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

6 months to
24 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 563 531 534
Rank change year-on-year -32 +3 +75
Contract jobs citing Robotics 117 28 35
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.21% 0.085% 0.092%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.63% 0.24% 0.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 18 18
10th Percentile £200 £227 £282
25th Percentile £463 £285 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £438 £505
Median % change year-on-year +48.57% -13.37% -12.06%
75th Percentile £738 £616 £577
90th Percentile £788 £749 £679
UK excluding London median daily rate £613 £360 £505
% change year-on-year +70.14% -28.71% -12.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 1 2
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 - £62.50
90th Percentile £42.50 - -
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 18,700 11,779 11,620
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 34.06% 35.73% 30.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,201 7,202 7,053
10th Percentile £320 £294 £294
25th Percentile £425 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £515 £538
Median % change year-on-year +1.92% -4.26% -2.18%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,224 596 449
10th Percentile £14.01 £15.06 £15.16
25th Percentile £17.99 £18.87 £22.40
Median hourly rate £37.50 £29.17 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +28.56% -41.66% +12.36%
75th Percentile £67.84 £52.13 £70.00
90th Percentile £81.95 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.72 £29.33 £57.35
% change year-on-year +32.02% -48.86% +14.70%

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 24 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 24 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 24 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 -41 111 £650 +48.57% 1,017
UK excluding London -30 90 £613 +70.14% 585
South East -20 46 £725 - 172
London -67 23 £725 - 394
East of England -15 16 £250 - 118
North of England -62 12 £334 +6.79% 96
Midlands -38 11 £625 +13.64% 93
Yorkshire -28 7 £194 - 36
Work from Home -64 7 £338 -6.25% 216
East Midlands -16 5 £600 +9.09% 35
North West -51 5 £475 +51.76% 47
West Midlands - 4 £625 - 58
South West -40 3 £300 +175.23% 72
Scotland - 2 - - 29

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 3 (2.56%) Apache Airflow
1 3 (2.56%) Apache Spark
2 2 (1.71%) Apache
3 1 (0.85%) Confluence
3 1 (0.85%) Oracle Workflow
3 1 (0.85%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 5 (4.27%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.85%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (1.71%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 7 (5.98%) Azure
2 5 (4.27%) AWS
3 3 (2.56%) SaaS
4 2 (1.71%) Amazon EKS
4 2 (1.71%) Amazon S3
4 2 (1.71%) Dagster
4 2 (1.71%) dbt
4 2 (1.71%) Snowflake
5 1 (0.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (0.85%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (0.85%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (0.85%) Boomi
5 1 (0.85%) Miro
5 1 (0.85%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 5 (4.27%) 3GPP
1 5 (4.27%) RTP
1 5 (4.27%) VLAN
1 5 (4.27%) VPN
1 5 (4.27%) Wireshark
2 4 (3.42%) DHCP
2 4 (3.42%) DNS
2 4 (3.42%) Firewall
2 4 (3.42%) Network Security
2 4 (3.42%) TCP/IP
3 2 (1.71%) Wireless
4 1 (0.85%) Ethernet
4 1 (0.85%) RS-232
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (3.42%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (1.71%) Amazon Redshift
2 2 (1.71%) Apache Iceberg
2 2 (1.71%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (1.71%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (0.85%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 11 (9.40%) Git
2 5 (4.27%) TeamCity
3 1 (0.85%) JIRA
3 1 (0.85%) Vite
General
1 24 (20.51%) Manufacturing
2 17 (14.53%) Social Skills
3 13 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
3 13 (11.11%) Automotive
4 10 (8.55%) Aviation
5 8 (6.84%) Games
6 7 (5.98%) Law
7 5 (4.27%) Fire and Rescue
7 5 (4.27%) Police
7 5 (4.27%) Retail
8 4 (3.42%) Aerospace
8 4 (3.42%) Electronics
8 4 (3.42%) Finance
9 2 (1.71%) Avionics
9 2 (1.71%) Cyber-Physical System
9 2 (1.71%) Legal
9 2 (1.71%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (1.71%) Pharmaceutical
9 2 (1.71%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.71%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 10 (8.55%) Robotics Engineer
1 10 (8.55%) Senior
2 8 (6.84%) Architect
2 8 (6.84%) Lead
2 8 (6.84%) Product Lead
2 8 (6.84%) Solutions Architect
3 5 (4.27%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 5 (4.27%) Software Engineer
4 4 (3.42%) IT Manager
4 4 (3.42%) IT Project Manager
4 4 (3.42%) Network Engineer
4 4 (3.42%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
4 4 (3.42%) Product Manager
4 4 (3.42%) Project Manager
4 4 (3.42%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 4 (3.42%) Senior Manager
4 4 (3.42%) Senior Network Engineer
5 3 (2.56%) Data Engineer
5 3 (2.56%) Embedded Engineer
5 3 (2.56%) Support Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (5.13%) .NET
2 5 (4.27%) .NET Core
2 5 (4.27%) Terraform
3 4 (3.42%) 802.1X
4 3 (2.56%) CSS
4 3 (2.56%) PySpark
5 2 (1.71%) HTML
5 2 (1.71%) Kafka
5 2 (1.71%) Middleware
5 2 (1.71%) NumPy
5 2 (1.71%) React
5 2 (1.71%) REST
6 1 (0.85%) FFmpeg
6 1 (0.85%) Jest
6 1 (0.85%) Matplotlib
6 1 (0.85%) OpenCV
6 1 (0.85%) Pandas
6 1 (0.85%) Redux
6 1 (0.85%) SciPy
6 1 (0.85%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 11 (9.40%) Algorithms
2 8 (6.84%) Life Science
3 7 (5.98%) Industry 4.0
4 6 (5.13%) Animation
4 6 (5.13%) Self-Driving Car
5 5 (4.27%) Lidar
5 5 (4.27%) Social Media
6 4 (3.42%) Embedded Systems
6 4 (3.42%) Hybrid Cloud
6 4 (3.42%) Linux Command Line
6 4 (3.42%) PKI
6 4 (3.42%) Public Cloud
7 2 (1.71%) Analogue Electronics
7 2 (1.71%) Educational Technology
7 2 (1.71%) FMCG
7 2 (1.71%) Legacy Applications
7 2 (1.71%) Operational Technology
7 2 (1.71%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.85%) Low-Code
8 1 (0.85%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 10 (8.55%) Linux
2 5 (4.27%) Ubuntu
3 2 (1.71%) Robot Operating System
3 2 (1.71%) Windows
4 1 (0.85%) Debian
4 1 (0.85%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.85%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (38.46%) AI
2 28 (23.93%) Logistics
3 24 (20.51%) Software Engineering
4 17 (14.53%) Problem-Solving
5 14 (11.97%) Validation
6 11 (9.40%) Agile
7 10 (8.55%) Computer Science
7 10 (8.55%) DevOps
7 10 (8.55%) Product Strategy
8 8 (6.84%) Biotechnology
8 8 (6.84%) Cybersecurity
8 8 (6.84%) Edge Computing
8 8 (6.84%) Machine Learning
9 7 (5.98%) Analytics
9 7 (5.98%) Stakeholder Management
10 6 (5.13%) CI/CD
10 6 (5.13%) Continuous Improvement
11 5 (4.27%) Multithreading
11 5 (4.27%) TDD
11 5 (4.27%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 17 (14.53%) Python
2 10 (8.55%) SQL
3 8 (6.84%) C#
3 8 (6.84%) C++
4 5 (4.27%) Bash
5 3 (2.56%) Embedded C++
6 2 (1.71%) TypeScript
7 1 (0.85%) C
7 1 (0.85%) Java
7 1 (0.85%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.85%) Ladder Logic
7 1 (0.85%) MATLAB
7 1 (0.85%) PowerShell
7 1 (0.85%) Scala
Qualifications
1 14 (11.97%) Degree
2 11 (9.40%) Security Cleared
3 8 (6.84%) Computer Science Degree
4 7 (5.98%) SC Cleared
5 6 (5.13%) DBS Check
6 4 (3.42%) CCNP
6 4 (3.42%) Cisco Certification
6 4 (3.42%) JNCIP
6 4 (3.42%) JNCIS
7 3 (2.56%) HNC
7 3 (2.56%) HND
8 2 (1.71%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.85%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.85%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.56%) Automotive SPICE
2 2 (1.71%) MISRA
2 2 (1.71%) QA
3 1 (0.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.85%) NIST
System Software
1 8 (6.84%) Docker
2 2 (1.71%) Firmware
3 1 (0.85%) KVM
3 1 (0.85%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 5 (4.27%) Ansible
2 4 (3.42%) systemd
3 3 (2.56%) Functional Safety
4 2 (1.71%) Grafana
4 2 (1.71%) Kubernetes
4 2 (1.71%) MOM
4 2 (1.71%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.85%) Dell DRAC
Vendors
1 5 (4.27%) Cisco
1 5 (4.27%) Workday
2 4 (3.42%) Juniper
2 4 (3.42%) Microsoft
2 4 (3.42%) MikroTik
3 3 (2.56%) SAP
4 2 (1.71%) Databricks
4 2 (1.71%) Facebook
4 2 (1.71%) Oracle
4 2 (1.71%) Pega
4 2 (1.71%) Sage
4 2 (1.71%) SYSPRO
5 1 (0.85%) Dell
5 1 (0.85%) EMC
5 1 (0.85%) Informatica
5 1 (0.85%) Meraki
5 1 (0.85%) MuleSoft
5 1 (0.85%) Siemens