Electronics Contracts in England

Electronics
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Electronics in contract job vacancies in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Electronics over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 280 154 246
Rank change year-on-year -126 +92 +49
Contract jobs citing Electronics 215 574 544
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.88% 1.54% 1.08%
As % of the General category 1.38% 2.64% 1.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 121 257 335
10th Percentile £205 £205 £205
25th Percentile £355 £363 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £550 £535
Median % change year-on-year -0.91% +2.80% +1.90%
75th Percentile £663 £694 £638
90th Percentile £700 £788 £725
UK median daily rate £540 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -1.82% +4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 161 84
10th Percentile £18.20 £42.50 £40.38
25th Percentile £31.85 £51.25 £42.50
Median hourly rate £60.00 £57.50 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% - +7.48%
75th Percentile £78.75 £65.00 £61.25
90th Percentile £88.00 £67.50 £65.41
UK median hourly rate £60.00 £59.50 £57.50
% change year-on-year +0.84% +3.48% +9.52%

All General Skills
England

Electronics falls under the General Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring common skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 15,588 21,714 29,873
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 64.01% 58.38% 59.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,124 13,995 20,957
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
75th Percentile £650 £650 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £788
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 672 1,789 975
10th Percentile £14.00 £13.00 £13.97
25th Percentile £16.95 £15.50 £18.25
Median hourly rate £27.50 £30.16 £33.82
Median % change year-on-year -8.82% -10.82% +57.30%
75th Percentile £56.25 £51.91 £61.25
90th Percentile £75.00 £65.01 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £30.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -8.33% -14.29% +59.31%

Electronics
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Electronics as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Electronics in England

Electronics
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Electronics in England.

Daily rate trend for Electronics in England

Electronics
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Electronics in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Electronics in England

Electronics
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Electronics in England.

Hourly rate trend for Electronics in England

Electronics
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Electronics in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Electronics in England

Electronics
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Electronics within the England region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
South East -7 73 £625 +204.88% 379
London -39 55 £530 -15.20% 206
South West +2 39 £565 -5.83% 145
North of England +13 22 £530 +17.78% 179
East of England -40 16 £438 +16.67% 296
North West +15 13 £530 -24.29% 83
North East +1 8 £419 - 29
Midlands 0 4 £175 -27.08% 147
West Midlands +3 3 - - 79
Yorkshire +3 1 £550 +22.22% 69
East Midlands -1 1 £175 -50.70% 62
Electronics
UK

Electronics
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 (2.79%) SharePoint
2 5 (2.33%) Confluence
2 5 (2.33%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (0.93%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
3 2 (0.93%) Exchange Server 2013
3 2 (0.93%) Skype for Business
4 1 (0.47%) SAS
4 1 (0.47%) SharePoint 2013
4 1 (0.47%) WinCC
Applications
1 7 (3.26%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (2.33%) Simulink
3 4 (1.86%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.93%) LightWave 3D
4 2 (0.93%) OrCAD
5 1 (0.47%) CANalyzer
5 1 (0.47%) InVision
5 1 (0.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.47%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.47%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 1 (0.47%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 31 (14.42%) Azure
2 16 (7.44%) AWS
3 14 (6.51%) Azure DevOps
4 8 (3.72%) GCP
5 7 (3.26%) Microsoft 365
6 4 (1.86%) Power Platform
7 3 (1.40%) Azure Data Factory
7 3 (1.40%) Yammer
8 2 (0.93%) Azure AKS
8 2 (0.93%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 2 (0.93%) Cohesity
8 2 (0.93%) Kong
8 2 (0.93%) Microsoft Copilot
8 2 (0.93%) PaaS
9 1 (0.47%) Azure Event Grid
9 1 (0.47%) Azure Functions
9 1 (0.47%) Azure Stack
9 1 (0.47%) Figma
9 1 (0.47%) PowerApps
9 1 (0.47%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 9 (4.19%) Firewall
2 7 (3.26%) VPN
2 7 (3.26%) Wireless
3 6 (2.79%) DNS
3 6 (2.79%) LAN
4 5 (2.33%) DHCP
4 5 (2.33%) Ethernet
4 5 (2.33%) SAN
4 5 (2.33%) WAN
5 4 (1.86%) Network Security
6 3 (1.40%) iSCSI
7 2 (0.93%) BGP
7 2 (0.93%) EIGRP
7 2 (0.93%) IMAP
7 2 (0.93%) Internet
7 2 (0.93%) NAS
7 2 (0.93%) OSPF
7 2 (0.93%) Skype
7 2 (0.93%) SMTP
7 2 (0.93%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (10.23%) PostgreSQL
2 21 (9.77%) Relational Database
3 3 (1.40%) Azure SQL Database
3 3 (1.40%) Power BI
4 2 (0.93%) Tableau
5 1 (0.47%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.47%) Metadata
5 1 (0.47%) Spark SQL
5 1 (0.47%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 28 (13.02%) Jenkins
2 21 (9.77%) Gradle
2 21 (9.77%) JUnit
2 21 (9.77%) Liquibase
2 21 (9.77%) Mockito
3 16 (7.44%) GitLab
4 10 (4.65%) Git
5 8 (3.72%) JIRA
6 7 (3.26%) Selenium
7 3 (1.40%) SpecFlow
8 2 (0.93%) Cucumber
8 2 (0.93%) NUnit
8 2 (0.93%) REST Assured
9 1 (0.47%) Axure RP
9 1 (0.47%) CANoe
9 1 (0.47%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.47%) LabVIEW
9 1 (0.47%) Maven
9 1 (0.47%) Postman
9 1 (0.47%) Visual Studio
General
1 183 (85.12%) Manufacturing
2 181 (84.19%) Marketing
3 180 (83.72%) Finance
3 180 (83.72%) Telecoms
4 179 (83.26%) Public Sector
5 51 (23.72%) Social Skills
6 11 (5.12%) Analytical Skills
7 5 (2.33%) Aerospace
8 4 (1.86%) Automotive
8 4 (1.86%) Brand Awareness
9 3 (1.40%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (1.40%) Games
10 2 (0.93%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (0.93%) Italian Language
10 2 (0.93%) Military
10 2 (0.93%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.47%) Avionics
11 1 (0.47%) French Language
11 1 (0.47%) German Language
11 1 (0.47%) Legal
Job Titles
1 32 (14.88%) Architect
2 30 (13.95%) Developer
3 26 (12.09%) Senior
4 21 (9.77%) Active Directory Architect
5 18 (8.37%) Support Engineer
6 17 (7.91%) Azure Engineer
7 14 (6.51%) Software Engineer
8 12 (5.58%) Java Developer
8 12 (5.58%) Lead
9 11 (5.12%) React Developer
9 11 (5.12%) SC Cleared Java Developer
10 10 (4.65%) DevOps Engineer
10 10 (4.65%) Java Engineer
10 10 (4.65%) Java Software Engineer
10 10 (4.65%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
11 9 (4.19%) Desktop Engineer
11 9 (4.19%) Test Engineer
12 8 (3.72%) C# Developer
12 8 (3.72%) Desktop Support Engineer
12 8 (3.72%) Hardware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (10.70%) React
2 22 (10.23%) OpenAPI
2 22 (10.23%) Swagger
3 21 (9.77%) Kafka
3 21 (9.77%) Spring
3 21 (9.77%) Spring Boot
4 13 (6.05%) .NET
5 11 (5.12%) CSS
5 11 (5.12%) HTML
6 5 (2.33%) AngularJS
7 4 (1.86%) Gherkin
7 4 (1.86%) PySpark
8 3 (1.40%) .NET Core
8 3 (1.40%) pytest
8 3 (1.40%) Web Services
9 2 (0.93%) Jest
9 2 (0.93%) Node.js
9 2 (0.93%) Playwright
9 2 (0.93%) Sass
9 2 (0.93%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 18 (8.37%) NHS
2 10 (4.65%) Onboarding
3 8 (3.72%) FPGA
3 8 (3.72%) Management Information System
3 8 (3.72%) Product Ownership
4 6 (2.79%) Algorithms
4 6 (2.79%) Verilog
4 6 (2.79%) Virtual Team
5 5 (2.33%) Social Media
6 4 (1.86%) Embedded Systems
7 3 (1.40%) LIMS
7 3 (1.40%) PCIe
7 3 (1.40%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (1.40%) VHDL
8 2 (0.93%) Acoustics
8 2 (0.93%) Analogue Electronics
8 2 (0.93%) Blackberry
8 2 (0.93%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (0.93%) Shadow IT
8 2 (0.93%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 53 (24.65%) Windows
2 15 (6.98%) Linux
3 12 (5.58%) Windows 10
4 4 (1.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (1.40%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.93%) Android
6 2 (0.93%) Mac OS
6 2 (0.93%) Unix
7 1 (0.47%) Alpine Linux
7 1 (0.47%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 181 (84.19%) Business Intelligence
2 179 (83.26%) Digital Marketing
2 179 (83.26%) Programme Management
3 65 (30.23%) Agile
4 46 (21.40%) DevOps
5 45 (20.93%) CI/CD
6 44 (20.47%) Test Automation
7 35 (16.28%) Software Engineering
7 35 (16.28%) TDD
8 34 (15.81%) Problem-Solving
9 25 (11.63%) Continuous Integration
10 24 (11.16%) Containerisation
11 22 (10.23%) Microservices
11 22 (10.23%) Migration
12 21 (9.77%) Identity Access Management
13 19 (8.84%) Stakeholder Management
14 18 (8.37%) Project Management
15 16 (7.44%) Computer Science
16 13 (6.05%) Continuous Improvement
16 13 (6.05%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 36 (16.74%) PowerShell
1 36 (16.74%) SQL
2 26 (12.09%) Java
3 24 (11.16%) TypeScript
4 20 (9.30%) Python
5 13 (6.05%) C#
5 13 (6.05%) JavaScript
6 9 (4.19%) Bash
6 9 (4.19%) C++
7 7 (3.26%) MATLAB
8 5 (2.33%) SystemVerilog
9 4 (1.86%) C
9 4 (1.86%) Groovy
10 3 (1.40%) Bicep
10 3 (1.40%) Tcl
11 2 (0.93%) VB
12 1 (0.47%) Assembly Language
12 1 (0.47%) JCL
12 1 (0.47%) Natural
12 1 (0.47%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 102 (47.44%) Security Cleared
2 62 (28.84%) SC Cleared
3 41 (19.07%) Degree
4 40 (18.60%) DV Cleared
5 10 (4.65%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (3.26%) Azure Certification
7 6 (2.79%) Master's Degree
8 4 (1.86%) HND
9 3 (1.40%) ACCA
9 3 (1.40%) CIMA
9 3 (1.40%) CISSP
9 3 (1.40%) Dell Certification
9 3 (1.40%) HNC
9 3 (1.40%) PhD
10 2 (0.93%) CCNA
10 2 (0.93%) CESG Certified Professional
10 2 (0.93%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (0.93%) CLAS
10 2 (0.93%) ITIL Certification
10 2 (0.93%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (3.26%) QA
2 5 (2.33%) Accessibility
2 5 (2.33%) DO-254
2 5 (2.33%) JSP 440
3 3 (1.40%) Data Quality
3 3 (1.40%) WCAG
4 2 (0.93%) DICOM
4 2 (0.93%) DO-160
4 2 (0.93%) HL7
4 2 (0.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (0.93%) NIST
4 2 (0.93%) RMADS
5 1 (0.47%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.47%) Def Stans
5 1 (0.47%) ISO 9001
5 1 (0.47%) MIL-STD-1553
5 1 (0.47%) SLA
System Software
1 30 (13.95%) Active Directory
2 29 (13.49%) Docker
3 6 (2.79%) Firmware
4 3 (1.40%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.93%) NFS
5 2 (0.93%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.93%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (0.93%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.47%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 9 (4.19%) Kubernetes
1 9 (4.19%) Terraform
2 4 (1.86%) Ansible
3 3 (1.40%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (1.40%) Prometheus
4 2 (0.93%) Grafana
4 2 (0.93%) Puppet
4 2 (0.93%) vRealize
4 2 (0.93%) vRealize Orchestrator
5 1 (0.47%) FortiGate
5 1 (0.47%) Functional Safety
5 1 (0.47%) Jamf Pro
5 1 (0.47%) SCCM
5 1 (0.47%) VxRail
Vendors
1 182 (84.65%) SAP
2 28 (13.02%) Microsoft
3 8 (3.72%) Cisco
3 8 (3.72%) Dell
3 8 (3.72%) Google
3 8 (3.72%) HP
3 8 (3.72%) VMware
4 5 (2.33%) EMC
4 5 (2.33%) Splunk
5 4 (1.86%) Databricks
5 4 (1.86%) Xilinx
6 3 (1.40%) Actel
6 3 (1.40%) Altera
6 3 (1.40%) Apple
6 3 (1.40%) Citrix
6 3 (1.40%) IBM
6 3 (1.40%) Intel
6 3 (1.40%) Microsemi
6 3 (1.40%) Salesforce
7 2 (0.93%) SolarWinds