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

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 187 258 302
Rank change year-on-year +71 +44 -70
Permanent jobs citing Electronics 1,558 1,452 2,120
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.57% 1.44% 1.35%
As % of the General category 2.63% 2.11% 2.10%
Number of salaries quoted 1,120 734 1,009
10th Percentile £32,500 £30,000 £33,256
25th Percentile £38,500 £38,375 £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 £89,200
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 59,322 68,855 101,002
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 59.79% 68.16% 64.21%
Number of salaries quoted 39,670 37,231 50,896
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 £82,000 £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 10 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 10 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 +37 1,425 £50,000 +2.70% 1,202
England +79 1,386 £52,500 +5.00% 1,253
South East +19 483 £47,500 -9.52% 406
Work from Home -10 404 £52,500 - 382
East of England +43 253 £55,000 -15.38% 252
Midlands +15 200 £52,500 +31.25% 188
North of England +49 176 £50,000 +20.79% 148
South West +23 170 £45,000 -5.26% 174
West Midlands +3 128 £57,500 +17.95% 124
North West +23 106 £47,500 - 85
London +8 87 £58,750 +20.67% 126
East Midlands +17 72 £50,000 +33.33% 64
Yorkshire +64 61 £50,000 +25.00% 49
Scotland -61 61 £47,500 - 65
Wales +17 41 £50,000 +21.95% 33
Northern Ireland - 33 £35,000 - 6
North East -3 9 £53,750 +58.95% 15
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 (0.39%) 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 36 (2.31%) Microsoft Excel
3 33 (2.12%) 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 (0.39%) Microsoft Project
8 6 (0.39%) 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 63 (4.04%) Azure
2 56 (3.59%) AWS
3 41 (2.63%) Microsoft 365
4 27 (1.73%) GitHub
5 21 (1.35%) Azure DevOps
6 18 (1.16%) GCP
7 17 (1.09%) Power Platform
8 14 (0.90%) Cloud Computing
9 12 (0.77%) OneDrive
10 7 (0.45%) Entra ID
10 7 (0.45%) PaaS
10 7 (0.45%) SaaS
11 6 (0.39%) AWS IoT
11 6 (0.39%) GitHub Actions
12 5 (0.32%) Azure Data Factory
12 5 (0.32%) Dynamics 365
13 4 (0.26%) Microsoft Purview
13 4 (0.26%) Power Automate
14 3 (0.19%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 2 (0.13%) AWS Direct Connect
Communications & Networking
1 107 (6.87%) Wireless
2 69 (4.43%) TCP/IP
3 60 (3.85%) Bluetooth
3 60 (3.85%) Ethernet
4 55 (3.53%) Wi-Fi
5 45 (2.89%) RS-232
6 35 (2.25%) Internet
7 24 (1.54%) 5G
7 24 (1.54%) WAN
8 22 (1.41%) ZigBee
9 21 (1.35%) J1939
9 21 (1.35%) RS-485
9 21 (1.35%) SD-WAN
10 20 (1.28%) LTE
11 19 (1.22%) HTTP
12 17 (1.09%) MQTT
13 16 (1.03%) Modbus
14 13 (0.83%) DNS
15 12 (0.77%) Firewall
16 10 (0.64%) OFDM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (1.67%) PostgreSQL
2 17 (1.09%) Power BI
3 13 (0.83%) SQL Server
4 12 (0.77%) Big Data
5 10 (0.64%) MongoDB
5 10 (0.64%) Redis
6 7 (0.45%) Apache Hive
6 7 (0.45%) Presto
6 7 (0.45%) SQLite
7 6 (0.39%) GIS
7 6 (0.39%) Relational Database
7 6 (0.39%) Tableau
8 5 (0.32%) NoSQL
9 4 (0.26%) MySQL
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%) Spotfire
Development Applications
1 107 (6.87%) Git
2 62 (3.98%) JIRA
3 56 (3.59%) LabVIEW
4 48 (3.08%) 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
1 522 (33.50%) Manufacturing
2 332 (21.31%) Social Skills
3 246 (15.79%) Finance
4 240 (15.40%) Telecoms
5 225 (14.44%) Marketing
6 195 (12.52%) Analytical Skills
7 177 (11.36%) Public Sector
8 168 (10.78%) Automotive
9 123 (7.89%) Aerospace
10 103 (6.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 46 (2.95%) Retail
12 45 (2.89%) Military
13 28 (1.80%) 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
1 390 (25.03%) Software Engineer
2 312 (20.03%) Electronics Engineer
3 251 (16.11%) Embedded Engineer
4 245 (15.73%) Senior
5 191 (12.26%) Hardware Engineer
6 173 (11.10%) Embedded Software Engineer
7 125 (8.02%) Graduate
8 107 (6.87%) Systems Engineer
9 99 (6.35%) Junior
10 96 (6.16%) Developer
11 82 (5.26%) Development Engineer
12 81 (5.20%) Graduate Electronics Engineer
12 81 (5.20%) Lead
13 73 (4.69%) Junior Electronics Engineer
14 71 (4.56%) Graduate Development Engineer
15 69 (4.43%) Electronics Hardware Engineer
16 67 (4.30%) Senior Software Engineer
17 61 (3.92%) Firmware Engineer
18 57 (3.66%) Senior Hardware Engineer
19 55 (3.53%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (3.79%) .NET
1 59 (3.79%) 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 (1.03%) AngularJS
7 16 (1.03%) Django
8 14 (0.90%) 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%) HTML5
12 8 (0.51%) Lambda Expressions
12 8 (0.51%) NumPy
Miscellaneous
1 150 (9.63%) IoT
2 134 (8.60%) Embedded Systems
3 100 (6.42%) FPGA
4 90 (5.78%) Analogue Electronics
5 86 (5.52%) Algorithms
6 65 (4.17%) Robotics
7 64 (4.11%) Self-Motivation
8 52 (3.34%) VHDL
9 35 (2.25%) Management Information System
10 33 (2.12%) Driving Licence
11 29 (1.86%) Analytical Mindset
12 24 (1.54%) Device Driver
13 23 (1.48%) Acoustics
13 23 (1.48%) ARM Cortex
14 20 (1.28%) Distributed Systems
15 16 (1.03%) Cyber Threat
16 15 (0.96%) Renewable Energy
17 13 (0.83%) Arduino
17 13 (0.83%) GNSS
18 12 (0.77%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 221 (14.18%) Linux
2 145 (9.31%) Windows
3 42 (2.70%) Embedded Linux
4 31 (1.99%) FreeRTOS
5 22 (1.41%) Windows Server
6 16 (1.03%) Windows 10
7 15 (0.96%) Android
7 15 (0.96%) Apple iOS
8 13 (0.83%) Ubuntu
9 8 (0.51%) Mac OS
10 7 (0.45%) VMS
11 6 (0.39%) ThreadX
12 5 (0.32%) Unix
13 4 (0.26%) VxWorks
13 4 (0.26%) Windows Server 2016
14 1 (0.064%) Debian
14 1 (0.064%) Fedora
14 1 (0.064%) Windows Embedded Compact
Processes & Methodologies
1 501 (32.16%) Software Engineering
2 246 (15.79%) Problem-Solving
3 234 (15.02%) Computer Science
4 181 (11.62%) Business Intelligence
5 174 (11.17%) Digital Marketing
5 174 (11.17%) Programme Management
6 148 (9.50%) Agile
7 142 (9.11%) Schematic Capture
8 126 (8.09%) Software Testing
9 122 (7.83%) Validation
10 99 (6.35%) Project Management
11 94 (6.03%) Mentoring
12 93 (5.97%) Collaborative Working
13 88 (5.65%) Project Planning
14 87 (5.58%) Test Automation
15 77 (4.94%) Customer Requirements
16 71 (4.56%) Mathematics
17 68 (4.36%) Continuous Improvement
18 65 (4.17%) Physics
19 64 (4.11%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 437 (28.05%) C
2 246 (15.79%) Python
3 230 (14.76%) C++
4 154 (9.88%) C#
5 115 (7.38%) Embedded C
6 92 (5.91%) MATLAB
7 80 (5.13%) JavaScript
8 74 (4.75%) Java
9 54 (3.47%) SQL
10 29 (1.86%) Bash
10 29 (1.86%) Perl
11 23 (1.48%) Embedded C++
12 20 (1.28%) PowerShell
12 20 (1.28%) TypeScript
13 19 (1.22%) PHP
14 17 (1.09%) Ada
15 11 (0.71%) Scala
16 10 (0.64%) Assembly Language
17 9 (0.58%) Tcl
17 9 (0.58%) VB
Qualifications
1 671 (43.07%) Degree
2 120 (7.70%) Security Cleared
3 83 (5.33%) Computer Science Degree
4 55 (3.53%) HND
5 51 (3.27%) SC Cleared
6 38 (2.44%) Master's Degree
7 36 (2.31%) HNC
8 28 (1.80%) BPSS Clearance
8 28 (1.80%) DV Cleared
9 25 (1.60%) PhD
10 14 (0.90%) Cisco Certification
11 12 (0.77%) CCNA
12 11 (0.71%) CISSP
12 11 (0.71%) NVQ Level 3
13 9 (0.58%) DBS Check
14 7 (0.45%) CISM
14 7 (0.45%) Microsoft Certification
15 5 (0.32%) GIAC
16 4 (0.26%) MCP
16 4 (0.26%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 121 (7.77%) QA
2 31 (1.99%) AUTOSAR
2 31 (1.99%) ISO 26262
3 30 (1.93%) MISRA
4 24 (1.54%) JTAG
5 23 (1.48%) 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 (0.71%) 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 (23.56%) Firmware
2 182 (11.68%) Embedded Firmware
3 19 (1.22%) Docker
4 17 (1.09%) VMware Infrastructure
5 11 (0.71%) Hyper-V
5 11 (0.71%) 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
1 175 (11.23%) SAP
2 154 (9.88%) EMC
3 135 (8.66%) Microsoft
4 17 (1.09%) IBM
4 17 (1.09%) Lauterbach
4 17 (1.09%) VMware
5 16 (1.03%) Google
5 16 (1.03%) 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