Electronics Jobs in the UK excluding London

Electronics
UK > UK excluding London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Electronics in permanent job vacancies in the UK excluding London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Electronics over the 6 months leading up to 13 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 33 125 181
Rank change year-on-year +92 +56 +6
Permanent jobs citing Electronics 2,617 1,635 1,078
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 6.60% 2.04% 1.95%
As % of the General category 9.75% 3.73% 2.89%
Number of salaries quoted 927 1,121 472
10th Percentile £37,574 £31,500 £26,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £38,000 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,000 £50,000 £48,687
Median % change year-on-year +24.00% +2.70% +2.50%
75th Percentile £70,600 £60,750 £62,971
90th Percentile £75,000 £70,000 £75,000
UK median annual salary £62,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +24.00% - -4.76%

All General Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 26,843 43,805 37,282
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 67.74% 54.69% 67.47%
Number of salaries quoted 12,134 27,566 17,972
10th Percentile £25,087 £26,000 £28,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,000 £47,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.05% -9.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £62,200 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £81,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -

Electronics
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Electronics as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Electronics in the UK excluding London

Electronics
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Electronics in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Electronics in the UK excluding London

Electronics
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Electronics in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 13 June 2025.

Salary histogram for Electronics in the UK excluding London

Electronics
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 Electronics within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 13 June 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
South East +77 972 £70,600 +56.89% 465
East of England +36 489 £55,000 -2.22% 336
North of England +145 483 £47,683 -4.63% 232
Yorkshire +148 374 £40,101 -19.80% 100
Midlands +82 283 £47,500 -5.00% 157
East Midlands +99 245 £40,101 -10.89% 52
South West +71 178 £40,101 -10.89% 218
Scotland +137 110 £40,101 -30.26% 104
Wales +52 103 £70,600 +41.20% 38
North West -9 101 £47,683 +0.39% 106
West Midlands -33 37 £55,000 -4.35% 101
North East +47 7 £55,000 -1.79% 28
Northern Ireland +14 3 - - 13
Electronics
UK

Electronics
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Application Platforms
1 13 (0.50%) Kinematics
2 3 (0.11%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.076%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (0.076%) Skype for Business
4 1 (0.038%) Apache
4 1 (0.038%) Confluence
4 1 (0.038%) Mendix
Applications
1 167 (6.38%) Simulink
2 72 (2.75%) Microsoft Excel
3 53 (2.03%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (0.15%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (0.11%) GNU Octave
5 3 (0.11%) OrCAD
6 2 (0.076%) AutoCAD
7 1 (0.038%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 1 (0.038%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 139 (5.31%) Teamcenter
2 1 (0.038%) BASE24
2 1 (0.038%) LabWindows
2 1 (0.038%) SAP QM
2 1 (0.038%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 28 (1.07%) AWS
2 25 (0.96%) SaaS
3 18 (0.69%) Azure
4 9 (0.34%) Microsoft 365
5 7 (0.27%) Serverless
6 6 (0.23%) AWS Lambda
7 5 (0.19%) Amazon EC2
7 5 (0.19%) Amazon S3
7 5 (0.19%) GCP
8 3 (0.11%) Entra ID
8 3 (0.11%) GitHub
9 2 (0.076%) Amazon Ads
9 2 (0.076%) Amazon SageMaker
9 2 (0.076%) Facebook Ads
9 2 (0.076%) Google Ads
9 2 (0.076%) Nutanix
9 2 (0.076%) OCI
9 2 (0.076%) Salesforce Service Cloud
9 2 (0.076%) Snowflake
9 2 (0.076%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 745 (28.47%) Bluetooth
2 744 (28.43%) 5G
3 742 (28.35%) Wireless
4 740 (28.28%) Wi-Fi
5 737 (28.16%) LTE
6 722 (27.59%) GSM
7 721 (27.55%) UMTS
8 21 (0.80%) Modbus
9 20 (0.76%) Ethernet
10 15 (0.57%) WAN
11 14 (0.53%) SD-WAN
12 13 (0.50%) Profibus
13 11 (0.42%) RS-485
14 8 (0.31%) RS-232
14 8 (0.31%) VoIP
15 7 (0.27%) TCP/IP
16 5 (0.19%) MQTT
16 5 (0.19%) ZigBee
17 4 (0.15%) Cisco IOS
17 4 (0.15%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (0.27%) NoSQL
2 5 (0.19%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (0.15%) Big Data
3 4 (0.15%) MongoDB
3 4 (0.15%) MySQL
4 3 (0.11%) SQL Server
5 2 (0.076%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (0.076%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (0.076%) Geospatial Data
5 2 (0.076%) GIS
5 2 (0.076%) Oracle Exadata
5 2 (0.076%) Tableau
6 1 (0.038%) DynamoDB
6 1 (0.038%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (0.038%) Flink
6 1 (0.038%) NonStop SQL
6 1 (0.038%) Power BI
6 1 (0.038%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 589 (22.51%) Rational DOORS
2 28 (1.07%) Git
3 22 (0.84%) JIRA
4 12 (0.46%) LabVIEW
5 10 (0.38%) Subversion
6 7 (0.27%) Jenkins
7 5 (0.19%) GitLab
8 3 (0.11%) Visual Studio
9 2 (0.076%) Android Studio
9 2 (0.076%) Rational Rhapsody
9 2 (0.076%) webpack
10 1 (0.038%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.038%) Carbide.c++
10 1 (0.038%) CMake
10 1 (0.038%) GDB
10 1 (0.038%) Jasmine
10 1 (0.038%) Karma Test Runner
10 1 (0.038%) Protractor
10 1 (0.038%) VersaTest
10 1 (0.038%) WiX
General
1 655 (25.03%) Social Skills
2 487 (18.61%) Manufacturing
3 383 (14.64%) Marketing
4 249 (9.51%) Presentation Skills
5 205 (7.83%) Aerospace
6 152 (5.81%) Analytical Skills
7 92 (3.52%) Finance
8 62 (2.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 62 (2.37%) Telecoms
9 49 (1.87%) Public Sector
10 43 (1.64%) Automotive
11 35 (1.34%) Military
12 32 (1.22%) Aviation
13 19 (0.73%) Billing
14 17 (0.65%) Legal
15 15 (0.57%) Organisational Skills
16 14 (0.53%) Law
17 13 (0.50%) Avionics
18 9 (0.34%) Advertising
19 8 (0.31%) Retail
Job Titles
1 820 (31.33%) Electronics Engineer
2 732 (27.97%) Test Engineer
3 724 (27.67%) Electronics Test Engineer
4 622 (23.77%) Systems Engineer
5 407 (15.55%) Senior
6 378 (14.44%) Principal Engineer
7 247 (9.44%) Principal Systems Engineer
8 204 (7.80%) Senior Systems Engineer
9 146 (5.58%) Junior
10 140 (5.35%) Technical Manager
11 138 (5.27%) Junior Systems Engineer
12 136 (5.20%) Help Desk Manager
13 135 (5.16%) Lead
14 120 (4.59%) Software Assurance Engineer
15 101 (3.86%) Products Support Manager
16 80 (3.06%) Senior Electrical Engineer
17 76 (2.90%) Product Manager
18 74 (2.83%) Support Manager
19 66 (2.52%) Software Engineer
20 64 (2.45%) Design Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (0.53%) .NET
2 13 (0.50%) Middleware
3 10 (0.38%) REST
4 8 (0.31%) React
5 7 (0.27%) ASP.NET
5 7 (0.27%) Node.js
6 5 (0.19%) .NET Core
6 5 (0.19%) .NET Framework
6 5 (0.19%) Entity Framework
6 5 (0.19%) HTML
7 4 (0.15%) CSS
7 4 (0.15%) Spring
7 4 (0.15%) Spring Boot
8 3 (0.11%) 802.1X
8 3 (0.11%) pytest
9 2 (0.076%) Android SDK
9 2 (0.076%) Electron
9 2 (0.076%) FastAPI
9 2 (0.076%) Vue
9 2 (0.076%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 740 (28.28%) Driving Licence
2 544 (20.79%) Algorithms
3 68 (2.60%) Self-Motivation
4 42 (1.60%) Embedded Systems
5 39 (1.49%) IoT
6 28 (1.07%) SCADA
7 27 (1.03%) Analogue Electronics
8 24 (0.92%) FPGA
9 21 (0.80%) Renewable Energy
10 19 (0.73%) Robotics
11 18 (0.69%) VHDL
12 15 (0.57%) Management Information System
13 13 (0.50%) Optoelectronics
14 12 (0.46%) NB-IoT
15 11 (0.42%) Self-Driving Car
16 10 (0.38%) Cloud Native
16 10 (0.38%) Data Structures
17 9 (0.34%) Data Centre
17 9 (0.34%) Legacy Systems
17 9 (0.34%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 50 (1.91%) Linux
2 39 (1.49%) Windows
3 15 (0.57%) Windows Server
4 13 (0.50%) Android
5 12 (0.46%) Apple iOS
6 11 (0.42%) Embedded Linux
7 5 (0.19%) FreeRTOS
7 5 (0.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 4 (0.15%) Unix
8 4 (0.15%) Windows 10
9 3 (0.11%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.038%) Debian
10 1 (0.038%) Robot Operating System
10 1 (0.038%) Rocky
10 1 (0.038%) VMS
10 1 (0.038%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 876 (33.47%) Systems Engineering
2 871 (33.28%) Mentoring
3 806 (30.80%) Validation
4 752 (28.74%) Coaching
5 744 (28.43%) Customer Requirements
6 738 (28.20%) Verification and Validation
7 722 (27.59%) Test Strategy
8 577 (22.05%) Signal Processing
9 535 (20.44%) Technical Leadership
10 497 (18.99%) Physics
11 441 (16.85%) Problem-Solving
12 427 (16.32%) Mathematics
13 400 (15.28%) Continuous Improvement
14 249 (9.51%) Software Engineering
15 247 (9.44%) Test Planning
16 242 (9.25%) Decision-Making
17 198 (7.57%) Computer Science
18 194 (7.41%) Project Management
19 153 (5.85%) Software Assurance
20 152 (5.81%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
Programming Languages
1 240 (9.17%) MATLAB
2 98 (3.74%) R
3 92 (3.52%) C
4 91 (3.48%) C++
5 64 (2.45%) Python
6 50 (1.91%) C#
7 27 (1.03%) Java
8 16 (0.61%) JavaScript
8 16 (0.61%) SQL
9 15 (0.57%) Bash
9 15 (0.57%) PowerShell
10 10 (0.38%) TypeScript
11 9 (0.34%) Embedded C
12 8 (0.31%) Ladder Logic
13 5 (0.19%) Ada
14 4 (0.15%) VB
15 3 (0.11%) Go
15 3 (0.11%) PHP
16 2 (0.076%) Pascal
16 2 (0.076%) Rust
Qualifications
1 1,584 (60.53%) Degree
2 1,011 (38.63%) BPSS Clearance
3 779 (29.77%) HND
4 106 (4.05%) Master's Degree
5 65 (2.48%) Security Cleared
6 30 (1.15%) SC Cleared
7 25 (0.96%) Numerate Degree
8 22 (0.84%) CEH
9 21 (0.80%) Computer Science Degree
10 14 (0.53%) DV Cleared
11 11 (0.42%) CompTIA Security+
11 11 (0.42%) Network+ Certification
12 7 (0.27%) PhD
13 6 (0.23%) HNC
14 4 (0.15%) CCNA
14 4 (0.15%) Cisco Certification
15 3 (0.11%) DBS Check
15 3 (0.11%) GCSC
15 3 (0.11%) JNCIA
15 3 (0.11%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 507 (19.37%) ISO/IEC 15288
2 23 (0.88%) DO-254
3 17 (0.65%) SLA
4 10 (0.38%) PMO
4 10 (0.38%) QA
5 8 (0.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 6 (0.23%) Def Stans
6 6 (0.23%) GDPR
6 6 (0.23%) NIST
7 5 (0.19%) Automotive SPICE
7 5 (0.19%) ISO 13485
7 5 (0.19%) ISO 26262
7 5 (0.19%) ISO 9001
8 4 (0.15%) IEC 62304
8 4 (0.15%) JTAG
9 3 (0.11%) Accessibility
10 2 (0.076%) COSHH
10 2 (0.076%) Cyber Essentials
10 2 (0.076%) Data Quality
11 1 (0.038%) ISO 14001
System Software
1 75 (2.87%) Firmware
2 30 (1.15%) Embedded Firmware
3 12 (0.46%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (0.46%) vSphere
4 5 (0.19%) Citrix Hypervisor
5 4 (0.15%) Active Directory
5 4 (0.15%) Docker
Systems Management
1 16 (0.61%) Terraform
2 14 (0.53%) Ansible
3 11 (0.42%) Puppet
4 6 (0.23%) Kubernetes
5 5 (0.19%) Functional Safety
6 4 (0.15%) Microsoft Intune
6 4 (0.15%) SCCM
7 1 (0.038%) Kibana
7 1 (0.038%) Kustomize
7 1 (0.038%) Marathon
Vendors
1 580 (22.16%) IBM
2 120 (4.59%) SAP
3 75 (2.87%) Microsoft
4 62 (2.37%) EMC
5 37 (1.41%) Siemens
6 22 (0.84%) Oracle
7 16 (0.61%) Rockwell
8 15 (0.57%) Dell
9 13 (0.50%) Allen-Bradley
9 13 (0.50%) YouTube
10 12 (0.46%) Citrix
10 12 (0.46%) VMware
11 11 (0.42%) Mentor Graphics
12 10 (0.38%) Google
13 9 (0.34%) Cisco
13 9 (0.34%) Intel
14 6 (0.23%) Xilinx
15 4 (0.15%) Agilent
15 4 (0.15%) Fortinet
16 3 (0.11%) Wonderware