Electronics Contracts in the North West

Electronics
England > North West

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Electronics in contract job vacancies in the North West. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Electronics over the 6 months leading up to 16 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 115 125 144
Rank change year-on-year +10 +19 +15
Contract jobs citing Electronics 12 10 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.61% 0.38% 0.33%
As % of the General category 1.06% 0.70% 0.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 6 5
10th Percentile - £414 £458
25th Percentile £515 £600 £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £713 £501
Median % change year-on-year -25.61% +42.36% -16.58%
75th Percentile £545 £738 £540
90th Percentile - - £629
England median daily rate £548 £560 £545
% change year-on-year -2.23% +2.75% +3.81%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 0
10th Percentile £59.22 - -
25th Percentile £60.19 £57.50 -
Median hourly rate £61.79 £60.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +2.98% - -
75th Percentile £63.40 £62.50 -
90th Percentile £64.36 - -
England median hourly rate £43.20 £57.50 £57.50
% change year-on-year -24.87% - +5.99%

All General Skills
North West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 1,127 1,424 1,617
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 57.62% 53.59% 52.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 696 870 1,113
10th Percentile £250 £300 £309
25th Percentile £375 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £576 £588 £588
90th Percentile £675 £688 £675
England median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 104 190 75
10th Percentile £13.00 £12.50 £15.83
25th Percentile £17.44 £14.50 £17.49
Median hourly rate £28.75 £17.86 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +60.97% -31.31% +8.58%
75th Percentile £56.51 £36.95 £36.17
90th Percentile £77.13 £51.91 £53.20
England median hourly rate £27.25 £30.16 £32.50
% change year-on-year -9.65% -7.20% +51.16%

Electronics
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Electronics in the North West

Electronics
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Electronics in the North West

Electronics
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for Electronics in the North West

Electronics
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 16 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
Manchester +24 11 £530 -26.90% 54
Cumbria +4 1 - - 10
Electronics
England

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

Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (83.33%) PostgreSQL
1 10 (83.33%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 10 (83.33%) Gradle
1 10 (83.33%) Jenkins
1 10 (83.33%) JUnit
1 10 (83.33%) Liquibase
1 10 (83.33%) Mockito
2 5 (41.67%) GitLab
General
1 11 (91.67%) Manufacturing
2 10 (83.33%) Finance
2 10 (83.33%) Marketing
2 10 (83.33%) Public Sector
2 10 (83.33%) Telecoms
3 2 (16.67%) Social Skills
4 1 (8.33%) Aerospace
4 1 (8.33%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (41.67%) Developer
1 5 (41.67%) Java Developer
1 5 (41.67%) Java Engineer
1 5 (41.67%) Java Software Engineer
1 5 (41.67%) React Developer
1 5 (41.67%) SC Cleared Java Developer
1 5 (41.67%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
1 5 (41.67%) Software Engineer
2 1 (8.33%) Commissioning Engineer
2 1 (8.33%) Design Engineer
2 1 (8.33%) Support Engineer
2 1 (8.33%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (83.33%) Kafka
1 10 (83.33%) OpenAPI
1 10 (83.33%) React
1 10 (83.33%) Spring
1 10 (83.33%) Spring Boot
1 10 (83.33%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 1 (8.33%) Analogue Electronics
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (91.67%) Software Engineering
2 10 (83.33%) Agile
2 10 (83.33%) Business Intelligence
2 10 (83.33%) CI/CD
2 10 (83.33%) Containerisation
2 10 (83.33%) DevOps
2 10 (83.33%) Digital Marketing
2 10 (83.33%) Microservices
2 10 (83.33%) Migration
2 10 (83.33%) Programme Management
2 10 (83.33%) TDD
3 5 (41.67%) Build Automation
3 5 (41.67%) Clean Code
3 5 (41.67%) Continuous Integration
3 5 (41.67%) Event-Driven
3 5 (41.67%) Event-Driven Architecture
4 1 (8.33%) Acceptance Criteria
Programming Languages
1 10 (83.33%) Java
1 10 (83.33%) SQL
1 10 (83.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 12 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 11 (91.67%) SC Cleared
3 1 (8.33%) Degree
System Software
1 10 (83.33%) Docker
Vendors
1 10 (83.33%) SAP
2 1 (8.33%) Siemens