Embedded Systems Contracts with Work from Home Options

Embedded Systems
UK > Work from Home

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Embedded Systems in contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH). Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Embedded Systems over the 6 months to 9 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 331 425 604
Rank change year-on-year +94 +179 -121
Contract jobs citing Embedded Systems 8 26 20
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.055% 0.11% 0.045%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.19% 0.34% 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 19 15
10th Percentile £288 £395 £366
25th Percentile £325 £400 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £550 £450
Median % change year-on-year -36.36% +22.22% +20.00%
75th Percentile £425 £600 £538
90th Percentile £515 £605 £568
UK median daily rate £425 £550 £488
% change year-on-year -22.73% +12.82% +21.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £52.50 -
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £52.50 £47.50
% change year-on-year +4.76% +10.53% -7.32%

All Generic Skills
Work from Home

Embedded Systems is in the General and Transferable Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 4,276 7,538 13,998
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 29.14% 31.58% 31.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,909 5,341 10,105
10th Percentile £325 £363 £363
25th Percentile £435 £455 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - +10.00%
75th Percentile £675 £684 £650
90th Percentile £825 £800 £750
UK median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 186 145 226
10th Percentile £15.88 £19.00 £15.00
25th Percentile £25.50 £25.00 £20.75
Median hourly rate £51.00 £52.50 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% +17.98% +29.93%
75th Percentile £69.38 £70.00 £62.06
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £68.75
UK median hourly rate £35.58 £22.26 £26.98
% change year-on-year +59.85% -17.51% +7.92%

Embedded Systems
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Embedded Systems as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Embedded Systems trend for jobs with a WFH option

Embedded Systems
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Embedded Systems.

Embedded Systems daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Embedded Systems
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Embedded Systems over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Embedded Systems daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Embedded Systems
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Embedded Systems.

Embedded Systems hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Embedded Systems
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (12.50%) Amazon Alexa
1 1 (12.50%) Firebase
1 1 (12.50%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (25.00%) MQTT
2 1 (12.50%) 4G
2 1 (12.50%) Bluetooth
2 1 (12.50%) DHCP
2 1 (12.50%) DNS
2 1 (12.50%) HTTP
2 1 (12.50%) LTE
2 1 (12.50%) RTSP
2 1 (12.50%) TCP/IP
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Git
1 1 (12.50%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (12.50%) Advertising
1 1 (12.50%) Banking
1 1 (12.50%) Electronics
1 1 (12.50%) Finance
1 1 (12.50%) German Language
1 1 (12.50%) Investment Banking
1 1 (12.50%) Manufacturing
1 1 (12.50%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Developer
2 2 (25.00%) Senior
3 1 (12.50%) .NET Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Applications Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) C Developer
3 1 (12.50%) C++ Developer
3 1 (12.50%) C++ Software Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Embedded C Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Firmware Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Hardware Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Linux Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Programmer
3 1 (12.50%) Senior C++ Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Linux Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Software Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Software Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Systems Programmer
3 1 (12.50%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) .NET
1 1 (12.50%) .NET Framework
1 1 (12.50%) GStreamer
1 1 (12.50%) Ionic Framework
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Device Driver
1 1 (12.50%) IoT
1 1 (12.50%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 6 (75.00%) Linux
2 1 (12.50%) Embedded Linux
2 1 (12.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (25.00%) Agile
1 2 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (12.50%) Clean Code
2 1 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (12.50%) Conversational UI
2 1 (12.50%) Device Driver Development
2 1 (12.50%) High Availability
2 1 (12.50%) Investment Management
2 1 (12.50%) Kanban
2 1 (12.50%) Linux Kernel Development
2 1 (12.50%) Memory Management
2 1 (12.50%) Multithreading
2 1 (12.50%) Open Source
2 1 (12.50%) Software Engineering
2 1 (12.50%) SOLID
2 1 (12.50%) Storyboarding
2 1 (12.50%) TDD
2 1 (12.50%) Unit Testing
2 1 (12.50%) Video Processing
2 1 (12.50%) Wealth Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (50.00%) C++
2 3 (37.50%) C#
3 2 (25.00%) C
3 2 (25.00%) Perl
3 2 (25.00%) Python
4 1 (12.50%) Bash
4 1 (12.50%) JavaScript
4 1 (12.50%) PHP
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) SC Cleared
1 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 5 (62.50%) Firmware
Vendors
1 1 (12.50%) Apple
1 1 (12.50%) Google
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft