Electronics Contracts in the North of England

Electronics
England > North of England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Electronics in contract job vacancies in the North of 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 144 157 208
Rank change year-on-year +13 +51 -5
Contract jobs citing Electronics 22 28 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.67% 0.59% 0.21%
As % of the General category 1.13% 1.07% 0.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 17 7
10th Percentile £314 £388 £324
25th Percentile £368 - £434
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £450 £480
Median % change year-on-year +17.78% -6.25% -8.57%
75th Percentile £545 £738 £520
90th Percentile £566 - £599
England median daily rate £545 £550 £535
% change year-on-year -0.91% +2.80% +1.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 9 0
10th Percentile £58.86 - -
25th Percentile £59.29 £46.25 -
Median hourly rate £60.00 £47.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +26.32% - -
75th Percentile - £60.00 -
90th Percentile - £62.50 -
England median hourly rate £60.00 £57.50 £57.50
% change year-on-year +4.35% - +7.48%

All General Skills
North of 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 the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 1,947 2,614 3,216
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 59.09% 54.82% 55.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,195 1,539 2,212
10th Percentile £255 £256 £300
25th Percentile £375 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £495 £513
Median % change year-on-year -4.04% -3.41% +7.89%
75th Percentile £575 £582 £600
90th Percentile £662 £669 £688
England median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 143 310 96
10th Percentile £13.00 £12.11 £14.13
25th Percentile £16.25 £13.30 £17.60
Median hourly rate £25.00 £16.06 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +55.67% -35.76% +33.69%
75th Percentile £39.75 £27.75 £38.75
90th Percentile £72.00 £48.75 £53.17
England median hourly rate £27.50 £30.16 £33.82
% change year-on-year -8.82% -10.82% +57.30%

Electronics
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Electronics in the North of England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for Electronics in the North of England

Electronics
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

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

Daily rate histogram for Electronics in the North of England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Hourly rate trend for Electronics in the North of England

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Contract Job Locations in the North of 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 North of 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
North West +15 13 £530 -24.29% 82
North East +1 8 £419 - 29
Yorkshire +3 1 £550 +22.22% 70
Electronics
England

Electronics
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (9.09%) AWS
1 2 (9.09%) Azure
1 2 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
1 2 (9.09%) Kong
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (45.45%) PostgreSQL
1 10 (45.45%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 10 (45.45%) Gradle
1 10 (45.45%) Jenkins
1 10 (45.45%) JUnit
1 10 (45.45%) Liquibase
1 10 (45.45%) Mockito
2 9 (40.91%) GitLab
3 4 (18.18%) Git
4 2 (9.09%) Cucumber
4 2 (9.09%) REST Assured
4 2 (9.09%) Selenium
General
1 19 (86.36%) Finance
1 19 (86.36%) Manufacturing
1 19 (86.36%) Marketing
1 19 (86.36%) Public Sector
1 19 (86.36%) Telecoms
2 3 (13.64%) Social Skills
3 1 (4.55%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 7 (31.82%) Developer
2 5 (22.73%) Java Developer
2 5 (22.73%) Java Engineer
2 5 (22.73%) Java Software Engineer
2 5 (22.73%) React Developer
2 5 (22.73%) SC Cleared Java Developer
2 5 (22.73%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
2 5 (22.73%) Software Engineer
3 4 (18.18%) DevOps Engineer
4 3 (13.64%) Lead
4 3 (13.64%) Lead DevOps
4 3 (13.64%) Lead DevOps Engineer
5 2 (9.09%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 2 (9.09%) Azure Engineer
5 2 (9.09%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 2 (9.09%) JavaScript Developer
5 2 (9.09%) Project Manager
5 2 (9.09%) Senior
5 2 (9.09%) Test Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (45.45%) Kafka
1 10 (45.45%) OpenAPI
1 10 (45.45%) React
1 10 (45.45%) Spring
1 10 (45.45%) Spring Boot
1 10 (45.45%) Swagger
2 2 (9.09%) CSS
2 2 (9.09%) HTML
2 2 (9.09%) Jest
2 2 (9.09%) Node.js
2 2 (9.09%) pytest
2 2 (9.09%) Sass
3 1 (4.55%) ARM Templates
Operating Systems
1 2 (9.09%) Linux
1 2 (9.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (4.55%) Alpine Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (86.36%) Business Intelligence
1 19 (86.36%) Digital Marketing
1 19 (86.36%) Programme Management
2 14 (63.64%) DevOps
3 13 (59.09%) CI/CD
4 12 (54.55%) TDD
5 11 (50.00%) Software Engineering
6 10 (45.45%) Agile
6 10 (45.45%) Containerisation
6 10 (45.45%) Microservices
6 10 (45.45%) Migration
7 5 (22.73%) Build Automation
7 5 (22.73%) Clean Code
7 5 (22.73%) Continuous Integration
7 5 (22.73%) Event-Driven
7 5 (22.73%) Event-Driven Architecture
8 4 (18.18%) Stakeholder Management
9 2 (9.09%) Configuration Management
9 2 (9.09%) Project Management
9 2 (9.09%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 13 (59.09%) Java
2 10 (45.45%) SQL
2 10 (45.45%) TypeScript
3 2 (9.09%) JavaScript
3 2 (9.09%) Python
4 1 (4.55%) Bash
4 1 (4.55%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 14 (63.64%) Security Cleared
2 13 (59.09%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (9.09%) WCAG
System Software
1 12 (54.55%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (18.18%) Kubernetes
1 4 (18.18%) Terraform
2 2 (9.09%) Grafana
2 2 (9.09%) Prometheus
3 1 (4.55%) Ansible
Vendors
1 19 (86.36%) SAP
2 1 (4.55%) Siemens