Embedded Engineer Contracts in England

Embedded Engineer
UK > England

The median Embedded Engineer daily rate in England is £538, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 440 420 547
Rank change year-on-year -20 +127 +157
Contract jobs requiring an Embedded Engineer 45 122 106
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.18% 0.33% 0.21%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.20% 0.35% 0.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 14 44
10th Percentile - £355 £375
25th Percentile £475 £431 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £500 £463
Median % change year-on-year +7.50% +8.11% +8.82%
75th Percentile £591 £547 £536
90th Percentile £660 £575 £571
UK median daily rate £538 £500 £456
% change year-on-year +7.50% +9.59% +7.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 104 39
10th Percentile £58.18 £46.25 £47.25
25th Percentile £59.88 £51.06 £53.75
Median hourly rate £66.50 £62.50 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +6.40% +8.70% +9.52%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £62.11
90th Percentile £87.50 £87.00 £79.60
UK median hourly rate £66.50 £62.50 £57.50
% change year-on-year +6.40% +8.70% +9.52%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 22,549 34,488 47,741
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.59% 92.73% 94.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,007 22,894 33,903
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £409 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £643 £663
90th Percentile £750 £750 £763
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 900 2,432 1,409
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.00 £14.35
25th Percentile £18.51 £16.30 £20.00
Median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%
75th Percentile £63.75 £61.25 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £76.60
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

Embedded Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Embedded Engineer in England

Embedded Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Embedded Engineer in England

Embedded Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

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

Daily rate histogram for Embedded Engineer in England

Embedded Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Embedded Engineer in England

Embedded Engineer
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

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

Hourly rate histogram for Embedded Engineer in England

Embedded Engineer
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 Embedded Engineer 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 +29 19 £500 +11.11% 72
East of England +1 13 £538 -2.27% 55
South West +28 11 - - 31
London +37 1 - - 32
Midlands +19 1 - - 17
East Midlands +8 1 - - 8
Embedded Engineer
UK

Embedded Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Embedded 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 England region featuring Embedded Engineer in the job title.

1 32 (71.11%) Linux
2 29 (64.44%) Software Engineering
3 21 (46.67%) C++
4 17 (37.78%) SC Cleared
4 17 (37.78%) Security Cleared
5 15 (33.33%) Embedded Linux
5 15 (33.33%) Agile
6 14 (31.11%) Scrum
6 14 (31.11%) JIRA
6 14 (31.11%) GoogleTest
6 14 (31.11%) Jenkins
7 13 (28.89%) Bitbucket
7 13 (28.89%) Google
7 13 (28.89%) SysML
7 13 (28.89%) UML
8 11 (24.44%) C
9 10 (22.22%) Wireless
9 10 (22.22%) Ada
9 10 (22.22%) Rational DOORS
9 10 (22.22%) Multithreading
10 9 (20.00%) Degree
11 8 (17.78%) Computer Science
11 8 (17.78%) Robot Framework
11 8 (17.78%) Problem-Solving
11 8 (17.78%) Test Automation
11 8 (17.78%) Git
12 7 (15.56%) Kanban
12 7 (15.56%) Continuous Integration
12 7 (15.56%) CUDA
12 7 (15.56%) SOLID

Embedded Engineer Skill Set
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 (13.33%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (4.44%) CANalyzer
1 2 (4.44%) Simulink
Cloud Services
1 1 (2.22%) Azure
1 1 (2.22%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 10 (22.22%) Wireless
2 7 (15.56%) 5G
2 7 (15.56%) 5G NR
3 3 (6.67%) 3GPP
3 3 (6.67%) Ethernet
4 2 (4.44%) Software-Defined Radio
5 1 (2.22%) HTTP
5 1 (2.22%) J1939
5 1 (2.22%) RS-232
5 1 (2.22%) SNMP
Development Applications
1 14 (31.11%) GoogleTest
1 14 (31.11%) Jenkins
1 14 (31.11%) JIRA
2 13 (28.89%) Bitbucket
3 10 (22.22%) Rational DOORS
4 8 (17.78%) Git
4 8 (17.78%) Robot Framework
5 7 (15.56%) TestRail
6 6 (13.33%) Eclipse
6 6 (13.33%) GitLab
General
1 4 (8.89%) Aerospace
2 2 (4.44%) Automotive
2 2 (4.44%) Electronics
2 2 (4.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (2.22%) Advertising
3 1 (2.22%) Avionics
3 1 (2.22%) Finance
3 1 (2.22%) Law
3 1 (2.22%) Manufacturing
3 1 (2.22%) Marketing
3 1 (2.22%) Public Sector
3 1 (2.22%) Social Skills
3 1 (2.22%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.22%) CSS
1 1 (2.22%) HTML
1 1 (2.22%) Middleware
1 1 (2.22%) Node.js
1 1 (2.22%) Qt
Miscellaneous
1 7 (15.56%) CUDA
2 3 (6.67%) Embedded Systems
2 3 (6.67%) PCIe
3 2 (4.44%) FPGA
3 2 (4.44%) VHDL
4 1 (2.22%) Algorithms
4 1 (2.22%) CAN bus
4 1 (2.22%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (2.22%) Verilog
Operating Systems
1 32 (71.11%) Linux
2 15 (33.33%) Embedded Linux
3 3 (6.67%) FreeRTOS
4 1 (2.22%) Unix
4 1 (2.22%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (64.44%) Software Engineering
2 15 (33.33%) Agile
3 14 (31.11%) Scrum
4 13 (28.89%) SysML
4 13 (28.89%) UML
5 10 (22.22%) Multithreading
6 8 (17.78%) Computer Science
6 8 (17.78%) Problem-Solving
6 8 (17.78%) Test Automation
7 7 (15.56%) Clean Code
7 7 (15.56%) Continuous Integration
7 7 (15.56%) Design Patterns
7 7 (15.56%) Kanban
7 7 (15.56%) Multithreaded Programming
7 7 (15.56%) OO
7 7 (15.56%) OOD
7 7 (15.56%) SOLID
7 7 (15.56%) Storyboarding
8 6 (13.33%) Migration
9 5 (11.11%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 21 (46.67%) C++
2 11 (24.44%) C
3 10 (22.22%) Ada
4 4 (8.89%) Embedded C
5 2 (4.44%) MATLAB
6 1 (2.22%) C#
6 1 (2.22%) Embedded C++
6 1 (2.22%) Python
Qualifications
1 17 (37.78%) SC Cleared
1 17 (37.78%) Security Cleared
2 9 (20.00%) Degree
3 7 (15.56%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.22%) Def Stans
1 1 (2.22%) DO-178B
1 1 (2.22%) IEC 61508
1 1 (2.22%) MIL-STD-1553
1 1 (2.22%) MISRA
1 1 (2.22%) MISRA C
System Software
1 2 (4.44%) Firmware
Vendors
1 13 (28.89%) Google
2 7 (15.56%) Intel
2 7 (15.56%) NVIDIA
3 6 (13.33%) Atlassian
4 1 (2.22%) SAP
4 1 (2.22%) Siemens