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 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 187 257 314
Rank change year-on-year +70 +57 -81
Permanent jobs citing Electronics 1,576 1,443 2,131
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.58% 1.46% 1.33%
As % of the General category 2.65% 2.13% 2.05%
Number of salaries quoted 1,126 741 1,009
10th Percentile £32,500 £29,788 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £38,250 £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 £66,250
90th Percentile £72,500 £77,500 £90,000
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 59,575 67,663 103,701
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 59.63% 68.23% 64.52%
Number of salaries quoted 39,717 36,616 51,172
10th Percentile £27,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £43,059 £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 18 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 18 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 +45 1,441 £50,000 +2.70% 1,283
England +71 1,403 £52,500 +5.00% 1,337
South East +16 486 £47,500 -9.52% 432
Work from Home -8 407 £52,500 - 384
East of England +42 255 £55,000 -15.38% 281
Midlands +24 199 £52,500 +31.25% 202
North of England +52 183 £50,000 +17.65% 162
South West +18 173 £45,000 -5.26% 163
West Midlands +15 126 £57,500 +17.95% 134
North West +30 114 £47,500 - 96
London -7 89 £58,750 +20.67% 143
East Midlands +28 73 £47,500 +26.67% 68
Scotland -67 63 £50,000 +5.26% 64
Yorkshire +53 60 £50,000 +25.00% 55
Wales +18 41 £50,000 +35.14% 51
Northern Ireland - 33 £35,000 - 4
North East -2 9 £53,750 +58.95% 12
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 (2.60%) SharePoint
2 19 (1.21%) Apache
3 13 (0.82%) Confluence
4 12 (0.76%) Apache Spark
5 9 (0.57%) Apache Airflow
6 7 (0.44%) Microsoft Exchange
7 6 (0.38%) nginx
8 5 (0.32%) IIS
8 5 (0.32%) Kinematics
9 4 (0.25%) CMS
9 4 (0.25%) Moodle
10 3 (0.19%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
Applications
1 63 (4.00%) 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%) Adobe Creative Suite
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 64 (4.06%) AWS
1 64 (4.06%) Azure
2 41 (2.60%) Microsoft 365
3 27 (1.71%) GitHub
4 20 (1.27%) Azure DevOps
5 19 (1.21%) GCP
6 17 (1.08%) Power Platform
7 14 (0.89%) Cloud Computing
8 12 (0.76%) OneDrive
9 7 (0.44%) Amazon Kinesis
9 7 (0.44%) Entra ID
9 7 (0.44%) PaaS
9 7 (0.44%) SaaS
10 6 (0.38%) AWS IoT
10 6 (0.38%) GitHub Actions
11 5 (0.32%) Dynamics 365
12 4 (0.25%) Azure Data Factory
12 4 (0.25%) Microsoft Purview
12 4 (0.25%) Power Automate
13 3 (0.19%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 107 (6.79%) Wireless
2 70 (4.44%) TCP/IP
3 62 (3.93%) Ethernet
4 60 (3.81%) Bluetooth
5 55 (3.49%) Wi-Fi
6 46 (2.92%) RS-232
7 36 (2.28%) Internet
8 24 (1.52%) 5G
8 24 (1.52%) WAN
9 22 (1.40%) 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 32 (2.03%) PostgreSQL
2 17 (1.08%) Power BI
3 16 (1.02%) Redis
4 13 (0.82%) SQL Server
5 12 (0.76%) Big Data
6 11 (0.70%) NoSQL
7 10 (0.63%) MongoDB
8 9 (0.57%) Apache Hive
8 9 (0.57%) Presto
9 7 (0.44%) Amazon Aurora
9 7 (0.44%) DynamoDB
9 7 (0.44%) SQLite
10 6 (0.38%) GIS
10 6 (0.38%) Relational Database
10 6 (0.38%) Tableau
11 4 (0.25%) MySQL
12 3 (0.19%) Hadoop
13 2 (0.13%) Data Lake
13 2 (0.13%) Data Warehouse
13 2 (0.13%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 106 (6.73%) Git
2 63 (4.00%) JIRA
3 56 (3.55%) LabVIEW
4 48 (3.05%) Subversion
5 37 (2.35%) Visual Studio
6 30 (1.90%) Jenkins
7 16 (1.02%) Eclipse
8 15 (0.95%) ClearCase
9 14 (0.89%) Plastic SCM
10 9 (0.57%) GitLab
10 9 (0.57%) Rational DOORS
11 7 (0.44%) ClearQuest
11 7 (0.44%) Gatling
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 (32.99%) Manufacturing
2 343 (21.76%) Social Skills
3 243 (15.42%) Finance
4 237 (15.04%) Telecoms
5 225 (14.28%) Marketing
6 194 (12.31%) Analytical Skills
7 174 (11.04%) Public Sector
8 168 (10.66%) Automotive
9 125 (7.93%) Aerospace
10 103 (6.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 46 (2.92%) Retail
12 45 (2.86%) Military
13 27 (1.71%) Presentation Skills
14 25 (1.59%) Games
15 24 (1.52%) Pharmaceutical
16 22 (1.40%) Organisational Skills
17 21 (1.33%) Legal
18 20 (1.27%) Police
19 15 (0.95%) Publishing
20 14 (0.89%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 399 (25.32%) Software Engineer
2 312 (19.80%) Electronics Engineer
3 255 (16.18%) Embedded Engineer
4 242 (15.36%) Senior
5 192 (12.18%) Hardware Engineer
6 175 (11.10%) Embedded Software Engineer
7 125 (7.93%) Graduate
8 108 (6.85%) Systems Engineer
9 99 (6.28%) Junior
10 95 (6.03%) Developer
11 81 (5.14%) Development Engineer
11 81 (5.14%) Graduate Electronics Engineer
11 81 (5.14%) Lead
12 73 (4.63%) Junior Electronics Engineer
13 71 (4.51%) Graduate Development Engineer
14 69 (4.38%) Electronics Hardware Engineer
15 68 (4.31%) Senior Software Engineer
16 62 (3.93%) Firmware Engineer
17 57 (3.62%) Senior Hardware Engineer
18 54 (3.43%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (3.74%) .NET
1 59 (3.74%) HTML
2 31 (1.97%) CSS
3 27 (1.71%) Yocto
4 26 (1.65%) Qt
5 25 (1.59%) React
6 21 (1.33%) .NET Framework
6 21 (1.33%) Flask
7 20 (1.27%) Web Services
7 20 (1.27%) XML
8 16 (1.02%) AngularJS
8 16 (1.02%) Django
8 16 (1.02%) http4s
9 15 (0.95%) Lambda Expressions
10 12 (0.76%) Node.js
11 10 (0.63%) WPF
12 9 (0.57%) HTML5 Canvas
12 9 (0.57%) JSON
12 9 (0.57%) Middleware
13 8 (0.51%) NumPy
Miscellaneous
1 149 (9.45%) IoT
2 135 (8.57%) Embedded Systems
3 100 (6.35%) FPGA
4 92 (5.84%) Analogue Electronics
5 86 (5.46%) Algorithms
6 68 (4.31%) Robotics
7 63 (4.00%) Self-Motivation
8 53 (3.36%) VHDL
9 40 (2.54%) Management Information System
10 33 (2.09%) Driving Licence
11 28 (1.78%) Analytical Mindset
12 24 (1.52%) ARM Cortex
12 24 (1.52%) Device Driver
13 23 (1.46%) Acoustics
14 21 (1.33%) Distributed Systems
15 16 (1.02%) Cyber Threat
15 16 (1.02%) Renewable Energy
16 13 (0.82%) Arduino
16 13 (0.82%) GNSS
17 12 (0.76%) PCIe
Operating Systems
1 221 (14.02%) Linux
2 146 (9.26%) Windows
3 42 (2.66%) Embedded Linux
4 31 (1.97%) FreeRTOS
5 22 (1.40%) Windows Server
6 16 (1.02%) 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
1 511 (32.42%) Software Engineering
2 245 (15.55%) Problem-Solving
3 242 (15.36%) Computer Science
4 178 (11.29%) Business Intelligence
5 171 (10.85%) Digital Marketing
5 171 (10.85%) Programme Management
6 158 (10.03%) Agile
7 144 (9.14%) Schematic Capture
8 125 (7.93%) Software Testing
9 122 (7.74%) Validation
10 101 (6.41%) Project Management
11 96 (6.09%) Collaborative Working
12 95 (6.03%) Mentoring
13 88 (5.58%) Project Planning
14 87 (5.52%) Test Automation
15 80 (5.08%) Customer Requirements
16 71 (4.51%) Mathematics
17 69 (4.38%) DevOps
18 68 (4.31%) Continuous Improvement
19 65 (4.12%) Systems Engineering
Programming Languages
1 440 (27.92%) C
2 246 (15.61%) Python
3 233 (14.78%) C++
4 152 (9.64%) C#
5 117 (7.42%) Embedded C
6 93 (5.90%) MATLAB
7 81 (5.14%) Java
8 79 (5.01%) JavaScript
9 53 (3.36%) SQL
10 29 (1.84%) Bash
10 29 (1.84%) Perl
11 24 (1.52%) Embedded C++
12 19 (1.21%) PHP
12 19 (1.21%) PowerShell
12 19 (1.21%) Scala
12 19 (1.21%) TypeScript
13 17 (1.08%) Ada
14 10 (0.63%) Assembly Language
15 9 (0.57%) Tcl
15 9 (0.57%) VB
Qualifications
1 680 (43.15%) Degree
2 119 (7.55%) Security Cleared
3 90 (5.71%) Computer Science Degree
4 55 (3.49%) HND
5 50 (3.17%) SC Cleared
6 38 (2.41%) Master's Degree
7 36 (2.28%) HNC
8 28 (1.78%) 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
1 123 (7.80%) QA
2 31 (1.97%) AUTOSAR
3 30 (1.90%) ISO 26262
4 29 (1.84%) MISRA
5 24 (1.52%) JTAG
6 23 (1.46%) ISO 9001
7 22 (1.40%) Automotive SPICE
8 20 (1.27%) ISO 13485
9 15 (0.95%) ISO/IEC 17025
10 13 (0.82%) PMO
11 11 (0.70%) IEC 62304
12 9 (0.57%) GDPR
13 8 (0.51%) 21 CFR Part 11
14 7 (0.44%) Data Quality
14 7 (0.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
15 4 (0.25%) IEC 61131
15 4 (0.25%) MISRA C
15 4 (0.25%) Software Quality Assurance
16 3 (0.19%) DO-178B
16 3 (0.19%) ECSS
System Software
1 371 (23.54%) Firmware
2 186 (11.80%) Embedded Firmware
3 19 (1.21%) Docker
4 17 (1.08%) VMware Infrastructure
5 13 (0.82%) 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 24 (1.52%) 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 (10.91%) SAP
2 152 (9.64%) EMC
3 139 (8.82%) Microsoft
4 18 (1.14%) Google
5 17 (1.08%) IBM
5 17 (1.08%) Lauterbach
5 17 (1.08%) VMware
6 16 (1.02%) Xilinx
7 15 (0.95%) Adobe
8 13 (0.82%) Xamarin
9 12 (0.76%) Cisco
10 10 (0.63%) Altera
11 9 (0.57%) 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