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Firmware Contracts in the South West
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills
Browse 14 Firmware job vacancies in the South West

The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Firmware in IT contracts advertised for the South West region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Firmware over the 3 months to 19 June 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 South West 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
19 Jun 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Firmware
Rank 100 130 117
Rank change year-on-year
+30 -13
Contract jobs citing Firmware 1 2 11
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South West 0.050% 0.064% 0.363%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.238% 0.349% 2.153%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 5
Average daily rate £450 - £270
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £300 £275
% change year-on-year
+20.83% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 2
Average hourly rate - £43.25 £28.25
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +53.09%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £41.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year
-9.63% +27.69%
All of the Miscellaneous Category
South West
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category		 421 573 511
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South West 20.96% 18.32% 16.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 217 309 235
Average daily rate £370 £360 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+2.77% +2.85%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £202 £250 £213
10% offered a daily rate of more than £505 £520 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £345 £328
% change year-on-year
+1.44% +5.34%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 39 47
Average hourly rate £18.00 £31.50 £21.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-42.85% +46.51%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.42 £10.64 £12.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.50 £48.00 £42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £21.63 £22.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year
-3.88% -10.00%
Firmware
England

Firmware
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South West Firmware Jobs Demand Trend

Firmware
Daily Rate Trend

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

South West Firmware Daily Rate Trend

Firmware
Hourly Rate Trend

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

South West Firmware Hourly Rate Trend

Firmware
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Firmware within the South West region over the 3 months to 19 June 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
Bristol - - - - 2
Gloucestershire - - - - 5
Somerset - - - -
Wiltshire - - - - 1
Firmware
England

Firmware
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South West 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 7 (87.50%) C
1 7 (87.50%) Linux
2 5 (62.50%) C++
3 4 (50.00%) Embedded C
3 4 (50.00%) Embedded C++
3 4 (50.00%) DVB
3 4 (50.00%) STB
3 4 (50.00%) Embedded Linux
4 2 (25.00%) Unit Testing
4 2 (25.00%) UML
4 2 (25.00%) Assembly Language
4 2 (25.00%) DTV
4 2 (25.00%) IEC 61508
5 1 (12.50%) Motorola
5 1 (12.50%) Veritas
5 1 (12.50%) Tcl
5 1 (12.50%) HACMP
5 1 (12.50%) MATLAB
5 1 (12.50%) EMC
5 1 (12.50%) SAN
5 1 (12.50%) Perl
5 1 (12.50%) VB
5 1 (12.50%) UNIX
5 1 (12.50%) Windows
5 1 (12.50%) AIX
5 1 (12.50%) Veritas Volume Manager
5 1 (12.50%) Veritas Cluster Server
5 1 (12.50%) Altera
5 1 (12.50%) Xilinx
5 1 (12.50%) Field-Programmable Gate Array

Firmware
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South West 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.

Communications & Networking
1 4 (50.00%) DVB
2 1 (12.50%) SAN
General
1 1 (12.50%) Electronics
1 1 (12.50%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Developer
2 2 (25.00%) Linux Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Firmware Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) AIX Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (50.00%) STB
2 2 (25.00%) DTV
3 1 (12.50%) HACMP
3 1 (12.50%) Field-Programmable Gate Array
3 1 (12.50%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 7 (87.50%) Linux
2 4 (50.00%) Embedded Linux
3 1 (12.50%) UNIX
3 1 (12.50%) Windows
3 1 (12.50%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (25.00%) Unit Testing
1 2 (25.00%) UML
Programming Languages
1 7 (87.50%) C
2 5 (62.50%) C++
3 4 (50.00%) Embedded C
3 4 (50.00%) Embedded C++
4 2 (25.00%) Assembly Language
5 1 (12.50%) Tcl
5 1 (12.50%) MATLAB
5 1 (12.50%) Perl
5 1 (12.50%) VB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) IEC 61508
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Veritas Volume Manager
1 1 (12.50%) Veritas Cluster Server
Vendors
1 1 (12.50%) Motorola
1 1 (12.50%) Veritas
1 1 (12.50%) EMC
1 1 (12.50%) Altera
1 1 (12.50%) Xilinx
1 1 (12.50%) Green Hills
Fpga Engineer
South West England
Experience with Xilinx FPGAs as opposed to Altera FPGAs or ASICs is preferable... * ISE place and route * Embedded firmware soft/hard platforms: Motorola Coldfire, Xilinx Microblaze or similar *...
Computer Futures
Rate: £30 - £40 per hour
Posted: 3 June 2013
Fpga Engineer
South West England
Experience with Xilinx FPGAs as opposed to Altera FPGAs or ASICs is preferable... * ISE place and route * Embedded firmware soft/hard platforms: Motorola Coldfire, Xilinx Microblaze or similar *...
Computer Futures
Rate: £30 - £35 per hour
Posted: 22 May 2013
Fpga Engineer
South West England
Experience with Xilinx FPGAs is preferable... * ISE place and route * Embedded firmware soft/hard platforms: Motorola Coldfire, Xilinx Microblaze or similar * S/W languages C, C++, Visual basic,...
Computer Futures
Rate: £30 - £40 per day
Posted: 6 June 2013
Fpga Engineer
South West England
You will be working as a member of a multi-disciplined project team, this FPGA development role is directly involved in product design. Experience with Xilinx FPGAs is...
Computer Futures
Rate: £35 - £40 per hour
Posted: 6 June 2013
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