Firmware Contracts in Surrey

Firmware
South East > Surrey

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Surrey 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 30 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 50 57 82
Rank change year-on-year +7 +25 -13
Contract jobs citing Firmware 6 12 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Surrey 1.02% 1.77% 0.11%
As % of the System Software category 10.71% 13.48% 0.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 12 1
10th Percentile - £158 -
25th Percentile £350 £160 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £173 £550
Median % change year-on-year +117.39% -68.64% -
75th Percentile £525 £188 -
90th Percentile £555 £200 -
South East median daily rate £525 £200 £450
% change year-on-year +162.50% -55.56% +27.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £31.25 - -
Median hourly rate £32.50 - -
75th Percentile £33.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £62.50 £52.50 -
% change year-on-year +19.05% - -

All System Software Skills
Surrey

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 Surrey with a requirement for system software skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 56 89 138
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Surrey 9.54% 13.13% 15.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 82 115
10th Percentile £196 £161 £163
25th Percentile £298 £253 £185
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £500 £290
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +72.41% -19.16%
75th Percentile £475 £594 £550
90th Percentile £582 £607 £638
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £17.80 - -
75th Percentile £25.78 - -
90th Percentile £40.25 - -
South East median hourly rate £50.75 £54.03 £20.00
% change year-on-year -6.07% +170.15% -9.09%

Firmware
Job Vacancy Trend in Surrey

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

Job vacancy trend for Firmware in Surrey

Firmware
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Surrey

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

Daily rate trend for Firmware in Surrey

Firmware
Daily Rate Histogram in Surrey

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Firmware in Surrey over the 6 months to 30 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Firmware in Surrey

Firmware
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Surrey

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

Hourly rate trend for Firmware in Surrey

Firmware
Contract Job Locations in Surrey

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Firmware within the Surrey region over the 6 months to 30 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
Guildford - 4 £363 - 5
Firmware
South East

Firmware
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Surrey 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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (50.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Communications & Networking
1 3 (50.00%) Fibre Channel
1 3 (50.00%) Firewall
1 3 (50.00%) iSCSI
1 3 (50.00%) NAS
1 3 (50.00%) SAN
1 3 (50.00%) SSL
1 3 (50.00%) TCP/IP
1 3 (50.00%) VLAN
1 3 (50.00%) VoIP
1 3 (50.00%) VPN
General
1 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) DSP Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Systems Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) 3rd Line Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Electronics Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Process Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Test Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) VHDL Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) VMware Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) CSS
1 1 (16.67%) Flash
1 1 (16.67%) HTML
1 1 (16.67%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Algorithms
1 2 (33.33%) VHDL
2 1 (16.67%) Digital TV
Operating Systems
1 4 (66.67%) Linux
1 4 (66.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Change Management
1 3 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 3 (50.00%) Infrastructure Management
1 3 (50.00%) Security Management
1 3 (50.00%) Virtual Infrastructure
2 2 (33.33%) Project Delivery
2 2 (33.33%) Storage Management
2 2 (33.33%) Validation
2 2 (33.33%) Verification and Validation
3 1 (16.67%) Defect Tracking
3 1 (16.67%) Digital Signal Processing
3 1 (16.67%) Mathematics
3 1 (16.67%) Patch Management
3 1 (16.67%) Physics
3 1 (16.67%) Quality Management
3 1 (16.67%) Signal Processing
3 1 (16.67%) Software Testing
3 1 (16.67%) Test Automation
3 1 (16.67%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) C
1 2 (33.33%) C++
1 2 (33.33%) Embedded C
1 2 (33.33%) Embedded C++
2 1 (16.67%) JavaScript
2 1 (16.67%) MATLAB
2 1 (16.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (83.33%) Degree
2 3 (50.00%) CCNA
2 3 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (50.00%) MCSE
2 3 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 3 (50.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 2 (33.33%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (16.67%) ISTQB
4 1 (16.67%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) SLA
2 1 (16.67%) QA
System Software
1 3 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 3 (50.00%) vSphere
2 1 (16.67%) Embedded Firmware
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (50.00%) VMware