Electronics Contracts 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 23 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 293 286 355
Rank change year-on-year -7 +69 +43
Contract jobs citing Electronics 48 112 136
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.40% 0.64% 0.53%
As % of the General category 0.58% 1.02% 0.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 60 85
10th Percentile £145 £281 £425
25th Percentile £292 £408 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £650 £550
Median % change year-on-year -18.46% +18.18% -
75th Percentile £545 £825 £638
90th Percentile £651 £925 £725
England median daily rate £550 £527 £550
% change year-on-year +4.46% -4.27% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 12
10th Percentile - £42.00 £32.13
25th Percentile £78.75 £48.75 £44.69
Median hourly rate £82.50 £61.50 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +34.15% +6.96% +57.53%
75th Percentile £86.25 £70.88 £58.75
90th Percentile - £73.35 -
England median hourly rate £49.10 £57.50 £57.50
% change year-on-year -14.61% - +7.48%

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 common skills in London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 8,208 10,989 16,277
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 67.66% 63.12% 63.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,494 7,853 11,810
10th Percentile £341 £338 £375
25th Percentile £438 £450 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -2.17% -4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £703 £700 £725
90th Percentile £825 £825 £825
England median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 142 234 209
10th Percentile £15.93 £15.65 £16.51
25th Percentile £24.30 £18.16 £21.00
Median hourly rate £31.92 £28.00 £31.50
Median % change year-on-year +14.01% -11.11% -16.00%
75th Percentile £50.69 £43.75 £52.97
90th Percentile £63.70 £65.00 £70.00
England median hourly rate £27.38 £30.00 £32.30
% change year-on-year -8.75% -7.12% +48.28%

Electronics
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Electronics in London

Electronics
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Electronics in London

Electronics
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Electronics in London over the 6 months to 23 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Electronics in London

Electronics
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend 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 23 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 London - 6 - - 2
West London +13 2 £249 -11.07% 31
Central London +4 2 £252 -32.80% 17
Electronics
England

Electronics
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 4 (8.33%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (4.17%) SharePoint
3 1 (2.08%) Confluence
3 1 (2.08%) WinCC
Applications
1 5 (10.42%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (2.08%) InVision
2 1 (2.08%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.08%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 7 (14.58%) Azure
2 5 (10.42%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (4.17%) Google Workspace
4 2 (4.17%) Microsoft Copilot
4 2 (4.17%) Power Platform
4 2 (4.17%) Yammer
5 1 (2.08%) Azure Stack
5 1 (2.08%) Figma
5 1 (2.08%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
5 1 (2.08%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (8.33%) Firewall
2 2 (4.17%) DHCP
2 2 (4.17%) DNS
3 1 (2.08%) 5G
3 1 (2.08%) MQTT
3 1 (2.08%) Structured Cabling
3 1 (2.08%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (2.08%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (22.92%) PostgreSQL
1 11 (22.92%) Relational Database
2 2 (4.17%) Power BI
3 1 (2.08%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (2.08%) Data Lake
3 1 (2.08%) Spark SQL
3 1 (2.08%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 11 (22.92%) Gradle
1 11 (22.92%) Jenkins
1 11 (22.92%) JUnit
1 11 (22.92%) Liquibase
1 11 (22.92%) Mockito
2 6 (12.50%) GitLab
3 2 (4.17%) JIRA
4 1 (2.08%) Axure RP
General
1 44 (91.67%) Finance
2 43 (89.58%) Manufacturing
2 43 (89.58%) Marketing
2 43 (89.58%) Public Sector
2 43 (89.58%) Telecoms
3 14 (29.17%) Social Skills
4 4 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (8.33%) Brand Awareness
5 1 (2.08%) Advertising
5 1 (2.08%) Automotive
5 1 (2.08%) French Language
5 1 (2.08%) German Language
5 1 (2.08%) Italian Language
5 1 (2.08%) Military
5 1 (2.08%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (22.92%) Developer
2 6 (12.50%) Java Developer
2 6 (12.50%) React Developer
2 6 (12.50%) SC Cleared Java Developer
2 6 (12.50%) Software Engineer
3 5 (10.42%) Java Engineer
3 5 (10.42%) Java Software Engineer
3 5 (10.42%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
3 5 (10.42%) Senior
4 4 (8.33%) Architect
5 3 (6.25%) Desktop Engineer
5 3 (6.25%) Lead
5 3 (6.25%) Splunk Engineer
6 2 (4.17%) 2nd Line Desktop Support
6 2 (4.17%) 2nd Line Desktop Support Engineer
6 2 (4.17%) 2nd Line Engineer
6 2 (4.17%) Azure Developer
6 2 (4.17%) C# .NET Developer
6 2 (4.17%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
6 2 (4.17%) UI Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (25.00%) React
2 11 (22.92%) Kafka
2 11 (22.92%) OpenAPI
2 11 (22.92%) Spring
2 11 (22.92%) Spring Boot
2 11 (22.92%) Swagger
3 3 (6.25%) .NET
3 3 (6.25%) .NET Core
4 2 (4.17%) Web Services
5 1 (2.08%) AngularJS
5 1 (2.08%) CSS
5 1 (2.08%) HTML
5 1 (2.08%) PySpark
5 1 (2.08%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 7 (14.58%) Onboarding
2 4 (8.33%) Product Ownership
3 3 (6.25%) Embedded Systems
3 3 (6.25%) Social Media
4 2 (4.17%) FPGA
4 2 (4.17%) Verilog
4 2 (4.17%) VHDL
5 1 (2.08%) CCTV
5 1 (2.08%) Enterprise Storage
5 1 (2.08%) Fibre Optics
5 1 (2.08%) IoT
5 1 (2.08%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (2.08%) NHS
5 1 (2.08%) PACS
5 1 (2.08%) PMI
5 1 (2.08%) SCADA
5 1 (2.08%) Shadow IT
5 1 (2.08%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 7 (14.58%) Windows
2 4 (8.33%) Windows 10
3 3 (6.25%) Linux
4 2 (4.17%) Mac OS X
4 2 (4.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (4.17%) Windows 8
4 2 (4.17%) Windows XP
5 1 (2.08%) Unix
5 1 (2.08%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (91.67%) Business Intelligence
2 43 (89.58%) Digital Marketing
2 43 (89.58%) Programme Management
3 19 (39.58%) Agile
4 16 (33.33%) DevOps
5 14 (29.17%) CI/CD
5 14 (29.17%) TDD
6 12 (25.00%) Containerisation
6 12 (25.00%) Software Engineering
7 11 (22.92%) Microservices
7 11 (22.92%) Migration
8 10 (20.83%) Problem-Solving
9 6 (12.50%) Build Automation
9 6 (12.50%) Clean Code
9 6 (12.50%) Event-Driven
9 6 (12.50%) Event-Driven Architecture
10 5 (10.42%) Actionable Insight
10 5 (10.42%) Computer Science
10 5 (10.42%) Continuous Integration
10 5 (10.42%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 20 (41.67%) SQL
2 11 (22.92%) Java
2 11 (22.92%) TypeScript
3 5 (10.42%) PowerShell
4 4 (8.33%) C#
5 2 (4.17%) JavaScript
5 2 (4.17%) Python
5 2 (4.17%) SystemVerilog
6 1 (2.08%) C++
6 1 (2.08%) Kusto Query Language
6 1 (2.08%) T-SQL
6 1 (2.08%) VB
Qualifications
1 18 (37.50%) Security Cleared
2 15 (31.25%) SC Cleared
3 11 (22.92%) Degree
4 4 (8.33%) Master's Degree
5 3 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (4.17%) ACCA
6 2 (4.17%) CIMA
6 2 (4.17%) PhD
7 1 (2.08%) CEH
7 1 (2.08%) CISSP
7 1 (2.08%) CSPO
7 1 (2.08%) DV Cleared
7 1 (2.08%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.17%) Accessibility
1 2 (4.17%) QA
2 1 (2.08%) Def Stans
2 1 (2.08%) WCAG
System Software
1 13 (27.08%) Docker
2 5 (10.42%) Active Directory
3 2 (4.17%) Firmware
3 2 (4.17%) vSphere
3 2 (4.17%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 3 (6.25%) Terraform
2 2 (4.17%) McAfee ePO
2 2 (4.17%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (4.17%) Norton AntiVirus
3 1 (2.08%) Functional Safety
3 1 (2.08%) Kubernetes
3 1 (2.08%) VxRail
Vendors
1 44 (91.67%) SAP
2 11 (22.92%) Microsoft
3 3 (6.25%) Adobe
3 3 (6.25%) Cisco
3 3 (6.25%) Dell
3 3 (6.25%) ServiceNow
3 3 (6.25%) Splunk
3 3 (6.25%) VMware
4 2 (4.17%) Aerohive Networks
4 2 (4.17%) AVG
4 2 (4.17%) Barracuda Networks
4 2 (4.17%) Canon
4 2 (4.17%) Draytek
4 2 (4.17%) GFI Software
4 2 (4.17%) NETGEAR
4 2 (4.17%) Panasonic
4 2 (4.17%) SolarWinds
4 2 (4.17%) Spiceworks
4 2 (4.17%) WatchGuard
4 2 (4.17%) Webroot