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 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 359 532 687
Rank change year-on-year +173 +155 +111
Permanent jobs citing Embedded Systems 390 414 290
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.70% 0.40% 0.30%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.88% 1.16% 0.69%
Number of salaries quoted 110 295 141
10th Percentile £41,250 £38,750 £45,000
25th Percentile £44,438 £45,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - -15.38% +18.18%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £81,500 £72,500 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £61,250
% change year-on-year - -10.20% +16.67%

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 20,763 35,685 41,757
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 37.18% 34.42% 43.59%
Number of salaries quoted 9,606 23,135 22,550
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,000 £35,750
25th Percentile £42,000 £38,085 £46,350
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -15.38% +4.00%
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £86,250
90th Percentile £110,000 £97,500 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -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 31 May 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 31 May 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 +127 362 £55,000 - 252
Work from Home +256 294 £55,000 - 123
UK excluding London +44 214 £55,000 - 236
South East +37 90 £62,500 +12.11% 52
London +169 78 £57,500 -8.00% 30
East of England +19 40 £62,500 +25.00% 46
Midlands +34 28 £44,500 -11.00% 47
North of England -2 24 £55,000 +2.33% 40
Scotland +131 18 £47,500 -26.92% 16
East Midlands +34 16 £47,500 +8.57% 15
North West -26 13 £65,000 +18.18% 20
South West +68 12 £55,000 +10.00% 26
West Midlands +33 11 £30,000 -42.86% 31
Yorkshire +40 7 £46,000 -3.16% 17
North East - 3 £61,000 - 3
Wales +42 2 £65,000 - 4
Northern Ireland +41 1 £50,000 - 6

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 (0.51%) TPMS
Applications
1 4 (1.03%) Simulink
2 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 7 (1.79%) GitHub
2 6 (1.54%) AWS
3 3 (0.77%) Amazon S3
3 3 (0.77%) AWS Lambda
3 3 (0.77%) Azure
3 3 (0.77%) Serverless
4 1 (0.26%) AWS IoT
4 1 (0.26%) GCP
4 1 (0.26%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 215 (55.13%) Broadband
2 41 (10.51%) Wireless
3 27 (6.92%) Software-Defined Radio
4 21 (5.38%) Bluetooth
5 11 (2.82%) Modbus
5 11 (2.82%) RS-485
6 9 (2.31%) Wi-Fi
7 8 (2.05%) RS-232
7 8 (2.05%) TCP/IP
8 6 (1.54%) Profibus
8 6 (1.54%) ZigBee
9 5 (1.28%) WAN
10 4 (1.03%) Ethernet
11 3 (0.77%) MQTT
12 2 (0.51%) FlexRay
12 2 (0.51%) Internet
13 1 (0.26%) HTTP
13 1 (0.26%) LoRaWAN
13 1 (0.26%) Network Security
13 1 (0.26%) SpaceWire
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (0.77%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (0.51%) Scylla
3 1 (0.26%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 217 (55.64%) JIRA
2 22 (5.64%) Git
3 6 (1.54%) KGDB
4 2 (0.51%) Eclipse
4 2 (0.51%) Fiddler
4 2 (0.51%) GDB
4 2 (0.51%) GitLab
4 2 (0.51%) IDA Disassembler
5 1 (0.26%) Appium
5 1 (0.26%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.26%) Selenium
5 1 (0.26%) Subversion
5 1 (0.26%) TestRail
5 1 (0.26%) WebDriver
General
1 49 (12.56%) Electronics
2 36 (9.23%) Social Skills
3 31 (7.95%) Finance
4 22 (5.64%) Manufacturing
5 20 (5.13%) Aerospace
6 16 (4.10%) Analytical Skills
7 8 (2.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 7 (1.79%) Marketing
8 7 (1.79%) Telecoms
9 6 (1.54%) Automotive
9 6 (1.54%) Organisational Skills
10 5 (1.28%) Law
10 5 (1.28%) Public Sector
11 4 (1.03%) Agriculture
12 3 (0.77%) Games
12 3 (0.77%) Legal
12 3 (0.77%) Retail
13 2 (0.51%) Documentation Skills
14 1 (0.26%) Advertising
14 1 (0.26%) Military
Job Titles
1 287 (73.59%) Embedded Engineer
2 215 (55.13%) Release Engineer
3 77 (19.74%) Software Engineer
4 58 (14.87%) Embedded Software Engineer
5 34 (8.72%) Senior
6 25 (6.41%) Lead
7 19 (4.87%) Senior Software Engineer
8 14 (3.59%) Software Team Leader
8 14 (3.59%) Team Leader
9 12 (3.08%) Senior Embedded Engineer
10 10 (2.56%) Electronics Engineer
10 10 (2.56%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
11 9 (2.31%) Junior
11 9 (2.31%) Junior Embedded Engineer
11 9 (2.31%) Systems Engineer
12 8 (2.05%) Design Engineer
12 8 (2.05%) Firmware Engineer
12 8 (2.05%) Junior Software Engineer
12 8 (2.05%) Mid-Level Software Engineer
13 7 (1.79%) Graduate
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 215 (55.13%) Middleware
2 14 (3.59%) XML
3 13 (3.33%) Qt
4 6 (1.54%) HTML
5 3 (0.77%) .NET
5 3 (0.77%) CSS
5 3 (0.77%) Django
5 3 (0.77%) WebSockets
6 2 (0.51%) HTML5
6 2 (0.51%) PyTorch
6 2 (0.51%) React
6 2 (0.51%) Redux
6 2 (0.51%) TensorFlow
6 2 (0.51%) Yocto
7 1 (0.26%) Android NDK
7 1 (0.26%) Google JAX
7 1 (0.26%) JAX
7 1 (0.26%) JSON
7 1 (0.26%) OAuth
7 1 (0.26%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 23 (5.90%) e-Learning
2 21 (5.38%) MicroBlaze
2 21 (5.38%) RISC-V
3 13 (3.33%) IoT
4 12 (3.08%) Analogue Electronics
5 11 (2.82%) Algorithms
6 8 (2.05%) ARM Cortex
6 8 (2.05%) Robotics
7 6 (1.54%) FPGA
8 5 (1.28%) Analytical Mindset
9 4 (1.03%) CAN bus
9 4 (1.03%) EMV
9 4 (1.03%) Mobile App
10 3 (0.77%) Client/Server
10 3 (0.77%) Greenfield Project
10 3 (0.77%) Infotainment
10 3 (0.77%) Self-Motivation
11 2 (0.51%) Self-Driving Car
12 1 (0.26%) Linux Command Line
12 1 (0.26%) Raspberry Pi
Operating Systems
1 66 (16.92%) Linux
2 36 (9.23%) Embedded Linux
3 8 (2.05%) Android
4 7 (1.79%) FreeRTOS
5 3 (0.77%) Ubuntu
6 2 (0.51%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.51%) Unix
7 1 (0.26%) Debian
7 1 (0.26%) Robot Operating System
7 1 (0.26%) SafeRTOS
7 1 (0.26%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 243 (62.31%) Agile
2 222 (56.92%) Artificial Intelligence
3 221 (56.67%) Roadmaps
4 217 (55.64%) CI/CD
5 215 (55.13%) Continuous Deployment
5 215 (55.13%) Release Automation
5 215 (55.13%) Software Delivery
5 215 (55.13%) Strategic Thinking
6 112 (28.72%) Software Engineering
7 28 (7.18%) Signal Processing
8 27 (6.92%) Digital Signal Processing
9 24 (6.15%) Problem-Solving
10 22 (5.64%) Test Automation
11 21 (5.38%) Innovative Thinking
11 21 (5.38%) Validation
12 18 (4.62%) Continuous Improvement
12 18 (4.62%) UML
13 17 (4.36%) Verification and Validation
14 16 (4.10%) SDLC
14 16 (4.10%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 115 (29.49%) C
2 90 (23.08%) C++
3 39 (10.00%) Python
4 14 (3.59%) Ada
5 9 (2.31%) SQL
6 7 (1.79%) C#
6 7 (1.79%) Java
7 6 (1.54%) Embedded C++
7 6 (1.54%) JavaScript
8 4 (1.03%) Go
8 4 (1.03%) MATLAB
9 3 (0.77%) Ladder Logic
9 3 (0.77%) TypeScript
10 2 (0.51%) Bash
10 2 (0.51%) Embedded C
10 2 (0.51%) Kotlin
10 2 (0.51%) Objective-C
10 2 (0.51%) Rust
11 1 (0.26%) Perl
11 1 (0.26%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 31 (7.95%) Security Cleared
2 30 (7.69%) SC Cleared
3 28 (7.18%) Degree
4 14 (3.59%) BPSS Clearance
5 7 (1.79%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (1.54%) Master's Degree
7 4 (1.03%) PhD
8 2 (0.51%) CEH
8 2 (0.51%) CISM
8 2 (0.51%) CISSP
9 1 (0.26%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (2.31%) QA
2 3 (0.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (0.77%) JTAG
3 2 (0.51%) Accessibility
3 2 (0.51%) IEC 61508
3 2 (0.51%) NIST
4 1 (0.26%) DO-178B
4 1 (0.26%) ECSS
4 1 (0.26%) IEC 62304
4 1 (0.26%) ISO 26262
4 1 (0.26%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 54 (13.85%) Firmware
2 45 (11.54%) Embedded Firmware
3 1 (0.26%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.26%) Docker
Vendors
1 9 (2.31%) Xilinx
2 5 (1.28%) SAP
3 3 (0.77%) Siemens
4 2 (0.51%) Atmel
4 2 (0.51%) Cadence
4 2 (0.51%) EMC
4 2 (0.51%) Google
4 2 (0.51%) Microsoft
4 2 (0.51%) NVIDIA
5 1 (0.26%) Allen-Bradley
5 1 (0.26%) Altera
5 1 (0.26%) HubSpot
5 1 (0.26%) Intel
5 1 (0.26%) QNX
5 1 (0.26%) Red Hat
5 1 (0.26%) YouTube