RS-232 Job Trends in Scotland

RS-232
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring RS-232 skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 117 141 182
Rank change year-on-year +24 +41 -
Permanent jobs citing RS-232 22 8 8
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 0.81% 0.30% 0.27%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 6.98% 2.47% 1.51%
Number of salaries quoted 22 6 8
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £48,000 £58,750 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.40% +4.17% -
75th Percentile £71,250 £66,250 £62,500
90th Percentile - £68,750 -
UK median annual salary £51,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.27% -8.33% +20.00%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Scotland

RS-232 falls under the Communications and Computer Networking category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring communications or computer networking skills in Scotland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 315 324 530
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 11.58% 12.01% 17.91%
Number of salaries quoted 196 132 458
10th Percentile - £30,000 -
25th Percentile £25,087 £35,000 £25,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,500 £47,500 £28,000
Median % change year-on-year -35.79% +69.64% -44.00%
75th Percentile £49,500 £66,563 £52,500
90th Percentile £71,250 £80,000 £65,000
UK median annual salary £38,500 £54,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -28.70% +8.00% -4.76%

RS-232
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing RS-232 relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

RS-232 job vacancy trend in Scotland

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Salary Trend in Scotland

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing RS-232.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing RS-232

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Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing RS-232 in Scotland over the 6 months to 1 January 2026.

Salary histogram for RS-232 in Scotland

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Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing RS-232 within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 1 January 2026. 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
Edinburgh - 12 £51,000 -
West Lothian +13 10 £67,500 +8.00% 2
RS-232
UK

RS-232
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland 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:

Communications & Networking
1 12 (54.55%) Bluetooth
1 12 (54.55%) Wireless
2 10 (45.45%) Ethernet
General
1 19 (86.36%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 15 (68.18%) Embedded Engineer
1 15 (68.18%) Embedded Software Engineer
1 15 (68.18%) Software Engineer
2 10 (45.45%) Senior
3 7 (31.82%) Electronics Engineer
3 7 (31.82%) FPGA Engineer
3 7 (31.82%) Senior Electronics Engineer
3 7 (31.82%) Senior FPGA Engineer
4 3 (13.64%) Senior Embedded Engineer
4 3 (13.64%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
4 3 (13.64%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (13.64%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 7 (31.82%) FPGA
1 7 (31.82%) VHDL
2 3 (13.64%) Device Driver
Operating Systems
1 3 (13.64%) Embedded Linux
1 3 (13.64%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (68.18%) Software Engineering
2 7 (31.82%) FPGA Design
2 7 (31.82%) Problem-Solving
2 7 (31.82%) Schematic Capture
3 3 (13.64%) Agile
3 3 (13.64%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 15 (68.18%) C
1 15 (68.18%) C++
2 3 (13.64%) Embedded C
System Software
1 12 (54.55%) Firmware
2 2 (9.09%) Embedded Firmware
Vendors
1 7 (31.82%) EMC