Embedded Engineer Jobs in the UK excluding London

Embedded Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Embedded Engineer salary in the UK excluding London is £55,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

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

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 173 434 334
Rank change year-on-year +261 -100 +90
Permanent jobs requiring an Embedded Engineer 1,223 347 749
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.72% 0.58% 1.06%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.82% 0.65% 1.10%
Number of salaries quoted 960 193 200
10th Percentile £38,750 £34,324 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £56,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.79% +6.67% +6.06%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £62,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £65,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% +10.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent 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 permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 67,288 53,426 67,910
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.79% 89.15% 95.77%
Number of salaries quoted 47,613 30,415 42,495
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £76,250 £81,250 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Embedded Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Embedded Engineer in the UK excluding London

Embedded Engineer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Embedded Engineer in the UK excluding London

Embedded Engineer
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Embedded Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Embedded Engineer in the UK excluding London

Embedded Engineer
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Embedded Engineer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 10 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
South East +123 302 £57,500 -4.17% 62
North of England +165 222 £50,000 -2.44% 22
South West +136 220 £55,000 -8.33% 58
Midlands +117 189 £52,500 +20.69% 34
East of England +105 125 £60,000 -14.29% 39
Scotland +16 119 £52,500 -12.50% 19
Yorkshire +127 105 £50,000 +17.65% 12
West Midlands +66 102 £60,000 +52.87% 15
East Midlands +60 87 £50,000 -4.76% 19
North West +65 84 £55,000 - 7
North East +26 33 £55,000 +4.76% 5
Wales - 33 £50,000 - 4
Northern Ireland +34 13 - -
Embedded Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 10 May 2024, Embedded Engineer 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 permanent job ads across the UK excluding London region featuring Embedded Engineer in the job title.

1 1,014 (82.91%) Software Engineering
2 585 (47.83%) C
3 323 (26.41%) Linux
4 289 (23.63%) C++
5 272 (22.24%) Firmware
6 250 (20.44%) Embedded C
7 245 (20.03%) Electronics
8 202 (16.52%) Embedded Linux
9 199 (16.27%) Degree
10 169 (13.82%) Embedded Firmware
11 167 (13.65%) Python
12 164 (13.41%) Embedded Systems
13 141 (11.53%) Wireless
14 114 (9.32%) Manufacturing
15 112 (9.16%) Automotive
16 111 (9.08%) IoT
17 107 (8.75%) Agile
18 104 (8.50%) Social Skills
19 94 (7.69%) Security Cleared
20 84 (6.87%) Problem-Solving
20 84 (6.87%) Computer Science
21 70 (5.72%) Wi-Fi
22 67 (5.48%) Bash
23 64 (5.23%) Yocto
24 60 (4.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
25 58 (4.74%) Embedded Software Development
26 56 (4.58%) Cybersecurity
26 56 (4.58%) Rust
27 55 (4.50%) Aerospace
27 55 (4.50%) C#

Embedded 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 19 (1.55%) Apache
2 3 (0.25%) Confluence
Applications
1 44 (3.60%) Simulink
2 9 (0.74%) GNU Octave
3 8 (0.65%) Stateflow
4 5 (0.41%) Microsoft Office
5 4 (0.33%) OrCAD
6 1 (0.082%) TargetLink
Business Applications
1 2 (0.16%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 15 (1.23%) GitHub
2 14 (1.14%) AWS
3 8 (0.65%) AWS IoT
4 3 (0.25%) Azure
5 1 (0.082%) GCP
5 1 (0.082%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 141 (11.53%) Wireless
2 70 (5.72%) Wi-Fi
3 45 (3.68%) Bluetooth
4 42 (3.43%) Ethernet
5 41 (3.35%) RS-232
6 36 (2.94%) TCP/IP
7 29 (2.37%) RS-485
8 23 (1.88%) MQTT
9 17 (1.39%) 3G
9 17 (1.39%) 4G
9 17 (1.39%) ZigBee
10 13 (1.06%) Internet
11 10 (0.82%) Modbus
11 10 (0.82%) OFDM
12 9 (0.74%) GPRS
13 8 (0.65%) Profibus
14 7 (0.57%) LoRaWAN
14 7 (0.57%) LTE
15 6 (0.49%) Wireshark
16 5 (0.41%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (0.49%) Relational Database
2 4 (0.33%) Big Data
3 1 (0.082%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (0.082%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 50 (4.09%) Git
2 31 (2.53%) JIRA
3 21 (1.72%) Jenkins
4 20 (1.64%) Subversion
5 13 (1.06%) Visual Studio
6 8 (0.65%) ClearCase
6 8 (0.65%) Eclipse
6 8 (0.65%) Rational Rhapsody
7 7 (0.57%) ClearQuest
7 7 (0.57%) Plastic SCM
8 4 (0.33%) Zephyr
9 3 (0.25%) GDB
9 3 (0.25%) Rational DOORS
10 2 (0.16%) GCC
10 2 (0.16%) GitLab
10 2 (0.16%) PetaLinux
10 2 (0.16%) VectorCAST
11 1 (0.082%) Cucumber
11 1 (0.082%) LabVIEW
11 1 (0.082%) Mercurial
General
1 245 (20.03%) Electronics
2 114 (9.32%) Manufacturing
3 112 (9.16%) Automotive
4 104 (8.50%) Social Skills
5 60 (4.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 55 (4.50%) Aerospace
7 37 (3.03%) Analytical Skills
8 32 (2.62%) Finance
9 28 (2.29%) Telecoms
10 19 (1.55%) Marketing
10 19 (1.55%) Public Sector
11 17 (1.39%) Aviation
11 17 (1.39%) Mandarin Language
12 8 (0.65%) Pharmaceutical
13 7 (0.57%) Tech for Good
14 6 (0.49%) Legal
15 4 (0.33%) Retail
16 3 (0.25%) Military
16 3 (0.25%) Welsh Language
17 2 (0.16%) Avionics
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 64 (5.23%) Yocto
2 19 (1.55%) Apache NiFi
2 19 (1.55%) STL
3 12 (0.98%) REST
4 10 (0.82%) MFC
5 9 (0.74%) .NET
6 8 (0.65%) HTML
6 8 (0.65%) Middleware
7 6 (0.49%) Node.js
8 5 (0.41%) FFmpeg
8 5 (0.41%) Flask
8 5 (0.41%) GStreamer
8 5 (0.41%) OpenEmbedded
8 5 (0.41%) Qt
9 3 (0.25%) Boost C++ Libraries
9 3 (0.25%) Flash
9 3 (0.25%) iOS SDK
10 2 (0.16%) POSIX
10 2 (0.16%) XML
11 1 (0.082%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 164 (13.41%) Embedded Systems
2 111 (9.08%) IoT
3 53 (4.33%) Device Driver
4 51 (4.17%) Algorithms
5 50 (4.09%) Self-Motivation
6 48 (3.92%) FPGA
7 17 (1.39%) VHDL
8 16 (1.31%) ARM Cortex
8 16 (1.31%) Renewable Energy
9 15 (1.23%) Cyber Threat
10 14 (1.14%) Mobile App
11 10 (0.82%) Analogue Electronics
11 10 (0.82%) Raspberry Pi
12 8 (0.65%) Acoustics
13 6 (0.49%) Data Centre
13 6 (0.49%) Driving Licence
13 6 (0.49%) NB-IoT
13 6 (0.49%) Smart Home
13 6 (0.49%) Video\Live Streaming
14 5 (0.41%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 323 (26.41%) Linux
2 202 (16.52%) Embedded Linux
3 41 (3.35%) Windows
4 38 (3.11%) FreeRTOS
5 8 (0.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (0.49%) ThreadX
7 5 (0.41%) VxWorks
8 4 (0.33%) Apple iOS
9 3 (0.25%) Android
9 3 (0.25%) Debian
9 3 (0.25%) VMS
10 2 (0.16%) Solaris
10 2 (0.16%) Unix
10 2 (0.16%) Windows Embedded Compact
11 1 (0.082%) OpenWrt
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,014 (82.91%) Software Engineering
2 107 (8.75%) Agile
3 84 (6.87%) Computer Science
3 84 (6.87%) Problem-Solving
4 58 (4.74%) Embedded Software Development
5 56 (4.58%) Cybersecurity
6 51 (4.17%) Mathematics
6 51 (4.17%) SDLC
7 50 (4.09%) Software Testing
8 46 (3.76%) Physics
9 45 (3.68%) OOD
10 37 (3.03%) Test Automation
11 29 (2.37%) Prototyping
12 28 (2.29%) OO
13 27 (2.21%) Software Architecture
13 27 (2.21%) Validation
14 26 (2.13%) Signal Processing
15 25 (2.04%) Multithreading
16 24 (1.96%) Device Driver Development
17 20 (1.64%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 585 (47.83%) C
2 289 (23.63%) C++
3 250 (20.44%) Embedded C
4 167 (13.65%) Python
5 67 (5.48%) Bash
6 56 (4.58%) Rust
7 55 (4.50%) C#
8 46 (3.76%) MATLAB
9 43 (3.52%) Embedded C++
10 22 (1.80%) Assembly Language
11 21 (1.72%) Java
12 20 (1.64%) Ada
13 19 (1.55%) JavaScript
14 12 (0.98%) PHP
14 12 (0.98%) R
15 9 (0.74%) SQL
16 8 (0.65%) VB
17 7 (0.57%) Perl
18 3 (0.25%) Groovy
18 3 (0.25%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 199 (16.27%) Degree
2 94 (7.69%) Security Cleared
3 16 (1.31%) BPSS Clearance
4 15 (1.23%) SC Cleared
5 10 (0.82%) Master's Degree
6 9 (0.74%) HNC
7 7 (0.57%) Computer Science Degree
8 5 (0.41%) HND
9 3 (0.25%) DV Cleared
10 2 (0.16%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (2.37%) MISRA
2 17 (1.39%) ISO 13485
3 15 (1.23%) QA
4 14 (1.14%) GDPR
5 11 (0.90%) JTAG
6 10 (0.82%) AUTOSAR
6 10 (0.82%) IEC 62304
7 9 (0.74%) MISRA C
8 8 (0.65%) 21 CFR Part 11
9 7 (0.57%) ISO 9000
10 6 (0.49%) Automotive SPICE
11 5 (0.41%) ISO 26262
12 4 (0.33%) DO-178B
13 3 (0.25%) IEC 61131
System Software
1 272 (22.24%) Firmware
2 169 (13.82%) Embedded Firmware
3 11 (0.90%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (0.41%) Terraform
2 3 (0.25%) Ansible
2 3 (0.25%) Kubernetes
2 3 (0.25%) Podman
3 1 (0.082%) Functional Safety
Vendors
1 20 (1.64%) EMC
2 19 (1.55%) SAP
3 12 (0.98%) IBM
4 8 (0.65%) Microsoft
4 8 (0.65%) Red Hat
5 7 (0.57%) Lauterbach
5 7 (0.57%) Xilinx
6 5 (0.41%) Intel
6 5 (0.41%) Renesas
7 4 (0.33%) QNX
8 2 (0.16%) Atmel
8 2 (0.16%) Facebook
9 1 (0.082%) Autodesk
9 1 (0.082%) CA
9 1 (0.082%) Freescale
9 1 (0.082%) MathWorks
9 1 (0.082%) NCR
9 1 (0.082%) Samsung