Robotics Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Robotics
UK > Work from Home

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Robotics in remote or hybrid contract work. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Robotics over the 6 months leading up to 8 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 308 342 456
Rank change year-on-year +34 +114 +135
Contract jobs citing Robotics 7 10 6
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.069% 0.069% 0.025%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.20% 0.23% 0.079%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 7 4
10th Percentile £473 - £381
25th Percentile £489 £456 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £475 £540
Median % change year-on-year +13.58% -12.04% -1.82%
75th Percentile £651 £488 £600
90th Percentile £703 £503 -
UK median daily rate £519 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +3.75% - -7.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
Median hourly rate £60.00 - -
UK median hourly rate £60.00 £60.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year - +20.00% -2.44%

All Generic Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 3,510 4,337 7,612
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 34.45% 29.83% 31.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,295 2,914 5,373
10th Percentile £340 £325 £363
25th Percentile £413 £431 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% - -
75th Percentile £675 £675 £686
90th Percentile £825 £850 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.42% -2.18% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 104 182 155
10th Percentile £15.34 £16.65 £19.00
25th Percentile £26.13 £25.50 £24.08
Median hourly rate £41.52 £51.75 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.77% -1.43% +17.98%
75th Percentile £64.64 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £76.75 £78.38 £85.00
UK median hourly rate £30.50 £36.05 £27.50
% change year-on-year -15.38% +31.07% +1.93%

Robotics
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Robotics as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Robotics trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Robotics
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Robotics.

Robotics daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Robotics
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Robotics over the 6 months to 8 July 2025.

Robotics daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Robotics
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Robotics.

Robotics hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Robotics
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 2 (28.57%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 2 (28.57%) Firewall
General
1 4 (57.14%) Social Skills
2 3 (42.86%) Finance
3 2 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (28.57%) Aviation
3 2 (28.57%) Banking
3 2 (28.57%) Fire and Rescue
3 2 (28.57%) Manufacturing
3 2 (28.57%) Police
3 2 (28.57%) Swedish Language
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) Design Engineer
1 2 (28.57%) PCB Design Engineer
1 2 (28.57%) PCB Engineer
1 2 (28.57%) Project Manager
1 2 (28.57%) Security Engineer
1 2 (28.57%) Senior
1 2 (28.57%) Senior Manager
1 2 (28.57%) Senior Project Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Developer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Data Centre
1 2 (28.57%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (42.86%) Windows
1 3 (42.86%) Windows Server
2 2 (28.57%) Linux
3 1 (14.29%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) Agile
1 3 (42.86%) Artificial Intelligence
1 3 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (28.57%) CAD
2 2 (28.57%) Change Management
2 2 (28.57%) Customer-Centric Approach
2 2 (28.57%) Customer-Centricity
2 2 (28.57%) Incident Response
2 2 (28.57%) Migration
2 2 (28.57%) Project Management
2 2 (28.57%) Scrum
2 2 (28.57%) SIEM
2 2 (28.57%) SOAR
2 2 (28.57%) Software Engineering
2 2 (28.57%) Strategic Thinking
2 2 (28.57%) Technology Transformation
2 2 (28.57%) Use Case
2 2 (28.57%) Vulnerability Assessment
2 2 (28.57%) Vulnerability Management
2 2 (28.57%) Waterfall
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) QA
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) FortiGate
1 2 (28.57%) Grafana
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Blue Prism
1 2 (28.57%) Facebook
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft
1 2 (28.57%) Ribbon
1 2 (28.57%) Tenable