Software-Defined Radio Jobs in the South East

Software-Defined Radio
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East requiring Software-Defined Radio skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Software-Defined Radio over the 6 months leading up to 21 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 275 386 388
Rank change year-on-year +111 +2 +96
Permanent jobs citing Software-Defined Radio 30 6 15
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 0.31% 0.036% 0.10%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.02% 0.22% 0.60%
Number of salaries quoted 1 2 15
10th Percentile - £47,775 £46,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,563 £71,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,750 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.31% -34.41% -
75th Percentile £55,000 £64,563 -
90th Percentile - £66,325 -
England median annual salary £75,000 £55,750 £85,000
% change year-on-year +34.53% -34.41% +75.26%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
South East

Software-Defined Radio 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 the South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,485 2,761 2,506
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 15.45% 16.35% 17.49%
Number of salaries quoted 770 1,873 1,468
10th Percentile £25,250 £26,250 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,500 £32,500 £31,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,500 £47,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.11% +5.56% -5.26%
75th Percentile £60,000 £60,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £70,000 £75,000
England median annual salary £47,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -1.05% -5.00% -4.76%

Software-Defined Radio
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Software-Defined Radio as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Software-Defined Radio in the South East

Software-Defined Radio
Salary Trend in the South East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Software-Defined Radio in the South East.

Salary trend for Software-Defined Radio in the South East

Software-Defined Radio
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 Software-Defined Radio within the South East region over the 6 months to 21 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
Hampshire +87 29 - - 9
Surrey +53 1 £50,000 -2.91% 2
Software-Defined Radio
England

Software-Defined Radio
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 3 (10.00%) Simulink
Communications & Networking
1 12 (40.00%) Wireless
2 1 (3.33%) 3GPP
2 1 (3.33%) 5G
2 1 (3.33%) Broadband
2 1 (3.33%) Internet
2 1 (3.33%) Mobile Broadband
2 1 (3.33%) Radio Access Network
General
1 15 (50.00%) Finance
2 1 (3.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 14 (46.67%) Radio Engineer
1 14 (46.67%) Systems Engineer
2 12 (40.00%) Embedded Engineer
2 12 (40.00%) Embedded Software Engineer
2 12 (40.00%) Software Engineer
3 3 (10.00%) Firmware Engineer
4 1 (3.33%) Tester
Miscellaneous
1 17 (56.67%) FPGA
2 15 (50.00%) e-Learning
3 12 (40.00%) Embedded Systems
3 12 (40.00%) MicroBlaze
3 12 (40.00%) RISC-V
4 1 (3.33%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 12 (40.00%) Embedded Linux
1 12 (40.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (100.00%) Digital Signal Processing
1 30 (100.00%) Signal Processing
2 29 (96.67%) Innovative Thinking
3 14 (46.67%) Physics
4 13 (43.33%) Agile
5 12 (40.00%) Software Engineering
6 4 (13.33%) Software Testing
7 3 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 3 (10.00%) Integration Testing
7 3 (10.00%) Mathematical Modelling
7 3 (10.00%) Mathematics
7 3 (10.00%) Validation
7 3 (10.00%) Verification and Validation
8 1 (3.33%) Cybersecurity
8 1 (3.33%) Manual Testing
8 1 (3.33%) Test Planning
Programming Languages
1 17 (56.67%) MATLAB
2 12 (40.00%) C
2 12 (40.00%) C++
Qualifications
1 29 (96.67%) SC Cleared
1 29 (96.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (3.33%) QA
System Software
1 29 (96.67%) Firmware
2 26 (86.67%) Embedded Firmware
Vendors
1 3 (10.00%) Xilinx