Embedded Firmware Contracts in the Midlands

Embedded Firmware
England > Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands with a requirement for Embedded Firmware skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Embedded Firmware over the 6 months to 2 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 133 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Embedded Firmware 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.036% - -
As % of the System Software category 0.39% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
England median daily rate £550 £469 £450
% change year-on-year +17.33% +4.17% +100.00%

All System Software Skills
Midlands

Embedded Firmware is in the System Software category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands with a requirement for system software skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 254 481 681
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 9.21% 14.08% 13.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 185 341 478
10th Percentile £150 £158 £134
25th Percentile £208 £260 £200
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £450 £375
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +20.00% +11.94%
75th Percentile £550 £565 £500
90th Percentile £638 £690 £588
England median daily rate £495 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -5.71% - +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 26 39
10th Percentile £14.77 £12.60 £10.70
25th Percentile £15.74 £15.25 £13.44
Median hourly rate £17.98 £19.25 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.62% +13.24% +17.24%
75th Percentile £22.80 £48.13 £20.51
90th Percentile £37.83 £65.00 £23.75
England median hourly rate £21.00 £50.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year -58.00% +150.00% +5.26%

Embedded Firmware
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Job postings citing Embedded Firmware as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Embedded Firmware in the Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Embedded Firmware in the Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Embedded Firmware in the Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Embedded Firmware in the Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Embedded Firmware in the Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Embedded Firmware within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 2 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
West Midlands - 1 - - 6
Embedded Firmware
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 1 (100.00%) Bluetooth
1 1 (100.00%) Wireless
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Device Driver
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Embedded Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) C++
1 1 (100.00%) Python
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Firmware