CAN bus Job Trends in the UK excluding London

CAN bus
UK > UK excluding London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term CAN bus in permanent job vacancies in the UK excluding London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited CAN bus over the 6 months leading up to 12 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 489 532 551
Rank change year-on-year +43 +19 +215
Permanent jobs citing CAN bus 17 19 9
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.041% 0.053% 0.026%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.13% 0.15% 0.075%
Number of salaries quoted 8 4 7
10th Percentile - £35,050 £49,750
25th Percentile £55,000 £36,625 £51,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £43,750 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +37.14% -20.45% -8.33%
75th Percentile £65,000 £51,250 £57,500
90th Percentile - - £63,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £43,750 £70,000
% change year-on-year +37.14% -37.50% +16.67%

All Generic Skills
UK excluding London

CAN bus falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 13,545 12,317 11,960
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 32.28% 34.25% 34.48%
Number of salaries quoted 6,236 5,308 8,511
10th Percentile £26,313 £30,500 £29,000
25th Percentile £31,500 £41,250 £37,756
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £54,793 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.31% +3.38% -3.64%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,341 £67,500
90th Percentile £78,790 £82,500 £82,548
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -7.69%

CAN bus
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

CAN bus job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

CAN bus
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing CAN bus

CAN bus
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 CAN bus within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 12 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
Scotland - 8 £60,000 -
Wales - 4 - -
North West - 3 - -
North of England - 3 - -
Midlands +19 2 - -
East Midlands -8 2 - -
CAN bus
UK

CAN bus
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 3 (17.65%) Simulink
Cloud Services
1 4 (23.53%) Google Workspace
1 4 (23.53%) SurveyMonkey
Communications & Networking
1 4 (23.53%) Bluetooth
1 4 (23.53%) Firewall
1 4 (23.53%) Intrusion Detection
1 4 (23.53%) Modbus
1 4 (23.53%) Network Security
1 4 (23.53%) TCP/IP
1 4 (23.53%) VLAN
1 4 (23.53%) Wireshark
1 4 (23.53%) ZigBee
Development Applications
1 4 (23.53%) Burp Suite
1 4 (23.53%) Metasploit
General
1 4 (23.53%) Aerospace
1 4 (23.53%) Law
1 4 (23.53%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 8 (47.06%) Embedded Engineer
1 8 (47.06%) Embedded Software Engineer
1 8 (47.06%) Senior
1 8 (47.06%) Senior Embedded Engineer
1 8 (47.06%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
1 8 (47.06%) Senior Software Engineer
1 8 (47.06%) Software Engineer
2 3 (17.65%) Control Systems Engineer
2 3 (17.65%) Research Engineer
2 3 (17.65%) Systems Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Support Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Technical Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Technical Support
3 2 (11.76%) Technical Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 8 (47.06%) Embedded Systems
2 4 (23.53%) Cyber Threat
2 4 (23.53%) IoT
2 4 (23.53%) Operational Technology
2 4 (23.53%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 4 (23.53%) Android
1 4 (23.53%) Kali Linux
1 4 (23.53%) Linux
1 4 (23.53%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (70.59%) Cybersecurity
2 8 (47.06%) Embedded Software Development
2 8 (47.06%) Safety Engineering
2 8 (47.06%) SDLC
2 8 (47.06%) Software Engineering
3 4 (23.53%) AI
3 4 (23.53%) Cloud Security
3 4 (23.53%) Computer Science
3 4 (23.53%) Cryptography
3 4 (23.53%) Ergonomics
3 4 (23.53%) Human Factors
3 4 (23.53%) Machine Learning
3 4 (23.53%) Prototyping
3 4 (23.53%) Psychology
3 4 (23.53%) Risk Management
3 4 (23.53%) Security Architecture
3 4 (23.53%) Smart Manufacturing
3 4 (23.53%) Statistics
3 4 (23.53%) User Experience
3 4 (23.53%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 12 (70.59%) C++
2 8 (47.06%) C
3 4 (23.53%) Java
3 4 (23.53%) Python
3 4 (23.53%) R
3 4 (23.53%) Rust
4 3 (17.65%) MATLAB
5 1 (5.88%) VB
Qualifications
1 7 (41.18%) BPSS Clearance
1 7 (41.18%) Degree
2 4 (23.53%) Computer Science Degree
2 4 (23.53%) SC Cleared
2 4 (23.53%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (47.06%) IEC 61508
1 8 (47.06%) MISRA
1 8 (47.06%) MISRA C
Systems Management
1 8 (47.06%) Functional Safety
2 4 (23.53%) Nessus
2 4 (23.53%) Nmap
Vendors
1 4 (23.53%) Cisco
1 4 (23.53%) Google
1 4 (23.53%) Qualtrics
1 4 (23.53%) Red Hat
1 4 (23.53%) Splunk