Electronics
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Electronics in permanent job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Electronics over the 6 months to 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 187 253 304
Rank change year-on-year +66 +51 -74
Permanent jobs citing Electronics 1,547 1,484 2,089
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.57% 1.43% 1.33%
As % of the General category 2.62% 2.10% 2.09%
Number of salaries quoted 1,107 751 1,009
10th Percentile £32,500 £30,000 £32,900
25th Percentile £38,500 £38,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £62,500 £65,000 £66,250
90th Percentile £72,500 £77,500 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £48,687 £47,500
% change year-on-year +2.70% +2.50% -

All General Skills
UK

Electronics is in the General Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for common skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 58,958 70,613 100,107
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 59.84% 68.25% 63.90%
Number of salaries quoted 39,577 38,082 51,376
10th Percentile £27,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £43,251 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £101,250 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% +5.26%

Electronics
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Electronics as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Electronics in the UK

Electronics
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Electronics in the UK

Electronics
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Electronics over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Electronics in the UK

Electronics
Top 18 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Electronics 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 +46 1,417 £50,000 +2.70% 1,314
England +67 1,369 £52,500 +5.00% 1,390
South East +21 485 £47,500 -9.52% 437
Work from Home -5 399 £52,500 - 381
East of England +45 249 £55,000 -15.38% 284
Midlands +30 197 £52,500 +31.25% 205
North of England +44 171 £50,000 +20.79% 163
South West +10 166 £45,000 -5.26% 199
West Midlands +14 128 £57,500 +27.78% 129
North West +31 103 £47,500 - 95
London +3 83 £60,000 +23.24% 145
East Midlands +15 69 £50,000 +33.33% 76
Scotland -60 67 £47,500 - 69
Yorkshire +59 59 £50,000 +25.00% 51
Wales +21 41 £50,000 +21.95% 29
Northern Ireland - 33 £35,000 - 8
North East -4 9 £53,750 +58.95% 18
Isle of Man - 8 £45,000 - 1

Electronics
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:

Application Platforms
1 41 (2.65%) SharePoint
2 16 (1.03%) Apache
3 12 (0.78%) Confluence
4 10 (0.65%) Apache Spark
5 7 (0.45%) Apache Airflow
5 7 (0.45%) Microsoft Exchange
6 6 (0.39%) nginx
7 4 (0.26%) IIS
7 4 (0.26%) Kinematics
7 4 (0.26%) Moodle
8 3 (0.19%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
9 1 (0.065%) SAS
9 1 (0.065%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 68 (4.40%) Simulink
2 37 (2.39%) Microsoft Excel
3 34 (2.20%) Microsoft Office
4 23 (1.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 17 (1.10%) Stateflow
6 12 (0.78%) OrCAD
7 7 (0.45%) CANalyzer
7 7 (0.45%) Microsoft Project
8 6 (0.39%) GNU Octave
8 6 (0.39%) SOLIDWORKS
9 5 (0.32%) Windchill
10 4 (0.26%) AutoCAD
10 4 (0.26%) Doxygen
10 4 (0.26%) InfoPath
11 2 (0.13%) Blender
11 2 (0.13%) Fusion 360
11 2 (0.13%) Houdini
11 2 (0.13%) MadCap Flare
11 2 (0.13%) TargetLink
12 1 (0.065%) Adobe After Effects
Business Applications
1 13 (0.84%) Adobe Campaign
2 7 (0.45%) Salesforce CRM
3 4 (0.26%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.065%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 64 (4.14%) Azure
2 53 (3.43%) AWS
3 42 (2.71%) Microsoft 365
4 27 (1.75%) GitHub
5 21 (1.36%) Azure DevOps
6 19 (1.23%) Power Platform
7 17 (1.10%) GCP
8 13 (0.84%) Cloud Computing
9 11 (0.71%) OneDrive
10 7 (0.45%) Entra ID
11 6 (0.39%) AWS IoT
11 6 (0.39%) GitHub Actions
11 6 (0.39%) PaaS
12 5 (0.32%) Azure Data Factory
12 5 (0.32%) Dynamics 365
12 5 (0.32%) SaaS
13 4 (0.26%) Microsoft Purview
13 4 (0.26%) Power Automate
14 3 (0.19%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 2 (0.13%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 107 (6.92%) Wireless
2 70 (4.52%) TCP/IP
3 62 (4.01%) Ethernet
4 60 (3.88%) Bluetooth
5 55 (3.56%) Wi-Fi
6 45 (2.91%) RS-232
7 34 (2.20%) Internet
8 24 (1.55%) 5G
8 24 (1.55%) WAN
9 22 (1.42%) ZigBee
10 21 (1.36%) J1939
10 21 (1.36%) RS-485
10 21 (1.36%) SD-WAN
11 20 (1.29%) LTE
12 19 (1.23%) HTTP
13 18 (1.16%) MQTT
14 16 (1.03%) Modbus
15 13 (0.84%) DNS
16 10 (0.65%) Firewall
17 9 (0.58%) OFDM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (1.62%) PostgreSQL
2 19 (1.23%) Power BI
3 14 (0.90%) SQL Server
4 11 (0.71%) Big Data
5 10 (0.65%) MongoDB
6 9 (0.58%) Redis
7 7 (0.45%) Apache Hive
7 7 (0.45%) Presto
7 7 (0.45%) SQLite
7 7 (0.45%) Tableau
8 6 (0.39%) GIS
8 6 (0.39%) Relational Database
9 4 (0.26%) MySQL
9 4 (0.26%) NoSQL
10 3 (0.19%) Hadoop
11 2 (0.13%) Data Warehouse
11 2 (0.13%) Microsoft Analysis Services
11 2 (0.13%) Qlik Sense
11 2 (0.13%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 2 (0.13%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 105 (6.79%) Git
2 62 (4.01%) JIRA
3 55 (3.56%) LabVIEW
4 48 (3.10%) Subversion
5 37 (2.39%) Visual Studio
6 26 (1.68%) Jenkins
7 15 (0.97%) ClearCase
7 15 (0.97%) Eclipse
8 14 (0.90%) Plastic SCM
9 9 (0.58%) Rational DOORS
10 7 (0.45%) ClearQuest
10 7 (0.45%) GitLab
10 7 (0.45%) Rational Rhapsody
11 5 (0.32%) Maven
12 4 (0.26%) Bitbucket
12 4 (0.26%) Selenium
12 4 (0.26%) Team Foundation Server
12 4 (0.26%) Zephyr
13 3 (0.19%) GCC
14 2 (0.13%) SoapUI
General
1 524 (33.87%) Manufacturing
2 325 (21.01%) Social Skills
3 250 (16.16%) Finance
4 244 (15.77%) Telecoms
5 229 (14.80%) Marketing
6 192 (12.41%) Analytical Skills
7 181 (11.70%) Public Sector
8 170 (10.99%) Automotive
9 123 (7.95%) Aerospace
10 102 (6.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 46 (2.97%) Retail
12 45 (2.91%) Military
13 28 (1.81%) Presentation Skills
14 26 (1.68%) Games
15 22 (1.42%) Organisational Skills
15 22 (1.42%) Pharmaceutical
16 20 (1.29%) Legal
16 20 (1.29%) Police
17 15 (0.97%) Publishing
18 14 (0.90%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 386 (24.95%) Software Engineer
2 310 (20.04%) Electronics Engineer
3 247 (15.97%) Embedded Engineer
4 239 (15.45%) Senior
5 188 (12.15%) Hardware Engineer
6 170 (10.99%) Embedded Software Engineer
7 125 (8.08%) Graduate
8 105 (6.79%) Systems Engineer
9 100 (6.46%) Junior
10 96 (6.21%) Developer
11 87 (5.62%) Lead
12 82 (5.30%) Development Engineer
13 81 (5.24%) Graduate Electronics Engineer
14 74 (4.78%) Junior Electronics Engineer
15 71 (4.59%) Graduate Development Engineer
16 69 (4.46%) Electronics Hardware Engineer
17 66 (4.27%) Senior Software Engineer
18 61 (3.94%) Firmware Engineer
19 55 (3.56%) Senior Hardware Engineer
20 53 (3.43%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (3.75%) .NET
2 55 (3.56%) HTML
3 32 (2.07%) CSS
4 27 (1.75%) React
4 27 (1.75%) Yocto
5 26 (1.68%) Qt
6 22 (1.42%) Flask
7 21 (1.36%) .NET Framework
8 17 (1.10%) Django
8 17 (1.10%) XML
9 16 (1.03%) AngularJS
10 13 (0.84%) Web Services
11 12 (0.78%) Node.js
12 10 (0.65%) WPF
13 9 (0.58%) HTML5 Canvas
13 9 (0.58%) Middleware
14 8 (0.52%) Flash
14 8 (0.52%) NumPy
14 8 (0.52%) Svelte
15 7 (0.45%) Lambda Expressions
Miscellaneous
1 148 (9.57%) IoT
2 136 (8.79%) Embedded Systems
3 98 (6.33%) FPGA
4 90 (5.82%) Analogue Electronics
5 86 (5.56%) Algorithms
6 65 (4.20%) Robotics
7 63 (4.07%) Self-Motivation
8 51 (3.30%) VHDL
9 33 (2.13%) Driving Licence
10 32 (2.07%) Management Information System
11 28 (1.81%) Analytical Mindset
12 24 (1.55%) Device Driver
13 23 (1.49%) Acoustics
14 22 (1.42%) ARM Cortex
15 21 (1.36%) Renewable Energy
16 20 (1.29%) Distributed Systems
17 16 (1.03%) Cyber Threat
18 13 (0.84%) Arduino
18 13 (0.84%) Greenfield Project
19 12 (0.78%) PCIe
Operating Systems
1 215 (13.90%) Linux
2 139 (8.99%) Windows
3 40 (2.59%) Embedded Linux
4 30 (1.94%) FreeRTOS
5 22 (1.42%) Windows Server
6 16 (1.03%) Windows 10
7 15 (0.97%) Android
8 14 (0.90%) Apple iOS
9 12 (0.78%) Ubuntu
10 8 (0.52%) Mac OS
11 6 (0.39%) ThreadX
11 6 (0.39%) VMS
12 5 (0.32%) Unix
13 4 (0.26%) VxWorks
13 4 (0.26%) Windows Server 2016
14 1 (0.065%) Debian
14 1 (0.065%) Fedora
Processes & Methodologies
1 497 (32.13%) Software Engineering
2 245 (15.84%) Problem-Solving
3 234 (15.13%) Computer Science
4 185 (11.96%) Business Intelligence
5 178 (11.51%) Digital Marketing
5 178 (11.51%) Programme Management
6 146 (9.44%) Agile
7 143 (9.24%) Schematic Capture
8 126 (8.14%) Validation
9 124 (8.02%) Software Testing
10 99 (6.40%) Project Management
11 95 (6.14%) Mentoring
12 91 (5.88%) Collaborative Working
13 88 (5.69%) Project Planning
14 86 (5.56%) Test Automation
15 76 (4.91%) Customer Requirements
16 72 (4.65%) Mathematics
16 72 (4.65%) Physics
17 66 (4.27%) Continuous Improvement
18 63 (4.07%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 435 (28.12%) C
2 243 (15.71%) Python
3 223 (14.41%) C++
4 153 (9.89%) C#
5 111 (7.18%) Embedded C
6 96 (6.21%) MATLAB
7 78 (5.04%) JavaScript
8 71 (4.59%) Java
9 54 (3.49%) SQL
10 29 (1.87%) Bash
10 29 (1.87%) Perl
11 22 (1.42%) Embedded C++
12 21 (1.36%) TypeScript
13 20 (1.29%) PHP
14 19 (1.23%) PowerShell
15 17 (1.10%) Ada
16 10 (0.65%) Assembly Language
16 10 (0.65%) Scala
17 9 (0.58%) Tcl
17 9 (0.58%) VB
Qualifications
1 672 (43.44%) Degree
2 120 (7.76%) Security Cleared
3 81 (5.24%) Computer Science Degree
4 55 (3.56%) HND
5 52 (3.36%) SC Cleared
6 44 (2.84%) Master's Degree
7 35 (2.26%) HNC
8 29 (1.87%) DV Cleared
9 28 (1.81%) BPSS Clearance
10 26 (1.68%) PhD
11 14 (0.90%) Cisco Certification
12 12 (0.78%) CCNA
13 11 (0.71%) NVQ Level 3
14 9 (0.58%) CISSP
14 9 (0.58%) DBS Check
15 7 (0.45%) Microsoft Certification
16 5 (0.32%) CISM
17 4 (0.26%) MCP
17 4 (0.26%) MCSE
18 3 (0.19%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 120 (7.76%) QA
2 31 (2.00%) AUTOSAR
2 31 (2.00%) ISO 26262
3 30 (1.94%) MISRA
4 23 (1.49%) Automotive SPICE
4 23 (1.49%) JTAG
5 22 (1.42%) ISO 9001
6 20 (1.29%) ISO 13485
7 14 (0.90%) ISO/IEC 17025
7 14 (0.90%) PMO
8 11 (0.71%) IEC 62304
9 9 (0.58%) GDPR
10 8 (0.52%) 21 CFR Part 11
11 7 (0.45%) Data Quality
12 4 (0.26%) IEC 61131
12 4 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
12 4 (0.26%) MISRA C
12 4 (0.26%) Software Quality Assurance
13 3 (0.19%) DO-178B
13 3 (0.19%) ECSS
System Software
1 360 (23.27%) Firmware
2 183 (11.83%) Embedded Firmware
3 19 (1.23%) Docker
4 17 (1.10%) VMware Infrastructure
5 11 (0.71%) Hyper-V
5 11 (0.71%) Virtual Machines
6 5 (0.32%) vSphere
7 4 (0.26%) Active Directory
8 3 (0.19%) NFS
9 2 (0.13%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.065%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 22 (1.42%) Terraform
2 12 (0.78%) Functional Safety
3 4 (0.26%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 1 (0.065%) Kubernetes
4 1 (0.065%) SCCM
4 1 (0.065%) systemd
4 1 (0.065%) vCenter Server
4 1 (0.065%) vRealize
Vendors
1 179 (11.57%) SAP
2 153 (9.89%) EMC
3 136 (8.79%) Microsoft
4 17 (1.10%) IBM
4 17 (1.10%) Lauterbach
4 17 (1.10%) VMware
5 16 (1.03%) Google
5 16 (1.03%) Xilinx
6 15 (0.97%) Adobe
7 13 (0.84%) Xamarin
8 12 (0.78%) Cisco
9 10 (0.65%) Altera
10 9 (0.58%) Salesforce
11 8 (0.52%) Facebook
11 8 (0.52%) Green Hills
11 8 (0.52%) HP
11 8 (0.52%) Motorola
11 8 (0.52%) NVIDIA
11 8 (0.52%) Renesas
11 8 (0.52%) Thales