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 9 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 584 515 537
Rank change year-on-year -69 +22 +121
Contract jobs citing Robotics 73 25 65
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.14% 0.077% 0.15%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.42% 0.22% 0.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 16 27
10th Percentile £168 £265 £425
25th Percentile £397 £304 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £519 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.43% +3.75% -
75th Percentile £650 £608 £681
90th Percentile £675 £738 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% +2.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 2 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £37.50 - £57.50
Median hourly rate £40.00 £60.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -33.33% - +20.00%
75th Percentile £72.50 - £68.75
90th Percentile - - £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £60.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -33.33% - -

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 17,394 11,140 13,187
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 33.14% 34.49% 30.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,642 6,925 8,369
10th Percentile £313 £300 £281
25th Percentile £414 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £522 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -0.62% -2.42% -2.18%
75th Percentile £626 £650 £663
90th Percentile £749 £775 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 882 515 902
10th Percentile £16.01 £15.50 £12.25
25th Percentile £21.00 £18.87 £15.39
Median hourly rate £43.96 £31.00 £36.02
Median % change year-on-year +41.81% -13.94% +30.99%
75th Percentile £70.00 £57.55 £62.00
90th Percentile £87.47 £77.50 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.96 £31.49 £36.00
% change year-on-year +39.60% -12.53% +2.86%

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 9 July 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 9 July 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 9 July 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 -77 69 £475 -5.00% 145
UK excluding London -72 61 £475 -5.00% 110
East of England -2 24 £185 - 22
South East -46 14 £650 +18.18% 33
Midlands - 12 £600 - 8
North of England -78 10 £475 +61.43% 27
Work from Home -46 8 £407 -24.65% 43
London -65 7 £450 -33.33% 45
Yorkshire -47 6 - - 8
West Midlands - 6 £431 - 3
East Midlands - 5 £600 - 5
North East -33 2 - - 6
North West -42 2 £475 +72.41% 14
Scotland -7 1 - - 5

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 (5.48%) Tuxedo
2 2 (2.74%) WinCC
3 1 (1.37%) Confluence
3 1 (1.37%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 20 (27.40%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.37%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (2.74%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 3 (4.11%) AWS
1 3 (4.11%) SaaS
2 2 (2.74%) Azure
3 1 (1.37%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (1.37%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (1.37%) Boomi
3 1 (1.37%) Miro
3 1 (1.37%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 15 (20.55%) Ethernet
1 15 (20.55%) TCP/IP
2 5 (6.85%) 3GPP
2 5 (6.85%) RTP
2 5 (6.85%) Wireshark
3 1 (1.37%) VLAN
3 1 (1.37%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (5.48%) IDMS
2 2 (2.74%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (2.74%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 7 (9.59%) Git
2 5 (6.85%) TeamCity
3 4 (5.48%) CA Gen
4 1 (1.37%) JIRA
4 1 (1.37%) Vite
General
1 31 (42.47%) Social Skills
2 16 (21.92%) Manufacturing
3 15 (20.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 15 (20.55%) Presentation Skills
4 10 (13.70%) Aviation
5 7 (9.59%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (9.59%) Law
6 5 (6.85%) Fire and Rescue
6 5 (6.85%) Police
6 5 (6.85%) Retail
7 4 (5.48%) Finance
7 4 (5.48%) Pharmaceutical
8 3 (4.11%) Public Sector
9 1 (1.37%) Advertising
9 1 (1.37%) Aerospace
9 1 (1.37%) Cyber-Physical System
9 1 (1.37%) Electronics
9 1 (1.37%) Marketing
9 1 (1.37%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 15 (20.55%) Systems Engineer
1 15 (20.55%) Technical Engineer
2 9 (12.33%) Software Engineer
3 7 (9.59%) Senior
4 6 (8.22%) Architect
4 6 (8.22%) Solutions Architect
5 5 (6.85%) Senior Manager
6 4 (5.48%) Analyst
6 4 (5.48%) IT Manager
6 4 (5.48%) IT Project Manager
6 4 (5.48%) Product Manager
6 4 (5.48%) Project Manager
7 3 (4.11%) Developer
7 3 (4.11%) Senior Product Manager
7 3 (4.11%) Support Technician
8 2 (2.74%) Cybersecurity Analyst
8 2 (2.74%) Integration Specialist
8 2 (2.74%) Network Infrastructure Manager
8 2 (2.74%) Senior IT Project Manager
8 2 (2.74%) Systems Integration Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (10.96%) .NET
2 5 (6.85%) .NET Core
3 2 (2.74%) Middleware
3 2 (2.74%) React
3 2 (2.74%) REST
4 1 (1.37%) .NET Framework
4 1 (1.37%) A2A Protocol
4 1 (1.37%) CSS
4 1 (1.37%) Jest
4 1 (1.37%) LangChain
4 1 (1.37%) LangGraph
4 1 (1.37%) Model Context Protocol
4 1 (1.37%) Playwright
4 1 (1.37%) Redux
4 1 (1.37%) SOAP
4 1 (1.37%) Tailwind CSS
4 1 (1.37%) Vitest
4 1 (1.37%) WPF
4 1 (1.37%) Zustand
Miscellaneous
1 20 (27.40%) Industry 4.0
2 6 (8.22%) Algorithms
3 5 (6.85%) Social Media
4 3 (4.11%) Operational Technology
5 2 (2.74%) FMCG
6 1 (1.37%) AI Agents
6 1 (1.37%) Client/Server
6 1 (1.37%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.37%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.37%) Device Driver
6 1 (1.37%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.37%) IoT
6 1 (1.37%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (1.37%) Lidar
6 1 (1.37%) Low-Code
6 1 (1.37%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.37%) PKI
6 1 (1.37%) SCADA
6 1 (1.37%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 6 (8.22%) Linux
2 4 (5.48%) Unix
3 1 (1.37%) Debian
3 1 (1.37%) Ubuntu
3 1 (1.37%) Windows
3 1 (1.37%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.37%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (38.36%) Problem-Solving
2 24 (32.88%) AI
3 21 (28.77%) Software Engineering
4 17 (23.29%) Decision-Making
4 17 (23.29%) Risk Assessment
5 15 (20.55%) Creative Thinking
5 15 (20.55%) Customer Service
5 15 (20.55%) Fault Analysis
5 15 (20.55%) Mechatronics
6 12 (16.44%) Computer Science
7 11 (15.07%) Agile
8 10 (13.70%) Cybersecurity
9 8 (10.96%) Stakeholder Management
10 7 (9.59%) DevOps
10 7 (9.59%) Edge Computing
11 6 (8.22%) Mentoring
12 5 (6.85%) BDD
12 5 (6.85%) Continuous Improvement
12 5 (6.85%) Multithreading
12 5 (6.85%) Network Architecture
Programming Languages
1 13 (17.81%) SQL
2 11 (15.07%) Python
3 10 (13.70%) C#
4 4 (5.48%) PL/SQL
5 2 (2.74%) PowerShell
6 1 (1.37%) Bash
6 1 (1.37%) Java
6 1 (1.37%) JavaScript
6 1 (1.37%) Ladder Logic
6 1 (1.37%) TypeScript
6 1 (1.37%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 34 (46.58%) Degree
2 12 (16.44%) Security Cleared
3 10 (13.70%) Computer Science Degree
3 10 (13.70%) SC Cleared
4 2 (2.74%) CEH
4 2 (2.74%) CISA
4 2 (2.74%) CISM
4 2 (2.74%) CISSP
4 2 (2.74%) HNC
4 2 (2.74%) HND
5 1 (1.37%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.37%) GIAC
5 1 (1.37%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (4.11%) NIST
2 2 (2.74%) QA
3 1 (1.37%) ISA99
System Software
1 8 (10.96%) Docker
2 1 (1.37%) Embedded Firmware
2 1 (1.37%) Firmware
2 1 (1.37%) KVM
2 1 (1.37%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 2 (2.74%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.37%) Ansible
2 1 (1.37%) Dell DRAC
2 1 (1.37%) Grafana
2 1 (1.37%) MOM
2 1 (1.37%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 17 (23.29%) Siemens
2 5 (6.85%) Workday
3 4 (5.48%) Oracle
4 2 (2.74%) Blue Prism
4 2 (2.74%) Rockwell
4 2 (2.74%) SAP
4 2 (2.74%) SYSPRO
5 1 (1.37%) Cisco
5 1 (1.37%) Dell
5 1 (1.37%) Informatica
5 1 (1.37%) Meraki
5 1 (1.37%) MuleSoft
5 1 (1.37%) NVIDIA
5 1 (1.37%) Pega