Embedded Software Engineer Contracts in the UK excluding London

Embedded Software Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Embedded Software Engineer daily rate in the UK excluding London is £492 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 5 June 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 259 355 460
Rank change year-on-year +96 +105 -77
Contract jobs requiring an Embedded Software Engineer 133 82 50
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.64% 0.36% 0.16%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.69% 0.39% 0.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 31 14
10th Percentile £425 £413 £398
25th Percentile £438 £425 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £500 £438
Median % change year-on-year -1.70% +14.29% +9.38%
75th Percentile £550 £560 £469
90th Percentile £575 £600 £538
UK median daily rate £475 £513 £438
% change year-on-year -7.32% +17.14% +12.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 114 36 22
10th Percentile £46.25 - £46.25
25th Percentile £51.06 £53.75 £48.13
Median hourly rate £65.00 £57.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% +4.55% +15.79%
75th Percentile £70.00 £77.00 £58.56
90th Percentile £80.00 £90.00 £58.75
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £57.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year +13.04% +4.55% +15.79%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 19,293 21,279 29,220
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.46% 94.28% 95.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,580 14,791 20,569
10th Percentile £213 £225 £206
25th Percentile £363 £390 £373
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +9.20%
75th Percentile £594 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £651
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,443 1,073 1,404
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.85 £18.00 £14.86
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £62.50 £65.00 £45.21
90th Percentile £74.00 £75.50 £61.15
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £24.46
% change year-on-year -16.67% +83.97% +12.51%

Embedded Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Embedded Software Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Embedded Software Engineer in the UK excluding London

Embedded Software Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Embedded Software Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Embedded Software Engineer in the UK excluding London

Embedded Software Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Embedded Software Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 5 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Embedded Software Engineer in the UK excluding London

Embedded Software Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Embedded Software Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Embedded Software Engineer in the UK excluding London

Embedded Software Engineer
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Embedded Software Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 5 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Embedded Software Engineer in the UK excluding London

Embedded Software Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Embedded Software Engineer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 5 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
East of England +2 43 £525 +5.00% 41
South East +59 40 £450 -1.20% 38
South West +31 31 £550 +4.76% 27
Scotland +46 8 - - 7
North East - 6 - - 3
North of England - 6 - - 19
Midlands +14 4 £475 -20.83% 20
East Midlands +11 3 £475 - 10
Wales +19 1 - - 7
West Midlands +9 1 £492 -18.08% 10
Embedded Software Engineer
UK

Embedded Software Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 5 June 2024, Embedded Software Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the UK excluding London region featuring Embedded Software Engineer in the job title.

1 132 (99.25%) Software Engineering
2 85 (63.91%) C
3 57 (42.86%) Embedded C
4 42 (31.58%) Linux
5 35 (26.32%) C++
6 32 (24.06%) IBM
7 30 (22.56%) Electronics
8 29 (21.80%) Validation
9 28 (21.05%) Configuration Management
10 26 (19.55%) FreeRTOS
11 25 (18.80%) Aerospace
12 24 (18.05%) Lauterbach
12 24 (18.05%) ARM Cortex
13 22 (16.54%) Automotive
13 22 (16.54%) Firmware
14 17 (12.78%) Degree
14 17 (12.78%) SC Cleared
14 17 (12.78%) Security Cleared
15 16 (12.03%) Software-Defined Radio
15 16 (12.03%) UML
16 15 (11.28%) Git
17 13 (9.77%) Embedded Software Development
17 13 (9.77%) Ada
18 12 (9.02%) Agile
18 12 (9.02%) Rational Rhapsody
19 11 (8.27%) Infrastructure Engineering
20 10 (7.52%) Atlassian
20 10 (7.52%) JIRA
20 10 (7.52%) Verification and Validation
21 9 (6.77%) Problem-Solving

Embedded Software Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 6 (4.51%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (2.26%) Simulink
1 3 (2.26%) Stateflow
Communications & Networking
1 16 (12.03%) Software-Defined Radio
2 8 (6.02%) SNMP
3 5 (3.76%) J1939
4 4 (3.01%) Internet
4 4 (3.01%) Wireless
5 1 (0.75%) 4G
5 1 (0.75%) 5G
5 1 (0.75%) RS-232
Development Applications
1 15 (11.28%) Git
2 12 (9.02%) Rational Rhapsody
3 10 (7.52%) JIRA
4 8 (6.02%) Eclipse
5 6 (4.51%) Bitbucket
5 6 (4.51%) GoogleTest
5 6 (4.51%) Rational DOORS
5 6 (4.51%) Robot Framework
6 4 (3.01%) Subversion
7 1 (0.75%) ClearCase
7 1 (0.75%) Jenkins
7 1 (0.75%) PVCS
7 1 (0.75%) Visual Studio
General
1 30 (22.56%) Electronics
2 25 (18.80%) Aerospace
3 22 (16.54%) Automotive
4 6 (4.51%) Manufacturing
5 5 (3.76%) Telecoms
6 4 (3.01%) Military
7 3 (2.26%) Aviation
8 2 (1.50%) Social Skills
8 2 (1.50%) Wearables
9 1 (0.75%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (4.51%) CSS
1 6 (4.51%) HTML
2 1 (0.75%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 24 (18.05%) ARM Cortex
2 8 (6.02%) Device Driver
3 7 (5.26%) Algorithms
3 7 (5.26%) Embedded Systems
4 6 (4.51%) IoT
5 5 (3.76%) CAN bus
6 4 (3.01%) PCIe
6 4 (3.01%) Verilog
6 4 (3.01%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 42 (31.58%) Linux
2 26 (19.55%) FreeRTOS
3 8 (6.02%) Embedded Linux
4 4 (3.01%) SafeRTOS
4 4 (3.01%) VxWorks
5 3 (2.26%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 132 (99.25%) Software Engineering
2 29 (21.80%) Validation
3 28 (21.05%) Configuration Management
4 16 (12.03%) UML
5 13 (9.77%) Embedded Software Development
6 12 (9.02%) Agile
7 11 (8.27%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 10 (7.52%) Verification and Validation
9 9 (6.77%) Problem-Solving
9 9 (6.77%) Scrum
10 8 (6.02%) Code Quality
10 8 (6.02%) Computer Science
10 8 (6.02%) Defect Tracking
10 8 (6.02%) SDLC
10 8 (6.02%) Systems Engineering
10 8 (6.02%) Test Automation
11 6 (4.51%) SysML
11 6 (4.51%) Test Scripting
12 5 (3.76%) Battery Management
13 4 (3.01%) Software Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 85 (63.91%) C
2 57 (42.86%) Embedded C
3 35 (26.32%) C++
4 13 (9.77%) Ada
5 8 (6.02%) Embedded C++
5 8 (6.02%) Python
6 7 (5.26%) MATLAB
7 6 (4.51%) JavaScript
8 4 (3.01%) Assembly Language
8 4 (3.01%) Shell Script
9 2 (1.50%) Java
9 2 (1.50%) SQL
9 2 (1.50%) VB
10 1 (0.75%) Bash
10 1 (0.75%) C#
10 1 (0.75%) Perl
10 1 (0.75%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.75%) Rust
Qualifications
1 17 (12.78%) Degree
1 17 (12.78%) SC Cleared
1 17 (12.78%) Security Cleared
2 9 (6.77%) Master's Degree
3 4 (3.01%) PhD
4 3 (2.26%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (4.51%) AUTOSAR
2 5 (3.76%) JTAG
3 4 (3.01%) MISRA
3 4 (3.01%) MISRA C
4 1 (0.75%) ISO 13485
System Software
1 22 (16.54%) Firmware
2 4 (3.01%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 6 (4.51%) Functional Safety
Vendors
1 32 (24.06%) IBM
2 24 (18.05%) Lauterbach
3 10 (7.52%) Atlassian
4 6 (4.51%) Google
5 4 (3.01%) Intel
6 3 (2.26%) MathWorks
7 1 (0.75%) QNX
7 1 (0.75%) Twitter