Electronics Jobs in the South West

Electronics
England > South West

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Electronics in permanent job vacancies in the South West. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Electronics over the 6 months leading up to 21 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 44 147 163
Rank change year-on-year +103 +16 -81
Permanent jobs citing Electronics 184 160 123
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 5.36% 1.78% 1.72%
As % of the General category 8.72% 3.30% 2.65%
Number of salaries quoted 56 112 102
10th Percentile £28,500 £26,025 £38,000
25th Percentile £37,574 £36,000 £42,278
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,101 £45,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.89% -5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £64,100 £55,000 £61,250
90th Percentile £82,500 £63,375 £68,625
England median annual salary £61,000 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +16.19% - -

All General Skills
South West

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 the South West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 2,110 4,850 4,641
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 61.50% 53.82% 65.07%
Number of salaries quoted 1,259 3,353 2,510
10th Percentile £26,250 £26,250 £28,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £32,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% +2.56%
75th Percentile £67,500 £61,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £81,250 £75,000 £78,750
England median annual salary £57,500 £52,500 £60,500
% change year-on-year +9.52% -13.22% +0.83%

Electronics
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Electronics in the South West

Electronics
Salary Trend in the South West

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

Salary trend for Electronics in the South West

Electronics
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Electronics in the South West over the 6 months to 21 April 2025.

Salary histogram for Electronics in the South West

Electronics
Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Electronics within the South West region over the 6 months to 21 April 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
Bristol +93 60 £40,101 -15.58% 53
Devon +41 52 £46,000 -19.83% 14
Somerset +8 23 £40,101 -27.09% 25
Gloucestershire +72 22 £36,750 -2.00% 38
Dorset +44 19 £40,101 +0.25% 11
Wiltshire +13 7 £71,250 +100.70% 17
Electronics
England

Electronics
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 23 (12.50%) Simulink
2 8 (4.35%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.54%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.54%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 20 (10.87%) Teamcenter
2 1 (0.54%) BASE24
Cloud Services
1 12 (6.52%) AWS
2 8 (4.35%) Azure
3 4 (2.17%) GitHub
3 4 (2.17%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (1.63%) Entra ID
5 2 (1.09%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (1.09%) Amazon S3
6 1 (0.54%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (0.54%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (0.54%) GCP
6 1 (0.54%) OCI
6 1 (0.54%) SaaS
6 1 (0.54%) Serverless
6 1 (0.54%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 15 (8.15%) SD-WAN
1 15 (8.15%) WAN
2 12 (6.52%) 5G
3 4 (2.17%) Firewall
4 3 (1.63%) VoIP
4 3 (1.63%) Wi-Fi
5 2 (1.09%) DHCP
5 2 (1.09%) DNS
5 2 (1.09%) Ethernet
6 1 (0.54%) ATM
6 1 (0.54%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (2.72%) NoSQL
2 3 (1.63%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (1.09%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (0.54%) DynamoDB
4 1 (0.54%) MySQL
4 1 (0.54%) NonStop SQL
4 1 (0.54%) Oracle Exadata
4 1 (0.54%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 21 (11.41%) Rational DOORS
2 6 (3.26%) Git
3 4 (2.17%) LabVIEW
4 1 (0.54%) CMake
4 1 (0.54%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.54%) Subversion
4 1 (0.54%) VersaTest
4 1 (0.54%) WiX
General
1 50 (27.17%) Analytical Skills
1 50 (27.17%) Social Skills
2 34 (18.48%) Aerospace
3 26 (14.13%) Manufacturing
4 18 (9.78%) Finance
5 16 (8.70%) Telecoms
6 15 (8.15%) Marketing
7 14 (7.61%) Public Sector
8 12 (6.52%) Presentation Skills
9 10 (5.43%) Organisational Skills
10 9 (4.89%) Automotive
11 2 (1.09%) Avionics
12 1 (0.54%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.54%) Health Technology
12 1 (0.54%) Law
12 1 (0.54%) Legal
Job Titles
1 57 (30.98%) Senior
2 28 (15.22%) Electronics Engineer
2 28 (15.22%) Software Engineer
3 26 (14.13%) Principal Engineer
4 24 (13.04%) Senior Electronics Engineer
4 24 (13.04%) Software Assurance Engineer
5 22 (11.96%) Systems Engineer
6 21 (11.41%) Design Engineer
6 21 (11.41%) Electronics Design Engineer
6 21 (11.41%) Senior Design Engineer
6 21 (11.41%) Senior Electronics Design Engineer
7 20 (10.87%) Junior
7 20 (10.87%) Junior Systems Engineer
8 15 (8.15%) Lead
9 12 (6.52%) Senior Electrical Engineer
10 10 (5.43%) FPGA Engineer
11 9 (4.89%) Senior FPGA Engineer
11 9 (4.89%) Senior VHDL Engineer
11 9 (4.89%) VHDL Engineer
12 8 (4.35%) Senior Project Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (2.17%) .NET
1 4 (2.17%) .NET Core
1 4 (2.17%) .NET Framework
1 4 (2.17%) ASP.NET
1 4 (2.17%) Entity Framework
1 4 (2.17%) Node.js
1 4 (2.17%) pytest
1 4 (2.17%) REST
2 2 (1.09%) HTML
2 2 (1.09%) RESTful
2 2 (1.09%) Spring
2 2 (1.09%) Spring Boot
3 1 (0.54%) AngularJS
3 1 (0.54%) CSS
3 1 (0.54%) CSS3
3 1 (0.54%) HTML5
3 1 (0.54%) Qt
3 1 (0.54%) React
3 1 (0.54%) Vue
3 1 (0.54%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 22 (11.96%) Optoelectronics
2 15 (8.15%) Self-Motivation
3 12 (6.52%) Self-Driving Car
4 11 (5.98%) Algorithms
5 10 (5.43%) FPGA
5 10 (5.43%) VHDL
6 9 (4.89%) GNSS
6 9 (4.89%) MicroBlaze
6 9 (4.89%) Satnav
7 8 (4.35%) Data Structures
8 6 (3.26%) Renewable Energy
9 4 (2.17%) Embedded Systems
9 4 (2.17%) IoT
10 3 (1.63%) Cloud Native
10 3 (1.63%) Fibre Optics
10 3 (1.63%) FMCG
10 3 (1.63%) Operational Technology
10 3 (1.63%) Video Conferencing
11 2 (1.09%) Cyber Threat
11 2 (1.09%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 28 (15.22%) Windows
2 13 (7.07%) Linux
3 9 (4.89%) Apple iOS
4 5 (2.72%) Unix
5 2 (1.09%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.54%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 93 (50.54%) Problem-Solving
2 81 (44.02%) Systems Engineering
3 80 (43.48%) Software Engineering
4 73 (39.67%) Decision-Making
5 60 (32.61%) Software Assurance
6 47 (25.54%) Computer Science
7 39 (21.20%) Requirements Analysis
8 31 (16.85%) Project Management
9 26 (14.13%) Physics
10 23 (12.50%) Prototyping
10 23 (12.50%) Schematic Capture
11 22 (11.96%) B2B
11 22 (11.96%) Continuous Improvement
11 22 (11.96%) Programme Management
11 22 (11.96%) Stress Analysis
12 21 (11.41%) Mathematics
12 21 (11.41%) Test Automation
13 20 (10.87%) PLM
13 20 (10.87%) SysML
13 20 (10.87%) UML
Programming Languages
1 36 (19.57%) MATLAB
2 20 (10.87%) C++
3 13 (7.07%) Java
4 11 (5.98%) C
5 10 (5.43%) Python
6 9 (4.89%) Perl
6 9 (4.89%) Tcl
6 9 (4.89%) VB
7 8 (4.35%) C#
8 7 (3.80%) SQL
9 3 (1.63%) PowerShell
10 2 (1.09%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.54%) Bash
11 1 (0.54%) COBOL
11 1 (0.54%) JavaScript
11 1 (0.54%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.54%) Objective-C
11 1 (0.54%) PHP
11 1 (0.54%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.54%) Swift
Qualifications
1 92 (50.00%) BPSS Clearance
2 82 (44.57%) Degree
3 15 (8.15%) Master's Degree
4 14 (7.61%) Security Cleared
5 7 (3.80%) DV Cleared
6 4 (2.17%) HND
6 4 (2.17%) SC Cleared
7 3 (1.63%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (1.09%) CCNA
8 2 (1.09%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.54%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.54%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 1 (0.54%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
9 1 (0.54%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.54%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (4.35%) PMO
2 4 (2.17%) QA
3 2 (1.09%) ISO 9001
3 2 (1.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.09%) NIST
4 1 (0.54%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.54%) SLA
System Software
1 31 (16.85%) Embedded Firmware
1 31 (16.85%) Firmware
2 5 (2.72%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.09%) Docker
3 2 (1.09%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (1.09%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (1.09%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (1.09%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (1.63%) Microsoft Intune
1 3 (1.63%) SCCM
2 2 (1.09%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.09%) Terraform
2 2 (1.09%) vCenter Server
3 1 (0.54%) Ansible
Vendors
1 20 (10.87%) IBM
2 14 (7.61%) SAP
3 10 (5.43%) Xilinx
4 9 (4.89%) Altera
4 9 (4.89%) Green Hills
5 4 (2.17%) Microsoft
6 3 (1.63%) Aruba
6 3 (1.63%) Cisco
6 3 (1.63%) Fortinet
6 3 (1.63%) Okta
7 2 (1.09%) VMware
7 2 (1.09%) YouTube
8 1 (0.54%) HP
8 1 (0.54%) Oracle
8 1 (0.54%) Telcordia
8 1 (0.54%) Xero