Electronics Jobs in Scotland

Electronics
UK > Scotland

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Electronics in permanent job vacancies in Scotland. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Electronics over the 6 months leading up to 13 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 57 219 162
Rank change year-on-year +162 -57 +47
Permanent jobs citing Electronics 130 61 66
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 4.38% 0.91% 1.41%
As % of the General category 6.74% 1.26% 1.88%
Number of salaries quoted 59 54 22
10th Percentile - £38,625 -
25th Percentile £37,574 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £47,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year - - +13.77%
75th Percentile £60,000 £60,938 £58,625
90th Percentile £65,050 £78,625 £71,250
UK median annual salary £62,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +24.00% - -4.76%

All General Skills
Scotland

Electronics falls under the General Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring common skills in Scotland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 1,928 4,858 3,511
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 64.94% 72.40% 75.26%
Number of salaries quoted 907 1,551 1,685
10th Percentile £25,087 £27,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - -13.04% +4.55%
75th Percentile £63,750 £67,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £85,251 £82,548 £85,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -

Electronics
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing Electronics as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for Electronics in Scotland

Electronics
Salary Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Electronics in Scotland.

Salary trend for Electronics in Scotland

Electronics
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Electronics in Scotland over the 6 months to 13 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Electronics in Scotland

Electronics
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Electronics within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 13 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
Fife - 24 £40,101 - 4
East Ayrshire - 21 £40,101 -
South Ayrshire - 20 £40,101 -
Moray - 20 £40,101 -
Edinburgh +20 17 £47,500 -17.39% 21
Glasgow +171 12 £51,250 +20.59% 16
West Lothian -1 5 £55,000 -8.33% 4
Aberdeen +30 3 £57,500 -2.13% 4
Dundee +8 2 £50,000 - 6
Lanarkshire - 2 £45,000 - 5
Electronics
UK

Electronics
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 29 (22.31%) Simulink
2 7 (5.38%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.77%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 28 (21.54%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 3 (2.31%) AWS
2 2 (1.54%) Amazon EC2
2 2 (1.54%) Amazon S3
2 2 (1.54%) Amazon SageMaker
2 2 (1.54%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (1.54%) Azure
2 2 (1.54%) Serverless
3 1 (0.77%) AWS IoT
3 1 (0.77%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 10 (7.69%) TCP/IP
2 3 (2.31%) Bluetooth
2 3 (2.31%) Ethernet
3 2 (1.54%) RS-232
3 2 (1.54%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (1.54%) Wireless
4 1 (0.77%) LoRaWAN
4 1 (0.77%) Modbus
4 1 (0.77%) MQTT
4 1 (0.77%) Multicast
4 1 (0.77%) RTP
4 1 (0.77%) RTSP
4 1 (0.77%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.54%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.77%) Flink
Development Applications
1 28 (21.54%) Rational DOORS
2 4 (3.08%) JIRA
2 4 (3.08%) LabVIEW
3 2 (1.54%) Git
4 1 (0.77%) Subversion
General
1 48 (36.92%) Social Skills
2 28 (21.54%) Aerospace
3 17 (13.08%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (10.77%) Manufacturing
5 8 (6.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (3.85%) Finance
7 4 (3.08%) Advertising
7 4 (3.08%) Marketing
7 4 (3.08%) Public Sector
7 4 (3.08%) Telecoms
8 2 (1.54%) Agriculture
8 2 (1.54%) Wearables
9 1 (0.77%) Banking
9 1 (0.77%) Military
Job Titles
1 38 (29.23%) Junior
2 37 (28.46%) Principal Engineer
2 37 (28.46%) Software Assurance Engineer
3 32 (24.62%) Systems Engineer
4 28 (21.54%) Junior Systems Engineer
5 24 (18.46%) Senior
6 21 (16.15%) Software Engineer
7 16 (12.31%) Senior Electrical Engineer
8 15 (11.54%) Embedded Engineer
8 15 (11.54%) Embedded Software Engineer
9 10 (7.69%) Junior Embedded Engineer
9 10 (7.69%) Junior Software Engineer
9 10 (7.69%) Mid-Level Software Engineer
10 7 (5.38%) Account Executive
10 7 (5.38%) Sales Account Executive
10 7 (5.38%) Sales Executive
10 7 (5.38%) Telesales Executive
11 5 (3.85%) Project Manager
12 4 (3.08%) C++ Software Engineer
13 3 (2.31%) Electronics Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (1.54%) .NET
2 1 (0.77%) AngularJS
2 1 (0.77%) ASP.NET
2 1 (0.77%) CSS
2 1 (0.77%) HTML
2 1 (0.77%) Node.js
2 1 (0.77%) PyTorch
2 1 (0.77%) React
2 1 (0.77%) scikit-learn
2 1 (0.77%) TensorFlow
2 1 (0.77%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 16 (12.31%) Embedded Systems
2 5 (3.85%) FPGA
3 4 (3.08%) IoT
4 3 (2.31%) Cloud Native
4 3 (2.31%) SCADA
5 2 (1.54%) Analogue Electronics
5 2 (1.54%) Distributed Computing
5 2 (1.54%) GNSS
5 2 (1.54%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (1.54%) Legacy Code
5 2 (1.54%) PMI
5 2 (1.54%) VHDL
5 2 (1.54%) Virtual Team
6 1 (0.77%) Acoustics
6 1 (0.77%) Algorithms
6 1 (0.77%) ARM Cortex
6 1 (0.77%) Digital Signage
6 1 (0.77%) MPEG
6 1 (0.77%) PCIe
6 1 (0.77%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 5 (3.85%) Linux
2 3 (2.31%) FreeRTOS
3 2 (1.54%) Windows
4 1 (0.77%) Android
4 1 (0.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.77%) Rocky
4 1 (0.77%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (50.00%) Systems Engineering
2 64 (49.23%) Problem-Solving
2 64 (49.23%) Software Engineering
3 53 (40.77%) Decision-Making
4 37 (28.46%) Software Assurance
5 33 (25.38%) Computer Science
5 33 (25.38%) Project Management
6 31 (23.85%) Physics
7 29 (22.31%) Continuous Improvement
8 28 (21.54%) Creative Problem-Solving
8 28 (21.54%) Mathematics
8 28 (21.54%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
8 28 (21.54%) PLM
8 28 (21.54%) SysML
8 28 (21.54%) UML
9 8 (6.15%) Agile
10 7 (5.38%) Telesales
11 5 (3.85%) PRINCE2
12 4 (3.08%) Business Intelligence
12 4 (3.08%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 30 (23.08%) MATLAB
2 19 (14.62%) C
3 10 (7.69%) C++
4 5 (3.85%) C#
4 5 (3.85%) Python
5 3 (2.31%) JavaScript
6 2 (1.54%) Embedded C
6 2 (1.54%) Embedded C++
6 2 (1.54%) SQL
7 1 (0.77%) Bash
7 1 (0.77%) Java
7 1 (0.77%) PHP
7 1 (0.77%) TypeScript
7 1 (0.77%) VB
Qualifications
1 81 (62.31%) BPSS Clearance
2 62 (47.69%) Degree
3 19 (14.62%) Master's Degree
4 2 (1.54%) CCA
4 2 (1.54%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (1.54%) PMI Certification
4 2 (1.54%) SC Cleared
4 2 (1.54%) Security Cleared
5 1 (0.77%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.54%) IEC 62304
1 2 (1.54%) MISRA
2 1 (0.77%) JTAG
System Software
1 3 (2.31%) Firmware
2 2 (1.54%) Embedded Firmware
Vendors
1 28 (21.54%) IBM
2 7 (5.38%) Dell
3 4 (3.08%) EMC
3 4 (3.08%) SAP
4 3 (2.31%) Allen-Bradley
4 3 (2.31%) Siemens
4 3 (2.31%) Wonderware
5 2 (1.54%) Mentor Graphics
5 2 (1.54%) Microsoft
6 1 (0.77%) Cadence
6 1 (0.77%) Google
6 1 (0.77%) NVIDIA
6 1 (0.77%) Red Hat