Embedded Systems Contracts with Work from Home Options

Embedded Systems
UK > Work from Home

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Embedded Systems in contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH). Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Embedded Systems over the 6 months to 13 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 340 440 598
Rank change year-on-year +100 +158 -135
Contract jobs citing Embedded Systems 9 26 22
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.060% 0.10% 0.050%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.21% 0.33% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 17 13
10th Percentile - £400 £400
25th Percentile £325 £488 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £550 £475
Median % change year-on-year -36.36% +15.79% +26.67%
75th Percentile £400 £600 £538
90th Percentile £415 £610 £598
UK median daily rate £400 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -27.27% +10.00% +26.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 1
Median hourly rate - £52.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year - +5.00% +15.61%
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £52.50 £47.50
% change year-on-year +4.76% +10.53% +7.95%

All Generic Skills
Work from Home

Embedded Systems is in the General and Transferable Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 4,276 7,932 13,945
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 28.63% 31.49% 31.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,924 5,588 9,977
10th Percentile £325 £363 £363
25th Percentile £433 £456 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year - +1.85% +9.09%
75th Percentile £675 £684 £650
90th Percentile £813 £792 £750
UK median daily rate £540 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -1.82% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 188 152 226
10th Percentile £16.03 £19.00 £13.19
25th Percentile £25.50 £25.71 £20.75
Median hourly rate £51.75 £52.93 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -2.22% +18.93% +28.91%
75th Percentile £68.13 £70.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £85.00 £67.50
UK median hourly rate £31.25 £22.49 £27.50
% change year-on-year +38.98% -18.24% +3.19%

Embedded Systems
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Embedded Systems as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Embedded Systems trend for jobs with a WFH option

Embedded Systems
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Embedded Systems.

Embedded Systems daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Embedded Systems
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Embedded Systems.

Embedded Systems hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Embedded Systems
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (33.33%) IaaS
2 1 (11.11%) Amazon Alexa
2 1 (11.11%) AWS
2 1 (11.11%) Firebase
Communications & Networking
1 3 (33.33%) DHCP
1 3 (33.33%) DNS
2 1 (11.11%) Bluetooth
2 1 (11.11%) HTTP
2 1 (11.11%) MQTT
2 1 (11.11%) RTSP
2 1 (11.11%) TCP/IP
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Git
1 1 (11.11%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (33.33%) Banking
1 3 (33.33%) Finance
1 3 (33.33%) Investment Banking
2 1 (11.11%) German Language
2 1 (11.11%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 3 (33.33%) Developer
1 3 (33.33%) Hardware Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Senior
3 1 (11.11%) Applications Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) C Developer
3 1 (11.11%) C++ Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Embedded C Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Embedded Developer
3 1 (11.11%) IoT Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Linux Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Penetration Tester
3 1 (11.11%) Programmer
3 1 (11.11%) Senior C++ Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Senior Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Senior Linux Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Senior Software Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Senior Windows Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Systems Programmer
3 1 (11.11%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) GStreamer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Device Driver
1 1 (11.11%) IoT
1 1 (11.11%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 7 (77.78%) Linux
2 2 (22.22%) Windows
3 1 (11.11%) Embedded Linux
3 1 (11.11%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (44.44%) Agile
2 3 (33.33%) High Availability
2 3 (33.33%) Investment Management
2 3 (33.33%) Open Source
2 3 (33.33%) Wealth Management
3 2 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (11.11%) Black-Box Testing
4 1 (11.11%) Clean Code
4 1 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (11.11%) Conversational UI
4 1 (11.11%) Customer Service
4 1 (11.11%) Design Patterns
4 1 (11.11%) Device Driver Development
4 1 (11.11%) Incident Response
4 1 (11.11%) Linux Kernel Development
4 1 (11.11%) Malware Analysis
4 1 (11.11%) Memory Management
4 1 (11.11%) SOLID
4 1 (11.11%) Storyboarding
4 1 (11.11%) White-Box Testing
Programming Languages
1 4 (44.44%) C++
1 4 (44.44%) Perl
1 4 (44.44%) Python
2 2 (22.22%) C
2 2 (22.22%) C#
3 1 (11.11%) Bash
3 1 (11.11%) PHP
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) CHECK Team Leader
1 1 (11.11%) CHECK Team Member
1 1 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (11.11%) CREST Certified
1 1 (11.11%) Degree
System Software
1 6 (66.67%) Firmware
Vendors
1 1 (11.11%) Apple
1 1 (11.11%) Google