Firmware Contracts in the East of England

Firmware
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England requiring Firmware skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Firmware over the 6 months leading up to 20 September 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 75 56 113
Rank change year-on-year -19 +57 -19
Contract jobs citing Firmware 18 66 25
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 1.18% 3.51% 1.02%
As % of the System Software category 13.43% 20.75% 6.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 21 4
10th Percentile £200 - £378
25th Percentile £309 £413 £424
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year - -5.26% +26.67%
75th Percentile £475 £494 £531
90th Percentile - £570 £588
England median daily rate £400 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -15.79% -5.00% +33.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 8 14
10th Percentile - £54.25 -
25th Percentile £51.25 £62.50 £50.00
Median hourly rate £64.00 £65.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.54% +8.33% +22.45%
75th Percentile £78.31 £66.25 -
90th Percentile £80.63 £70.00 -
England median hourly rate £58.00 £55.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year +5.45% - +7.32%

All System Software Skills
East of England

Firmware falls under the System Software category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring system software skills in the East of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 134 318 409
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 8.77% 16.91% 16.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 62 195 302
10th Percentile £182 £163 £140
25th Percentile £220 £269 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £343 £465 £425
Median % change year-on-year -26.34% +9.41% +6.25%
75th Percentile £497 £675 £550
90th Percentile £598 £738 £686
England median daily rate £513 £513 £525
% change year-on-year - -2.38% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 38 56
10th Percentile - £14.25 -
25th Percentile - £18.65 £13.41
Median hourly rate £14.16 £67.50 £14.50
Median % change year-on-year -79.02% +365.52% +7.41%
75th Percentile £63.75 £74.69 £50.00
90th Percentile £74.60 £84.36 £60.00
England median hourly rate £26.25 £47.67 £22.00
% change year-on-year -44.93% +116.66% +29.41%

Firmware
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Job postings citing Firmware as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Job vacancy trend for Firmware in the East of England

Firmware
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Firmware in the East of England.

Daily rate trend for Firmware in the East of England

Firmware
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Firmware in the East of England over the 6 months to 20 September 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Firmware in the East of England

Firmware
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Firmware in the East of England.

Hourly rate trend for Firmware in the East of England

Firmware
Hourly Rate Histogram in the East of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Firmware in the East of England over the 6 months to 20 September 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Firmware 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 median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Firmware within the East of England region over the 6 months to 20 September 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Cambridgeshire -8 7 £438 -10.26% 19
Hertfordshire +8 5 £450 +5.88% 13
Bedfordshire -1 3 - - 7
Essex -5 2 - - 15
Norfolk - 1 £200 - 3
Firmware
England

Firmware
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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:

Communications & Networking
1 2 (11.11%) ATM
2 1 (5.56%) Software-Defined Radio
Development Applications
1 6 (33.33%) Git
General
1 7 (38.89%) Electronics
2 5 (27.78%) Wearables
3 2 (11.11%) Military
3 2 (11.11%) Social Skills
4 1 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (5.56%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (27.78%) Design Engineer
1 5 (27.78%) IC Design Engineer
2 4 (22.22%) Control Systems Engineer
2 4 (22.22%) Digital Design Engineer
2 4 (22.22%) Digital Hardware Engineer
2 4 (22.22%) Digital IC Design Engineer
2 4 (22.22%) Digital IC Engineer
2 4 (22.22%) Hardware Engineer
3 3 (16.67%) Firmware Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) EPoS Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) FPGA Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) Security Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) Senior
5 1 (5.56%) Analogue IC Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) IT Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Lead
5 1 (5.56%) Senior Software Development Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Senior Software Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Senior VHDL Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) VHDL Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.56%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 7 (38.89%) Smartphone
1 7 (38.89%) Verilog
2 5 (27.78%) Augmented Reality
2 5 (27.78%) Virtual Reality
3 4 (22.22%) VHDL
4 3 (16.67%) FPGA
5 2 (11.11%) ASIC
5 2 (11.11%) EPoS
5 2 (11.11%) Management Information System
6 1 (5.56%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 7 (38.89%) Linux
2 1 (5.56%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (33.33%) Electronic Design Automation
2 5 (27.78%) CI/CD
2 5 (27.78%) IC Design
2 5 (27.78%) Mentoring
2 5 (27.78%) Test Automation
2 5 (27.78%) Validation
3 3 (16.67%) Software Engineering
4 2 (11.11%) Cryptography
4 2 (11.11%) GAP Analysis
4 2 (11.11%) Incident Management
4 2 (11.11%) Information Assurance
4 2 (11.11%) Key Management
4 2 (11.11%) Migration
4 2 (11.11%) MODAF
4 2 (11.11%) Patch Management
4 2 (11.11%) Risk Management
4 2 (11.11%) SABSA
4 2 (11.11%) Security Management
4 2 (11.11%) Signal Processing
4 2 (11.11%) Threat Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 6 (33.33%) SystemVerilog
2 5 (27.78%) Bash
2 5 (27.78%) Python
2 5 (27.78%) Tcl
3 1 (5.56%) C#
3 1 (5.56%) C++
3 1 (5.56%) Rust
Qualifications
1 5 (27.78%) SC Cleared
1 5 (27.78%) Security Cleared
2 2 (11.11%) Degree
2 2 (11.11%) DV Cleared
2 2 (11.11%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (22.22%) JTAG
2 2 (11.11%) JSP 440
2 2 (11.11%) NCSC
2 2 (11.11%) NIST
2 2 (11.11%) NIST 800
3 1 (5.56%) DO-254
3 1 (5.56%) IEC 61508
System Software
1 5 (27.78%) Embedded Firmware
Vendors
1 5 (27.78%) Siemens
2 3 (16.67%) Xilinx
3 1 (5.56%) Actel
3 1 (5.56%) Altera
3 1 (5.56%) Cadence
3 1 (5.56%) Intel
3 1 (5.56%) Lattice Semiconductor
3 1 (5.56%) Mentor Graphics
3 1 (5.56%) Microsemi