Embedded Engineer Contracts in the UK excluding London

Embedded Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Embedded Engineer daily rate in the UK excluding London is £496 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 16 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 276 377 461
Rank change year-on-year +101 +84 -99
Contract jobs requiring an Embedded Engineer 131 86 55
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.63% 0.35% 0.18%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.68% 0.37% 0.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 35 16
10th Percentile £375 £333 £393
25th Percentile £444 £413 £399
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £496 £450 £425
Median % change year-on-year +10.17% +5.88% +13.33%
75th Percentile £528 £506 £450
90th Percentile £563 £560 £538
UK median daily rate £500 £450 £425
% change year-on-year +11.11% +5.88% +13.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 112 32 22
10th Percentile £46.25 £46.38 £42.88
25th Percentile £51.06 £53.75 £48.13
Median hourly rate £62.50 £57.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% +4.55% +21.55%
75th Percentile £70.00 £61.68 £57.88
90th Percentile £89.00 £77.00 £58.75
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £57.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year +8.70% +9.52% +16.67%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 19,305 23,198 30,087
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.63% 94.06% 95.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,917 16,250 21,111
10th Percentile £213 £223 £200
25th Percentile £363 £388 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £599 £594 £570
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,172 1,224 1,504
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.58 £12.01
25th Percentile £15.50 £18.09 £14.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £42.37 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year -17.38% +117.26% +2.63%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £40.17
90th Percentile £72.86 £73.75 £58.95
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £45.00 £23.00
% change year-on-year -22.22% +95.65% -

Embedded Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Embedded Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Embedded Engineer in the UK excluding London

Embedded Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Embedded Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Embedded Engineer in the UK excluding London

Embedded Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Embedded Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 16 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Embedded Engineer in the UK excluding London

Embedded Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Embedded Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Embedded Engineer in the UK excluding London

Embedded Engineer
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Embedded Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 16 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Embedded Engineer in the UK excluding London

Embedded Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Embedded Engineer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 16 April 2024. 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
East of England +2 43 £550 +12.82% 34
South East +45 38 £450 -4.00% 52
South West +49 30 £538 +26.47% 70
Scotland +40 9 £510 +20.00% 22
North of England +38 6 - - 15
North East - 6 - - 2
Midlands - 4 £498 - 35
East Midlands - 3 £505 - 15
Wales +16 1 - - 2
West Midlands - 1 £492 - 20
Embedded Engineer
UK

Embedded Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 16 April 2024, Embedded Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the UK excluding London region featuring Embedded Engineer in the job title.

1 127 (96.95%) Software Engineering
2 89 (67.94%) C
3 58 (44.27%) Embedded C
4 43 (32.82%) C++
5 38 (29.01%) Validation
6 35 (26.72%) Linux
7 30 (22.90%) Electronics
8 26 (19.85%) IBM
9 25 (19.08%) Automotive
10 23 (17.56%) Configuration Management
11 22 (16.79%) Aerospace
11 22 (16.79%) Firmware
11 22 (16.79%) FreeRTOS
12 19 (14.50%) Problem-Solving
13 18 (13.74%) ARM Cortex
13 18 (13.74%) Lauterbach
14 17 (12.98%) Degree
14 17 (12.98%) Security Cleared
14 17 (12.98%) Embedded C++
15 16 (12.21%) SC Cleared
15 16 (12.21%) Verification and Validation
16 15 (11.45%) Test Automation
17 14 (10.69%) Ada
17 14 (10.69%) UML
18 13 (9.92%) Rational Rhapsody
19 12 (9.16%) Rational DOORS
19 12 (9.16%) Embedded Software Development
19 12 (9.16%) Software-Defined Radio
19 12 (9.16%) Git
20 11 (8.40%) Python

Embedded Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 2 (1.53%) Confluence
Applications
1 6 (4.58%) Simulink
2 3 (2.29%) Stateflow
Communications & Networking
1 12 (9.16%) Software-Defined Radio
2 5 (3.82%) Internet
2 5 (3.82%) J1939
3 4 (3.05%) Wireless
4 3 (2.29%) 802.11
4 3 (2.29%) SNMP
4 3 (2.29%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (0.76%) NFC
5 1 (0.76%) PPP
Development Applications
1 13 (9.92%) Rational Rhapsody
2 12 (9.16%) Git
2 12 (9.16%) Rational DOORS
3 7 (5.34%) JIRA
4 4 (3.05%) Eclipse
4 4 (3.05%) Subversion
5 3 (2.29%) Bitbucket
5 3 (2.29%) GoogleTest
6 2 (1.53%) Jenkins
6 2 (1.53%) Robot Framework
6 2 (1.53%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.76%) ClearCase
7 1 (0.76%) PVCS
7 1 (0.76%) TestRail
7 1 (0.76%) Valgrind
General
1 30 (22.90%) Electronics
2 25 (19.08%) Automotive
3 22 (16.79%) Aerospace
4 6 (4.58%) Manufacturing
4 6 (4.58%) Social Skills
5 4 (3.05%) Military
5 4 (3.05%) Telecoms
6 3 (2.29%) Aviation
7 2 (1.53%) Wearables
8 1 (0.76%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (2.29%) 802.1X
2 2 (1.53%) CSS
2 2 (1.53%) HTML
3 1 (0.76%) JSON
3 1 (0.76%) REST
3 1 (0.76%) Web Services
3 1 (0.76%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 18 (13.74%) ARM Cortex
2 9 (6.87%) Device Driver
2 9 (6.87%) IoT
3 7 (5.34%) Algorithms
3 7 (5.34%) Embedded Systems
4 5 (3.82%) CAN bus
4 5 (3.82%) PCIe
4 5 (3.82%) Verilog
4 5 (3.82%) VHDL
5 1 (0.76%) FPGA
5 1 (0.76%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (0.76%) Smartcard
Operating Systems
1 35 (26.72%) Linux
2 22 (16.79%) FreeRTOS
3 10 (7.63%) Embedded Linux
4 5 (3.82%) VxWorks
5 4 (3.05%) SafeRTOS
5 4 (3.05%) Windows
6 1 (0.76%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 127 (96.95%) Software Engineering
2 38 (29.01%) Validation
3 23 (17.56%) Configuration Management
4 19 (14.50%) Problem-Solving
5 16 (12.21%) Verification and Validation
6 15 (11.45%) Test Automation
7 14 (10.69%) UML
8 12 (9.16%) Embedded Software Development
9 11 (8.40%) Test Scripting
10 9 (6.87%) Agile
10 9 (6.87%) Defect Tracking
11 8 (6.11%) Code Quality
11 8 (6.11%) Computer Science
11 8 (6.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 8 (6.11%) SDLC
11 8 (6.11%) Systems Engineering
12 6 (4.58%) Continuous Integration
12 6 (4.58%) Memory Management
12 6 (4.58%) Scrum
13 5 (3.82%) Code Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 89 (67.94%) C
2 58 (44.27%) Embedded C
3 43 (32.82%) C++
4 17 (12.98%) Embedded C++
5 14 (10.69%) Ada
6 11 (8.40%) Python
7 10 (7.63%) MATLAB
8 4 (3.05%) Assembly Language
8 4 (3.05%) Perl
8 4 (3.05%) Shell Script
9 3 (2.29%) Java
9 3 (2.29%) JavaScript
9 3 (2.29%) Tcl
10 2 (1.53%) C#
10 2 (1.53%) SQL
10 2 (1.53%) VB
11 1 (0.76%) Bash
11 1 (0.76%) Fortran
11 1 (0.76%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 17 (12.98%) Degree
1 17 (12.98%) Security Cleared
2 16 (12.21%) SC Cleared
3 10 (7.63%) Master's Degree
4 4 (3.05%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (3.05%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (5.34%) AUTOSAR
2 6 (4.58%) JTAG
3 5 (3.82%) MISRA
3 5 (3.82%) MISRA C
4 1 (0.76%) ISO 26262
System Software
1 22 (16.79%) Firmware
2 5 (3.82%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 6 (4.58%) Functional Safety
Vendors
1 26 (19.85%) IBM
2 18 (13.74%) Lauterbach
3 7 (5.34%) Atlassian
4 5 (3.82%) Intel
5 3 (2.29%) Google
5 3 (2.29%) MathWorks
6 1 (0.76%) Twitter