Embedded Systems Job Trends in the East of England

Embedded Systems
England > East of England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Embedded Systems in permanent job vacancies in the East of England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Embedded Systems over the 6 months leading up to 12 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 151 117 108
Rank change year-on-year -34 -9 +81
Permanent jobs citing Embedded Systems 10 58 29
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 0.29% 1.39% 1.38%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.84% 4.26% 3.30%
Number of salaries quoted 9 14 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £63,750 £40,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £65,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% +18.18% -8.33%
75th Percentile £100,000 £72,500 £60,625
90th Percentile - £77,750 £61,750
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - -8.33% -7.69%

All Generic Skills
East of England

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

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 1,188 1,361 878
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 34.37% 32.62% 41.83%
Number of salaries quoted 631 545 557
10th Percentile £27,250 £28,500 £26,250
25th Percentile £32,500 £41,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% +4.76% -
75th Percentile £63,750 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £85,000
England median annual salary £54,285 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -9.53% -4.00% -0.79%

Embedded Systems
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Embedded Systems relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Embedded Systems job vacancy trend in the East of England

Embedded Systems
Salary Trend in the East of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Embedded Systems.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Embedded Systems

Embedded Systems
Salary Histogram in the East of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Embedded Systems in the East of England over the 6 months to 12 November 2025.

Salary histogram for Embedded Systems in the East of England

Embedded Systems
Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Embedded Systems within the East of England region over the 6 months to 12 November 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
Cambridgeshire -5 8 £75,000 +15.38% 31
Hertfordshire -1 1 £75,000 +7.14% 16
Essex -9 1 £80,000 +28.00% 4
Embedded Systems
England

Embedded Systems
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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 (10.00%) AWS
1 1 (10.00%) GitHub
1 1 (10.00%) GitHub Actions
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Selenium
1 1 (10.00%) WebDriver
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Senior
2 3 (30.00%) Senior Support Engineer
2 3 (30.00%) Software Manager
2 3 (30.00%) Software Support Engineer
2 3 (30.00%) Support Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Designer
3 1 (10.00%) Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Embedded Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Embedded Software Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) FPGA Designer
3 1 (10.00%) Project Manager
3 1 (10.00%) Python Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Senior Designer
3 1 (10.00%) Software Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (30.00%) .NET
2 1 (10.00%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) Digital Media
2 1 (10.00%) FPGA
2 1 (10.00%) Verilog
2 1 (10.00%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 1 (10.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (40.00%) Collaborative Engineering
2 3 (30.00%) DevOps
2 3 (30.00%) Mathematics
2 3 (30.00%) Physics
2 3 (30.00%) Presales
3 2 (20.00%) Software Engineering
4 1 (10.00%) Agile
4 1 (10.00%) CI/CD
4 1 (10.00%) Continuous Integration
4 1 (10.00%) Embedded Software Development
4 1 (10.00%) FPGA Design
4 1 (10.00%) Performance Optimisation
4 1 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (10.00%) Product Management
4 1 (10.00%) Product Strategy
4 1 (10.00%) Release Management
4 1 (10.00%) Signal Processing
4 1 (10.00%) Web Application Development
Programming Languages
1 3 (30.00%) C#
1 3 (30.00%) C++
2 1 (10.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (10.00%) Python
2 1 (10.00%) SQL