Embedded Systems Contract Job Trends in Watford

Embedded Systems
Hertfordshire > Watford

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Embedded Systems in contract job vacancies in Watford. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Embedded Systems over the 6 months leading up to 9 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 15 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Embedded Systems 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Watford 1.25% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 5.00% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
Hertfordshire median daily rate - £538 £488
% change year-on-year - +10.26% -

All Generic Skills
Watford

Embedded Systems falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in Watford.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 20 10 27
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Watford 25.00% 27.78% 21.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 4 15
10th Percentile £147 £246 £255
25th Percentile £275 £353 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £458 £450
Median % change year-on-year -23.50% +1.67% -28.00%
75th Percentile £400 £495 £550
90th Percentile £488 - £662
Hertfordshire median daily rate £475 £538 £475
% change year-on-year -11.63% +13.16% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £46.31 £13.50
Median hourly rate £18.90 £47.44 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year -60.16% +216.27% -31.82%
75th Percentile - £48.57 £16.50
90th Percentile - - -
Hertfordshire median hourly rate £66.00 £72.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year -8.97% +11.54% -0.76%

Embedded Systems
Job Vacancy Trend in Watford

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Embedded Systems relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Watford.

Embedded Systems job vacancy trend in Watford

Embedded Systems
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Watford 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
General
1 1 (100.00%) Electronics
1 1 (100.00%) Manufacturing
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Embedded Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Embedded Linux Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Embedded Linux Software Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Embedded Software Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Linux Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Device Driver
1 1 (100.00%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Embedded Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Benchmarking
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Vision
1 1 (100.00%) Regulatory Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Risk Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Systems Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Video Processing
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C
1 1 (100.00%) C++
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) Shell Script
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) NVIDIA