Embedded Software Engineer Contracts

Embedded Software Engineer
UK

The median Embedded Software Engineer daily rate in the UK is £500 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 458 601 794
Rank change year-on-year +143 +193 -184
Contract jobs requiring an Embedded Software Engineer 128 92 55
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.30% 0.16% 0.063%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.32% 0.17% 0.066%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 29 14
10th Percentile £425 £419 £398
25th Percentile £463 £425 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £438
Median % change year-on-year - +14.29% +13.64%
75th Percentile £556 £560 £516
90th Percentile £575 £580 £538
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £450
% change year-on-year - +11.11% +16.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 117 37 26
10th Percentile £46.25 £51.25 £42.50
25th Percentile £51.06 £53.75 £48.13
Median hourly rate £62.50 £57.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% +4.55% +15.79%
75th Percentile £70.00 £77.00 £58.56
90th Percentile £80.00 £90.00 £58.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.50 £57.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year +8.70% +4.55% +15.79%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 39,991 54,978 83,963
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.74% 94.64% 95.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,011 38,395 59,001
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £410 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,675 1,545 2,052
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.28 £19.25 £15.63
Median hourly rate £36.65 £45.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -18.56% +88.21% +6.27%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.74 £76.40 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £19.52
% change year-on-year -5.88% +117.73% +2.74%

Embedded Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Embedded Software Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Embedded Software Engineer in the UK

Embedded Software Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Embedded Software Engineer.

Daily rate trend for Embedded Software Engineer in the UK

Embedded Software Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Embedded Software Engineer.

Hourly rate trend for Embedded Software Engineer in the UK

Embedded Software Engineer
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Embedded Software Engineer over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Embedded Software Engineer in the UK

Embedded Software Engineer
Top 14 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Embedded Software Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 8 May 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
UK excluding London +119 121 £500 - 188
England +123 115 £500 - 185
East of England +2 41 £550 +10.00% 33
Work from Home +124 39 £500 +14.71% 77
South East +39 37 £475 +4.29% 49
South West +39 26 £550 +10.00% 43
Scotland +43 8 - - 19
North East - 6 - - 5
North of England - 6 - - 19
Midlands +27 2 £492 -18.08% 28
London +87 1 - - 16
West Midlands +21 1 £492 -18.08% 14
Wales +19 1 - - 2
East Midlands - 1 - - 14

Embedded Software Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 8 May 2024, Embedded Software Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring Embedded Software Engineer in the job title.

1 127 (99.22%) Software Engineering
2 82 (64.06%) C
3 53 (41.41%) Embedded C
4 38 (29.69%) C++
5 36 (28.13%) Linux
6 33 (25.78%) Validation
7 29 (22.66%) Electronics
8 25 (19.53%) Aerospace
8 25 (19.53%) IBM
9 23 (17.97%) Automotive
10 22 (17.19%) Firmware
11 21 (16.41%) Configuration Management
11 21 (16.41%) FreeRTOS
12 17 (13.28%) ARM Cortex
12 17 (13.28%) Lauterbach
12 17 (13.28%) Degree
12 17 (13.28%) SC Cleared
12 17 (13.28%) Security Cleared
13 15 (11.72%) UML
14 14 (10.94%) Git
14 14 (10.94%) Software-Defined Radio
14 14 (10.94%) Verification and Validation
15 13 (10.16%) Problem-Solving
15 13 (10.16%) Embedded Software Development
15 13 (10.16%) Test Automation
15 13 (10.16%) Ada
16 12 (9.38%) Rational Rhapsody
17 11 (8.59%) Python
18 10 (7.81%) Embedded C++
18 10 (7.81%) Agile

Embedded Software Engineer Skill Set
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 4 (3.13%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (2.34%) Simulink
1 3 (2.34%) Stateflow
Communications & Networking
1 14 (10.94%) Software-Defined Radio
2 5 (3.91%) J1939
2 5 (3.91%) SNMP
3 4 (3.13%) Internet
3 4 (3.13%) Wireless
4 1 (0.78%) 4G
4 1 (0.78%) 5G
4 1 (0.78%) NFC
4 1 (0.78%) PPP
Development Applications
1 14 (10.94%) Git
2 12 (9.38%) Rational Rhapsody
3 10 (7.81%) Rational DOORS
4 9 (7.03%) JIRA
5 6 (4.69%) Eclipse
6 5 (3.91%) Bitbucket
6 5 (3.91%) GoogleTest
7 4 (3.13%) Robot Framework
7 4 (3.13%) Subversion
8 2 (1.56%) Jenkins
8 2 (1.56%) Visual Studio
9 1 (0.78%) ClearCase
9 1 (0.78%) PVCS
9 1 (0.78%) TestRail
9 1 (0.78%) Valgrind
General
1 29 (22.66%) Electronics
2 25 (19.53%) Aerospace
3 23 (17.97%) Automotive
4 6 (4.69%) Manufacturing
5 5 (3.91%) Telecoms
6 4 (3.13%) Military
7 3 (2.34%) Aviation
7 3 (2.34%) Social Skills
8 2 (1.56%) Wearables
9 1 (0.78%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (3.13%) CSS
1 4 (3.13%) HTML
2 1 (0.78%) JSON
2 1 (0.78%) REST
2 1 (0.78%) Web Services
2 1 (0.78%) XML
2 1 (0.78%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 17 (13.28%) ARM Cortex
2 8 (6.25%) Device Driver
2 8 (6.25%) IoT
3 7 (5.47%) Algorithms
4 6 (4.69%) Embedded Systems
5 5 (3.91%) CAN bus
6 4 (3.13%) PCIe
6 4 (3.13%) Verilog
6 4 (3.13%) VHDL
7 1 (0.78%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.78%) Smartcard
Operating Systems
1 36 (28.13%) Linux
2 21 (16.41%) FreeRTOS
3 9 (7.03%) Embedded Linux
4 4 (3.13%) SafeRTOS
4 4 (3.13%) VxWorks
4 4 (3.13%) Windows
5 1 (0.78%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 127 (99.22%) Software Engineering
2 33 (25.78%) Validation
3 21 (16.41%) Configuration Management
4 15 (11.72%) UML
5 14 (10.94%) Verification and Validation
6 13 (10.16%) Embedded Software Development
6 13 (10.16%) Problem-Solving
6 13 (10.16%) Test Automation
7 10 (7.81%) Agile
7 10 (7.81%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 9 (7.03%) Test Scripting
9 8 (6.25%) Code Quality
9 8 (6.25%) Computer Science
9 8 (6.25%) Defect Tracking
9 8 (6.25%) Scrum
9 8 (6.25%) SDLC
9 8 (6.25%) Systems Engineering
10 5 (3.91%) Continuous Integration
10 5 (3.91%) Memory Management
11 4 (3.13%) Signal Processing
Programming Languages
1 82 (64.06%) C
2 53 (41.41%) Embedded C
3 38 (29.69%) C++
4 13 (10.16%) Ada
5 11 (8.59%) Python
6 10 (7.81%) Embedded C++
7 7 (5.47%) MATLAB
8 5 (3.91%) JavaScript
9 4 (3.13%) Assembly Language
9 4 (3.13%) Shell Script
10 3 (2.34%) Java
11 2 (1.56%) C#
11 2 (1.56%) SQL
11 2 (1.56%) VB
12 1 (0.78%) Bash
12 1 (0.78%) Perl
12 1 (0.78%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 17 (13.28%) Degree
1 17 (13.28%) SC Cleared
1 17 (13.28%) Security Cleared
2 10 (7.81%) Master's Degree
3 4 (3.13%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (3.13%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (4.69%) AUTOSAR
1 6 (4.69%) JTAG
2 4 (3.13%) MISRA
2 4 (3.13%) MISRA C
3 1 (0.78%) ISO 26262
System Software
1 22 (17.19%) Firmware
2 4 (3.13%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 6 (4.69%) Functional Safety
Vendors
1 25 (19.53%) IBM
2 17 (13.28%) Lauterbach
3 10 (7.81%) Atlassian
4 5 (3.91%) Google
5 4 (3.13%) Intel
6 3 (2.34%) MathWorks
7 1 (0.78%) QNX
7 1 (0.78%) Twitter