Job Vacancy Trend Salary Trend Salary Histogram Job Locations Skill Sets
Period
to 25 July 2021

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 have cited Electronics over the 6 months to 25 July 2021 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

Electronics
UK
6 months to
25 Jul 2021		 Same period 2020 Same period 2019
Rank 262 357 296
Rank change year-on-year +95 -61 +17
Permanent jobs citing Electronics 1,496 571 1,617
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.33% 0.81% 1.12%
As % of the General category 2.35% 1.50% 1.99%
Number of salaries quoted 1,085 460 1,282
10th Percentile £33,750 £32,500 £31,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,188 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% +5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £77,500 £61,250 £62,500
90th Percentile £98,750 £72,500 £72,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £48,500 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -3.00% +5.26% +5.56%

Electronics is in the General Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for common skills.

All General Skills
UK
Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 63,616 38,033 81,352
As % of all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK 56.57% 53.76% 56.40%
Number of salaries quoted 40,191 29,673 61,955
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £28,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.82% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £87,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £47,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year - +5.56% -

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 25 July 2021.

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 25 July 2021. 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
Job
Vacancies
England +108 1,372 £57,500 +15.00% 572
UK excluding London +73 947 £48,500 -3.00% 555
London +84 388 £80,000 +48.15% 68
Work from Home -81 280 £62,500 +31.58% 71
South West +20 272 £48,500 -11.82% 68
South East +57 268 £45,000 -5.26% 159
East of England +88 226 £60,000 +41.18% 122
North of England -68 58 £55,000 +12.82% 83
Midlands -67 54 £50,000 +11.11% 67
Scotland -64 42 £55,000 +4.76% 40
West Midlands -64 40 £50,000 +11.11% 45
North West -46 34 £55,000 -4.35% 45
Yorkshire -63 19 £47,500 +5.56% 27
Northern Ireland -23 15 £34,000 -32.00%
East Midlands -38 14 £50,000 - 22
Wales -7 12 £45,000 +5.88% 17
North East - 5 £60,000 - 11

For the 6 months to 25 July 2021, IT jobs citing Electronics also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads with a requirement for Electronics.

1 799 (53.41%) Manufacturing
2 758 (50.67%) Marketing
3 747 (49.93%) Finance
4 744 (49.73%) Telecoms
5 721 (48.20%) Business Intelligence
6 718 (47.99%) Digital Marketing
7 714 (47.73%) Programme Management
8 711 (47.53%) SAP
8 711 (47.53%) Public Sector
9 465 (31.08%) Agile Software Development
10 423 (28.28%) Degree
11 367 (24.53%) Software Engineering
12 316 (21.12%) Social Skills
13 291 (19.45%) Python
14 275 (18.38%) C++
15 263 (17.58%) Linux
16 258 (17.25%) C
17 212 (14.17%) Computer Science
18 209 (13.97%) DevOps
19 196 (13.10%) Azure
20 193 (12.90%) JavaScript
21 190 (12.70%) C#
22 182 (12.17%) Microsoft
22 182 (12.17%) Scrum
23 165 (11.03%) Firmware
24 153 (10.23%) Continuous Integration
25 151 (10.09%) Problem-Solving
26 141 (9.43%) Java
27 130 (8.69%) Windows
28 128 (8.56%) .NET

Electronics
Co-occurring IT Skills by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 32 (2.14%) Confluence
2 20 (1.34%) CMS
2 20 (1.34%) SharePoint
3 12 (0.80%) Tomcat
4 10 (0.67%) JBoss
5 9 (0.60%) Apache
5 9 (0.60%) MS Exchange
5 9 (0.60%) Mule
5 9 (0.60%) Mule ESB
6 8 (0.53%) Elasticsearch
6 8 (0.53%) Red Hat Fuse
7 7 (0.47%) nginx
7 7 (0.47%) OpenStack
7 7 (0.47%) Umbraco
8 5 (0.33%) IIS
9 4 (0.27%) Exchange Server 2013
9 4 (0.27%) Skype for Business
10 3 (0.20%) Apache Spark
10 3 (0.20%) Apache Synapse
11 2 (0.13%) WildFly
Applications
1 64 (4.28%) Simulink
2 25 (1.67%) Microsoft Office
3 19 (1.27%) Microsoft Excel
4 8 (0.53%) OrCAD
5 6 (0.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 5 (0.33%) AutoCAD
6 5 (0.33%) Fusion 360
6 5 (0.33%) Microsoft Project
7 4 (0.27%) Photoshop
7 4 (0.27%) Zemax
8 3 (0.20%) Adobe XD
8 3 (0.20%) Figma
8 3 (0.20%) Sketch
9 2 (0.13%) Chatbot
9 2 (0.13%) OmniGraffle
9 2 (0.13%) PTC Creo
9 2 (0.13%) Zeplin
10 1 (0.067%) Adobe Illustrator
10 1 (0.067%) MS Visio
10 1 (0.067%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 8 (0.53%) Sentinel
2 4 (0.27%) Oracle Applications
2 4 (0.27%) Oracle ERP
3 3 (0.20%) Infor M3
3 3 (0.20%) Veritas eDiscovery
4 2 (0.13%) Cerner Millennium
4 2 (0.13%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.13%) SAP ERP
4 2 (0.13%) Social Studio
4 2 (0.13%) Teamcenter
5 1 (0.067%) Dynamics AX
5 1 (0.067%) Dynamics NAV
5 1 (0.067%) FastStats
Cloud Services
1 196 (13.10%) Azure
2 127 (8.49%) AWS
3 96 (6.42%) GCP
4 79 (5.28%) SaaS
5 42 (2.81%) Microsoft 365
6 17 (1.14%) Serverless
7 15 (1.00%) GitHub
7 15 (1.00%) Power Platform
8 14 (0.94%) Amazon EC2
9 12 (0.80%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
9 12 (0.80%) AWS Lambda
10 10 (0.67%) Amazon Alexa
10 10 (0.67%) Azure Sentinel
11 9 (0.60%) AWS CloudFormation
11 9 (0.60%) Kong
12 8 (0.53%) Cloud Computing
13 7 (0.47%) Amazon Cognito
13 7 (0.47%) Amazon S3
13 7 (0.47%) Heroku
13 7 (0.47%) OpenDNS
Communications & Networking
1 43 (2.87%) Firewall
2 41 (2.74%) Ethernet
2 41 (2.74%) Internet
3 37 (2.47%) RS-485
4 34 (2.27%) Wireless
5 33 (2.21%) Modbus
5 33 (2.21%) VPN
6 30 (2.01%) RS-422
7 27 (1.80%) Software-Defined Radio
8 24 (1.60%) Bluetooth
8 24 (1.60%) Wi-Fi
9 21 (1.40%) WAN
10 20 (1.34%) Network Security
11 18 (1.20%) Cisco ASA
11 18 (1.20%) ZigBee
12 16 (1.07%) BGP
12 16 (1.07%) OSPF
13 15 (1.00%) DNS
13 15 (1.00%) TCP/IP
14 13 (0.87%) SpaceWire
Database & Business Intelligence
1 93 (6.22%) SQL Server
2 32 (2.14%) PostgreSQL
3 31 (2.07%) MongoDB
4 29 (1.94%) NoSQL
5 28 (1.87%) Relational Database
6 25 (1.67%) MySQL
7 22 (1.47%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 20 (1.34%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 18 (1.20%) Big Data
10 16 (1.07%) QlikView
11 15 (1.00%) Power BI
12 14 (0.94%) Data Warehouse
13 13 (0.87%) RDBMS
14 9 (0.60%) Amazon DynamoDB
15 7 (0.47%) CouchDB
16 6 (0.40%) Hadoop
17 5 (0.33%) Oracle Database
18 4 (0.27%) Amazon Redshift
18 4 (0.27%) Redis
18 4 (0.27%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 87 (5.82%) Git (software)
2 85 (5.68%) JIRA
3 50 (3.34%) Jenkins
4 34 (2.27%) Rational Rhapsody
5 24 (1.60%) Visual Studio
6 23 (1.54%) JUnit
7 21 (1.40%) Cucumber
7 21 (1.40%) IntelliJ
8 20 (1.34%) Selenium
9 19 (1.27%) GCC
10 16 (1.07%) Cypress.io
11 14 (0.94%) Maven
11 14 (0.94%) Rational Team Concert
12 13 (0.87%) gulp
12 13 (0.87%) Rational DOORS
13 12 (0.80%) CircleCI
14 11 (0.74%) Eclipse
14 11 (0.74%) Team Foundation Server
15 10 (0.67%) Postman
16 8 (0.53%) TestRail
General
1 799 (53.41%) Manufacturing
2 758 (50.67%) Marketing
3 747 (49.93%) Finance
4 744 (49.73%) Telecoms
5 711 (47.53%) Public Sector
6 316 (21.12%) Social Skills
7 94 (6.28%) Analytical Skills
8 67 (4.48%) Games
9 61 (4.08%) Retail
10 41 (2.74%) Influencing Skills
11 28 (1.87%) Automotive
11 28 (1.87%) Organisational Skills
12 25 (1.67%) Documentation Skills
13 23 (1.54%) Presentation Skills
14 22 (1.47%) Legal
15 21 (1.40%) Law
16 19 (1.27%) Avionics
17 15 (1.00%) Military
18 14 (0.94%) Aerospace
19 8 (0.53%) Banking
Job Titles
1 266 (17.78%) Developer
2 224 (14.97%) Software Engineer
3 141 (9.43%) Electronics Engineer
4 118 (7.89%) Design Engineer
5 111 (7.42%) Embedded Engineer
6 105 (7.02%) Systems Engineer
7 87 (5.82%) Senior Developer
8 79 (5.28%) Software Developer
9 77 (5.15%) Architect
10 75 (5.01%) Analyst
11 61 (4.08%) Embedded Software Engineer
12 50 (3.34%) Senior Software Engineer
13 49 (3.28%) Electronics Design Engineer
13 49 (3.28%) Java Developer
14 48 (3.21%) Consultant
15 46 (3.07%) Project Manager
16 45 (3.01%) C++ Software Engineer
16 45 (3.01%) DevOps Engineer
17 39 (2.61%) Development Engineer
18 38 (2.54%) Senior Electronics Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 128 (8.56%) .NET
2 95 (6.35%) React
3 87 (5.82%) AngularJS
4 78 (5.21%) HTML
5 71 (4.75%) CSS
6 61 (4.08%) REST
7 52 (3.48%) ASP.NET
8 46 (3.07%) .NET Core
9 40 (2.67%) Web Services
10 29 (1.94%) Spring
11 28 (1.87%) Node.js
12 27 (1.80%) Yocto
13 25 (1.67%) .NET Framework
13 25 (1.67%) ASP.NET MVC
13 25 (1.67%) jQuery
14 24 (1.60%) Redux
15 23 (1.54%) SOAP
15 23 (1.54%) XML
16 20 (1.34%) OAuth
16 20 (1.34%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 104 (6.95%) Algorithms
2 71 (4.75%) User Experience
3 64 (4.28%) Self-Motivation
4 62 (4.14%) Embedded Systems
5 43 (2.87%) Cloud Native
6 40 (2.67%) Analogue Electronics
7 36 (2.41%) Field-Programmable Gate Array
8 32 (2.14%) VHDL
9 30 (2.01%) Mobile App
10 27 (1.80%) Greenfield Project
11 24 (1.60%) Augmented Reality
11 24 (1.60%) Data Centre
11 24 (1.60%) Smart City
12 21 (1.40%) Internet of Things
13 17 (1.14%) Acoustics
14 15 (1.00%) Smart Home
14 15 (1.00%) Video\Live Streaming
15 14 (0.94%) CAN bus
15 14 (0.94%) iPad
15 14 (0.94%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 263 (17.58%) Linux
2 130 (8.69%) Windows
3 62 (4.14%) Unix
4 52 (3.48%) Android
5 45 (3.01%) Embedded Linux
6 31 (2.07%) Apple iOS
7 29 (1.94%) Windows Server
8 10 (0.67%) CentOS
8 10 (0.67%) Windows Server 2016
9 9 (0.60%) Windows Server 2019
10 7 (0.47%) Kali Linux
11 6 (0.40%) FreeRTOS
11 6 (0.40%) Windows 10
11 6 (0.40%) Windows Server 2012
12 5 (0.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 4 (0.27%) Robot Operating System
13 4 (0.27%) Ubuntu
13 4 (0.27%) VxWorks
14 3 (0.20%) VMS
15 2 (0.13%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 721 (48.20%) Business Intelligence
2 718 (47.99%) Digital Marketing
3 714 (47.73%) Programme Management
4 465 (31.08%) Agile Software Development
5 367 (24.53%) Software Engineering
6 212 (14.17%) Computer Science
7 209 (13.97%) DevOps
8 182 (12.17%) Scrum
9 153 (10.23%) Continuous Integration
10 151 (10.09%) Problem-Solving
11 122 (8.16%) Validation
12 115 (7.69%) SDLC
13 111 (7.42%) Mentoring
14 107 (7.15%) Software Testing
14 107 (7.15%) TDD
15 102 (6.82%) Cybersecurity
16 93 (6.22%) Test Automation
17 92 (6.15%) Microservices
18 90 (6.02%) Project Management
19 85 (5.68%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 291 (19.45%) Python
2 275 (18.38%) C++
3 258 (17.25%) C
4 193 (12.90%) JavaScript
5 190 (12.70%) C#
6 141 (9.43%) Java
7 118 (7.89%) SQL
8 85 (5.68%) Go
9 78 (5.21%) MATLAB
10 74 (4.95%) TypeScript
11 57 (3.81%) Embedded C
12 50 (3.34%) Embedded C++
13 43 (2.87%) PowerShell
14 28 (1.87%) Shell Script
15 26 (1.74%) Ada
16 23 (1.54%) Perl
17 19 (1.27%) VB.NET
18 18 (1.20%) T-SQL
19 17 (1.14%) Bash Shell
20 15 (1.00%) VB
Qualifications
1 423 (28.28%) Degree
2 118 (7.89%) Security Cleared
3 90 (6.02%) SC Cleared
4 83 (5.55%) Master's Degree
5 50 (3.34%) Computer Science Degree
6 21 (1.40%) DV Cleared
7 19 (1.27%) HNC
7 19 (1.27%) Numerate Degree
8 16 (1.07%) Cisco Certification
9 12 (0.80%) CCNP
9 12 (0.80%) PhD
10 11 (0.74%) HND
11 8 (0.53%) CCSA
11 8 (0.53%) CISM
11 8 (0.53%) CISSP
11 8 (0.53%) GCIA
11 8 (0.53%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 7 (0.47%) ISTQB
13 5 (0.33%) PMI Certification
13 5 (0.33%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 67 (4.48%) QA
2 44 (2.94%) GDPR
2 44 (2.94%) NIST
3 37 (2.47%) MISRA
4 34 (2.27%) Def Stans
5 20 (1.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 12 (0.80%) Accessibility
7 7 (0.47%) HIPAA
7 7 (0.47%) ISO 9001
8 6 (0.40%) Data Quality
8 6 (0.40%) ISO/IEC 20000
9 5 (0.33%) JTAG
10 4 (0.27%) DO-254
10 4 (0.27%) ISO 26262
10 4 (0.27%) MISRA C
10 4 (0.27%) OASIS TOSCA
10 4 (0.27%) PCI DSS
11 3 (0.20%) DO-178B
11 3 (0.20%) HAZOP
11 3 (0.20%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 165 (11.03%) Firmware
2 110 (7.35%) Docker
3 43 (2.87%) Active Directory
4 16 (1.07%) VMware Infrastructure
5 7 (0.47%) Snort
5 7 (0.47%) Squid
6 4 (0.27%) KVM
6 4 (0.27%) Virtual Servers
6 4 (0.27%) VMware Workstation
6 4 (0.27%) vSphere
7 3 (0.20%) Hyper-V
7 3 (0.20%) Virtual Desktop
7 3 (0.20%) Virtual Machines
8 2 (0.13%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 85 (5.68%) Kubernetes
2 36 (2.41%) Terraform
3 34 (2.27%) Ansible
4 12 (0.80%) Puppet
5 11 (0.74%) Suricata
6 10 (0.67%) Nessus
7 9 (0.60%) Argo
7 9 (0.60%) Istio
7 9 (0.60%) Knative
7 9 (0.60%) linkerd
8 7 (0.47%) Nexpose
9 6 (0.40%) Microsoft Intune
10 4 (0.27%) CASB
11 3 (0.20%) Single Sign-On
12 2 (0.13%) Opscode Chef
12 2 (0.13%) Rancher
12 2 (0.13%) SCCM
12 2 (0.13%) SELinux
12 2 (0.13%) vCenter Server
12 2 (0.13%) vRealize
Vendors
1 711 (47.53%) SAP
2 182 (12.17%) Microsoft
3 99 (6.62%) Instagram
4 91 (6.08%) Google
5 80 (5.35%) EMC
6 45 (3.01%) Cisco
7 40 (2.67%) Oracle
8 33 (2.21%) IBM
9 28 (1.87%) VMware
10 22 (1.47%) Salesforce.com
11 17 (1.14%) CyberArk
11 17 (1.14%) ForgeRock
12 15 (1.00%) LogRhythm
12 15 (1.00%) Palo Alto
12 15 (1.00%) Red Hat
13 14 (0.94%) F5
14 13 (0.87%) Infor
14 13 (0.87%) Xamarin
15 11 (0.74%) Splunk
15 11 (0.74%) Xilinx
654 Electronics job vacancies Nationwide