Robotics Job Trends

Robotics
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Robotics in permanent job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Robotics over the 6 months leading up to 13 February 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 420 445 556
Rank change year-on-year +25 +111 +46
Permanent jobs citing Robotics 256 268 232
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.38% 0.54% 0.31%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.18% 1.42% 0.87%
Number of salaries quoted 113 92 174
10th Percentile £45,000 £40,050 £32,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £50,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -11.54%
75th Percentile £70,000 £96,250 £72,433
90th Percentile £100,000 £171,750 £86,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £56,250
% change year-on-year -12.00% +11.11% -6.25%

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 permanent job vacancies requiring generic IT skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 21,636 18,838 26,729
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 32.45% 37.85% 36.02%
Number of salaries quoted 10,951 8,804 19,623
10th Percentile £28,000 £33,750 £29,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £46,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,000 £55,440
Median % change year-on-year -11.29% +11.83% -14.71%
75th Percentile £77,500 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £48,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -12.73% +10.00% -9.09%

Robotics
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Robotics relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Robotics job vacancy trend in the UK

Robotics
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Robotics.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Robotics

Robotics
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Robotics over the 6 months to 13 February 2026.

Salary histogram for Robotics in the UK

Robotics
Top 16 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Robotics within the UK over the 6 months to 13 February 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +36 251 £60,000 -7.69% 151
UK excluding London +21 212 £55,000 -12.00% 118
South East +85 99 £70,000 -22.22% 42
East of England +51 47 £55,000 -15.38% 27
London +4 43 £100,000 -33.33% 46
Midlands -18 27 £65,000 +18.18% 22
South West -38 25 £45,000 -10.00% 9
West Midlands +4 18 £65,000 +15.56% 14
Work from Home -28 13 £55,000 -35.29% 19
North of England -18 11 £56,685 -24.42% 17
East Midlands -28 9 £50,000 -9.09% 8
North West +11 5 £61,935 -17.42% 7
Yorkshire -51 5 £57,500 -37.84% 5
Scotland -19 2 £53,750 -14.00% 4
Wales - 2 - - 2
North East - 1 £42,500 - 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 13 (5.08%) Kinematics
2 2 (0.78%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (0.78%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
2 2 (0.78%) nginx
2 2 (0.78%) WinCC
3 1 (0.39%) SharePoint
Applications
1 8 (3.13%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.17%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.78%) EPLAN
4 1 (0.39%) OrCAD
Cloud Services
1 16 (6.25%) SaaS
2 9 (3.52%) Azure
3 7 (2.73%) Entra ID
3 7 (2.73%) Microsoft 365
4 6 (2.34%) AWS
5 3 (1.17%) GCP
6 2 (0.78%) Dagster
7 1 (0.39%) Boomi
7 1 (0.39%) GitHub
7 1 (0.39%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (0.39%) Microsoft Copilot
7 1 (0.39%) Power Automate
7 1 (0.39%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.95%) TCP/IP
2 2 (0.78%) BGP
2 2 (0.78%) Cisco Nexus
2 2 (0.78%) Ethernet
2 2 (0.78%) Firewall
2 2 (0.78%) MQTT
2 2 (0.78%) OSPF
2 2 (0.78%) Profibus
2 2 (0.78%) Reverse Proxy
2 2 (0.78%) RS-232
2 2 (0.78%) RTMP
2 2 (0.78%) VLAN
2 2 (0.78%) VPN
2 2 (0.78%) WAN
2 2 (0.78%) Wi-Fi
2 2 (0.78%) Wireless
3 1 (0.39%) Modbus
3 1 (0.39%) RS-485
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (1.17%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (0.78%) Data Lake
2 2 (0.78%) Metadata
2 2 (0.78%) MongoDB
2 2 (0.78%) MySQL
3 1 (0.39%) Power BI
3 1 (0.39%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 3 (1.17%) GitLab
2 2 (0.78%) Jaeger
2 2 (0.78%) Jenkins
2 2 (0.78%) LabVIEW
2 2 (0.78%) MLflow
2 2 (0.78%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (0.39%) Rational DOORS
General
1 91 (35.55%) Social Skills
2 53 (20.70%) Analytical Skills
3 48 (18.75%) Aviation
4 32 (12.50%) Aeronautics
5 31 (12.11%) Electronics
6 24 (9.38%) Aerospace
7 20 (7.81%) Manufacturing
8 15 (5.86%) Fire and Rescue
8 15 (5.86%) Police
9 13 (5.08%) Automotive
10 7 (2.73%) Advertising
11 5 (1.95%) Military
11 5 (1.95%) Organisational Skills
11 5 (1.95%) Pharmaceutical
12 3 (1.17%) Tech for Good
13 2 (0.78%) Agriculture
13 2 (0.78%) Games
13 2 (0.78%) Health Technology
13 2 (0.78%) Law
13 2 (0.78%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 58 (22.66%) Business Manager
2 54 (21.09%) Business Systems Manager
2 54 (21.09%) Systems Manager
3 39 (15.23%) Software Engineer
4 22 (8.59%) Robotics Engineer
5 16 (6.25%) Robotics Software Engineer
5 16 (6.25%) Support Technician
6 15 (5.86%) Lead
6 15 (5.86%) Operations Manager
6 15 (5.86%) Senior
6 15 (5.86%) Service Manager
6 15 (5.86%) Service Operations Manager
7 14 (5.47%) Systems Engineer
8 12 (4.69%) Automation Engineer
9 11 (4.30%) Support Engineer
10 9 (3.52%) C++ Software Engineer
10 9 (3.52%) Senior Software Engineer
11 7 (2.73%) Consultant
11 7 (2.73%) Control Systems Engineer
12 6 (2.34%) Safety Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (4.30%) Middleware
2 5 (1.95%) .NET
3 4 (1.56%) PyTorch
3 4 (1.56%) React
4 3 (1.17%) CSS
4 3 (1.17%) Node.js
4 3 (1.17%) TensorFlow
4 3 (1.17%) Unreal Engine
5 2 (0.78%) AngularJS
5 2 (0.78%) FastAPI
5 2 (0.78%) Kafka
5 2 (0.78%) Keycloak
5 2 (0.78%) OpenCV
5 2 (0.78%) WebRTC
6 1 (0.39%) Google JAX
6 1 (0.39%) JAX
6 1 (0.39%) Open3D
Miscellaneous
1 14 (5.47%) Algorithms
2 11 (4.30%) Self-Driving Car
3 9 (3.52%) Fibre Optics
4 4 (1.56%) Embedded Systems
4 4 (1.56%) IoT
4 4 (1.56%) Lidar
4 4 (1.56%) Life Science
4 4 (1.56%) Onboarding
5 3 (1.17%) Driving Licence
5 3 (1.17%) SCADA
6 2 (0.78%) CUDA
6 2 (0.78%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (0.78%) GNSS
6 2 (0.78%) Management Information System
6 2 (0.78%) MPEG
6 2 (0.78%) Video Conferencing
7 1 (0.39%) ASIC
7 1 (0.39%) FPGA
7 1 (0.39%) Verilog
7 1 (0.39%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 10 (3.91%) Windows
2 8 (3.13%) Robot Operating System
3 5 (1.95%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.78%) Linux
4 2 (0.78%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.39%) FreeRTOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 180 (70.31%) Software Engineering
2 159 (62.11%) AI
3 68 (26.56%) Project Management
4 52 (20.31%) Process Improvement
5 50 (19.53%) Budget Management
5 50 (19.53%) Contract Negotiation
5 50 (19.53%) IT Strategy
5 50 (19.53%) Risk Management
5 50 (19.53%) Strategic Planning
6 38 (14.84%) Problem-Solving
7 33 (12.89%) Continuous Improvement
8 21 (8.20%) Change Management
9 20 (7.81%) Business Continuity
10 19 (7.42%) Agile
10 19 (7.42%) Service Delivery
11 18 (7.03%) DevOps
12 17 (6.64%) Incident Management
12 17 (6.64%) Incident Response
12 17 (6.64%) ITIL
12 17 (6.64%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 37 (14.45%) C++
2 16 (6.25%) C#
2 16 (6.25%) Python
3 12 (4.69%) C
4 3 (1.17%) Rust
5 2 (0.78%) Java
5 2 (0.78%) JavaScript
5 2 (0.78%) Ladder Logic
5 2 (0.78%) PHP
5 2 (0.78%) PowerShell
5 2 (0.78%) SQL
5 2 (0.78%) TypeScript
6 1 (0.39%) MATLAB
6 1 (0.39%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 59 (23.05%) Security Cleared
2 58 (22.66%) SC Cleared
3 21 (8.20%) Degree
4 12 (4.69%) HNC
5 11 (4.30%) HND
6 5 (1.95%) PhD
7 4 (1.56%) BPSS Clearance
7 4 (1.56%) Master's Degree
8 2 (0.78%) CCNA
8 2 (0.78%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (0.78%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (0.78%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.39%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (6.64%) QA
2 2 (0.78%) GDPR
2 2 (0.78%) IEC 61131
3 1 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 1 (0.39%) GxP
System Software
1 5 (1.95%) Active Directory
2 3 (1.17%) Docker
3 2 (0.78%) Firmware
3 2 (0.78%) NFS
Systems Management
1 4 (1.56%) Ansible
2 3 (1.17%) Argo
2 3 (1.17%) Kubernetes
2 3 (1.17%) Terraform
3 2 (0.78%) Grafana
3 2 (0.78%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (0.78%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 17 (6.64%) Microsoft
2 4 (1.56%) Cisco
2 4 (1.56%) Siemens
3 2 (0.78%) MikroTik
3 2 (0.78%) NETGEAR
3 2 (0.78%) Sonatype
3 2 (0.78%) Starlink
3 2 (0.78%) Ubiquiti
4 1 (0.39%) Automation Anywhere
4 1 (0.39%) Blue Prism
4 1 (0.39%) EMC
4 1 (0.39%) Informatica
4 1 (0.39%) MuleSoft
4 1 (0.39%) NVIDIA
4 1 (0.39%) YouTube