Embedded Systems Job Trends

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 1 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 509 484 539
Rank change year-on-year -25 +55 +204
Permanent jobs citing Embedded Systems 167 270 206
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.33% 0.40% 0.38%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.87% 1.23% 0.98%
Number of salaries quoted 110 103 138
10th Percentile £39,281 £40,000 £45,000
25th Percentile £43,000 £43,750 £49,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% -3.85%
75th Percentile £73,500 £65,000 £74,375
90th Percentile £100,250 £72,500 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £59,750
% change year-on-year - -7.95% -4.25%

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 19,287 22,001 21,099
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 38.27% 32.36% 38.93%
Number of salaries quoted 10,437 10,737 15,859
10th Percentile £28,000 £33,105 £34,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £45,750 £45,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,750 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.42% -4.00% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £83,750 £83,750
90th Percentile £102,500 £110,000 £106,289
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £54,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -16.67% -1.82% +0.92%

Embedded Systems
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Embedded Systems relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Embedded Systems job vacancy trend in the UK

Embedded Systems
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Embedded Systems.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Embedded Systems

Embedded Systems
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Embedded Systems over the 6 months to 1 November 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 1 November 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
UK excluding London -40 152 £55,000 - 261
England +10 139 £55,000 - 243
Work from Home +48 72 £55,000 -8.33% 73
South East +28 57 £55,000 +12.82% 63
North of England +2 25 £55,750 +1.36% 34
South West +31 23 £42,500 - 52
Midlands +19 21 £42,500 -29.17% 25
East Midlands -5 12 £40,000 -33.33% 9
Scotland -26 11 £95,000 +73.52% 11
Yorkshire +21 10 £46,000 -8.00% 14
North West -4 10 £60,000 +9.09% 18
West Midlands +30 9 £57,500 -23.33% 16
Wales +2 8 £65,000 - 9
East of England -34 6 £75,000 +15.38% 72
North East +14 5 £56,500 - 2
London +46 2 - - 10
Northern Ireland +3 1 - - 3

Embedded Systems
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (1.20%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (2.40%) Simulink
2 2 (1.20%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.60%) CANalyzer
3 1 (0.60%) Doxygen
3 1 (0.60%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.60%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.60%) OrCAD
Cloud Services
1 4 (2.40%) AWS
2 3 (1.80%) Azure
2 3 (1.80%) GCP
3 2 (1.20%) AWS IoT
4 1 (0.60%) GitHub
4 1 (0.60%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 44 (26.35%) Wireless
2 42 (25.15%) Software-Defined Radio
3 12 (7.19%) Bluetooth
4 10 (5.99%) Modbus
4 10 (5.99%) RS-485
5 6 (3.59%) Wi-Fi
6 5 (2.99%) Ethernet
7 3 (1.80%) Internet
7 3 (1.80%) UWB
8 2 (1.20%) Broadband
8 2 (1.20%) DNS
8 2 (1.20%) HTTP
8 2 (1.20%) ICMP
8 2 (1.20%) LoRaWAN
8 2 (1.20%) MQTT
8 2 (1.20%) RS-232
8 2 (1.20%) TCP/IP
9 1 (0.60%) 4G
9 1 (0.60%) 5G
9 1 (0.60%) Wideband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.60%) DynamoDB
1 1 (0.60%) NoSQL
1 1 (0.60%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 13 (7.78%) Git
2 11 (6.59%) JIRA
3 4 (2.40%) KGDB
4 2 (1.20%) IDA Disassembler
4 2 (1.20%) Zephyr
5 1 (0.60%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.60%) CANoe
5 1 (0.60%) GitLab
5 1 (0.60%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.60%) Selenium
5 1 (0.60%) WebDriver
General
1 69 (41.32%) Electronics
2 50 (29.94%) Finance
3 42 (25.15%) Social Skills
4 25 (14.97%) Automotive
5 13 (7.78%) Manufacturing
6 12 (7.19%) Aerospace
7 6 (3.59%) Analytical Skills
8 5 (2.99%) Aviation
8 5 (2.99%) Public Sector
8 5 (2.99%) Telecoms
9 4 (2.40%) Marketing
9 4 (2.40%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (1.80%) Agriculture
10 3 (1.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (1.20%) Retail
12 1 (0.60%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 83 (49.70%) Embedded Engineer
2 68 (40.72%) Software Engineer
3 58 (34.73%) Embedded Software Engineer
4 24 (14.37%) Firmware Engineer
5 17 (10.18%) Embedded Firmware Engineer
5 17 (10.18%) Senior
6 12 (7.19%) Systems Engineer
7 11 (6.59%) Electronics Engineer
8 9 (5.39%) Design Engineer
9 6 (3.59%) FPGA Engineer
10 5 (2.99%) Developer
10 5 (2.99%) Electronics Design Engineer
10 5 (2.99%) Lead
10 5 (2.99%) Product Manager
10 5 (2.99%) Products Support Manager
10 5 (2.99%) Support Manager
10 5 (2.99%) Technical Director
11 4 (2.40%) Hardware Engineer
11 4 (2.40%) Principal Engineer
12 3 (1.80%) Hardware Design Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (5.99%) Flash
2 6 (3.59%) Qt
3 5 (2.99%) .NET
4 4 (2.40%) Yocto
5 3 (1.80%) Middleware
6 1 (0.60%) Django
6 1 (0.60%) Flask
6 1 (0.60%) HTML
6 1 (0.60%) PyTorch
6 1 (0.60%) REST
6 1 (0.60%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 39 (23.35%) e-Learning
1 39 (23.35%) RISC-V
2 37 (22.16%) MicroBlaze
3 15 (8.98%) FPGA
4 13 (7.78%) Analogue Electronics
5 11 (6.59%) IoT
6 9 (5.39%) CAN bus
6 9 (5.39%) Raspberry Pi
7 8 (4.79%) Algorithms
8 7 (4.19%) Arduino
9 6 (3.59%) ARM Cortex
10 5 (2.99%) Verilog
10 5 (2.99%) VHDL
11 3 (1.80%) Device Driver
11 3 (1.80%) Driving Licence
11 3 (1.80%) Greenfield Project
11 3 (1.80%) Self-Motivation
12 2 (1.20%) Linux Command Line
12 2 (1.20%) Renewable Energy
13 1 (0.60%) Infotainment
Operating Systems
1 70 (41.92%) Linux
2 52 (31.14%) Embedded Linux
3 4 (2.40%) FreeRTOS
4 1 (0.60%) Android
4 1 (0.60%) SafeRTOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 82 (49.10%) Software Engineering
2 53 (31.74%) Agile
3 51 (30.54%) Signal Processing
4 42 (25.15%) Digital Signal Processing
5 38 (22.75%) Innovative Thinking
6 21 (12.57%) Problem-Solving
7 19 (11.38%) Collaborative Culture
7 19 (11.38%) Mentoring
8 17 (10.18%) Continuous Improvement
9 15 (8.98%) Business Development
9 15 (8.98%) Software Testing
10 12 (7.19%) Mathematics
11 11 (6.59%) CI/CD
11 11 (6.59%) Systems Engineering
12 10 (5.99%) Test Automation
12 10 (5.99%) Validation
13 9 (5.39%) Embedded Software Development
13 9 (5.39%) Project Management
14 8 (4.79%) CRM
14 8 (4.79%) FPGA Design
Programming Languages
1 100 (59.88%) C
2 91 (54.49%) C++
3 23 (13.77%) Python
4 14 (8.38%) Embedded C
5 7 (4.19%) C#
6 6 (3.59%) JavaScript
7 5 (2.99%) Rust
8 4 (2.40%) Java
9 3 (1.80%) Embedded C++
9 3 (1.80%) Go
9 3 (1.80%) SystemVerilog
10 2 (1.20%) Bash
11 1 (0.60%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.60%) MATLAB
11 1 (0.60%) SQL
Qualifications
1 59 (35.33%) Security Cleared
2 53 (31.74%) SC Cleared
3 33 (19.76%) Degree
4 13 (7.78%) DV Cleared
5 7 (4.19%) Master's Degree
6 3 (1.80%) HND
7 2 (1.20%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.60%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (2.99%) QA
2 4 (2.40%) AUTOSAR
2 4 (2.40%) JTAG
3 3 (1.80%) Automotive SPICE
3 3 (1.80%) IEC 62304
4 2 (1.20%) ISO 9000
5 1 (0.60%) DO-178B
5 1 (0.60%) IEC 61508
5 1 (0.60%) ISO 13485
5 1 (0.60%) ISO 26262
5 1 (0.60%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 87 (52.10%) Firmware
2 73 (43.71%) Embedded Firmware
3 1 (0.60%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (1.80%) Functional Safety
2 1 (0.60%) systemd
2 1 (0.60%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (3.59%) SAP
1 6 (3.59%) Xilinx
2 5 (2.99%) EMC
3 3 (1.80%) Atmel
3 3 (1.80%) Intel
3 3 (1.80%) Microsemi
3 3 (1.80%) NVIDIA
4 2 (1.20%) Google
4 2 (1.20%) Microsoft
5 1 (0.60%) Altera
5 1 (0.60%) Atlassian
5 1 (0.60%) QNX
5 1 (0.60%) YouTube