Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS)
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term GNSS in permanent job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited GNSS over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 844 950 1190
Rank change year-on-year +106 +240 -366
Permanent jobs citing GNSS 52 20 42
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.053% 0.019% 0.027%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.15% 0.045% 0.058%
Number of salaries quoted 12 6 8
10th Percentile £53,250 £50,000 £34,950
25th Percentile £65,813 £51,250 £41,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £55,000 £51,250
Median % change year-on-year +36.36% +7.32% +2.50%
75th Percentile £80,000 £58,750 £68,750
90th Percentile - £66,500 £80,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £75,000 £55,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +36.36% +15.79% -2.56%

All Generic Skills
UK

GNSS is in the General and Transferable Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 34,768 44,861 72,647
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.46% 42.86% 47.13%
Number of salaries quoted 22,918 24,128 34,106
10th Percentile £28,000 £35,107 £34,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £46,250 £45,607
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £86,250 £83,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £107,500 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%

GNSS
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing GNSS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for GNSS in the UK

GNSS
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing GNSS.

Salary trend for GNSS in the UK

GNSS
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing GNSS over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for GNSS in the UK

GNSS
Top 6 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing GNSS within the UK over the 6 months to 27 April 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
England +149 48 £75,000 +12.78% 13
UK excluding London +46 48 £75,000 +36.36% 14
South West +28 36 £75,000 +25.00% 5
Work from Home +86 9 £75,000 +25.00% 5
South East +34 8 £54,500 -25.34% 4
East of England - 4 £75,000 - 3

GNSS
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 2 (3.85%) Kinematics
Applications
1 5 (9.62%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 2 (3.85%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 20 (38.46%) 5G
1 20 (38.46%) SD-WAN
1 20 (38.46%) WAN
2 9 (17.31%) Internet
3 8 (15.38%) PPP
4 7 (13.46%) DNS
4 7 (13.46%) HTTP
4 7 (13.46%) SMTP
4 7 (13.46%) TCP/IP
5 2 (3.85%) RFID
6 1 (1.92%) LTE
6 1 (1.92%) Network Security
6 1 (1.92%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (1.92%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.85%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 13 (25.00%) Visual Studio
2 7 (13.46%) Jenkins
3 5 (9.62%) LabVIEW
General
1 19 (36.54%) Analytical Skills
2 16 (30.77%) Social Skills
3 13 (25.00%) Marketing
4 12 (23.08%) Presentation Skills
5 9 (17.31%) Aerospace
5 9 (17.31%) Electronics
5 9 (17.31%) Finance
5 9 (17.31%) Retail
6 4 (7.69%) Military
6 4 (7.69%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 21 (40.38%) Senior
2 16 (30.77%) Software Engineer
3 14 (26.92%) Developer
4 13 (25.00%) Senior Software Engineer
5 9 (17.31%) RF Engineer
6 7 (13.46%) Embedded Developer
6 7 (13.46%) Firmware Developer
6 7 (13.46%) FPGA Developer
7 6 (11.54%) Graduate
8 5 (9.62%) Product Engineer
8 5 (9.62%) Verification Engineer
9 4 (7.69%) C++ Software Engineer
9 4 (7.69%) GNSS Engineer
9 4 (7.69%) Linux Engineer
9 4 (7.69%) Python Engineer
9 4 (7.69%) Python Software Engineer
9 4 (7.69%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
9 4 (7.69%) Senior Linux Engineer
10 3 (5.77%) Systems Engineer
11 1 (1.92%) Communications Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.85%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 12 (23.08%) Self-Motivation
2 8 (15.38%) FPGA
3 7 (13.46%) CUDA
3 7 (13.46%) MicroBlaze
3 7 (13.46%) Tandem
3 7 (13.46%) VHDL
4 4 (7.69%) Algorithms
5 2 (3.85%) IoT
6 1 (1.92%) NB-IoT
Operating Systems
1 27 (51.92%) Linux
2 19 (36.54%) Windows
3 12 (23.08%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (69.23%) B2B
2 32 (61.54%) Signal Processing
3 27 (51.92%) Computer Science
3 27 (51.92%) Test Automation
4 24 (46.15%) Software Engineering
5 23 (44.23%) Problem-Solving
6 21 (40.38%) Requirements Analysis
7 20 (38.46%) Creative Thinking
7 20 (38.46%) Defect Tracking
7 20 (38.46%) Test Assurance
8 15 (28.85%) Project Management
8 15 (28.85%) Validation
9 13 (25.00%) Configuration Management
9 13 (25.00%) Digital Signal Processing
9 13 (25.00%) Innovative Thinking
9 13 (25.00%) Kalman Filter
9 13 (25.00%) Multithreading
9 13 (25.00%) OO
9 13 (25.00%) Product Marketing
9 13 (25.00%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 30 (57.69%) C++
2 26 (50.00%) Python
3 20 (38.46%) MATLAB
3 20 (38.46%) Perl
4 17 (32.69%) C
5 13 (25.00%) Bash
6 7 (13.46%) Tcl
6 7 (13.46%) VB
7 2 (3.85%) C#
7 2 (3.85%) XAML
8 1 (1.92%) Embedded C
8 1 (1.92%) Embedded C++
Qualifications
1 38 (73.08%) Degree
2 5 (9.62%) HND
3 1 (1.92%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (25.00%) PMO
2 2 (3.85%) QA
System Software
1 16 (30.77%) Firmware
2 14 (26.92%) Embedded Firmware
Vendors
1 7 (13.46%) Altera
1 7 (13.46%) Green Hills
1 7 (13.46%) Motorola
1 7 (13.46%) Xilinx
2 1 (1.92%) Sigfox