Firmware Contracts in the Midlands

Firmware
England > Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands with a requirement for Firmware skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Firmware over the 6 months to 13 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 130 150 183
Rank change year-on-year +20 +33 -53
Contract jobs citing Firmware 4 17 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.15% 0.51% 0.36%
As % of the System Software category 1.63% 3.56% 2.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 4 5
10th Percentile £245 £299 £333
25th Percentile £251 £364 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £275 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year -42.11% +5.56% +44.00%
75th Percentile £420 £508 £488
90th Percentile £498 £521 -
England median daily rate £425 £456 £500
% change year-on-year -6.85% -8.75% +36.99%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 7 0
Median hourly rate - £60.00 -
England median hourly rate £62.50 £55.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year +13.64% +10.00% +1.52%

All System Software Skills
Midlands

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 246 478 675
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 9.10% 14.24% 13.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 184 332 469
10th Percentile £150 £158 £131
25th Percentile £207 £250 £200
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £358 £445 £375
Median % change year-on-year -19.55% +18.67% +7.14%
75th Percentile £550 £569 £500
90th Percentile £646 £690 £588
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 26 42
10th Percentile £14.77 £12.60 £10.58
25th Percentile £15.74 £15.50 £13.50
Median hourly rate £17.98 £22.50 £16.75
Median % change year-on-year -20.11% +34.33% +24.07%
75th Percentile £22.80 £48.13 £20.45
90th Percentile £37.83 £65.00 £23.73
England median hourly rate £21.00 £50.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year -58.00% +163.16% -5.00%

Firmware
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Firmware in the Midlands

Firmware
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Firmware in the Midlands

Firmware
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Firmware in the Midlands over the 6 months to 13 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Firmware in the Midlands

Firmware
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Firmware in the Midlands

Firmware
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 Firmware within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 13 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
East Midlands +20 3 £270 -24.21% 29
West Midlands +14 1 £550 +6.80% 21
Firmware
England

Firmware
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:

Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Simulink
Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) Wireless
2 1 (25.00%) Firewall
General
1 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Network Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Support Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Desktop Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Desktop Support
2 1 (25.00%) Desktop Support Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) FPGA Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Network Support
2 1 (25.00%) Network Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (25.00%) Algorithms
2 1 (25.00%) Driving Licence
2 1 (25.00%) Embedded Systems
2 1 (25.00%) FPGA
2 1 (25.00%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Change Control
1 2 (50.00%) Knowledge Transfer
1 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (50.00%) Project Delivery
2 1 (25.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (25.00%) Digital Signal Processing
2 1 (25.00%) FPGA Design
2 1 (25.00%) Mathematics
2 1 (25.00%) Signal Processing
2 1 (25.00%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
1 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Broadcom
1 2 (50.00%) Brocade
1 2 (50.00%) Cisco
2 1 (25.00%) Xilinx