Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS)
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term GNSS in permanent job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited GNSS over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 844 900 1211
Rank change year-on-year +56 +311 -350
Permanent jobs citing GNSS 60 19 52
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.055% 0.021% 0.030%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.16% 0.048% 0.062%
Number of salaries quoted 16 8 9
10th Percentile - £48,125 £42,200
25th Percentile £53,250 £50,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +36.36% +10.00% +14.29%
75th Percentile £80,000 £62,188 £58,000
90th Percentile - £67,400 £82,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £75,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +36.36% +10.00% +14.29%

All Generic Skills
UK

GNSS falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring generic IT skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 36,881 39,847 84,337
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 33.57% 43.09% 48.81%
Number of salaries quoted 23,494 22,189 34,558
10th Percentile £28,250 £35,750 £34,500
25th Percentile £38,530 £46,500 £45,229
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 £85,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £110,000 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%

GNSS
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for GNSS in the UK

GNSS
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing GNSS.

Salary trend for GNSS in the UK

GNSS
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing GNSS over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Salary histogram for GNSS in the UK

GNSS
Top 8 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing GNSS within the UK 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +77 59 £75,000 +25.00% 8
UK excluding London -11 58 £75,000 +36.36% 9
South West -7 41 £75,000 +25.00%
South East -20 11 £54,500 -25.34% 1
Work from Home +28 10 £67,500 +8.00% 1
East of England -6 5 £75,000 +42.86% 2
London - 2 - -
Scotland -70 1 £60,000 +14.29% 3

GNSS
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 5 (8.33%) Kinematics
Cloud Services
1 5 (8.33%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 16 (26.67%) 5G
1 16 (26.67%) SD-WAN
1 16 (26.67%) WAN
2 13 (21.67%) Internet
3 12 (20.00%) PPP
4 8 (13.33%) DNS
4 8 (13.33%) HTTP
4 8 (13.33%) SMTP
4 8 (13.33%) TCP/IP
5 5 (8.33%) RFID
6 1 (1.67%) LTE
6 1 (1.67%) Network Security
6 1 (1.67%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (1.67%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (8.33%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 12 (20.00%) Visual Studio
2 8 (13.33%) Jenkins
General
1 19 (31.67%) Analytical Skills
2 17 (28.33%) Social Skills
3 13 (21.67%) Electronics
4 12 (20.00%) Marketing
5 8 (13.33%) Presentation Skills
6 4 (6.67%) Military
7 2 (3.33%) Automotive
8 1 (1.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 22 (36.67%) Senior
2 16 (26.67%) Developer
3 15 (25.00%) Software Engineer
4 12 (20.00%) Senior Software Engineer
5 8 (13.33%) Embedded Developer
5 8 (13.33%) Firmware Developer
5 8 (13.33%) FPGA Developer
5 8 (13.33%) GNSS Engineer
5 8 (13.33%) RF Engineer
6 7 (11.67%) Systems Engineer
7 2 (3.33%) Research Scientist
8 1 (1.67%) Applications Engineer
8 1 (1.67%) Communications Engineer
8 1 (1.67%) FPGA Engineer
8 1 (1.67%) Graduate
8 1 (1.67%) Graduate Applications Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (8.33%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 9 (15.00%) FPGA
2 8 (13.33%) CUDA
2 8 (13.33%) MicroBlaze
2 8 (13.33%) Self-Motivation
2 8 (13.33%) Tandem
2 8 (13.33%) VHDL
3 5 (8.33%) IoT
4 4 (6.67%) Algorithms
5 1 (1.67%) NB-IoT
Operating Systems
1 28 (46.67%) Linux
2 16 (26.67%) Windows
3 8 (13.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (60.00%) B2B
1 36 (60.00%) Signal Processing
2 28 (46.67%) Computer Science
3 26 (43.33%) Software Engineering
4 25 (41.67%) Problem-Solving
5 24 (40.00%) Test Automation
6 21 (35.00%) Requirements Analysis
7 20 (33.33%) Creative Thinking
7 20 (33.33%) Defect Tracking
8 17 (28.33%) Project Management
8 17 (28.33%) Validation
9 16 (26.67%) Test Assurance
10 14 (23.33%) SDLC
11 12 (20.00%) Configuration Management
11 12 (20.00%) Digital Signal Processing
11 12 (20.00%) Innovative Thinking
11 12 (20.00%) Kalman Filter
11 12 (20.00%) Multithreading
11 12 (20.00%) OO
11 12 (20.00%) Sensor Fusion
Programming Languages
1 36 (60.00%) C++
2 22 (36.67%) C
3 21 (35.00%) Python
4 20 (33.33%) MATLAB
4 20 (33.33%) Perl
5 12 (20.00%) Bash
6 8 (13.33%) Tcl
6 8 (13.33%) VB
7 5 (8.33%) C#
7 5 (8.33%) XAML
8 1 (1.67%) Embedded C
8 1 (1.67%) Embedded C++
Qualifications
1 41 (68.33%) Degree
2 1 (1.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (20.00%) PMO
2 5 (8.33%) QA
System Software
1 21 (35.00%) Firmware
2 16 (26.67%) Embedded Firmware
Vendors
1 8 (13.33%) Altera
1 8 (13.33%) Green Hills
1 8 (13.33%) Motorola
1 8 (13.33%) Xilinx
2 1 (1.67%) Sigfox