Embedded Systems
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Embedded Systems in permanent job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Embedded Systems 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 547 673 774
Rank change year-on-year +126 +101 -107
Permanent jobs citing Embedded Systems 391 308 494
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.40% 0.30% 0.32%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.12% 0.70% 0.67%
Number of salaries quoted 278 150 176
10th Percentile £39,298 £46,250 £34,990
25th Percentile £45,000 £52,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £63,750 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.73% +15.91% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £77,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £78,750 £82,500 £81,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £61,250 £52,500
% change year-on-year -10.20% +16.67% -

All Generic Skills
UK

Embedded Systems is in the General and Transferable Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 34,939 44,188 74,195
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.46% 42.71% 47.36%
Number of salaries quoted 23,008 23,913 34,286
10th Percentile £28,000 £35,001 £34,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £46,250 £45,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £86,250 £84,056
90th Percentile £97,500 £107,500 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%

Embedded Systems
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Embedded Systems in the UK

Embedded Systems
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Embedded Systems.

Salary trend for Embedded Systems in the UK

Embedded Systems
Salary Histogram

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

Salary histogram for Embedded Systems in the UK

Embedded Systems
Top 16 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Embedded Systems 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
England +167 372 £55,000 -15.38% 163
UK excluding London +55 369 £55,000 -10.20% 148
South East +16 123 £59,500 -15.00% 47
Work from Home +49 119 £55,000 -15.38% 65
East of England +34 68 £50,000 -41.18% 31
North of England +82 59 £52,000 -0.95% 13
Midlands +32 56 £50,000 -20.00% 20
South West 0 51 £50,000 -14.89% 29
North West +32 38 £55,000 +4.76% 9
West Midlands +29 36 £52,500 -35.38% 4
Yorkshire +104 21 £47,500 -17.39% 4
East Midlands -5 20 £42,500 -27.66% 16
London +123 15 £62,500 -13.79% 20
Scotland -58 9 £65,000 +30.00% 10
Northern Ireland +25 2 - -
Wales +9 1 - -

Embedded Systems
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 10 (2.56%) nginx
2 4 (1.02%) Confluence
3 1 (0.26%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
3 1 (0.26%) Kinematics
Applications
1 50 (12.79%) Simulink
2 24 (6.14%) Stateflow
3 8 (2.05%) Microsoft Office
4 6 (1.53%) OrCAD
5 1 (0.26%) GNU Octave
5 1 (0.26%) TargetLink
Cloud Services
1 10 (2.56%) AWS
2 8 (2.05%) Azure
3 4 (1.02%) GCP
4 2 (0.51%) GitHub
4 2 (0.51%) WhatsApp
5 1 (0.26%) AWS IoT
5 1 (0.26%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (0.26%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 41 (10.49%) Wireless
2 22 (5.63%) Bluetooth
2 22 (5.63%) Wi-Fi
3 19 (4.86%) Ethernet
4 13 (3.32%) Firewall
5 12 (3.07%) Software-Defined Radio
6 10 (2.56%) J1939
6 10 (2.56%) RS-232
6 10 (2.56%) TCP/IP
7 8 (2.05%) ZigBee
8 7 (1.79%) FlexRay
8 7 (1.79%) Modbus
9 6 (1.53%) MQTT
10 4 (1.02%) 4G
10 4 (1.02%) 5G
10 4 (1.02%) Internet
10 4 (1.02%) LTE
10 4 (1.02%) Multicast
11 3 (0.77%) 3G
11 3 (0.77%) Wireless Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (4.35%) MySQL
2 15 (3.84%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (1.02%) Big Data
3 4 (1.02%) Relational Database
4 1 (0.26%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 49 (12.53%) Git
2 22 (5.63%) JIRA
3 20 (5.12%) LabVIEW
4 15 (3.84%) Subversion
5 10 (2.56%) ClearCase
5 10 (2.56%) GNU Toolchain
5 10 (2.56%) Plastic SCM
6 9 (2.30%) GDB
7 7 (1.79%) ClearQuest
7 7 (1.79%) Jenkins
8 6 (1.53%) Rational DOORS
9 3 (0.77%) Appium
9 3 (0.77%) Burp Suite
9 3 (0.77%) Metasploit
10 2 (0.51%) CMake
10 2 (0.51%) Cucumber
10 2 (0.51%) UI Automator
10 2 (0.51%) VectorCAST
11 1 (0.26%) GCC
11 1 (0.26%) GoogleTest
General
1 136 (34.78%) Electronics
2 90 (23.02%) Automotive
3 64 (16.37%) Social Skills
4 60 (15.35%) Manufacturing
5 32 (8.18%) Telecoms
6 26 (6.65%) Marketing
7 22 (5.63%) Aerospace
8 21 (5.37%) Finance
9 20 (5.12%) Legal
10 19 (4.86%) Analytical Skills
11 18 (4.60%) Public Sector
12 7 (1.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 7 (1.79%) Military
12 7 (1.79%) Presentation Skills
13 6 (1.53%) Avionics
14 4 (1.02%) Multimedia
14 4 (1.02%) Retail
14 4 (1.02%) Tech for Good
15 3 (0.77%) Welsh Language
16 2 (0.51%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 180 (46.04%) Software Engineer
2 165 (42.20%) Embedded Engineer
3 120 (30.69%) Embedded Software Engineer
4 73 (18.67%) Senior
5 57 (14.58%) Systems Engineer
6 42 (10.74%) Developer
7 29 (7.42%) Senior Embedded Engineer
8 26 (6.65%) Software Developer
9 24 (6.14%) C Software Engineer
10 23 (5.88%) C++ Software Engineer
10 23 (5.88%) Electronics Engineer
10 23 (5.88%) Senior Software Engineer
11 22 (5.63%) Senior Systems Engineer
12 20 (5.12%) Embedded C Engineer
12 20 (5.12%) Embedded C++ Engineer
13 17 (4.35%) Embedded C Software Engineer
13 17 (4.35%) Embedded C/C++ Engineer
13 17 (4.35%) Embedded C++ Software Engineer
14 16 (4.09%) Junior
15 14 (3.58%) Embedded C/C++ Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (3.07%) HTML
1 12 (3.07%) HTML5
2 11 (2.81%) Node.js
2 11 (2.81%) Yocto
3 10 (2.56%) POSIX
4 8 (2.05%) React
4 8 (2.05%) Redux
5 7 (1.79%) Qt
6 5 (1.28%) Boost C++ Libraries
6 5 (1.28%) FFmpeg
6 5 (1.28%) GStreamer
6 5 (1.28%) OpenEmbedded
6 5 (1.28%) PyTorch
6 5 (1.28%) TensorFlow
7 3 (0.77%) .NET
7 3 (0.77%) CSS
7 3 (0.77%) Svelte
8 2 (0.51%) Middleware
8 2 (0.51%) PyQt
8 2 (0.51%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 50 (12.79%) Algorithms
2 35 (8.95%) IoT
3 27 (6.91%) FPGA
4 16 (4.09%) Device Driver
4 16 (4.09%) Renewable Energy
5 15 (3.84%) Analogue Electronics
6 14 (3.58%) Acoustics
6 14 (3.58%) Robotics
6 14 (3.58%) Self-Motivation
7 11 (2.81%) Distributed Systems
7 11 (2.81%) Linux Command Line
7 11 (2.81%) RISC-V
8 9 (2.30%) Mobile App
8 9 (2.30%) VHDL
9 7 (1.79%) Hackathon
9 7 (1.79%) SCADA
10 6 (1.53%) CAN bus
10 6 (1.53%) Management Information System
10 6 (1.53%) Verilog
11 5 (1.28%) CUDA
Operating Systems
1 124 (31.71%) Linux
2 24 (6.14%) Embedded Linux
2 24 (6.14%) Windows
3 17 (4.35%) Android
3 17 (4.35%) FreeRTOS
4 16 (4.09%) Unix
5 6 (1.53%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.77%) Kali Linux
7 2 (0.51%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.51%) Mac OS X
7 2 (0.51%) Solaris
7 2 (0.51%) Windows Embedded Compact
8 1 (0.26%) OpenWrt
8 1 (0.26%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 242 (61.89%) Software Engineering
2 73 (18.67%) Problem-Solving
3 63 (16.11%) Agile
4 56 (14.32%) Computer Science
5 35 (8.95%) Mentoring
6 34 (8.70%) Open Source
7 32 (8.18%) Software Testing
8 31 (7.93%) Test Automation
9 25 (6.39%) Code Quality
10 24 (6.14%) Multithreading
10 24 (6.14%) Roadmaps
11 22 (5.63%) SDLC
11 22 (5.63%) Validation
12 20 (5.12%) Coaching
12 20 (5.12%) Embedded Software Development
12 20 (5.12%) TDD
13 19 (4.86%) Business Intelligence
13 19 (4.86%) Continuous Integration
13 19 (4.86%) Cybersecurity
14 18 (4.60%) Programme Management
Programming Languages
1 233 (59.59%) C
2 131 (33.50%) C++
3 103 (26.34%) Python
4 72 (18.41%) Embedded C
5 47 (12.02%) MATLAB
6 39 (9.97%) C#
7 22 (5.63%) Java
8 16 (4.09%) Bash
9 10 (2.56%) Rust
10 9 (2.30%) Embedded C++
11 8 (2.05%) SQL
12 5 (1.28%) JavaScript
12 5 (1.28%) Perl
13 4 (1.02%) Go
13 4 (1.02%) R
14 3 (0.77%) Assembly Language
14 3 (0.77%) Groovy
15 2 (0.51%) Ada
15 2 (0.51%) Ada 83
15 2 (0.51%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 140 (35.81%) Degree
2 29 (7.42%) Security Cleared
3 19 (4.86%) SC Cleared
4 18 (4.60%) Master's Degree
5 17 (4.35%) Computer Science Degree
6 12 (3.07%) PhD
7 4 (1.02%) CESG Certified Professional
7 4 (1.02%) DV Cleared
7 4 (1.02%) PMI Certification
8 3 (0.77%) CHECK Team Member
8 3 (0.77%) CREST Certified
8 3 (0.77%) ISTQB
8 3 (0.77%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 3 (0.77%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (3.58%) MISRA
2 13 (3.32%) Automotive SPICE
3 12 (3.07%) ISO 26262
4 8 (2.05%) IEC 62304
4 8 (2.05%) ISO 13485
4 8 (2.05%) QA
5 6 (1.53%) Def Stans
5 6 (1.53%) IEC 61508
6 4 (1.02%) AUTOSAR
6 4 (1.02%) MISRA C
7 3 (0.77%) JTAG
8 2 (0.51%) DO-178B
9 1 (0.26%) ISO 9001
9 1 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 75 (19.18%) Firmware
2 34 (8.70%) Embedded Firmware
3 14 (3.58%) Docker
Systems Management
1 16 (4.09%) Functional Safety
2 13 (3.32%) Kubernetes
3 3 (0.77%) Nmap
4 1 (0.26%) Consul
4 1 (0.26%) Grafana
4 1 (0.26%) Kibana
4 1 (0.26%) Packer
Vendors
1 18 (4.60%) SAP
2 16 (4.09%) Microsoft
3 13 (3.32%) Lauterbach
4 10 (2.56%) IBM
5 7 (1.79%) Xilinx
6 6 (1.53%) EMC
6 6 (1.53%) Intel
7 5 (1.28%) Google
7 5 (1.28%) NVIDIA
8 3 (0.77%) F5
8 3 (0.77%) Facebook
8 3 (0.77%) Instagram
9 2 (0.51%) Apple
9 2 (0.51%) MathWorks
9 2 (0.51%) Samsung
10 1 (0.26%) Atmel
10 1 (0.26%) Freescale
10 1 (0.26%) Siemens