Electronics Contracts

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 have cited Electronics over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 172 278 334
Rank change year-on-year +106 +56 -54
Contract jobs citing Electronics 616 572 725
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.42% 0.96% 0.82%
As % of the General category 2.44% 1.64% 1.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 269 347 558
10th Percentile £205 £205 £379
25th Percentile £363 £425 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% +2.38% -
75th Percentile £688 £638 £650
90th Percentile £788 £743 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £527 £525 £525
% change year-on-year +0.29% - -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 171 86 52
10th Percentile £37.50 £40.63 £32.58
25th Percentile £48.75 £42.50 £42.50
Median hourly rate £59.50 £57.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +3.48% +9.52% +21.39%
75th Percentile £65.00 £61.25 £56.00
90th Percentile £68.75 £65.29 £58.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £59.75 £57.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year +3.91% +9.52% +23.53%

All General Skills
UK

Electronics is in the General Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 25,217 34,983 49,764
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 58.24% 58.49% 56.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,921 24,245 34,457
10th Percentile £270 £313 £319
25th Percentile £413 £440 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £533
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.29% +7.58%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £763 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £496 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -0.90% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,927 1,077 1,444
10th Percentile £12.78 £13.46 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.48 £18.13 £14.75
Median hourly rate £29.00 £35.00 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -17.14% +62.79% -4.44%
75th Percentile £51.75 £61.25 £46.13
90th Percentile £65.00 £72.50 £58.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.51 £30.54 £18.50
% change year-on-year -9.93% +65.08% -7.50%

Electronics
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Electronics as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Electronics in the UK

Electronics
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Electronics in the UK

Electronics
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Electronics over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Electronics in the UK

Electronics
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Electronics in the UK

Electronics
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Electronics over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Electronics in the UK

Electronics
Top 16 Contract 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 27 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
England +102 570 £550 +2.09% 1,243
UK excluding London +82 417 £527 +0.29% 1,201
Work from Home +40 164 £488 -7.14% 404
South East +49 137 £205 - 400
London +75 133 £613 +11.36% 112
East of England +34 114 £375 -18.92% 260
South West -5 89 £600 - 186
North of England +47 27 £450 -8.21% 146
Midlands +30 26 £240 -60.00% 191
Scotland - 17 £575 - 61
West Midlands +29 14 £240 -61.60% 128
North West +18 14 £700 +39.86% 87
East Midlands +26 12 £355 -27.18% 63
North East - 7 - - 16
Northern Ireland - 7 - - 7
Yorkshire +25 6 £450 +160.87% 43

Electronics
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 23 (3.73%) SharePoint
2 10 (1.62%) Microsoft Exchange
3 8 (1.30%) Confluence
4 3 (0.49%) Skype for Business
5 2 (0.32%) CMS
5 2 (0.32%) OpenStack
5 2 (0.32%) SAS
6 1 (0.16%) Apache
6 1 (0.16%) ArcGIS
6 1 (0.16%) Exchange Server 2007
6 1 (0.16%) Exchange Server 2013
6 1 (0.16%) IIS
6 1 (0.16%) MTS
6 1 (0.16%) NServiceBus
6 1 (0.16%) Tomcat
Applications
1 14 (2.27%) Microsoft Office
2 11 (1.79%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (1.14%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.49%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.32%) Simulink
6 1 (0.16%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.16%) InfoPath
6 1 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.16%) Stateflow
Business Applications
1 10 (1.62%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 3 (0.49%) ENOVIA
2 3 (0.49%) SAP PLM
2 3 (0.49%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 56 (9.09%) Azure
2 33 (5.36%) Microsoft 365
3 26 (4.22%) AWS
4 19 (3.08%) Azure DevOps
5 18 (2.92%) PaaS
5 18 (2.92%) Power Platform
6 13 (2.11%) IaaS
7 12 (1.95%) Cloud Computing
8 6 (0.97%) Amazon EC2
8 6 (0.97%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 5 (0.81%) Entra ID
10 4 (0.65%) Azure Cognitive Services
10 4 (0.65%) ChatGPT
10 4 (0.65%) GCP
10 4 (0.65%) Microsoft Purview
10 4 (0.65%) OneDrive
10 4 (0.65%) SaaS
11 3 (0.49%) Azure Event Grid
11 3 (0.49%) Azure Monitor
11 3 (0.49%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 51 (8.28%) Ethernet
2 36 (5.84%) Modbus
2 36 (5.84%) RS-422
2 36 (5.84%) RS-485
3 17 (2.76%) Wireless
4 15 (2.44%) Firewall
5 13 (2.11%) VPN
6 10 (1.62%) HTTP
7 9 (1.46%) FTP
7 9 (1.46%) TCP/IP
8 8 (1.30%) DNS
8 8 (1.30%) Internet
8 8 (1.30%) LAN
8 8 (1.30%) WAN
9 7 (1.14%) 3G
9 7 (1.14%) 4G
10 5 (0.81%) J1939
11 4 (0.65%) Cisco ISE
11 4 (0.65%) Network Security
12 3 (0.49%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (5.03%) Metadata
2 20 (3.25%) Data Vault
2 20 (3.25%) NoSQL
3 18 (2.92%) SQL Server
4 14 (2.27%) Metadata Repository
5 11 (1.79%) Power BI
6 9 (1.46%) Electronic Patient Records
7 7 (1.14%) PostgreSQL
8 6 (0.97%) Amazon RDS
8 6 (0.97%) Data Lake
8 6 (0.97%) Ingres
8 6 (0.97%) Pentaho
8 6 (0.97%) Qlik Sense
8 6 (0.97%) QlikView
8 6 (0.97%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 4 (0.65%) GIS
9 4 (0.65%) Hadoop
10 3 (0.49%) SAP HANA
10 3 (0.49%) Spatial Data
10 3 (0.49%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 23 (3.73%) Rational DOORS
2 13 (2.11%) Rational Rhapsody
3 11 (1.79%) Jenkins
3 11 (1.79%) JIRA
4 10 (1.62%) ERwin
5 7 (1.14%) Git
6 5 (0.81%) NUnit
7 4 (0.65%) Cypress.io
7 4 (0.65%) LabVIEW
8 3 (0.49%) Postman
8 3 (0.49%) Visual Studio
9 2 (0.32%) JUnit
9 2 (0.32%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 1 (0.16%) GitLab
10 1 (0.16%) GoCD
10 1 (0.16%) MSI
10 1 (0.16%) Sonatype Nexus
10 1 (0.16%) SpecFlow
General
1 373 (60.55%) Manufacturing
2 339 (55.03%) Marketing
3 335 (54.38%) Telecoms
4 332 (53.90%) Finance
4 332 (53.90%) Public Sector
5 149 (24.19%) Social Skills
6 44 (7.14%) Aerospace
7 29 (4.71%) Automotive
8 28 (4.55%) Analytical Skills
9 16 (2.60%) Retail
10 13 (2.11%) Influencing Skills
11 9 (1.46%) Organisational Skills
11 9 (1.46%) Presentation Skills
12 7 (1.14%) Publishing
13 6 (0.97%) Pharmaceutical
14 5 (0.81%) German Language
14 5 (0.81%) Legal
15 4 (0.65%) Fire and Rescue
15 4 (0.65%) Military
15 4 (0.65%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 99 (16.07%) Architect
2 81 (13.15%) Software Engineer
3 42 (6.82%) Designer
3 42 (6.82%) Lead
4 41 (6.66%) Project Manager
5 40 (6.49%) Support Engineer
6 33 (5.36%) Digital Designer
6 33 (5.36%) FPGA Designer
6 33 (5.36%) VHDL Designer
7 32 (5.19%) Data Architect
8 31 (5.03%) Consultant
8 31 (5.03%) Test Architect
9 29 (4.71%) Embedded Engineer
10 28 (4.55%) Embedded Software Engineer
11 27 (4.38%) C++ Software Engineer
12 20 (3.25%) Desktop Engineer
12 20 (3.25%) Desktop Support
12 20 (3.25%) Desktop Support Engineer
12 20 (3.25%) Hardware Engineer
12 20 (3.25%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (2.27%) .NET
2 8 (1.30%) RESTful
3 7 (1.14%) AngularJS
4 6 (0.97%) CSS
4 6 (0.97%) LDAP
4 6 (0.97%) PyTorch
5 5 (0.81%) GraphQL
5 5 (0.81%) http4s
5 5 (0.81%) Lambda Expressions
6 4 (0.65%) DirectX
6 4 (0.65%) Hugging Face
6 4 (0.65%) JWT
6 4 (0.65%) LangChain
6 4 (0.65%) OpenGL
6 4 (0.65%) OpenGL ES
6 4 (0.65%) REST
6 4 (0.65%) TensorFlow
6 4 (0.65%) Vulkan
6 4 (0.65%) Web Services
6 4 (0.65%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 55 (8.93%) Analogue Electronics
2 48 (7.79%) NHS
3 40 (6.49%) FPGA
4 38 (6.17%) Self-Motivation
5 37 (6.01%) VHDL
6 33 (5.36%) CPLD
7 20 (3.25%) Management Information System
7 20 (3.25%) Reference Data
7 20 (3.25%) Robotics
8 15 (2.44%) Onboarding
9 11 (1.79%) Data Protection Act
10 10 (1.62%) Wiki
11 9 (1.46%) Data Centre
12 8 (1.30%) LIMS
13 7 (1.14%) Device Driver
14 6 (0.97%) Replication
15 5 (0.81%) CAN bus
15 5 (0.81%) Cyber Threat
15 5 (0.81%) Home Automation
15 5 (0.81%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 56 (9.09%) Windows
2 33 (5.36%) Linux
3 23 (3.73%) Windows 10
4 7 (1.14%) Android
5 6 (0.97%) Windows 7
5 6 (0.97%) Windows Server
6 5 (0.81%) Embedded Linux
6 5 (0.81%) Unix
7 4 (0.65%) VxWorks
8 1 (0.16%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.16%) Mac OS X
8 1 (0.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.16%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.16%) Windows Server 2008
8 1 (0.16%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.16%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 330 (53.57%) Programme Management
2 329 (53.41%) Business Intelligence
2 329 (53.41%) Digital Marketing
3 108 (17.53%) Software Engineering
4 102 (16.56%) Agile
5 85 (13.80%) Project Management
6 62 (10.06%) Continuous Improvement
6 62 (10.06%) Stakeholder Management
7 61 (9.90%) DevOps
8 52 (8.44%) Software Testing
9 49 (7.95%) Problem-Solving
10 47 (7.63%) Customer Requirements
11 43 (6.98%) TDD
12 40 (6.49%) Continuous Integration
12 40 (6.49%) Unit Testing
13 39 (6.33%) Schematic Capture
14 38 (6.17%) Computer Science
15 36 (5.84%) Pair Programming
16 34 (5.52%) Test Strategy
17 33 (5.36%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 73 (11.85%) C
2 52 (8.44%) C#
3 49 (7.95%) C++
4 30 (4.87%) SQL
5 29 (4.71%) Python
6 20 (3.25%) PowerShell
7 18 (2.92%) Embedded C
7 18 (2.92%) Java
8 11 (1.79%) JavaScript
9 10 (1.62%) Ada
10 9 (1.46%) MATLAB
11 8 (1.30%) Kusto Query Language
12 7 (1.14%) T-SQL
13 5 (0.81%) Kotlin
13 5 (0.81%) Scala
14 4 (0.65%) TypeScript
15 2 (0.32%) Bash
15 2 (0.32%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 2 (0.32%) GLSL
15 2 (0.32%) HLSL
Qualifications
1 175 (28.41%) Security Cleared
2 135 (21.92%) SC Cleared
3 98 (15.91%) Degree
4 45 (7.31%) DV Cleared
5 15 (2.44%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (1.14%) AWS Certification
6 7 (1.14%) CISSP
7 5 (0.81%) CESG Certified Professional
7 5 (0.81%) HND
7 5 (0.81%) ISTQB
7 5 (0.81%) Master's Degree
7 5 (0.81%) PMP
8 4 (0.65%) Chartered Engineer
8 4 (0.65%) CLAS
8 4 (0.65%) PMI Certification
8 4 (0.65%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
9 3 (0.49%) CCNP
9 3 (0.49%) Cisco Certification
9 3 (0.49%) MCSE
9 3 (0.49%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (2.60%) GDPR
2 15 (2.44%) QA
3 13 (2.11%) Data Quality
3 13 (2.11%) PMO
4 9 (1.46%) AUTOSAR
5 8 (1.30%) HL7
6 7 (1.14%) Def Stans
6 7 (1.14%) MISRA
6 7 (1.14%) SLA
7 6 (0.97%) NIST
8 5 (0.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 5 (0.81%) JSP 440
8 5 (0.81%) PCI DSS
8 5 (0.81%) RMADS
9 4 (0.65%) Accessibility
9 4 (0.65%) Automotive SPICE
9 4 (0.65%) MISRA C
10 3 (0.49%) DO-178B
11 2 (0.32%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 2 (0.32%) ISO 9000
System Software
1 22 (3.57%) Active Directory
2 13 (2.11%) Firmware
3 8 (1.30%) NFS
3 8 (1.30%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (0.81%) Docker
5 4 (0.65%) HDFS
6 3 (0.49%) Hyper-V
6 3 (0.49%) VMware Infrastructure
7 2 (0.32%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (0.32%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 18 (2.92%) Terraform
2 7 (1.14%) Microsoft Intune
3 5 (0.81%) Functional Safety
4 4 (0.65%) CA Service Virtualization
4 4 (0.65%) Puppet
4 4 (0.65%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (0.49%) Dell DRAC
5 3 (0.49%) Kubernetes
5 3 (0.49%) Progress Chef
6 2 (0.32%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 2 (0.32%) Ansible
6 2 (0.32%) Nessus
6 2 (0.32%) vCenter Server
7 1 (0.16%) AirWatch
7 1 (0.16%) AppManager
7 1 (0.16%) Grafana
7 1 (0.16%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.16%) SCCM
7 1 (0.16%) SCOM
7 1 (0.16%) systemd
Vendors
1 335 (54.38%) SAP
2 71 (11.53%) Microsoft
3 41 (6.66%) EMC
4 20 (3.25%) Sparx
5 13 (2.11%) IBM
6 11 (1.79%) Dell
7 9 (1.46%) Oracle
8 8 (1.30%) Google
8 8 (1.30%) ServiceNow
9 7 (1.14%) Cisco
9 7 (1.14%) Isilon
9 7 (1.14%) SolarWinds
10 6 (0.97%) Informatica
10 6 (0.97%) Mentor Graphics
11 5 (0.81%) VMware
11 5 (0.81%) Xilinx
12 4 (0.65%) CA
12 4 (0.65%) ESRI
12 4 (0.65%) Intel
12 4 (0.65%) Red Hat