Embedded Engineer Jobs in the UK excluding London

Embedded Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Embedded Engineer salary in the UK excluding London is £55,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 20 June 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 382 132 401
Rank change year-on-year -250 +269 -66
Permanent jobs requiring an Embedded Engineer 215 1,601 364
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.54% 1.96% 0.66%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.60% 2.06% 0.75%
Number of salaries quoted 103 1,260 200
10th Percentile £43,000 £40,000 £34,267
25th Percentile £47,500 £45,000 £42,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £69,000 £75,000 £75,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year - -4.35% +4.55%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the UK excluding London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 35,613 77,542 48,625
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.35% 94.93% 88.82%
Number of salaries quoted 18,361 54,224 28,974
10th Percentile £26,000 £26,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £35,000 £35,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £50,000 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% -6.54% +7.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £76,250 £80,627
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -

Embedded Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Embedded Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Embedded Engineer in the UK excluding London

Embedded Engineer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Embedded Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Embedded Engineer in the UK excluding London

Embedded Engineer
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Embedded Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 20 June 2025.

Salary histogram for Embedded Engineer in the UK excluding London

Embedded Engineer
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Embedded Engineer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 20 June 2025. 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
South East -133 69 £62,500 +13.64% 93
East of England -53 53 £54,500 -9.17% 65
Scotland +20 29 £65,000 +23.81% 31
North of England -148 23 £52,500 +5.00% 38
Midlands -86 22 £52,500 -4.55% 23
East Midlands -52 19 £52,500 +5.00% 12
South West -73 16 £50,000 -9.09% 29
Yorkshire -53 12 £46,000 +2.22% 25
North West -66 8 £55,000 +6.80% 11
North East +12 3 £65,500 +19.09% 2
Wales -3 3 £65,000 +30.00% 9
West Midlands -28 3 £67,500 +17.39% 11
Northern Ireland +32 1 £50,000 - 1
Embedded Engineer
UK

Embedded Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 20 June 2025, Embedded Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the UK excluding London region featuring Embedded Engineer in the job title.

1 132 (61.40%) Embedded Systems
2 122 (56.74%) C
3 116 (53.95%) Software Engineering
4 96 (44.65%) Agile
5 94 (43.72%) C++
6 77 (35.81%) CI/CD
7 72 (33.49%) Continuous Deployment
8 70 (32.56%) JIRA
9 68 (31.63%) Artificial Intelligence
10 65 (30.23%) Broadband
10 65 (30.23%) Middleware
10 65 (30.23%) Software Delivery
10 65 (30.23%) Release Automation
10 65 (30.23%) Strategic Thinking
10 65 (30.23%) Roadmaps
11 63 (29.30%) Linux
12 61 (28.37%) Firmware
13 47 (21.86%) Embedded Firmware
14 41 (19.07%) Embedded Linux
15 38 (17.67%) Finance
16 33 (15.35%) Electronics
17 31 (14.42%) Wireless
18 25 (11.63%) Embedded Software Development
19 24 (11.16%) Degree
19 24 (11.16%) Security Cleared
19 24 (11.16%) Manufacturing
20 23 (10.70%) SC Cleared
21 22 (10.23%) Signal Processing
21 22 (10.23%) Social Skills
22 21 (9.77%) Digital Signal Processing

Embedded Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Applications
1 1 (0.47%) CANalyzer
1 1 (0.47%) GNU Octave
1 1 (0.47%) Simulink
Cloud Services
1 2 (0.93%) AWS
1 2 (0.93%) AWS IoT
1 2 (0.93%) Azure
1 2 (0.93%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 65 (30.23%) Broadband
2 31 (14.42%) Wireless
3 21 (9.77%) Modbus
4 20 (9.30%) Software-Defined Radio
5 14 (6.51%) TCP/IP
6 11 (5.12%) RS-485
7 10 (4.65%) Ethernet
8 9 (4.19%) Bluetooth
8 9 (4.19%) RS-232
8 9 (4.19%) ZigBee
9 8 (3.72%) Wi-Fi
10 7 (3.26%) WAN
11 5 (2.33%) Profibus
12 4 (1.86%) 5G
12 4 (1.86%) LTE
12 4 (1.86%) SD-WAN
13 3 (1.40%) Internet
13 3 (1.40%) MQTT
14 2 (0.93%) GSM
14 2 (0.93%) LoRaWAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (0.93%) Scylla
2 1 (0.47%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 70 (32.56%) JIRA
2 11 (5.12%) Git
3 4 (1.86%) CppUnit
3 4 (1.86%) Rational DOORS
3 4 (1.86%) Visual Studio
4 3 (1.40%) Subversion
5 2 (0.93%) Eclipse
5 2 (0.93%) Fiddler
5 2 (0.93%) IDA Disassembler
5 2 (0.93%) Jenkins
5 2 (0.93%) Rational Rhapsody
6 1 (0.47%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (0.47%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.47%) FitNesse
6 1 (0.47%) GCC
6 1 (0.47%) gcov
6 1 (0.47%) GDB
6 1 (0.47%) GitLab
6 1 (0.47%) Newman
6 1 (0.47%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 38 (17.67%) Finance
2 33 (15.35%) Electronics
3 24 (11.16%) Manufacturing
4 22 (10.23%) Social Skills
5 15 (6.98%) Telecoms
6 12 (5.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 12 (5.58%) Marketing
7 11 (5.12%) Automotive
8 7 (3.26%) Public Sector
9 6 (2.79%) Aerospace
9 6 (2.79%) Analytical Skills
10 5 (2.33%) Wearables
11 4 (1.86%) Organisational Skills
12 3 (1.40%) Agriculture
13 2 (0.93%) Legal
14 1 (0.47%) Advertising
14 1 (0.47%) Documentation Skills
14 1 (0.47%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 65 (30.23%) Middleware
2 9 (4.19%) Yocto
3 2 (0.93%) OpenEmbedded
4 1 (0.47%) Boost C++ Libraries
4 1 (0.47%) JSON
4 1 (0.47%) MFC
4 1 (0.47%) STL
Miscellaneous
1 132 (61.40%) Embedded Systems
2 21 (9.77%) e-Learning
3 19 (8.84%) MicroBlaze
3 19 (8.84%) RISC-V
4 17 (7.91%) Algorithms
5 12 (5.58%) Device Driver
6 11 (5.12%) IoT
7 8 (3.72%) Analogue Electronics
7 8 (3.72%) ARM Cortex
7 8 (3.72%) Product Ownership
8 6 (2.79%) CAN bus
9 5 (2.33%) Smart Energy
10 4 (1.86%) EMV
10 4 (1.86%) GNSS
10 4 (1.86%) Self-Driving Car
11 3 (1.40%) CCTV
11 3 (1.40%) Raspberry Pi
11 3 (1.40%) Robotics
12 2 (0.93%) Lidar
13 1 (0.47%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 63 (29.30%) Linux
2 41 (19.07%) Embedded Linux
3 8 (3.72%) FreeRTOS
4 7 (3.26%) Android
5 1 (0.47%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.47%) Robot Operating System
5 1 (0.47%) SafeRTOS
5 1 (0.47%) ThreadX
5 1 (0.47%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 116 (53.95%) Software Engineering
2 96 (44.65%) Agile
3 77 (35.81%) CI/CD
4 72 (33.49%) Continuous Deployment
5 68 (31.63%) Artificial Intelligence
6 65 (30.23%) Release Automation
6 65 (30.23%) Roadmaps
6 65 (30.23%) Software Delivery
6 65 (30.23%) Strategic Thinking
7 25 (11.63%) Embedded Software Development
8 22 (10.23%) Signal Processing
9 21 (9.77%) Digital Signal Processing
10 19 (8.84%) Innovative Thinking
10 19 (8.84%) Validation
11 17 (7.91%) Computer Science
12 16 (7.44%) Collaborative Working
13 15 (6.98%) Continuous Improvement
13 15 (6.98%) Software Architecture
14 14 (6.51%) Mentoring
14 14 (6.51%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 122 (56.74%) C
2 94 (43.72%) C++
3 21 (9.77%) Embedded C
4 16 (7.44%) Python
5 9 (4.19%) C#
6 6 (2.79%) Bash
7 5 (2.33%) Assembly Language
7 5 (2.33%) Java
8 3 (1.40%) Embedded C++
8 3 (1.40%) JavaScript
9 2 (0.93%) Ada
9 2 (0.93%) Kotlin
9 2 (0.93%) MATLAB
9 2 (0.93%) SQL
10 1 (0.47%) MicroPython
10 1 (0.47%) Perl
10 1 (0.47%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 24 (11.16%) Degree
1 24 (11.16%) Security Cleared
2 23 (10.70%) SC Cleared
3 7 (3.26%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (0.47%) DV Cleared
4 1 (0.47%) Master's Degree
4 1 (0.47%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (1.86%) PMO
2 3 (1.40%) IEC 61508
2 3 (1.40%) JTAG
3 2 (0.93%) ISO 9001
3 2 (0.93%) QA
4 1 (0.47%) DO-178B
4 1 (0.47%) IEC 62304
4 1 (0.47%) ISO 13485
4 1 (0.47%) ISO 26262
4 1 (0.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.47%) MISRA
System Software
1 61 (28.37%) Firmware
2 47 (21.86%) Embedded Firmware
3 1 (0.47%) Docker
Vendors
1 7 (3.26%) SAP
2 5 (2.33%) Atmel
3 4 (1.86%) Intel
3 4 (1.86%) NVIDIA
4 3 (1.40%) EMC
4 3 (1.40%) IBM
5 2 (0.93%) Allen-Bradley
5 2 (0.93%) Google
6 1 (0.47%) Freescale
6 1 (0.47%) Lauterbach
6 1 (0.47%) QNX
6 1 (0.47%) Renesas
6 1 (0.47%) Siemens
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