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 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 188 254 303
Rank change year-on-year +66 +49 -75
Permanent jobs citing Electronics 1,561 1,451 2,112
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.58% 1.43% 1.35%
As % of the General category 2.64% 2.10% 2.10%
Number of salaries quoted 1,124 733 1,005
10th Percentile £32,500 £30,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £38,250 £41,000
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 £66,250
90th Percentile £72,500 £77,500 £89,000
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 59,215 69,122 100,670
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 59.75% 68.21% 64.16%
Number of salaries quoted 39,629 37,296 50,752
10th Percentile £27,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £43,162 £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 £102,000 £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 9 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 9 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 +41 1,427 £50,000 +2.70% 1,193
England +75 1,389 £52,500 +5.00% 1,236
South East +11 484 £47,500 -9.52% 393
Work from Home -3 405 £52,500 - 378
East of England +44 253 £55,000 -15.38% 255
Midlands +21 202 £52,500 +31.25% 186
North of England +51 175 £50,000 +20.79% 143
South West +22 170 £45,000 -5.26% 176
West Midlands +11 130 £57,500 +27.78% 123
North West +32 105 £47,500 - 80
London -9 87 £58,750 +20.67% 122
East Midlands +15 72 £50,000 +33.33% 63
Yorkshire +66 61 £50,000 +25.00% 48
Scotland -68 61 £47,500 +5.56% 66
Wales +14 41 £50,000 +21.95% 36
Northern Ireland - 33 £35,000 - 6
North East -1 9 £53,750 +58.95% 16
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 41 (2.63%) SharePoint
2 17 (1.09%) Apache
3 12 (0.77%) Confluence
4 10 (0.64%) Apache Spark
5 7 (0.45%) Apache Airflow
5 7 (0.45%) Microsoft Exchange
6 6 (0.38%) nginx
7 5 (0.32%) IIS
7 5 (0.32%) Kinematics
8 4 (0.26%) CMS
8 4 (0.26%) Moodle
9 3 (0.19%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
Applications
1 63 (4.04%) Simulink
2 37 (2.37%) Microsoft Excel
3 33 (2.11%) Microsoft Office
4 24 (1.54%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 17 (1.09%) Stateflow
6 12 (0.77%) OrCAD
7 7 (0.45%) CANalyzer
7 7 (0.45%) GNU Octave
8 6 (0.38%) Microsoft Project
8 6 (0.38%) SOLIDWORKS
9 5 (0.32%) InfoPath
9 5 (0.32%) Windchill
10 4 (0.26%) AutoCAD
10 4 (0.26%) Doxygen
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 (0.064%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 13 (0.83%) Adobe Campaign
2 7 (0.45%) Salesforce CRM
3 4 (0.26%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.064%) LabWindows
4 1 (0.064%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 64 (4.10%) Azure
2 55 (3.52%) AWS
3 42 (2.69%) Microsoft 365
4 27 (1.73%) GitHub
5 21 (1.35%) Azure DevOps
6 18 (1.15%) GCP
6 18 (1.15%) Power Platform
7 14 (0.90%) Cloud Computing
8 12 (0.77%) OneDrive
9 7 (0.45%) Entra ID
9 7 (0.45%) PaaS
9 7 (0.45%) SaaS
10 6 (0.38%) AWS IoT
10 6 (0.38%) GitHub Actions
11 5 (0.32%) Azure Data Factory
11 5 (0.32%) Dynamics 365
12 4 (0.26%) Microsoft Purview
12 4 (0.26%) Power Automate
13 3 (0.19%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 2 (0.13%) AWS Direct Connect
Communications & Networking
1 107 (6.85%) Wireless
2 71 (4.55%) TCP/IP
3 62 (3.97%) Ethernet
4 60 (3.84%) Bluetooth
5 55 (3.52%) Wi-Fi
6 45 (2.88%) RS-232
7 35 (2.24%) Internet
8 24 (1.54%) 5G
8 24 (1.54%) WAN
9 22 (1.41%) ZigBee
10 21 (1.35%) J1939
10 21 (1.35%) RS-485
10 21 (1.35%) SD-WAN
11 20 (1.28%) LTE
12 19 (1.22%) HTTP
13 17 (1.09%) MQTT
14 16 (1.02%) Modbus
15 13 (0.83%) DNS
16 12 (0.77%) Firewall
17 10 (0.64%) OFDM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (1.60%) PostgreSQL
2 18 (1.15%) Power BI
3 14 (0.90%) SQL Server
4 12 (0.77%) Big Data
5 10 (0.64%) MongoDB
6 9 (0.58%) Redis
7 7 (0.45%) Apache Hive
7 7 (0.45%) Presto
7 7 (0.45%) SQLite
8 6 (0.38%) GIS
8 6 (0.38%) MySQL
8 6 (0.38%) Relational Database
8 6 (0.38%) Tableau
9 4 (0.26%) NoSQL
10 3 (0.19%) Hadoop
11 2 (0.13%) Data Lake
11 2 (0.13%) Data Warehouse
11 2 (0.13%) Qlik Sense
12 1 (0.064%) Firebird
12 1 (0.064%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 107 (6.85%) Git
2 62 (3.97%) JIRA
3 56 (3.59%) LabVIEW
4 48 (3.07%) Subversion
5 37 (2.37%) Visual Studio
6 29 (1.86%) Jenkins
7 15 (0.96%) ClearCase
7 15 (0.96%) 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
1 525 (33.63%) Manufacturing
2 331 (21.20%) Social Skills
3 249 (15.95%) Finance
4 243 (15.57%) Telecoms
5 228 (14.61%) Marketing
6 196 (12.56%) Analytical Skills
7 180 (11.53%) Public Sector
8 170 (10.89%) Automotive
9 123 (7.88%) Aerospace
10 103 (6.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 46 (2.95%) Retail
12 45 (2.88%) Military
13 28 (1.79%) Presentation Skills
14 26 (1.67%) Games
15 22 (1.41%) Organisational Skills
15 22 (1.41%) Pharmaceutical
16 21 (1.35%) Legal
17 20 (1.28%) Police
18 15 (0.96%) Publishing
19 14 (0.90%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 392 (25.11%) Software Engineer
2 312 (19.99%) Electronics Engineer
3 253 (16.21%) Embedded Engineer
4 245 (15.70%) Senior
5 191 (12.24%) Hardware Engineer
6 175 (11.21%) Embedded Software Engineer
7 125 (8.01%) Graduate
8 107 (6.85%) Systems Engineer
9 99 (6.34%) Junior
10 96 (6.15%) Developer
11 82 (5.25%) Development Engineer
12 81 (5.19%) Graduate Electronics Engineer
12 81 (5.19%) Lead
13 73 (4.68%) Junior Electronics Engineer
14 71 (4.55%) Graduate Development Engineer
15 69 (4.42%) Electronics Hardware Engineer
16 67 (4.29%) Senior Software Engineer
17 61 (3.91%) Firmware Engineer
18 57 (3.65%) Senior Hardware Engineer
19 55 (3.52%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (3.78%) .NET
1 59 (3.78%) HTML
2 31 (1.99%) CSS
3 27 (1.73%) Yocto
4 26 (1.67%) Qt
4 26 (1.67%) React
5 21 (1.35%) .NET Framework
5 21 (1.35%) Flask
6 20 (1.28%) XML
7 16 (1.02%) AngularJS
7 16 (1.02%) Django
8 13 (0.83%) Web Services
9 12 (0.77%) Node.js
10 10 (0.64%) WPF
11 9 (0.58%) HTML5 Canvas
11 9 (0.58%) JSON
11 9 (0.58%) Middleware
12 8 (0.51%) Flash
12 8 (0.51%) HTML5
12 8 (0.51%) NumPy
Miscellaneous
1 150 (9.61%) IoT
2 136 (8.71%) Embedded Systems
3 101 (6.47%) FPGA
4 91 (5.83%) Analogue Electronics
5 87 (5.57%) Algorithms
6 65 (4.16%) Robotics
7 64 (4.10%) Self-Motivation
8 53 (3.40%) VHDL
9 35 (2.24%) Management Information System
10 33 (2.11%) Driving Licence
11 30 (1.92%) Analytical Mindset
12 24 (1.54%) Device Driver
13 23 (1.47%) Acoustics
13 23 (1.47%) ARM Cortex
14 20 (1.28%) Distributed Systems
15 16 (1.02%) Cyber Threat
16 15 (0.96%) Renewable Energy
17 13 (0.83%) Arduino
17 13 (0.83%) GNSS
17 13 (0.83%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 221 (14.16%) Linux
2 145 (9.29%) Windows
3 42 (2.69%) Embedded Linux
4 31 (1.99%) FreeRTOS
5 22 (1.41%) Windows Server
6 17 (1.09%) Android
7 16 (1.02%) Windows 10
8 15 (0.96%) Apple iOS
9 13 (0.83%) Ubuntu
10 8 (0.51%) Mac OS
11 7 (0.45%) VMS
12 6 (0.38%) ThreadX
13 5 (0.32%) Unix
14 4 (0.26%) VxWorks
14 4 (0.26%) Windows Server 2016
15 1 (0.064%) Debian
15 1 (0.064%) Fedora
15 1 (0.064%) Windows Embedded Compact
Processes & Methodologies
1 503 (32.22%) Software Engineering
2 247 (15.82%) Problem-Solving
3 233 (14.93%) Computer Science
4 184 (11.79%) Business Intelligence
5 177 (11.34%) Digital Marketing
5 177 (11.34%) Programme Management
6 147 (9.42%) Agile
7 143 (9.16%) Schematic Capture
8 126 (8.07%) Software Testing
9 122 (7.82%) Validation
10 99 (6.34%) Project Management
11 94 (6.02%) Mentoring
12 93 (5.96%) Collaborative Working
13 88 (5.64%) Project Planning
14 87 (5.57%) Test Automation
15 77 (4.93%) Customer Requirements
16 72 (4.61%) Mathematics
17 68 (4.36%) Continuous Improvement
18 66 (4.23%) Physics
19 63 (4.04%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 440 (28.19%) C
2 246 (15.76%) Python
3 231 (14.80%) C++
4 154 (9.87%) C#
5 115 (7.37%) Embedded C
6 92 (5.89%) MATLAB
7 80 (5.12%) JavaScript
8 74 (4.74%) Java
9 54 (3.46%) SQL
10 29 (1.86%) Bash
10 29 (1.86%) Perl
11 23 (1.47%) Embedded C++
12 21 (1.35%) PHP
13 20 (1.28%) PowerShell
13 20 (1.28%) TypeScript
14 17 (1.09%) Ada
15 10 (0.64%) Assembly Language
15 10 (0.64%) Scala
16 9 (0.58%) Tcl
16 9 (0.58%) VB
Qualifications
1 671 (42.99%) Degree
2 121 (7.75%) Security Cleared
3 82 (5.25%) Computer Science Degree
4 55 (3.52%) HND
5 52 (3.33%) SC Cleared
6 38 (2.43%) Master's Degree
7 36 (2.31%) HNC
8 29 (1.86%) DV Cleared
9 28 (1.79%) BPSS Clearance
10 26 (1.67%) PhD
11 14 (0.90%) Cisco Certification
12 12 (0.77%) CCNA
13 11 (0.70%) CISSP
13 11 (0.70%) NVQ Level 3
14 9 (0.58%) DBS Check
15 7 (0.45%) CISM
15 7 (0.45%) Microsoft Certification
16 5 (0.32%) GIAC
17 4 (0.26%) MCP
17 4 (0.26%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 121 (7.75%) QA
2 31 (1.99%) AUTOSAR
2 31 (1.99%) ISO 26262
3 30 (1.92%) MISRA
4 24 (1.54%) JTAG
5 23 (1.47%) Automotive SPICE
6 22 (1.41%) ISO 9001
7 20 (1.28%) ISO 13485
8 14 (0.90%) ISO/IEC 17025
8 14 (0.90%) PMO
9 11 (0.70%) IEC 62304
10 9 (0.58%) GDPR
11 8 (0.51%) 21 CFR Part 11
12 7 (0.45%) Data Quality
12 7 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
13 4 (0.26%) IEC 61131
13 4 (0.26%) MISRA C
13 4 (0.26%) Software Quality Assurance
14 3 (0.19%) Def Stans
14 3 (0.19%) ECSS
System Software
1 367 (23.51%) Firmware
2 182 (11.66%) Embedded Firmware
3 19 (1.22%) Docker
4 17 (1.09%) VMware Infrastructure
5 11 (0.70%) Hyper-V
5 11 (0.70%) Virtual Machines
6 5 (0.32%) vSphere
7 3 (0.19%) Active Directory
7 3 (0.19%) NFS
8 2 (0.13%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.064%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 22 (1.41%) Terraform
2 12 (0.77%) Functional Safety
3 4 (0.26%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 1 (0.064%) Kubernetes
4 1 (0.064%) SCCM
4 1 (0.064%) systemd
4 1 (0.064%) vCenter Server
4 1 (0.064%) vRealize
Vendors
1 178 (11.40%) SAP
2 154 (9.87%) EMC
3 135 (8.65%) Microsoft
4 17 (1.09%) IBM
4 17 (1.09%) Lauterbach
4 17 (1.09%) VMware
5 16 (1.02%) Google
5 16 (1.02%) Xilinx
6 15 (0.96%) Adobe
7 13 (0.83%) Xamarin
8 12 (0.77%) Cisco
9 10 (0.64%) Altera
10 9 (0.58%) Salesforce
11 8 (0.51%) Facebook
11 8 (0.51%) Green Hills
11 8 (0.51%) HP
11 8 (0.51%) Motorola
11 8 (0.51%) Renesas
11 8 (0.51%) Thales
12 7 (0.45%) Databricks