Senior Electronics Engineer Jobs

Senior Electronic Engineer
UK

The median Senior Electronic Engineer salary in the UK is £57,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 8 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 651 832 925
Rank change year-on-year +181 +93 +241
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Electronics Engineer 59 55 53
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.11% 0.056% 0.052%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.12% 0.059% 0.056%
Number of salaries quoted 40 50 9
10th Percentile £47,500 £49,275 -
25th Percentile £47,683 £50,625 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% - -31.43%
75th Percentile £71,250 £67,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £70,000 -
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +14.29%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 48,816 93,552 93,960
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.39% 94.64% 91.50%
Number of salaries quoted 27,241 67,063 59,087
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,500 £38,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £52,501 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% -12.50% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £90,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,000 £50,000 £53,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% -5.66% +6.00%

Senior Electronics Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Senior Electronics Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Senior Electronics Engineer in the UK

Senior Electronics Engineer
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Senior Electronics Engineer.

Salary trend for Senior Electronics Engineer in the UK

Senior Electronics Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Electronics Engineer over the 6 months to 8 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Senior Electronics Engineer in the UK

Senior Electronics Engineer
Top 13 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Electronics Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 8 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
UK excluding London +180 54 £55,000 -8.33% 27
England +155 49 £52,500 -12.50% 28
Work from Home +175 28 £62,500 +4.17% 16
South West +143 21 £75,000 +36.36% 6
South East +92 12 £70,000 +9.80% 5
North of England +76 10 £47,683 -10.45% 4
North West +13 10 £47,683 -7.41% 1
East of England +42 5 £50,000 -16.67% 8
Scotland +124 2 £67,500 +50.00%
Wales - 2 £55,000 - 3
Midlands +42 1 £57,500 +15.00% 2
East Midlands +33 1 £57,500 +15.00%
Northern Ireland - 1 - -

Senior Electronics Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 8 May 2025, Senior Electronics Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads featuring Senior Electronics Engineer in the job title.

1 49 (83.05%) Electronics
2 41 (69.49%) Degree
3 33 (55.93%) Schematic Capture
4 32 (54.24%) Firmware
5 28 (47.46%) Prototyping
6 19 (32.20%) Embedded Firmware
7 17 (28.81%) Stress Analysis
7 17 (28.81%) Requirements Analysis
7 17 (28.81%) Optoelectronics
7 17 (28.81%) Problem-Solving
8 16 (27.12%) FPGA
8 16 (27.12%) C
9 14 (23.73%) Social Skills
10 12 (20.34%) EMC
11 11 (18.64%) Telecoms
12 10 (16.95%) C++
12 10 (16.95%) JIRA
12 10 (16.95%) Algorithms
12 10 (16.95%) Issue Tracking
12 10 (16.95%) Situational Awareness
13 8 (13.56%) VHDL
13 8 (13.56%) Aerospace
13 8 (13.56%) Manufacturing
14 7 (11.86%) Signal Processing
15 6 (10.17%) CPLD
15 6 (10.17%) Software Engineering
15 6 (10.17%) CAD
15 6 (10.17%) Product Requirements
15 6 (10.17%) Aviation
15 6 (10.17%) Design for Test

Senior Electronics Engineer Skill Set
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 3 (5.08%) Simulink
2 2 (3.39%) GNU Octave
Communications & Networking
1 5 (8.47%) RS-485
2 2 (3.39%) Ethernet
2 2 (3.39%) GPRS
2 2 (3.39%) GSM
2 2 (3.39%) RS-232
3 1 (1.69%) RFID
Development Applications
1 10 (16.95%) JIRA
2 4 (6.78%) Git
2 4 (6.78%) Subversion
General
1 49 (83.05%) Electronics
2 14 (23.73%) Social Skills
3 11 (18.64%) Telecoms
4 8 (13.56%) Aerospace
4 8 (13.56%) Manufacturing
5 6 (10.17%) Aviation
6 5 (8.47%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (5.08%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.69%) Flash
Miscellaneous
1 17 (28.81%) Optoelectronics
2 16 (27.12%) FPGA
3 10 (16.95%) Algorithms
4 8 (13.56%) VHDL
5 6 (10.17%) CPLD
6 5 (8.47%) Analogue Electronics
6 5 (8.47%) Life Science
6 5 (8.47%) Self-Motivation
6 5 (8.47%) Verilog
7 4 (6.78%) Embedded Systems
8 1 (1.69%) Renewable Energy
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (55.93%) Schematic Capture
2 28 (47.46%) Prototyping
3 17 (28.81%) Problem-Solving
3 17 (28.81%) Requirements Analysis
3 17 (28.81%) Stress Analysis
4 10 (16.95%) Issue Tracking
4 10 (16.95%) Situational Awareness
5 7 (11.86%) Signal Processing
6 6 (10.17%) CAD
6 6 (10.17%) Customer Requirements
6 6 (10.17%) Design for Test
6 6 (10.17%) Product Requirements
6 6 (10.17%) Software Engineering
7 5 (8.47%) Physics
7 5 (8.47%) Regulatory Compliance
8 4 (6.78%) OO
8 4 (6.78%) SDLC
8 4 (6.78%) Software Architecture
8 4 (6.78%) Test Automation
8 4 (6.78%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 16 (27.12%) C
2 10 (16.95%) C++
3 5 (8.47%) MATLAB
4 4 (6.78%) C#
5 1 (1.69%) Assembly Language
Qualifications
1 41 (69.49%) Degree
2 3 (5.08%) DV Cleared
2 3 (5.08%) Master's Degree
2 3 (5.08%) Security Cleared
3 1 (1.69%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.69%) ISO 9000
System Software
1 32 (54.24%) Firmware
2 19 (32.20%) Embedded Firmware
Vendors
1 12 (20.34%) EMC
2 4 (6.78%) Agilent