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 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 184 256 310
Rank change year-on-year +72 +54 -77
Permanent jobs citing Electronics 1,558 1,459 2,112
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.57% 1.44% 1.34%
As % of the General category 2.63% 2.11% 2.09%
Number of salaries quoted 1,124 737 1,008
10th Percentile £32,500 £30,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £38,066 £41,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £62,500 £65,000 £65,313
90th Percentile £72,500 £77,500 £89,000
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 59,289 69,287 100,887
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 59.78% 68.22% 64.09%
Number of salaries quoted 39,672 37,345 51,003
10th Percentile £27,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £43,162 £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 £101,250 £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 8 May 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 8 May 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 +38 1,424 £50,000 +2.70% 1,214
England +69 1,386 £52,500 +5.00% 1,275
South East +14 484 £47,500 -9.52% 403
Work from Home -10 405 £52,500 - 400
East of England +41 251 £55,000 -15.38% 262
Midlands +27 201 £52,500 +31.25% 194
North of England +35 175 £50,000 +20.79% 144
South West +16 170 £45,000 -5.26% 185
West Midlands +16 128 £57,500 +27.78% 129
North West +26 105 £47,500 - 78
London +6 87 £60,000 +23.24% 129
East Midlands +20 73 £50,000 +33.33% 65
Yorkshire +55 61 £50,000 +25.00% 50
Scotland -61 61 £47,500 - 61
Wales +19 41 £50,000 +21.95% 33
Northern Ireland - 33 £35,000 - 8
North East +1 9 £53,750 +58.95% 17
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 42 (2.70%) SharePoint
2 17 (1.09%) Apache
3 12 (0.77%) Confluence
4 10 (0.64%) Apache Spark
5 8 (0.51%) Microsoft Exchange
6 7 (0.45%) Apache Airflow
7 6 (0.39%) nginx
8 5 (0.32%) IIS
8 5 (0.32%) Kinematics
9 4 (0.26%) Moodle
10 3 (0.19%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
10 3 (0.19%) CMS
11 1 (0.064%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 63 (4.04%) Simulink
2 37 (2.37%) Microsoft Excel
3 34 (2.18%) Microsoft Office
4 24 (1.54%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 17 (1.09%) Stateflow
6 12 (0.77%) OrCAD
7 7 (0.45%) CANalyzer
7 7 (0.45%) GNU Octave
7 7 (0.45%) Microsoft Project
8 6 (0.39%) SOLIDWORKS
9 5 (0.32%) InfoPath
9 5 (0.32%) Windchill
10 4 (0.26%) AutoCAD
10 4 (0.26%) Doxygen
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 (0.064%) Adobe Creative Suite
Business Applications
1 13 (0.83%) Adobe Campaign
2 7 (0.45%) Salesforce CRM
3 4 (0.26%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.064%) LabWindows
4 1 (0.064%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 64 (4.11%) Azure
2 54 (3.47%) AWS
3 43 (2.76%) Microsoft 365
4 27 (1.73%) GitHub
5 21 (1.35%) Azure DevOps
6 18 (1.16%) GCP
6 18 (1.16%) Power Platform
7 12 (0.77%) Cloud Computing
7 12 (0.77%) OneDrive
8 7 (0.45%) Entra ID
8 7 (0.45%) PaaS
8 7 (0.45%) SaaS
9 6 (0.39%) AWS IoT
9 6 (0.39%) GitHub Actions
10 5 (0.32%) Azure Data Factory
10 5 (0.32%) Dynamics 365
11 4 (0.26%) Microsoft Purview
11 4 (0.26%) Power Automate
12 3 (0.19%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 2 (0.13%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 107 (6.87%) Wireless
2 70 (4.49%) TCP/IP
3 62 (3.98%) Ethernet
4 60 (3.85%) Bluetooth
5 55 (3.53%) Wi-Fi
6 45 (2.89%) RS-232
7 35 (2.25%) Internet
8 24 (1.54%) 5G
8 24 (1.54%) WAN
9 22 (1.41%) ZigBee
10 21 (1.35%) J1939
10 21 (1.35%) RS-485
10 21 (1.35%) SD-WAN
11 20 (1.28%) LTE
12 19 (1.22%) HTTP
13 17 (1.09%) MQTT
14 16 (1.03%) Modbus
15 13 (0.83%) DNS
16 10 (0.64%) Firewall
16 10 (0.64%) OFDM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (1.60%) PostgreSQL
2 18 (1.16%) Power BI
3 14 (0.90%) SQL Server
4 12 (0.77%) Big Data
5 10 (0.64%) MongoDB
6 9 (0.58%) Redis
7 7 (0.45%) Apache Hive
7 7 (0.45%) Presto
7 7 (0.45%) SQLite
8 6 (0.39%) GIS
8 6 (0.39%) Relational Database
8 6 (0.39%) Tableau
9 5 (0.32%) MySQL
10 4 (0.26%) NoSQL
11 3 (0.19%) Hadoop
12 2 (0.13%) Data Lake
12 2 (0.13%) Data Warehouse
12 2 (0.13%) Qlik Sense
13 1 (0.064%) Metadata
13 1 (0.064%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 106 (6.80%) Git
2 62 (3.98%) JIRA
3 56 (3.59%) LabVIEW
4 48 (3.08%) Subversion
5 37 (2.37%) Visual Studio
6 29 (1.86%) Jenkins
7 15 (0.96%) ClearCase
7 15 (0.96%) Eclipse
8 14 (0.90%) Plastic SCM
9 9 (0.58%) Rational DOORS
10 7 (0.45%) ClearQuest
10 7 (0.45%) GitLab
10 7 (0.45%) Rational Rhapsody
11 5 (0.32%) 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 (0.19%) GCC
14 2 (0.13%) SoapUI
General
1 524 (33.63%) Manufacturing
2 330 (21.18%) Social Skills
3 248 (15.92%) Finance
4 242 (15.53%) Telecoms
5 227 (14.57%) Marketing
6 195 (12.52%) Analytical Skills
7 179 (11.49%) Public Sector
8 170 (10.91%) Automotive
9 123 (7.89%) Aerospace
10 103 (6.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 46 (2.95%) Retail
12 45 (2.89%) Military
13 28 (1.80%) Presentation Skills
14 26 (1.67%) Games
15 22 (1.41%) Organisational Skills
15 22 (1.41%) Pharmaceutical
16 20 (1.28%) Legal
16 20 (1.28%) Police
17 15 (0.96%) Publishing
18 14 (0.90%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 391 (25.10%) Software Engineer
2 312 (20.03%) Electronics Engineer
3 253 (16.24%) Embedded Engineer
4 245 (15.73%) Senior
5 190 (12.20%) Hardware Engineer
6 174 (11.17%) Embedded Software Engineer
7 125 (8.02%) Graduate
8 107 (6.87%) Systems Engineer
9 99 (6.35%) Junior
10 95 (6.10%) Developer
11 82 (5.26%) Development Engineer
12 81 (5.20%) Graduate Electronics Engineer
12 81 (5.20%) Lead
13 73 (4.69%) Junior Electronics Engineer
14 71 (4.56%) Graduate Development Engineer
15 69 (4.43%) Electronics Hardware Engineer
16 67 (4.30%) Senior Software Engineer
17 62 (3.98%) Firmware Engineer
18 56 (3.59%) Senior Hardware Engineer
19 55 (3.53%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (3.79%) .NET
1 59 (3.79%) HTML
2 31 (1.99%) CSS
3 27 (1.73%) Yocto
4 26 (1.67%) Qt
4 26 (1.67%) React
5 21 (1.35%) .NET Framework
5 21 (1.35%) Flask
6 20 (1.28%) XML
7 16 (1.03%) AngularJS
7 16 (1.03%) Django
8 13 (0.83%) Web Services
9 12 (0.77%) Node.js
10 10 (0.64%) WPF
11 9 (0.58%) HTML5 Canvas
11 9 (0.58%) JSON
11 9 (0.58%) Middleware
12 8 (0.51%) Flash
12 8 (0.51%) NumPy
12 8 (0.51%) Svelte
Miscellaneous
1 149 (9.56%) IoT
2 135 (8.66%) Embedded Systems
3 101 (6.48%) FPGA
4 91 (5.84%) Analogue Electronics
5 87 (5.58%) Algorithms
6 65 (4.17%) Robotics
7 64 (4.11%) Self-Motivation
8 53 (3.40%) VHDL
9 33 (2.12%) Driving Licence
10 32 (2.05%) Management Information System
11 30 (1.93%) Analytical Mindset
12 24 (1.54%) Device Driver
13 23 (1.48%) Acoustics
13 23 (1.48%) ARM Cortex
14 20 (1.28%) Distributed Systems
15 16 (1.03%) Cyber Threat
16 15 (0.96%) Renewable Energy
17 13 (0.83%) Arduino
17 13 (0.83%) GNSS
17 13 (0.83%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 221 (14.18%) Linux
2 145 (9.31%) Windows
3 42 (2.70%) Embedded Linux
4 31 (1.99%) FreeRTOS
5 22 (1.41%) Windows Server
6 17 (1.09%) Android
7 16 (1.03%) Windows 10
8 15 (0.96%) Apple iOS
9 13 (0.83%) Ubuntu
10 8 (0.51%) Mac OS
11 7 (0.45%) VMS
12 6 (0.39%) ThreadX
13 5 (0.32%) Unix
14 4 (0.26%) VxWorks
14 4 (0.26%) Windows Server 2016
15 1 (0.064%) Debian
15 1 (0.064%) Fedora
15 1 (0.064%) Windows Embedded Compact
Processes & Methodologies
1 502 (32.22%) Software Engineering
2 245 (15.73%) Problem-Solving
3 231 (14.83%) Computer Science
4 183 (11.75%) Business Intelligence
5 176 (11.30%) Digital Marketing
5 176 (11.30%) Programme Management
6 146 (9.37%) Agile
7 143 (9.18%) Schematic Capture
8 125 (8.02%) Software Testing
9 122 (7.83%) Validation
10 100 (6.42%) Project Management
11 94 (6.03%) Mentoring
12 93 (5.97%) Collaborative Working
13 88 (5.65%) Project Planning
14 87 (5.58%) Test Automation
15 77 (4.94%) Customer Requirements
16 72 (4.62%) Mathematics
17 66 (4.24%) Continuous Improvement
17 66 (4.24%) Physics
18 63 (4.04%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 440 (28.24%) C
2 246 (15.79%) Python
3 231 (14.83%) C++
4 154 (9.88%) C#
5 114 (7.32%) Embedded C
6 92 (5.91%) MATLAB
7 79 (5.07%) JavaScript
8 74 (4.75%) Java
9 54 (3.47%) SQL
10 29 (1.86%) Bash
10 29 (1.86%) Perl
11 23 (1.48%) Embedded C++
12 20 (1.28%) PHP
12 20 (1.28%) PowerShell
12 20 (1.28%) TypeScript
13 17 (1.09%) Ada
14 10 (0.64%) Assembly Language
14 10 (0.64%) Scala
15 9 (0.58%) Tcl
15 9 (0.58%) VB
Qualifications
1 670 (43.00%) Degree
2 120 (7.70%) Security Cleared
3 80 (5.13%) Computer Science Degree
4 55 (3.53%) HND
5 52 (3.34%) SC Cleared
6 38 (2.44%) Master's Degree
7 36 (2.31%) HNC
8 29 (1.86%) DV Cleared
9 28 (1.80%) BPSS Clearance
10 26 (1.67%) PhD
11 14 (0.90%) Cisco Certification
12 12 (0.77%) CCNA
13 11 (0.71%) NVQ Level 3
14 9 (0.58%) CISSP
14 9 (0.58%) DBS Check
15 7 (0.45%) Microsoft Certification
16 5 (0.32%) CISM
17 4 (0.26%) MCP
17 4 (0.26%) MCSE
18 3 (0.19%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 121 (7.77%) QA
2 31 (1.99%) AUTOSAR
2 31 (1.99%) ISO 26262
3 30 (1.93%) MISRA
4 24 (1.54%) JTAG
5 23 (1.48%) Automotive SPICE
6 22 (1.41%) ISO 9001
7 20 (1.28%) ISO 13485
8 14 (0.90%) ISO/IEC 17025
8 14 (0.90%) PMO
9 11 (0.71%) IEC 62304
10 9 (0.58%) GDPR
11 8 (0.51%) 21 CFR Part 11
12 7 (0.45%) Data Quality
13 4 (0.26%) IEC 61131
13 4 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
13 4 (0.26%) MISRA C
13 4 (0.26%) Software Quality Assurance
14 3 (0.19%) DO-178B
14 3 (0.19%) ECSS
System Software
1 368 (23.62%) Firmware
2 183 (11.75%) Embedded Firmware
3 19 (1.22%) Docker
4 17 (1.09%) VMware Infrastructure
5 11 (0.71%) Hyper-V
5 11 (0.71%) Virtual Machines
6 5 (0.32%) vSphere
7 4 (0.26%) Active Directory
8 3 (0.19%) NFS
9 2 (0.13%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.064%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 22 (1.41%) Terraform
2 12 (0.77%) Functional Safety
3 4 (0.26%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 1 (0.064%) Kubernetes
4 1 (0.064%) SCCM
4 1 (0.064%) systemd
4 1 (0.064%) vCenter Server
4 1 (0.064%) vRealize
Vendors
1 177 (11.36%) SAP
2 154 (9.88%) EMC
3 136 (8.73%) Microsoft
4 17 (1.09%) IBM
4 17 (1.09%) Lauterbach
4 17 (1.09%) VMware
5 16 (1.03%) Google
5 16 (1.03%) Xilinx
6 15 (0.96%) Adobe
7 13 (0.83%) Xamarin
8 12 (0.77%) Cisco
9 10 (0.64%) Altera
10 9 (0.58%) Salesforce
11 8 (0.51%) Facebook
11 8 (0.51%) Green Hills
11 8 (0.51%) HP
11 8 (0.51%) Motorola
11 8 (0.51%) Renesas
11 8 (0.51%) Thales
12 7 (0.45%) Databricks