Electronics Jobs

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

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 182 250 318
Rank change year-on-year +68 +68 -79
Permanent jobs citing Electronics 1,664 1,408 2,181
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.58% 1.49% 1.29%
As % of the General category 2.72% 2.19% 1.98%
Number of salaries quoted 1,168 717 1,010
10th Percentile £32,500 £30,000 £32,375
25th Percentile £38,500 £38,750 £40,000
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 £71,625 £77,500 £86,690
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 61,146 64,155 110,151
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 58.10% 67.68% 65.14%
Number of salaries quoted 40,306 35,663 51,819
10th Percentile £27,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £43,000 £42,521
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,725 £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 2 June 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 2 June 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 +41 1,526 £50,000 +2.70% 1,132
England +81 1,477 £52,500 +5.00% 1,234
South East +6 504 £47,500 -5.00% 369
Work from Home -19 409 £52,500 - 327
East of England +37 261 £55,000 -15.38% 228
Midlands +40 209 £50,000 +25.00% 189
North of England +50 204 £50,000 +17.65% 145
South West +32 190 £45,000 -10.00% 158
North West +39 130 £47,500 - 85
West Midlands +12 127 £57,500 +9.52% 125
London +2 95 £60,000 +23.24% 143
East Midlands +34 82 £47,500 +22.58% 64
Scotland -65 69 £52,500 +16.67% 63
Yorkshire +25 63 £50,000 +25.00% 46
Wales +28 49 £50,000 -9.09% 38
Northern Ireland - 32 £35,000 - 7
North East -1 11 £56,000 +6.67% 16
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 38 (2.28%) SharePoint
2 22 (1.32%) Apache
3 14 (0.84%) Apache Spark
4 13 (0.78%) Confluence
5 11 (0.66%) Apache Airflow
6 6 (0.36%) nginx
7 5 (0.30%) CMS
7 5 (0.30%) Kinematics
7 5 (0.30%) Microsoft Exchange
8 4 (0.24%) Moodle
9 3 (0.18%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
9 3 (0.18%) IIS
Applications
1 62 (3.73%) Simulink
2 35 (2.10%) Microsoft Excel
2 35 (2.10%) Microsoft Office
3 23 (1.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 17 (1.02%) Stateflow
5 11 (0.66%) OrCAD
6 8 (0.48%) GNU Octave
7 7 (0.42%) CANalyzer
7 7 (0.42%) Microsoft Project
8 6 (0.36%) SOLIDWORKS
9 5 (0.30%) InfoPath
9 5 (0.30%) Windchill
10 4 (0.24%) AutoCAD
10 4 (0.24%) Doxygen
11 2 (0.12%) Blender
11 2 (0.12%) Fusion 360
11 2 (0.12%) Houdini
11 2 (0.12%) MadCap Flare
11 2 (0.12%) TargetLink
12 1 (0.060%) Adobe Creative Suite
Business Applications
1 13 (0.78%) Adobe Campaign
2 7 (0.42%) Salesforce CRM
3 2 (0.12%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.060%) LabWindows
4 1 (0.060%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 78 (4.69%) AWS
2 63 (3.79%) Azure
3 40 (2.40%) Microsoft 365
4 26 (1.56%) GitHub
5 20 (1.20%) Amazon Kinesis
5 20 (1.20%) Azure DevOps
5 20 (1.20%) GCP
6 15 (0.90%) Power Platform
7 12 (0.72%) OneDrive
8 11 (0.66%) Cloud Computing
9 7 (0.42%) Entra ID
9 7 (0.42%) SaaS
10 6 (0.36%) GitHub Actions
10 6 (0.36%) PaaS
11 5 (0.30%) AWS IoT
12 4 (0.24%) Microsoft Purview
13 3 (0.18%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 2 (0.12%) AWS Direct Connect
14 2 (0.12%) Azure Data Factory
14 2 (0.12%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 109 (6.55%) Wireless
2 67 (4.03%) TCP/IP
3 61 (3.67%) Bluetooth
3 61 (3.67%) Ethernet
4 55 (3.31%) Wi-Fi
5 46 (2.76%) RS-232
6 36 (2.16%) Internet
7 24 (1.44%) 5G
7 24 (1.44%) WAN
8 23 (1.38%) ZigBee
9 22 (1.32%) RS-485
10 21 (1.26%) J1939
10 21 (1.26%) SD-WAN
11 20 (1.20%) Modbus
12 19 (1.14%) HTTP
12 19 (1.14%) LTE
13 16 (0.96%) MQTT
14 13 (0.78%) Firewall
15 12 (0.72%) DNS
16 11 (0.66%) OFDM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (2.70%) PostgreSQL
2 29 (1.74%) Redis
3 24 (1.44%) NoSQL
4 20 (1.20%) Amazon Aurora
4 20 (1.20%) DynamoDB
5 15 (0.90%) Power BI
6 13 (0.78%) SQL Server
7 12 (0.72%) Big Data
8 11 (0.66%) Apache Hive
8 11 (0.66%) Presto
9 10 (0.60%) MongoDB
10 7 (0.42%) SQLite
11 6 (0.36%) GIS
11 6 (0.36%) Relational Database
11 6 (0.36%) Tableau
12 5 (0.30%) MySQL
13 3 (0.18%) Hadoop
14 2 (0.12%) Data Lake
14 2 (0.12%) Data Warehouse
14 2 (0.12%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 109 (6.55%) Git
2 62 (3.73%) JIRA
3 54 (3.25%) LabVIEW
4 48 (2.88%) Subversion
5 38 (2.28%) Visual Studio
6 29 (1.74%) Jenkins
7 20 (1.20%) Gatling
8 16 (0.96%) Eclipse
9 15 (0.90%) ClearCase
10 14 (0.84%) Plastic SCM
11 10 (0.60%) Rational DOORS
12 9 (0.54%) GitLab
13 7 (0.42%) ClearQuest
13 7 (0.42%) Rational Rhapsody
14 5 (0.30%) Maven
15 4 (0.24%) Bitbucket
15 4 (0.24%) Selenium
15 4 (0.24%) Team Foundation Server
15 4 (0.24%) Zephyr
16 3 (0.18%) CANoe
General
1 520 (31.25%) Manufacturing
2 361 (21.69%) Social Skills
3 233 (14.00%) Finance
4 226 (13.58%) Telecoms
5 216 (12.98%) Marketing
6 196 (11.78%) Analytical Skills
7 173 (10.40%) Automotive
8 164 (9.86%) Public Sector
9 136 (8.17%) Aerospace
10 105 (6.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 47 (2.82%) Military
12 46 (2.76%) Retail
13 26 (1.56%) Games
13 26 (1.56%) Presentation Skills
14 25 (1.50%) Pharmaceutical
15 22 (1.32%) Legal
15 22 (1.32%) Organisational Skills
16 20 (1.20%) Billing
16 20 (1.20%) Police
17 15 (0.90%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 448 (26.92%) Software Engineer
2 319 (19.17%) Electronics Engineer
3 285 (17.13%) Embedded Engineer
4 256 (15.38%) Senior
5 201 (12.08%) Embedded Software Engineer
6 200 (12.02%) Hardware Engineer
7 126 (7.57%) Graduate
8 120 (7.21%) Systems Engineer
9 97 (5.83%) Developer
9 97 (5.83%) Junior
10 82 (4.93%) Development Engineer
11 81 (4.87%) Graduate Electronics Engineer
12 80 (4.81%) Lead
13 76 (4.57%) Senior Software Engineer
14 73 (4.39%) Junior Electronics Engineer
15 72 (4.33%) Electronics Hardware Engineer
16 71 (4.27%) Graduate Development Engineer
17 61 (3.67%) Firmware Engineer
18 58 (3.49%) Senior Embedded Engineer
18 58 (3.49%) Senior Hardware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (3.67%) .NET
2 59 (3.55%) HTML
3 33 (1.98%) Web Services
4 31 (1.86%) CSS
4 31 (1.86%) http4s
5 28 (1.68%) Qt
5 28 (1.68%) Yocto
6 25 (1.50%) React
7 24 (1.44%) .NET Framework
7 24 (1.44%) Lambda Expressions
8 21 (1.26%) GraphQL
9 20 (1.20%) Flask
9 20 (1.20%) REST
9 20 (1.20%) Scalaz
9 20 (1.20%) XML
10 16 (0.96%) AngularJS
10 16 (0.96%) Django
11 12 (0.72%) Node.js
12 10 (0.60%) WPF
13 9 (0.54%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 148 (8.89%) IoT
2 137 (8.23%) Embedded Systems
3 101 (6.07%) FPGA
4 95 (5.71%) Analogue Electronics
5 86 (5.17%) Algorithms
6 76 (4.57%) Robotics
7 67 (4.03%) Self-Motivation
8 54 (3.25%) VHDL
9 47 (2.82%) Management Information System
10 33 (1.98%) Driving Licence
11 29 (1.74%) Analytical Mindset
12 28 (1.68%) Distributed Systems
13 25 (1.50%) ARM Cortex
14 24 (1.44%) Device Driver
15 23 (1.38%) Acoustics
16 22 (1.32%) Blog
17 20 (1.20%) Media Streaming
18 16 (0.96%) Cyber Threat
18 16 (0.96%) Renewable Energy
19 13 (0.78%) Arduino
Operating Systems
1 226 (13.58%) Linux
2 150 (9.01%) Windows
3 49 (2.94%) Embedded Linux
4 31 (1.86%) FreeRTOS
5 21 (1.26%) Windows Server
6 17 (1.02%) Android
6 17 (1.02%) Windows 10
7 16 (0.96%) Apple iOS
8 14 (0.84%) Ubuntu
9 9 (0.54%) VMS
10 8 (0.48%) Mac OS
11 6 (0.36%) ThreadX
12 5 (0.30%) Unix
13 4 (0.24%) VxWorks
13 4 (0.24%) Windows Server 2016
14 2 (0.12%) Windows Embedded Compact
15 1 (0.060%) Debian
15 1 (0.060%) Fedora
Processes & Methodologies
1 565 (33.95%) Software Engineering
2 258 (15.50%) Computer Science
3 247 (14.84%) Problem-Solving
4 179 (10.76%) Agile
5 168 (10.10%) Business Intelligence
6 161 (9.68%) Digital Marketing
6 161 (9.68%) Programme Management
7 144 (8.65%) Schematic Capture
8 128 (7.69%) Software Testing
9 125 (7.51%) Validation
10 105 (6.31%) Mentoring
10 105 (6.31%) Project Management
11 90 (5.41%) Collaborative Working
11 90 (5.41%) Project Planning
12 85 (5.11%) Test Automation
13 83 (4.99%) Customer Requirements
14 82 (4.93%) DevOps
15 76 (4.57%) Systems Engineering
16 73 (4.39%) Mathematics
17 67 (4.03%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 448 (26.92%) C
2 244 (14.66%) C++
2 244 (14.66%) Python
3 151 (9.07%) C#
4 126 (7.57%) Embedded C
5 92 (5.53%) MATLAB
6 89 (5.35%) Java
7 80 (4.81%) JavaScript
8 51 (3.06%) SQL
9 34 (2.04%) Scala
10 29 (1.74%) Embedded C++
10 29 (1.74%) Perl
11 27 (1.62%) Bash
12 20 (1.20%) PHP
13 19 (1.14%) TypeScript
14 17 (1.02%) Ada
15 15 (0.90%) PowerShell
16 12 (0.72%) Kotlin
17 9 (0.54%) Assembly Language
17 9 (0.54%) VB
Qualifications
1 706 (42.43%) Degree
2 124 (7.45%) Security Cleared
3 103 (6.19%) Computer Science Degree
4 54 (3.25%) HND
5 50 (3.00%) SC Cleared
6 39 (2.34%) Master's Degree
7 36 (2.16%) HNC
8 29 (1.74%) DV Cleared
9 28 (1.68%) BPSS Clearance
10 24 (1.44%) PhD
11 15 (0.90%) Cisco Certification
12 13 (0.78%) CCNA
13 12 (0.72%) NVQ Level 3
14 11 (0.66%) CISSP
15 9 (0.54%) DBS Check
16 8 (0.48%) Microsoft Certification
17 7 (0.42%) CISM
18 5 (0.30%) GIAC
18 5 (0.30%) MCSE
19 4 (0.24%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 123 (7.39%) QA
2 32 (1.92%) AUTOSAR
2 32 (1.92%) MISRA
3 31 (1.86%) ISO 26262
4 24 (1.44%) ISO 9001
4 24 (1.44%) JTAG
5 22 (1.32%) Automotive SPICE
6 20 (1.20%) ISO 13485
7 15 (0.90%) ISO/IEC 17025
8 14 (0.84%) PMO
9 11 (0.66%) IEC 62304
10 9 (0.54%) GDPR
11 8 (0.48%) 21 CFR Part 11
11 8 (0.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
12 7 (0.42%) Data Quality
13 4 (0.24%) IEC 61131
13 4 (0.24%) MISRA C
13 4 (0.24%) Software Quality Assurance
14 3 (0.18%) Def Stans
14 3 (0.18%) ECSS
System Software
1 386 (23.20%) Firmware
2 191 (11.48%) Embedded Firmware
3 18 (1.08%) Docker
4 16 (0.96%) Virtual Machines
4 16 (0.96%) VMware Infrastructure
5 10 (0.60%) Hyper-V
6 5 (0.30%) vSphere
7 3 (0.18%) Active Directory
8 2 (0.12%) NFS
8 2 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 25 (1.50%) Terraform
2 12 (0.72%) Functional Safety
3 2 (0.12%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 1 (0.060%) Kubernetes
4 1 (0.060%) SCCM
4 1 (0.060%) systemd
4 1 (0.060%) vRealize
Vendors
1 162 (9.74%) SAP
2 149 (8.95%) EMC
3 136 (8.17%) Microsoft
4 20 (1.20%) Google
5 17 (1.02%) IBM
5 17 (1.02%) Lauterbach
6 16 (0.96%) VMware
6 16 (0.96%) Xilinx
7 15 (0.90%) Adobe
8 13 (0.78%) Xamarin
9 12 (0.72%) Cisco
10 11 (0.66%) Databricks
11 10 (0.60%) Altera
12 9 (0.54%) Renesas
12 9 (0.54%) Salesforce
13 8 (0.48%) Facebook
13 8 (0.48%) Green Hills
13 8 (0.48%) HP
13 8 (0.48%) Motorola
13 8 (0.48%) Thales