Electronics Contract Job Trends

Electronics
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Electronics in contract job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Electronics over the 6 months leading up to 15 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 458 340 196
Rank change year-on-year -118 -144 +73
Contract jobs citing Electronics 225 226 479
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.41% 0.70% 1.26%
As % of the General category 0.74% 1.09% 2.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 113 198
10th Percentile £254 £127 £220
25th Percentile £335 £263 £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% - -
75th Percentile £525 £588 £688
90th Percentile £548 £700 £779
UK excluding London median daily rate £375 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -28.57% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 138 41 94
10th Percentile £13.18 £15.50 £37.75
25th Percentile £19.63 £26.85 £51.56
Median hourly rate £34.00 £54.00 £57.35
Median % change year-on-year -37.04% -5.84% -11.77%
75th Percentile £53.75 £65.25 £63.75
90th Percentile £73.25 £86.25 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £32.00 £54.00 £57.35
% change year-on-year -40.74% -5.84% -11.77%

All General Skills
UK

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 general skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for general skills 30,249 20,664 22,066
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 55.59% 63.67% 57.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,774 12,794 13,287
10th Percentile £313 £275 £288
25th Percentile £419 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,472 1,190 1,117
10th Percentile £13.50 £13.50 £14.72
25th Percentile £16.38 £16.17 £17.25
Median hourly rate £30.00 £25.15 £37.28
Median % change year-on-year +19.28% -32.54% +35.56%
75th Percentile £54.06 £48.74 £60.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £67.25 £70.39
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.00 £21.39 £37.28
% change year-on-year +40.25% -42.62% +43.38%

Electronics
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Electronics relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Electronics job vacancy trend in the UK

Electronics
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Electronics.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Electronics

Electronics
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Electronics over the 6 months to 15 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Electronics in the UK

Electronics
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Electronics.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Electronics

Electronics
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Electronics over the 6 months to 15 September 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Electronics in the UK

Electronics
Top 17 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Electronics within the UK over the 6 months to 15 September 2026. 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
England -107 215 £400 -23.81% 1,829
UK excluding London -69 202 £375 -28.57% 1,692
East of England +6 70 £500 +277.36% 439
South East -28 66 £367 +3.24% 462
South West -75 23 - - 191
London -117 21 £500 -2.44% 290
Midlands -32 18 £343 +24.55% 195
North of England -72 17 - - 194
Work from Home -101 16 £513 -2.38% 555
North West -50 11 - - 99
West Midlands -47 10 £360 +30.91% 123
East Midlands - 8 £333 - 72
Scotland -28 6 £538 +220.90% 187
Yorkshire -32 3 - - 44
North East - 3 - - 52
Northern Ireland +2 2 - - 34
Wales -13 1 - - 45

Electronics
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Applications
1 6 (2.67%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (2.22%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (1.78%) Acrobat
3 4 (1.78%) OrCAD
3 4 (1.78%) Photoshop
3 4 (1.78%) Spreadsheet
4 3 (1.33%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (1.33%) Simulink
4 3 (1.33%) Windchill
5 2 (0.89%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.44%) AutoCAD
6 1 (0.44%) Pro/ENGINEER
6 1 (0.44%) PTC Creo
Business Applications
1 4 (1.78%) Adobe Campaign
2 1 (0.44%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 3 (1.33%) Azure
1 3 (1.33%) Azure DevOps
1 3 (1.33%) GCP
2 2 (0.89%) GitHub
2 2 (0.89%) GitHub Copilot
2 2 (0.89%) Power Platform
3 1 (0.44%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.67%) Ethernet
2 3 (1.33%) RS-232
2 3 (1.33%) RS-485
2 3 (1.33%) Structured Cabling
3 2 (0.89%) Firewall
4 1 (0.44%) Cisco IOS
4 1 (0.44%) Network Security
4 1 (0.44%) PBX
4 1 (0.44%) RS-422
4 1 (0.44%) Software-Defined Radio
4 1 (0.44%) VLAN
4 1 (0.44%) VoIP
4 1 (0.44%) WebEx
4 1 (0.44%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (1.78%) Relational Database
2 2 (0.89%) Power BI
2 2 (0.89%) Tableau
3 1 (0.44%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (0.44%) Looker
3 1 (0.44%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 10 (4.44%) LabVIEW
2 7 (3.11%) JIRA
3 6 (2.67%) Rational DOORS
4 3 (1.33%) Team Foundation Server
5 2 (0.89%) Git
General
1 62 (27.56%) Manufacturing
2 42 (18.67%) Social Skills
3 35 (15.56%) Aerospace
4 8 (3.56%) Marketing
4 8 (3.56%) Organisational Skills
4 8 (3.56%) Retail
5 6 (2.67%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (2.67%) Law
6 5 (2.22%) Military
7 4 (1.78%) Finance
7 4 (1.78%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (1.33%) Advertising
8 3 (1.33%) Automotive
8 3 (1.33%) Aviation
8 3 (1.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (1.33%) Telecoms
9 2 (0.89%) Avionics
9 2 (0.89%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.44%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.44%) Mandarin Language
Job Titles
1 40 (17.78%) Test Engineer
2 37 (16.44%) Test Technician
3 23 (10.22%) Electronics Engineer
4 18 (8.00%) Senior
5 16 (7.11%) Electronics Test Engineer
6 12 (5.33%) Software Engineer
7 11 (4.89%) Lead
8 10 (4.44%) Project Manager
8 10 (4.44%) Systems Engineer
9 9 (4.00%) Electronics Technician
10 8 (3.56%) Design Engineer
10 8 (3.56%) Senior Systems Engineer
11 7 (3.11%) C++ Software Engineer
12 5 (2.22%) Electrical Engineer
12 5 (2.22%) RF Engineer
13 4 (1.78%) Development Engineer
13 4 (1.78%) Marketing Manager
13 4 (1.78%) Principal Engineer
13 4 (1.78%) Product Marketing Manager
13 4 (1.78%) RF Design Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (0.89%) Unity (Game Engine)
2 1 (0.44%) Flash
2 1 (0.44%) JSON
2 1 (0.44%) PyQt
2 1 (0.44%) Streamlit
2 1 (0.44%) YAML
2 1 (0.44%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 13 (5.78%) Analogue Electronics
1 13 (5.78%) FPGA
2 8 (3.56%) Embedded Systems
3 6 (2.67%) Self-Motivation
4 5 (2.22%) Video Conferencing
5 4 (1.78%) Algorithms
5 4 (1.78%) IoT
5 4 (1.78%) Marketing Technology
5 4 (1.78%) PCIe
6 3 (1.33%) Augmented Reality
6 3 (1.33%) Smart Home
6 3 (1.33%) Virtual Reality
7 2 (0.89%) Operational Technology
7 2 (0.89%) Raspberry Pi
7 2 (0.89%) Robotics
7 2 (0.89%) Team-Oriented Environment
8 1 (0.44%) Acoustics
8 1 (0.44%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (0.44%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (0.44%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 6 (2.67%) Linux
2 2 (0.89%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (9.78%) Continuous Improvement
1 22 (9.78%) Problem-Solving
2 17 (7.56%) Software Engineering
3 15 (6.67%) Collaborative Working
4 14 (6.22%) Stakeholder Management
5 13 (5.78%) Agile
5 13 (5.78%) Schematic Capture
6 12 (5.33%) Computer Science
6 12 (5.33%) Systems Engineering
6 12 (5.33%) Validation
7 11 (4.89%) Test Automation
8 9 (4.00%) DevOps
8 9 (4.00%) Project Management
8 9 (4.00%) Software Testing
8 9 (4.00%) System Testing
9 8 (3.56%) Decision-Making
9 8 (3.56%) ERP
10 7 (3.11%) Project Delivery
10 7 (3.11%) Prototyping
10 7 (3.11%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 23 (10.22%) C++
2 17 (7.56%) C
3 15 (6.67%) Python
4 10 (4.44%) MATLAB
5 9 (4.00%) Assembly Language
6 5 (2.22%) SQL
7 4 (1.78%) Java
8 3 (1.33%) JavaScript
9 2 (0.89%) Ada
9 2 (0.89%) C#
10 1 (0.44%) Embedded C
10 1 (0.44%) Embedded C++
10 1 (0.44%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.44%) SystemVerilog
10 1 (0.44%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 30 (13.33%) Degree
2 26 (11.56%) Security Cleared
3 24 (10.67%) SC Cleared
4 7 (3.11%) HNC
5 6 (2.67%) HND
6 4 (1.78%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (1.78%) Master's Degree
7 3 (1.33%) PMI Certification
7 3 (1.33%) PMP
8 2 (0.89%) DBS Check
8 2 (0.89%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.44%) CCNA
9 1 (0.44%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.44%) CISM
9 1 (0.44%) CISSP
9 1 (0.44%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.44%) PhD
9 1 (0.44%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
9 1 (0.44%) Six Sigma Black Belt
9 1 (0.44%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (4.00%) QA
2 7 (3.11%) ISO 9001
3 5 (2.22%) DO-254
4 4 (1.78%) Def Stans
5 3 (1.33%) IEC 61508
5 3 (1.33%) ISO 14001
6 2 (0.89%) PMO
7 1 (0.44%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.44%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.44%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.44%) DO-160
7 1 (0.44%) ISA99
7 1 (0.44%) ISO/IEC 12207
7 1 (0.44%) ISO/IEC 15288
7 1 (0.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.44%) NIST
7 1 (0.44%) SLA
System Software
1 15 (6.67%) Firmware
2 6 (2.67%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 3 (1.33%) Functional Safety
1 3 (1.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 11 (4.89%) Microsoft
2 10 (4.44%) EMC
3 5 (2.22%) Xilinx
4 4 (1.78%) Adobe
4 4 (1.78%) Altera
4 4 (1.78%) Apple
4 4 (1.78%) Intel
5 2 (0.89%) Cadence
5 2 (0.89%) Cisco
6 1 (0.44%) Actel
6 1 (0.44%) Avaya
6 1 (0.44%) CA Agile Central
6 1 (0.44%) Google
6 1 (0.44%) Logitech
6 1 (0.44%) Microsemi
6 1 (0.44%) NVIDIA
6 1 (0.44%) SAP
6 1 (0.44%) Siemens
6 1 (0.44%) SolarWinds
6 1 (0.44%) Splunk