Electronics
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Electronics in permanent job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Electronics over the 6 months to 19 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 182 252 310
Rank change year-on-year +70 +58 -76
Permanent jobs citing Electronics 1,580 1,453 2,136
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.58% 1.46% 1.32%
As % of the General category 2.65% 2.14% 2.05%
Number of salaries quoted 1,127 749 1,016
10th Percentile £32,500 £29,958 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £38,750 £40,853
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £72,500 £77,500 £88,875
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £48,687 £47,500
% change year-on-year +2.70% +2.50% -

All General Skills
UK

Electronics is in the General Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for common skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 59,604 67,868 104,166
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 59.64% 68.20% 64.59%
Number of salaries quoted 39,720 36,787 51,225
10th Percentile £27,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £43,100 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £102,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% +5.26%

Electronics
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Electronics in the UK

Electronics
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Electronics in the UK

Electronics
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Electronics over the 6 months to 19 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Electronics in the UK

Electronics
Top 18 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Electronics within the UK over the 6 months to 19 May 2024. 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
UK excluding London +42 1,444 £50,000 +2.70% 1,300
England +66 1,406 £52,500 +5.00% 1,365
South East +11 486 £47,500 -9.52% 444
Work from Home -11 407 £52,500 - 387
East of England +41 255 £55,000 -15.38% 290
Midlands +33 199 £52,500 +31.25% 206
North of England +39 185 £50,000 +17.65% 164
South West +33 173 £45,000 -5.26% 156
West Midlands +18 126 £57,500 +17.95% 136
North West +29 116 £47,500 - 98
London -15 90 £58,750 +20.67% 152
East Midlands +26 73 £47,500 +26.67% 70
Scotland -76 63 £50,000 +5.26% 63
Yorkshire +51 60 £50,000 +25.00% 56
Wales +17 42 £50,000 +35.14% 50
Northern Ireland - 33 £35,000 - 4
North East +2 9 £53,750 +58.95% 11
Isle of Man - 8 £45,000 -

Electronics
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 41 (2.59%) SharePoint
2 20 (1.27%) Apache
3 13 (0.82%) Apache Spark
3 13 (0.82%) Confluence
4 10 (0.63%) Apache Airflow
5 7 (0.44%) Microsoft Exchange
6 6 (0.38%) nginx
7 5 (0.32%) IIS
7 5 (0.32%) Kinematics
8 4 (0.25%) CMS
8 4 (0.25%) Moodle
9 3 (0.19%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
Applications
1 63 (3.99%) Simulink
2 35 (2.22%) Microsoft Excel
3 33 (2.09%) Microsoft Office
4 23 (1.46%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 17 (1.08%) Stateflow
6 12 (0.76%) OrCAD
7 8 (0.51%) GNU Octave
8 7 (0.44%) CANalyzer
9 6 (0.38%) SOLIDWORKS
10 5 (0.32%) InfoPath
10 5 (0.32%) Microsoft Project
10 5 (0.32%) Windchill
11 4 (0.25%) AutoCAD
11 4 (0.25%) Doxygen
12 2 (0.13%) Blender
12 2 (0.13%) Fusion 360
12 2 (0.13%) Houdini
12 2 (0.13%) MadCap Flare
12 2 (0.13%) TargetLink
13 1 (0.063%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 13 (0.82%) Adobe Campaign
2 7 (0.44%) Salesforce CRM
3 4 (0.25%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.063%) LabWindows
4 1 (0.063%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 67 (4.24%) AWS
2 65 (4.11%) Azure
3 41 (2.59%) Microsoft 365
4 27 (1.71%) GitHub
5 20 (1.27%) Azure DevOps
5 20 (1.27%) GCP
6 17 (1.08%) Power Platform
7 14 (0.89%) Cloud Computing
8 12 (0.76%) OneDrive
9 9 (0.57%) Amazon Kinesis
10 7 (0.44%) Entra ID
10 7 (0.44%) PaaS
10 7 (0.44%) SaaS
11 6 (0.38%) AWS IoT
11 6 (0.38%) GitHub Actions
12 5 (0.32%) Dynamics 365
13 4 (0.25%) Azure Data Factory
13 4 (0.25%) Microsoft Purview
13 4 (0.25%) Power Automate
14 3 (0.19%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 107 (6.77%) Wireless
2 70 (4.43%) TCP/IP
3 62 (3.92%) Ethernet
4 60 (3.80%) Bluetooth
5 55 (3.48%) Wi-Fi
6 46 (2.91%) RS-232
7 36 (2.28%) Internet
8 24 (1.52%) 5G
8 24 (1.52%) WAN
9 22 (1.39%) ZigBee
10 21 (1.33%) J1939
10 21 (1.33%) RS-485
10 21 (1.33%) SD-WAN
11 20 (1.27%) HTTP
11 20 (1.27%) LTE
12 17 (1.08%) Modbus
12 17 (1.08%) MQTT
13 13 (0.82%) DNS
14 12 (0.76%) Firewall
15 11 (0.70%) OFDM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (2.15%) PostgreSQL
2 18 (1.14%) Redis
3 17 (1.08%) Power BI
4 13 (0.82%) NoSQL
4 13 (0.82%) SQL Server
5 12 (0.76%) Big Data
6 10 (0.63%) Apache Hive
6 10 (0.63%) MongoDB
6 10 (0.63%) Presto
7 9 (0.57%) Amazon Aurora
7 9 (0.57%) DynamoDB
8 7 (0.44%) SQLite
9 6 (0.38%) GIS
9 6 (0.38%) Relational Database
9 6 (0.38%) Tableau
10 4 (0.25%) MySQL
11 3 (0.19%) Hadoop
12 2 (0.13%) Data Lake
12 2 (0.13%) Data Warehouse
12 2 (0.13%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 106 (6.71%) Git
2 63 (3.99%) JIRA
3 56 (3.54%) LabVIEW
4 48 (3.04%) Subversion
5 37 (2.34%) Visual Studio
6 30 (1.90%) Jenkins
7 16 (1.01%) Eclipse
8 15 (0.95%) ClearCase
9 14 (0.89%) Plastic SCM
10 9 (0.57%) Gatling
10 9 (0.57%) GitLab
10 9 (0.57%) Rational DOORS
11 7 (0.44%) ClearQuest
11 7 (0.44%) Rational Rhapsody
12 5 (0.32%) Maven
12 5 (0.32%) Selenium
13 4 (0.25%) Bitbucket
13 4 (0.25%) Team Foundation Server
13 4 (0.25%) Zephyr
14 3 (0.19%) GCC
General
1 520 (32.91%) Manufacturing
2 345 (21.84%) Social Skills
3 243 (15.38%) Finance
4 237 (15.00%) Telecoms
5 225 (14.24%) Marketing
6 194 (12.28%) Analytical Skills
7 174 (11.01%) Public Sector
8 168 (10.63%) Automotive
9 125 (7.91%) Aerospace
10 103 (6.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 46 (2.91%) Retail
12 45 (2.85%) Military
13 27 (1.71%) Presentation Skills
14 25 (1.58%) Games
15 24 (1.52%) Pharmaceutical
16 22 (1.39%) Organisational Skills
17 21 (1.33%) Legal
18 20 (1.27%) Police
19 15 (0.95%) Publishing
20 14 (0.89%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 402 (25.44%) Software Engineer
2 312 (19.75%) Electronics Engineer
3 256 (16.20%) Embedded Engineer
4 243 (15.38%) Senior
5 192 (12.15%) Hardware Engineer
6 176 (11.14%) Embedded Software Engineer
7 125 (7.91%) Graduate
8 108 (6.84%) Systems Engineer
9 99 (6.27%) Junior
10 95 (6.01%) Developer
11 81 (5.13%) Development Engineer
11 81 (5.13%) Graduate Electronics Engineer
11 81 (5.13%) Lead
12 73 (4.62%) Junior Electronics Engineer
13 71 (4.49%) Graduate Development Engineer
14 69 (4.37%) Electronics Hardware Engineer
15 68 (4.30%) Senior Software Engineer
16 62 (3.92%) Firmware Engineer
17 57 (3.61%) Senior Hardware Engineer
18 54 (3.42%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (3.73%) .NET
1 59 (3.73%) HTML
2 31 (1.96%) CSS
3 27 (1.71%) Yocto
4 26 (1.65%) Qt
5 25 (1.58%) React
6 22 (1.39%) Web Services
7 21 (1.33%) .NET Framework
7 21 (1.33%) Flask
8 20 (1.27%) XML
9 19 (1.20%) http4s
10 17 (1.08%) Lambda Expressions
11 16 (1.01%) AngularJS
11 16 (1.01%) Django
12 12 (0.76%) Node.js
13 10 (0.63%) GraphQL
13 10 (0.63%) WPF
14 9 (0.57%) JSON
14 9 (0.57%) Middleware
14 9 (0.57%) Scalaz
Miscellaneous
1 149 (9.43%) IoT
2 135 (8.54%) Embedded Systems
3 100 (6.33%) FPGA
4 92 (5.82%) Analogue Electronics
5 86 (5.44%) Algorithms
6 68 (4.30%) Robotics
7 63 (3.99%) Self-Motivation
8 53 (3.35%) VHDL
9 41 (2.59%) Management Information System
10 33 (2.09%) Driving Licence
11 28 (1.77%) Analytical Mindset
12 24 (1.52%) ARM Cortex
12 24 (1.52%) Device Driver
13 23 (1.46%) Acoustics
14 22 (1.39%) Distributed Systems
15 16 (1.01%) Cyber Threat
15 16 (1.01%) Renewable Energy
16 13 (0.82%) Arduino
16 13 (0.82%) GNSS
17 12 (0.76%) PCIe
Operating Systems
1 221 (13.99%) Linux
2 146 (9.24%) Windows
3 42 (2.66%) Embedded Linux
4 31 (1.96%) FreeRTOS
5 22 (1.39%) Windows Server
6 16 (1.01%) Windows 10
7 15 (0.95%) Android
7 15 (0.95%) Apple iOS
8 13 (0.82%) Ubuntu
9 8 (0.51%) Mac OS
10 7 (0.44%) VMS
11 6 (0.38%) ThreadX
12 5 (0.32%) Unix
13 4 (0.25%) VxWorks
13 4 (0.25%) Windows Server 2016
14 1 (0.063%) Debian
14 1 (0.063%) Fedora
14 1 (0.063%) Windows Embedded Compact
Processes & Methodologies
1 514 (32.53%) Software Engineering
2 245 (15.51%) Computer Science
2 245 (15.51%) Problem-Solving
3 178 (11.27%) Business Intelligence
4 171 (10.82%) Digital Marketing
4 171 (10.82%) Programme Management
5 161 (10.19%) Agile
6 144 (9.11%) Schematic Capture
7 125 (7.91%) Software Testing
8 122 (7.72%) Validation
9 101 (6.39%) Project Management
10 96 (6.08%) Collaborative Working
10 96 (6.08%) Mentoring
11 88 (5.57%) Project Planning
12 87 (5.51%) Test Automation
13 80 (5.06%) Customer Requirements
14 71 (4.49%) DevOps
14 71 (4.49%) Mathematics
15 68 (4.30%) Continuous Improvement
16 65 (4.11%) Systems Engineering
Programming Languages
1 441 (27.91%) C
2 247 (15.63%) Python
3 234 (14.81%) C++
4 152 (9.62%) C#
5 118 (7.47%) Embedded C
6 93 (5.89%) MATLAB
7 83 (5.25%) Java
8 79 (5.00%) JavaScript
9 53 (3.35%) SQL
10 29 (1.84%) Bash
10 29 (1.84%) Perl
11 25 (1.58%) Embedded C++
12 22 (1.39%) Scala
13 19 (1.20%) PHP
13 19 (1.20%) PowerShell
13 19 (1.20%) TypeScript
14 17 (1.08%) Ada
15 10 (0.63%) Assembly Language
15 10 (0.63%) Kotlin
16 9 (0.57%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 684 (43.29%) Degree
2 119 (7.53%) Security Cleared
3 93 (5.89%) Computer Science Degree
4 55 (3.48%) HND
5 50 (3.16%) SC Cleared
6 38 (2.41%) Master's Degree
7 36 (2.28%) HNC
8 28 (1.77%) BPSS Clearance
9 27 (1.71%) DV Cleared
10 24 (1.52%) PhD
11 14 (0.89%) Cisco Certification
12 12 (0.76%) CCNA
12 12 (0.76%) NVQ Level 3
13 11 (0.70%) CISSP
14 9 (0.57%) DBS Check
15 7 (0.44%) CISM
15 7 (0.44%) Microsoft Certification
16 5 (0.32%) GIAC
17 4 (0.25%) MCP
17 4 (0.25%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 124 (7.85%) QA
2 31 (1.96%) AUTOSAR
2 31 (1.96%) ISO 26262
3 30 (1.90%) MISRA
4 24 (1.52%) JTAG
5 23 (1.46%) ISO 9001
6 22 (1.39%) Automotive SPICE
7 20 (1.27%) ISO 13485
8 15 (0.95%) ISO/IEC 17025
9 13 (0.82%) PMO
10 11 (0.70%) IEC 62304
11 9 (0.57%) GDPR
12 8 (0.51%) 21 CFR Part 11
13 7 (0.44%) Data Quality
13 7 (0.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
14 4 (0.25%) IEC 61131
14 4 (0.25%) MISRA C
14 4 (0.25%) Software Quality Assurance
15 3 (0.19%) Def Stans
15 3 (0.19%) ECSS
System Software
1 371 (23.48%) Firmware
2 186 (11.77%) Embedded Firmware
3 19 (1.20%) Docker
4 17 (1.08%) VMware Infrastructure
5 14 (0.89%) Virtual Machines
6 11 (0.70%) Hyper-V
7 5 (0.32%) vSphere
8 3 (0.19%) Active Directory
8 3 (0.19%) NFS
9 2 (0.13%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.063%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 25 (1.58%) Terraform
2 12 (0.76%) Functional Safety
3 4 (0.25%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 1 (0.063%) Kubernetes
4 1 (0.063%) SCCM
4 1 (0.063%) systemd
4 1 (0.063%) vCenter Server
4 1 (0.063%) vRealize
Vendors
1 172 (10.89%) SAP
2 152 (9.62%) EMC
3 140 (8.86%) Microsoft
4 19 (1.20%) Google
5 17 (1.08%) IBM
5 17 (1.08%) Lauterbach
5 17 (1.08%) VMware
6 16 (1.01%) Xilinx
7 15 (0.95%) Adobe
8 13 (0.82%) Xamarin
9 12 (0.76%) Cisco
10 10 (0.63%) Altera
10 10 (0.63%) Databricks
11 9 (0.57%) Renesas
11 9 (0.57%) Salesforce
12 8 (0.51%) Facebook
12 8 (0.51%) Green Hills
12 8 (0.51%) HP
12 8 (0.51%) Motorola
12 8 (0.51%) Thales