Electronics Jobs

Electronics
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Electronics in permanent job vacancies. 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 49 171 243
Rank change year-on-year +122 +72 +63
Permanent jobs citing Electronics 2,847 1,777 1,392
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 5.09% 1.62% 1.51%
As % of the General category 7.24% 2.82% 2.23%
Number of salaries quoted 1,027 1,225 711
10th Percentile £37,574 £32,500 £31,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £38,500 £39,544
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +24.00% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £70,600 £62,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £77,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,000 £50,000 £48,687
% change year-on-year +24.00% +2.70% +2.50%

All General Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 39,328 62,940 62,359
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 70.26% 57.28% 67.43%
Number of salaries quoted 18,408 40,910 35,115
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,500 £32,276
25th Percentile £37,170 £36,250 £42,874
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £81,250
90th Percentile £98,474 £92,500 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £48,000 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +1.05% -9.52% +5.00%

Electronics
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Electronics in the UK

Electronics
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Electronics in the UK

Electronics
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Electronics over the 6 months to 13 June 2025.

Salary histogram for Electronics in the UK

Electronics
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Electronics within the UK 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
UK excluding London +92 2,617 £62,000 +24.00% 1,435
England +119 2,482 £62,000 +18.10% 1,602
South East +77 972 £70,600 +56.89% 430
East of England +36 489 £55,000 -2.22% 313
North of England +145 483 £47,683 -4.63% 249
Work from Home +118 473 £70,600 +34.48% 517
Yorkshire +148 374 £40,101 -19.80% 117
Midlands +82 283 £47,500 -5.00% 153
East Midlands +99 245 £40,101 -10.89% 52
South West +71 178 £40,101 -10.89% 203
Scotland +137 110 £40,101 -30.26% 95
Wales +52 103 £70,600 +41.20% 38
North West -9 101 £47,683 +0.39% 108
London +71 64 £65,000 +8.33% 291
West Midlands -33 37 £55,000 -4.35% 98
North East +47 7 £55,000 -1.79% 26
Northern Ireland +14 3 - - 11

Electronics
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:

Application Platforms
1 13 (0.46%) Kinematics
2 5 (0.18%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.070%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (0.070%) Skype for Business
4 1 (0.035%) Apache
4 1 (0.035%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.035%) Confluence
4 1 (0.035%) Mendix
Applications
1 174 (6.11%) Simulink
2 72 (2.53%) Microsoft Excel
3 54 (1.90%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (0.14%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (0.11%) GNU Octave
5 3 (0.11%) OrCAD
6 2 (0.070%) AutoCAD
7 1 (0.035%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 1 (0.035%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 146 (5.13%) Teamcenter
2 1 (0.035%) BASE24
2 1 (0.035%) C-CURE
2 1 (0.035%) LabWindows
2 1 (0.035%) SAP QM
2 1 (0.035%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 50 (1.76%) AWS
2 39 (1.37%) Azure
3 26 (0.91%) SaaS
4 16 (0.56%) GCP
5 12 (0.42%) Microsoft 365
5 12 (0.42%) Serverless
6 9 (0.32%) AWS Lambda
7 5 (0.18%) Amazon EC2
7 5 (0.18%) Amazon S3
8 4 (0.14%) Amazon SageMaker
9 3 (0.11%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (0.11%) Entra ID
9 3 (0.11%) GitHub
9 3 (0.11%) Salesforce Service Cloud
9 3 (0.11%) Slack
10 2 (0.070%) AWS IoT
10 2 (0.070%) Google Ads
10 2 (0.070%) Google Workspace
10 2 (0.070%) Power Platform
10 2 (0.070%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 754 (26.48%) Bluetooth
2 753 (26.45%) 5G
3 751 (26.38%) Wireless
4 749 (26.31%) Wi-Fi
5 746 (26.20%) LTE
6 731 (25.68%) GSM
7 730 (25.64%) UMTS
8 21 (0.74%) Modbus
9 20 (0.70%) Ethernet
10 16 (0.56%) WAN
11 14 (0.49%) SD-WAN
12 13 (0.46%) Profibus
13 11 (0.39%) RS-485
14 9 (0.32%) Firewall
15 8 (0.28%) RS-232
15 8 (0.28%) TCP/IP
15 8 (0.28%) VoIP
16 5 (0.18%) MQTT
16 5 (0.18%) VPN
16 5 (0.18%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (0.63%) NoSQL
2 17 (0.60%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (0.35%) RDBMS
3 10 (0.35%) Relational Database
4 6 (0.21%) MongoDB
5 4 (0.14%) Big Data
5 4 (0.14%) MySQL
6 3 (0.11%) Metadata
6 3 (0.11%) SQL Server
7 2 (0.070%) Amazon QuickSight
7 2 (0.070%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (0.070%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (0.070%) Geospatial Data
7 2 (0.070%) GIS
7 2 (0.070%) Oracle Exadata
7 2 (0.070%) Tableau
8 1 (0.035%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.035%) Flink
8 1 (0.035%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.035%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 596 (20.93%) Rational DOORS
2 30 (1.05%) Git
3 22 (0.77%) JIRA
4 12 (0.42%) LabVIEW
5 10 (0.35%) Subversion
6 7 (0.25%) Jenkins
7 5 (0.18%) GitLab
8 3 (0.11%) GDB
8 3 (0.11%) Visual Studio
9 2 (0.070%) Android Studio
9 2 (0.070%) Octopus Deploy
9 2 (0.070%) Rational Rhapsody
9 2 (0.070%) TeamCity
9 2 (0.070%) webpack
10 1 (0.035%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.035%) CMake
10 1 (0.035%) Jasmine
10 1 (0.035%) Karma Test Runner
10 1 (0.035%) Protractor
10 1 (0.035%) VersaTest
General
1 779 (27.36%) Social Skills
2 567 (19.92%) Manufacturing
3 498 (17.49%) Marketing
4 264 (9.27%) Presentation Skills
5 213 (7.48%) Aerospace
6 201 (7.06%) Analytical Skills
7 169 (5.94%) Finance
8 133 (4.67%) Telecoms
9 120 (4.21%) Public Sector
10 64 (2.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 45 (1.58%) Automotive
12 38 (1.33%) Advertising
13 35 (1.23%) Military
14 34 (1.19%) Aviation
15 21 (0.74%) Legal
16 19 (0.67%) Billing
17 15 (0.53%) Organisational Skills
18 14 (0.49%) Law
19 13 (0.46%) Avionics
20 10 (0.35%) Retail
Job Titles
1 842 (29.57%) Electronics Engineer
2 741 (26.03%) Test Engineer
3 733 (25.75%) Electronics Test Engineer
4 632 (22.20%) Systems Engineer
5 436 (15.31%) Senior
6 384 (13.49%) Principal Engineer
7 247 (8.68%) Principal Systems Engineer
8 204 (7.17%) Senior Systems Engineer
9 154 (5.41%) Junior
10 145 (5.09%) Junior Systems Engineer
11 140 (4.92%) Lead
11 140 (4.92%) Technical Manager
12 136 (4.78%) Help Desk Manager
13 126 (4.43%) Software Assurance Engineer
14 101 (3.55%) Products Support Manager
15 97 (3.41%) Support Manager
16 84 (2.95%) Senior Electrical Engineer
17 78 (2.74%) Product Manager
18 69 (2.42%) Software Engineer
19 66 (2.32%) Design Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (0.74%) REST
2 14 (0.49%) .NET
2 14 (0.49%) FastAPI
3 13 (0.46%) Middleware
4 11 (0.39%) Flask
5 10 (0.35%) Node.js
6 9 (0.32%) React
7 7 (0.25%) ASP.NET
8 6 (0.21%) HTML
8 6 (0.21%) Spring
8 6 (0.21%) Spring Boot
9 5 (0.18%) .NET Core
9 5 (0.18%) .NET Framework
9 5 (0.18%) CSS
9 5 (0.18%) Entity Framework
10 4 (0.14%) TensorFlow
10 4 (0.14%) Yocto
11 3 (0.11%) 802.1X
11 3 (0.11%) pytest
11 3 (0.11%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 753 (26.45%) Driving Licence
2 546 (19.18%) Algorithms
3 113 (3.97%) Self-Motivation
4 45 (1.58%) Embedded Systems
5 39 (1.37%) IoT
6 34 (1.19%) FPGA
6 34 (1.19%) SCADA
7 32 (1.12%) Analogue Electronics
8 26 (0.91%) Renewable Energy
9 21 (0.74%) Data Centre
9 21 (0.74%) Robotics
10 19 (0.67%) PMI
11 18 (0.63%) VHDL
12 15 (0.53%) Management Information System
13 13 (0.46%) Cloud Native
13 13 (0.46%) Optoelectronics
14 12 (0.42%) NB-IoT
15 11 (0.39%) Self-Driving Car
16 10 (0.35%) Data Structures
16 10 (0.35%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 54 (1.90%) Linux
2 44 (1.55%) Windows
3 17 (0.60%) Windows Server
4 13 (0.46%) Android
4 13 (0.46%) Embedded Linux
5 12 (0.42%) Apple iOS
6 5 (0.18%) FreeRTOS
6 5 (0.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (0.18%) Windows 10
7 4 (0.14%) Unix
8 3 (0.11%) Windows Server 2019
9 2 (0.070%) VMS
10 1 (0.035%) Debian
10 1 (0.035%) Robot Operating System
10 1 (0.035%) Rocky
10 1 (0.035%) Solaris
10 1 (0.035%) VxWorks
10 1 (0.035%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 889 (31.23%) Systems Engineering
2 882 (30.98%) Mentoring
3 817 (28.70%) Validation
4 761 (26.73%) Coaching
5 753 (26.45%) Customer Requirements
6 747 (26.24%) Verification and Validation
7 731 (25.68%) Test Strategy
8 577 (20.27%) Signal Processing
9 536 (18.83%) Technical Leadership
10 530 (18.62%) Problem-Solving
11 504 (17.70%) Physics
12 439 (15.42%) Mathematics
13 429 (15.07%) Continuous Improvement
14 266 (9.34%) Software Engineering
15 255 (8.96%) Decision-Making
16 247 (8.68%) Test Planning
17 245 (8.61%) Project Management
18 207 (7.27%) Computer Science
19 159 (5.58%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
19 159 (5.58%) SysML
Programming Languages
1 247 (8.68%) MATLAB
2 104 (3.65%) C
3 100 (3.51%) R
4 94 (3.30%) C++
5 89 (3.13%) Python
6 53 (1.86%) C#
7 31 (1.09%) Java
8 23 (0.81%) SQL
9 20 (0.70%) JavaScript
10 17 (0.60%) PowerShell
11 15 (0.53%) Bash
12 14 (0.49%) TypeScript
13 11 (0.39%) Embedded C
14 8 (0.28%) Ladder Logic
15 5 (0.18%) Ada
16 4 (0.14%) Go
16 4 (0.14%) PHP
16 4 (0.14%) VB
17 3 (0.11%) Embedded C++
17 3 (0.11%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 1,628 (57.18%) Degree
2 1,028 (36.11%) BPSS Clearance
3 788 (27.68%) HND
4 111 (3.90%) Master's Degree
5 101 (3.55%) Security Cleared
6 48 (1.69%) DV Cleared
7 38 (1.33%) SC Cleared
8 37 (1.30%) PMI Certification
9 27 (0.95%) Numerate Degree
10 23 (0.81%) Computer Science Degree
11 22 (0.77%) CEH
11 22 (0.77%) CISSP
12 18 (0.63%) PMP
13 13 (0.46%) HNC
14 12 (0.42%) CompTIA Security+
14 12 (0.42%) Network+ Certification
15 7 (0.25%) PhD
16 5 (0.18%) Cisco Certification
17 4 (0.14%) CCNA
18 3 (0.11%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 507 (17.81%) ISO/IEC 15288
2 39 (1.37%) QA
3 24 (0.84%) GDPR
4 23 (0.81%) DO-254
5 20 (0.70%) Cyber Essentials
6 19 (0.67%) SLA
7 18 (0.63%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 10 (0.35%) PMO
9 9 (0.32%) NIST
10 8 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 6 (0.21%) Def Stans
11 6 (0.21%) JTAG
12 5 (0.18%) Automotive SPICE
12 5 (0.18%) Data Quality
12 5 (0.18%) ISO 13485
12 5 (0.18%) ISO 26262
12 5 (0.18%) ISO 9001
13 4 (0.14%) IEC 62304
14 3 (0.11%) Accessibility
15 2 (0.070%) COSHH
System Software
1 85 (2.99%) Firmware
2 30 (1.05%) Embedded Firmware
3 14 (0.49%) Docker
4 12 (0.42%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (0.42%) vSphere
5 7 (0.25%) Citrix Hypervisor
6 4 (0.14%) Active Directory
7 1 (0.035%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 27 (0.95%) Terraform
2 16 (0.56%) Kubernetes
3 14 (0.49%) Ansible
4 11 (0.39%) Puppet
5 5 (0.18%) Functional Safety
6 4 (0.14%) Microsoft Intune
6 4 (0.14%) SCCM
7 1 (0.035%) Data Guard
7 1 (0.035%) FortiGate
7 1 (0.035%) Kibana
7 1 (0.035%) Kustomize
7 1 (0.035%) Marathon
7 1 (0.035%) Oracle ZFS
7 1 (0.035%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 587 (20.62%) IBM
2 191 (6.71%) SAP
3 80 (2.81%) Microsoft
4 64 (2.25%) EMC
5 37 (1.30%) Google
5 37 (1.30%) Siemens
6 31 (1.09%) Citrix
6 31 (1.09%) YouTube
7 28 (0.98%) NetApp
8 25 (0.88%) Oracle
9 22 (0.77%) Dell
10 20 (0.70%) Intel
11 16 (0.56%) Rockwell
12 14 (0.49%) VMware
13 13 (0.46%) Allen-Bradley
14 11 (0.39%) Mentor Graphics
15 10 (0.35%) Cisco
16 9 (0.32%) Pure Storage
17 6 (0.21%) Xilinx
18 5 (0.18%) Fortinet