Embedded Engineer
UK

The median Embedded Engineer salary in the UK is £55,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 29 November 2023.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Nov 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 486 655 680
Rank change year-on-year +169 +25 -178
Permanent jobs requiring an Embedded Engineer 255 481 449
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.47% 0.38% 0.35%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.49% 0.40% 0.37%
Number of salaries quoted 195 172 290
10th Percentile £33,750 £39,000 £34,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £46,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +10.00%
75th Percentile £64,750 £66,250 £60,000
90th Percentile £70,000 £74,525 £66,375
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +10.00% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 51,668 119,945 122,710
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.49% 95.32% 95.07%
Number of salaries quoted 37,837 75,409 83,805
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,750 £32,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £97,750 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +5.00% +5.26%

Embedded Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Embedded Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Embedded Engineer in the UK

Embedded Engineer
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Embedded Engineer.

Salary trend for Embedded Engineer in the UK

Embedded Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Embedded Engineer over the 6 months to 29 November 2023.

Salary histogram for Embedded Engineer in the UK

Embedded Engineer
Top 16 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Embedded Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 29 November 2023. 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 +82 241 £55,000 - 255
England +120 213 £55,000 - 258
Work from Home +213 115 £57,500 +9.52% 133
Midlands +161 71 £57,500 +4.55% 27
South East +48 66 £55,000 -8.33% 65
West Midlands +153 52 £59,500 +8.18% 13
Scotland +88 38 £52,500 -10.64% 23
North of England +79 34 £55,000 +4.76% 38
East Midlands +46 19 £50,000 - 15
North West +112 17 £55,000 -15.38% 19
East of England +52 16 £60,000 -5.88% 60
South West +59 15 £59,000 -5.60% 49
London +248 11 £55,000 -18.52% 26
Yorkshire +37 11 £55,000 +4.76% 15
North East +43 6 £55,000 - 4
Wales +13 1 £55,000 +4.76% 5

Embedded Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 29 November 2023, Embedded Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads featuring Embedded Engineer in the job title.

1 210 (82.35%) Software Engineering
2 192 (75.29%) C
3 126 (49.41%) C++
4 114 (44.71%) Firmware
5 109 (42.75%) Linux
6 100 (39.22%) Degree
7 77 (30.20%) Electronics
8 65 (25.49%) Embedded Firmware
9 58 (22.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 52 (20.39%) Software Testing
11 50 (19.61%) Embedded Systems
12 49 (19.22%) Wireless
13 47 (18.43%) Embedded C
14 46 (18.04%) Social Skills
15 45 (17.65%) TCP/IP
15 45 (17.65%) Embedded Linux
16 44 (17.25%) Unit Testing
17 42 (16.47%) Signal Processing
18 41 (16.08%) Manufacturing
19 36 (14.12%) Digital Signal Processing
20 34 (13.33%) Computer Science
20 34 (13.33%) Project Planning
20 34 (13.33%) HTTP
20 34 (13.33%) Python
21 33 (12.94%) Automotive
21 33 (12.94%) Protocol Buffers
21 33 (12.94%) Functional Testing
22 32 (12.55%) Agile
23 30 (11.76%) Yocto
24 29 (11.37%) Business Intelligence

Embedded Engineer Skill Set
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 3 (1.18%) Confluence
Applications
1 16 (6.27%) Simulink
2 5 (1.96%) CANalyzer
2 5 (1.96%) Stateflow
3 4 (1.57%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.78%) OrCAD
4 2 (0.78%) TargetLink
Business Applications
1 1 (0.39%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 9 (3.53%) GitHub
2 5 (1.96%) Azure
3 4 (1.57%) AWS
4 3 (1.18%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (0.78%) AWS IoT
Communications & Networking
1 49 (19.22%) Wireless
2 45 (17.65%) TCP/IP
3 34 (13.33%) HTTP
4 26 (10.20%) Ethernet
5 14 (5.49%) Wi-Fi
6 12 (4.71%) Bluetooth
7 10 (3.92%) MQTT
8 9 (3.53%) RS-232
9 8 (3.14%) Modbus
10 7 (2.75%) J1939
11 6 (2.35%) RS-485
11 6 (2.35%) Software-Defined Radio
12 5 (1.96%) FlexRay
12 5 (1.96%) GSM
13 4 (1.57%) 3G
13 4 (1.57%) LTE
14 3 (1.18%) 802.11
14 3 (1.18%) Internet
14 3 (1.18%) SpaceWire
15 2 (0.78%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (0.78%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 18 (7.06%) Git
2 12 (4.71%) JIRA
2 12 (4.71%) Subversion
3 10 (3.92%) Jenkins
4 6 (2.35%) GitLab
5 5 (1.96%) Visual Studio
6 4 (1.57%) Eclipse
7 3 (1.18%) Rational DOORS
8 2 (0.78%) CANoe
8 2 (0.78%) CMake
8 2 (0.78%) GCC
8 2 (0.78%) LabVIEW
9 1 (0.39%) Artifactory
9 1 (0.39%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.39%) GDB
9 1 (0.39%) Mercurial
9 1 (0.39%) Polyspace
9 1 (0.39%) VectorCAST
9 1 (0.39%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 77 (30.20%) Electronics
2 58 (22.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 46 (18.04%) Social Skills
4 41 (16.08%) Manufacturing
5 33 (12.94%) Automotive
6 25 (9.80%) Marketing
7 24 (9.41%) Finance
7 24 (9.41%) Public Sector
7 24 (9.41%) Telecoms
8 10 (3.92%) Analytical Skills
9 6 (2.35%) Aerospace
10 4 (1.57%) Documentation Skills
10 4 (1.57%) Military
11 3 (1.18%) Games
12 1 (0.39%) Aeronautics
12 1 (0.39%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (12.94%) Protocol Buffers
2 30 (11.76%) Yocto
3 4 (1.57%) REST
4 3 (1.18%) 802.1X
4 3 (1.18%) Boost C++ Libraries
4 3 (1.18%) POSIX
4 3 (1.18%) WPF
5 2 (0.78%) .NET
5 2 (0.78%) Flask
5 2 (0.78%) Qt
5 2 (0.78%) STL
6 1 (0.39%) HTML
6 1 (0.39%) React
6 1 (0.39%) Wayland
6 1 (0.39%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 50 (19.61%) Embedded Systems
2 23 (9.02%) Device Driver
3 22 (8.63%) IoT
4 12 (4.71%) Self-Motivation
5 10 (3.92%) Algorithms
5 10 (3.92%) FPGA
6 9 (3.53%) ARM Cortex
7 5 (1.96%) VHDL
8 4 (1.57%) Driving Licence
8 4 (1.57%) Raspberry Pi
9 3 (1.18%) Arduino
9 3 (1.18%) PCIe
9 3 (1.18%) Renewable Energy
9 3 (1.18%) Verilog
10 2 (0.78%) Analogue Electronics
10 2 (0.78%) Analytical Mindset
10 2 (0.78%) ASIC
10 2 (0.78%) NB-IoT
10 2 (0.78%) SIMD
10 2 (0.78%) Solar Panel
Operating Systems
1 109 (42.75%) Linux
2 45 (17.65%) Embedded Linux
3 18 (7.06%) FreeRTOS
4 5 (1.96%) Android
5 4 (1.57%) VxWorks
5 4 (1.57%) Windows
6 2 (0.78%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.39%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 210 (82.35%) Software Engineering
2 52 (20.39%) Software Testing
3 44 (17.25%) Unit Testing
4 42 (16.47%) Signal Processing
5 36 (14.12%) Digital Signal Processing
6 34 (13.33%) Computer Science
6 34 (13.33%) Project Planning
7 33 (12.94%) Functional Testing
8 32 (12.55%) Agile
9 29 (11.37%) Business Intelligence
9 29 (11.37%) Problem-Solving
10 26 (10.20%) Mentoring
11 24 (9.41%) Digital Marketing
11 24 (9.41%) Programme Management
12 21 (8.24%) Mathematics
13 19 (7.45%) Embedded Software Development
13 19 (7.45%) Physics
14 14 (5.49%) Validation
15 13 (5.10%) Project Management
15 13 (5.10%) Software Architecture
Programming Languages
1 192 (75.29%) C
2 126 (49.41%) C++
3 47 (18.43%) Embedded C
4 34 (13.33%) Python
5 21 (8.24%) Embedded C++
5 21 (8.24%) MATLAB
6 11 (4.31%) C#
7 7 (2.75%) Bash
8 4 (1.57%) Ada
8 4 (1.57%) Shell Script
9 2 (0.78%) Java
9 2 (0.78%) JavaScript
9 2 (0.78%) PHP
10 1 (0.39%) ANSI C
10 1 (0.39%) Assembly Language
10 1 (0.39%) R
10 1 (0.39%) XAML
Qualifications
1 100 (39.22%) Degree
2 12 (4.71%) Security Cleared
3 11 (4.31%) Computer Science Degree
4 8 (3.14%) SC Cleared
5 3 (1.18%) Master's Degree
6 2 (0.78%) HND
7 1 (0.39%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (7.84%) MISRA
2 16 (6.27%) ISO 26262
3 14 (5.49%) AUTOSAR
4 12 (4.71%) Automotive SPICE
5 8 (3.14%) DO-178B
6 5 (1.96%) QA
7 2 (0.78%) JTAG
8 1 (0.39%) IEC 61508
8 1 (0.39%) IEC 62304
8 1 (0.39%) ISO 13485
8 1 (0.39%) MISRA C
System Software
1 114 (44.71%) Firmware
2 65 (25.49%) Embedded Firmware
3 1 (0.39%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (0.78%) Functional Safety
2 1 (0.39%) Terraform
Vendors
1 24 (9.41%) SAP
2 5 (1.96%) Renesas
3 4 (1.57%) Atlassian
3 4 (1.57%) Microsoft
4 3 (1.18%) IBM
5 2 (0.78%) Apple
5 2 (0.78%) Cadence
5 2 (0.78%) EMC
5 2 (0.78%) Lauterbach
6 1 (0.39%) Green Hills