Edge Computing
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Edge Computing skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Edge Computing over the 6 months to 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 860 939 1178
Rank change year-on-year +79 +239 -265
Permanent jobs citing Edge Computing 24 36 64
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.024% 0.036% 0.039%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.028% 0.038% 0.041%
Number of salaries quoted 21 14 19
10th Percentile £30,000 £50,950 £52,300
25th Percentile £52,500 £52,000 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £68,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.41% -2.14% +30.84%
75th Percentile £87,500 £88,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £100,000 £90,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £52,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +5.77% -25.71% +47.37%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Edge Computing is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 85,108 95,066 155,930
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.18% 95.58% 95.78%
Number of salaries quoted 59,794 56,135 83,138
10th Percentile £29,071 £34,000 £33,645
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +10.53%

Edge Computing
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Edge Computing in the UK

Edge Computing
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Edge Computing.

Salary trend for Edge Computing in the UK

Edge Computing
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Edge Computing over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Edge Computing in the UK

Edge Computing
Top 11 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Edge Computing within the UK over the 6 months to 20 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
England +73 22 £58,750 -14.23% 19
UK excluding London -3 16 £55,000 +5.77% 10
Work from Home +81 12 £56,250 +12.50% 7
London +92 8 £100,000 +8.11% 13
North of England +40 7 £57,500 - 2
North East - 6 £57,500 -
Midlands - 5 £55,000 - 1
West Midlands - 5 £55,000 - 1
South East +8 2 £58,750 +12.98% 6
Scotland -64 2 £65,000 -7.14%
North West -3 1 £57,500 - 2

Edge Computing
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:

Business Applications
1 3 (12.50%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 9 (37.50%) AWS
2 6 (25.00%) Cloud Computing
3 4 (16.67%) Pulumi
4 2 (8.33%) Azure
4 2 (8.33%) Entra ID
4 2 (8.33%) GCP
4 2 (8.33%) Serverless
5 1 (4.17%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 5 (20.83%) 5G
2 4 (16.67%) MQTT
3 3 (12.50%) 4G
3 3 (12.50%) Wi-Fi
4 2 (8.33%) Broadband
5 1 (4.17%) Modbus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (20.83%) Big Data
3 4 (16.67%) Redis
4 2 (8.33%) Hadoop
4 2 (8.33%) MongoDB
4 2 (8.33%) NoSQL
4 2 (8.33%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (20.83%) Git
2 3 (12.50%) GitLab
3 2 (8.33%) Cucumber
3 2 (8.33%) JUnit
3 2 (8.33%) SonarQube
4 1 (4.17%) Jenkins
General
1 6 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (12.50%) Public Sector
3 2 (8.33%) Back Office
3 2 (8.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 10 (41.67%) Senior
2 8 (33.33%) Developer
3 5 (20.83%) Architect
3 5 (20.83%) Senior Developer
3 5 (20.83%) Senior Software Developer
3 5 (20.83%) Software Developer
4 3 (12.50%) IoT Architect
4 3 (12.50%) Solutions Architect
4 3 (12.50%) Web Developer
5 2 (8.33%) Cloud Architect
5 2 (8.33%) DevOps Engineer
5 2 (8.33%) Integration Specialist
5 2 (8.33%) Lead
5 2 (8.33%) Lead Architect
5 2 (8.33%) Lead Cloud Architect
5 2 (8.33%) Systems Integration Specialist
6 1 (4.17%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 1 (4.17%) Cloud Engineer
6 1 (4.17%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (4.17%) Senior Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (29.17%) PyTorch
1 7 (29.17%) TensorFlow
2 4 (16.67%) FastAPI
3 3 (12.50%) CSS
3 3 (12.50%) HTML
3 3 (12.50%) RESTful
4 2 (8.33%) Kafka
4 2 (8.33%) Keras
4 2 (8.33%) Keycloak
4 2 (8.33%) Node.js
5 1 (4.17%) Node-RED
5 1 (4.17%) OpenCV
5 1 (4.17%) OpenVINO
Miscellaneous
1 8 (33.33%) IoT
2 7 (29.17%) CUDA
3 6 (25.00%) Algorithms
3 6 (25.00%) Robotics
4 5 (20.83%) Embedded Systems
5 4 (16.67%) Industry 4.0
6 3 (12.50%) Arduino
6 3 (12.50%) Distributed Applications
6 3 (12.50%) Driving Licence
7 2 (8.33%) Cloud Native
7 2 (8.33%) Culture of Ownership
7 2 (8.33%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (8.33%) Public Cloud
7 2 (8.33%) Video\Live Streaming
8 1 (4.17%) Data Centre
8 1 (4.17%) Operational Technology
8 1 (4.17%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 7 (29.17%) Linux
2 2 (8.33%) Windows
3 1 (4.17%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 11 (45.83%) Computer Science
3 9 (37.50%) Artificial Intelligence
4 8 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
5 7 (29.17%) Neural Network
6 6 (25.00%) Deep Learning
7 5 (20.83%) Microservices
7 5 (20.83%) Parallel Processing
8 4 (16.67%) Database Optimisation
8 4 (16.67%) DevOps
8 4 (16.67%) Observability
8 4 (16.67%) Platform Engineering
9 3 (12.50%) Analytics
9 3 (12.50%) CI/CD
9 3 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
9 3 (12.50%) Cybersecurity
9 3 (12.50%) Data Acquisition
9 3 (12.50%) Mentoring
9 3 (12.50%) Prototyping
9 3 (12.50%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 14 (58.33%) Python
2 7 (29.17%) C++
3 6 (25.00%) SQL
4 5 (20.83%) JavaScript
5 2 (8.33%) Java
Qualifications
1 14 (58.33%) Degree
2 9 (37.50%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (25.00%) Master's Degree
3 6 (25.00%) PhD
4 5 (20.83%) Security Cleared
5 4 (16.67%) SC Cleared
6 2 (8.33%) AWS Certification
7 1 (4.17%) Chartered Engineer
7 1 (4.17%) HNC
7 1 (4.17%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (12.50%) QA
System Software
1 10 (41.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (20.83%) Kubernetes
2 4 (16.67%) Grafana
3 2 (8.33%) Ansible
3 2 (8.33%) Podman
3 2 (8.33%) Puppet
3 2 (8.33%) Terraform
4 1 (4.17%) Functional Safety
4 1 (4.17%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 5 (20.83%) NVIDIA
2 3 (12.50%) Facebook
2 3 (12.50%) Google
2 3 (12.50%) Microsoft
2 3 (12.50%) SAP
3 2 (8.33%) Virgin Media
4 1 (4.17%) Allen-Bradley
4 1 (4.17%) AVEVA
4 1 (4.17%) Rockwell
4 1 (4.17%) Siemens
4 1 (4.17%) VMware