Signal Processing Jobs in the UK excluding London

Signal Processing
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Signal Processing skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Signal Processing over the 6 months to 28 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 561 677 439
Rank change year-on-year +116 -238 +49
Permanent jobs citing Signal Processing 218 77 523
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.29% 0.13% 0.71%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.36% 0.14% 0.75%
Number of salaries quoted 158 49 89
10th Percentile £39,175 £39,464 £41,200
25th Percentile £41,125 - £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.08% - +8.33%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 -
UK median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -11.54% - -3.70%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Signal Processing is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 61,033 55,511 69,479
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 82.47% 95.56% 94.27%
Number of salaries quoted 42,006 28,806 41,464
10th Percentile £27,336 £30,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.84% +1.67% +9.09%

Signal Processing
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Signal Processing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Signal Processing in the UK excluding London

Signal Processing
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Signal Processing in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Signal Processing in the UK excluding London

Signal Processing
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Signal Processing in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Signal Processing in the UK excluding London

Signal Processing
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Signal Processing within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 28 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
South East +63 102 £60,000 -17.81% 43
East of England +36 55 £56,500 -13.08% 18
South West +15 53 £50,000 -31.03% 10
North of England - 4 £51,500 - 6
North West - 4 £51,500 - 3
West Midlands +8 2 - - 5
Midlands -8 2 - - 8
Scotland - 2 £49,000 - 4
Signal Processing
UK

Signal Processing
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 6 (2.75%) Confluence
Applications
1 55 (25.23%) Simulink
2 12 (5.50%) GNU Octave
3 1 (0.46%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 18 (8.26%) AWS
1 18 (8.26%) Azure
2 2 (0.92%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 28 (12.84%) Wireless
2 23 (10.55%) 5G
3 13 (5.96%) Software-Defined Radio
4 12 (5.50%) OFDM
5 11 (5.05%) SD-WAN
5 11 (5.05%) WAN
6 9 (4.13%) Ethernet
6 9 (4.13%) PPP
7 7 (3.21%) 5G NR
7 7 (3.21%) LTE
8 6 (2.75%) 802.11
8 6 (2.75%) Bluetooth
9 5 (2.29%) 3GPP
10 2 (0.92%) TCP/IP
10 2 (0.92%) ZigBee
11 1 (0.46%) 4G
11 1 (0.46%) Modbus
11 1 (0.46%) MQTT
11 1 (0.46%) RS-232
11 1 (0.46%) RS-485
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (8.26%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 29 (13.30%) Git
2 18 (8.26%) Vagrant
3 12 (5.50%) Visual Studio
4 7 (3.21%) JIRA
5 6 (2.75%) Rational DOORS
5 6 (2.75%) Rational Rhapsody
6 2 (0.92%) Jenkins
6 2 (0.92%) PetaLinux
6 2 (0.92%) Subversion
7 1 (0.46%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.46%) LabVIEW
7 1 (0.46%) TeamCity
General
1 69 (31.65%) Social Skills
2 50 (22.94%) Electronics
3 33 (15.14%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (8.26%) Marketing
5 7 (3.21%) Manufacturing
6 6 (2.75%) Aerospace
6 6 (2.75%) Telecoms
7 4 (1.83%) Pharmaceutical
7 4 (1.83%) Presentation Skills
7 4 (1.83%) Retail
8 3 (1.38%) Finance
8 3 (1.38%) Italian Language
8 3 (1.38%) Military
8 3 (1.38%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (1.38%) Public Sector
9 2 (0.92%) Automotive
9 2 (0.92%) Aviation
9 2 (0.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.46%) Avionics
10 1 (0.46%) Law
Job Titles
1 80 (36.70%) Software Engineer
2 40 (18.35%) Developer
3 35 (16.06%) Senior
4 28 (12.84%) Embedded Engineer
5 22 (10.09%) Senior Software Engineer
5 22 (10.09%) Software Developer
6 21 (9.63%) Lead
7 18 (8.26%) Embedded Developer
7 18 (8.26%) Embedded Software Developer
7 18 (8.26%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
8 15 (6.88%) DSP Engineer
8 15 (6.88%) Electronics Engineer
9 14 (6.42%) Embedded Software Engineer
10 11 (5.05%) FPGA Developer
10 11 (5.05%) Graduate
11 9 (4.13%) Algorithm Engineer
11 9 (4.13%) Senior Embedded Engineer
12 8 (3.67%) Systems Engineer
13 6 (2.75%) RF Engineer
13 6 (2.75%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (8.26%) Middleware
2 6 (2.75%) 802.1X
3 3 (1.38%) Yocto
4 2 (0.92%) NumPy
4 2 (0.92%) POSIX
4 2 (0.92%) PyTorch
5 1 (0.46%) Flutter
5 1 (0.46%) Qt
5 1 (0.46%) STL
5 1 (0.46%) TensorFlow
5 1 (0.46%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 87 (39.91%) Algorithms
2 54 (24.77%) FPGA
3 42 (19.27%) VHDL
4 33 (15.14%) GNSS
5 13 (5.96%) Analogue Electronics
5 13 (5.96%) Greenfield Project
6 12 (5.50%) Analytical Mindset
7 10 (4.59%) Acoustics
7 10 (4.59%) Device Driver
8 9 (4.13%) Embedded Systems
9 8 (3.67%) MicroBlaze
9 8 (3.67%) Verilog
10 7 (3.21%) PCIe
10 7 (3.21%) Robotics
11 6 (2.75%) SIMD
12 5 (2.29%) Fibre Optics
13 4 (1.83%) Self-Motivation
14 3 (1.38%) Ray Tracing
15 2 (0.92%) Management Information System
15 2 (0.92%) State Machine
Operating Systems
1 84 (38.53%) Linux
2 32 (14.68%) Embedded Linux
3 21 (9.63%) Ubuntu
4 20 (9.17%) Android
4 20 (9.17%) CentOS
4 20 (9.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 9 (4.13%) Windows
6 2 (0.92%) FreeRTOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 109 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 74 (33.94%) Computer Science
3 65 (29.82%) Digital Signal Processing
4 64 (29.36%) Problem-Solving
5 56 (25.69%) Machine Learning
6 51 (23.39%) Artificial Intelligence
7 43 (19.72%) Mathematics
8 41 (18.81%) Collaborative Working
9 38 (17.43%) Validation
10 30 (13.76%) Physics
11 24 (11.01%) Continuous Integration
11 24 (11.01%) Embedded Software Development
11 24 (11.01%) Requirements Analysis
12 23 (10.55%) B2B
12 23 (10.55%) Creative Thinking
12 23 (10.55%) Defect Tracking
12 23 (10.55%) Innovative Thinking
13 21 (9.63%) FPGA Design
14 19 (8.72%) DevOps
15 18 (8.26%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 106 (48.62%) C++
2 85 (38.99%) Python
3 78 (35.78%) C
4 66 (30.28%) MATLAB
5 54 (24.77%) Java
6 21 (9.63%) Perl
7 19 (8.72%) SQL
8 18 (8.26%) JavaScript
8 18 (8.26%) Kotlin
9 13 (5.96%) Bash
10 10 (4.59%) Tcl
11 8 (3.67%) VB
12 7 (3.21%) Assembly Language
12 7 (3.21%) Embedded C
13 5 (2.29%) Fortran
14 4 (1.83%) SystemVerilog
15 2 (0.92%) Shell Script
16 1 (0.46%) Embedded C++
16 1 (0.46%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 131 (60.09%) Degree
2 106 (48.62%) Security Cleared
3 51 (23.39%) SC Cleared
4 42 (19.27%) Computer Science Degree
5 33 (15.14%) DV Cleared
6 31 (14.22%) BPSS Clearance
7 19 (8.72%) PhD
8 7 (3.21%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.46%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.46%) MCAD
9 1 (0.46%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (6.88%) PMO
2 3 (1.38%) JTAG
3 1 (0.46%) MISRA
3 1 (0.46%) MISRA C
System Software
1 40 (18.35%) Firmware
2 16 (7.34%) Embedded Firmware
3 1 (0.46%) Docker
Systems Management
1 18 (8.26%) Ansible
1 18 (8.26%) Terraform
Vendors
1 57 (26.15%) Xilinx
2 8 (3.67%) Altera
2 8 (3.67%) Green Hills
2 8 (3.67%) Motorola
3 6 (2.75%) Intel
3 6 (2.75%) Microsoft
4 4 (1.83%) Microsemi
5 2 (0.92%) SAP
6 1 (0.46%) Atlassian
6 1 (0.46%) EMC
6 1 (0.46%) QinetiQ
6 1 (0.46%) Renesas
6 1 (0.46%) Thales