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 have cited Electronics over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 190 255 314
Rank change year-on-year +65 +59 -93
Permanent jobs citing Electronics 1,531 1,513 2,032
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.56% 1.45% 1.32%
As % of the General category 2.61% 2.10% 2.07%
Number of salaries quoted 1,094 760 1,000
10th Percentile £32,500 £30,000 £33,707
25th Percentile £38,500 £38,204 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -1.41%
75th Percentile £62,500 £64,063 £67,500
90th Percentile £72,500 £77,500 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £48,687 £47,500
% change year-on-year +2.70% +2.50% -

All General Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 58,670 71,907 98,006
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 59.84% 68.71% 63.59%
Number of salaries quoted 39,462 38,624 51,085
10th Percentile £27,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £43,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £102,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% +5.26%

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 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Electronics in the UK

Electronics
Top 18 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 27 April 2024. 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 +39 1,400 £50,000 +2.70% 1,204
England +72 1,356 £52,500 +5.00% 1,245
South East +17 481 £47,500 -9.52% 400
Work from Home -10 398 £52,500 - 402
East of England +47 248 £55,000 -15.38% 259
Midlands +13 194 £52,500 +31.25% 192
North of England +43 170 £50,000 +19.20% 146
South West +29 162 £45,000 -5.26% 186
West Midlands +19 128 £57,500 +27.78% 128
North West +28 101 £47,500 -2.56% 87
London +13 83 £60,000 +23.24% 111
East Midlands +1 66 £50,000 +33.33% 64
Scotland -63 65 £45,000 -5.26% 62
Yorkshire +66 59 £50,000 +25.00% 43
Wales +19 41 £50,000 +21.95% 31
Northern Ireland - 31 £35,000 - 8
North East +2 10 £57,500 +70.04% 16
Isle of Man - 8 £45,000 - 1

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 39 (2.55%) SharePoint
2 16 (1.05%) Apache
3 12 (0.78%) Confluence
4 10 (0.65%) Apache Spark
5 7 (0.46%) Apache Airflow
5 7 (0.46%) Microsoft Exchange
6 6 (0.39%) nginx
7 4 (0.26%) IIS
7 4 (0.26%) Moodle
8 3 (0.20%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
9 2 (0.13%) Kinematics
10 1 (0.065%) SAS
10 1 (0.065%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 69 (4.51%) Simulink
2 37 (2.42%) Microsoft Excel
3 34 (2.22%) Microsoft Office
4 23 (1.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 17 (1.11%) Stateflow
6 11 (0.72%) OrCAD
7 7 (0.46%) CANalyzer
7 7 (0.46%) Microsoft Project
8 6 (0.39%) SOLIDWORKS
9 5 (0.33%) GNU Octave
9 5 (0.33%) Windchill
10 4 (0.26%) AutoCAD
10 4 (0.26%) Doxygen
10 4 (0.26%) InfoPath
11 2 (0.13%) Blender
11 2 (0.13%) Fusion 360
11 2 (0.13%) Houdini
11 2 (0.13%) MadCap Flare
11 2 (0.13%) TargetLink
12 1 (0.065%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 13 (0.85%) Adobe Campaign
2 7 (0.46%) Salesforce CRM
3 4 (0.26%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.065%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 65 (4.25%) Azure
2 54 (3.53%) AWS
3 39 (2.55%) Microsoft 365
4 27 (1.76%) GitHub
5 22 (1.44%) Azure DevOps
6 19 (1.24%) Power Platform
7 17 (1.11%) GCP
8 13 (0.85%) Cloud Computing
9 11 (0.72%) OneDrive
10 7 (0.46%) AWS IoT
10 7 (0.46%) Entra ID
11 6 (0.39%) GitHub Actions
11 6 (0.39%) PaaS
12 5 (0.33%) Azure Data Factory
12 5 (0.33%) Dynamics 365
13 4 (0.26%) Microsoft Purview
13 4 (0.26%) Power Automate
14 3 (0.20%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 3 (0.20%) SaaS
15 2 (0.13%) Azure Machine Learning
Communications & Networking
1 105 (6.86%) Wireless
2 69 (4.51%) TCP/IP
3 61 (3.98%) Ethernet
4 58 (3.79%) Bluetooth
5 55 (3.59%) Wi-Fi
6 44 (2.87%) RS-232
7 32 (2.09%) Internet
8 22 (1.44%) WAN
8 22 (1.44%) ZigBee
9 21 (1.37%) 5G
9 21 (1.37%) J1939
9 21 (1.37%) LTE
10 20 (1.31%) RS-485
11 19 (1.24%) HTTP
11 19 (1.24%) SD-WAN
12 18 (1.18%) MQTT
13 15 (0.98%) Modbus
14 13 (0.85%) DNS
15 10 (0.65%) Firewall
16 9 (0.59%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (1.63%) PostgreSQL
2 19 (1.24%) Power BI
3 15 (0.98%) SQL Server
4 10 (0.65%) MongoDB
5 9 (0.59%) Big Data
5 9 (0.59%) Redis
6 7 (0.46%) Apache Hive
6 7 (0.46%) Presto
6 7 (0.46%) SQLite
6 7 (0.46%) Tableau
7 6 (0.39%) GIS
7 6 (0.39%) Relational Database
8 4 (0.26%) MySQL
8 4 (0.26%) NoSQL
9 3 (0.20%) Hadoop
10 2 (0.13%) Data Lake
10 2 (0.13%) Data Warehouse
10 2 (0.13%) Microsoft Analysis Services
10 2 (0.13%) Qlik Sense
10 2 (0.13%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 106 (6.92%) Git
2 62 (4.05%) JIRA
3 55 (3.59%) LabVIEW
4 49 (3.20%) Subversion
5 37 (2.42%) Visual Studio
6 26 (1.70%) Jenkins
7 15 (0.98%) ClearCase
7 15 (0.98%) Eclipse
8 14 (0.91%) Plastic SCM
9 9 (0.59%) Rational DOORS
10 7 (0.46%) ClearQuest
10 7 (0.46%) GitLab
10 7 (0.46%) Rational Rhapsody
11 5 (0.33%) Maven
12 4 (0.26%) Bitbucket
12 4 (0.26%) Selenium
12 4 (0.26%) Team Foundation Server
12 4 (0.26%) Zephyr
13 3 (0.20%) GCC
14 2 (0.13%) WebDriver
General
1 521 (34.03%) Manufacturing
2 324 (21.16%) Social Skills
3 249 (16.26%) Finance
4 242 (15.81%) Telecoms
5 226 (14.76%) Marketing
6 190 (12.41%) Analytical Skills
7 179 (11.69%) Public Sector
8 169 (11.04%) Automotive
9 120 (7.84%) Aerospace
10 102 (6.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 45 (2.94%) Military
11 45 (2.94%) Retail
12 28 (1.83%) Presentation Skills
13 26 (1.70%) Games
14 22 (1.44%) Pharmaceutical
15 20 (1.31%) Legal
15 20 (1.31%) Organisational Skills
15 20 (1.31%) Police
16 15 (0.98%) Publishing
17 14 (0.91%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 384 (25.08%) Software Engineer
2 307 (20.05%) Electronics Engineer
3 243 (15.87%) Embedded Engineer
4 242 (15.81%) Senior
5 187 (12.21%) Hardware Engineer
6 166 (10.84%) Embedded Software Engineer
7 125 (8.16%) Graduate
8 101 (6.60%) Systems Engineer
9 100 (6.53%) Junior
10 95 (6.21%) Developer
11 85 (5.55%) Lead
12 82 (5.36%) Development Engineer
13 81 (5.29%) Graduate Electronics Engineer
14 74 (4.83%) Junior Electronics Engineer
15 71 (4.64%) Graduate Development Engineer
16 69 (4.51%) Electronics Hardware Engineer
17 66 (4.31%) Senior Software Engineer
18 62 (4.05%) Firmware Engineer
19 56 (3.66%) Senior Hardware Engineer
20 53 (3.46%) Senior Electronics Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (3.85%) .NET
2 54 (3.53%) HTML
3 32 (2.09%) CSS
4 27 (1.76%) React
5 26 (1.70%) Qt
5 26 (1.70%) Yocto
6 23 (1.50%) Flask
7 22 (1.44%) .NET Framework
8 17 (1.11%) AngularJS
8 17 (1.11%) Django
8 17 (1.11%) XML
9 13 (0.85%) Web Services
10 12 (0.78%) Node.js
11 9 (0.59%) HTML5 Canvas
11 9 (0.59%) Middleware
11 9 (0.59%) WPF
12 8 (0.52%) Flash
12 8 (0.52%) NumPy
12 8 (0.52%) Svelte
13 7 (0.46%) http4s
Miscellaneous
1 146 (9.54%) IoT
2 135 (8.82%) Embedded Systems
3 95 (6.21%) FPGA
4 92 (6.01%) Analogue Electronics
5 87 (5.68%) Algorithms
6 64 (4.18%) Robotics
7 62 (4.05%) Self-Motivation
8 50 (3.27%) VHDL
9 33 (2.16%) Driving Licence
10 31 (2.02%) Management Information System
11 29 (1.89%) Analytical Mindset
12 24 (1.57%) Device Driver
13 22 (1.44%) Acoustics
13 22 (1.44%) ARM Cortex
14 21 (1.37%) Distributed Systems
14 21 (1.37%) Renewable Energy
15 15 (0.98%) Cyber Threat
16 14 (0.91%) Greenfield Project
17 13 (0.85%) Arduino
18 12 (0.78%) Verilog
Operating Systems
1 213 (13.91%) Linux
2 138 (9.01%) Windows
3 37 (2.42%) Embedded Linux
4 30 (1.96%) FreeRTOS
5 21 (1.37%) Windows Server
6 15 (0.98%) Android
6 15 (0.98%) Windows 10
7 14 (0.91%) Apple iOS
8 12 (0.78%) Ubuntu
9 8 (0.52%) Mac OS
10 6 (0.39%) ThreadX
10 6 (0.39%) VMS
11 5 (0.33%) Unix
12 4 (0.26%) VxWorks
12 4 (0.26%) Windows Server 2016
13 1 (0.065%) Debian
13 1 (0.065%) Fedora
Processes & Methodologies
1 498 (32.53%) Software Engineering
2 244 (15.94%) Problem-Solving
3 230 (15.02%) Computer Science
4 183 (11.95%) Business Intelligence
5 176 (11.50%) Digital Marketing
5 176 (11.50%) Programme Management
6 147 (9.60%) Agile
7 146 (9.54%) Schematic Capture
8 124 (8.10%) Software Testing
9 122 (7.97%) Validation
10 97 (6.34%) Project Management
11 92 (6.01%) Mentoring
12 89 (5.81%) Collaborative Working
13 88 (5.75%) Project Planning
14 83 (5.42%) Test Automation
15 73 (4.77%) Mathematics
15 73 (4.77%) Physics
16 72 (4.70%) Customer Requirements
17 66 (4.31%) Continuous Improvement
18 64 (4.18%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 435 (28.41%) C
2 243 (15.87%) Python
3 220 (14.37%) C++
4 150 (9.80%) C#
5 110 (7.18%) Embedded C
6 96 (6.27%) MATLAB
7 78 (5.09%) JavaScript
8 73 (4.77%) Java
9 55 (3.59%) SQL
10 29 (1.89%) Bash
11 28 (1.83%) Perl
12 22 (1.44%) Embedded C++
13 21 (1.37%) TypeScript
14 20 (1.31%) PHP
15 19 (1.24%) PowerShell
16 16 (1.05%) Ada
17 10 (0.65%) Scala
18 9 (0.59%) Assembly Language
19 8 (0.52%) Tcl
19 8 (0.52%) VB
Qualifications
1 664 (43.37%) Degree
2 122 (7.97%) Security Cleared
3 81 (5.29%) Computer Science Degree
4 55 (3.59%) HND
5 53 (3.46%) SC Cleared
6 46 (3.00%) Master's Degree
7 35 (2.29%) HNC
8 30 (1.96%) DV Cleared
9 28 (1.83%) BPSS Clearance
9 28 (1.83%) PhD
10 14 (0.91%) Cisco Certification
11 12 (0.78%) CCNA
12 11 (0.72%) NVQ Level 3
13 9 (0.59%) CISSP
13 9 (0.59%) DBS Check
14 7 (0.46%) Microsoft Certification
15 5 (0.33%) CISM
16 4 (0.26%) MCP
16 4 (0.26%) MCSE
17 3 (0.20%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 117 (7.64%) QA
2 32 (2.09%) AUTOSAR
2 32 (2.09%) ISO 26262
3 30 (1.96%) MISRA
4 24 (1.57%) Automotive SPICE
5 23 (1.50%) JTAG
6 22 (1.44%) ISO 9001
7 20 (1.31%) ISO 13485
8 14 (0.91%) ISO/IEC 17025
9 13 (0.85%) PMO
10 11 (0.72%) IEC 62304
11 9 (0.59%) GDPR
12 8 (0.52%) 21 CFR Part 11
13 7 (0.46%) Data Quality
14 5 (0.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
15 4 (0.26%) IEC 61131
15 4 (0.26%) MISRA C
15 4 (0.26%) Software Quality Assurance
16 3 (0.20%) Def Stans
16 3 (0.20%) ECSS
System Software
1 355 (23.19%) Firmware
2 181 (11.82%) Embedded Firmware
3 18 (1.18%) Docker
4 16 (1.05%) VMware Infrastructure
5 12 (0.78%) Hyper-V
6 11 (0.72%) Virtual Machines
7 4 (0.26%) Active Directory
7 4 (0.26%) vSphere
8 3 (0.20%) NFS
9 2 (0.13%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.065%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.065%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 22 (1.44%) Terraform
2 13 (0.85%) Functional Safety
3 4 (0.26%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 1 (0.065%) Kubernetes
4 1 (0.065%) systemd
4 1 (0.065%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 177 (11.56%) SAP
2 153 (9.99%) EMC
3 134 (8.75%) Microsoft
4 17 (1.11%) IBM
4 17 (1.11%) Lauterbach
5 16 (1.05%) Google
5 16 (1.05%) VMware
6 15 (0.98%) Adobe
6 15 (0.98%) Xilinx
7 13 (0.85%) Xamarin
8 12 (0.78%) Cisco
9 9 (0.59%) Altera
9 9 (0.59%) Salesforce
10 8 (0.52%) Facebook
10 8 (0.52%) HP
10 8 (0.52%) NVIDIA
10 8 (0.52%) Renesas
10 8 (0.52%) Thales
11 7 (0.46%) BT
11 7 (0.46%) Motorola