Joint Test Action Group (JTAG)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring JTAG skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 728 662 864
Rank change year-on-year -66 +202 +38
Permanent jobs citing JTAG 7 7 29
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.008% 0.016% 0.027%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.071% 0.097% 0.21%
Number of salaries quoted 1 3 6
10th Percentile - £103,800 £36,250
25th Percentile £67,500 £108,000 £41,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £130,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -46.15% +147.62% -26.32%
75th Percentile £72,500 £145,000 £60,000
90th Percentile - - £62,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £130,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -46.15% +136.36% -22.81%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
UK

JTAG falls under the Quality Assurance and Compliance category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring quality assurance or compliance skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 9,800 7,207 13,745
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.52% 16.18% 12.74%
Number of salaries quoted 6,265 3,873 9,258
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,750 £26,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,732 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.88% +9.52% -8.70%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £94,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,058 £52,500 £47,143
% change year-on-year -2.75% +11.36% -5.71%

JTAG
Job Vacancy Trend

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

JTAG job vacancy trend in the UK

JTAG
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing JTAG.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing JTAG

JTAG
Top 6 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing JTAG within the UK over the 6 months to 15 June 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 -53 7 £70,000 -46.15% 5
England -74 7 £70,000 -46.15% 6
Midlands -20 4 - - 1
East Midlands - 4 - - 1
South East - 2 - - 2
East of England -20 1 £70,000 -46.15%

JTAG
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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (57.14%) Azure
1 4 (57.14%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 6 (85.71%) MQTT
2 5 (71.43%) Bluetooth
2 5 (71.43%) Wi-Fi
2 5 (71.43%) Wireless
2 5 (71.43%) ZigBee
3 2 (28.57%) HTTP
4 1 (14.29%) LoRaWAN
Development Applications
1 4 (57.14%) GDB
1 4 (57.14%) Git
1 4 (57.14%) GitLab
1 4 (57.14%) Jenkins
1 4 (57.14%) Robot Framework
General
1 2 (28.57%) Electronics
2 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 6 (85.71%) Embedded Engineer
2 4 (57.14%) Embedded Software Engineer
2 4 (57.14%) Software Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Product Tester
3 1 (14.29%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (85.71%) Yocto
2 4 (57.14%) pytest
2 4 (57.14%) Unity DI Container
Miscellaneous
1 6 (85.71%) Embedded Systems
2 5 (71.43%) IoT
3 4 (57.14%) ARM Cortex
3 4 (57.14%) Device Driver
Operating Systems
1 7 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) Computer Science
2 5 (71.43%) Test Automation
3 4 (57.14%) BDD
3 4 (57.14%) CI/CD
3 4 (57.14%) DevOps
3 4 (57.14%) Hardware-in-the-Loop
3 4 (57.14%) Software Delivery
3 4 (57.14%) Software Engineering
3 4 (57.14%) Validation
4 2 (28.57%) Software Testing
5 1 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
5 1 (14.29%) Cybersecurity
5 1 (14.29%) OWASP
5 1 (14.29%) Thought Leadership
Programming Languages
1 4 (57.14%) Bash
1 4 (57.14%) C
1 4 (57.14%) C++
1 4 (57.14%) Python
Qualifications
1 7 (100.00%) Degree
2 4 (57.14%) Computer Science Degree
2 4 (57.14%) Master's Degree
3 1 (14.29%) CREST Certified
System Software
1 2 (28.57%) Embedded Firmware
1 2 (28.57%) Firmware
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Google
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft
1 2 (28.57%) NVIDIA