Are Electronics Jobs in demand in 2008?

The stats really confirm that lower level jobs are reducing in salary due to new technology and changes in work practices affecting the volume of vacancies.

Conversely, a strong focus will continue in higher skilled workers especially around Research and Development and processes to improve manufacturing productivity gains. The UK is a still one of the centres for global electronics companies in terms of development and manufacturing bases.
Therefore for those looking to upgrade skills or experience, the jobs likely to show high pay growth includes Design Engineers and Test Engineers.

Highlights from the latest Electronics salary information, shows the following: (source: www.ITJobsWatch.co.uk):

• All Electronics Jobs £44,074 up 1.75%
• Electronics Engineer £35,669 up 5.39%
• Electronics Technician £19,300 down 30.60%
• ASIC related jobs £41,892 up 22.99%
• IC Design £44,196 up 24.23%
• DSP Engineer £36,791 down 8.65%
• Digital Design Engineer £42,167 up 21.37%

Anthony Sherick, spokesperson for Technojobs said, “We have seen a constant and strong growth in Electronics jobs advertised over the last six months across many diverse areas of Electronics. Speaking to a number of key recruitment agencies, it remains that strong, experienced Electronics candidates are in high demand. For some recruiters there may in fact be the potential problem of a skills gap between the market requirements for specialist jobs and existing skills available.

This salary information obviously just gives an overview due to the very fragmented nature of the Electronics jobs market, however the extreme’s of salary changes is very interesting and reinforces the demand for skilled and experienced Electronics Candidates.”