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Firmware Contracts in the East of England
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Hourly Rate Histogram Job Locations Related Skills
Browse 16 Firmware job vacancies in the East of England

The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Firmware in IT contracts advertised for the East of England region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Firmware over the 3 months to 5 December 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all terms in our Miscellaneous category for the East of England region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
5 Dec 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Firmware
Rank 116 128 133
Rank change year-on-year
+12 +5
Contract jobs citing Firmware 7 5 10
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East of England 0.29% 0.17% 0.31%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.23% 0.81% 1.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 3 1
Average daily rate £463 £500 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.50% +33.33%
UK excluding London average daily rate £275 £350 £270
% change year-on-year
-21.42% +29.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 4
Average hourly rate £39.00 £40.00 £35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-2.50% +14.28%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £29.80 £40.00 £27.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £41.80 £40.00 £44.25
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £37.50 £36.25
% change year-on-year
- +3.44%
Miscellaneous Category
East of England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category		 569 615 718
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East of England 23.49% 21.05% 22.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 265 271 298
Average daily rate £300 £350 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-14.28% +7.69%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £150 £225 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £500 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £339 £350 £330
% change year-on-year
-3.14% +6.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 96 80 116
Average hourly rate £31.50 £20.00 £23.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+57.50% -13.04%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.50 £14.50 £14.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £43.50 £38.00 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £18.50 £20.00 £24.00
% change year-on-year
-7.50% -16.66%
Firmware
England

Firmware
Jobs Demand Trend in the East of England

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Firmware across the East of England region as a proportion of the total demand within the Miscellaneous category.

Firmware Jobs Demand Trend in the East of England

Firmware
Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Firmware across the East of England region.

Firmware Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

Firmware
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Firmware across the East of England region over the 3 months to 5 December 2013.

Firmware Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Firmware
Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Firmware across the East of England region.

Firmware Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

Firmware
Hourly Rate Histogram in the East of England

This chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Firmware across the East of England region over the 3 months to 5 December 2013.

Firmware Hourly Rate Histogram in the East of England

Firmware
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Firmware within the East of England region over the 3 months to 5 December 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)		 Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year		 Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads		 Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months		 Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year		 Find
Job
Vacancies
Cambridgeshire +15 3 £500 - 9
Hertfordshire +20 1 £425 -15.00% 3
Bedfordshire -1 1 - - 2
Suffolk - 1 £280 - 1
Essex - 1 - -
Norfolk - - - - 1
Firmware
England

Firmware
Top 30 Related IT Skills in the East of England

For the 6 months to 5 December 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East of England region citing Firmware also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited Firmware.

1 8 (44.44%) C
2 6 (33.33%) Embedded C
3 5 (27.78%) Wireless
4 4 (22.22%) Bluetooth
5 3 (16.67%) SharePoint
5 3 (16.67%) C++
5 3 (16.67%) Electronics
5 3 (16.67%) Embedded C++
5 3 (16.67%) Dell
5 3 (16.67%) ZigBee
6 2 (11.11%) VHDL
6 2 (11.11%) Information Management
6 2 (11.11%) Field-Programmable Gate Array
6 2 (11.11%) Xilinx
6 2 (11.11%) Mentor Graphics
6 2 (11.11%) R
6 2 (11.11%) Software Engineering
6 2 (11.11%) Change Control
6 2 (11.11%) 802.11
6 2 (11.11%) Remedy
6 2 (11.11%) MATLAB
6 2 (11.11%) Telecoms
6 2 (11.11%) Wi-Fi
6 2 (11.11%) Legal
6 2 (11.11%) Broadband
6 2 (11.11%) LAN
6 2 (11.11%) WLAN
6 2 (11.11%) Ethernet
6 2 (11.11%) SSL
6 2 (11.11%) IBM

Firmware
Top Related IT Skills in the East of England by Category

For the 6 months to 5 December 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East of England region citing Firmware also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited Firmware. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 3 (16.67%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Simulink
Communications & Networking
1 5 (27.78%) Wireless
2 4 (22.22%) Bluetooth
3 3 (16.67%) ZigBee
4 2 (11.11%) Broadband
4 2 (11.11%) LAN
4 2 (11.11%) WLAN
4 2 (11.11%) Ethernet
4 2 (11.11%) SSL
4 2 (11.11%) 802.11
4 2 (11.11%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (5.56%) GPRS
5 1 (5.56%) GSM
Development Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Visual Studio
1 1 (5.56%) GDB
General
1 3 (16.67%) Electronics
2 2 (11.11%) Telecoms
2 2 (11.11%) Legal
3 1 (5.56%) Banking
3 1 (5.56%) Investment Banking
3 1 (5.56%) Finance
3 1 (5.56%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 7 (38.89%) Firmware Engineer
2 3 (16.67%) Data Centre Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) Architect
3 2 (11.11%) Software Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) Consultant
3 2 (11.11%) Security Consultant
4 1 (5.56%) Hardware Design Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Design Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Test Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Hardware Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Integration Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Electronics Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Developer
4 1 (5.56%) Firmware Developer
4 1 (5.56%) Embedded C Developer
4 1 (5.56%) C Developer
4 1 (5.56%) C Software Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.11%) VHDL
1 2 (11.11%) Field-Programmable Gate Array
2 1 (5.56%) ASIC
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.56%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (11.11%) Information Management
1 2 (11.11%) Software Engineering
1 2 (11.11%) Change Control
2 1 (5.56%) UML
2 1 (5.56%) OOD
2 1 (5.56%) Configuration Management
2 1 (5.56%) Software Testing
2 1 (5.56%) Requirements Analysis
2 1 (5.56%) Unit Testing
2 1 (5.56%) Integration Testing
2 1 (5.56%) Test Management
2 1 (5.56%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 8 (44.44%) C
2 6 (33.33%) Embedded C
3 3 (16.67%) Embedded C++
3 3 (16.67%) C++
4 2 (11.11%) MATLAB
4 2 (11.11%) R
5 1 (5.56%) Java
5 1 (5.56%) Perl
5 1 (5.56%) Python
5 1 (5.56%) C#
Qualifications
1 1 (5.56%) Degree
1 1 (5.56%) SC Cleared
1 1 (5.56%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.56%) JTAG
1 1 (5.56%) DO-254
Systems Management
1 1 (5.56%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 3 (16.67%) Dell
2 2 (11.11%) Remedy
2 2 (11.11%) Xilinx
2 2 (11.11%) Mentor Graphics
2 2 (11.11%) IBM
3 1 (5.56%) Altera
3 1 (5.56%) Actel
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