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 15 October 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 387 496 491
Rank change year-on-year +109 -5 +41
Permanent jobs citing Embedded Systems 521 162 281
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.44% 0.33% 0.40%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.61% 0.81% 1.23%
Number of salaries quoted 350 102 106
10th Percentile £39,000 £39,281 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £43,000 £42,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,188 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,250 £72,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +13.64% - -8.33%

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 32,271 19,951 22,882
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 27.17% 40.55% 32.24%
Number of salaries quoted 19,765 10,181 11,357
10th Percentile £30,750 £28,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,500 £36,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% -4.00%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,500 £45,000 £53,400
% change year-on-year +14.44% -15.73% -2.91%

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 15 October 2026.

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 15 October 2026. 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 +82 490 £62,500 +13.64% 329
England +123 473 £61,500 +23.00% 415
South East +27 153 £60,000 +9.09% 102
Work from Home -11 111 £67,500 +22.73% 155
Midlands +25 90 £67,500 +58.82% 32
East of England +35 85 £71,250 -5.00% 100
South West -25 67 £62,500 +47.06% 41
West Midlands +5 59 £62,500 +13.64% 17
North of England -34 55 £55,000 +19.57% 29
East Midlands -9 31 £67,500 +63.64% 15
Scotland +25 24 £55,000 -42.11% 20
North East -42 24 £60,500 +7.08% 11
London -59 18 £60,000 - 71
North West -20 16 £55,000 -24.14% 14
Yorkshire -29 15 £55,000 +19.57% 4
Wales -60 13 £73,750 +13.46% 3
Northern Ireland - 4 - - 10

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 4 (0.77%) Confluence
2 3 (0.58%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (0.58%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.19%) IIS
Applications
1 22 (4.22%) Simulink
2 12 (2.30%) SOLIDWORKS
3 10 (1.92%) OrCAD
4 7 (1.34%) Solid Edge
5 4 (0.77%) Lightworks
6 2 (0.38%) Microsoft Excel
6 2 (0.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 1 (0.19%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 2 (0.38%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.19%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 11 (2.11%) AWS
1 11 (2.11%) Azure
2 7 (1.34%) Azure DevOps
2 7 (1.34%) GitHub
2 7 (1.34%) GitHub Actions
3 5 (0.96%) GCP
3 5 (0.96%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (0.77%) Google Analytics
4 4 (0.77%) MailChimp
4 4 (0.77%) SaaS
5 3 (0.58%) AWS IoT
5 3 (0.58%) Datadog
5 3 (0.58%) Dynamics 365
5 3 (0.58%) Entra ID
5 3 (0.58%) Microsoft Purview
5 3 (0.58%) Power Automate
5 3 (0.58%) Power Platform
5 3 (0.58%) PowerApps
6 2 (0.38%) Dagster
6 2 (0.38%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 40 (7.68%) Wireless
2 24 (4.61%) Ethernet
3 23 (4.41%) Wi-Fi
4 16 (3.07%) Bluetooth
5 15 (2.88%) ZigBee
6 13 (2.50%) RS-232
7 12 (2.30%) MQTT
7 12 (2.30%) RS-485
8 9 (1.73%) Software-Defined Radio
9 8 (1.54%) TCP/IP
10 7 (1.34%) Modbus
10 7 (1.34%) Profibus
11 3 (0.58%) X.509
12 2 (0.38%) 5G
12 2 (0.38%) DNS
12 2 (0.38%) LoRaWAN
12 2 (0.38%) LTE
12 2 (0.38%) RS-422
12 2 (0.38%) UWB
12 2 (0.38%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (1.15%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (0.58%) Relational Database
3 2 (0.38%) MySQL
3 2 (0.38%) SQL Server
4 1 (0.19%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 46 (8.83%) Git
2 12 (2.30%) Jenkins
3 11 (2.11%) GitLab
3 11 (2.11%) JIRA
4 10 (1.92%) PetaLinux
5 6 (1.15%) GDB
5 6 (1.15%) LabVIEW
6 4 (0.77%) Rational DOORS
6 4 (0.77%) Robot Framework
6 4 (0.77%) Visual Studio Code
6 4 (0.77%) Zephyr
7 3 (0.58%) Subversion
8 2 (0.38%) MLflow
9 1 (0.19%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.19%) CMake
9 1 (0.19%) Visual Studio
General
1 182 (34.93%) Electronics
2 103 (19.77%) Manufacturing
3 65 (12.48%) Social Skills
4 59 (11.32%) Aerospace
5 52 (9.98%) Automotive
6 25 (4.80%) Analytical Skills
7 21 (4.03%) Finance
8 11 (2.11%) Aviation
9 10 (1.92%) Military
10 9 (1.73%) Organisational Skills
11 8 (1.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 7 (1.34%) Avionics
13 5 (0.96%) Advertising
13 5 (0.96%) Marketing
14 4 (0.77%) Documentation Skills
14 4 (0.77%) Legal
15 3 (0.58%) Multimedia
15 3 (0.58%) Police
15 3 (0.58%) Retail
16 2 (0.38%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 226 (43.38%) Embedded Engineer
2 135 (25.91%) Software Engineer
3 99 (19.00%) Systems Engineer
4 90 (17.27%) Embedded Software Engineer
5 86 (16.51%) Senior
6 59 (11.32%) Electronics Engineer
7 51 (9.79%) Lead
8 49 (9.40%) Senior Embedded Engineer
9 37 (7.10%) Hardware Engineer
10 35 (6.72%) Design Engineer
11 34 (6.53%) Senior Software Engineer
12 33 (6.33%) Principal Engineer
13 25 (4.80%) Linux Engineer
13 25 (4.80%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
14 24 (4.61%) Electronics Design Engineer
14 24 (4.61%) Embedded Linux Engineer
15 23 (4.41%) Architect
16 17 (3.26%) Firmware Engineer
17 15 (2.88%) Developer
17 15 (2.88%) Embedded Firmware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (6.91%) Yocto
2 11 (2.11%) React
3 9 (1.73%) .NET
4 7 (1.34%) REST
5 6 (1.15%) pytest
5 6 (1.15%) TensorFlow
5 6 (1.15%) Terraform
6 4 (0.77%) Middleware
6 4 (0.77%) PyTorch
6 4 (0.77%) Qt
6 4 (0.77%) Unity DI Container
7 3 (0.58%) Boost C++ Libraries
7 3 (0.58%) GraphQL
7 3 (0.58%) WebSockets
8 2 (0.38%) CSS
8 2 (0.38%) iOS SDK
8 2 (0.38%) JWT
8 2 (0.38%) LangChain
8 2 (0.38%) Node.js
8 2 (0.38%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 59 (11.32%) FPGA
2 53 (10.17%) IoT
3 49 (9.40%) Algorithms
4 38 (7.29%) Device Driver
5 36 (6.91%) Analogue Electronics
6 25 (4.80%) Robotics
6 25 (4.80%) VHDL
7 23 (4.41%) Verilog
8 20 (3.84%) ARM Cortex
9 9 (1.73%) PCIe
10 8 (1.54%) Acoustics
11 7 (1.34%) Life Science
12 6 (1.15%) Onboarding
12 6 (1.15%) Operational Technology
12 6 (1.15%) Product Ownership
13 5 (0.96%) Legacy Systems
13 5 (0.96%) Mobile App
13 5 (0.96%) Raspberry Pi
13 5 (0.96%) Self-Motivation
13 5 (0.96%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 106 (20.35%) Linux
2 55 (10.56%) Embedded Linux
3 16 (3.07%) FreeRTOS
4 9 (1.73%) Windows
5 6 (1.15%) Android
6 5 (0.96%) Apple iOS
6 5 (0.96%) Unix
7 4 (0.77%) Robot Operating System
8 3 (0.58%) VxWorks
9 2 (0.38%) OpenWrt
10 1 (0.19%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 184 (35.32%) Software Engineering
2 76 (14.59%) Validation
3 74 (14.20%) Problem-Solving
4 60 (11.52%) Continuous Improvement
5 54 (10.36%) CI/CD
6 48 (9.21%) Test Automation
7 44 (8.45%) Prototyping
8 41 (7.87%) Computer Science
9 39 (7.49%) Schematic Capture
10 36 (6.91%) Signal Processing
11 35 (6.72%) AI
11 35 (6.72%) Technical Leadership
12 34 (6.53%) Collaborative Culture
13 29 (5.57%) DevOps
14 28 (5.37%) Hardware-in-the-Loop
15 27 (5.18%) CAD
15 27 (5.18%) Collaborative Engineering
16 26 (4.99%) Cybersecurity
17 25 (4.80%) Mentoring
17 25 (4.80%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 152 (29.17%) C++
2 151 (28.98%) C
3 86 (16.51%) Python
4 36 (6.91%) Embedded C
5 32 (6.14%) MATLAB
6 27 (5.18%) Embedded C++
7 24 (4.61%) Rust
8 23 (4.41%) C#
9 17 (3.26%) Java
10 14 (2.69%) Go
11 13 (2.50%) JavaScript
12 10 (1.92%) SystemVerilog
13 7 (1.34%) Ada
14 6 (1.15%) TypeScript
15 5 (0.96%) Bash
16 4 (0.77%) SQL
17 3 (0.58%) Ada 95
17 3 (0.58%) PowerShell
18 2 (0.38%) Assembly Language
19 1 (0.19%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 102 (19.58%) Degree
2 73 (14.01%) Security Cleared
3 40 (7.68%) SC Cleared
4 26 (4.99%) DV Cleared
5 22 (4.22%) Master's Degree
6 21 (4.03%) Computer Science Degree
7 19 (3.65%) HND
8 18 (3.45%) BPSS Clearance
9 12 (2.30%) HNC
10 9 (1.73%) PhD
11 7 (1.34%) CEH
12 6 (1.15%) OSCP
13 2 (0.38%) CISMP
13 2 (0.38%) CISSP
13 2 (0.38%) EMC Certification
14 1 (0.19%) Chartered Engineer
14 1 (0.19%) CISA
14 1 (0.19%) CISM
14 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Certification
14 1 (0.19%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (3.07%) QA
2 10 (1.92%) JTAG
3 6 (1.15%) Accessibility
4 4 (0.77%) Data Quality
4 4 (0.77%) Def Stans
4 4 (0.77%) ECSS
4 4 (0.77%) ISO 9001
4 4 (0.77%) ISO/IEC 12207
4 4 (0.77%) ISO/IEC 15288
4 4 (0.77%) MIL-STD-1553
5 3 (0.58%) Automotive SPICE
6 2 (0.38%) MISRA
6 2 (0.38%) NIST
7 1 (0.19%) GDPR
7 1 (0.19%) GRC
7 1 (0.19%) ISO 13485
7 1 (0.19%) ISO 31000
7 1 (0.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.19%) NIST 800
7 1 (0.19%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 129 (24.76%) Firmware
2 64 (12.28%) Embedded Firmware
3 14 (2.69%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (1.73%) Kubernetes
2 4 (0.77%) Grafana
2 4 (0.77%) Prometheus
3 2 (0.38%) Ansible
3 2 (0.38%) Functional Safety
4 1 (0.19%) Consul
Vendors
1 35 (6.72%) EMC
2 16 (3.07%) Xilinx
3 14 (2.69%) Microsoft
4 8 (1.54%) Cadence
4 8 (1.54%) Google
5 7 (1.34%) Intel
5 7 (1.34%) Microsemi
6 6 (1.15%) NVIDIA
7 5 (0.96%) Altera
7 5 (0.96%) Motorola
8 4 (0.77%) HubSpot
8 4 (0.77%) YouTube
9 3 (0.58%) Oracle
9 3 (0.58%) SAP
10 2 (0.38%) Adobe
10 2 (0.38%) Lattice Semiconductor
10 2 (0.38%) Salesforce
10 2 (0.38%) Yahoo!
11 1 (0.19%) Cisco
11 1 (0.19%) Xamarin