Firmware Contracts in the North West

Firmware
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 105 - 170
Rank change year-on-year - - -39
Contract jobs citing Firmware 32 0 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 1.16% - 0.30%
As % of the System Software category 12.36% - 2.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 0 9
10th Percentile £302 - -
25th Percentile £416 - £145
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 - £580
Median % change year-on-year - - +54.67%
75th Percentile £529 - £586
90th Percentile £584 - £604
England median daily rate £425 £463 £488
% change year-on-year -8.11% -5.13% +36.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £20.63
25th Percentile - - £21.56
Median hourly rate - - £23.75
75th Percentile - - £26.56
90th Percentile - - £27.88
England median hourly rate £62.50 £55.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year +13.64% +10.00% +2.04%

All System Software Skills
North West

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 North West with a requirement for system software skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 259 505 564
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 9.37% 15.81% 13.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 185 366 420
10th Percentile £178 £200 £159
25th Percentile £302 £325 £230
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +11.11% +20.00%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £606
90th Percentile £670 £650 £650
England median daily rate £488 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -7.14% - +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 30 26
10th Percentile - £14.00 £15.00
25th Percentile £15.50 £16.25 £15.50
Median hourly rate £17.72 £21.21 £18.12
Median % change year-on-year -16.43% +17.06% -57.38%
75th Percentile £19.25 £52.13 £20.00
90th Percentile £46.18 £65.00 £34.75
England median hourly rate £21.00 £50.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year -58.00% +163.16% -

Firmware
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Firmware in the North West

Firmware
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Firmware in the North West

Firmware
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Firmware in the North West over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Firmware in the North West

Firmware
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for Firmware in the North West

Firmware
Contract Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Firmware within the North West region over the 6 months to 28 April 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
Cumbria - 13 £515 -
Manchester - 12 £475 - 5
Cheshire - 6 - - 3
Merseyside - 1 £388 - 2
Firmware
England

Firmware
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 13 (40.63%) BGP
1 13 (40.63%) Cisco ASA
1 13 (40.63%) Cisco Firepower
1 13 (40.63%) Cisco ISE
1 13 (40.63%) EIGRP
1 13 (40.63%) Firewall
1 13 (40.63%) HSRP
1 13 (40.63%) IPsec
1 13 (40.63%) NetScaler
1 13 (40.63%) OSPF
2 12 (37.50%) SNMP
2 12 (37.50%) Spanning Tree
2 12 (37.50%) Wi-Fi
3 9 (28.13%) InfiniBand
4 6 (18.75%) SAN
5 2 (6.25%) SD-WAN
General
1 7 (21.88%) Public Sector
2 3 (9.38%) Electronics
2 3 (9.38%) Finance
2 3 (9.38%) Manufacturing
2 3 (9.38%) Marketing
2 3 (9.38%) Telecoms
3 2 (6.25%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 13 (40.63%) Network Engineer
2 9 (28.13%) Consultant
2 9 (28.13%) Senior
2 9 (28.13%) Senior Network Engineer
3 6 (18.75%) Cisco Engineer
3 6 (18.75%) SAN Engineer
3 6 (18.75%) SAN Storage Engineer
3 6 (18.75%) Storage Engineer
3 6 (18.75%) VMware Engineer
4 5 (15.63%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
5 3 (9.38%) Systems Engineer
6 2 (6.25%) Active Directory Consultant
6 2 (6.25%) Analyst
6 2 (6.25%) Network Analyst
7 1 (3.13%) Developer
7 1 (3.13%) Implementation Manager
7 1 (3.13%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 1 (3.13%) Python Developer
7 1 (3.13%) Server Engineer
7 1 (3.13%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (37.50%) Jinja
Miscellaneous
1 7 (21.88%) Onboarding
2 6 (18.75%) Data Centre
3 2 (6.25%) Driving Licence
4 1 (3.13%) Device Driver
4 1 (3.13%) Embedded Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (40.63%) Change Management
1 13 (40.63%) ITIL
1 13 (40.63%) Network Management
2 12 (37.50%) DevOps
2 12 (37.50%) ITSM
3 10 (31.25%) Deep Learning
4 9 (28.13%) Stress Testing
5 3 (9.38%) Business Intelligence
5 3 (9.38%) Digital Marketing
5 3 (9.38%) Product Breakdown Structure
5 3 (9.38%) Programme Management
6 2 (6.25%) Customer Requirements
6 2 (6.25%) Workflow
7 1 (3.13%) Code Quality
7 1 (3.13%) Continuous Improvement
7 1 (3.13%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 1 (3.13%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 13 (40.63%) Python
2 12 (37.50%) Perl
2 12 (37.50%) Tcl
3 9 (28.13%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 20 (62.50%) SC Cleared
1 20 (62.50%) Security Cleared
2 12 (37.50%) CCNA
2 12 (37.50%) CCNP
2 12 (37.50%) Cisco Certification
System Software
1 9 (28.13%) Active Directory
2 6 (18.75%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 12 (37.50%) Ansible
2 9 (28.13%) Dell DRAC
3 6 (18.75%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 21 (65.63%) Cisco
2 13 (40.63%) Citrix
2 13 (40.63%) Palo Alto
2 13 (40.63%) SolarWinds
3 10 (31.25%) Red Hat
4 9 (28.13%) Dell
4 9 (28.13%) Isilon
5 6 (18.75%) VMware
6 3 (9.38%) SAP
7 2 (6.25%) BMC
7 2 (6.25%) HP
7 2 (6.25%) Meraki
7 2 (6.25%) Nortel
8 1 (3.13%) Microsoft