Joint Test Action Group (JTAG)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for JTAG skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited JTAG over the 6 months to 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 887 960 1217
Rank change year-on-year +73 +257 -328
Permanent jobs citing JTAG 27 4 18
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.027% 0.004% 0.011%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.20% 0.020% 0.068%
Number of salaries quoted 4 2 13
10th Percentile £35,250 £57,375 £41,050
25th Percentile £37,500 £60,938 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,750 £71,250 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -31.58% +23.91% +76.92%
75th Percentile £60,000 £80,938 £62,500
90th Percentile - £84,125 -
UK excluding London median annual salary £48,750 £71,250 £57,500
% change year-on-year -31.58% +23.91% +76.92%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
UK

JTAG is in the Quality Assurance and Compliance category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 13,509 19,533 26,321
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.71% 18.88% 16.80%
Number of salaries quoted 9,231 9,080 13,268
10th Percentile £27,000 £32,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% +3.77%
75th Percentile £70,000 £76,250 £73,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £93,750 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £50,000 £47,603
% change year-on-year -5.00% +5.04% +0.22%

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 5 May 2024.

Salary histogram for JTAG in the UK

JTAG
Top 11 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 5 May 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 +11 24 £48,750 -31.58% 20
England +121 21 £48,750 -31.58% 22
South West -21 7 - - 2
Northern Ireland - 6 - -
Work from Home +77 5 - - 6
South East +31 5 £40,000 - 7
Midlands - 4 - - 3
London - 3 - - 3
West Midlands - 3 - -
East of England - 2 £57,500 - 7
East Midlands - 1 - - 3

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 (14.81%) Microsoft Office
1 4 (14.81%) OrCAD
1 4 (14.81%) Windchill
Cloud Services
1 1 (3.70%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (29.63%) Ethernet
2 7 (25.93%) TCP/IP
2 7 (25.93%) Wireless
3 6 (22.22%) Wireshark
4 5 (18.52%) GPRS
5 4 (14.81%) 3G
5 4 (14.81%) 4G
5 4 (14.81%) Modbus
6 3 (11.11%) 5G
6 3 (11.11%) Bluetooth
6 3 (11.11%) FlexRay
6 3 (11.11%) SD-WAN
6 3 (11.11%) WAN
6 3 (11.11%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (3.70%) MQTT
7 1 (3.70%) RS-232
7 1 (3.70%) RS-485
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (22.22%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 6 (22.22%) Git
1 6 (22.22%) Jenkins
2 4 (14.81%) Eclipse
2 4 (14.81%) JIRA
2 4 (14.81%) Subversion
General
1 23 (85.19%) Electronics
2 9 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 5 (18.52%) Finance
3 5 (18.52%) Manufacturing
4 4 (14.81%) Automotive
4 4 (14.81%) Marketing
4 4 (14.81%) Military
4 4 (14.81%) Public Sector
4 4 (14.81%) Telecoms
5 3 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (11.11%) Organisational Skills
5 3 (11.11%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 14 (51.85%) Embedded Engineer
2 11 (40.74%) Embedded Software Engineer
2 11 (40.74%) Software Engineer
3 6 (22.22%) Hardware Engineer
4 4 (14.81%) Electronics Engineer
5 3 (11.11%) Lead
5 3 (11.11%) Project Leader
5 3 (11.11%) Technical Leader
5 3 (11.11%) Technical Project Leader
5 3 (11.11%) Test Engineer
6 2 (7.41%) Senior
6 2 (7.41%) Senior Electronics Engineer
6 2 (7.41%) Senior Embedded Engineer
7 1 (3.70%) Design Engineer
7 1 (3.70%) Electronics Design Engineer
7 1 (3.70%) Graduate
7 1 (3.70%) Graduate Design Engineer
7 1 (3.70%) Graduate Electronics Engineer
7 1 (3.70%) Junior
7 1 (3.70%) Junior Electronics Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (29.63%) Flash
2 6 (22.22%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 8 (29.63%) IoT
2 7 (25.93%) FPGA
3 6 (22.22%) Self-Motivation
3 6 (22.22%) Video\Live Streaming
4 5 (18.52%) ARM Cortex
5 4 (14.81%) NB-IoT
5 4 (14.81%) PCIe
6 3 (11.11%) Embedded Systems
7 1 (3.70%) SystemC
7 1 (3.70%) Verilog
7 1 (3.70%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 13 (48.15%) Linux
2 6 (22.22%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (44.44%) Agile
1 12 (44.44%) Software Engineering
2 10 (37.04%) Test Automation
3 9 (33.33%) Computer Science
4 7 (25.93%) Customer Requirements
4 7 (25.93%) Technical Leadership
5 6 (22.22%) Asynchronous Programming
5 6 (22.22%) Multithreading
5 6 (22.22%) Open Source
6 5 (18.52%) Schematic Capture
6 5 (18.52%) Validation
7 4 (14.81%) Change Management
7 4 (14.81%) Cybersecurity
7 4 (14.81%) Design for Manufacturing
7 4 (14.81%) Design for Test
7 4 (14.81%) Kalman Filter
7 4 (14.81%) PLM
7 4 (14.81%) Problem-Solving
7 4 (14.81%) Prototyping
7 4 (14.81%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 14 (51.85%) Python
2 13 (48.15%) C
3 6 (22.22%) Bash
3 6 (22.22%) Perl
4 4 (14.81%) Assembly Language
4 4 (14.81%) C#
4 4 (14.81%) C++
5 3 (11.11%) MATLAB
6 1 (3.70%) Lua
Qualifications
1 15 (55.56%) Degree
2 4 (14.81%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (22.22%) QA
2 4 (14.81%) IEC 61131
3 3 (11.11%) PMO
System Software
1 14 (51.85%) Firmware
2 1 (3.70%) Embedded Firmware
Vendors
1 4 (14.81%) EMC
1 4 (14.81%) Intel
1 4 (14.81%) Mentor Graphics
1 4 (14.81%) Microsoft
1 4 (14.81%) SAP
1 4 (14.81%) Siemens
1 4 (14.81%) Xilinx
2 3 (11.11%) Lauterbach
3 1 (3.70%) Autodesk
3 1 (3.70%) CA
3 1 (3.70%) NCR