Electronics Contracts

Electronics
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Electronics in contract job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Electronics over the 6 months to 15 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
15 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 174 287 345
Rank change year-on-year +113 +58 -54
Contract jobs citing Electronics 574 525 677
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.35% 0.92% 0.77%
As % of the General category 2.32% 1.57% 1.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 239 324 521
10th Percentile £205 £205 £363
25th Percentile £390 £425 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.19% +2.38% -
75th Percentile £725 £638 £650
90th Percentile £825 £725 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £530 £525 £525
% change year-on-year +0.95% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 169 75 49
10th Percentile £41.50 £40.50 £29.40
25th Percentile £51.25 £42.50 £42.50
Median hourly rate £59.50 £57.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.48% +15.00% +17.65%
75th Percentile £65.00 £61.25 £56.00
90th Percentile £68.75 £65.00 £58.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £59.50 £57.50 £50.85
% change year-on-year +3.48% +13.08% +19.65%

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 contract job vacancies with a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 24,707 33,460 49,314
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 58.06% 58.60% 56.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,592 23,193 34,217
10th Percentile £275 £313 £320
25th Percentile £413 £440 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £775 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,917 1,020 1,414
10th Percentile £12.75 £13.41 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.46 £17.99 £15.00
Median hourly rate £30.00 £33.60 £22.45
Median % change year-on-year -10.72% +49.68% -0.22%
75th Percentile £52.50 £61.25 £47.43
90th Percentile £66.25 £72.55 £60.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.25 £29.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year -2.59% +52.63% -4.76%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Electronics.

Daily rate trend for Electronics in the UK

Electronics
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Electronics over the 6 months to 15 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Electronics in the UK

Electronics
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Electronics.

Hourly rate trend for Electronics in the UK

Electronics
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Electronics over the 6 months to 15 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Electronics in the UK

Electronics
Top 17 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Electronics within the UK over the 6 months to 15 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +86 529 £560 +2.75% 1,274
UK excluding London +70 400 £530 +0.95% 1,216
Work from Home +43 142 £500 -4.76% 378
South East +51 135 £205 - 413
London +82 119 £650 +18.18% 131
East of England +31 115 £375 -18.92% 251
South West -6 78 £625 +4.17% 162
Midlands +38 26 £525 -14.29% 198
North of England +32 22 £450 -8.21% 161
West Midlands +19 16 £518 -17.20% 129
Scotland - 16 £575 - 63
East Midlands +21 10 £575 +17.95% 69
North West +19 10 £713 +42.36% 92
Northern Ireland - 7 - - 5
Yorkshire +25 6 £450 +160.87% 53
North East - 6 - - 17
Wales +22 1 - - 42

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 21 (3.66%) SharePoint
2 9 (1.57%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (1.05%) Confluence
4 3 (0.52%) Skype for Business
5 2 (0.35%) CMS
5 2 (0.35%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.17%) ArcGIS
6 1 (0.17%) Exchange Server 2007
6 1 (0.17%) Exchange Server 2013
6 1 (0.17%) MTS
6 1 (0.17%) Oracle Self-Service HR
6 1 (0.17%) SAS
Applications
1 10 (1.74%) Microsoft Excel
1 10 (1.74%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (1.22%) MS Visio
3 4 (0.70%) CANalyzer
4 3 (0.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.35%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.35%) Simulink
6 1 (0.17%) InfoPath
6 1 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.17%) Stateflow
Business Applications
1 10 (1.74%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 3 (0.52%) ENOVIA
2 3 (0.52%) SAP PLM
2 3 (0.52%) Teamcenter
3 1 (0.17%) SAP EWM
3 1 (0.17%) SAP PP
3 1 (0.17%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 49 (8.54%) Azure
2 29 (5.05%) Microsoft 365
3 20 (3.48%) AWS
4 17 (2.96%) Azure DevOps
4 17 (2.96%) Power Platform
5 13 (2.26%) Cloud Computing
5 13 (2.26%) PaaS
6 8 (1.39%) IaaS
7 6 (1.05%) Entra ID
8 4 (0.70%) Azure Cognitive Services
8 4 (0.70%) ChatGPT
8 4 (0.70%) GCP
8 4 (0.70%) Microsoft Purview
8 4 (0.70%) OneDrive
9 3 (0.52%) Azure Data Factory
9 3 (0.52%) Azure Monitor
9 3 (0.52%) SaaS
10 2 (0.35%) Amazon EC2
10 2 (0.35%) Dynamics 365
10 2 (0.35%) Google Docs
Communications & Networking
1 55 (9.58%) Ethernet
2 37 (6.45%) RS-485
3 35 (6.10%) Modbus
3 35 (6.10%) RS-422
4 15 (2.61%) Wireless
5 9 (1.57%) Firewall
5 9 (1.57%) HTTP
5 9 (1.57%) VPN
6 8 (1.39%) TCP/IP
7 7 (1.22%) 3G
7 7 (1.22%) 4G
7 7 (1.22%) FTP
7 7 (1.22%) Internet
8 6 (1.05%) DNS
9 5 (0.87%) Cisco ISE
9 5 (0.87%) J1939
10 4 (0.70%) FlexRay
10 4 (0.70%) LAN
10 4 (0.70%) Network Security
10 4 (0.70%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (5.75%) Metadata
2 21 (3.66%) Data Vault
2 21 (3.66%) NoSQL
3 16 (2.79%) SQL Server
4 15 (2.61%) Metadata Repository
5 10 (1.74%) Power BI
6 9 (1.57%) Electronic Patient Records
7 7 (1.22%) PostgreSQL
8 6 (1.05%) Ingres
8 6 (1.05%) Pentaho
8 6 (1.05%) Qlik Sense
8 6 (1.05%) QlikView
8 6 (1.05%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 5 (0.87%) GIS
10 4 (0.70%) Hadoop
11 3 (0.52%) Amazon RDS
11 3 (0.52%) Spatial Data
12 2 (0.35%) Microsoft Analysis Services
12 2 (0.35%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 2 (0.35%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 22 (3.83%) Rational DOORS
2 13 (2.26%) Rational Rhapsody
3 11 (1.92%) ERwin
4 9 (1.57%) JIRA
5 6 (1.05%) Git
5 6 (1.05%) Jenkins
6 4 (0.70%) CANoe
6 4 (0.70%) Cypress.io
7 3 (0.52%) NUnit
7 3 (0.52%) Postman
7 3 (0.52%) Visual Studio
8 2 (0.35%) LabVIEW
8 2 (0.35%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 1 (0.17%) GitLab
9 1 (0.17%) GoCD
9 1 (0.17%) JUnit
9 1 (0.17%) MSI
9 1 (0.17%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 343 (59.76%) Manufacturing
2 300 (52.26%) Marketing
3 296 (51.57%) Telecoms
4 294 (51.22%) Finance
5 293 (51.05%) Public Sector
6 137 (23.87%) Social Skills
7 46 (8.01%) Aerospace
8 33 (5.75%) Automotive
9 26 (4.53%) Analytical Skills
10 15 (2.61%) Retail
11 13 (2.26%) Influencing Skills
12 9 (1.57%) Presentation Skills
13 7 (1.22%) Organisational Skills
13 7 (1.22%) Pharmaceutical
13 7 (1.22%) Publishing
14 5 (0.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 5 (0.87%) Military
15 4 (0.70%) Legal
16 3 (0.52%) Mandarin Language
16 3 (0.52%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 96 (16.72%) Architect
2 84 (14.63%) Software Engineer
3 43 (7.49%) Designer
4 42 (7.32%) Project Manager
5 37 (6.45%) Support Engineer
6 34 (5.92%) Data Architect
6 34 (5.92%) Lead
7 33 (5.75%) Digital Designer
7 33 (5.75%) FPGA Designer
7 33 (5.75%) Test Architect
7 33 (5.75%) VHDL Designer
8 31 (5.40%) Consultant
8 31 (5.40%) Embedded Engineer
9 30 (5.23%) Embedded Software Engineer
10 26 (4.53%) C++ Software Engineer
11 24 (4.18%) Senior
12 17 (2.96%) Azure Engineer
12 17 (2.96%) Desktop Engineer
12 17 (2.96%) Desktop Support
12 17 (2.96%) Desktop Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (1.57%) .NET
2 6 (1.05%) CSS
2 6 (1.05%) LDAP
2 6 (1.05%) PyTorch
2 6 (1.05%) RESTful
3 5 (0.87%) AngularJS
4 4 (0.70%) DirectX
4 4 (0.70%) http4s
4 4 (0.70%) Hugging Face
4 4 (0.70%) JWT
4 4 (0.70%) Lambda Expressions
4 4 (0.70%) LangChain
4 4 (0.70%) OpenGL
4 4 (0.70%) OpenGL ES
4 4 (0.70%) TensorFlow
4 4 (0.70%) Vulkan
5 3 (0.52%) HTML
5 3 (0.52%) Playwright
5 3 (0.52%) Web Services
5 3 (0.52%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 57 (9.93%) Analogue Electronics
2 42 (7.32%) FPGA
3 40 (6.97%) NHS
4 39 (6.79%) Self-Motivation
5 37 (6.45%) VHDL
6 33 (5.75%) CPLD
7 21 (3.66%) Management Information System
7 21 (3.66%) Reference Data
8 20 (3.48%) Robotics
9 13 (2.26%) Data Protection Act
10 11 (1.92%) Wiki
11 10 (1.74%) Onboarding
12 8 (1.39%) LIMS
13 7 (1.22%) Device Driver
14 6 (1.05%) Product Ownership
14 6 (1.05%) Replication
15 5 (0.87%) Analytical Mindset
15 5 (0.87%) Data Centre
15 5 (0.87%) PCIe
15 5 (0.87%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 52 (9.06%) Windows
2 37 (6.45%) Linux
3 19 (3.31%) Windows 10
4 7 (1.22%) Android
5 6 (1.05%) Windows Server
6 5 (0.87%) Embedded Linux
6 5 (0.87%) Unix
6 5 (0.87%) Windows 7
7 4 (0.70%) VxWorks
8 1 (0.17%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.17%) Mac OS X
8 1 (0.17%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.17%) Windows Server 2008
8 1 (0.17%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 293 (51.05%) Programme Management
2 292 (50.87%) Business Intelligence
2 292 (50.87%) Digital Marketing
3 102 (17.77%) Software Engineering
4 98 (17.07%) Agile
5 85 (14.81%) Project Management
6 64 (11.15%) Stakeholder Management
7 60 (10.45%) Continuous Improvement
8 58 (10.10%) DevOps
9 49 (8.54%) Software Testing
10 46 (8.01%) Customer Requirements
11 43 (7.49%) Problem-Solving
12 40 (6.97%) TDD
13 39 (6.79%) Continuous Integration
13 39 (6.79%) Schematic Capture
14 37 (6.45%) Unit Testing
15 36 (6.27%) Test Strategy
16 35 (6.10%) Computer Science
16 35 (6.10%) Pair Programming
17 34 (5.92%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 72 (12.54%) C
2 49 (8.54%) C#
2 49 (8.54%) C++
3 33 (5.75%) Python
4 29 (5.05%) SQL
5 19 (3.31%) PowerShell
6 18 (3.14%) Embedded C
7 12 (2.09%) Java
8 11 (1.92%) JavaScript
9 10 (1.74%) Ada
10 8 (1.39%) Kusto Query Language
11 7 (1.22%) T-SQL
12 6 (1.05%) MATLAB
13 5 (0.87%) VBA
14 4 (0.70%) Scala
15 3 (0.52%) Bash
15 3 (0.52%) Kotlin
15 3 (0.52%) TypeScript
16 2 (0.35%) HLSL
16 2 (0.35%) Rust
Qualifications
1 162 (28.22%) Security Cleared
2 123 (21.43%) SC Cleared
3 99 (17.25%) Degree
4 44 (7.67%) DV Cleared
5 13 (2.26%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (1.39%) Master's Degree
7 6 (1.05%) CISSP
8 5 (0.87%) CESG Certified Professional
8 5 (0.87%) HND
8 5 (0.87%) ISTQB
9 4 (0.70%) AWS Certification
9 4 (0.70%) CLAS
9 4 (0.70%) PMP
9 4 (0.70%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
10 3 (0.52%) APMG
10 3 (0.52%) Chartered Engineer
10 3 (0.52%) MCSE
10 3 (0.52%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (0.52%) PhD
10 3 (0.52%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (2.61%) GDPR
2 14 (2.44%) Data Quality
3 13 (2.26%) PMO
4 11 (1.92%) QA
5 9 (1.57%) AUTOSAR
6 8 (1.39%) HL7
7 7 (1.22%) Def Stans
7 7 (1.22%) MISRA
7 7 (1.22%) SLA
8 6 (1.05%) NIST
9 5 (0.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 5 (0.87%) JSP 440
9 5 (0.87%) RMADS
10 4 (0.70%) Automotive SPICE
10 4 (0.70%) MISRA C
11 3 (0.52%) Accessibility
11 3 (0.52%) DO-178B
11 3 (0.52%) PCI DSS
12 2 (0.35%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 1 (0.17%) ISO 9000
System Software
1 19 (3.31%) Active Directory
2 12 (2.09%) Firmware
3 8 (1.39%) NFS
4 7 (1.22%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (0.87%) Docker
6 4 (0.70%) HDFS
7 3 (0.52%) Hyper-V
7 3 (0.52%) VMware Infrastructure
8 2 (0.35%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.35%) VMware NSX
9 1 (0.17%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 9 (1.57%) Functional Safety
1 9 (1.57%) Terraform
2 5 (0.87%) Microsoft Intune
3 4 (0.70%) Puppet
3 4 (0.70%) Single Sign-On
4 3 (0.52%) Kubernetes
4 3 (0.52%) Progress Chef
5 2 (0.35%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 2 (0.35%) Ansible
5 2 (0.35%) CA Service Virtualization
5 2 (0.35%) Nessus
5 2 (0.35%) vCenter Server
6 1 (0.17%) AppManager
6 1 (0.17%) Dell DRAC
6 1 (0.17%) EMC NetWorker
6 1 (0.17%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.17%) SCCM
6 1 (0.17%) SCOM
6 1 (0.17%) systemd
6 1 (0.17%) VxRail
Vendors
1 299 (52.09%) SAP
2 63 (10.98%) Microsoft
3 41 (7.14%) EMC
4 21 (3.66%) Sparx
5 13 (2.26%) IBM
6 9 (1.57%) Dell
6 9 (1.57%) Oracle
7 8 (1.39%) ServiceNow
8 7 (1.22%) Cisco
8 7 (1.22%) Google
9 6 (1.05%) Informatica
10 5 (0.87%) Isilon
10 5 (0.87%) VMware
10 5 (0.87%) Xilinx
11 4 (0.70%) Atlassian
11 4 (0.70%) Computacenter
11 4 (0.70%) ESRI
11 4 (0.70%) Okta
11 4 (0.70%) Palo Alto
11 4 (0.70%) Roku