Embedded Engineer Contracts in the UK excluding London

Embedded Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Embedded Engineer daily rate in the UK excluding London is £483, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 254 314 438
Rank change year-on-year +60 +124 -79
Contract jobs requiring an Embedded Engineer 151 116 66
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.71% 0.51% 0.22%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.77% 0.54% 0.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 56 18
10th Percentile £336 £375 £398
25th Percentile £425 £422 £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £475 £438
Median % change year-on-year +1.74% +8.57% +9.38%
75th Percentile £544 £560 £475
90th Percentile £568 £588 £538
UK median daily rate £483 £475 £450
% change year-on-year +1.74% +5.56% +13.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 126 40 31
10th Percentile £46.25 £51.25 -
25th Percentile £51.06 £53.75 £42.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £57.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% +15.00% -
75th Percentile £70.00 £77.00 £58.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £90.00 £58.75
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £57.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year +13.04% +15.00% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies 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 19,709 21,379 29,050
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.42% 94.21% 95.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,751 14,853 20,421
10th Percentile £213 £225 £208
25th Percentile £363 £388 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £593 £600 £575
90th Percentile £680 £688 £656
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -2.42% +2.48% +6.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,515 1,090 1,383
10th Percentile £12.63 £13.41 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.92 £18.08 £15.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.08 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.94% +110.39% +7.82%
75th Percentile £62.83 £65.00 £47.25
90th Percentile £74.00 £75.68 £62.45
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +16.28%

Embedded Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Embedded Engineer in the UK excluding London

Embedded Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Embedded Engineer in the UK excluding London

Embedded Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Embedded Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Embedded Engineer in the UK excluding London

Embedded Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Embedded Engineer in the UK excluding London

Embedded Engineer
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Embedded Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Embedded Engineer in the UK excluding London

Embedded 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 Engineer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 12 June 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
South East +47 47 £450 -1.37% 65
East of England -9 45 £500 +2.56% 54
South West +14 34 £550 +22.22% 39
Scotland +50 8 - - 12
North of England +21 7 - - 13
Midlands +12 6 £483 -19.46% 26
North East - 6 - - 1
East Midlands +10 5 £475 - 13
Wales +24 4 - - 8
North West +15 1 - - 7
West Midlands +10 1 £492 -18.08% 13
Embedded Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 12 June 2024, Embedded 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 Engineer in the job title.

1 144 (95.36%) Software Engineering
2 89 (58.94%) C
3 60 (39.74%) Embedded C
4 48 (31.79%) Linux
5 43 (28.48%) C++
6 34 (22.52%) Electronics
7 33 (21.85%) IBM
8 32 (21.19%) Validation
9 30 (19.87%) Aerospace
10 29 (19.21%) Configuration Management
11 27 (17.88%) Firmware
11 27 (17.88%) FreeRTOS
12 25 (16.56%) Lauterbach
12 25 (16.56%) Automotive
12 25 (16.56%) ARM Cortex
13 20 (13.25%) Software-Defined Radio
14 18 (11.92%) SC Cleared
14 18 (11.92%) Security Cleared
14 18 (11.92%) UML
15 17 (11.26%) Degree
15 17 (11.26%) Git
16 14 (9.27%) Agile
17 13 (8.61%) Ada
17 13 (8.61%) Embedded Software Development
17 13 (8.61%) Infrastructure Engineering
18 12 (7.95%) Rational Rhapsody
18 12 (7.95%) Atlassian
18 12 (7.95%) JIRA
18 12 (7.95%) Embedded C++
19 11 (7.28%) Scrum

Embedded 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 8 (5.30%) Confluence
Applications
1 6 (3.97%) Simulink
2 3 (1.99%) Stateflow
Communications & Networking
1 20 (13.25%) Software-Defined Radio
2 10 (6.62%) SNMP
3 5 (3.31%) J1939
4 4 (2.65%) Internet
4 4 (2.65%) Wireless
5 1 (0.66%) 4G
5 1 (0.66%) 5G
5 1 (0.66%) RS-232
Development Applications
1 17 (11.26%) Git
2 12 (7.95%) JIRA
2 12 (7.95%) Rational Rhapsody
3 10 (6.62%) Eclipse
4 8 (5.30%) Bitbucket
4 8 (5.30%) GoogleTest
4 8 (5.30%) Robot Framework
5 6 (3.97%) Rational DOORS
6 4 (2.65%) Subversion
7 1 (0.66%) ClearCase
7 1 (0.66%) Jenkins
7 1 (0.66%) PVCS
7 1 (0.66%) Visual Studio
General
1 34 (22.52%) Electronics
2 30 (19.87%) Aerospace
3 25 (16.56%) Automotive
4 6 (3.97%) Manufacturing
5 5 (3.31%) Telecoms
6 4 (2.65%) Military
7 3 (1.99%) Aviation
8 2 (1.32%) Social Skills
8 2 (1.32%) Wearables
9 1 (0.66%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (5.30%) CSS
1 8 (5.30%) HTML
2 1 (0.66%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 25 (16.56%) ARM Cortex
2 8 (5.30%) Device Driver
3 7 (4.64%) Algorithms
3 7 (4.64%) Embedded Systems
4 6 (3.97%) IoT
5 5 (3.31%) CAN bus
6 4 (2.65%) PCIe
6 4 (2.65%) Verilog
6 4 (2.65%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 48 (31.79%) Linux
2 27 (17.88%) FreeRTOS
3 8 (5.30%) Embedded Linux
4 4 (2.65%) SafeRTOS
4 4 (2.65%) VxWorks
5 3 (1.99%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 144 (95.36%) Software Engineering
2 32 (21.19%) Validation
3 29 (19.21%) Configuration Management
4 18 (11.92%) UML
5 14 (9.27%) Agile
6 13 (8.61%) Embedded Software Development
6 13 (8.61%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 11 (7.28%) Scrum
8 10 (6.62%) Verification and Validation
9 9 (5.96%) Problem-Solving
10 8 (5.30%) Code Quality
10 8 (5.30%) Computer Science
10 8 (5.30%) Defect Tracking
10 8 (5.30%) SDLC
10 8 (5.30%) SysML
10 8 (5.30%) Systems Engineering
10 8 (5.30%) Test Automation
11 6 (3.97%) Test Scripting
12 5 (3.31%) CI/CD
12 5 (3.31%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 89 (58.94%) C
2 60 (39.74%) Embedded C
3 43 (28.48%) C++
4 13 (8.61%) Ada
5 12 (7.95%) Embedded C++
6 10 (6.62%) MATLAB
7 8 (5.30%) JavaScript
7 8 (5.30%) Python
8 4 (2.65%) Assembly Language
8 4 (2.65%) Shell Script
9 2 (1.32%) Java
9 2 (1.32%) SQL
9 2 (1.32%) VB
10 1 (0.66%) Bash
10 1 (0.66%) C#
10 1 (0.66%) Fortran
10 1 (0.66%) Perl
10 1 (0.66%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.66%) Rust
Qualifications
1 18 (11.92%) SC Cleared
1 18 (11.92%) Security Cleared
2 17 (11.26%) Degree
3 9 (5.96%) Master's Degree
4 4 (2.65%) PhD
5 3 (1.99%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (5.30%) AUTOSAR
2 5 (3.31%) JTAG
3 4 (2.65%) MISRA
3 4 (2.65%) MISRA C
4 1 (0.66%) ISO 13485
System Software
1 27 (17.88%) Firmware
2 7 (4.64%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 6 (3.97%) Functional Safety
Vendors
1 33 (21.85%) IBM
2 25 (16.56%) Lauterbach
3 12 (7.95%) Atlassian
4 8 (5.30%) Google
5 4 (2.65%) Intel
6 3 (1.99%) MathWorks
7 1 (0.66%) QNX
7 1 (0.66%) Twitter