RS-232 Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

RS-232
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent remote or hybrid work requiring RS-232 skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited RS-232 over the 6 months leading up to 21 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 450 513 645
Rank change year-on-year +63 +132 +180
Permanent jobs citing RS-232 12 62 15
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.063% 0.18% 0.037%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.24% 1.20% 0.33%
Number of salaries quoted 5 52 15
10th Percentile - - £25,500
25th Percentile £62,500 £37,500 £27,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £55,000 £28,500
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% +92.98% -48.18%
75th Percentile £71,250 £62,500 £29,250
90th Percentile - - £52,250
UK median annual salary £65,000 £52,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year +23.81% +10.53% -5.00%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Work from Home

RS-232 falls under the Communications and Computer Networking category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring communications or computer networking skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 5,022 5,180 4,569
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 26.56% 15.32% 11.26%
Number of salaries quoted 1,697 3,323 3,394
10th Percentile £23,504 £31,250 £31,569
25th Percentile £25,087 £40,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £34,500 £52,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -34.29% -8.70% -
75th Percentile £60,000 £67,500 £76,316
90th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £88,750
UK median annual salary £45,000 £47,500 £50,250
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.47% -4.29%

RS-232
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing RS-232 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

RS-232 trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

RS-232
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing RS-232.

RS-232 salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

RS-232
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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:

Communications & Networking
1 6 (50.00%) Bluetooth
1 6 (50.00%) Ethernet
1 6 (50.00%) Modbus
1 6 (50.00%) Profibus
1 6 (50.00%) RS-485
1 6 (50.00%) Wireless
1 6 (50.00%) ZigBee
General
1 9 (75.00%) Electronics
1 9 (75.00%) Manufacturing
2 6 (50.00%) Organisational Skills
2 6 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (91.67%) Senior
2 10 (83.33%) Embedded Engineer
3 9 (75.00%) Embedded Software Engineer
3 9 (75.00%) Senior Embedded Engineer
3 9 (75.00%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
3 9 (75.00%) Senior Software Engineer
3 9 (75.00%) Software Engineer
4 2 (16.67%) Electronics Engineer
4 2 (16.67%) FPGA Engineer
4 2 (16.67%) Senior Electronics Engineer
4 2 (16.67%) Senior FPGA Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Design Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (25.00%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 6 (50.00%) Embedded Systems
2 3 (25.00%) Device Driver
3 2 (16.67%) FPGA
3 2 (16.67%) VHDL
4 1 (8.33%) ARM Cortex
Operating Systems
1 6 (50.00%) FreeRTOS
2 3 (25.00%) Embedded Linux
2 3 (25.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (75.00%) Software Engineering
2 6 (50.00%) TDD
2 6 (50.00%) Unit Testing
3 2 (16.67%) FPGA Design
3 2 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (16.67%) Schematic Capture
4 1 (8.33%) Data Analysis
4 1 (8.33%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 9 (75.00%) C
2 6 (50.00%) C++
3 3 (25.00%) Embedded C
4 1 (8.33%) Python
4 1 (8.33%) SQL
System Software
1 7 (58.33%) Embedded Firmware
1 7 (58.33%) Firmware
Vendors
1 3 (25.00%) EMC