Electronics Jobs

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 cited Electronics over the 6 months leading up to 1 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 45 173 249
Rank change year-on-year +128 +76 +49
Permanent jobs citing Electronics 3,141 1,745 1,337
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 5.41% 1.62% 1.49%
As % of the General category 7.83% 2.82% 2.23%
Number of salaries quoted 1,077 1,207 704
10th Percentile £37,574 £32,500 £29,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £38,500 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +24.00% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £70,600 £62,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £78,200
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,000 £50,000 £48,687
% change year-on-year +24.00% +2.70% +2.50%

All General Skills
UK

Electronics falls under the General Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring common skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 40,113 61,905 59,900
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 69.08% 57.36% 66.91%
Number of salaries quoted 19,273 40,239 34,623
10th Percentile £26,000 £27,500 £32,000
25th Percentile £36,000 £36,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -
75th Percentile £74,850 £71,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £93,750 £101,450
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,683 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +0.39% -9.52% +5.00%

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 1 July 2025.

Salary histogram for Electronics in the UK

Electronics
Top 17 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 1 July 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 +99 2,913 £62,000 +24.00% 2,142
England +125 2,783 £62,000 +23.38% 2,735
South East +72 964 £70,000 +55.56% 615
North of England +170 756 £47,683 -4.63% 310
Yorkshire +153 643 £46,000 -8.00% 124
East of England +41 510 £55,000 -4.35% 469
Work from Home +120 470 £70,600 +34.48% 957
Midlands +87 285 £51,250 +2.50% 264
East Midlands +105 249 £40,101 -5.65% 105
South West +71 185 £50,000 +11.11% 265
Scotland +115 110 £40,101 -30.26% 164
North West -8 106 £47,683 +0.39% 159
Wales +53 104 £70,600 +41.20% 64
London +81 71 £65,000 +8.33% 754
West Midlands -21 35 £55,000 - 155
North East +37 6 £55,000 -1.79% 30
Northern Ireland +13 3 - - 27

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 15 (0.48%) Kinematics
2 5 (0.16%) SharePoint
3 3 (0.096%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.064%) Confluence
4 2 (0.064%) Skype for Business
5 1 (0.032%) Apache
5 1 (0.032%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.032%) CMS
5 1 (0.032%) Mendix
Applications
1 337 (10.73%) Microsoft Excel
2 172 (5.48%) Simulink
3 54 (1.72%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (0.13%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (0.096%) GNU Octave
5 3 (0.096%) OrCAD
6 2 (0.064%) AutoCAD
7 1 (0.032%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 1 (0.032%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 146 (4.65%) Teamcenter
2 1 (0.032%) BASE24
2 1 (0.032%) C-CURE
2 1 (0.032%) LabWindows
2 1 (0.032%) SAP QM
2 1 (0.032%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 46 (1.46%) AWS
2 39 (1.24%) Azure
3 27 (0.86%) SaaS
4 17 (0.54%) GCP
5 12 (0.38%) Microsoft 365
6 10 (0.32%) Serverless
7 9 (0.29%) AWS Lambda
8 5 (0.16%) Amazon EC2
8 5 (0.16%) Amazon S3
9 4 (0.13%) Amazon SageMaker
9 4 (0.13%) Entra ID
9 4 (0.13%) Nutanix
10 3 (0.096%) Azure DevOps
10 3 (0.096%) Salesforce Service Cloud
10 3 (0.096%) Slack
11 2 (0.064%) AWS IoT
11 2 (0.064%) Azure Monitor
11 2 (0.064%) Facebook Ads
11 2 (0.064%) Power Platform
11 2 (0.064%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 752 (23.94%) Wireless
2 742 (23.62%) Bluetooth
3 740 (23.56%) 5G
4 739 (23.53%) Wi-Fi
5 737 (23.46%) LTE
6 731 (23.27%) GSM
7 730 (23.24%) UMTS
8 27 (0.86%) Ethernet
9 26 (0.83%) Modbus
10 16 (0.51%) Profibus
11 14 (0.45%) WAN
12 12 (0.38%) RS-485
12 12 (0.38%) SD-WAN
13 9 (0.29%) RS-232
14 8 (0.25%) Firewall
14 8 (0.25%) TCP/IP
14 8 (0.25%) VoIP
15 5 (0.16%) 802.11
15 5 (0.16%) Network Security
15 5 (0.16%) VSAT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (0.57%) NoSQL
1 18 (0.57%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (0.35%) RDBMS
2 11 (0.35%) Relational Database
3 6 (0.19%) MongoDB
4 4 (0.13%) Big Data
4 4 (0.13%) MySQL
5 3 (0.096%) SQL Server
6 2 (0.064%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (0.064%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (0.064%) Geospatial Data
6 2 (0.064%) GIS
6 2 (0.064%) Metadata
6 2 (0.064%) Oracle Exadata
6 2 (0.064%) Tableau
7 1 (0.032%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.032%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.032%) Flink
7 1 (0.032%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.032%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 569 (18.12%) Rational DOORS
2 27 (0.86%) Git
3 25 (0.80%) JIRA
4 10 (0.32%) LabVIEW
4 10 (0.32%) Subversion
5 6 (0.19%) GitLab
6 4 (0.13%) Jenkins
7 3 (0.096%) GDB
7 3 (0.096%) Visual Studio
8 2 (0.064%) Android Studio
8 2 (0.064%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.064%) Octopus Deploy
8 2 (0.064%) Rational Rhapsody
8 2 (0.064%) TeamCity
8 2 (0.064%) webpack
9 1 (0.032%) CMake
9 1 (0.032%) Jasmine
9 1 (0.032%) Karma Test Runner
9 1 (0.032%) Protractor
9 1 (0.032%) VersaTest
General
1 1,049 (33.40%) Social Skills
2 844 (26.87%) Manufacturing
3 767 (24.42%) Marketing
4 259 (8.25%) Presentation Skills
5 221 (7.04%) Aerospace
6 194 (6.18%) Analytical Skills
7 182 (5.79%) Finance
8 143 (4.55%) Telecoms
9 127 (4.04%) Public Sector
10 59 (1.88%) Automotive
11 52 (1.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 37 (1.18%) Aviation
13 36 (1.15%) Advertising
14 33 (1.05%) Military
15 24 (0.76%) Billing
15 24 (0.76%) Legal
16 17 (0.54%) Organisational Skills
17 15 (0.48%) Avionics
18 12 (0.38%) Retail
19 6 (0.19%) Law
Job Titles
1 863 (27.48%) Electronics Engineer
2 741 (23.59%) Test Engineer
3 733 (23.34%) Electronics Test Engineer
4 620 (19.74%) Systems Engineer
5 427 (13.59%) Senior
6 363 (11.56%) Principal Engineer
7 226 (7.20%) Principal Systems Engineer
8 196 (6.24%) Senior Systems Engineer
9 153 (4.87%) Junior
10 145 (4.62%) Junior Systems Engineer
11 140 (4.46%) Technical Manager
12 139 (4.43%) Lead
13 136 (4.33%) Help Desk Manager
14 126 (4.01%) Software Assurance Engineer
15 101 (3.22%) Products Support Manager
16 100 (3.18%) Support Manager
17 86 (2.74%) Coordinator
18 84 (2.67%) Senior Electrical Engineer
19 78 (2.48%) Product Manager
20 65 (2.07%) Design Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (0.67%) REST
2 15 (0.48%) FastAPI
2 15 (0.48%) Middleware
3 12 (0.38%) .NET
3 12 (0.38%) Flask
4 10 (0.32%) Node.js
5 9 (0.29%) React
6 6 (0.19%) ASP.NET
6 6 (0.19%) HTML
6 6 (0.19%) Spring
6 6 (0.19%) Spring Boot
7 5 (0.16%) 802.1X
7 5 (0.16%) CSS
7 5 (0.16%) Yocto
8 4 (0.13%) .NET Core
8 4 (0.13%) .NET Framework
8 4 (0.13%) Entity Framework
8 4 (0.13%) TensorFlow
9 3 (0.096%) Django
9 3 (0.096%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 757 (24.10%) Driving Licence
2 519 (16.52%) Algorithms
3 107 (3.41%) Self-Motivation
4 46 (1.46%) Embedded Systems
5 41 (1.31%) FPGA
6 35 (1.11%) Analogue Electronics
7 28 (0.89%) Renewable Energy
7 28 (0.89%) SCADA
8 23 (0.73%) Robotics
8 23 (0.73%) VHDL
9 21 (0.67%) IoT
10 19 (0.60%) PMI
11 16 (0.51%) Data Centre
12 14 (0.45%) Management Information System
13 13 (0.41%) Cloud Native
14 12 (0.38%) CAN bus
14 12 (0.38%) Optoelectronics
15 10 (0.32%) Video Conferencing
16 9 (0.29%) Self-Driving Car
17 8 (0.25%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 41 (1.31%) Linux
2 30 (0.96%) Windows
3 16 (0.51%) Embedded Linux
4 12 (0.38%) Android
5 10 (0.32%) Apple iOS
6 7 (0.22%) Windows Server
7 5 (0.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 4 (0.13%) FreeRTOS
8 4 (0.13%) Windows 10
9 3 (0.096%) Windows Server 2019
10 2 (0.064%) Unix
10 2 (0.064%) VMS
11 1 (0.032%) Robot Operating System
11 1 (0.032%) Rocky
11 1 (0.032%) Solaris
11 1 (0.032%) VxWorks
11 1 (0.032%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 883 (28.11%) Mentoring
2 853 (27.16%) Systems Engineering
3 822 (26.17%) Validation
4 763 (24.29%) Coaching
5 756 (24.07%) Customer Requirements
6 748 (23.81%) Verification and Validation
7 731 (23.27%) Test Strategy
8 565 (17.99%) Signal Processing
9 526 (16.75%) Problem-Solving
10 516 (16.43%) Physics
11 507 (16.14%) Technical Leadership
12 435 (13.85%) Mathematics
13 432 (13.75%) Continuous Improvement
14 380 (12.10%) Line Management
15 362 (11.52%) CRM
16 337 (10.73%) Supply Chain Management
17 335 (10.67%) Data Entry
18 255 (8.12%) Software Engineering
19 254 (8.09%) Project Management
20 250 (7.96%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 256 (8.15%) MATLAB
2 103 (3.28%) C
3 94 (2.99%) C++
4 91 (2.90%) R
5 76 (2.42%) Python
6 52 (1.66%) C#
7 29 (0.92%) Java
8 20 (0.64%) JavaScript
8 20 (0.64%) SQL
9 14 (0.45%) Embedded C
9 14 (0.45%) TypeScript
10 12 (0.38%) Ladder Logic
11 7 (0.22%) PowerShell
12 5 (0.16%) Ada
13 4 (0.13%) Bash
13 4 (0.13%) Embedded C++
13 4 (0.13%) Go
13 4 (0.13%) PHP
14 3 (0.096%) Kotlin
14 3 (0.096%) Rust
Qualifications
1 1,906 (60.68%) Degree
2 1,006 (32.03%) BPSS Clearance
3 789 (25.12%) HND
4 116 (3.69%) Master's Degree
5 112 (3.57%) Security Cleared
6 54 (1.72%) DV Cleared
7 40 (1.27%) PMI Certification
8 39 (1.24%) SC Cleared
9 27 (0.86%) CISSP
10 25 (0.80%) CEH
10 25 (0.80%) Numerate Degree
11 22 (0.70%) Computer Science Degree
12 21 (0.67%) PMP
13 17 (0.54%) HNC
14 8 (0.25%) PhD
15 7 (0.22%) Cisco Certification
16 6 (0.19%) CCNA
17 5 (0.16%) GCSC
17 5 (0.16%) JNCIA
18 4 (0.13%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 479 (15.25%) ISO/IEC 15288
2 42 (1.34%) QA
3 27 (0.86%) GDPR
4 23 (0.73%) Cyber Essentials
4 23 (0.73%) DO-254
5 21 (0.67%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 18 (0.57%) SLA
7 11 (0.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 11 (0.35%) NIST
8 10 (0.32%) PMO
9 6 (0.19%) Def Stans
9 6 (0.19%) JTAG
10 5 (0.16%) Automotive SPICE
10 5 (0.16%) ISO 26262
10 5 (0.16%) ISO 9001
11 4 (0.13%) Data Quality
11 4 (0.13%) ISO 13485
12 3 (0.096%) Accessibility
12 3 (0.096%) IEC 62304
12 3 (0.096%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 89 (2.83%) Firmware
2 30 (0.96%) Embedded Firmware
3 15 (0.48%) Docker
4 7 (0.22%) Citrix Hypervisor
5 4 (0.13%) Active Directory
6 1 (0.032%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.032%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.032%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 16 (0.51%) Kubernetes
1 16 (0.51%) Terraform
2 5 (0.16%) Functional Safety
3 4 (0.13%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (0.096%) Ansible
4 3 (0.096%) SCCM
5 1 (0.032%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (0.032%) Data Guard
5 1 (0.032%) FortiGate
5 1 (0.032%) Kibana
5 1 (0.032%) Kustomize
5 1 (0.032%) Marathon
5 1 (0.032%) Oracle ZFS
5 1 (0.032%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.032%) systemd
5 1 (0.032%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 559 (17.80%) IBM
2 462 (14.71%) SAP
3 74 (2.36%) Microsoft
4 69 (2.20%) EMC
5 38 (1.21%) Google
6 33 (1.05%) YouTube
7 31 (0.99%) Siemens
8 30 (0.96%) Citrix
9 28 (0.89%) Oracle
10 27 (0.86%) Dell
11 23 (0.73%) NetApp
12 17 (0.54%) Allen-Bradley
13 15 (0.48%) Intel
14 12 (0.38%) Mentor Graphics
14 12 (0.38%) Rockwell
15 9 (0.29%) Cisco
16 6 (0.19%) Xilinx
17 5 (0.16%) Fortinet
17 5 (0.16%) Freshdesk
17 5 (0.16%) NVIDIA