Job Vacancy Trend Salary Trend Salary Histogram Job Locations Skill Sets
Period
to 3 August 2021

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Electronics in permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Electronics over the 6 months to 3 August 2021 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

Electronics
England > South East
6 months to
3 Aug 2021		 Same period 2020 Same period 2019
Rank 201 240 186
Rank change year-on-year +39 -54 +17
Permanent jobs citing Electronics 266 104 483
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 1.61% 0.90% 1.83%
As % of the General category 3.12% 1.95% 3.68%
Number of salaries quoted 227 84 379
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £37,500 £34,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £48,750 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% -2.50% +11.11%
75th Percentile £58,750 £61,250 £62,500
90th Percentile £73,500 £71,000 £70,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% - +7.53%

Electronics is in the General Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for common skills.

All General Skills
South East
Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 8,527 5,344 13,136
As % of all permanent IT jobs advertised in the South East 51.71% 46.06% 49.64%
Number of salaries quoted 5,369 4,136 10,002
10th Percentile £29,000 £28,750 £27,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +3.26%
75th Percentile £66,250 £65,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £78,750 £76,250 £75,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £56,512 £52,500
% change year-on-year +1.75% +7.64% +5.00%

Electronics
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Electronics as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Electronics in the South East

Electronics
Salary Trend in the South East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Electronics in the South East.

Salary trend for Electronics in the South East

Electronics
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Electronics in the South East over the 6 months to 3 August 2021.

Salary histogram for Electronics in the South East

Electronics
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Electronics within the South East region over the 6 months to 3 August 2021. 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
Job
Vacancies
Thames Valley +40 119 £48,750 - 56
Berkshire +6 65 £67,500 +35.00% 29
Surrey -10 64 £43,500 -24.35% 25
Oxfordshire +28 41 £45,000 -23.60% 17
Hampshire -48 41 £47,500 +5.56% 27
Kent -18 15 £40,000 - 11
Buckinghamshire -20 13 £47,500 - 10
West Sussex -1 12 £40,000 - 16
East Sussex -26 11 £37,640 -13.47% 7
Home Counties - 1 - -
Electronics
England

For the 6 months to 3 August 2021, IT jobs citing Electronics also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the South East region with a requirement for Electronics.

1 121 (45.49%) Manufacturing
2 114 (42.86%) Telecoms
3 107 (40.23%) Finance
3 107 (40.23%) Marketing
4 105 (39.47%) Business Intelligence
5 104 (39.10%) SAP
5 104 (39.10%) Programme Management
5 104 (39.10%) Digital Marketing
5 104 (39.10%) Public Sector
6 79 (29.70%) Degree
6 79 (29.70%) Agile Software Development
7 63 (23.68%) Software Engineering
8 62 (23.31%) Social Skills
9 49 (18.42%) Linux
10 48 (18.05%) C++
11 47 (17.67%) Python
12 46 (17.29%) C#
13 43 (16.17%) .NET
14 40 (15.04%) Firmware
15 39 (14.66%) Azure
16 38 (14.29%) C
17 36 (13.53%) Microsoft
17 36 (13.53%) EMC
17 36 (13.53%) Mathematics
18 35 (13.16%) Computer Science
19 34 (12.78%) JavaScript
20 30 (11.28%) Windows
20 30 (11.28%) Scrum
21 27 (10.15%) Validation
21 27 (10.15%) Software Testing

Electronics
Co-occurring IT Skills in the South East by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 16 (6.02%) CMS
2 12 (4.51%) Confluence
3 7 (2.63%) MS Exchange
3 7 (2.63%) Umbraco
4 4 (1.50%) Exchange Server 2013
5 3 (1.13%) Apache
5 3 (1.13%) nginx
5 3 (1.13%) OpenStack
6 2 (0.75%) Joomla!
6 2 (0.75%) WordPress
7 1 (0.38%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.38%) JBoss
7 1 (0.38%) WildFly
Applications
1 8 (3.01%) OrCAD
2 5 (1.88%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (1.13%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.75%) Photoshop
5 1 (0.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.38%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 3 (1.13%) Infor M3
Cloud Services
1 39 (14.66%) Azure
2 15 (5.64%) AWS
2 15 (5.64%) Microsoft 365
3 12 (4.51%) SaaS
4 9 (3.38%) GCP
5 4 (1.50%) Amazon Alexa
5 4 (1.50%) Amazon SQS
6 3 (1.13%) Amazon EC2
6 3 (1.13%) Amazon S3
6 3 (1.13%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (1.13%) Azure Service Bus
6 3 (1.13%) Serverless
7 2 (0.75%) IaaS
7 2 (0.75%) iPaaS
7 2 (0.75%) MailChimp
8 1 (0.38%) Amazon Kinesis
8 1 (0.38%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
8 1 (0.38%) GitHub
8 1 (0.38%) Google Analytics
8 1 (0.38%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 11 (4.14%) Firewall
2 10 (3.76%) Wireless
3 8 (3.01%) VPN
4 5 (1.88%) Cisco ASA
4 5 (1.88%) Cisco Nexus
4 5 (1.88%) DHCP
4 5 (1.88%) DNS
5 4 (1.50%) SCCP
5 4 (1.50%) ZigBee
6 3 (1.13%) Bluetooth
6 3 (1.13%) Ethernet
6 3 (1.13%) SSH
6 3 (1.13%) Wi-Fi
7 2 (0.75%) 3G
7 2 (0.75%) 4G
7 2 (0.75%) RS-232
8 1 (0.38%) 5G
8 1 (0.38%) DVB
8 1 (0.38%) Internet
8 1 (0.38%) RS-485
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (9.02%) SQL Server
2 11 (4.14%) MySQL
3 8 (3.01%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 8 (3.01%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 7 (2.63%) CouchDB
4 7 (2.63%) NoSQL
4 7 (2.63%) RDBMS
4 7 (2.63%) Relational Database
5 4 (1.50%) QlikView
6 3 (1.13%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.38%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (0.38%) Amazon DynamoDB
7 1 (0.38%) InterSystems Cache
7 1 (0.38%) MS Access
7 1 (0.38%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 22 (8.27%) Git (software)
2 15 (5.64%) JIRA
3 7 (2.63%) Cucumber
4 6 (2.26%) Selenium
5 4 (1.50%) Eclipse
5 4 (1.50%) IntelliJ
5 4 (1.50%) Jenkins
5 4 (1.50%) JUnit
5 4 (1.50%) Maven
5 4 (1.50%) Postman
5 4 (1.50%) Rational DOORS
5 4 (1.50%) Visual Studio
6 3 (1.13%) Cypress.io
6 3 (1.13%) Subversion
6 3 (1.13%) Team Foundation Server
6 3 (1.13%) WebDriver
7 2 (0.75%) GitLab
7 2 (0.75%) LabVIEW
7 2 (0.75%) Xcode
8 1 (0.38%) SonarQube
General
1 121 (45.49%) Manufacturing
2 114 (42.86%) Telecoms
3 107 (40.23%) Finance
3 107 (40.23%) Marketing
4 104 (39.10%) Public Sector
5 62 (23.31%) Social Skills
6 15 (5.64%) Analytical Skills
7 12 (4.51%) Retail
8 11 (4.14%) Games
9 10 (3.76%) Presentation Skills
10 9 (3.38%) Automotive
10 9 (3.38%) Documentation Skills
11 7 (2.63%) Avionics
11 7 (2.63%) Back Office
11 7 (2.63%) Influencing Skills
12 6 (2.26%) Aerospace
13 5 (1.88%) Military
14 3 (1.13%) Fire and Rescue
15 2 (0.75%) Advertising
15 2 (0.75%) Legal
Job Titles
1 47 (17.67%) Electronics Engineer
2 44 (16.54%) Developer
3 37 (13.91%) Software Engineer
4 30 (11.28%) Design Engineer
5 21 (7.89%) Electronics Design Engineer
6 18 (6.77%) Software Developer
7 14 (5.26%) Architect
7 14 (5.26%) Embedded Engineer
8 13 (4.89%) C# Developer
8 13 (4.89%) C++ Software Engineer
9 11 (4.14%) Embedded Software Engineer
9 11 (4.14%) Systems Engineer
10 10 (3.76%) RF Engineer
10 10 (3.76%) Tester
11 9 (3.38%) DevOps Engineer
11 9 (3.38%) Junior
12 8 (3.01%) Analyst
12 8 (3.01%) Hardware Engineer
12 8 (3.01%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 8 (3.01%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (16.17%) .NET
2 23 (8.65%) HTML
3 21 (7.89%) CSS
4 15 (5.64%) ASP.NET
5 14 (5.26%) React
6 13 (4.89%) REST
7 12 (4.51%) .NET Core
8 11 (4.14%) ASP.NET MVC
9 10 (3.76%) .NET Framework
9 10 (3.76%) AngularJS
10 8 (3.01%) WPF
11 7 (2.63%) Apache Flex
11 7 (2.63%) ASP.NET Web API
11 7 (2.63%) JSON
11 7 (2.63%) SciPy
11 7 (2.63%) Vue.js
12 6 (2.26%) Gherkin
12 6 (2.26%) Node.js
13 5 (1.88%) OpenGL
13 5 (1.88%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 26 (9.77%) Algorithms
2 24 (9.02%) Field-Programmable Gate Array
3 17 (6.39%) Self-Motivation
4 11 (4.14%) Data Centre
4 11 (4.14%) Embedded Systems
5 10 (3.76%) Analogue Electronics
5 10 (3.76%) Linux Command Line
6 9 (3.38%) VHDL
7 7 (2.63%) Digital Media
8 6 (2.26%) Verilog
9 5 (1.88%) User Experience
10 4 (1.50%) Cyberthreat
10 4 (1.50%) NHS
10 4 (1.50%) SCADA
10 4 (1.50%) Social Media
11 3 (1.13%) 3D Graphics
11 3 (1.13%) Cloud Native
11 3 (1.13%) Greenfield Project
11 3 (1.13%) Video Editing
12 2 (0.75%) Device Driver
Operating Systems
1 49 (18.42%) Linux
2 30 (11.28%) Windows
3 14 (5.26%) Windows Server
4 13 (4.89%) Android
5 11 (4.14%) Windows Server 2016
5 11 (4.14%) Windows Server 2019
6 9 (3.38%) Unix
7 7 (2.63%) Embedded Linux
8 5 (1.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 4 (1.50%) Apple iOS
9 4 (1.50%) Ubuntu
9 4 (1.50%) Windows Server 2012
10 3 (1.13%) VMS
11 2 (0.75%) FreeRTOS
12 1 (0.38%) SafeRTOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 105 (39.47%) Business Intelligence
2 104 (39.10%) Digital Marketing
2 104 (39.10%) Programme Management
3 79 (29.70%) Agile Software Development
4 63 (23.68%) Software Engineering
5 36 (13.53%) Mathematics
6 35 (13.16%) Computer Science
7 30 (11.28%) Scrum
8 27 (10.15%) DevOps
8 27 (10.15%) Software Testing
8 27 (10.15%) Validation
9 26 (9.77%) Physics
9 26 (9.77%) Problem-Solving
10 22 (8.27%) Embedded Software Development
11 21 (7.89%) Continuous Integration
12 19 (7.14%) Machine Learning
12 19 (7.14%) MVC
12 19 (7.14%) Test Automation
13 18 (6.77%) Full Stack Development
13 18 (6.77%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 48 (18.05%) C++
2 47 (17.67%) Python
3 46 (17.29%) C#
4 38 (14.29%) C
5 34 (12.78%) JavaScript
6 27 (10.15%) SQL
7 20 (7.52%) Java
8 16 (6.02%) PowerShell
9 14 (5.26%) Embedded C
10 8 (3.01%) Embedded C++
10 8 (3.01%) VB.NET
11 7 (2.63%) Cython
11 7 (2.63%) MATLAB
11 7 (2.63%) Perl
12 6 (2.26%) T-SQL
13 3 (1.13%) TypeScript
14 2 (0.75%) Assembly Language
14 2 (0.75%) VBA
14 2 (0.75%) XAML
15 1 (0.38%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 79 (29.70%) Degree
2 26 (9.77%) Security Cleared
3 15 (5.64%) SC Cleared
4 11 (4.14%) Computer Science Degree
4 11 (4.14%) DV Cleared
5 10 (3.76%) Numerate Degree
6 9 (3.38%) PhD
7 4 (1.50%) CISM
7 4 (1.50%) CISSP
8 3 (1.13%) CSPO
9 1 (0.38%) APMP
9 1 (0.38%) CCNA
9 1 (0.38%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.38%) HNC
9 1 (0.38%) HND
9 1 (0.38%) ISTQB
9 1 (0.38%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 1 (0.38%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (5.64%) QA
2 6 (2.26%) Def Stans
3 5 (1.88%) GDPR
3 5 (1.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (1.88%) NIST
4 4 (1.50%) DO-254
5 3 (1.13%) HAZOP
6 2 (0.75%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (0.75%) ISO 13485
6 2 (0.75%) ISO 9001
6 2 (0.75%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 2 (0.75%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 40 (15.04%) Firmware
2 13 (4.89%) Docker
3 7 (2.63%) Active Directory
4 5 (1.88%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (1.88%) VMware Workstation
4 5 (1.88%) vSphere
5 3 (1.13%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 11 (4.14%) Kubernetes
2 9 (3.38%) Ansible
3 6 (2.26%) Terraform
4 1 (0.38%) HP Quality Center
4 1 (0.38%) vRealize
Vendors
1 104 (39.10%) SAP
2 36 (13.53%) EMC
2 36 (13.53%) Microsoft
3 15 (5.64%) Cisco
3 15 (5.64%) VMware
4 10 (3.76%) F5
4 10 (3.76%) Google
5 7 (2.63%) Cadence
6 5 (1.88%) Agilent
6 5 (1.88%) Red Hat
7 4 (1.50%) Infor
8 3 (1.13%) Dataiku
8 3 (1.13%) Oracle
9 2 (0.75%) CyberArk
9 2 (0.75%) ForgeRock
9 2 (0.75%) IBM
9 2 (0.75%) Salesforce.com
9 2 (0.75%) Workday
10 1 (0.38%) Hootsuite
10 1 (0.38%) Xamarin