Embedded Engineer Jobs in the East Midlands

Embedded Engineer
England > East Midlands

The median Embedded Engineer salary in the East Midlands is £55,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 15 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 138 107 167
Rank change year-on-year -31 +60 -10
Permanent jobs requiring an Embedded Engineer 17 88 9
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 0.64% 2.00% 0.32%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.67% 2.12% 0.36%
Number of salaries quoted 11 77 3
10th Percentile £47,500 £38,250 £35,750
25th Percentile £48,125 £40,000 £40,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -4.76% +16.67%
75th Percentile £61,875 £55,000 £56,875
90th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £57,250
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
East Midlands

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the East Midlands. 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 permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the East Midlands with a recognized job title 2,534 4,160 2,503
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.91% 94.55% 88.41%
Number of salaries quoted 1,034 3,019 1,342
10th Percentile £26,250 £25,750 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £42,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% -15.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £58,750 £55,250 £63,750
90th Percentile £67,500 £68,750 £75,000
England median annual salary £57,000 £53,500 £60,800
% change year-on-year +6.54% -12.01% +1.33%

Embedded Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Embedded Engineer in the East Midlands

Embedded Engineer
Salary Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Embedded Engineer in the East Midlands.

Salary trend for Embedded Engineer in the East Midlands

Embedded Engineer
Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Embedded Engineer within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 15 May 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Derbyshire +6 8 £55,000 - 4
Nottinghamshire -15 5 £50,000 - 4
Northamptonshire -28 2 - -
Leicestershire +23 1 £57,500 +9.52% 4
Lincolnshire - 1 - -
Embedded Engineer
England

Embedded Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands

For the 6 months to 15 May 2025, Embedded Engineer 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 permanent job ads across the East Midlands region featuring Embedded Engineer in the job title.

1 12 (70.59%) C
2 10 (58.82%) Software Engineering
2 10 (58.82%) Embedded Systems
3 9 (52.94%) Firmware
4 7 (41.18%) Python
5 5 (29.41%) C++
6 4 (23.53%) C#
6 4 (23.53%) Embedded C
6 4 (23.53%) IoT
7 3 (17.65%) Raspberry Pi
7 3 (17.65%) Performance Optimisation
7 3 (17.65%) CI/CD
7 3 (17.65%) ARM Cortex
7 3 (17.65%) WAN
7 3 (17.65%) Wi-Fi
7 3 (17.65%) Wireless
7 3 (17.65%) Agile
7 3 (17.65%) Subversion
7 3 (17.65%) Computer Science
7 3 (17.65%) Degree
7 3 (17.65%) Multithreading
7 3 (17.65%) DV Cleared
7 3 (17.65%) Security Cleared
7 3 (17.65%) LTE
7 3 (17.65%) Git
7 3 (17.65%) Test Automation
8 2 (11.76%) Atmel
8 2 (11.76%) Bash
8 2 (11.76%) JIRA
8 2 (11.76%) PowerShell

Embedded Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands 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:

Applications
1 1 (5.88%) CANalyzer
1 1 (5.88%) Simulink
Communications & Networking
1 3 (17.65%) LTE
1 3 (17.65%) WAN
1 3 (17.65%) Wi-Fi
1 3 (17.65%) Wireless
2 2 (11.76%) Broadband
2 2 (11.76%) Modbus
2 2 (11.76%) Network Security
Development Applications
1 3 (17.65%) Git
1 3 (17.65%) Subversion
2 2 (11.76%) Eclipse
2 2 (11.76%) JIRA
3 1 (5.88%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 1 (5.88%) Cucumber
3 1 (5.88%) FitNesse
3 1 (5.88%) Jenkins
3 1 (5.88%) Newman
General
1 2 (11.76%) Electronics
1 2 (11.76%) Manufacturing
1 2 (11.76%) Social Skills
2 1 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (5.88%) Automotive
2 1 (5.88%) Finance
2 1 (5.88%) Marketing
2 1 (5.88%) Public Sector
2 1 (5.88%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (11.76%) Middleware
2 1 (5.88%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 10 (58.82%) Embedded Systems
2 4 (23.53%) IoT
3 3 (17.65%) ARM Cortex
3 3 (17.65%) Raspberry Pi
4 1 (5.88%) FPGA
4 1 (5.88%) VHDL
4 1 (5.88%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.88%) Linux
1 1 (5.88%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (58.82%) Software Engineering
2 3 (17.65%) Agile
2 3 (17.65%) CI/CD
2 3 (17.65%) Computer Science
2 3 (17.65%) Multithreading
2 3 (17.65%) Performance Optimisation
2 3 (17.65%) Test Automation
3 2 (11.76%) Artificial Intelligence
3 2 (11.76%) Configuration Management
3 2 (11.76%) Continuous Deployment
3 2 (11.76%) Customer Requirements
3 2 (11.76%) Cybersecurity
3 2 (11.76%) Release Automation
3 2 (11.76%) Roadmaps
3 2 (11.76%) Schematic Capture
3 2 (11.76%) Software Delivery
3 2 (11.76%) Strategic Thinking
3 2 (11.76%) Validation
4 1 (5.88%) CAD
4 1 (5.88%) Information Security
Programming Languages
1 12 (70.59%) C
2 7 (41.18%) Python
3 5 (29.41%) C++
4 4 (23.53%) C#
4 4 (23.53%) Embedded C
5 2 (11.76%) Bash
5 2 (11.76%) Perl
5 2 (11.76%) PowerShell
5 2 (11.76%) Rust
5 2 (11.76%) SQL
6 1 (5.88%) Ada
6 1 (5.88%) Embedded C++
6 1 (5.88%) Groovy
6 1 (5.88%) MATLAB
6 1 (5.88%) R
6 1 (5.88%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 3 (17.65%) Degree
1 3 (17.65%) DV Cleared
1 3 (17.65%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.88%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.76%) MISRA
2 1 (5.88%) JTAG
2 1 (5.88%) MISRA C
2 1 (5.88%) QA
System Software
1 9 (52.94%) Firmware
2 2 (11.76%) Embedded Firmware
Vendors
1 2 (11.76%) Atmel
2 1 (5.88%) EMC
2 1 (5.88%) Lauterbach
2 1 (5.88%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.88%) Parasoft
2 1 (5.88%) SAP