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 25 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 308 203 225
Rank change year-on-year -105 +22 +98
Contract jobs citing Electronics 308 438 473
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.83% 1.29% 1.09%
As % of the General category 1.36% 2.11% 1.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 142 234 285
10th Percentile £146 £235 £205
25th Percentile £155 £338 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £525 £570
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% -7.89% +8.57%
75th Percentile £575 £638 £638
90th Percentile £688 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £350 £545 £570
% change year-on-year -35.78% -4.39% +14.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 106 31 82
10th Percentile £19.61 £22.50 £35.13
25th Percentile £22.76 £31.00 £51.75
Median hourly rate £40.56 £60.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -32.41% -7.69% +23.81%
75th Percentile £70.00 £65.00 -
90th Percentile £76.25 £75.00 £69.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £54.00 £60.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -10.00% -7.69% +44.44%

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 common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 22,568 20,730 25,794
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 60.81% 61.16% 59.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,110 12,377 17,024
10th Percentile £280 £288 £275
25th Percentile £400 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £545
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -3.67% -0.91%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £763 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £488 £500
% change year-on-year -2.56% -2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,443 712 1,089
10th Percentile £13.80 £15.48 £14.25
25th Percentile £16.50 £18.50 £16.71
Median hourly rate £23.58 £27.37 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.86% -17.07% +32.00%
75th Percentile £45.46 £55.00 £59.92
90th Percentile £70.00 £73.33 £70.53
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.00 £26.06 £30.83
% change year-on-year -15.58% -15.46% +40.11%

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 25 December 2025.

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 25 December 2025.

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 25 December 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
England -106 284 £475 -9.52% 528
UK excluding London -72 226 £350 -35.78% 517
London -36 72 £475 +36.10% 70
Work from Home -32 71 £525 -12.50% 175
East of England +9 60 £115 -75.79% 115
South West -44 57 £550 -0.90% 71
South East -79 44 £353 -43.60% 167
Midlands -42 23 £158 -64.92% 61
North of England -55 23 £175 -53.33% 75
East Midlands -7 16 £158 -10.00% 31
North West -29 14 £175 -55.97% 27
Wales +4 9 £160 - 10
Scotland -2 7 £68 -84.57% 49
West Midlands -47 7 £425 -8.11% 29
North East -13 6 £175 -51.72% 15
Northern Ireland -5 3 £115 - 3
Yorkshire -38 3 £565 +2.73% 33

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:

Application Platforms
1 10 (3.25%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (1.30%) Confluence
3 2 (0.65%) Apache
3 2 (0.65%) Apache Spark
3 2 (0.65%) SharePoint
Applications
1 42 (13.64%) Microsoft Office
2 18 (5.84%) Microsoft Excel
3 10 (3.25%) Simulink
4 7 (2.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.65%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.32%) CANalyzer
6 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.32%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (1.30%) SAP APO
Cloud Services
1 42 (13.64%) Microsoft 365
2 26 (8.44%) Azure
3 21 (6.82%) AWS
4 17 (5.52%) GCP
5 4 (1.30%) Entra ID
5 4 (1.30%) Power Platform
6 3 (0.97%) GitHub
6 3 (0.97%) GitHub Actions
6 3 (0.97%) Google Tag Manager
6 3 (0.97%) Slack
7 2 (0.65%) Adobe Analytics
7 2 (0.65%) Amazon Bedrock
7 2 (0.65%) Asana
7 2 (0.65%) Azure AI
7 2 (0.65%) Contentsquare
7 2 (0.65%) Miro
7 2 (0.65%) OneDrive
7 2 (0.65%) SaaS
7 2 (0.65%) Smartsheet
7 2 (0.65%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 23 (7.47%) Wireless
2 10 (3.25%) Ethernet
3 9 (2.92%) Cisco IOS
4 8 (2.60%) Skype
5 6 (1.95%) Cisco IPT
6 5 (1.62%) LAN
6 5 (1.62%) VPN
7 4 (1.30%) Unified Communications
8 3 (0.97%) BGP
8 3 (0.97%) Firewall
8 3 (0.97%) Junos
8 3 (0.97%) Network Security
8 3 (0.97%) OSPF
9 2 (0.65%) DHCP
9 2 (0.65%) DNS
9 2 (0.65%) VLAN
9 2 (0.65%) WAN
10 1 (0.32%) Ethernet VPN
10 1 (0.32%) NGN
10 1 (0.32%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (1.30%) Electronic Patient Records
2 3 (0.97%) MySQL
2 3 (0.97%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (0.65%) Power BI
3 2 (0.65%) Tableau
4 1 (0.32%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 17 (5.52%) Rational DOORS
2 10 (3.25%) JIRA
3 7 (2.27%) Git
4 6 (1.95%) PVCS
5 4 (1.30%) Jenkins
6 3 (0.97%) Browser DevTools
6 3 (0.97%) Charles Proxy
6 3 (0.97%) Fiddler
6 3 (0.97%) JUnit
6 3 (0.97%) Storybook
7 2 (0.65%) Clang
7 2 (0.65%) GCC
8 1 (0.32%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.32%) CANoe
8 1 (0.32%) GitLab
8 1 (0.32%) GoCD
8 1 (0.32%) LabVIEW
8 1 (0.32%) Postman
8 1 (0.32%) Rational Rhapsody
8 1 (0.32%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 215 (69.81%) Manufacturing
2 208 (67.53%) Marketing
3 203 (65.91%) Finance
3 203 (65.91%) Telecoms
4 202 (65.58%) Public Sector
5 105 (34.09%) Social Skills
6 39 (12.66%) Analytical Skills
7 15 (4.87%) Organisational Skills
8 13 (4.22%) Aerospace
9 11 (3.57%) Legal
10 10 (3.25%) Documentation Skills
11 8 (2.60%) Law
12 6 (1.95%) Games
13 5 (1.62%) Military
14 3 (0.97%) Digital Health
14 3 (0.97%) Health Technology
15 2 (0.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 2 (0.65%) Italian Language
15 2 (0.65%) Mandarin Language
15 2 (0.65%) Retail
Job Titles
1 46 (14.94%) IT Support
2 41 (13.31%) Desktop Support
3 29 (9.42%) Software Engineer
4 28 (9.09%) 2nd Line Desktop Support
4 28 (9.09%) 2nd Line Support
4 28 (9.09%) SC Cleared Desktop Support
5 26 (8.44%) Consultant
6 24 (7.79%) Embedded Engineer
6 24 (7.79%) Embedded Software Engineer
7 21 (6.82%) Lead
8 20 (6.49%) IT Engineer
8 20 (6.49%) Migration Engineer
9 18 (5.84%) Analyst
9 18 (5.84%) Architect
9 18 (5.84%) Support Technician
10 16 (5.19%) Windows Engineer
11 15 (4.87%) Support Engineer
12 12 (3.90%) Migration Technician
13 11 (3.57%) Installation Technician
14 10 (3.25%) Firmware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (3.25%) Flash
2 8 (2.60%) SailPoint
3 4 (1.30%) React
3 4 (1.30%) REST
4 3 (0.97%) CSS
4 3 (0.97%) HTML
4 3 (0.97%) RESTful
4 3 (0.97%) Spring
4 3 (0.97%) Spring Boot
4 3 (0.97%) Vitest
5 2 (0.65%) .NET
5 2 (0.65%) iOS SDK
5 2 (0.65%) LDAP
5 2 (0.65%) NumPy
5 2 (0.65%) Pandas
5 2 (0.65%) PySpark
5 2 (0.65%) XML
6 1 (0.32%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (0.32%) Node.js
6 1 (0.32%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 30 (9.74%) FPGA
2 25 (8.12%) Data Centre
3 22 (7.14%) VHDL
4 13 (4.22%) Embedded Systems
5 12 (3.90%) NHS
6 11 (3.57%) Onboarding
7 10 (3.25%) Mobile App
7 10 (3.25%) PCIe
8 9 (2.92%) Verilog
9 7 (2.27%) Algorithms
9 7 (2.27%) Analogue Electronics
9 7 (2.27%) Analytical Mindset
9 7 (2.27%) CMDB
10 6 (1.95%) Marketing Technology
10 6 (1.95%) Product Ownership
11 5 (1.62%) Cyber Defence
12 4 (1.30%) AI Agents
12 4 (1.30%) Cyber Threat
12 4 (1.30%) Legacy Systems
13 3 (0.97%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 37 (12.01%) Android
2 32 (10.39%) Mac OS
3 24 (7.79%) Windows
4 17 (5.52%) Windows 10
5 5 (1.62%) Linux
6 3 (0.97%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.97%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.32%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.32%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 206 (66.88%) Digital Marketing
2 204 (66.23%) Business Intelligence
3 201 (65.26%) Programme Management
4 53 (17.21%) Migration
5 51 (16.56%) Workflow
6 39 (12.66%) Logistics
7 34 (11.04%) Software Engineering
8 33 (10.71%) Workflow Management
9 31 (10.06%) Service Delivery
10 30 (9.74%) AI
11 29 (9.42%) Validation
12 28 (9.09%) Agile
12 28 (9.09%) Problem-Solving
13 25 (8.12%) Continuous Improvement
14 24 (7.79%) Stakeholder Management
15 23 (7.47%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 22 (7.14%) ITIL
17 21 (6.82%) Computer Science
18 19 (6.17%) CI/CD
19 18 (5.84%) Systems Engineering
Programming Languages
1 31 (10.06%) C
2 25 (8.12%) Python
3 23 (7.47%) C++
4 12 (3.90%) PowerShell
5 11 (3.57%) MATLAB
6 10 (3.25%) Java
6 10 (3.25%) SystemVerilog
7 7 (2.27%) Ada
7 7 (2.27%) JavaScript
8 6 (1.95%) Embedded C
8 6 (1.95%) Embedded C++
8 6 (1.95%) SQL
8 6 (1.95%) Tcl
9 4 (1.30%) TypeScript
10 3 (0.97%) BeanShell
11 2 (0.65%) Bash
11 2 (0.65%) C#
11 2 (0.65%) Go
12 1 (0.32%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 156 (50.65%) Security Cleared
2 144 (46.75%) SC Cleared
3 35 (11.36%) Degree
4 20 (6.49%) DV Cleared
5 9 (2.92%) CISSP
5 9 (2.92%) ITIL Certification
6 6 (1.95%) CESG Certified Professional
6 6 (1.95%) HNC
6 6 (1.95%) HND
7 5 (1.62%) CISM
8 4 (1.30%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (1.30%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
9 3 (0.97%) Azure Certification
9 3 (0.97%) JNCIA
9 3 (0.97%) JNCIP
9 3 (0.97%) JNCIS
10 2 (0.65%) CLAS
10 2 (0.65%) Six Sigma Black Belt
10 2 (0.65%) Six Sigma Master Black Belt
10 2 (0.65%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (4.87%) GDPR
2 13 (4.22%) Def Stans
3 11 (3.57%) QA
4 10 (3.25%) DO-254
5 9 (2.92%) DO-178B
5 9 (2.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 9 (2.92%) MISRA
5 9 (2.92%) PERC
6 7 (2.27%) NCSC
7 6 (1.95%) RMADS
8 5 (1.62%) JSP 440
8 5 (1.62%) PMO
9 4 (1.30%) Accessibility
10 3 (0.97%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 3 (0.97%) Data Quality
10 3 (0.97%) ECSS
10 3 (0.97%) ISO 26262
10 3 (0.97%) ISO 9001
10 3 (0.97%) NIST
11 2 (0.65%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 27 (8.77%) Firmware
2 22 (7.14%) Active Directory
3 7 (2.27%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (1.95%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.97%) Docker
6 2 (0.65%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.32%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (0.97%) vRealize
2 2 (0.65%) SCCM
2 2 (0.65%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (0.32%) Ansible
3 1 (0.32%) Failover Clustering
3 1 (0.32%) FreeIPA
3 1 (0.32%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (0.32%) SCOM
3 1 (0.32%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 207 (67.21%) SAP
2 43 (13.96%) Cisco
3 38 (12.34%) Microsoft
4 25 (8.12%) Apple
5 23 (7.47%) Dell
5 23 (7.47%) HP
6 15 (4.87%) Xilinx
7 10 (3.25%) Adobe
7 10 (3.25%) Altera
7 10 (3.25%) VMware
8 9 (2.92%) Microsemi
9 8 (2.60%) IBM
9 8 (2.60%) Salesforce
9 8 (2.60%) Tealium
10 7 (2.27%) Actel
10 7 (2.27%) Intel
11 6 (1.95%) ANSYS
11 6 (1.95%) Google
11 6 (1.95%) Remedy
11 6 (1.95%) ServiceNow