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 7 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 196 604 605
Rank change year-on-year +408 +1 +244
Permanent jobs citing Robotics 939 322 330
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.57% 0.30% 0.37%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 4.31% 0.90% 0.87%
Number of salaries quoted 112 195 218
10th Percentile £36,375 £33,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £42,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £64,029
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -14.10% +6.72%
75th Percentile £175,000 £65,000 £89,852
90th Percentile - £75,500 £98,605
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £54,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% +10.00%

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 21,766 35,609 37,726
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 36.43% 33.52% 42.55%
Number of salaries quoted 10,376 22,654 22,048
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £35,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £38,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,836 £55,000 £64,015
Median % change year-on-year +5.16% -14.08% +2.42%
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £99,750 £108,225
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% -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 7 July 2025.

Salary histogram for Robotics in the UK

Robotics
Top 15 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 7 July 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 +379 927 £56,250 +2.27% 383
UK excluding London +333 863 £55,000 +1.85% 268
Work from Home +424 592 £150,000 +200.00% 65
Midlands +266 326 £60,000 +9.09% 45
South East +213 282 £57,500 +21.05% 73
North of England +191 210 £51,763 +3.53% 59
East Midlands +150 181 £65,000 +10.73% 23
West Midlands +174 145 £55,000 +15.79% 22
Yorkshire +136 124 £86,250 +23.21% 20
London +154 82 £150,000 +93.55% 133
North West +56 69 £35,382 -21.37% 31
East of England +2 31 £55,000 -8.33% 48
North East +51 17 - - 8
South West +41 12 £51,250 +2.50% 28
Scotland - 2 £62,500 - 17

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 20 (2.13%) Kinematics
2 2 (0.21%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (0.21%) Apache Spark
2 2 (0.21%) IIS
3 1 (0.11%) Tomcat
Applications
1 5 (0.53%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (0.43%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.11%) Autodesk Inventor
3 1 (0.11%) CATIA
3 1 (0.11%) GNU Octave
3 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.11%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 18 (1.92%) Dynamics AX
2 4 (0.43%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 10 (1.06%) Azure
2 5 (0.53%) Power Platform
3 4 (0.43%) AWS
3 4 (0.43%) IBM Watson
4 3 (0.32%) GitHub
5 2 (0.21%) Amazon SageMaker
5 2 (0.21%) Azure Machine Learning
5 2 (0.21%) GCP
5 2 (0.21%) Prefect
6 1 (0.11%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (0.11%) Azure Pipelines
6 1 (0.11%) Boomi
6 1 (0.11%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (0.11%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (0.64%) Firewall
1 6 (0.64%) Network Security
1 6 (0.64%) TCP/IP
2 4 (0.43%) Wireless
3 2 (0.21%) Ethernet
3 2 (0.21%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (0.11%) Modbus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (0.85%) SQL Server
2 5 (0.53%) Power BI
3 4 (0.43%) NoSQL
3 4 (0.43%) QlikView
4 2 (0.21%) Big Data
4 2 (0.21%) Data Lake
4 2 (0.21%) MongoDB
4 2 (0.21%) MySQL
5 1 (0.11%) Cloudera CDH
5 1 (0.11%) RDBMS
5 1 (0.11%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.11%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 7 (0.75%) Git
2 2 (0.21%) MLflow
3 1 (0.11%) Carbide.c++
3 1 (0.11%) JIRA
3 1 (0.11%) LabVIEW
3 1 (0.11%) Visual Studio
General
1 781 (83.17%) Retail
2 778 (82.85%) Manufacturing
3 196 (20.87%) Dutch Language
3 196 (20.87%) Finnish Language
3 196 (20.87%) Norwegian Language
4 65 (6.92%) Analytical Skills
5 49 (5.22%) Catalan Language
5 49 (5.22%) Finance
6 42 (4.47%) Telecoms
7 40 (4.26%) Social Skills
8 24 (2.56%) Electronics
8 24 (2.56%) Marketing
9 23 (2.45%) Aviation
10 20 (2.13%) Games
11 13 (1.38%) Publishing
12 8 (0.85%) Aerospace
12 8 (0.85%) Military
13 6 (0.64%) Automotive
13 6 (0.64%) Law
14 4 (0.43%) Legal
Job Titles
1 735 (78.27%) Trainer
2 41 (4.37%) Lead
3 28 (2.98%) Robotics Engineer
4 25 (2.66%) Senior
5 23 (2.45%) Risk Manager
5 23 (2.45%) Technology Risk Manager
6 14 (1.49%) Head of AI
7 12 (1.28%) Software Engineer
8 8 (0.85%) Automation Engineer
9 7 (0.75%) CEO
10 5 (0.53%) Developer
10 5 (0.53%) Robotics Software Engineer
11 4 (0.43%) Architect
11 4 (0.43%) Audit Manager
11 4 (0.43%) Data Manager
11 4 (0.43%) Field Engineer
11 4 (0.43%) Project Engineer
11 4 (0.43%) Support Engineer
11 4 (0.43%) Technical Engineer
11 4 (0.43%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (1.92%) Middleware
2 4 (0.43%) .NET
3 3 (0.32%) .NET Core
3 3 (0.32%) CSS
3 3 (0.32%) Google JAX
3 3 (0.32%) JAX
3 3 (0.32%) PyTorch
3 3 (0.32%) RabbitMQ
3 3 (0.32%) TensorFlow
4 2 (0.21%) Akka
4 2 (0.21%) HTML
4 2 (0.21%) HTML5
4 2 (0.21%) Hugging Face
4 2 (0.21%) Kafka
4 2 (0.21%) ONNX
4 2 (0.21%) scikit-learn
5 1 (0.11%) .NET Framework
5 1 (0.11%) Entity Framework
5 1 (0.11%) Servlets
5 1 (0.11%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 41 (4.37%) Blockchain
2 29 (3.09%) Algorithms
3 28 (2.98%) Management Information System
4 8 (0.85%) Embedded Systems
4 8 (0.85%) SCADA
5 6 (0.64%) Data Structures
5 6 (0.64%) Social Media
6 5 (0.53%) Blog
7 4 (0.43%) Self-Driving Car
8 3 (0.32%) Digital Media
8 3 (0.32%) Graphic Design
8 3 (0.32%) IoT
8 3 (0.32%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (0.21%) Distributed Systems
9 2 (0.21%) Driving Licence
9 2 (0.21%) Mobile App
10 1 (0.11%) Legacy Systems
10 1 (0.11%) Onboarding
10 1 (0.11%) Product Ownership
10 1 (0.11%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 8 (0.85%) Android
1 8 (0.85%) Robot Operating System
2 7 (0.75%) Windows
3 6 (0.64%) Apple iOS
4 5 (0.53%) Linux
5 2 (0.21%) Embedded Linux
5 2 (0.21%) Unix
6 1 (0.11%) FreeRTOS
6 1 (0.11%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 858 (91.37%) Artificial Intelligence
2 776 (82.64%) Machine Learning
2 776 (82.64%) Problem-Solving
3 763 (81.26%) LLM
4 738 (78.59%) Generative AI
5 735 (78.27%) Red Team
6 539 (57.40%) Data Privacy
7 57 (6.07%) Software Engineering
8 53 (5.64%) Mentoring
9 52 (5.54%) Analytics
10 51 (5.43%) Data Analytics
11 50 (5.32%) Agile
12 49 (5.22%) Biochemistry
12 49 (5.22%) Biology
12 49 (5.22%) Chemistry
13 43 (4.58%) Creative Thinking
14 42 (4.47%) Coaching
14 42 (4.47%) Computer Science
15 41 (4.37%) Robotic Process Automation
16 24 (2.56%) Information Security
Programming Languages
1 47 (5.01%) Python
2 45 (4.79%) C++
3 22 (2.34%) C
4 19 (2.02%) C#
5 15 (1.60%) MATLAB
6 11 (1.17%) SQL
7 6 (0.64%) JavaScript
7 6 (0.64%) R
8 3 (0.32%) PHP
9 1 (0.11%) Ada
9 1 (0.11%) Embedded C
9 1 (0.11%) Java
9 1 (0.11%) Kotlin
9 1 (0.11%) Rust
9 1 (0.11%) VB
Qualifications
1 779 (82.96%) Degree
2 27 (2.88%) PhD
3 18 (1.92%) CISA
3 18 (1.92%) ISACA
4 14 (1.49%) Security Cleared
5 11 (1.17%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (1.17%) Master's Degree
6 9 (0.96%) SC Cleared
7 7 (0.75%) DBS Check
8 6 (0.64%) HNC
9 4 (0.43%) NVQ Level 3
10 3 (0.32%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (3.94%) ITGC
2 7 (0.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (0.64%) Cyber Essentials
3 6 (0.64%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 4 (0.43%) QA
5 3 (0.32%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.11%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.11%) ISO 9001
6 1 (0.11%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 3 (0.32%) Docker
2 1 (0.11%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 6 (0.64%) ArcSight ESM
1 6 (0.64%) QRadar
2 3 (0.32%) Kubernetes
3 2 (0.21%) Kubeflow
4 1 (0.11%) Functional Safety
Vendors
1 739 (78.70%) Databricks
2 735 (78.27%) Adobe
2 735 (78.27%) Google
3 23 (2.45%) SAP
4 19 (2.02%) Oracle
5 14 (1.49%) Microsoft
6 6 (0.64%) ArcSight
6 6 (0.64%) LogLogic
6 6 (0.64%) McAfee
6 6 (0.64%) Splunk
7 5 (0.53%) Facebook
8 4 (0.43%) IBM
8 4 (0.43%) Salesforce
8 4 (0.43%) Twitter
9 3 (0.32%) Allen-Bradley
9 3 (0.32%) Siemens
9 3 (0.32%) UiPath
10 2 (0.21%) Blue Prism
10 2 (0.21%) EMC
11 1 (0.11%) Informatica