Electronics Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Electronics
UK > Work from Home

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Electronics in remote or hybrid contract work. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Electronics over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 259 186 236
Rank change year-on-year -73 +50 +72
Contract jobs citing Electronics 45 165 264
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.45% 1.08% 1.02%
As % of the General category 0.73% 1.83% 1.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 77 153
10th Percentile £483 £293 £202
25th Percentile £538 £410 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £500 £515
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -2.91% -5.50%
75th Percentile £663 £738 £625
90th Percentile £711 £788 £688
UK median daily rate £540 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -1.82% +4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 46 36
10th Percentile - £40.00 -
25th Percentile - £46.25 £42.50
Median hourly rate £60.00 £47.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +26.32% -9.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile - £60.00 £58.75
90th Percentile £69.00 - -
UK median hourly rate £60.00 £59.50 £57.50
% change year-on-year +0.84% +3.48% +9.52%

All General Skills
Work from Home

Electronics falls under the General Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 6,176 9,033 15,091
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 62.35% 58.87% 58.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,155 5,908 10,633
10th Percentile £325 £331 £363
25th Percentile £419 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% +4.76%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £675
90th Percentile £800 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 182 477 347
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.03 £19.04
25th Percentile £18.50 £22.61 £29.31
Median hourly rate £32.05 £38.12 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.92% -23.76% +61.29%
75th Percentile £64.69 £53.00 £67.50
90th Percentile £85.93 £72.50 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £30.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -8.33% -14.29% +59.31%

Electronics
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Electronics as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Electronics trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Electronics
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Electronics.

Electronics daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Electronics
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Electronics over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Electronics daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Electronics
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Electronics.

Electronics hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Electronics
Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Electronics over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Electronics hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Electronics
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 5 (11.11%) SharePoint
2 3 (6.67%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (4.44%) Confluence
4 1 (2.22%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 3 (6.67%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (2.22%) InVision
2 1 (2.22%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.22%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 9 (20.00%) Azure
2 8 (17.78%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (6.67%) AWS
3 3 (6.67%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (6.67%) Power Platform
3 3 (6.67%) Yammer
4 2 (4.44%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 2 (4.44%) Amazon S3
4 2 (4.44%) Amazon SQS
4 2 (4.44%) AWS CodeBuild
4 2 (4.44%) AWS CodePipeline
4 2 (4.44%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (4.44%) AWS Step Functions
4 2 (4.44%) Azure AKS
4 2 (4.44%) GitHub
4 2 (4.44%) Microsoft Copilot
4 2 (4.44%) Serverless
5 1 (2.22%) iPaaS
5 1 (2.22%) SaaS
5 1 (2.22%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (6.67%) Firewall
2 1 (2.22%) 5G
2 1 (2.22%) MQTT
2 1 (2.22%) Software-Defined Radio
2 1 (2.22%) Structured Cabling
2 1 (2.22%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (2.22%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.44%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (4.44%) DynamoDB
1 2 (4.44%) Power BI
2 1 (2.22%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (2.22%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (6.67%) JIRA
2 2 (4.44%) Git
2 2 (4.44%) NUnit
3 1 (2.22%) Axure RP
3 1 (2.22%) Cypress.io
3 1 (2.22%) Jenkins
3 1 (2.22%) Maven
3 1 (2.22%) Postman
3 1 (2.22%) Selenium
3 1 (2.22%) Visual Studio
General
1 36 (80.00%) Marketing
2 35 (77.78%) Finance
2 35 (77.78%) Manufacturing
3 34 (75.56%) Public Sector
3 34 (75.56%) Telecoms
4 18 (40.00%) Social Skills
5 6 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (4.44%) Automotive
6 2 (4.44%) Italian Language
6 2 (4.44%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (2.22%) Advertising
7 1 (2.22%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (2.22%) French Language
7 1 (2.22%) German Language
7 1 (2.22%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (2.22%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 11 (24.44%) Senior
2 8 (17.78%) Developer
3 6 (13.33%) Project Manager
4 4 (8.89%) Senior Developer
4 4 (8.89%) Splunk Engineer
5 3 (6.67%) Architect
5 3 (6.67%) Azure Engineer
5 3 (6.67%) Exchange Engineer
5 3 (6.67%) Lead
5 3 (6.67%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
6 2 (4.44%) .NET Developer
6 2 (4.44%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 2 (4.44%) C# Developer
6 2 (4.44%) Consultant
6 2 (4.44%) Lead Developer
6 2 (4.44%) Relationships Manager
6 2 (4.44%) Senior .NET Developer
6 2 (4.44%) Senior C# Developer
6 2 (4.44%) Senior Manager
6 2 (4.44%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (11.11%) .NET
2 4 (8.89%) AngularJS
3 3 (6.67%) .NET Core
3 3 (6.67%) Web Services
4 2 (4.44%) AWS CDK
4 2 (4.44%) CSS
4 2 (4.44%) HTML
4 2 (4.44%) Playwright
4 2 (4.44%) React
4 2 (4.44%) YAML
5 1 (2.22%) EntireX
5 1 (2.22%) Gherkin
5 1 (2.22%) Google Maps API
5 1 (2.22%) HTML5 Canvas
5 1 (2.22%) Java EE
5 1 (2.22%) Vaadin
Miscellaneous
1 8 (17.78%) Onboarding
2 6 (13.33%) Product Ownership
3 3 (6.67%) Social Media
3 3 (6.67%) Virtual Team
4 2 (4.44%) Embedded Systems
5 1 (2.22%) CCTV
5 1 (2.22%) Fibre Optics
5 1 (2.22%) FMCG
5 1 (2.22%) IoT
5 1 (2.22%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (2.22%) Mainframe
5 1 (2.22%) NHS
5 1 (2.22%) PACS
5 1 (2.22%) PMI
5 1 (2.22%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 3 (6.67%) Windows
1 3 (6.67%) Windows 10
2 1 (2.22%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (77.78%) Business Intelligence
2 34 (75.56%) Digital Marketing
2 34 (75.56%) Programme Management
3 12 (26.67%) Agile
4 11 (24.44%) DevOps
4 11 (24.44%) Problem-Solving
5 7 (15.56%) Client Onboarding
5 7 (15.56%) Project Management
5 7 (15.56%) Stakeholder Management
6 6 (13.33%) Actionable Insight
7 5 (11.11%) BDD
7 5 (11.11%) TDD
8 4 (8.89%) Compliance Management
8 4 (8.89%) Computer Science
8 4 (8.89%) Configuration Management
8 4 (8.89%) Continuous Delivery
8 4 (8.89%) Earned Value Management
8 4 (8.89%) Predictive Analysis
8 4 (8.89%) Risk Management
8 4 (8.89%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 7 (15.56%) PowerShell
1 7 (15.56%) SQL
2 4 (8.89%) C#
2 4 (8.89%) Python
3 3 (6.67%) TypeScript
4 2 (4.44%) Bicep
4 2 (4.44%) JavaScript
5 1 (2.22%) Assembly Language
5 1 (2.22%) C
5 1 (2.22%) Java
5 1 (2.22%) JCL
5 1 (2.22%) Natural
Qualifications
1 14 (31.11%) Security Cleared
2 11 (24.44%) SC Cleared
3 7 (15.56%) Degree
4 3 (6.67%) Master's Degree
5 1 (2.22%) CEH
5 1 (2.22%) CISSP
5 1 (2.22%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (2.22%) CSPO
5 1 (2.22%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.67%) QA
2 2 (4.44%) Accessibility
System Software
1 3 (6.67%) Active Directory
1 3 (6.67%) Docker
2 2 (4.44%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 3 (6.67%) Kubernetes
1 3 (6.67%) Microsoft Intune
1 3 (6.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 36 (80.00%) SAP
2 11 (24.44%) Microsoft
3 4 (8.89%) Splunk
4 2 (4.44%) Salesforce
5 1 (2.22%) Adobe
5 1 (2.22%) CrowdStrike
5 1 (2.22%) EMC
5 1 (2.22%) Fujitsu
5 1 (2.22%) Google
5 1 (2.22%) IBM
5 1 (2.22%) ServiceNow
5 1 (2.22%) Software AG
5 1 (2.22%) Tenable
5 1 (2.22%) webMethods