Bluetooth
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Bluetooth skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Bluetooth over the 6 months to 4 December 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 717 945 952
Rank change year-on-year +228 +7 -269
Permanent jobs citing Bluetooth 24 131 147
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.045% 0.11% 0.11%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.30% 0.85% 0.89%
Number of salaries quoted 24 67 106
10th Percentile £33,000 £44,742 £46,563
25th Percentile £47,500 £56,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +18.18% -4.35%
75th Percentile £85,313 £75,000 £66,000
90th Percentile £90,625 - £80,625
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £70,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -14.29% +27.27% -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

Bluetooth is in the Communications and Computer Networking category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 8,066 15,350 16,547
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 15.15% 12.38% 12.90%
Number of salaries quoted 6,330 10,317 11,453
10th Percentile £26,750 £28,750 £27,500
25th Percentile £34,000 £37,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -
75th Percentile £68,000 £72,500 £69,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £88,750 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £47,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -4.26% +4.44% -

Bluetooth
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Bluetooth as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Bluetooth in the UK

Bluetooth
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Bluetooth.

Salary trend for Bluetooth in the UK

Bluetooth
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Bluetooth over the 6 months to 4 December 2023.

Salary histogram for Bluetooth in the UK

Bluetooth
Top 11 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Bluetooth within the UK over the 6 months to 4 December 2023. 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
England +232 17 £60,000 -14.29% 65
UK excluding London +163 17 £60,000 -14.29% 58
Work from Home +225 9 £60,000 +11.63% 31
Midlands +124 9 £62,500 - 12
West Midlands +135 8 £60,750 - 9
South East +134 3 £62,500 -10.71% 12
South West +64 3 £50,000 -20.00% 15
North of England +147 1 £68,000 +8.80% 3
East of England +107 1 £60,000 +60.00% 15
North West +104 1 £68,000 +8.80% 3
East Midlands +40 1 £65,000 - 3

Bluetooth
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 1 (4.17%) Acrobat
1 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (4.17%) MS Visio
1 1 (4.17%) OrCAD
Cloud Services
1 8 (33.33%) AWS
2 7 (29.17%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 9 (37.50%) Wi-Fi
2 5 (20.83%) Wireless
3 4 (16.67%) GSM
3 4 (16.67%) TCP/IP
4 3 (12.50%) 802.11
4 3 (12.50%) Internet
4 3 (12.50%) J1939
4 3 (12.50%) MQTT
5 2 (8.33%) 3G
5 2 (8.33%) 4G
5 2 (8.33%) ZigBee
6 1 (4.17%) 2G
6 1 (4.17%) 3GPP
6 1 (4.17%) Ethernet
6 1 (4.17%) LTE
6 1 (4.17%) Modbus
6 1 (4.17%) RS-232
6 1 (4.17%) VPN
6 1 (4.17%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.17%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 3 (12.50%) Git
1 3 (12.50%) Subversion
General
1 5 (20.83%) Manufacturing
2 4 (16.67%) Electronics
3 3 (12.50%) Automotive
3 3 (12.50%) Social Skills
4 1 (4.17%) Finance
4 1 (4.17%) Retail
Job Titles
1 13 (54.17%) Senior
2 11 (45.83%) Embedded Engineer
3 8 (33.33%) Developer
3 8 (33.33%) Embedded Software Engineer
3 8 (33.33%) Software Engineer
4 7 (29.17%) Software Developer
5 6 (25.00%) Senior Developer
5 6 (25.00%) Senior Software Developer
6 4 (16.67%) Electronics Engineer
6 4 (16.67%) Senior Embedded Engineer
7 3 (12.50%) Telematics Engineer
8 1 (4.17%) 2nd Line Desktop Support
8 1 (4.17%) 2nd Line Support
8 1 (4.17%) C++ Software Engineer
8 1 (4.17%) Linux Engineer
8 1 (4.17%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
8 1 (4.17%) Senior Electronics Engineer
8 1 (4.17%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
8 1 (4.17%) Senior Linux Engineer
8 1 (4.17%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (29.17%) Node.js
1 7 (29.17%) Vue
2 3 (12.50%) 802.1X
3 1 (4.17%) .NET
3 1 (4.17%) JSON
3 1 (4.17%) Web Services
3 1 (4.17%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 5 (20.83%) Embedded Systems
1 5 (20.83%) IoT
2 3 (12.50%) ARM Cortex
3 2 (8.33%) Device Driver
4 1 (4.17%) Algorithms
4 1 (4.17%) Fat Client
4 1 (4.17%) Home Automation
4 1 (4.17%) Smartcard
4 1 (4.17%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 3 (12.50%) FreeRTOS
2 2 (8.33%) Embedded Linux
2 2 (8.33%) Linux
3 1 (4.17%) Android
3 1 (4.17%) Apple iOS
3 1 (4.17%) Windows
3 1 (4.17%) Windows 10
3 1 (4.17%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (54.17%) Software Engineering
2 7 (29.17%) Architectural Design
2 7 (29.17%) DevOps
2 7 (29.17%) Logistics
2 7 (29.17%) Microservices
2 7 (29.17%) Test Automation
3 6 (25.00%) Validation
4 3 (12.50%) Agile
4 3 (12.50%) CAD
4 3 (12.50%) Embedded Software Development
4 3 (12.50%) Multithreading
4 3 (12.50%) Project Management
4 3 (12.50%) Scrum
4 3 (12.50%) Telematics
5 1 (4.17%) Android Development
5 1 (4.17%) Design for Manufacturing
5 1 (4.17%) Mobile Device Management
5 1 (4.17%) Power Management
5 1 (4.17%) Product Requirements
5 1 (4.17%) Schematic Capture
Programming Languages
1 10 (41.67%) C
2 7 (29.17%) C++
2 7 (29.17%) JavaScript
2 7 (29.17%) TypeScript
3 2 (8.33%) Bash
3 2 (8.33%) Python
4 1 (4.17%) ANSI C
4 1 (4.17%) PHP
Qualifications
1 4 (16.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (12.50%) Automotive SPICE
1 3 (12.50%) AUTOSAR
2 1 (4.17%) Accessibility
2 1 (4.17%) DO-178B
2 1 (4.17%) MISRA
System Software
1 9 (37.50%) Firmware
2 5 (20.83%) Embedded Firmware
3 1 (4.17%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (4.17%) SCCM
Vendors
1 2 (8.33%) EMC
2 1 (4.17%) Adobe
2 1 (4.17%) Microsoft