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

6 months to
26 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 473 477 539
Rank change year-on-year +4 +62 +192
Permanent jobs citing Embedded Systems 181 289 185
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.34% 0.43% 0.36%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.95% 1.27% 0.94%
Number of salaries quoted 115 114 129
10th Percentile £39,281 £40,000 £45,000
25th Percentile £44,000 £46,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,500 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.74% -4.17% -3.85%
75th Percentile £75,000 £65,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £72,500 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% -8.33% -3.85%

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 19,116 22,726 19,652
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.63% 33.83% 38.46%
Number of salaries quoted 10,723 11,125 14,718
10th Percentile £27,750 £33,675 £33,725
25th Percentile £36,250 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,939 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.44% -4.00% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £84,056
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £106,289
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £54,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -16.67% -1.82% -

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 26 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 26 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 -3 172 £57,500 +4.55% 205
England +27 148 £55,000 -6.38% 187
Work from Home +87 78 £55,000 -8.33% 85
South East +32 43 £55,000 +10.00% 62
North of England +54 38 £56,500 +2.73% 20
South West +25 26 £42,500 +6.25% 38
Midlands +24 25 £57,500 -4.17% 22
West Midlands +51 17 £60,000 -5.14% 20
North West +38 16 £60,000 +9.09% 10
Yorkshire +25 15 £46,000 -21.70% 3
East of England -18 14 £80,000 +23.08% 52
Scotland -6 13 £95,000 +72.73% 22
Wales +7 10 £65,000 +84.40% 1
East Midlands +8 8 £24,000 -60.00% 2
North East +20 7 £56,500 -7.38% 7
Northern Ireland +1 3 - -
London +57 1 - - 8

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 (1.10%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (1.66%) Simulink
2 2 (1.10%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.55%) CANalyzer
3 1 (0.55%) Doxygen
3 1 (0.55%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.55%) OrCAD
Cloud Services
1 3 (1.66%) AWS
2 2 (1.10%) Azure
2 2 (1.10%) GCP
3 1 (0.55%) AWS IoT
3 1 (0.55%) GitHub
3 1 (0.55%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 34 (18.78%) Ethernet
2 24 (13.26%) Software-Defined Radio
3 23 (12.71%) Wireless
4 8 (4.42%) Bluetooth
4 8 (4.42%) RS-485
5 7 (3.87%) Modbus
6 3 (1.66%) UWB
6 3 (1.66%) Wi-Fi
7 2 (1.10%) DNS
7 2 (1.10%) HTTP
7 2 (1.10%) ICMP
7 2 (1.10%) Internet
7 2 (1.10%) RS-232
7 2 (1.10%) TCP/IP
8 1 (0.55%) 2G
8 1 (0.55%) 4G
8 1 (0.55%) 5G
8 1 (0.55%) MQTT
8 1 (0.55%) SpaceWire
8 1 (0.55%) Wideband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.55%) DynamoDB
1 1 (0.55%) NoSQL
1 1 (0.55%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 13 (7.18%) Git
2 9 (4.97%) JIRA
3 2 (1.10%) IDA Disassembler
3 2 (1.10%) Zephyr
4 1 (0.55%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.55%) CANoe
4 1 (0.55%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.55%) KGDB
4 1 (0.55%) Selenium
4 1 (0.55%) WebDriver
General
1 65 (35.91%) Electronics
2 40 (22.10%) Social Skills
3 32 (17.68%) Finance
4 24 (13.26%) Automotive
5 12 (6.63%) Aerospace
5 12 (6.63%) Manufacturing
6 5 (2.76%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (2.76%) Aviation
7 4 (2.21%) Organisational Skills
7 4 (2.21%) Public Sector
7 4 (2.21%) Telecoms
8 3 (1.66%) Marketing
9 2 (1.10%) Agriculture
9 2 (1.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.55%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 67 (37.02%) Embedded Engineer
2 58 (32.04%) Software Engineer
3 45 (24.86%) Embedded Software Engineer
4 20 (11.05%) Firmware Engineer
5 15 (8.29%) Embedded Firmware Engineer
5 15 (8.29%) Senior
6 11 (6.08%) Systems Engineer
7 9 (4.97%) Electronics Engineer
7 9 (4.97%) Software Manager
8 7 (3.87%) Design Engineer
9 6 (3.31%) Senior Embedded Engineer
10 5 (2.76%) Developer
10 5 (2.76%) Product Manager
10 5 (2.76%) Products Support Manager
10 5 (2.76%) Project Manager
10 5 (2.76%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
10 5 (2.76%) Senior Software Engineer
10 5 (2.76%) Support Manager
10 5 (2.76%) Technical Director
11 4 (2.21%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (5.52%) Flash
2 7 (3.87%) Qt
3 3 (1.66%) .NET
3 3 (1.66%) Yocto
4 1 (0.55%) Django
4 1 (0.55%) Flask
4 1 (0.55%) HTML
4 1 (0.55%) Middleware
4 1 (0.55%) PyTorch
4 1 (0.55%) REST
4 1 (0.55%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 41 (22.65%) FPGA
2 21 (11.60%) e-Learning
2 21 (11.60%) RISC-V
3 19 (10.50%) MicroBlaze
4 10 (5.52%) IoT
5 9 (4.97%) Analogue Electronics
5 9 (4.97%) Raspberry Pi
6 7 (3.87%) Algorithms
6 7 (3.87%) Arduino
6 7 (3.87%) CAN bus
7 5 (2.76%) Digital Media
8 4 (2.21%) ARM Cortex
8 4 (2.21%) Verilog
8 4 (2.21%) VHDL
9 3 (1.66%) Device Driver
9 3 (1.66%) Driving Licence
9 3 (1.66%) Self-Motivation
10 2 (1.10%) Linux Command Line
10 2 (1.10%) Renewable Energy
11 1 (0.55%) Acoustics
Operating Systems
1 73 (40.33%) Linux
2 28 (15.47%) Embedded Linux
3 3 (1.66%) FreeRTOS
4 1 (0.55%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (38.12%) Software Engineering
2 32 (17.68%) Agile
2 32 (17.68%) Signal Processing
3 24 (13.26%) Digital Signal Processing
4 20 (11.05%) Innovative Thinking
5 19 (10.50%) Mentoring
6 17 (9.39%) Software Testing
7 16 (8.84%) Collaborative Culture
7 16 (8.84%) Continuous Improvement
7 16 (8.84%) Problem-Solving
8 14 (7.73%) Business Development
9 11 (6.08%) Embedded Software Development
9 11 (6.08%) Test Automation
9 11 (6.08%) Validation
10 10 (5.52%) CI/CD
10 10 (5.52%) Mathematics
11 9 (4.97%) Physics
11 9 (4.97%) Project Management
11 9 (4.97%) Systems Engineering
12 8 (4.42%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 78 (43.09%) C
2 69 (38.12%) C++
3 18 (9.94%) Python
4 15 (8.29%) Embedded C
5 6 (3.31%) C#
6 5 (2.76%) JavaScript
6 5 (2.76%) Rust
7 4 (2.21%) Embedded C++
8 3 (1.66%) Java
8 3 (1.66%) SystemVerilog
9 1 (0.55%) Bash
9 1 (0.55%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.55%) SQL
Qualifications
1 40 (22.10%) Security Cleared
2 31 (17.13%) SC Cleared
3 28 (15.47%) Degree
4 16 (8.84%) DV Cleared
5 7 (3.87%) Master's Degree
6 3 (1.66%) HND
7 1 (0.55%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.55%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (2.76%) QA
2 4 (2.21%) AUTOSAR
3 3 (1.66%) Automotive SPICE
3 3 (1.66%) JTAG
4 2 (1.10%) IEC 62304
4 2 (1.10%) ISO 9000
5 1 (0.55%) ECSS
5 1 (0.55%) ISO 13485
5 1 (0.55%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 64 (35.36%) Firmware
2 50 (27.62%) Embedded Firmware
3 1 (0.55%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (1.66%) Functional Safety
2 1 (0.55%) systemd
2 1 (0.55%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (2.76%) SAP
2 4 (2.21%) EMC
3 3 (1.66%) Intel
3 3 (1.66%) Microsemi
3 3 (1.66%) Xilinx
4 2 (1.10%) Atmel
4 2 (1.10%) Microsoft
4 2 (1.10%) NVIDIA
5 1 (0.55%) Altera
5 1 (0.55%) Atlassian
5 1 (0.55%) Google
5 1 (0.55%) YouTube