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 have cited Electronics over the 6 months to 6 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 176 247 320
Rank change year-on-year +71 +73 -82
Permanent jobs citing Electronics 1,717 1,409 2,219
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.60% 1.50% 1.30%
As % of the General category 2.77% 2.22% 1.99%
Number of salaries quoted 1,197 717 1,014
10th Percentile £32,500 £30,600 £31,250
25th Percentile £38,500 £39,500 £40,000
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 £65,000
90th Percentile £71,250 £77,500 £87,500
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 61,904 63,539 111,642
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 57.86% 67.69% 65.23%
Number of salaries quoted 40,516 35,387 52,387
10th Percentile £27,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £43,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,725 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £102,500 £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 6 June 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 6 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
UK excluding London +46 1,576 £50,000 +2.70% 1,096
England +73 1,522 £52,500 +5.00% 1,165
South East +8 518 £47,500 -5.00% 355
Work from Home -18 419 £52,500 - 272
East of England +36 268 £55,000 -15.38% 205
Midlands +47 218 £50,000 +25.00% 180
North of England +42 206 £50,000 +17.65% 154
South West +33 200 £45,000 -10.00% 159
West Midlands +6 133 £57,500 +9.52% 112
North West +43 132 £47,500 - 98
London -13 97 £60,000 +23.24% 107
East Midlands +31 85 £46,250 +19.35% 68
Scotland -69 73 £55,000 +22.22% 58
Yorkshire +32 63 £50,000 +25.00% 43
Wales +36 53 £50,000 -9.09% 35
Northern Ireland - 32 £35,000 - 8
North East -7 11 £56,000 +6.67% 15
Isle of Man - 8 £45,000 -

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 38 (2.21%) SharePoint
2 23 (1.34%) Apache
3 15 (0.87%) Apache Spark
4 14 (0.82%) Confluence
5 11 (0.64%) Apache Airflow
6 6 (0.35%) nginx
7 5 (0.29%) CMS
7 5 (0.29%) Kinematics
7 5 (0.29%) Microsoft Exchange
8 4 (0.23%) Moodle
9 3 (0.17%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
9 3 (0.17%) IIS
Applications
1 63 (3.67%) Simulink
2 36 (2.10%) Microsoft Office
3 35 (2.04%) Microsoft Excel
4 23 (1.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 17 (0.99%) Stateflow
6 11 (0.64%) OrCAD
7 8 (0.47%) GNU Octave
8 7 (0.41%) CANalyzer
8 7 (0.41%) Microsoft Project
9 6 (0.35%) SOLIDWORKS
10 5 (0.29%) InfoPath
10 5 (0.29%) Windchill
11 4 (0.23%) AutoCAD
11 4 (0.23%) Doxygen
12 2 (0.12%) Blender
12 2 (0.12%) Fusion 360
12 2 (0.12%) Houdini
12 2 (0.12%) MadCap Flare
12 2 (0.12%) TargetLink
13 1 (0.058%) Adobe Creative Suite
Business Applications
1 13 (0.76%) Adobe Campaign
2 7 (0.41%) Salesforce CRM
3 2 (0.12%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.058%) Infor M3
4 1 (0.058%) LabWindows
4 1 (0.058%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 82 (4.78%) AWS
2 65 (3.79%) Azure
3 40 (2.33%) Microsoft 365
4 26 (1.51%) GitHub
5 23 (1.34%) Amazon Kinesis
6 21 (1.22%) Azure DevOps
7 20 (1.16%) GCP
8 16 (0.93%) Power Platform
9 12 (0.70%) OneDrive
10 10 (0.58%) Cloud Computing
11 7 (0.41%) Entra ID
11 7 (0.41%) SaaS
12 6 (0.35%) GitHub Actions
12 6 (0.35%) PaaS
13 5 (0.29%) AWS IoT
14 4 (0.23%) Microsoft Purview
15 3 (0.17%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 2 (0.12%) AWS Direct Connect
16 2 (0.12%) Azure Data Factory
16 2 (0.12%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 110 (6.41%) Wireless
2 69 (4.02%) TCP/IP
3 61 (3.55%) Bluetooth
3 61 (3.55%) Ethernet
4 55 (3.20%) Wi-Fi
5 46 (2.68%) RS-232
6 36 (2.10%) Internet
7 24 (1.40%) 5G
7 24 (1.40%) WAN
8 23 (1.34%) ZigBee
9 22 (1.28%) RS-485
10 21 (1.22%) J1939
10 21 (1.22%) Modbus
10 21 (1.22%) SD-WAN
11 20 (1.16%) LTE
12 18 (1.05%) HTTP
13 15 (0.87%) MQTT
14 13 (0.76%) Firewall
15 12 (0.70%) DNS
16 11 (0.64%) OFDM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (2.80%) PostgreSQL
2 32 (1.86%) Redis
3 26 (1.51%) NoSQL
4 23 (1.34%) DynamoDB
5 22 (1.28%) Amazon Aurora
6 15 (0.87%) Power BI
7 13 (0.76%) Big Data
7 13 (0.76%) SQL Server
8 11 (0.64%) Apache Hive
8 11 (0.64%) Presto
9 10 (0.58%) MongoDB
10 7 (0.41%) SQLite
11 6 (0.35%) GIS
11 6 (0.35%) MySQL
11 6 (0.35%) Relational Database
11 6 (0.35%) Tableau
12 3 (0.17%) Data Lake
12 3 (0.17%) Hadoop
13 2 (0.12%) Data Warehouse
13 2 (0.12%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 108 (6.29%) Git
2 64 (3.73%) JIRA
3 54 (3.15%) LabVIEW
4 48 (2.80%) Subversion
5 38 (2.21%) Visual Studio
6 29 (1.69%) Jenkins
7 23 (1.34%) Gatling
8 16 (0.93%) Eclipse
9 15 (0.87%) ClearCase
9 15 (0.87%) Rational DOORS
10 14 (0.82%) Plastic SCM
11 9 (0.52%) GitLab
12 7 (0.41%) ClearQuest
12 7 (0.41%) Rational Rhapsody
13 5 (0.29%) Maven
14 4 (0.23%) Bitbucket
14 4 (0.23%) CANoe
14 4 (0.23%) Selenium
14 4 (0.23%) Team Foundation Server
14 4 (0.23%) Zephyr
General
1 534 (31.10%) Manufacturing
2 371 (21.61%) Social Skills
3 237 (13.80%) Finance
4 231 (13.45%) Telecoms
5 221 (12.87%) Marketing
6 201 (11.71%) Analytical Skills
7 177 (10.31%) Automotive
8 168 (9.78%) Public Sector
9 144 (8.39%) Aerospace
10 108 (6.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 50 (2.91%) Military
12 46 (2.68%) Retail
13 26 (1.51%) Games
13 26 (1.51%) Presentation Skills
14 25 (1.46%) Pharmaceutical
15 23 (1.34%) Billing
15 23 (1.34%) Legal
16 22 (1.28%) Organisational Skills
17 20 (1.16%) Police
18 15 (0.87%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 469 (27.32%) Software Engineer
2 319 (18.58%) Electronics Engineer
3 298 (17.36%) Embedded Engineer
4 261 (15.20%) Senior
5 213 (12.41%) Embedded Software Engineer
6 205 (11.94%) Hardware Engineer
7 131 (7.63%) Systems Engineer
8 129 (7.51%) Graduate
9 97 (5.65%) Developer
9 97 (5.65%) Junior
10 82 (4.78%) Development Engineer
10 82 (4.78%) Lead
11 81 (4.72%) Graduate Electronics Engineer
12 78 (4.54%) Senior Software Engineer
13 73 (4.25%) Junior Electronics Engineer
14 72 (4.19%) Electronics Hardware Engineer
15 71 (4.14%) Graduate Development Engineer
16 61 (3.55%) Firmware Engineer
17 60 (3.49%) Senior Embedded Engineer
18 58 (3.38%) Senior Hardware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (3.55%) .NET
2 58 (3.38%) HTML
3 36 (2.10%) Web Services
4 33 (1.92%) http4s
5 30 (1.75%) CSS
6 28 (1.63%) Qt
7 27 (1.57%) Yocto
8 26 (1.51%) Lambda Expressions
9 24 (1.40%) .NET Framework
9 24 (1.40%) GraphQL
9 24 (1.40%) React
10 23 (1.34%) REST
11 22 (1.28%) Scalaz
12 20 (1.16%) XML
13 19 (1.11%) Flask
14 16 (0.93%) AngularJS
15 15 (0.87%) Django
16 12 (0.70%) Node.js
17 10 (0.58%) WPF
18 9 (0.52%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 148 (8.62%) IoT
2 138 (8.04%) Embedded Systems
3 105 (6.12%) FPGA
4 96 (5.59%) Analogue Electronics
5 88 (5.13%) Algorithms
6 80 (4.66%) Robotics
7 68 (3.96%) Self-Motivation
8 56 (3.26%) VHDL
9 49 (2.85%) Management Information System
10 34 (1.98%) Driving Licence
11 30 (1.75%) Analytical Mindset
12 29 (1.69%) Distributed Systems
13 27 (1.57%) ARM Cortex
14 25 (1.46%) Blog
15 24 (1.40%) Device Driver
16 23 (1.34%) Acoustics
16 23 (1.34%) Media Streaming
17 16 (0.93%) Cyber Threat
17 16 (0.93%) Renewable Energy
18 13 (0.76%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 232 (13.51%) Linux
2 152 (8.85%) Windows
3 50 (2.91%) Embedded Linux
4 31 (1.81%) FreeRTOS
5 21 (1.22%) Windows Server
6 17 (0.99%) Android
6 17 (0.99%) Windows 10
7 16 (0.93%) Apple iOS
8 14 (0.82%) Ubuntu
9 10 (0.58%) VMS
10 8 (0.47%) Mac OS
11 6 (0.35%) ThreadX
12 5 (0.29%) Unix
13 4 (0.23%) VxWorks
13 4 (0.23%) Windows Server 2016
14 2 (0.12%) Windows Embedded Compact
15 1 (0.058%) Debian
15 1 (0.058%) Fedora
Processes & Methodologies
1 591 (34.42%) Software Engineering
2 267 (15.55%) Computer Science
3 251 (14.62%) Problem-Solving
4 184 (10.72%) Agile
5 172 (10.02%) Business Intelligence
6 165 (9.61%) Digital Marketing
6 165 (9.61%) Programme Management
7 144 (8.39%) Schematic Capture
8 133 (7.75%) Software Testing
9 128 (7.45%) Validation
10 107 (6.23%) Project Management
11 105 (6.12%) Mentoring
12 91 (5.30%) Collaborative Working
13 90 (5.24%) Project Planning
14 88 (5.13%) Systems Engineering
15 86 (5.01%) DevOps
15 86 (5.01%) Test Automation
16 85 (4.95%) Customer Requirements
17 77 (4.48%) Mathematics
18 72 (4.19%) Physics
Programming Languages
1 461 (26.85%) C
2 252 (14.68%) C++
3 246 (14.33%) Python
4 152 (8.85%) C#
5 133 (7.75%) Embedded C
6 94 (5.47%) MATLAB
7 92 (5.36%) Java
8 80 (4.66%) JavaScript
9 50 (2.91%) SQL
10 37 (2.15%) Scala
11 32 (1.86%) Embedded C++
12 29 (1.69%) Perl
13 27 (1.57%) Bash
14 20 (1.16%) PHP
15 18 (1.05%) TypeScript
16 17 (0.99%) Ada
17 15 (0.87%) PowerShell
18 13 (0.76%) Kotlin
19 9 (0.52%) Assembly Language
19 9 (0.52%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 723 (42.11%) Degree
2 133 (7.75%) Security Cleared
3 106 (6.17%) Computer Science Degree
4 54 (3.15%) HND
4 54 (3.15%) SC Cleared
5 39 (2.27%) Master's Degree
6 36 (2.10%) HNC
7 30 (1.75%) DV Cleared
8 28 (1.63%) BPSS Clearance
9 25 (1.46%) PhD
10 15 (0.87%) Cisco Certification
11 13 (0.76%) CCNA
12 12 (0.70%) NVQ Level 3
13 11 (0.64%) CISSP
14 9 (0.52%) DBS Check
15 8 (0.47%) Microsoft Certification
16 7 (0.41%) CISM
17 5 (0.29%) GIAC
17 5 (0.29%) MCSE
18 4 (0.23%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 123 (7.16%) QA
2 35 (2.04%) MISRA
3 34 (1.98%) ISO 26262
4 33 (1.92%) AUTOSAR
5 25 (1.46%) JTAG
6 24 (1.40%) ISO 9001
7 23 (1.34%) Automotive SPICE
8 20 (1.16%) ISO 13485
9 15 (0.87%) ISO/IEC 17025
10 14 (0.82%) PMO
11 11 (0.64%) IEC 62304
12 9 (0.52%) GDPR
12 9 (0.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
13 8 (0.47%) 21 CFR Part 11
14 7 (0.41%) Data Quality
15 5 (0.29%) MISRA C
16 4 (0.23%) IEC 61131
16 4 (0.23%) Software Quality Assurance
17 3 (0.17%) ECSS
17 3 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 395 (23.01%) Firmware
2 192 (11.18%) Embedded Firmware
3 18 (1.05%) Docker
4 16 (0.93%) Virtual Machines
4 16 (0.93%) VMware Infrastructure
5 10 (0.58%) Hyper-V
6 5 (0.29%) vSphere
7 3 (0.17%) Active Directory
8 2 (0.12%) NFS
8 2 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 26 (1.51%) Terraform
2 12 (0.70%) Functional Safety
3 2 (0.12%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 1 (0.058%) Kubernetes
4 1 (0.058%) SCCM
4 1 (0.058%) systemd
4 1 (0.058%) vRealize
Vendors
1 166 (9.67%) SAP
2 149 (8.68%) EMC
3 139 (8.10%) Microsoft
4 20 (1.16%) Google
5 17 (0.99%) IBM
5 17 (0.99%) Lauterbach
5 17 (0.99%) Xilinx
6 16 (0.93%) VMware
7 15 (0.87%) Adobe
8 13 (0.76%) Xamarin
9 12 (0.70%) Cisco
9 12 (0.70%) Databricks
10 10 (0.58%) Altera
11 9 (0.52%) Renesas
11 9 (0.52%) Salesforce
12 8 (0.47%) Facebook
12 8 (0.47%) Green Hills
12 8 (0.47%) HP
12 8 (0.47%) Motorola
12 8 (0.47%) Thales