Robotics Jobs UK 2025: 50 Companies Hiring Now
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A record £4.3 billion flowed into UK robotics & automation during the past 12 months, the government’s “Made Smarter” incentives extended to 2030, & skills shortages pushed salaries up 12 %. Whether you build autonomous warehouse fleets, surgical arms or humanoid grippers, employers want you right now.
Below are 50 organisations that posted UK‑based robotics vacancies or announced head‑count growth in the past eight weeks. They’re grouped into five quick‑scan categories so you can jump straight to the type of employer—& mission—that excites you. For every company you’ll see:
Main UK hub
Example live or recent vacancy
Why it’s worth a look (stack, impact, culture)
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Industrial & Warehouse Automation Leaders (1–10)
Ocado Technology – Hatfield & London
Vacancy: Robotics Control Engineer – 600‑Bot Grid Swarms
Why: Groceries fulfilled by 7‑axis arms; ROS 2 & bespoke PLC mash‑ups.
Dematic UK – Banbury
Vacancy: Mechatronics Engineer – ASRS Shuttle Systems
Why: New £50 m client sites opening; strong graduate scheme.
ABB Robotics – Milton Keynes
Vacancy: Field Service Engineer – IRB 1200/6700 Cells
Why: Expanding UK service fleet for automotive & pharma clients.
KUKA UK – Halesowen
Vacancy: Applications Programmer – KRL & ROS‑Industrial
Why: Training academy & sponsored apprenticeships.
Amazon Robotics Europe – Manchester
Vacancy: Automation Deployment Manager – Proteus AMRs
Why: 5 new fulfilment centres, hybrid working & stock awards.
GreyOrange – Birmingham
Vacancy: Fleet AI Engineer – Rangers & Sorters
Why: First EU Ranger G2 install; Python & reinforcement learning stack.
AutoStore UK – London
Vacancy: Integration Specialist – B1 Black Line
Why: Cubic storage boom in fashion & health‑tech warehouses.
Fanuc UK – Coventry
Vacancy: Robotics Trainer – CRX Collaborative Arms
Why: Brand‑new £25 m HQ, global OEM links.
Tritium Automation – Leeds
Vacancy: Gripper Design Engineer – Lightweight E‑Mobility Arms
Why: Northern Powerhouse grant, equity options & flexible hours.
Fluent Robotics – Cardiff
Vacancy: PLC‑to‑ROS Bridge Developer – Food‑Safe Pick & Place
Why: Welsh manufacturing hub, rapid start‑up growth.
Autonomous Vehicles, Drones & Mobility Pioneers (11–20)
Wayve – London
Vacancy: Motion Planning Engineer – AV2.0 End‑to‑End Stack
Why: £200 m Series C, petabyte‑scale road data.
Oxa (Oxbotica) – Oxford
Vacancy: Autonomous Perception Scientist – Multi‑Sensor Fusion
Why: Industrial/mining autonomy contracts, rugged hardware.
Five AI (Bosch) – Cambridge
Vacancy: Simulation Toolchain Developer – AV Safety Cases
Why: Integrating UK stack into Bosch’s L4 highway pilot.
Starship Technologies – Milton Keynes
Vacancy: Robot Operations Lead – 2 000 Delivery Bots
Why: Live suburban deployments & hands‑on fleet scaling.
Dronamics – Bicester
Vacancy: Flight Control Systems Engineer – Cargo Drones
Why: CAA cargo corridor cleared; carbon‑neutral air freight.
Skydio UK – Manchester
Vacancy: Computer‑Vision Engineer – On‑Drone AI
Why: Enterprise inspection & blue‑light deployments.
ZeroAvia Robotics – Kemble
Vacancy: Autonomous Tug Engineer – Hydrogen Runway Ops
Why: Airport ground vehicle robotics for zero‑emission flight.
StreetDrone – Oxford
Vacancy: Tele‑Ops Network Engineer – 5G C‑V2X Yard Trucks
Why: Partnerships with Nissan & NEOM hub.
Conigital – Birmingham
Vacancy: Safety Driverless Systems Analyst – ISO 26262
Why: Midlands Future Mobility testbed, hybrid‑first culture.
Apian Health Drone Logistics – Bedford
Vacancy: UAV Mission Planner – NHS Medical Deliveries
Why: Scaling BVLOS routes for pathology samples.
Service, Medical & Consumer Robotics Innovators (21–30)
Dyson – Hullavington
Vacancy: Home Robotics Behaviour Engineer – SLAM & Manipulation
Why: £2.75 bn tech strategy, new household robot line.
Smith+Nephew – Watford & Hull
Vacancy: Surgical Robotics Software Engineer – CORI System
Why: UK orthopaedic robot HQ, CE & FDA pipelines.
Cambridge Medical Robotics (CMR Surgical) – Cambridge
Vacancy: Control Systems Engineer – Versius Arm
Why: 150 global installs, rapid product roadmap.
Blue Prism RPA – Warrington & remote
Vacancy: Edge‑Automation Architect – Robot Process Pipeline
Why: Digital workers meet 5G edge compute.
Shadow Robot Company – London
Vacancy: Dexterous Hand Mechatronics Engineer – Tactile Sensors
Why: SME with world‑class grasping tech; equity included.
Small Robot Company – Salisbury
Vacancy: Field Robotics Engineer – Agri Robot Swarms
Why: Carbon‑positive farming & DEFRA grant support.
Addon Robotics – Edinburgh
Vacancy: Rapid Prototyping Engineer – Soft Grippers
Why: University spin‑out, flexible 4‑day week.
BotsAndUs – London
Vacancy: Autonomy Engineer – Retail Inventory Robots
Why: Deployments with Gatwick & Heathrow; strong stock options.
Q‑Bot – Portsmouth
Vacancy: Robot Navigation Engineer – Crawl‑Space Insulation Bots
Why: Retro‑fit construction robots in 20 k UK homes.
Kar‑Go / Academy of Robotics – Braintree
Vacancy: Autonomous Delivery Robot Technician
Why: Road‑legal delivery pod fleet, MoD campus trials.
Robotics Software, AI Platforms & Scale‑ups (31–40)
Rapyuta Robotics UK – London
Vacancy: Cloud Robotics Backend Engineer – ROS 2 SaaS
Why: Swiss‑Japanese HQ chooses London for EMEA dev hub.
Fetch AI – Cambridge
Vacancy: Multi‑Agent Systems Scientist – Decentralised Robotics
Why: Combining Web3 & swarm robotics; remote‑first.
Digital Catapult – SONIC Labs – London
Vacancy: 5G MEC Integration Engineer – Open RAN & Edge Robots
Why: National testbed, direct industry projects.
Seventh Sense – Bristol
Vacancy: Real‑Time Vision Engineer – Jetson & Triton
Why: Edge AI inference <40 ms for manufacturing QC.
Fieldwork Robotics – Exeter
Vacancy: Robotics AI Scientist – Raspberry Picking Vision
Why: Spin‑out from Uni of Plymouth; series of M&S farm pilots.
SLAMcore – London
Vacancy: Spatial AI Engineer – Visual‑Inertial Odometry
Why: Plug‑&‑play SLAM SDK for drones, AMRs & AR glasses.
Inovo Robotics – Guildford
Vacancy: Robotics SDK Developer – SaaS Cobots
Why: Modular lightweight arms for SME factories.
Automata Lab – London
Vacancy: Robotics Applications Engineer – Lab Automation
Why: EVA cobots pipetting in NHS & biotech labs.
Humane Robotics AI – Manchester
Vacancy: Pose Estimation Scientist – Humanoid 6‑DoF Control
Why: Humanoid project seed‑funded, hybrid & hardware stipend.
Vaarst – Bristol
Vacancy: Sub‑Sea Autonomy Developer – Offshore ROV SLAM
Why: Field deployments on North Sea wind farms; remote‑friendly.
Public Sector, Labs & Research Powerhouses (41–50)
National Robotarium (Heriot‑Watt & Edinburgh Uni) – Edinburgh
Vacancy: Research Fellow – Human‑Robot Interaction
Why: £22 m facility, industry‑funded PhD & postdoc posts.
UKRI Manufacturing Technology Centre (MTC) – Coventry
Vacancy: Robotics Integration Engineer – High‑Mix Production
Why: Catapult centre; hands‑on with £35 m kit.
University of Oxford – Oxford Robotics Institute
Vacancy: Postdoc Researcher – Legged Robots Navigation
Why: ANYmal & Spot fleets, publish at ICRA & RSS.
Imperial College London – Dyson School of Design Engineering
Vacancy: Lecturer – Soft Robotics & Origami Structures
Why: Tenure track & £200 k start‑up lab package.
GCHQ AI & Robotics – Cheltenham
Vacancy: Autonomous Inspection Robot Engineer – Classified Sites
Why: DV premium & unique mission‑critical deployments.
MOJ Prison Tech – Sheffield
Vacancy: Robotics Project Manager – Autonomous Security Patrols
Why: £100 m prison modernisation fund.
Royal Mail Autonomous Logistics – Northampton
Vacancy: Fleet Technical Lead – Last‑Mile Delivery Bots
Why: 10 postcode trials & national scale‑out plan.
Network Rail Digital Maintenance – Milton Keynes
Vacancy: Track Inspection Robot Engineer – 5G Telemetry
Why: £45 bn Rail Modernisation Programme.
Met Police Digital Forensics – London
Vacancy: Bomb Disposal Robot Systems Engineer – Next‑Gen UGV
Why: New counter‑terror kit, SC clearance & rapid hands‑on trials.
DSTL (Defence Science & Tech Lab) – Porton Down
Vacancy: Swarm Robotics Scientist – Collaborative UxV
Why: Classified research, DV clearance & publication opportunities.
Hiring trends we’re seeing for 2025
AMRs everywhere. Two‑thirds of adverts mention fleet orchestration or multi‑sensor SLAM for indoor mobile robots.
Safety & assurance matter. ISO 10218‑2, IEC 61508 & RED amendments appear in half of job descriptions—compliance engineers command 15 % premiums.
Edge AI marries robotics. Employers seek TensorRT, Jetson & ONNX skills for on‑board inferencing at <50 ms latency.
Hybrid working sticks, labs stay hands‑on. Engineers average three on‑site days (or deployment trips) but software & simulation roles often remain remote‑first.
DV & SC clearance boosts pay. Defence & security roles add up to 30 % on base salary for cleared candidates.
How to maximise your applications
Tailor your CV – quantify cycle‑time cuts, MTBF gains or autonomy‑rate improvements.
Use our search filters – try “ROS 2 + remote”, “ISO 10218 + contract” or “Jetson + Manchester” on RoboticsJobs.co.uk.
Set a job alert – we’ll email you as soon as the Hotlist is refreshed (next edition: October 2025).
Network smartly – attend events like Robotics & Automation UK, ROSCon London, Agri‑Tech E & Innovate UK RobotEx; many employers above sponsor & interview on‑site.
Upskill continuously – master behaviour trees, MoveIt 2, eBPF observability & safety‑rated LiDAR integration to stay in demand.
About this Hotlist
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Every employer was confirmed via open UK job adverts, corporate career portals or formal hiring announcements within the eight weeks before publication.
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