Robotics Jobs

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 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 456 605 605
Rank change year-on-year +149 0 +228
Permanent jobs citing Robotics 237 295 431
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.45% 0.30% 0.41%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.31% 0.84% 0.95%
Number of salaries quoted 105 180 264
10th Percentile £39,000 £32,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £42,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £55,000 £64,179
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -14.30% +6.97%
75th Percentile £175,000 £72,433 £88,088
90th Percentile - £86,250 £92,040
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - -8.33% +11.11%

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 18,032 35,027 45,319
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 34.57% 35.62% 43.58%
Number of salaries quoted 9,839 23,030 23,975
10th Percentile £31,500 £28,000 £35,271
25th Percentile £42,500 £38,000 £46,350
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -15.38% +4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £86,250
90th Percentile £110,000 £97,500 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% +4.76%

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 30 April 2025.

Salary histogram for Robotics in the UK

Robotics
Top 14 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 30 April 2025. 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 +139 229 £75,000 +36.36% 1,113
UK excluding London +137 157 £55,000 - 973
London +140 97 £150,000 +66.67% 154
Work from Home +187 71 £150,000 +167.86% 700
Midlands +88 52 £55,000 +15.79% 345
West Midlands +85 46 £55,000 +15.79% 151
South East +102 40 £90,000 +89.47% 279
North of England +76 24 £75,000 +66.67% 295
East of England +23 20 £55,000 -8.33% 26
South West +78 16 £49,254 -4.36% 20
Yorkshire +71 12 £83,750 +1.52% 146
North West +30 12 £51,763 +15.03% 114
East Midlands +42 6 £55,000 +15.79% 194
Scotland +123 5 £62,500 -11.44% 12

Robotics
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Application Platforms
1 14 (5.91%) Kinematics
2 3 (1.27%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 2 (0.84%) IIS
4 1 (0.42%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.42%) Tomcat
Applications
1 7 (2.95%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.84%) Autodesk Inventor
2 2 (0.84%) CATIA
2 2 (0.84%) SOLIDWORKS
3 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 22 (9.28%) Dynamics AX
2 3 (1.27%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 17 (7.17%) AWS
1 17 (7.17%) Azure
2 12 (5.06%) GitHub
3 10 (4.22%) Serverless
4 9 (3.80%) IBM Watson
4 9 (3.80%) Power Platform
5 7 (2.95%) Power Automate
6 5 (2.11%) SaaS
7 4 (1.69%) GCP
7 4 (1.69%) Microsoft 365
8 2 (0.84%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 2 (0.84%) Amazon EC2
8 2 (0.84%) Amazon S3
8 2 (0.84%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (0.84%) Twilio
9 1 (0.42%) Amazon EMR
9 1 (0.42%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (0.42%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (0.42%) Boomi
9 1 (0.42%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 11 (4.64%) TCP/IP
2 8 (3.38%) HTTP
3 7 (2.95%) Ethernet
4 6 (2.53%) Firewall
5 5 (2.11%) Network Security
6 2 (0.84%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (0.42%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (8.02%) SQL Server
2 9 (3.80%) Power BI
2 9 (3.80%) QlikView
3 8 (3.38%) Amazon QuickSight
3 8 (3.38%) MySQL
4 7 (2.95%) Big Data
5 6 (2.53%) NoSQL
6 4 (1.69%) BigQuery
6 4 (1.69%) Neo4j
7 2 (0.84%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.42%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (0.42%) Cloudera CDH
8 1 (0.42%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.42%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.42%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.42%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 8 (3.38%) Git
2 4 (1.69%) JIRA
3 1 (0.42%) Carbide.c++
3 1 (0.42%) Visual Studio
General
1 64 (27.00%) Finance
2 55 (23.21%) Telecoms
3 54 (22.78%) Retail
4 50 (21.10%) Social Skills
5 45 (18.99%) Manufacturing
6 33 (13.92%) Analytical Skills
7 28 (11.81%) Marketing
8 24 (10.13%) Games
9 20 (8.44%) Electronics
10 14 (5.91%) Aviation
11 12 (5.06%) Public Sector
11 12 (5.06%) Publishing
12 7 (2.95%) Local Government
13 4 (1.69%) Banking
14 3 (1.27%) Automotive
14 3 (1.27%) Law
14 3 (1.27%) Legal
14 3 (1.27%) Military
14 3 (1.27%) Organisational Skills
15 2 (0.84%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 34 (14.35%) Lead
2 32 (13.50%) Risk Manager
2 32 (13.50%) Senior
2 32 (13.50%) Technology Risk Manager
3 22 (9.28%) Robotics Engineer
4 21 (8.86%) Software Engineer
5 17 (7.17%) Developer
6 14 (5.91%) Head of AI
7 12 (5.06%) Automation Engineer
8 9 (3.80%) Analytics Manager
8 9 (3.80%) Audit Manager
8 9 (3.80%) Data Analytics Manager
8 9 (3.80%) Data Manager
8 9 (3.80%) Systems Engineer
9 8 (3.38%) Reliability Engineer
10 7 (2.95%) Automation Developer
10 7 (2.95%) CEO
10 7 (2.95%) Robotic Process Automation Developer
10 7 (2.95%) Robotics Developer
10 7 (2.95%) Robotics Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (8.02%) PyTorch
2 17 (7.17%) NumPy
2 17 (7.17%) OpenCV
2 17 (7.17%) Pandas
2 17 (7.17%) SciPy
3 14 (5.91%) Middleware
4 12 (5.06%) .NET
5 9 (3.80%) JSON
6 7 (2.95%) XML
7 6 (2.53%) Akka
7 6 (2.53%) Django
8 5 (2.11%) Node.js
9 4 (1.69%) LangChain
9 4 (1.69%) RabbitMQ
9 4 (1.69%) React
10 3 (1.27%) .NET Core
10 3 (1.27%) CSS
10 3 (1.27%) SAML
11 2 (0.84%) HTML
11 2 (0.84%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 54 (22.78%) Blockchain
2 36 (15.19%) Algorithms
3 32 (13.50%) Management Information System
4 18 (7.59%) Virtual Team
5 12 (5.06%) SCADA
6 11 (4.64%) Onboarding
7 10 (4.22%) Product Ownership
8 8 (3.38%) Embedded Systems
9 6 (2.53%) Social Media
10 5 (2.11%) Blog
11 3 (1.27%) Data Structures
11 3 (1.27%) Educational Technology
11 3 (1.27%) Mobile App
12 2 (0.84%) 3D Printing
12 2 (0.84%) Analytical Mindset
12 2 (0.84%) IoT
12 2 (0.84%) Self-Driving Car
13 1 (0.42%) Client/Server
13 1 (0.42%) CPLD
13 1 (0.42%) FPGA
Operating Systems
1 15 (6.33%) Robot Operating System
2 8 (3.38%) Windows
3 6 (2.53%) Android
4 5 (2.11%) Apple iOS
5 4 (1.69%) Linux
6 2 (0.84%) Embedded Linux
6 2 (0.84%) Unix
7 1 (0.42%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.42%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 173 (73.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 92 (38.82%) Analytics
3 84 (35.44%) Agile
4 74 (31.22%) Machine Learning
5 70 (29.54%) Data Analytics
6 63 (26.58%) Mentoring
7 61 (25.74%) Robotic Process Automation
8 56 (23.63%) Creative Thinking
9 55 (23.21%) Coaching
10 52 (21.94%) Problem-Solving
11 47 (19.83%) Computer Science
12 45 (18.99%) Software Engineering
13 36 (15.19%) Project Delivery
14 33 (13.92%) LLM
15 27 (11.39%) Information Security
16 25 (10.55%) Continuous Improvement
17 24 (10.13%) Risk Management
18 23 (9.70%) Change Management
18 23 (9.70%) Data Science
18 23 (9.70%) IT Governance
Programming Languages
1 98 (41.35%) Python
2 41 (17.30%) C++
3 23 (9.70%) C#
4 21 (8.86%) SQL
5 20 (8.44%) C
6 17 (7.17%) R
7 16 (6.75%) JavaScript
8 12 (5.06%) MATLAB
9 7 (2.95%) VB.NET
10 3 (1.27%) Java
10 3 (1.27%) PHP
11 1 (0.42%) Embedded C
11 1 (0.42%) Rust
Qualifications
1 74 (31.22%) Degree
2 44 (18.57%) PhD
3 35 (14.77%) Master's Degree
4 22 (9.28%) CISA
4 22 (9.28%) ISACA
5 17 (7.17%) Computer Science Degree
6 14 (5.91%) Security Cleared
7 8 (3.38%) Numerate Degree
8 7 (2.95%) SC Cleared
9 5 (2.11%) DBS Check
9 5 (2.11%) HNC
10 3 (1.27%) DV Cleared
11 2 (0.84%) Microsoft Certification
12 1 (0.42%) A+ Certification
12 1 (0.42%) AWS Certification
12 1 (0.42%) Azure Certification
12 1 (0.42%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (18.99%) ITGC
2 10 (4.22%) QA
3 8 (3.38%) SLA
4 6 (2.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (2.11%) Cyber Essentials
5 5 (2.11%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (0.42%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.42%) EMIR
6 1 (0.42%) GDPR
6 1 (0.42%) MiFID
System Software
1 3 (1.27%) Docker
2 1 (0.42%) Firmware
2 1 (0.42%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 5 (2.11%) ArcSight ESM
1 5 (2.11%) QRadar
2 3 (1.27%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (0.42%) Terraform
Vendors
1 25 (10.55%) Microsoft
2 23 (9.70%) Oracle
2 23 (9.70%) SAP
3 9 (3.80%) Databricks
3 9 (3.80%) IBM
4 7 (2.95%) UiPath
5 5 (2.11%) ArcSight
5 5 (2.11%) LogLogic
5 5 (2.11%) McAfee
5 5 (2.11%) Splunk
6 4 (1.69%) Google
6 4 (1.69%) Twitter
7 3 (1.27%) Adobe
8 2 (0.84%) Autodesk
8 2 (0.84%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.42%) EMC
9 1 (0.42%) Facebook
9 1 (0.42%) MuleSoft
9 1 (0.42%) Pega
9 1 (0.42%) Talend