Embedded Systems Jobs

Embedded Systems
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Embedded Systems in permanent job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Embedded Systems over the 6 months leading up to 17 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 387 524 662
Rank change year-on-year +137 +138 +163
Permanent jobs citing Embedded Systems 398 405 232
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.66% 0.40% 0.27%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.80% 1.20% 0.65%
Number of salaries quoted 112 282 126
10th Percentile £36,375 £38,828 £40,750
25th Percentile £43,750 £45,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - -15.38% +18.18%
75th Percentile £65,000 £62,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £77,500 £70,000 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £53,750 £55,000 £61,250
% change year-on-year -2.27% -10.20% +11.36%

All Generic Skills
UK

Embedded Systems falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring generic IT skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 22,150 33,744 35,535
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 36.82% 33.61% 41.94%
Number of salaries quoted 10,640 21,060 21,457
10th Percentile £29,750 £29,000 £35,432
25th Percentile £40,000 £39,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -15.38% +4.00%
75th Percentile £77,500 £76,250 £85,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £100,000 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,200 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.40% -9.09% +4.76%

Embedded Systems
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Embedded Systems as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Embedded Systems in the UK

Embedded Systems
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Embedded Systems in the UK

Embedded Systems
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Embedded Systems over the 6 months to 17 July 2025.

Salary histogram for Embedded Systems in the UK

Embedded Systems
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Embedded Systems within the UK over the 6 months to 17 July 2025. 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
England +104 370 £55,000 - 296
Work from Home +212 286 £50,000 -9.09% 130
UK excluding London +17 225 £53,750 -2.27% 265
South East +30 97 £60,000 +9.09% 73
London +160 71 £65,000 +8.33% 50
East of England -6 35 £68,750 +37.50% 73
Midlands +39 33 £43,500 -20.91% 39
North of England +23 28 £50,000 -9.09% 31
East Midlands +28 21 £47,500 -20.83% 15
South West +58 16 £55,000 +10.00% 32
North West -16 14 £55,000 - 17
Scotland +94 12 £47,500 -24.00% 12
Yorkshire +29 12 £46,000 -3.16% 10
West Midlands +37 11 £30,000 -45.45% 23
Wales - 4 £65,000 - 10
Northern Ireland +39 1 £50,000 - 3
North East - 1 - - 4

Embedded Systems
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 2 (0.50%) TPMS
Applications
1 4 (1.01%) Simulink
2 2 (0.50%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.25%) CANalyzer
Cloud Services
1 4 (1.01%) AWS
1 4 (1.01%) Azure
2 3 (0.75%) GCP
3 2 (0.50%) AWS IoT
3 2 (0.50%) GitHub
4 1 (0.25%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 215 (54.02%) Broadband
2 44 (11.06%) Wireless
3 32 (8.04%) Software-Defined Radio
4 13 (3.27%) Bluetooth
4 13 (3.27%) Modbus
5 12 (3.02%) RS-485
6 8 (2.01%) Wi-Fi
7 5 (1.26%) Ethernet
7 5 (1.26%) WAN
8 4 (1.01%) MQTT
8 4 (1.01%) RS-232
8 4 (1.01%) TCP/IP
9 3 (0.75%) Internet
10 2 (0.50%) LoRaWAN
10 2 (0.50%) Profibus
10 2 (0.50%) ZigBee
11 1 (0.25%) Network Security
11 1 (0.25%) SpaceWire
11 1 (0.25%) UWB
11 1 (0.25%) Wideband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (0.50%) Scylla
2 1 (0.25%) Big Data
2 1 (0.25%) DynamoDB
2 1 (0.25%) NoSQL
2 1 (0.25%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 218 (54.77%) JIRA
2 22 (5.53%) Git
3 6 (1.51%) KGDB
4 2 (0.50%) Fiddler
4 2 (0.50%) GDB
4 2 (0.50%) GitLab
4 2 (0.50%) IDA Disassembler
5 1 (0.25%) Appium
5 1 (0.25%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.25%) CANoe
5 1 (0.25%) Selenium
5 1 (0.25%) Subversion
5 1 (0.25%) TestRail
5 1 (0.25%) WebDriver
General
1 48 (12.06%) Electronics
2 41 (10.30%) Finance
3 35 (8.79%) Social Skills
4 25 (6.28%) Aerospace
5 19 (4.77%) Manufacturing
6 13 (3.27%) Analytical Skills
7 9 (2.26%) Automotive
7 9 (2.26%) Marketing
7 9 (2.26%) Telecoms
8 7 (1.76%) Public Sector
9 5 (1.26%) Agriculture
9 5 (1.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 5 (1.26%) Law
10 4 (1.01%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.50%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (0.50%) Retail
12 1 (0.25%) Advertising
12 1 (0.25%) Military
Job Titles
1 295 (74.12%) Embedded Engineer
2 215 (54.02%) Release Engineer
3 78 (19.60%) Software Engineer
4 62 (15.58%) Embedded Software Engineer
5 26 (6.53%) Senior
6 22 (5.53%) Lead
7 15 (3.77%) Electronics Engineer
8 14 (3.52%) Software Team Leader
8 14 (3.52%) Team Leader
9 13 (3.27%) Firmware Engineer
10 9 (2.26%) Embedded Firmware Engineer
11 8 (2.01%) Design Engineer
11 8 (2.01%) Senior Software Engineer
11 8 (2.01%) Systems Engineer
12 7 (1.76%) Electronics Design Engineer
12 7 (1.76%) Graduate
13 6 (1.51%) Graduate Software Engineer
13 6 (1.51%) Junior
13 6 (1.51%) Senior Electronics Engineer
13 6 (1.51%) Senior Embedded Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 216 (54.27%) Middleware
2 14 (3.52%) XML
3 13 (3.27%) Qt
4 4 (1.01%) Yocto
5 3 (0.75%) .NET
5 3 (0.75%) HTML
5 3 (0.75%) PyTorch
5 3 (0.75%) TensorFlow
6 2 (0.50%) HTML5
6 2 (0.50%) React
6 2 (0.50%) Redux
6 2 (0.50%) REST
7 1 (0.25%) Android NDK
7 1 (0.25%) Django
7 1 (0.25%) Flash
7 1 (0.25%) Flask
7 1 (0.25%) Google JAX
7 1 (0.25%) JAX
7 1 (0.25%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 32 (8.04%) e-Learning
2 29 (7.29%) MicroBlaze
2 29 (7.29%) RISC-V
3 17 (4.27%) Analogue Electronics
4 14 (3.52%) IoT
5 10 (2.51%) Algorithms
5 10 (2.51%) ARM Cortex
5 10 (2.51%) CAN bus
6 7 (1.76%) FPGA
7 6 (1.51%) Robotics
8 5 (1.26%) Self-Motivation
9 4 (1.01%) EMV
10 3 (0.75%) Analytical Mindset
10 3 (0.75%) Device Driver
10 3 (0.75%) Greenfield Project
11 2 (0.50%) Driving Licence
11 2 (0.50%) Raspberry Pi
12 1 (0.25%) Infotainment
12 1 (0.25%) Linux Command Line
12 1 (0.25%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 71 (17.84%) Linux
2 46 (11.56%) Embedded Linux
3 8 (2.01%) Android
4 3 (0.75%) FreeRTOS
5 2 (0.50%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.25%) Debian
6 1 (0.25%) Robot Operating System
6 1 (0.25%) SafeRTOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 255 (64.07%) Agile
2 224 (56.28%) Artificial Intelligence
3 219 (55.03%) CI/CD
4 218 (54.77%) Roadmaps
5 215 (54.02%) Continuous Deployment
5 215 (54.02%) Release Automation
5 215 (54.02%) Software Delivery
5 215 (54.02%) Strategic Thinking
6 115 (28.89%) Software Engineering
7 38 (9.55%) Signal Processing
8 33 (8.29%) Digital Signal Processing
9 30 (7.54%) Innovative Thinking
10 27 (6.78%) Problem-Solving
11 19 (4.77%) Software Testing
11 19 (4.77%) Validation
12 18 (4.52%) Continuous Improvement
12 18 (4.52%) Test Automation
13 17 (4.27%) SDLC
14 15 (3.77%) Customer Requirements
14 15 (3.77%) Manual Testing
Programming Languages
1 123 (30.90%) C
2 101 (25.38%) C++
3 40 (10.05%) Python
4 14 (3.52%) Ada
5 8 (2.01%) C#
5 8 (2.01%) Java
6 4 (1.01%) Go
6 4 (1.01%) JavaScript
6 4 (1.01%) MATLAB
7 3 (0.75%) Bash
7 3 (0.75%) Embedded C
7 3 (0.75%) Embedded C++
7 3 (0.75%) Rust
7 3 (0.75%) SQL
8 2 (0.50%) Kotlin
8 2 (0.50%) Objective-C
9 1 (0.25%) MicroPython
9 1 (0.25%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.25%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.25%) Swift
Qualifications
1 43 (10.80%) Security Cleared
2 40 (10.05%) SC Cleared
3 31 (7.79%) Degree
4 14 (3.52%) BPSS Clearance
5 7 (1.76%) Master's Degree
6 5 (1.26%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (1.01%) PhD
8 3 (0.75%) HND
9 2 (0.50%) CEH
9 2 (0.50%) CISM
9 2 (0.50%) CISSP
9 2 (0.50%) DV Cleared
10 1 (0.25%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (1.01%) AUTOSAR
1 4 (1.01%) QA
2 3 (0.75%) Automotive SPICE
2 3 (0.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (0.50%) IEC 61508
3 2 (0.50%) IEC 62304
3 2 (0.50%) JTAG
3 2 (0.50%) NIST
4 1 (0.25%) DO-178B
4 1 (0.25%) ECSS
4 1 (0.25%) ISO 13485
4 1 (0.25%) ISO 26262
4 1 (0.25%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 62 (15.58%) Firmware
2 54 (13.57%) Embedded Firmware
3 2 (0.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (0.75%) Functional Safety
2 1 (0.25%) systemd
2 1 (0.25%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (1.76%) SAP
2 6 (1.51%) Xilinx
3 4 (1.01%) NVIDIA
4 3 (0.75%) Atmel
4 3 (0.75%) EMC
5 2 (0.50%) Altera
5 2 (0.50%) Google
5 2 (0.50%) Microsoft
5 2 (0.50%) YouTube
6 1 (0.25%) Allen-Bradley
6 1 (0.25%) Atlassian
6 1 (0.25%) QNX
6 1 (0.25%) Red Hat