VxWorks Contracts in the UK excluding London

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UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for VxWorks skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited VxWorks over the 6 months to 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 386 458 501
Rank change year-on-year +72 +43 -72
Contract jobs citing VxWorks 5 3 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.024% 0.012% 0.026%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.15% 0.064% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £525 -
UK median daily rate - £525 -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 2 8
10th Percentile - £52.75 £42.23
25th Percentile £60.25 £55.00 £45.86
Median hourly rate £60.50 £60.00 £51.25
Median % change year-on-year +0.83% +17.07% -
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £55.00
90th Percentile £70.80 £67.25 £56.50
UK median hourly rate £60.50 £60.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year +0.83% +9.09% -

All Operating Systems
UK excluding London

VxWorks is in the Operating Systems category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 3,269 4,677 5,928
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.73% 19.34% 19.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,174 3,270 3,875
10th Percentile £170 £163 £149
25th Percentile £250 £250 £200
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £425
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +11.76% +9.68%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £538
90th Percentile £675 £676 £638
UK median daily rate £465 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -9.27% +2.50% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 316 344 470
10th Percentile £12.25 £13.29 £12.59
25th Percentile £14.16 £17.49 £15.00
Median hourly rate £21.00 £29.65 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -29.17% +48.25% +21.21%
75th Percentile £60.00 £61.56 £48.75
90th Percentile £70.00 £73.75 £63.80
UK median hourly rate £22.00 £38.00 £22.39
% change year-on-year -42.11% +69.72% +26.00%

VxWorks
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing VxWorks as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for VxWorks in the UK excluding London

VxWorks
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for VxWorks in the UK excluding London

VxWorks
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for VxWorks in the UK excluding London

VxWorks
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing VxWorks in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for VxWorks in the UK excluding London

VxWorks
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 VxWorks within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 25 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
Scotland +28 4 - - 1
South East +12 1 - - 3
VxWorks
UK

VxWorks
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 1 (20.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Simulink
Communications & Networking
1 4 (80.00%) Internet
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Bitbucket
1 1 (20.00%) Git
1 1 (20.00%) GitLab
1 1 (20.00%) JIRA
1 1 (20.00%) MagicDraw
1 1 (20.00%) Rational DOORS
1 1 (20.00%) Rational Rhapsody
General
1 4 (80.00%) Electronics
2 1 (20.00%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Embedded Engineer
1 4 (80.00%) Embedded Software Engineer
1 4 (80.00%) Software Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Developer
2 1 (20.00%) UI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) Node.js
1 1 (20.00%) React
Miscellaneous
1 4 (80.00%) Device Driver
1 4 (80.00%) IoT
1 4 (80.00%) PCIe
1 4 (80.00%) Verilog
1 4 (80.00%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 5 (100.00%) Linux
2 4 (80.00%) Embedded Linux
3 1 (20.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Agile
1 5 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 5 (100.00%) Requirements Management
1 5 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 4 (80.00%) CI/CD
2 4 (80.00%) Code Optimisation
2 4 (80.00%) Configuration Management
2 4 (80.00%) Continuous Deployment
2 4 (80.00%) Defect Tracking
2 4 (80.00%) Device Driver Development
2 4 (80.00%) Memory Management
3 1 (20.00%) DevOps
3 1 (20.00%) Full Stack Development
3 1 (20.00%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
3 1 (20.00%) OO
3 1 (20.00%) OOD
3 1 (20.00%) Test Automation
3 1 (20.00%) UML
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) C
2 4 (80.00%) Embedded C
3 1 (20.00%) Assembly Language
3 1 (20.00%) C++
3 1 (20.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (20.00%) MATLAB
3 1 (20.00%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (100.00%) MISRA
1 5 (100.00%) MISRA C
2 1 (20.00%) IEC 61508
System Software
1 4 (80.00%) Firmware
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) Atlassian
1 4 (80.00%) Intel