Job Vacancy Trend Salary Trend Salary Histogram Job Locations Skill Sets
Period
to 30 November 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 30 November 2021 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

Electronics
UK
6 months to
30 Nov 2021		 Same period 2020 Same period 2019
Rank 302 244 279
Rank change year-on-year -58 +35 +12
Permanent jobs citing Electronics 1,443 719 1,602
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.12% 1.31% 1.19%
As % of the General category 1.88% 2.60% 2.17%
Number of salaries quoted 924 660 1,233
10th Percentile £33,750 £32,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £72,500 £61,250 £61,250
90th Percentile £86,250 £76,375 £71,250
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 76,677 27,658 73,945
As % of all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK 59.38% 50.56% 55.01%
Number of salaries quoted 47,445 22,473 56,957
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,000 £28,500
25th Percentile £42,000 £41,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% +4.76% +2.94%
75th Percentile £78,750 £76,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £95,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £49,000 £47,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year +3.16% +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 30 November 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 30 November 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 -38 1,363 £55,000 +10.00% 632
UK excluding London -28 1,027 £48,500 -3.00% 596
London -105 330 £70,000 +27.27% 70
South East -27 305 £45,000 -10.00% 177
South West 0 283 £45,000 -10.00% 110
East of England +51 252 £60,000 +14.29% 117
Work from Home -127 248 £55,000 +15.79% 63
North of England -107 79 £55,000 +10.00% 74
Midlands -97 72 £50,750 +10.33% 80
West Midlands -79 58 £55,000 +29.41% 53
North West -79 50 £55,000 - 39
Scotland -81 31 £46,974 -1.11% 25
Yorkshire -89 25 £36,750 -26.50% 26
East Midlands -73 14 £50,000 +5.26% 27
North East -29 4 £56,250 +27.84% 9
Wales -47 4 £57,500 +48.39% 13
Northern Ireland -46 1 £27,000 -44.62% 2

For the 6 months to 30 November 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.

1 610 (42.27%) Finance
2 588 (40.75%) Manufacturing
3 562 (38.95%) Marketing
4 558 (38.67%) Telecoms
5 526 (36.45%) Business Intelligence
6 525 (36.38%) Digital Marketing
7 519 (35.97%) Programme Management
8 518 (35.90%) Public Sector
9 516 (35.76%) SAP
10 372 (25.78%) Agile Software Development
10 372 (25.78%) Software Engineering
11 329 (22.80%) Social Skills
12 324 (22.45%) Degree
13 242 (16.77%) C
14 223 (15.45%) C++
15 195 (13.51%) C#
15 195 (13.51%) Python
16 179 (12.40%) Azure
17 154 (10.67%) Computer Science
17 154 (10.67%) Firmware
18 150 (10.40%) Linux
18 150 (10.40%) JavaScript
19 148 (10.26%) Microsoft
20 147 (10.19%) Problem-Solving
21 145 (10.05%) Continuous Integration
22 136 (9.42%) DevOps
23 134 (9.29%) Java
24 132 (9.15%) Windows
25 129 (8.94%) Test Automation
26 128 (8.87%) .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 33 (2.29%) Confluence
2 19 (1.32%) CMS
3 16 (1.11%) SharePoint
4 15 (1.04%) Apache Spark
5 13 (0.90%) Apache
6 7 (0.49%) Apache Synapse
6 7 (0.49%) Elasticsearch
6 7 (0.49%) IIS
6 7 (0.49%) Umbraco
7 5 (0.35%) Tomcat
8 4 (0.28%) nginx
9 3 (0.21%) OpenStack
10 2 (0.14%) Exchange Server 2013
10 2 (0.14%) MS Exchange
11 1 (0.069%) EPiServer
11 1 (0.069%) Tornado
11 1 (0.069%) WebLogic
11 1 (0.069%) WordPress
Applications
1 87 (6.03%) Simulink
2 32 (2.22%) Microsoft Office
3 13 (0.90%) Microsoft Excel
4 8 (0.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 5 (0.35%) SOLIDWORKS
6 2 (0.14%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.14%) OrCAD
6 2 (0.14%) PTC Creo
6 2 (0.14%) Zemax
7 1 (0.069%) 3ds Max
7 1 (0.069%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 1 (0.069%) Adobe Premiere
7 1 (0.069%) AutoCAD
7 1 (0.069%) Autodesk Inventor
7 1 (0.069%) Blender
7 1 (0.069%) Houdini
7 1 (0.069%) Maya
7 1 (0.069%) Photoshop
7 1 (0.069%) Pro/ENGINEER
7 1 (0.069%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 7 (0.49%) Oracle ERP
2 5 (0.35%) Oracle Applications
2 5 (0.35%) Sentinel
3 2 (0.14%) Dynamics AX
3 2 (0.14%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.14%) Infor M3
3 2 (0.14%) Misys Midas
4 1 (0.069%) Dynamics NAV
4 1 (0.069%) FastStats
4 1 (0.069%) iTrent
4 1 (0.069%) Maximo
4 1 (0.069%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (0.069%) Veritas eDiscovery
Cloud Services
1 179 (12.40%) Azure
2 91 (6.31%) AWS
3 90 (6.24%) SaaS
4 59 (4.09%) Microsoft 365
5 55 (3.81%) GCP
6 17 (1.18%) Serverless
7 16 (1.11%) AWS Lambda
7 16 (1.11%) Power Platform
8 15 (1.04%) GitHub
9 10 (0.69%) Amazon S3
9 10 (0.69%) Azure Active Directory
10 9 (0.62%) Amazon EC2
10 9 (0.62%) Cloud Computing
11 7 (0.49%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 6 (0.42%) Heroku
13 5 (0.35%) Azure Sentinel
13 5 (0.35%) Yammer
14 4 (0.28%) npm
15 3 (0.21%) Amazon EKS
15 3 (0.21%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 63 (4.37%) Modbus
2 36 (2.49%) Internet
2 36 (2.49%) RS-485
3 31 (2.15%) Firewall
4 30 (2.08%) TCP/IP
5 29 (2.01%) RS-422
6 28 (1.94%) VPN
7 27 (1.87%) Wireless
8 21 (1.46%) Wi-Fi
9 20 (1.39%) MQTT
10 18 (1.25%) Software-Defined Radio
11 16 (1.11%) 3G
11 16 (1.11%) Broadband
12 14 (0.97%) HTTP
13 12 (0.83%) 4G
13 12 (0.83%) Ethernet
13 12 (0.83%) WAN
14 11 (0.76%) PBX
14 11 (0.76%) Profibus
14 11 (0.76%) PSTN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 77 (5.34%) SQL Server
2 41 (2.84%) NoSQL
3 36 (2.49%) Relational Database
4 34 (2.36%) PostgreSQL
5 27 (1.87%) MySQL
6 18 (1.25%) RDBMS
7 15 (1.04%) Data Warehouse
8 14 (0.97%) Big Data
8 14 (0.97%) Power BI
9 13 (0.90%) Oracle Database
10 11 (0.76%) SQLite
11 10 (0.69%) MongoDB
12 7 (0.49%) Hadoop
12 7 (0.49%) OLAP
12 7 (0.49%) Oracle OLAP
13 6 (0.42%) Amazon DynamoDB
14 5 (0.35%) Amazon Redshift
14 5 (0.35%) CouchDB
14 5 (0.35%) Data Lake
14 5 (0.35%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 71 (4.92%) Git (software)
2 69 (4.78%) JIRA
3 66 (4.57%) Jenkins
4 42 (2.91%) Rational Rhapsody
5 36 (2.49%) Selenium
6 29 (2.01%) Team Foundation Server
7 27 (1.87%) Cucumber
8 26 (1.80%) Rational DOORS
8 26 (1.80%) Rational Team Concert
9 20 (1.39%) Visual Studio
10 18 (1.25%) JUnit
11 17 (1.18%) Oracle APEX
12 14 (0.97%) Cypress.io
13 12 (0.83%) TestRail
14 11 (0.76%) TestNG
15 10 (0.69%) CMake
15 10 (0.69%) GitLab
15 10 (0.69%) Liquibase
16 7 (0.49%) GCC
16 7 (0.49%) SpecFlow
General
1 610 (42.27%) Finance
2 588 (40.75%) Manufacturing
3 562 (38.95%) Marketing
4 558 (38.67%) Telecoms
5 518 (35.90%) Public Sector
6 329 (22.80%) Social Skills
7 108 (7.48%) Analytical Skills
8 64 (4.44%) Retail
9 61 (4.23%) Automotive
10 54 (3.74%) Financial Institution
11 42 (2.91%) Games
12 40 (2.77%) Presentation Skills
13 36 (2.49%) Avionics
14 34 (2.36%) Aerospace
15 28 (1.94%) Advertising
16 27 (1.87%) Influencing Skills
17 22 (1.52%) Organisational Skills
18 15 (1.04%) Back Office
19 12 (0.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
20 10 (0.69%) Billing
Job Titles
1 206 (14.28%) Developer
2 191 (13.24%) Software Engineer
3 183 (12.68%) Electronics Engineer
4 153 (10.60%) Systems Engineer
5 143 (9.91%) Embedded Engineer
6 100 (6.93%) Hardware Engineer
7 94 (6.51%) Architect
8 93 (6.44%) Design Engineer
9 65 (4.50%) Development Engineer
9 65 (4.50%) Embedded Software Engineer
10 60 (4.16%) Electronics Hardware Engineer
11 55 (3.81%) Software Developer
12 51 (3.53%) Project Manager
12 51 (3.53%) Senior Developer
13 50 (3.47%) Analyst
13 50 (3.47%) Senior Software Engineer
14 41 (2.84%) .NET Developer
15 37 (2.56%) Software Development Engineer
16 36 (2.49%) Security Architect
16 36 (2.49%) Software Design Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 128 (8.87%) .NET
2 85 (5.89%) React
3 84 (5.82%) HTML
4 74 (5.13%) CSS
5 55 (3.81%) .NET Core
6 47 (3.26%) AngularJS
7 41 (2.84%) Web Services
8 39 (2.70%) XML
9 36 (2.49%) REST
10 31 (2.15%) jQuery
11 28 (1.94%) ASP.NET
11 28 (1.94%) Node.js
12 25 (1.73%) WCF
13 24 (1.66%) GraphQL
14 22 (1.52%) .NET Framework
15 18 (1.25%) NumPy
16 17 (1.18%) Ajax
16 17 (1.18%) EDI
16 17 (1.18%) SOAP
17 15 (1.04%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 121 (8.39%) Algorithms
2 106 (7.35%) Analogue Electronics
3 75 (5.20%) Embedded Systems
4 71 (4.92%) Self-Motivation
5 69 (4.78%) User Experience
6 60 (4.16%) Optoelectronics
7 58 (4.02%) Blog
8 50 (3.47%) Tandem
9 39 (2.70%) Social Media
10 30 (2.08%) Robotics
11 27 (1.87%) Greenfield Project
11 27 (1.87%) Mobile App
12 26 (1.80%) Field-Programmable Gate Array
12 26 (1.80%) Internet of Things
13 20 (1.39%) Data Centre
13 20 (1.39%) Management Information System
14 19 (1.32%) Public Cloud
15 18 (1.25%) Driving Licence
15 18 (1.25%) Smart City
15 18 (1.25%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 150 (10.40%) Linux
2 132 (9.15%) Windows
3 50 (3.47%) Android
4 40 (2.77%) Unix
5 36 (2.49%) Windows Server
6 22 (1.52%) Apple iOS
7 20 (1.39%) Windows Server 2016
8 18 (1.25%) Embedded Linux
9 17 (1.18%) Windows Server 2019
10 16 (1.11%) Windows 10
11 11 (0.76%) ThreadX
11 11 (0.76%) VxWorks
11 11 (0.76%) Windows Embedded Compact
12 9 (0.62%) CentOS
12 9 (0.62%) FreeRTOS
13 7 (0.49%) Windows Server 2012
14 4 (0.28%) VMS
15 3 (0.21%) Kali Linux
16 2 (0.14%) AIX
16 2 (0.14%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 526 (36.45%) Business Intelligence
2 525 (36.38%) Digital Marketing
3 519 (35.97%) Programme Management
4 372 (25.78%) Agile Software Development
4 372 (25.78%) Software Engineering
5 154 (10.67%) Computer Science
6 147 (10.19%) Problem-Solving
7 145 (10.05%) Continuous Integration
8 136 (9.42%) DevOps
9 129 (8.94%) Test Automation
10 125 (8.66%) Validation
11 116 (8.04%) Scrum
12 113 (7.83%) TDD
13 99 (6.86%) Mentoring
14 95 (6.58%) Physics
15 94 (6.51%) Software Testing
16 87 (6.03%) Cybersecurity
17 83 (5.75%) People Management
18 77 (5.34%) Schematic Capture
19 75 (5.20%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 242 (16.77%) C
2 223 (15.45%) C++
3 195 (13.51%) C#
3 195 (13.51%) Python
4 150 (10.40%) JavaScript
5 134 (9.29%) Java
6 111 (7.69%) MATLAB
7 100 (6.93%) SQL
8 69 (4.78%) Embedded C
9 47 (3.26%) Ada
10 44 (3.05%) PowerShell
11 39 (2.70%) Embedded C++
12 32 (2.22%) TypeScript
13 31 (2.15%) Go
14 26 (1.80%) Bash Shell
15 24 (1.66%) VB.NET
16 22 (1.52%) T-SQL
17 19 (1.32%) PHP
18 13 (0.90%) Kotlin
18 13 (0.90%) Perl
Qualifications
1 324 (22.45%) Degree
2 61 (4.23%) Security Cleared
3 52 (3.60%) SC Cleared
4 51 (3.53%) Computer Science Degree
5 32 (2.22%) CEH
5 32 (2.22%) Master's Degree
6 16 (1.11%) PhD
7 14 (0.97%) PRINCE2 Certification
8 9 (0.62%) Numerate Degree
8 9 (0.62%) Postgraduate
9 7 (0.49%) CISM
9 7 (0.49%) CISSP
10 6 (0.42%) Cisco Certification
11 5 (0.35%) CCSA
11 5 (0.35%) Chartered Engineer
11 5 (0.35%) GCIA
11 5 (0.35%) HNC
11 5 (0.35%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 4 (0.28%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 3 (0.21%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 66 (4.57%) QA
2 60 (4.16%) MISRA
3 52 (3.60%) Def Stans
4 24 (1.66%) DO-254
5 22 (1.52%) NIST
6 21 (1.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 20 (1.39%) IEC 61508
7 20 (1.39%) ISO 26262
8 18 (1.25%) GDPR
9 12 (0.83%) ISO 9001
10 11 (0.76%) DO-178B
10 11 (0.76%) MISRA C
11 10 (0.69%) Accessibility
12 7 (0.49%) ISO 13485
13 6 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials
14 5 (0.35%) ISO/IEC 20000
14 5 (0.35%) PCI DSS
15 4 (0.28%) SLA
16 3 (0.21%) HIPAA
16 3 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 154 (10.67%) Firmware
2 85 (5.89%) Docker
3 38 (2.63%) Active Directory
4 12 (0.83%) vSphere
5 11 (0.76%) VMware Workstation
6 9 (0.62%) VMware Infrastructure
7 7 (0.49%) Virtual Servers
8 6 (0.42%) Virtual Machines
9 4 (0.28%) Hyper-V
10 3 (0.21%) Snort
10 3 (0.21%) Squid
11 1 (0.069%) KVM
Systems Management
1 81 (5.61%) Kubernetes
2 18 (1.25%) Terraform
3 17 (1.18%) Ansible
4 14 (0.97%) Puppet
5 13 (0.90%) Microsoft Intune
6 7 (0.49%) Nagios
7 6 (0.42%) Nessus
7 6 (0.42%) Opscode Chef
8 5 (0.35%) Grafana
8 5 (0.35%) Packer
8 5 (0.35%) Single Sign-On
9 4 (0.28%) Prometheus
10 3 (0.21%) CASB
10 3 (0.21%) Nexpose
10 3 (0.21%) Suricata
11 1 (0.069%) HP Quality Center
11 1 (0.069%) PingFederate
11 1 (0.069%) PTC Integrity
Vendors
1 516 (35.76%) SAP
2 148 (10.26%) Microsoft
3 70 (4.85%) EMC
4 66 (4.57%) Oracle
5 51 (3.53%) IBM
6 33 (2.29%) VMware
7 32 (2.22%) Cisco
8 31 (2.15%) Google
9 24 (1.66%) ServiceNow
10 16 (1.11%) Xamarin
11 13 (0.90%) Red Hat
11 13 (0.90%) Splunk
12 11 (0.76%) Klocwork
13 10 (0.69%) Atlassian
13 10 (0.69%) Sencha
14 9 (0.62%) Apple
14 9 (0.62%) Cadence
15 8 (0.55%) Ericsson
15 8 (0.55%) Huawei
15 8 (0.55%) LogRhythm
695 Electronics job vacancies Nationwide