Bluetooth Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Bluetooth
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Bluetooth skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 536 118 591
Rank change year-on-year -418 +473 +75
Permanent jobs citing Bluetooth 37 766 142
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.057% 2.66% 0.21%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.55% 16.07% 1.53%
Number of salaries quoted 35 24 79
10th Percentile £36,100 £28,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £51,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £60,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.74% +10.00% -15.38%
75th Percentile £64,750 £66,250 £62,500
90th Percentile £68,750 £78,750 £71,500
UK median annual salary £54,000 £61,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -11.48% +10.91% -15.38%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK excluding London

Bluetooth 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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 6,741 4,766 9,272
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 10.30% 16.54% 13.49%
Number of salaries quoted 2,890 2,688 7,071
10th Percentile £26,500 £25,750 £25,750
25th Percentile £29,000 £31,250 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £45,000 £43,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +3.45% -3.33%
75th Percentile £60,000 £60,000 £58,750
90th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £68,750
UK median annual salary £45,000 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -10.00% +5.26% -5.00%

Bluetooth
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Bluetooth relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Bluetooth job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Bluetooth
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Bluetooth.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Bluetooth

Bluetooth
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Bluetooth in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 11 May 2026.

Salary histogram for Bluetooth in the UK excluding London

Bluetooth
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Bluetooth within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 11 May 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
Midlands -167 15 £52,500 -13.22% 3
South West -43 11 £40,000 - 5
East Midlands -123 8 £54,000 -1.82% 2
West Midlands -22 7 £47,500 -26.92% 1
East of England -159 6 £61,500 +119.64% 4
South East -193 4 £71,250 +29.55% 3
Scotland -7 1 £51,000 -28.42% 1
Bluetooth
UK

Bluetooth
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Applications
1 4 (10.81%) Adobe Illustrator
1 4 (10.81%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (2.70%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 2 (5.41%) Azure
1 2 (5.41%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (2.70%) Figma
2 1 (2.70%) Google Play
Communications & Networking
1 26 (70.27%) Wireless
2 18 (48.65%) Wi-Fi
3 8 (21.62%) Modbus
4 7 (18.92%) ZigBee
5 5 (13.51%) LTE
5 5 (13.51%) RS-232
6 4 (10.81%) Profibus
6 4 (10.81%) RS-485
7 3 (8.11%) RFID
8 2 (5.41%) MQTT
9 1 (2.70%) LoRaWAN
Development Applications
1 11 (29.73%) Git
2 4 (10.81%) Eclipse
2 4 (10.81%) Subversion
3 2 (5.41%) GDB
3 2 (5.41%) GitLab
3 2 (5.41%) Jenkins
3 2 (5.41%) Robot Framework
3 2 (5.41%) Visual Studio
4 1 (2.70%) Balsamiq
4 1 (2.70%) Bitbucket
4 1 (2.70%) JIRA
4 1 (2.70%) Zephyr
General
1 19 (51.35%) Electronics
2 7 (18.92%) Manufacturing
3 6 (16.22%) Social Skills
4 4 (10.81%) Automotive
4 4 (10.81%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (2.70%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.70%) Telecoms
5 1 (2.70%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 19 (51.35%) Embedded Engineer
2 15 (40.54%) Embedded Software Engineer
2 15 (40.54%) Software Engineer
3 12 (32.43%) Senior
4 8 (21.62%) Senior Embedded Engineer
4 8 (21.62%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
4 8 (21.62%) Senior Software Engineer
4 8 (21.62%) Support Engineer
4 8 (21.62%) Technical Engineer
4 8 (21.62%) Technical Support
4 8 (21.62%) Technical Support Engineer
5 6 (16.22%) Firmware Engineer
6 4 (10.81%) Bluetooth Developer
6 4 (10.81%) Developer
6 4 (10.81%) Embedded Firmware Engineer
6 4 (10.81%) IoT Developer
6 4 (10.81%) Mobile Developer
6 4 (10.81%) React Developer
7 2 (5.41%) Linux Engineer
7 2 (5.41%) Senior Firmware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (10.81%) React Native
2 2 (5.41%) pytest
2 2 (5.41%) Unity DI Container
2 2 (5.41%) Yocto
3 1 (2.70%) EDI
Miscellaneous
1 19 (51.35%) IoT
2 12 (32.43%) Embedded Systems
3 6 (16.22%) Raspberry Pi
4 5 (13.51%) Self-Motivation
5 4 (10.81%) CAN bus
6 3 (8.11%) Device Driver
6 3 (8.11%) Smart Home
7 2 (5.41%) ARM Cortex
7 2 (5.41%) FPGA
7 2 (5.41%) PCIe
7 2 (5.41%) Photography
8 1 (2.70%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (2.70%) Mobile App
8 1 (2.70%) NB-IoT
8 1 (2.70%) Product Ownership
8 1 (2.70%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 9 (24.32%) FreeRTOS
2 6 (16.22%) Linux
3 3 (8.11%) Android
3 3 (8.11%) Embedded Linux
4 1 (2.70%) Apple iOS
4 1 (2.70%) ThreadX
4 1 (2.70%) Unix
4 1 (2.70%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (48.65%) Software Engineering
2 9 (24.32%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (10.81%) CRM
3 4 (10.81%) DevOps
3 4 (10.81%) Mathematics
3 4 (10.81%) Mobile Development
3 4 (10.81%) TDD
3 4 (10.81%) Test Automation
3 4 (10.81%) Unit Testing
4 3 (8.11%) BDD
4 3 (8.11%) CI/CD
4 3 (8.11%) Collaborative Culture
4 3 (8.11%) Computer Science
4 3 (8.11%) Roadmaps
4 3 (8.11%) SDLC
4 3 (8.11%) Technical Leadership
4 3 (8.11%) Validation
5 2 (5.41%) Decision-Making
5 2 (5.41%) Hardware-in-the-Loop
5 2 (5.41%) Schematic Capture
Programming Languages
1 21 (56.76%) C
2 10 (27.03%) C++
2 10 (27.03%) Python
3 9 (24.32%) Embedded C
4 2 (5.41%) Bash
Qualifications
1 10 (27.03%) Degree
2 3 (8.11%) Master's Degree
3 2 (5.41%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (2.70%) CREST Certified
4 1 (2.70%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (8.11%) JTAG
2 1 (2.70%) QA
System Software
1 21 (56.76%) Firmware
2 14 (37.84%) Embedded Firmware
Vendors
1 4 (10.81%) Adobe
1 4 (10.81%) Atmel
1 4 (10.81%) Microsoft
2 1 (2.70%) Apple
2 1 (2.70%) Google