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 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 185 628 604
Rank change year-on-year +443 -24 +222
Permanent jobs citing Robotics 960 288 392
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.72% 0.28% 0.41%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 4.62% 0.81% 0.94%
Number of salaries quoted 100 173 237
10th Percentile £36,250 £32,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £40,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £55,000 £64,179
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% -14.30% +6.97%
75th Percentile £175,000 £67,968 £89,852
90th Percentile - £81,250 £92,040
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £53,250 £58,500
% change year-on-year +3.29% -8.97% +15.06%

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 20,763 35,685 41,757
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 37.18% 34.42% 43.59%
Number of salaries quoted 9,606 23,135 22,550
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,000 £35,750
25th Percentile £42,000 £38,085 £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 £78,750 £75,000 £86,250
90th Percentile £110,000 £97,500 £110,000
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 31 May 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 31 May 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 +410 950 £62,500 +13.64% 407
UK excluding London +386 865 £55,000 +3.29% 280
Work from Home +415 611 £150,000 +172.73% 96
Midlands +248 333 £55,000 +12.24% 42
South East +238 281 £70,000 +56.46% 73
North of England +184 210 £51,763 +3.53% 58
East Midlands +142 182 £60,000 +2.21% 17
West Midlands +171 151 £55,000 +15.79% 22
Yorkshire +151 125 £92,500 +32.14% 18
London +168 110 £150,000 +66.67% 155
North West +57 69 £35,382 -21.37% 30
East of England +13 20 £55,000 -8.33% 59
South West +73 16 £51,250 +2.50% 23
North East +58 16 - - 11
Scotland +125 5 £62,500 -11.44% 18

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 17 (1.77%) Kinematics
2 2 (0.21%) IIS
3 1 (0.10%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.10%) Tomcat
Applications
1 7 (0.73%) Chatbot
2 3 (0.31%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.21%) Autodesk Inventor
3 2 (0.21%) CATIA
3 2 (0.21%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (0.21%) SOLIDWORKS
4 1 (0.10%) GNU Octave
4 1 (0.10%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.10%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 22 (2.29%) Dynamics AX
2 2 (0.21%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 14 (1.46%) Azure
2 10 (1.04%) AWS
3 7 (0.73%) GitHub
3 7 (0.73%) IBM Watson
3 7 (0.73%) Power Automate
3 7 (0.73%) Power Platform
4 4 (0.42%) GCP
4 4 (0.42%) Serverless
5 1 (0.10%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (0.10%) Azure Pipelines
5 1 (0.10%) Boomi
5 1 (0.10%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (0.10%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (0.10%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (0.73%) TCP/IP
2 6 (0.63%) Firewall
2 6 (0.63%) Network Security
3 4 (0.42%) HTTP
4 2 (0.21%) Ethernet
4 2 (0.21%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (0.10%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (1.25%) SQL Server
2 7 (0.73%) Power BI
2 7 (0.73%) QlikView
3 5 (0.52%) NoSQL
4 4 (0.42%) Amazon QuickSight
4 4 (0.42%) BigQuery
5 3 (0.31%) MySQL
5 3 (0.31%) Neo4j
6 2 (0.21%) Big Data
7 1 (0.10%) Cloudera CDH
7 1 (0.10%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.10%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.10%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.10%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 9 (0.94%) Git
2 5 (0.52%) JIRA
3 1 (0.10%) Carbide.c++
3 1 (0.10%) Visual Studio
General
1 789 (82.19%) Retail
2 779 (81.15%) Manufacturing
3 196 (20.42%) Dutch Language
3 196 (20.42%) Finnish Language
3 196 (20.42%) Norwegian Language
4 73 (7.60%) Analytical Skills
5 62 (6.46%) Finance
6 53 (5.52%) Telecoms
7 49 (5.10%) Catalan Language
8 41 (4.27%) Social Skills
9 28 (2.92%) Marketing
10 24 (2.50%) Games
11 22 (2.29%) Electronics
12 14 (1.46%) Aviation
13 13 (1.35%) Publishing
14 7 (0.73%) Local Government
15 4 (0.42%) Banking
15 4 (0.42%) Legal
15 4 (0.42%) Military
15 4 (0.42%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 735 (76.56%) Trainer
2 38 (3.96%) Lead
3 30 (3.13%) Risk Manager
3 30 (3.13%) Senior
3 30 (3.13%) Technology Risk Manager
4 24 (2.50%) Robotics Engineer
5 21 (2.19%) Software Engineer
6 14 (1.46%) Head of AI
7 13 (1.35%) Developer
8 10 (1.04%) Automation Engineer
9 7 (0.73%) Analytics Manager
9 7 (0.73%) Audit Manager
9 7 (0.73%) Automation Developer
9 7 (0.73%) CEO
9 7 (0.73%) Data Analytics Manager
9 7 (0.73%) Data Manager
9 7 (0.73%) Robotic Process Automation Developer
9 7 (0.73%) Robotics Developer
9 7 (0.73%) Robotics Software Engineer
10 6 (0.63%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (1.88%) PyTorch
2 17 (1.77%) Middleware
2 17 (1.77%) NumPy
2 17 (1.77%) OpenCV
2 17 (1.77%) Pandas
2 17 (1.77%) SciPy
3 11 (1.15%) .NET
4 5 (0.52%) JSON
5 4 (0.42%) Node.js
5 4 (0.42%) React
6 3 (0.31%) .NET Core
6 3 (0.31%) CSS
6 3 (0.31%) LangChain
6 3 (0.31%) RabbitMQ
7 2 (0.21%) Akka
7 2 (0.21%) HTML
7 2 (0.21%) HTML5
7 2 (0.21%) XML
8 1 (0.10%) Swagger
8 1 (0.10%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 52 (5.42%) Blockchain
2 39 (4.06%) Algorithms
3 32 (3.33%) Management Information System
4 17 (1.77%) Virtual Team
5 10 (1.04%) SCADA
6 9 (0.94%) Onboarding
7 8 (0.83%) Embedded Systems
8 6 (0.63%) Social Media
9 5 (0.52%) Blog
9 5 (0.52%) Product Ownership
10 4 (0.42%) Data Structures
10 4 (0.42%) Self-Driving Car
11 3 (0.31%) Self-Motivation
12 2 (0.21%) 3D Printing
12 2 (0.21%) Driving Licence
12 2 (0.21%) IoT
12 2 (0.21%) Mobile App
13 1 (0.10%) Digital Media
13 1 (0.10%) Enterprise Software
13 1 (0.10%) Graphic Design
Operating Systems
1 14 (1.46%) Robot Operating System
2 8 (0.83%) Android
3 7 (0.73%) Windows
4 6 (0.63%) Apple iOS
5 5 (0.52%) Linux
6 2 (0.21%) Embedded Linux
6 2 (0.21%) Unix
7 1 (0.10%) FreeRTOS
7 1 (0.10%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 892 (92.92%) Artificial Intelligence
2 804 (83.75%) Machine Learning
3 784 (81.67%) Problem-Solving
4 768 (80.00%) LLM
5 739 (76.98%) Generative AI
6 735 (76.56%) Red Team
7 539 (56.15%) Data Privacy
8 84 (8.75%) Agile
9 82 (8.54%) Analytics
10 61 (6.35%) Mentoring
11 60 (6.25%) Data Analytics
12 59 (6.15%) Robotic Process Automation
13 54 (5.63%) Creative Thinking
14 52 (5.42%) Coaching
14 52 (5.42%) Software Engineering
15 49 (5.10%) Biochemistry
15 49 (5.10%) Biology
15 49 (5.10%) Chemistry
16 43 (4.48%) Computer Science
17 32 (3.33%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 82 (8.54%) Python
2 45 (4.69%) C++
3 21 (2.19%) C
3 21 (2.19%) C#
4 15 (1.56%) SQL
5 14 (1.46%) JavaScript
5 14 (1.46%) MATLAB
6 13 (1.35%) R
7 7 (0.73%) VB.NET
8 3 (0.31%) PHP
9 1 (0.10%) Ada
9 1 (0.10%) Embedded C
9 1 (0.10%) Java
9 1 (0.10%) Kotlin
9 1 (0.10%) Rust
Qualifications
1 798 (83.13%) Degree
2 44 (4.58%) PhD
3 34 (3.54%) Master's Degree
4 22 (2.29%) CISA
4 22 (2.29%) ISACA
5 15 (1.56%) Computer Science Degree
6 12 (1.25%) Security Cleared
7 7 (0.73%) DBS Check
7 7 (0.73%) SC Cleared
8 5 (0.52%) HNC
9 4 (0.42%) Numerate Degree
10 3 (0.31%) DV Cleared
11 2 (0.21%) NVQ Level 3
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (4.69%) ITGC
2 10 (1.04%) QA
3 7 (0.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (0.63%) Cyber Essentials
4 6 (0.63%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 4 (0.42%) SLA
6 1 (0.10%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.10%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.10%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (0.10%) Docker
1 1 (0.10%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 6 (0.63%) ArcSight ESM
1 6 (0.63%) QRadar
2 1 (0.10%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.10%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 742 (77.29%) Databricks
2 739 (76.98%) Google
3 735 (76.56%) Adobe
4 25 (2.60%) SAP
5 23 (2.40%) Oracle
6 21 (2.19%) Microsoft
7 10 (1.04%) UiPath
8 7 (0.73%) IBM
9 6 (0.63%) ArcSight
9 6 (0.63%) LogLogic
9 6 (0.63%) McAfee
9 6 (0.63%) Splunk
10 4 (0.42%) Twitter
11 3 (0.31%) Facebook
12 2 (0.21%) Autodesk
12 2 (0.21%) Blue Prism
12 2 (0.21%) Salesforce
13 1 (0.10%) EMC
13 1 (0.10%) Informatica
13 1 (0.10%) MuleSoft