Electronics Contracts in the South West

Electronics
England > South West

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Electronics in contract job vacancies in the South West. 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 72 74 66
Rank change year-on-year +2 -8 -5
Contract jobs citing Electronics 39 88 121
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 2.32% 2.75% 3.34%
As % of the General category 4.06% 5.33% 6.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 69 106
10th Percentile £346 £333 £409
25th Percentile £355 £560 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -5.83% - +26.32%
75th Percentile £638 £775 £688
90th Percentile £708 £788 £825
England median daily rate £545 £550 £535
% change year-on-year -0.91% +2.80% +1.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 14 3
10th Percentile - £37.50 £35.00
25th Percentile £18.20 £42.19 £40.63
Median hourly rate £18.31 £63.63 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -71.23% +27.25% +5.26%
75th Percentile £18.41 £68.41 £75.00
90th Percentile - £68.75 £90.00
England median hourly rate £60.00 £57.50 £57.50
% change year-on-year +4.35% - +7.48%

All General Skills
South 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 South West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 961 1,651 1,793
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 57.27% 51.61% 49.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 605 989 1,321
10th Percentile £218 £213 £275
25th Percentile £399 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £545
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -3.67% +11.79%
75th Percentile £606 £625 £634
90th Percentile £678 £700 £713
England median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 61 269 128
10th Percentile £18.13 £13.69 £17.50
25th Percentile £25.75 £23.63 £37.50
Median hourly rate £60.00 £46.39 £60.35
Median % change year-on-year +29.34% -23.13% +34.98%
75th Percentile £68.75 £68.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.50 £87.58
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 South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Electronics in the South West

Electronics
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for Electronics in the South West

Electronics
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Electronics in the South West over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Electronics in the South West

Electronics
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Hourly rate trend for Electronics in the South West

Electronics
Contract Job Locations in the South 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 South West 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
Bristol +6 26 £370 -35.09% 37
Wiltshire +5 7 £625 -16.67% 13
Electronics
England

Electronics
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South 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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (7.69%) Confluence
2 2 (5.13%) SharePoint
3 1 (2.56%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (2.56%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 1 (2.56%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 17 (43.59%) Azure
2 13 (33.33%) AWS
3 8 (20.51%) GCP
4 5 (12.82%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (5.13%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (2.56%) Azure Event Grid
6 1 (2.56%) Azure Functions
6 1 (2.56%) iPaaS
6 1 (2.56%) SaaS
6 1 (2.56%) Serverless
6 1 (2.56%) Yammer
Communications & Networking
1 3 (7.69%) Firewall
1 3 (7.69%) Wireless
2 2 (5.13%) Network Security
2 2 (5.13%) VPN
3 1 (2.56%) DNS
3 1 (2.56%) LAN
3 1 (2.56%) TCP/IP
3 1 (2.56%) Unified Communications
3 1 (2.56%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.56%) Metadata
1 1 (2.56%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (7.69%) JIRA
2 2 (5.13%) Jenkins
2 2 (5.13%) NUnit
3 1 (2.56%) Cypress.io
3 1 (2.56%) Git
3 1 (2.56%) GitLab
3 1 (2.56%) Postman
3 1 (2.56%) Selenium
3 1 (2.56%) Visual Studio
General
1 38 (97.44%) Manufacturing
2 36 (92.31%) Telecoms
3 35 (89.74%) Finance
3 35 (89.74%) Marketing
3 35 (89.74%) Public Sector
4 18 (46.15%) Social Skills
5 3 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (2.56%) Automotive
6 1 (2.56%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (2.56%) Italian Language
6 1 (2.56%) Legal
6 1 (2.56%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (2.56%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 8 (20.51%) Azure Engineer
1 8 (20.51%) Support Engineer
2 7 (17.95%) Applications Engineer
2 7 (17.95%) Applications Support
2 7 (17.95%) Applications Support Engineer
2 7 (17.95%) Azure Developer
2 7 (17.95%) C# Developer
2 7 (17.95%) Developer
3 6 (15.38%) Applications Developer
3 6 (15.38%) C# Application Developer
3 6 (15.38%) Lead
3 6 (15.38%) Senior
3 6 (15.38%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 4 (10.26%) Delivery Manager
5 3 (7.69%) Agile Delivery Manager
5 3 (7.69%) Analyst
5 3 (7.69%) Architect
5 3 (7.69%) Business Analyst
5 3 (7.69%) DV Cleared Business Analyst
6 2 (5.13%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (28.21%) .NET
2 7 (17.95%) CSS
2 7 (17.95%) HTML
3 3 (7.69%) AngularJS
4 2 (5.13%) Playwright
5 1 (2.56%) .NET Core
5 1 (2.56%) .NET Framework
5 1 (2.56%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (2.56%) Gherkin
5 1 (2.56%) OpenAPI
5 1 (2.56%) Swagger
5 1 (2.56%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 8 (20.51%) Management Information System
2 4 (10.26%) Product Ownership
3 2 (5.13%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (5.13%) Virtual Team
4 1 (2.56%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (2.56%) FMCG
4 1 (2.56%) NHS
4 1 (2.56%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.56%) PKI
4 1 (2.56%) Security Posture
4 1 (2.56%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 6 (15.38%) Windows
2 2 (5.13%) Android
2 2 (5.13%) Linux
3 1 (2.56%) Apple iOS
3 1 (2.56%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (89.74%) Business Intelligence
1 35 (89.74%) Digital Marketing
1 35 (89.74%) Programme Management
2 12 (30.77%) Agile
2 12 (30.77%) CI/CD
2 12 (30.77%) Service Management
3 11 (28.21%) Software Delivery
3 11 (28.21%) Test Automation
4 10 (25.64%) Continuous Integration
4 10 (25.64%) Software Engineering
4 10 (25.64%) TDD
5 9 (23.08%) Continuous Delivery
5 9 (23.08%) DevOps
6 8 (20.51%) Continuous Improvement
6 8 (20.51%) Service Delivery
6 8 (20.51%) Web Development
7 7 (17.95%) Computer Science
7 7 (17.95%) User Experience
8 6 (15.38%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 5 (12.82%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 10 (25.64%) C#
2 8 (20.51%) JavaScript
3 5 (12.82%) PowerShell
4 3 (7.69%) SQL
5 2 (5.13%) Bash
5 2 (5.13%) TypeScript
6 1 (2.56%) Python
Qualifications
1 16 (41.03%) Security Cleared
2 9 (23.08%) DV Cleared
3 8 (20.51%) Degree
3 8 (20.51%) SC Cleared
4 7 (17.95%) Azure Certification
4 7 (17.95%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (5.13%) CESG Certified Professional
5 2 (5.13%) CISSP
5 2 (5.13%) CLAS
6 1 (2.56%) ACCA
6 1 (2.56%) CIMA
6 1 (2.56%) Dell Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (5.13%) JSP 440
1 2 (5.13%) NIST
1 2 (5.13%) QA
1 2 (5.13%) RMADS
2 1 (2.56%) Accessibility
2 1 (2.56%) Actionable Recommendations
2 1 (2.56%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.56%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 4 (10.26%) Docker
2 1 (2.56%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.56%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (2.56%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (7.69%) Terraform
2 2 (5.13%) Ansible
2 2 (5.13%) Kubernetes
2 2 (5.13%) Puppet
3 1 (2.56%) Jamf Pro
3 1 (2.56%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (2.56%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 36 (92.31%) SAP
2 7 (17.95%) Google
2 7 (17.95%) Microsoft
3 1 (2.56%) Apple
3 1 (2.56%) Citrix
3 1 (2.56%) Dell
3 1 (2.56%) HP
3 1 (2.56%) Splunk
3 1 (2.56%) VMware