Embedded Engineer Jobs in the UK excluding London

Embedded Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Embedded Engineer salary in the UK excluding London is £55,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 20 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 372 166 443
Rank change year-on-year -206 +277 -112
Permanent jobs requiring an Embedded Engineer 232 1,247 347
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.58% 1.74% 0.59%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.64% 1.84% 0.66%
Number of salaries quoted 128 981 194
10th Percentile £42,500 £38,750 £34,324
25th Percentile £47,500 £45,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,500 £55,000 £59,500
Median % change year-on-year +0.91% -7.56% +13.33%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £69,688
90th Percentile £68,825 £75,000 £75,000
UK median annual salary £57,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +3.64% -8.33% +9.09%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the UK excluding London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 36,162 67,952 52,783
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.75% 94.86% 89.22%
Number of salaries quoted 18,671 47,990 30,170
10th Percentile £26,968 £26,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,564 £50,000 £53,059
Median % change year-on-year +3.13% -5.76% +6.12%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £76,250 £81,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -

Embedded Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Embedded Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Embedded Engineer in the UK excluding London

Embedded Engineer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Embedded Engineer in the UK excluding London

Embedded Engineer
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Embedded Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 20 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Embedded Engineer in the UK excluding London

Embedded Engineer
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 Embedded Engineer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 20 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
South East -100 66 £61,250 +6.52% 77
East of England -22 60 £54,500 -9.17% 63
Scotland +50 36 £60,000 +14.29% 34
North of England -123 25 £55,000 +10.00% 54
Midlands -94 24 £55,000 +4.76% 33
East Midlands -44 18 £55,000 +10.00% 16
South West -57 16 £50,000 -9.09% 42
Yorkshire -24 10 £50,000 - 32
North West -83 9 £55,000 - 10
North East +14 6 £61,000 +10.91% 12
West Midlands -32 6 £55,000 -4.35% 16
Wales +10 4 £57,500 +15.00% 5
Northern Ireland +25 1 £50,000 -
Embedded Engineer
UK

Embedded Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 20 May 2025, Embedded Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the UK excluding London region featuring Embedded Engineer in the job title.

1 138 (59.48%) C
2 135 (58.19%) Embedded Systems
3 133 (57.33%) Software Engineering
4 96 (41.38%) C++
5 86 (37.07%) Agile
6 78 (33.62%) CI/CD
7 73 (31.47%) Continuous Deployment
8 70 (30.17%) Artificial Intelligence
8 70 (30.17%) JIRA
9 68 (29.31%) Roadmaps
10 65 (28.02%) Broadband
10 65 (28.02%) Firmware
10 65 (28.02%) Middleware
10 65 (28.02%) Release Automation
10 65 (28.02%) Strategic Thinking
10 65 (28.02%) Software Delivery
11 62 (26.72%) Linux
12 47 (20.26%) Electronics
13 46 (19.83%) Embedded Firmware
14 33 (14.22%) Embedded Linux
14 33 (14.22%) Embedded C
15 32 (13.79%) Embedded Software Development
16 31 (13.36%) Finance
16 31 (13.36%) Wireless
16 31 (13.36%) Manufacturing
17 27 (11.64%) Degree
18 21 (9.05%) Modbus
19 20 (8.62%) Multithreading
19 20 (8.62%) Test Automation
19 20 (8.62%) Computer Science

Embedded Engineer Skill Set
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:

Applications
1 2 (0.86%) Simulink
2 1 (0.43%) CANalyzer
2 1 (0.43%) GNU Octave
2 1 (0.43%) OrCAD
Cloud Services
1 1 (0.43%) AWS
1 1 (0.43%) AWS IoT
1 1 (0.43%) Azure
1 1 (0.43%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 65 (28.02%) Broadband
2 31 (13.36%) Wireless
3 21 (9.05%) Modbus
4 18 (7.76%) TCP/IP
5 17 (7.33%) Bluetooth
6 15 (6.47%) RS-232
7 14 (6.03%) Software-Defined Radio
8 13 (5.60%) ZigBee
9 12 (5.17%) Ethernet
9 12 (5.17%) Wi-Fi
10 10 (4.31%) RS-485
11 8 (3.45%) Profibus
12 7 (3.02%) WAN
13 4 (1.72%) 5G
13 4 (1.72%) LTE
13 4 (1.72%) SD-WAN
14 3 (1.29%) GSM
15 2 (0.86%) LoRaWAN
15 2 (0.86%) MQTT
15 2 (0.86%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (0.86%) Scylla
2 1 (0.43%) Big Data
2 1 (0.43%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 70 (30.17%) JIRA
2 11 (4.74%) Git
3 4 (1.72%) CppUnit
3 4 (1.72%) Rational DOORS
3 4 (1.72%) Visual Studio
4 3 (1.29%) Subversion
5 2 (0.86%) Eclipse
5 2 (0.86%) Fiddler
5 2 (0.86%) IDA Disassembler
5 2 (0.86%) Jenkins
5 2 (0.86%) Rational Rhapsody
6 1 (0.43%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (0.43%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.43%) FitNesse
6 1 (0.43%) GCC
6 1 (0.43%) GDB
6 1 (0.43%) GitLab
6 1 (0.43%) LabVIEW
6 1 (0.43%) Newman
6 1 (0.43%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 47 (20.26%) Electronics
2 31 (13.36%) Finance
2 31 (13.36%) Manufacturing
3 19 (8.19%) Social Skills
4 14 (6.03%) Automotive
4 14 (6.03%) Telecoms
5 11 (4.74%) Marketing
6 9 (3.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 8 (3.45%) Aerospace
7 8 (3.45%) Organisational Skills
8 7 (3.02%) Wearables
9 6 (2.59%) Analytical Skills
9 6 (2.59%) Public Sector
10 3 (1.29%) Legal
11 2 (0.86%) Agriculture
12 1 (0.43%) Advertising
12 1 (0.43%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.43%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 65 (28.02%) Middleware
2 8 (3.45%) Yocto
3 2 (0.86%) OpenEmbedded
4 1 (0.43%) .NET
4 1 (0.43%) Boost C++ Libraries
4 1 (0.43%) JSON
4 1 (0.43%) MFC
4 1 (0.43%) Qt
4 1 (0.43%) STL
Miscellaneous
1 135 (58.19%) Embedded Systems
2 19 (8.19%) Algorithms
3 14 (6.03%) Device Driver
3 14 (6.03%) e-Learning
4 12 (5.17%) MicroBlaze
4 12 (5.17%) RISC-V
5 10 (4.31%) IoT
6 9 (3.88%) Product Ownership
7 7 (3.02%) ARM Cortex
8 6 (2.59%) Analogue Electronics
8 6 (2.59%) GNSS
9 5 (2.16%) CCTV
9 5 (2.16%) Smart Energy
10 4 (1.72%) EMV
10 4 (1.72%) FPGA
10 4 (1.72%) Self-Driving Car
11 3 (1.29%) Raspberry Pi
11 3 (1.29%) Robotics
11 3 (1.29%) Virtual Team
12 2 (0.86%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 62 (26.72%) Linux
2 33 (14.22%) Embedded Linux
3 13 (5.60%) FreeRTOS
4 6 (2.59%) Android
5 2 (0.86%) Windows
6 1 (0.43%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.43%) Robot Operating System
6 1 (0.43%) ThreadX
Processes & Methodologies
1 133 (57.33%) Software Engineering
2 86 (37.07%) Agile
3 78 (33.62%) CI/CD
4 73 (31.47%) Continuous Deployment
5 70 (30.17%) Artificial Intelligence
6 68 (29.31%) Roadmaps
7 65 (28.02%) Release Automation
7 65 (28.02%) Software Delivery
7 65 (28.02%) Strategic Thinking
8 32 (13.79%) Embedded Software Development
9 20 (8.62%) Computer Science
9 20 (8.62%) Multithreading
9 20 (8.62%) Test Automation
10 18 (7.76%) Collaborative Working
11 17 (7.33%) Continuous Improvement
11 17 (7.33%) Signal Processing
11 17 (7.33%) Software Architecture
11 17 (7.33%) Validation
12 16 (6.90%) Digital Signal Processing
13 15 (6.47%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 138 (59.48%) C
2 96 (41.38%) C++
3 33 (14.22%) Embedded C
4 20 (8.62%) Python
5 11 (4.74%) C#
6 7 (3.02%) Embedded C++
7 6 (2.59%) Bash
8 5 (2.16%) Assembly Language
9 3 (1.29%) Ada
9 3 (1.29%) MATLAB
9 3 (1.29%) SQL
10 2 (0.86%) Perl
10 2 (0.86%) PowerShell
10 2 (0.86%) Rust
10 2 (0.86%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.43%) Groovy
11 1 (0.43%) Java
11 1 (0.43%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.43%) R
11 1 (0.43%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 27 (11.64%) Degree
2 18 (7.76%) Security Cleared
3 15 (6.47%) SC Cleared
4 6 (2.59%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (1.29%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.43%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.43%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (2.16%) QA
2 4 (1.72%) MISRA
2 4 (1.72%) PMO
3 2 (0.86%) IEC 62304
3 2 (0.86%) ISO 9001
3 2 (0.86%) JTAG
4 1 (0.43%) Automotive SPICE
4 1 (0.43%) AUTOSAR
4 1 (0.43%) IEC 61508
4 1 (0.43%) ISO 13485
4 1 (0.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.43%) MISRA C
System Software
1 65 (28.02%) Firmware
2 46 (19.83%) Embedded Firmware
3 1 (0.43%) Docker
Vendors
1 6 (2.59%) SAP
2 5 (2.16%) Intel
3 3 (1.29%) EMC
3 3 (1.29%) IBM
3 3 (1.29%) NVIDIA
4 2 (0.86%) Atmel
5 1 (0.43%) Allen-Bradley
5 1 (0.43%) Google
5 1 (0.43%) Lauterbach
5 1 (0.43%) Microsoft
5 1 (0.43%) Parasoft
5 1 (0.43%) QNX
5 1 (0.43%) Renesas
5 1 (0.43%) Xilinx