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 17 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 572 533 534
Rank change year-on-year -39 +1 +71
Contract jobs citing Robotics 109 26 39
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.20% 0.079% 0.10%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.59% 0.22% 0.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 14 18
10th Percentile £174 £180 £282
25th Percentile £450 £270 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £359 £505
Median % change year-on-year +81.06% -28.91% -9.98%
75th Percentile £738 £653 £577
90th Percentile £788 £738 £679
UK excluding London median daily rate £600 £336 £505
% change year-on-year +78.84% -33.56% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 2 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £57.50
Median hourly rate £12.84 £60.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -78.60% - -
75th Percentile £18.75 - £68.75
90th Percentile £33.00 - £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £12.84 £60.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -78.60% - -

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 18,579 11,706 11,640
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 33.99% 35.54% 30.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,149 7,155 7,137
10th Percentile £325 £299 £294
25th Percentile £425 £406 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £515 £540
Median % change year-on-year +1.94% -4.63% -1.82%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £675
90th Percentile £749 £756 £802
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,179 586 477
10th Percentile £14.07 £15.13 £14.41
25th Percentile £17.99 £18.87 £21.25
Median hourly rate £37.50 £30.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -40.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £68.75 £55.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £83.00 £73.75 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.72 £30.05 £57.35
% change year-on-year +28.84% -47.60% +17.04%

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 17 September 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 17 September 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 17 September 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 -49 104 £650 +81.06% 904
UK excluding London -47 85 £600 +78.84% 533
South East -29 44 £725 - 154
London -77 21 £725 +3.57% 363
East of England -15 16 £218 - 126
Midlands - 11 £625 - 71
North of England -79 10 £334 +6.79% 79
Work from Home -54 8 £338 -6.25% 203
Yorkshire -41 7 £194 - 32
East Midlands - 5 £600 - 25
West Midlands - 4 £625 - 46
North West -43 3 £475 +51.76% 38
South West -46 2 £300 +175.23% 69
Scotland - 2 - - 30

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 2 (1.83%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (1.83%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.92%) Apache
2 1 (0.92%) Confluence
2 1 (0.92%) Oracle Workflow
2 1 (0.92%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 5 (4.59%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (1.83%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 7 (6.42%) Azure
2 4 (3.67%) AWS
3 3 (2.75%) SaaS
4 2 (1.83%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (0.92%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (0.92%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (0.92%) Amazon S3
5 1 (0.92%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (0.92%) Boomi
5 1 (0.92%) Dagster
5 1 (0.92%) dbt
5 1 (0.92%) Miro
5 1 (0.92%) OpenShift
5 1 (0.92%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 5 (4.59%) 3GPP
1 5 (4.59%) RTP
1 5 (4.59%) VLAN
1 5 (4.59%) VPN
1 5 (4.59%) Wireshark
2 4 (3.67%) DHCP
2 4 (3.67%) DNS
2 4 (3.67%) Firewall
2 4 (3.67%) Network Security
2 4 (3.67%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.92%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (2.75%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (1.83%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (0.92%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (0.92%) Apache Iceberg
3 1 (0.92%) Big Data
3 1 (0.92%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 11 (10.09%) Git
2 5 (4.59%) TeamCity
3 1 (0.92%) JIRA
3 1 (0.92%) Vite
General
1 20 (18.35%) Manufacturing
2 17 (15.60%) Social Skills
3 14 (12.84%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (10.09%) Automotive
5 10 (9.17%) Aviation
6 8 (7.34%) Games
7 7 (6.42%) Law
8 5 (4.59%) Fire and Rescue
8 5 (4.59%) Police
8 5 (4.59%) Retail
9 4 (3.67%) Finance
10 2 (1.83%) Aerospace
10 2 (1.83%) Cyber-Physical System
10 2 (1.83%) Electronics
10 2 (1.83%) Legal
10 2 (1.83%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (1.83%) Pharmaceutical
10 2 (1.83%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (1.83%) Public Sector
11 1 (0.92%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 10 (9.17%) Senior
2 9 (8.26%) Robotics Engineer
3 8 (7.34%) Architect
3 8 (7.34%) Solutions Architect
4 6 (5.50%) Lead
4 6 (5.50%) Product Lead
5 5 (4.59%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 5 (4.59%) Software Engineer
6 4 (3.67%) IT Manager
6 4 (3.67%) IT Project Manager
6 4 (3.67%) Network Engineer
6 4 (3.67%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
6 4 (3.67%) Product Manager
6 4 (3.67%) Project Manager
6 4 (3.67%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 4 (3.67%) Senior Manager
6 4 (3.67%) Senior Network Engineer
7 3 (2.75%) Embedded Engineer
7 3 (2.75%) Support Technician
8 2 (1.83%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (6.42%) .NET
2 5 (4.59%) .NET Core
2 5 (4.59%) Terraform
3 4 (3.67%) 802.1X
4 3 (2.75%) CSS
5 2 (1.83%) HTML
5 2 (1.83%) Middleware
5 2 (1.83%) NumPy
5 2 (1.83%) PySpark
5 2 (1.83%) React
5 2 (1.83%) REST
6 1 (0.92%) Jest
6 1 (0.92%) LangChain
6 1 (0.92%) LangGraph
6 1 (0.92%) Open3D
6 1 (0.92%) Playwright
6 1 (0.92%) Plotly
6 1 (0.92%) Ray
6 1 (0.92%) Tailwind CSS
6 1 (0.92%) Vitest
Miscellaneous
1 12 (11.01%) Algorithms
2 6 (5.50%) Animation
2 6 (5.50%) Industry 4.0
2 6 (5.50%) Life Science
3 5 (4.59%) Self-Driving Car
3 5 (4.59%) Social Media
4 4 (3.67%) Hybrid Cloud
4 4 (3.67%) Lidar
4 4 (3.67%) Linux Command Line
4 4 (3.67%) PKI
4 4 (3.67%) Public Cloud
5 3 (2.75%) Embedded Systems
6 2 (1.83%) Educational Technology
6 2 (1.83%) FMCG
6 2 (1.83%) Legacy Applications
6 2 (1.83%) Operational Technology
7 1 (0.92%) Analogue Electronics
7 1 (0.92%) Low-Code
7 1 (0.92%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.92%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 10 (9.17%) Linux
2 5 (4.59%) Ubuntu
3 2 (1.83%) Robot Operating System
4 1 (0.92%) Debian
4 1 (0.92%) Windows
4 1 (0.92%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.92%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (35.78%) AI
2 27 (24.77%) Logistics
3 25 (22.94%) Software Engineering
4 16 (14.68%) Problem-Solving
5 11 (10.09%) Agile
5 11 (10.09%) Computer Science
5 11 (10.09%) Validation
6 10 (9.17%) DevOps
7 9 (8.26%) Cybersecurity
8 8 (7.34%) Edge Computing
8 8 (7.34%) Product Strategy
9 7 (6.42%) Machine Learning
9 7 (6.42%) Stakeholder Management
10 6 (5.50%) Analytics
10 6 (5.50%) Biotechnology
10 6 (5.50%) CI/CD
10 6 (5.50%) Mentoring
10 6 (5.50%) Robotic Process Automation
11 5 (4.59%) Infrastructure as Code
11 5 (4.59%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 18 (16.51%) Python
2 10 (9.17%) SQL
3 9 (8.26%) C#
4 8 (7.34%) C++
5 5 (4.59%) Bash
6 3 (2.75%) Embedded C++
7 2 (1.83%) Java
7 2 (1.83%) JavaScript
7 2 (1.83%) PowerShell
7 2 (1.83%) TypeScript
8 1 (0.92%) Ladder Logic
8 1 (0.92%) MATLAB
8 1 (0.92%) Scala
8 1 (0.92%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 15 (13.76%) Degree
2 10 (9.17%) Security Cleared
3 9 (8.26%) Computer Science Degree
4 7 (6.42%) SC Cleared
5 6 (5.50%) DBS Check
6 4 (3.67%) CCNP
6 4 (3.67%) Cisco Certification
6 4 (3.67%) JNCIP
6 4 (3.67%) JNCIS
7 1 (0.92%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.92%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.92%) HNC
7 1 (0.92%) HND
7 1 (0.92%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.75%) Automotive SPICE
2 2 (1.83%) MISRA
2 2 (1.83%) QA
3 1 (0.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.92%) NIST
System Software
1 8 (7.34%) Docker
2 1 (0.92%) KVM
2 1 (0.92%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 5 (4.59%) Ansible
2 4 (3.67%) systemd
3 3 (2.75%) Functional Safety
4 2 (1.83%) Grafana
4 2 (1.83%) Kubernetes
4 2 (1.83%) MOM
4 2 (1.83%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.92%) Dell DRAC
Vendors
1 5 (4.59%) Cisco
1 5 (4.59%) Workday
2 4 (3.67%) Juniper
2 4 (3.67%) Microsoft
2 4 (3.67%) MikroTik
3 3 (2.75%) SAP
4 2 (1.83%) Pega
4 2 (1.83%) SYSPRO
5 1 (0.92%) Blue Prism
5 1 (0.92%) Databricks
5 1 (0.92%) Dell
5 1 (0.92%) Facebook
5 1 (0.92%) Informatica
5 1 (0.92%) Meraki
5 1 (0.92%) MuleSoft
5 1 (0.92%) Oracle
5 1 (0.92%) Sage
5 1 (0.92%) Siemens