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 17 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 336 196 265
Rank change year-on-year -140 +69 +137
Contract jobs citing Electronics 228 488 471
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.69% 1.28% 0.95%
As % of the General category 1.09% 2.20% 1.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 112 199 302
10th Percentile £125 £220 £205
25th Percentile £252 £390 £366
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
75th Percentile £588 £688 £647
90th Percentile £688 £778 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £526 £525
% change year-on-year -0.10% +0.10% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 91 65
10th Percentile £15.88 £36.25 £34.85
25th Percentile £27.63 £51.25 £51.75
Median hourly rate £54.00 £57.35 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.84% -11.77% +44.44%
75th Percentile £72.00 £63.75 -
90th Percentile £85.00 £65.00 £84.36
UK excluding London median hourly rate £54.00 £57.35 £65.00
% change year-on-year -5.84% -11.77% +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 20,950 22,147 29,362
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 63.60% 57.91% 59.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,987 13,281 19,876
10th Percentile £275 £283 £306
25th Percentile £400 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £650 £671
90th Percentile £738 £775 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,199 1,107 1,067
10th Percentile £13.50 £14.70 £13.91
25th Percentile £16.17 £17.08 £16.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £36.00 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -30.14% +30.91% +12.24%
75th Percentile £48.75 £60.00 £57.50
90th Percentile £67.50 £70.39 £70.56
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.39 £35.36 £26.25
% change year-on-year -39.51% +34.70% +25.00%

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
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 17 September 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 17 September 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Electronics in the UK

Electronics
Top 15 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 17 September 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 -126 201 £525 - 806
UK excluding London -112 157 £525 -0.10% 795
Work from Home -36 55 £525 -8.70% 225
London -15 54 £513 +2.50% 92
South West -16 49 £563 -2.17% 100
East of England -16 32 £133 -69.71% 166
South East -67 29 £350 -39.13% 240
North of England -3 19 £530 +105.83% 125
Scotland -6 16 £168 -61.71% 40
North West -9 16 £530 +105.83% 72
West Midlands -35 6 £275 -45.00% 69
Midlands -45 6 £275 -45.00% 118
Northern Ireland -5 4 £115 -37.84% 7
Yorkshire - 3 £565 - 44
Wales -1 2 £141 -74.32% 23

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 7 (3.07%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (2.63%) Confluence
3 2 (0.88%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.44%) SAS
Applications
1 11 (4.82%) Microsoft Office
1 11 (4.82%) Simulink
2 10 (4.39%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (1.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.88%) CANalyzer
4 2 (0.88%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (0.88%) Stateflow
4 2 (0.88%) Windchill
5 1 (0.44%) InVision
5 1 (0.44%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 4 (1.75%) SAP APO
1 4 (1.75%) Teamcenter
2 1 (0.44%) LabWindows
2 1 (0.44%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 21 (9.21%) Azure
2 14 (6.14%) Microsoft 365
3 11 (4.82%) AWS
4 6 (2.63%) Azure DevOps
5 5 (2.19%) GCP
5 5 (2.19%) Power Platform
6 4 (1.75%) Entra ID
7 3 (1.32%) Slack
8 2 (0.88%) Adobe Analytics
8 2 (0.88%) Contentsquare
8 2 (0.88%) Google Workspace
9 1 (0.44%) Azure Event Grid
9 1 (0.44%) Azure Logic Apps
9 1 (0.44%) Azure Service Bus
9 1 (0.44%) Cloud Computing
9 1 (0.44%) Figma
9 1 (0.44%) iPaaS
9 1 (0.44%) OneDrive
9 1 (0.44%) Power Automate
9 1 (0.44%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 9 (3.95%) Ethernet
2 5 (2.19%) PSTN
2 5 (2.19%) VoIP
3 4 (1.75%) DNS
3 4 (1.75%) LAN
3 4 (1.75%) WAN
4 3 (1.32%) DHCP
4 3 (1.32%) Firewall
4 3 (1.32%) TCP/IP
5 2 (0.88%) SDH
5 2 (0.88%) VPN
6 1 (0.44%) 4G
6 1 (0.44%) ADSL
6 1 (0.44%) Cisco IOS
6 1 (0.44%) MPLS
6 1 (0.44%) VLAN
6 1 (0.44%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (8.77%) PostgreSQL
2 19 (8.33%) Relational Database
3 4 (1.75%) Power BI
4 3 (1.32%) Oracle Database
4 3 (1.32%) Tableau
5 2 (0.88%) Electronic Patient Records
5 2 (0.88%) Oracle Database 12c
6 1 (0.44%) Metadata
6 1 (0.44%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 21 (9.21%) Jenkins
2 19 (8.33%) Gradle
2 19 (8.33%) JUnit
2 19 (8.33%) Liquibase
2 19 (8.33%) Mockito
3 11 (4.82%) GitLab
4 6 (2.63%) JIRA
5 5 (2.19%) Rational DOORS
6 4 (1.75%) Clang
6 4 (1.75%) GCC
6 4 (1.75%) Git
6 4 (1.75%) LabVIEW
7 3 (1.32%) CANoe
8 2 (0.88%) Mercurial
8 2 (0.88%) Subversion
9 1 (0.44%) Artifactory
9 1 (0.44%) Axure RP
9 1 (0.44%) GoCD
9 1 (0.44%) Rational Rhapsody
9 1 (0.44%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 170 (74.56%) Manufacturing
2 163 (71.49%) Telecoms
3 161 (70.61%) Finance
4 159 (69.74%) Public Sector
5 158 (69.30%) Marketing
6 81 (35.53%) Social Skills
7 22 (9.65%) Analytical Skills
8 10 (4.39%) Aerospace
9 8 (3.51%) Games
10 6 (2.63%) Documentation Skills
10 6 (2.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 4 (1.75%) Automotive
11 4 (1.75%) Brand Awareness
11 4 (1.75%) Organisational Skills
11 4 (1.75%) Presentation Skills
12 3 (1.32%) Law
13 2 (0.88%) Influencing Skills
13 2 (0.88%) Retail
14 1 (0.44%) Health Technology
14 1 (0.44%) Police
Job Titles
1 19 (8.33%) Developer
2 16 (7.02%) Consultant
2 16 (7.02%) Desktop Support
2 16 (7.02%) Lead
3 13 (5.70%) Architect
3 13 (5.70%) IT Support
3 13 (5.70%) Senior
4 12 (5.26%) Software Engineer
5 11 (4.82%) 2nd Line Desktop Support
5 11 (4.82%) 2nd Line Support
5 11 (4.82%) Installation Technician
5 11 (4.82%) Security Consultant
6 10 (4.39%) Java Engineer
6 10 (4.39%) Java Software Engineer
6 10 (4.39%) RF Engineer
6 10 (4.39%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
7 9 (3.95%) Electronics Engineer
7 9 (3.95%) Java Developer
7 9 (3.95%) SC Cleared Java Developer
7 9 (3.95%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (9.21%) React
2 19 (8.33%) Kafka
2 19 (8.33%) OpenAPI
2 19 (8.33%) Spring
2 19 (8.33%) Spring Boot
2 19 (8.33%) Swagger
3 8 (3.51%) .NET
4 6 (2.63%) SailPoint
5 5 (2.19%) .NET Core
5 5 (2.19%) Flash
6 4 (1.75%) REST
7 2 (0.88%) CSS
7 2 (0.88%) Elastic Stack
7 2 (0.88%) HTML
7 2 (0.88%) Node.js
7 2 (0.88%) XML
8 1 (0.44%) LDAP
8 1 (0.44%) ODBC
8 1 (0.44%) Web Services
8 1 (0.44%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 20 (8.77%) FPGA
2 10 (4.39%) Analogue Electronics
2 10 (4.39%) Verilog
3 9 (3.95%) Algorithms
4 8 (3.51%) PCIe
4 8 (3.51%) VHDL
5 6 (2.63%) Management Information System
6 5 (2.19%) CMDB
6 5 (2.19%) Embedded Systems
6 5 (2.19%) NHS
6 5 (2.19%) Onboarding
6 5 (2.19%) Product Ownership
7 4 (1.75%) Cyber Defence
7 4 (1.75%) Data Centre
8 3 (1.32%) Acoustics
8 3 (1.32%) Cyber Threat
8 3 (1.32%) Driving Licence
8 3 (1.32%) Fibre Optics
8 3 (1.32%) FMCG
8 3 (1.32%) Raspberry Pi
Operating Systems
1 23 (10.09%) Windows
2 16 (7.02%) Linux
3 6 (2.63%) Windows 10
4 3 (1.32%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.88%) Mac OS X
5 2 (0.88%) Unix
5 2 (0.88%) Windows 8
5 2 (0.88%) Windows XP
6 1 (0.44%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.44%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 164 (71.93%) Business Intelligence
2 158 (69.30%) Digital Marketing
2 158 (69.30%) Programme Management
3 48 (21.05%) Problem-Solving
4 47 (20.61%) Agile
5 35 (15.35%) Migration
6 34 (14.91%) CI/CD
7 31 (13.60%) DevOps
7 31 (13.60%) Software Engineering
8 25 (10.96%) TDD
9 24 (10.53%) Containerisation
10 21 (9.21%) Service Delivery
10 21 (9.21%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 20 (8.77%) Validation
12 19 (8.33%) Artificial Intelligence
12 19 (8.33%) Microservices
13 17 (7.46%) Project Delivery
13 17 (7.46%) Test Automation
14 16 (7.02%) Computer Science
14 16 (7.02%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 32 (14.04%) SQL
2 25 (10.96%) Java
3 21 (9.21%) Python
4 20 (8.77%) TypeScript
5 19 (8.33%) PowerShell
6 18 (7.89%) C++
7 15 (6.58%) C
8 13 (5.70%) MATLAB
9 10 (4.39%) SystemVerilog
10 9 (3.95%) C#
11 8 (3.51%) Tcl
12 5 (2.19%) Bash
13 3 (1.32%) JavaScript
13 3 (1.32%) PL/SQL
14 2 (0.88%) Go
14 2 (0.88%) PHP
15 1 (0.44%) BeanShell
15 1 (0.44%) Embedded C
15 1 (0.44%) Embedded C++
15 1 (0.44%) Natural
Qualifications
1 130 (57.02%) Security Cleared
2 114 (50.00%) SC Cleared
3 35 (15.35%) Degree
4 24 (10.53%) DV Cleared
5 15 (6.58%) HNC
6 13 (5.70%) HND
7 11 (4.82%) CISSP
8 10 (4.39%) CESG Certified Professional
9 6 (2.63%) Master's Degree
10 5 (2.19%) CISM
10 5 (2.19%) CLAS
10 5 (2.19%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
11 4 (1.75%) PhD
12 3 (1.32%) BPSS Clearance
12 3 (1.32%) Computer Science Degree
13 2 (0.88%) CCNA
13 2 (0.88%) CCNP
13 2 (0.88%) Cisco Certification
13 2 (0.88%) Six Sigma Black Belt
13 2 (0.88%) Six Sigma Master Black Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (4.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 10 (4.39%) RMADS
3 8 (3.51%) DO-254
3 8 (3.51%) JSP 440
3 8 (3.51%) NCSC
4 6 (2.63%) Accessibility
4 6 (2.63%) QA
5 5 (2.19%) NIST
6 4 (1.75%) Def Stans
7 3 (1.32%) ISO 26262
8 2 (0.88%) ARP4754
8 2 (0.88%) IEC 61508
8 2 (0.88%) SLA
9 1 (0.44%) Data Quality
9 1 (0.44%) DICOM
9 1 (0.44%) HL7
9 1 (0.44%) IEC 62304
9 1 (0.44%) ISO 9001
9 1 (0.44%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.44%) WCAG
System Software
1 27 (11.84%) Docker
2 15 (6.58%) Firmware
3 13 (5.70%) Active Directory
4 3 (1.32%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (1.32%) vSphere
5 2 (0.88%) Oracle RAC
5 2 (0.88%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (0.88%) XenApp
6 1 (0.44%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.44%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 8 (3.51%) Terraform
2 4 (1.75%) Ansible
3 3 (1.32%) Data Guard
3 3 (1.32%) Kubernetes
3 3 (1.32%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 3 (1.32%) Oracle RMAN
3 3 (1.32%) Puppet
4 2 (0.88%) McAfee ePO
4 2 (0.88%) Norton AntiVirus
4 2 (0.88%) vCenter Server
5 1 (0.44%) FreeIPA
5 1 (0.44%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.44%) SCCM
5 1 (0.44%) SCOM
5 1 (0.44%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.44%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
5 1 (0.44%) vRealize
Vendors
1 166 (72.81%) SAP
2 27 (11.84%) Microsoft
3 7 (3.07%) Actel
3 7 (3.07%) Altera
3 7 (3.07%) Cisco
3 7 (3.07%) Intel
3 7 (3.07%) Microsemi
3 7 (3.07%) VMware
3 7 (3.07%) Xilinx
4 6 (2.63%) Oracle
4 6 (2.63%) Remedy
5 5 (2.19%) Adobe
5 5 (2.19%) EMC
6 4 (1.75%) Apple
6 4 (1.75%) Citrix
6 4 (1.75%) Google
6 4 (1.75%) Salesforce
6 4 (1.75%) ServiceNow
7 3 (1.32%) Mentor Graphics
7 3 (1.32%) Nokia