Rank change year-on-year +20 +152 +83
Contract jobs citing Robotics 16 58 42
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.055% 0.13% 0.070%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.16% 0.44% 0.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 23 21
10th Percentile £314 £428 £363
25th Percentile £452 £456 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £539 £600 £480
Median % change year-on-year -10.25% +25.00% -12.73%
75th Percentile £577 £681 £550
90th Percentile £613 £688 £600
UK excluding London median daily rate £540 £563 £463
% change year-on-year -4.09% +21.62% -10.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £57.50 -
Median hourly rate £60.00 £60.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year - +20.00% -2.44%
75th Percentile £65.00 £68.75 -
90th Percentile £68.00 £72.50 -
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 9,944 13,250 19,897
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 33.97% 30.42% 33.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,345 8,502 13,668
10th Percentile £300 £263 £308
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
75th Percentile £650 £660 £680
90th Percentile £775 £788 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £496 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -0.80% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 394 912 640
10th Percentile £16.46 £12.25 £9.80
25th Percentile £21.00 £15.17 £10.63
Median hourly rate £32.05 £30.00 £22.49
Median % change year-on-year +6.83% +33.42% -18.24%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £82.99 £70.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £31.08 £28.25 £22.00
% change year-on-year +10.02% +28.41% +9.64%

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 1 May 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 10 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 1 May 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 +13 14 £538 -10.42% 1,166
UK excluding London +27 12 £540 -4.09% 1,026
Work from Home +42 7 £507 +8.21% 709
North of England +13 4 £538 +19.44% 298
Yorkshire - 4 £538 - 146
London +32 3 £475 -20.83% 193
East of England +32 3 - - 33
South West +47 2 £70 - 23
South East +14 2 £550 -18.52% 319
Scotland - 1 £540 - 13

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 2 (12.50%) Siemens NX
Cloud Services
1 2 (12.50%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 2 (12.50%) Firewall
2 1 (6.25%) HTTPS
2 1 (6.25%) SSH
2 1 (6.25%) SSL
General
1 5 (31.25%) Social Skills
2 4 (25.00%) Banking
3 2 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (12.50%) Automotive
3 2 (12.50%) Aviation
3 2 (12.50%) Finance
3 2 (12.50%) Fire and Rescue
3 2 (12.50%) Manufacturing
3 2 (12.50%) Police
3 2 (12.50%) Swedish Language
4 1 (6.25%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (18.75%) Project Manager
2 2 (12.50%) Design Engineer
2 2 (12.50%) Linux Engineer
2 2 (12.50%) Network Engineer
2 2 (12.50%) PCB Design Engineer
2 2 (12.50%) PCB Engineer
2 2 (12.50%) Programmer
2 2 (12.50%) Security Engineer
2 2 (12.50%) Senior
2 2 (12.50%) Senior Manager
2 2 (12.50%) Senior Project Manager
3 1 (6.25%) Analyst
3 1 (6.25%) Automation Analyst
3 1 (6.25%) Business Analyst
3 1 (6.25%) Consultant
3 1 (6.25%) IT Manager
3 1 (6.25%) IT Project Manager
3 1 (6.25%) Product Manager
Miscellaneous
1 2 (12.50%) Data Centre
1 2 (12.50%) Data Protection Act
1 2 (12.50%) Embedded Systems
1 2 (12.50%) Hybrid Cloud
1 2 (12.50%) Self-Driving Car
1 2 (12.50%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (6.25%) PMI
2 1 (6.25%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 5 (31.25%) Linux
1 5 (31.25%) Windows
2 3 (18.75%) Unix
2 3 (18.75%) Windows Server
3 2 (12.50%) Embedded Linux
4 1 (6.25%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (31.25%) Agile
2 4 (25.00%) Project Management
3 3 (18.75%) Artificial Intelligence
3 3 (18.75%) Logistics
3 3 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (18.75%) Project Delivery
3 3 (18.75%) Scrum
3 3 (18.75%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (12.50%) Budget Management
4 2 (12.50%) Customer-Centric Approach
4 2 (12.50%) Customer-Centricity
4 2 (12.50%) Identity Access Management
4 2 (12.50%) Matrix Organization
4 2 (12.50%) Robotic Process Automation
4 2 (12.50%) Security Operations
4 2 (12.50%) SOAR
4 2 (12.50%) Strategic Thinking
4 2 (12.50%) Technology Transformation
4 2 (12.50%) Threat Detection
4 2 (12.50%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 1 (6.25%) ActionScript
1 1 (6.25%) ActionScript 2.0
1 1 (6.25%) C
Qualifications
1 2 (12.50%) Degree
2 1 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (6.25%) PMI Certification
2 1 (6.25%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.25%) QA
Systems Management
1 2 (12.50%) FortiGate
1 2 (12.50%) Grafana
2 1 (6.25%) Control-M
Vendors
1 2 (12.50%) Blue Prism
1 2 (12.50%) Facebook
1 2 (12.50%) Microsoft
1 2 (12.50%) Ribbon
1 2 (12.50%) Siemens
1 2 (12.50%) Tenable
2 1 (6.25%) IBM
2 1 (6.25%) IBM Sterling
2 1 (6.25%) Pega