Embedded Software Engineer Contracts in the UK excluding London

Embedded Software Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Embedded Software Engineer daily rate in the UK excluding London is £500 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 273 370 454
Rank change year-on-year +97 +84 -87
Contract jobs requiring an Embedded Software Engineer 122 76 45
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.60% 0.33% 0.15%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.65% 0.35% 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 28 11
10th Percentile £425 £421 £398
25th Percentile £450 £425 £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £450
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +16.67% +12.50%
75th Percentile £563 £560 £494
90th Percentile £575 £600 £538
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £438
% change year-on-year -4.76% +20.00% +10.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 113 33 20
10th Percentile £46.25 - £45.88
25th Percentile £51.06 £53.75 £47.50
Median hourly rate £62.50 £57.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% +4.55% +15.79%
75th Percentile £70.00 £77.00 £58.19
90th Percentile £80.00 £90.00 £58.75
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £57.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year +8.70% +4.55% +15.79%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. 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 contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 18,742 21,812 29,390
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.48% 94.30% 95.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,456 15,203 20,621
10th Percentile £213 £225 £205
25th Percentile £363 £394 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £489 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.20% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £595 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £543 £525
% change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% +8.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,269 1,109 1,458
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.36
25th Percentile £15.75 £18.03 £14.50
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +4.19%
75th Percentile £61.60 £65.00 £45.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%

Embedded Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Embedded Software Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Embedded Software Engineer in the UK excluding London

Embedded Software Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Embedded Software Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Embedded Software Engineer in the UK excluding London

Embedded Software Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Embedded Software Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Embedded Software Engineer in the UK excluding London

Embedded Software Engineer
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Embedded Software Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Embedded Software Engineer in the UK excluding London

Embedded Software Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Embedded Software Engineer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 20 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
East of England +4 40 £550 +4.76% 48
South East +50 37 £450 -1.20% 50
South West +31 28 £550 +4.76% 42
Scotland +42 8 - - 16
North East - 6 - - 4
North of England - 6 - - 24
Midlands +12 2 £492 -18.08% 24
Wales +20 1 - - 4
East Midlands +17 1 - - 12
West Midlands +15 1 £492 -18.08% 12
Embedded Software Engineer
UK

Embedded Software Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 20 May 2024, Embedded Software Engineer contract 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 contract job ads across the UK excluding London region featuring Embedded Software Engineer in the job title.

1 121 (99.18%) Software Engineering
2 82 (67.21%) C
3 53 (43.44%) Embedded C
4 35 (28.69%) Linux
5 34 (27.87%) C++
6 31 (25.41%) Validation
7 30 (24.59%) Electronics
8 27 (22.13%) IBM
9 23 (18.85%) Aerospace
9 23 (18.85%) Configuration Management
9 23 (18.85%) FreeRTOS
10 22 (18.03%) Automotive
11 21 (17.21%) Firmware
12 19 (15.57%) ARM Cortex
12 19 (15.57%) Lauterbach
13 17 (13.93%) Degree
14 16 (13.11%) SC Cleared
14 16 (13.11%) Security Cleared
15 14 (11.48%) Software-Defined Radio
15 14 (11.48%) UML
16 13 (10.66%) Ada
16 13 (10.66%) Embedded Software Development
16 13 (10.66%) Git
17 12 (9.84%) Rational Rhapsody
17 12 (9.84%) Verification and Validation
18 11 (9.02%) Problem-Solving
19 10 (8.20%) Infrastructure Engineering
19 10 (8.20%) Test Automation
19 10 (8.20%) Agile
20 9 (7.38%) Embedded C++

Embedded Software Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (3.28%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (2.46%) Simulink
1 3 (2.46%) Stateflow
Communications & Networking
1 14 (11.48%) Software-Defined Radio
2 6 (4.92%) SNMP
3 5 (4.10%) J1939
4 4 (3.28%) Internet
4 4 (3.28%) Wireless
5 1 (0.82%) 4G
5 1 (0.82%) 5G
Development Applications
1 13 (10.66%) Git
2 12 (9.84%) Rational Rhapsody
3 8 (6.56%) JIRA
3 8 (6.56%) Rational DOORS
4 6 (4.92%) Eclipse
5 4 (3.28%) Bitbucket
5 4 (3.28%) GoogleTest
5 4 (3.28%) Robot Framework
5 4 (3.28%) Subversion
6 1 (0.82%) ClearCase
6 1 (0.82%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.82%) PVCS
6 1 (0.82%) Visual Studio
General
1 30 (24.59%) Electronics
2 23 (18.85%) Aerospace
3 22 (18.03%) Automotive
4 6 (4.92%) Manufacturing
5 5 (4.10%) Telecoms
6 4 (3.28%) Military
7 3 (2.46%) Aviation
8 2 (1.64%) Social Skills
8 2 (1.64%) Wearables
9 1 (0.82%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (3.28%) CSS
1 4 (3.28%) HTML
2 1 (0.82%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 19 (15.57%) ARM Cortex
2 8 (6.56%) Device Driver
2 8 (6.56%) IoT
3 7 (5.74%) Algorithms
3 7 (5.74%) Embedded Systems
4 5 (4.10%) CAN bus
5 4 (3.28%) PCIe
5 4 (3.28%) Verilog
5 4 (3.28%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 35 (28.69%) Linux
2 23 (18.85%) FreeRTOS
3 8 (6.56%) Embedded Linux
4 4 (3.28%) SafeRTOS
4 4 (3.28%) VxWorks
4 4 (3.28%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 121 (99.18%) Software Engineering
2 31 (25.41%) Validation
3 23 (18.85%) Configuration Management
4 14 (11.48%) UML
5 13 (10.66%) Embedded Software Development
6 12 (9.84%) Verification and Validation
7 11 (9.02%) Problem-Solving
8 10 (8.20%) Agile
8 10 (8.20%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 10 (8.20%) Test Automation
9 8 (6.56%) Code Quality
9 8 (6.56%) Computer Science
9 8 (6.56%) Defect Tracking
9 8 (6.56%) SDLC
9 8 (6.56%) Systems Engineering
9 8 (6.56%) Test Scripting
10 7 (5.74%) Scrum
11 4 (3.28%) Requirements Management
11 4 (3.28%) Software Optimisation
11 4 (3.28%) SysML
Programming Languages
1 82 (67.21%) C
2 53 (43.44%) Embedded C
3 34 (27.87%) C++
4 13 (10.66%) Ada
5 9 (7.38%) Embedded C++
6 8 (6.56%) Python
7 7 (5.74%) MATLAB
8 4 (3.28%) Assembly Language
8 4 (3.28%) JavaScript
8 4 (3.28%) Shell Script
9 3 (2.46%) Java
10 2 (1.64%) SQL
10 2 (1.64%) VB
11 1 (0.82%) Bash
11 1 (0.82%) C#
11 1 (0.82%) Perl
11 1 (0.82%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 17 (13.93%) Degree
2 16 (13.11%) SC Cleared
2 16 (13.11%) Security Cleared
3 9 (7.38%) Master's Degree
4 4 (3.28%) PhD
5 3 (2.46%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (4.92%) AUTOSAR
2 5 (4.10%) JTAG
3 4 (3.28%) MISRA
3 4 (3.28%) MISRA C
System Software
1 21 (17.21%) Firmware
2 4 (3.28%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 6 (4.92%) Functional Safety
Vendors
1 27 (22.13%) IBM
2 19 (15.57%) Lauterbach
3 8 (6.56%) Atlassian
4 4 (3.28%) Google
4 4 (3.28%) Intel
5 3 (2.46%) MathWorks
6 1 (0.82%) QNX
6 1 (0.82%) Twitter