Joint Test Action Group (JTAG)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring JTAG skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited JTAG over the 6 months leading up to 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 820 885 1244
Rank change year-on-year +65 +359 -233
Permanent jobs citing JTAG 22 2 31
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.024% 0.002% 0.018%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.19% 0.016% 0.10%
Number of salaries quoted 7 0 10
10th Percentile £36,750 - £41,225
25th Percentile £44,375 - £44,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 - £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -1.64%
75th Percentile £62,500 - £62,500
90th Percentile £72,000 - -
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 - £60,000
% change year-on-year - - -1.64%

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 11,872 12,180 30,989
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.14% 15.09% 17.68%
Number of salaries quoted 7,420 7,777 14,031
10th Percentile £27,500 £32,500 £31,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.96% +4.55% +2.33%
75th Percentile £72,500 £75,897 £73,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £92,500 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £50,139 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.26% +0.28% +5.26%

JTAG
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing JTAG as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for JTAG in the UK

JTAG
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing JTAG.

Salary trend for JTAG in the UK

JTAG
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing JTAG over the 6 months to 26 July 2024.

Salary histogram for JTAG in the UK

JTAG
Top 10 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 26 July 2024. 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 -10 21 £57,500 - 6
England +48 15 £52,500 - 5
South East - 6 £42,500 - 2
Northern Ireland - 6 - -
West Midlands -1 3 - -
South West -3 3 - -
Midlands -18 3 - - 2
East of England - 2 £57,500 - 2
Scotland - 1 £60,000 - 1
London - 1 £50,000 -

JTAG
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:

Applications
1 4 (18.18%) Microsoft Office
1 4 (18.18%) OrCAD
Business Applications
1 1 (4.55%) Infor M3
Cloud Services
1 1 (4.55%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (31.82%) TCP/IP
1 7 (31.82%) Wireless
2 6 (27.27%) Wireshark
3 5 (22.73%) GPRS
4 4 (18.18%) 3G
4 4 (18.18%) 4G
4 4 (18.18%) Ethernet
4 4 (18.18%) Modbus
5 3 (13.64%) 5G
5 3 (13.64%) Bluetooth
5 3 (13.64%) FlexRay
5 3 (13.64%) SD-WAN
5 3 (13.64%) WAN
5 3 (13.64%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (4.55%) IPsec
6 1 (4.55%) MQTT
6 1 (4.55%) RS-232
6 1 (4.55%) RS-485
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (27.27%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 6 (27.27%) Jenkins
2 5 (22.73%) JIRA
3 4 (18.18%) Eclipse
3 4 (18.18%) Subversion
4 3 (13.64%) Git
5 1 (4.55%) Bitbucket
General
1 20 (90.91%) Electronics
2 10 (45.45%) Social Skills
3 6 (27.27%) Finance
3 6 (27.27%) Manufacturing
4 5 (22.73%) Marketing
4 5 (22.73%) Public Sector
4 5 (22.73%) Telecoms
5 4 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (18.18%) Automotive
6 3 (13.64%) Organisational Skills
6 3 (13.64%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 12 (54.55%) Embedded Engineer
2 9 (40.91%) Embedded Software Engineer
2 9 (40.91%) Software Engineer
3 4 (18.18%) Electronics Engineer
3 4 (18.18%) Lead
4 3 (13.64%) Project Leader
4 3 (13.64%) Technical Leader
4 3 (13.64%) Technical Project Leader
4 3 (13.64%) Test Engineer
5 2 (9.09%) Hardware Engineer
5 2 (9.09%) Senior
5 2 (9.09%) Senior Electronics Engineer
5 2 (9.09%) Senior Embedded Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) Design Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) Electronics Design Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) Firmware Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) Graduate
6 1 (4.55%) Junior
6 1 (4.55%) Junior Electronics Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) Lead Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (27.27%) Node.js
2 4 (18.18%) Flash
3 1 (4.55%) .NET
3 1 (4.55%) COM
3 1 (4.55%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 8 (36.36%) IoT
2 7 (31.82%) ARM Cortex
3 6 (27.27%) Self-Motivation
3 6 (27.27%) Video\Live Streaming
4 4 (18.18%) FPGA
4 4 (18.18%) NB-IoT
5 3 (13.64%) Embedded Systems
6 1 (4.55%) Algorithms
6 1 (4.55%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (4.55%) Arduino
6 1 (4.55%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (4.55%) PKI
6 1 (4.55%) SystemC
6 1 (4.55%) Verilog
6 1 (4.55%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 13 (59.09%) Linux
2 9 (40.91%) Embedded Linux
3 1 (4.55%) Android
3 1 (4.55%) FreeRTOS
3 1 (4.55%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (45.45%) Agile
1 10 (45.45%) Computer Science
1 10 (45.45%) Software Engineering
2 7 (31.82%) Customer Requirements
2 7 (31.82%) Test Automation
3 6 (27.27%) Asynchronous Programming
3 6 (27.27%) Multithreading
3 6 (27.27%) Open Source
4 5 (22.73%) Business Intelligence
4 5 (22.73%) Digital Marketing
4 5 (22.73%) Programme Management
4 5 (22.73%) Prototyping
4 5 (22.73%) Schematic Capture
5 4 (18.18%) CAD
5 4 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (18.18%) Validation
6 3 (13.64%) B2B
6 3 (13.64%) Penetration Testing
6 3 (13.64%) Project Management
6 3 (13.64%) Requirements Analysis
Programming Languages
1 12 (54.55%) C
2 11 (50.00%) Python
3 6 (27.27%) Bash
3 6 (27.27%) C++
3 6 (27.27%) Perl
4 5 (22.73%) C#
5 4 (18.18%) Assembly Language
6 3 (13.64%) MATLAB
7 1 (4.55%) Java
Qualifications
1 16 (72.73%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (27.27%) QA
2 4 (18.18%) IEC 61131
3 3 (13.64%) PMO
System Software
1 11 (50.00%) Firmware
2 1 (4.55%) Embedded Firmware
Vendors
1 5 (22.73%) SAP
2 4 (18.18%) EMC
2 4 (18.18%) Microsoft
3 3 (13.64%) Lauterbach
4 1 (4.55%) Autodesk
4 1 (4.55%) CA
4 1 (4.55%) NCR