Job Vacancy Trend Salary Trend Salary Histogram Job Locations Skill Sets
Period
to 15 April 2021

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 have cited Robotics over the 6 months to 15 April 2021 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

Robotics
UK
6 months to
15 Apr 2021		 Same period 2020 Same period 2019
Rank 614 676 558
Rank change year-on-year +62 -118 +120
Permanent jobs citing Robotics 233 303 739
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.28% 0.27% 0.50%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.70% 0.70% 1.26%
Number of salaries quoted 131 223 578
10th Percentile £31,250 £37,500 £28,450
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +4.76%
75th Percentile £74,000 £68,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £76,000 £88,688
UK excluding London median annual salary £43,750 £50,000 £49,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% +2.04% -2.00%

Robotics is in the Generic IT Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills.

All Generic IT Skills
UK
Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 33,107 43,442 58,652
As % of all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK 39.58% 38.64% 39.40%
Number of salaries quoted 23,456 33,855 44,741
10th Percentile £32,500 £30,750 £29,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £39,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £71,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £93,750 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £47,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year - +5.56% -

Robotics
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Robotics as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Robotics in the UK

Robotics
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Robotics.

Salary trend for Robotics in the UK

Robotics
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Robotics over the 6 months to 15 April 2021.

Salary histogram for Robotics in the UK

Robotics
Top 17 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 15 April 2021. 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
Job
Vacancies
England +53 207 £52,500 -4.55% 86
UK excluding London +68 150 £43,750 -12.50% 83
London +64 74 £63,000 -3.08% 8
South West +48 48 £55,000 +22.22% 11
Work from Home -104 40 £54,500 -0.91% 8
South East +47 30 £40,000 -27.27% 20
East of England +34 24 £57,500 -8.00% 28
Scotland +16 19 £42,500 -15.00% 3
North of England +39 18 £45,000 +23.06% 5
Yorkshire +15 13 £45,000 -35.71% 2
Midlands +25 9 £47,500 -5.00% 14
West Midlands +15 5 £40,000 -20.00% 8
North West +28 4 £46,500 +27.16% 2
East Midlands +30 3 £47,500 +5.56% 6
Wales +33 1 £41,500 -13.54% 1
North East +18 1 - - 1
Northern Ireland 0 1 - - 1

For the 6 months to 15 April 2021, IT jobs citing Robotics also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads with a requirement for Robotics.

1 92 (39.48%) Degree
2 80 (34.33%) Artificial Intelligence
3 62 (26.61%) Python
4 58 (24.89%) Agile Software Development
4 58 (24.89%) Machine Learning
5 56 (24.03%) Robotic Process Automation
6 54 (23.18%) Problem-Solving
7 53 (22.75%) Computer Science
8 51 (21.89%) C
9 50 (21.46%) Software Engineering
10 41 (17.60%) C++
10 41 (17.60%) Computer Vision
11 35 (15.02%) C#
11 35 (15.02%) Mathematics
12 34 (14.59%) Algorithms
13 33 (14.16%) MATLAB
14 30 (12.88%) SQL
14 30 (12.88%) Systems Engineering
15 29 (12.45%) Finance
16 28 (12.02%) Linux
16 28 (12.02%) Azure
17 27 (11.59%) DevOps
17 27 (11.59%) Simulink
18 26 (11.16%) Blue Prism
18 26 (11.16%) AWS
19 25 (10.73%) Project Management
19 25 (10.73%) JavaScript
20 24 (10.30%) Java
20 24 (10.30%) Physics
21 23 (9.87%) PhD

Robotics
Co-occurring IT Skills by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 7 (3.00%) SharePoint
2 5 (2.15%) Apache Spark
3 4 (1.72%) CMS
4 3 (1.29%) Appian
4 3 (1.29%) SharePoint Server
5 1 (0.43%) IIS
Applications
1 27 (11.59%) Simulink
2 20 (8.58%) Stateflow
3 18 (7.73%) Microsoft Office
4 6 (2.58%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (1.29%) Adobe XD
5 3 (1.29%) Microsoft Excel
5 3 (1.29%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.86%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (0.43%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 28 (12.02%) Azure
2 26 (11.16%) AWS
3 4 (1.72%) Cloud Computing
3 4 (1.72%) GCP
4 3 (1.29%) Amazon EC2
4 3 (1.29%) Amazon EMR
4 3 (1.29%) Amazon S3
4 3 (1.29%) AWS Lambda
4 3 (1.29%) npm
4 3 (1.29%) Serverless
5 2 (0.86%) Azure Machine Learning
5 2 (0.86%) GitHub
5 2 (0.86%) Google Workspace
5 2 (0.86%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (0.43%) IBM Blueworks
6 1 (0.43%) Power Automate
6 1 (0.43%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.72%) Internet
1 4 (1.72%) WAN
2 3 (1.29%) LAN
3 2 (0.86%) DHCP
3 2 (0.86%) HTTP
3 2 (0.86%) VPN
4 1 (0.43%) DNS
4 1 (0.43%) Firewall
4 1 (0.43%) FTP
4 1 (0.43%) IP Telephony
4 1 (0.43%) SAN
4 1 (0.43%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.43%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (7.30%) Big Data
2 6 (2.58%) Data Mining
2 6 (2.58%) SQL Server
3 5 (2.15%) NoSQL
3 5 (2.15%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (1.29%) Amazon Athena
4 3 (1.29%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (1.29%) Amazon Redshift
4 3 (1.29%) Data Lake
4 3 (1.29%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (1.29%) Electronic Patient Records
4 3 (1.29%) Hadoop
4 3 (1.29%) Relational Database
5 2 (0.86%) Blockchain
5 2 (0.86%) MongoDB
5 2 (0.86%) Neo4j
6 1 (0.43%) MySQL
6 1 (0.43%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 5 (2.15%) Git (software)
2 4 (1.72%) GitLab
2 4 (1.72%) Jenkins
3 3 (1.29%) Jasmine
3 3 (1.29%) JIRA
3 3 (1.29%) Karma Test Runner
3 3 (1.29%) Team Foundation Server
3 3 (1.29%) webpack
4 2 (0.86%) Eclipse
4 2 (0.86%) IntelliJ
4 2 (0.86%) NetBeans
5 1 (0.43%) Maven
5 1 (0.43%) NUnit
5 1 (0.43%) Octopus Deploy
5 1 (0.43%) TeamCity
General
1 29 (12.45%) Finance
2 20 (8.58%) Games
3 18 (7.73%) Retail
4 16 (6.87%) Automotive
5 13 (5.58%) Banking
5 13 (5.58%) Manufacturing
6 12 (5.15%) Aerospace
6 12 (5.15%) Avionics
6 12 (5.15%) Law
7 10 (4.29%) Investment Banking
8 9 (3.86%) Marketing
8 9 (3.86%) Public Sector
9 6 (2.58%) Electronics
10 5 (2.15%) Legal
11 4 (1.72%) International Banking
12 2 (0.86%) Local Government
12 2 (0.86%) Telecoms
13 1 (0.43%) Arabic Language
13 1 (0.43%) Bulgarian Language
13 1 (0.43%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 58 (24.89%) Developer
2 29 (12.45%) Systems Engineer
3 27 (11.59%) Robotic Process Automation Developer
3 27 (11.59%) Software Engineer
4 18 (7.73%) Consultant
5 11 (4.72%) Architect
6 9 (3.86%) Applications Engineer
6 9 (3.86%) Front End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 9 (3.86%) Software Applications Engineer
7 7 (3.00%) .NET Developer
7 7 (3.00%) Analyst
7 7 (3.00%) Digital Transformation
7 7 (3.00%) Java Engineer
7 7 (3.00%) Java Software Engineer
7 7 (3.00%) React Developer
8 6 (2.58%) Digital Transformation Consultant
8 6 (2.58%) Junior
8 6 (2.58%) Transformation Consultant
9 5 (2.15%) Senior Architect
9 5 (2.15%) Senior Information Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (9.01%) .NET
1 21 (9.01%) TensorFlow
2 20 (8.58%) PyTorch
3 18 (7.73%) Natural Language Processing
4 15 (6.44%) HTML
5 13 (5.58%) CSS
6 11 (4.72%) ASP.NET
7 10 (4.29%) AngularJS
7 10 (4.29%) REST
8 9 (3.86%) OpenCV
9 8 (3.43%) HTML5
9 8 (3.43%) React
10 5 (2.15%) Babylonjs
10 5 (2.15%) CSS3
10 5 (2.15%) Node.js
10 5 (2.15%) RESTful
10 5 (2.15%) Spring
10 5 (2.15%) Unreal Engine
11 4 (1.72%) ADO
11 4 (1.72%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 34 (14.59%) Algorithms
2 19 (8.15%) Analytical Skills
3 17 (7.30%) Management Information System
4 14 (6.01%) Driving Licence
5 11 (4.72%) Industry 4.0
5 11 (4.72%) Self-Motivation
5 11 (4.72%) Smart City
6 9 (3.86%) CAN bus
7 7 (3.00%) Mobile App
7 7 (3.00%) User Experience
8 6 (2.58%) Embedded Systems
8 6 (2.58%) Enterprise Software
9 5 (2.15%) 3D Graphics
9 5 (2.15%) SIMD
9 5 (2.15%) Virtual Team
10 4 (1.72%) Internet of Things
10 4 (1.72%) NHS
10 4 (1.72%) SCADA
11 3 (1.29%) Data Structures
11 3 (1.29%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 28 (12.02%) Linux
2 18 (7.73%) Windows
3 14 (6.01%) Robot Operating System
4 6 (2.58%) VxWorks
5 3 (1.29%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.86%) Unix
7 1 (0.43%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 80 (34.33%) Artificial Intelligence
2 58 (24.89%) Agile Software Development
2 58 (24.89%) Machine Learning
3 56 (24.03%) Robotic Process Automation
4 54 (23.18%) Problem-Solving
5 53 (22.75%) Computer Science
6 50 (21.46%) Software Engineering
7 41 (17.60%) Computer Vision
8 35 (15.02%) Mathematics
9 30 (12.88%) Systems Engineering
10 27 (11.59%) DevOps
11 25 (10.73%) Project Management
12 24 (10.30%) Physics
13 22 (9.44%) Validation
14 21 (9.01%) Model Validation
15 20 (8.58%) Analytics
15 20 (8.58%) Technical Analysis
15 20 (8.58%) Test Automation
16 19 (8.15%) Decision-Making
17 18 (7.73%) Deep Learning
Programming Languages
1 62 (26.61%) Python
2 51 (21.89%) C
3 41 (17.60%) C++
4 35 (15.02%) C#
5 33 (14.16%) MATLAB
6 30 (12.88%) SQL
7 25 (10.73%) JavaScript
8 24 (10.30%) Java
9 15 (6.44%) VBA
10 10 (4.29%) PowerShell
10 10 (4.29%) T-SQL
10 10 (4.29%) TypeScript
10 10 (4.29%) VB.NET
11 7 (3.00%) Ada
11 7 (3.00%) Fortran
12 4 (1.72%) ES6
13 2 (0.86%) Embedded C
13 2 (0.86%) Go
13 2 (0.86%) Google Apps Script
13 2 (0.86%) PHP
Qualifications
1 92 (39.48%) Degree
2 23 (9.87%) PhD
3 21 (9.01%) Computer Science Degree
4 20 (8.58%) Security Cleared
5 15 (6.44%) SC Cleared
6 13 (5.58%) Master's Degree
7 11 (4.72%) DV Cleared
8 5 (2.15%) HND
9 4 (1.72%) DBS Check
9 4 (1.72%) PMI Certification
10 3 (1.29%) HNC
11 2 (0.86%) CEH
11 2 (0.86%) CISSP
11 2 (0.86%) GPEN
11 2 (0.86%) OSCP
11 2 (0.86%) PMP
11 2 (0.86%) Six Sigma Black Belt
11 2 (0.86%) Six Sigma Green Belt
11 2 (0.86%) Six Sigma Yellow Belt
12 1 (0.43%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (4.29%) QA
2 2 (0.86%) NIST
3 1 (0.43%) IEC 61131
3 1 (0.43%) MISRA
3 1 (0.43%) MISRA C
3 1 (0.43%) PMO
3 1 (0.43%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 10 (4.29%) Firmware
2 4 (1.72%) Docker
3 2 (0.86%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.43%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.43%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 7 (3.00%) BMC PATROL
2 2 (0.86%) Ansible
2 2 (0.86%) Grafana
2 2 (0.86%) Nessus
2 2 (0.86%) Prometheus
3 1 (0.43%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.43%) SCCM
Vendors
1 26 (11.16%) Blue Prism
2 23 (9.87%) UiPath
3 21 (9.01%) Kofax
4 18 (7.73%) Automation Anywhere
5 15 (6.44%) Microsoft
6 7 (3.00%) MathWorks
7 5 (2.15%) Google
7 5 (2.15%) Sun
8 4 (1.72%) Epiphany
9 3 (1.29%) Adobe
9 3 (1.29%) ANSYS
10 2 (0.86%) Oracle
10 2 (0.86%) Pega
10 2 (0.86%) Splunk
11 1 (0.43%) Cisco
11 1 (0.43%) Remedy
11 1 (0.43%) VMware
11 1 (0.43%) Xamarin
93 Robotics job vacancies Nationwide