Electronics Contract Job Trends in London

Electronics
England > London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Electronics in contract job vacancies in London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Electronics over the 6 months leading up to 18 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 343 299 260
Rank change year-on-year -44 -39 +91
Contract jobs citing Electronics 57 57 136
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.33% 0.45% 0.76%
As % of the General category 0.54% 0.67% 1.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 27 72
10th Percentile £256 £241 £289
25th Percentile £364 £268 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £460 £600
Median % change year-on-year +16.85% -23.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £666 £548 £738
90th Percentile £741 £615 £925
England median daily rate £525 £530 £544
% change year-on-year -0.94% -2.53% -1.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 6
10th Percentile £29.38 - £32.38
25th Percentile £33.75 - £41.25
Median hourly rate £53.75 - £57.50
75th Percentile £83.37 - £67.13
90th Percentile £87.83 - £72.25
England median hourly rate £48.50 £60.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year -19.17% +4.35% -

All General Skills
London

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 general skills in London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for general skills 10,611 8,571 11,311
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 61.11% 67.49% 63.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,914 5,809 8,082
10th Percentile £348 £336 £331
25th Percentile £425 £448 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £663 £700 £700
90th Percentile £788 £825 £800
England median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 185 137 253
10th Percentile £18.37 £15.84 £16.00
25th Percentile £23.00 £23.80 £18.79
Median hourly rate £35.00 £34.50 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.45% +15.00% -7.69%
75th Percentile £50.00 £52.00 £47.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £66.00 £68.75
England median hourly rate £29.52 £28.75 £28.00
% change year-on-year +2.68% +2.68% -17.65%

Electronics
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Electronics relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

Electronics job vacancy trend in London

Electronics
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Electronics.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Electronics

Electronics
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Electronics in London over the 6 months to 18 April 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Electronics in London

Electronics
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Electronics.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Electronics

Electronics
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Electronics in London over the 6 months to 18 April 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Electronics in London

Electronics
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Electronics within the London region over the 6 months to 18 April 2026. 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
North London +4 5 - -
West London -25 3 - - 6
Electronics
England

Electronics
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (3.51%) Confluence
1 2 (3.51%) OpenStack
2 1 (1.75%) Apache
2 1 (1.75%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.75%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (10.53%) Microsoft Excel
1 6 (10.53%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (3.51%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 12 (21.05%) Azure
2 10 (17.54%) AWS
3 9 (15.79%) GCP
4 5 (8.77%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (5.26%) Google Tag Manager
6 2 (3.51%) Asana
6 2 (3.51%) Miro
6 2 (3.51%) Power Platform
6 2 (3.51%) SaaS
6 2 (3.51%) Slack
6 2 (3.51%) Smartsheet
7 1 (1.75%) Amazon Bedrock
7 1 (1.75%) Azure AI
7 1 (1.75%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 1 (1.75%) Azure Sentinel
7 1 (1.75%) Microsoft Copilot
7 1 (1.75%) OneDrive
7 1 (1.75%) SuccessFactors
7 1 (1.75%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 6 (10.53%) Cisco IPT
2 3 (5.26%) Network Security
3 2 (3.51%) 3GPP
3 2 (3.51%) 4G
3 2 (3.51%) 5G
3 2 (3.51%) LTE
3 2 (3.51%) Radio Access Network
3 2 (3.51%) Wireless
4 1 (1.75%) DNS
4 1 (1.75%) HTTP
4 1 (1.75%) Internet
4 1 (1.75%) NGN
4 1 (1.75%) SD-WAN
4 1 (1.75%) VLAN
4 1 (1.75%) VPN
4 1 (1.75%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.75%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (1.75%) Looker
1 1 (1.75%) Power BI
1 1 (1.75%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (5.26%) Browser DevTools
1 3 (5.26%) Charles Proxy
1 3 (5.26%) Fiddler
2 2 (3.51%) JIRA
General
1 33 (57.89%) Marketing
2 30 (52.63%) Manufacturing
3 29 (50.88%) Telecoms
4 27 (47.37%) Finance
4 27 (47.37%) Public Sector
5 21 (36.84%) Social Skills
6 10 (17.54%) Legal
7 5 (8.77%) Analytical Skills
8 4 (7.02%) Aerospace
9 3 (5.26%) Advertising
10 2 (3.51%) Brand Awareness
10 2 (3.51%) Italian Language
10 2 (3.51%) Mandarin Language
Job Titles
1 12 (21.05%) Consultant
2 10 (17.54%) Architect
3 6 (10.53%) Electronics Engineer
3 6 (10.53%) Electronics Hardware Engineer
3 6 (10.53%) Hardware Engineer
4 5 (8.77%) Analyst
4 5 (8.77%) Coordinator
4 5 (8.77%) Lead
5 4 (7.02%) PMO Coordinator
5 4 (7.02%) PMO Officer
5 4 (7.02%) PMO Specialist
5 4 (7.02%) Support Officer
5 4 (7.02%) Support Specialist
6 3 (5.26%) Product Engineer
6 3 (5.26%) Quality Engineer
7 2 (3.51%) 2nd Line Support
7 2 (3.51%) Business Analyst
7 2 (3.51%) Project Manager
7 2 (3.51%) Solutions Architect
7 2 (3.51%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.51%) iOS SDK
1 2 (3.51%) Unity (Game Engine)
2 1 (1.75%) Microsoft Graph
2 1 (1.75%) NumPy
2 1 (1.75%) Pandas
2 1 (1.75%) PySpark
2 1 (1.75%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 6 (10.53%) Marketing Technology
1 6 (10.53%) Product Ownership
2 5 (8.77%) IoT
2 5 (8.77%) Onboarding
3 3 (5.26%) Algorithms
3 3 (5.26%) Client/Server
3 3 (5.26%) Cloud Native
3 3 (5.26%) Mobile App
3 3 (5.26%) NHS
4 2 (3.51%) Augmented Reality
4 2 (3.51%) Data Centre
4 2 (3.51%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (3.51%) Industry 4.0
4 2 (3.51%) LIMS
4 2 (3.51%) Smart City
4 2 (3.51%) Virtual Reality
4 2 (3.51%) Web Conferencing
5 1 (1.75%) AI Agents
5 1 (1.75%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.75%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 5 (8.77%) Android
2 2 (3.51%) Apple iOS
2 2 (3.51%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (56.14%) Digital Marketing
2 28 (49.12%) Business Intelligence
3 27 (47.37%) Programme Management
4 16 (28.07%) Agile
5 14 (24.56%) Stakeholder Management
6 12 (21.05%) Analytics
6 12 (21.05%) E-Commerce
7 11 (19.30%) Consent Management
8 10 (17.54%) Continuous Improvement
9 9 (15.79%) AI
9 9 (15.79%) Data Governance
9 9 (15.79%) Data Pipeline
10 8 (14.04%) Event-Driven
11 7 (12.28%) CI/CD
11 7 (12.28%) Machine Learning
12 6 (10.53%) Data Cleansing
12 6 (10.53%) Data Privacy
12 6 (10.53%) Data Protection
12 6 (10.53%) Root Cause Analysis
13 5 (8.77%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 10 (17.54%) Python
2 6 (10.53%) JavaScript
3 4 (7.02%) PowerShell
4 2 (3.51%) Go
4 2 (3.51%) Java
Qualifications
1 10 (17.54%) Degree
1 10 (17.54%) Security Cleared
2 9 (15.79%) SC Cleared
3 4 (7.02%) Azure Certification
4 3 (5.26%) AWS Certification
5 2 (3.51%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (3.51%) CREST Certified
5 2 (3.51%) GPEN
5 2 (3.51%) OSCE
5 2 (3.51%) OSCP
5 2 (3.51%) PMI Certification
5 2 (3.51%) PMP
5 2 (3.51%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 1 (1.75%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (1.75%) CCIE
6 1 (1.75%) CCNP
6 1 (1.75%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (1.75%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (19.30%) GDPR
2 9 (15.79%) PERC
3 4 (7.02%) PMO
4 3 (5.26%) ECSS
4 3 (5.26%) ISO 9001
5 2 (3.51%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 2 (3.51%) QA
6 1 (1.75%) Accessibility
6 1 (1.75%) Data Quality
6 1 (1.75%) Def Stans
6 1 (1.75%) DO-160
6 1 (1.75%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (3.51%) Docker
2 1 (1.75%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (7.02%) Kubernetes
2 2 (3.51%) vRealize
3 1 (1.75%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 27 (47.37%) SAP
2 9 (15.79%) Microsoft
3 8 (14.04%) Adobe
3 8 (14.04%) Tealium
4 7 (12.28%) Cisco
4 7 (12.28%) Salesforce
5 5 (8.77%) mParticle
6 4 (7.02%) Google
7 3 (5.26%) OneTrust
8 2 (3.51%) Apple
8 2 (3.51%) Dell
8 2 (3.51%) EMC
8 2 (3.51%) Ericsson
8 2 (3.51%) HP
8 2 (3.51%) Huawei
8 2 (3.51%) Nokia
8 2 (3.51%) Samsung
8 2 (3.51%) VMware
9 1 (1.75%) Keysight
9 1 (1.75%) Workday