Firmware Contracts in the UK excluding London

Firmware
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 8 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 240 314 405
Rank change year-on-year +74 +91 -61
Contract jobs citing Firmware 155 116 107
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.74% 0.51% 0.35%
As % of the System Software category 6.16% 3.38% 2.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 70 52 61
10th Percentile £205 £161 £158
25th Percentile £325 £255 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £450 £452
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -0.44% +20.53%
75th Percentile £575 £494 £538
90th Percentile - £530 £586
UK median daily rate £425 £488 £500
% change year-on-year -12.82% -2.50% +33.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 54 21 8
10th Percentile £47.50 £16.25 £24.38
25th Percentile £51.06 £51.25 £42.92
Median hourly rate £62.50 £57.50 £49.50
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% +16.16% -1.00%
75th Percentile £70.00 £65.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £90.00 £70.00 £52.25
UK median hourly rate £60.50 £55.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year +10.00% +10.00% +0.50%

All System Software Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for system software skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 2,515 3,428 4,636
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 11.94% 15.07% 15.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,718 2,414 3,300
10th Percentile £185 £180 £158
25th Percentile £313 £305 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £478 £450
Median % change year-on-year -0.52% +6.11% +5.88%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £550
90th Percentile £650 £680 £640
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - +6.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 184 168 230
10th Percentile £14.06 £14.25 £13.00
25th Percentile £14.16 £16.53 £14.25
Median hourly rate £27.50 £48.12 £17.88
Median % change year-on-year -42.85% +169.14% -2.15%
75th Percentile £62.50 £65.00 £23.69
90th Percentile £79.40 £75.00 £50.08
UK median hourly rate £24.18 £54.70 £20.00
% change year-on-year -55.79% +173.48% -

Firmware
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Firmware as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Firmware in the UK excluding London

Firmware
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Firmware in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Firmware in the UK excluding London

Firmware
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Firmware in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 8 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Firmware in the UK excluding London

Firmware
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Firmware in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Firmware in the UK excluding London

Firmware
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Firmware in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 8 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Firmware in the UK excluding London

Firmware
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Firmware within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 8 June 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
South East +49 73 £500 +168.46% 99
North of England +34 26 £504 +12.00% 28
North West +28 24 £504 +12.00% 21
Scotland +57 20 £613 +28.95% 29
South West +17 13 - - 30
East of England -26 12 £450 - 62
Midlands +13 5 £313 -30.56% 50
Wales +19 4 £550 +4.76% 10
East Midlands +9 4 £275 -22.81% 32
Yorkshire +14 2 - - 3
Northern Ireland - 2 - - 3
West Midlands +6 1 £550 +3.77% 18
Firmware
UK

Firmware
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 20 (12.90%) Confluence
2 4 (2.58%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 15 (9.68%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (2.58%) MS Visio
3 3 (1.94%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (1.94%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (1.29%) Simulink
Cloud Services
1 3 (1.94%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (0.65%) Amazon S3
2 1 (0.65%) AWS
2 1 (0.65%) Azure
2 1 (0.65%) GCP
2 1 (0.65%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 28 (18.06%) SNMP
2 27 (17.42%) Software-Defined Radio
3 19 (12.26%) Firewall
4 15 (9.68%) LAN
4 15 (9.68%) Wi-Fi
5 13 (8.39%) BGP
5 13 (8.39%) Cisco ASA
5 13 (8.39%) Cisco Firepower
5 13 (8.39%) Cisco ISE
5 13 (8.39%) EIGRP
5 13 (8.39%) HSRP
5 13 (8.39%) IPsec
5 13 (8.39%) NetScaler
5 13 (8.39%) OSPF
6 12 (7.74%) Spanning Tree
7 11 (7.10%) SAN
8 9 (5.81%) Wireless
9 7 (4.52%) VLAN
10 6 (3.87%) Internet
10 6 (3.87%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.65%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 26 (16.77%) Git
2 25 (16.13%) JIRA
3 17 (10.97%) Eclipse
4 16 (10.32%) Bitbucket
4 16 (10.32%) GoogleTest
4 16 (10.32%) Robot Framework
5 4 (2.58%) Subversion
6 3 (1.94%) Rational Rhapsody
7 1 (0.65%) CMake
7 1 (0.65%) Rational DOORS
General
1 39 (25.16%) Social Skills
2 16 (10.32%) Electronics
3 12 (7.74%) Aerospace
3 12 (7.74%) Organisational Skills
4 7 (4.52%) Manufacturing
5 6 (3.87%) Public Sector
6 5 (3.23%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (2.58%) Telecoms
8 2 (1.29%) Wearables
9 1 (0.65%) Banking
9 1 (0.65%) Finance
9 1 (0.65%) French Language
9 1 (0.65%) German Language
9 1 (0.65%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.65%) Italian Language
9 1 (0.65%) Military
9 1 (0.65%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 32 (20.65%) Software Engineer
2 27 (17.42%) Embedded Engineer
3 26 (16.77%) Hardware Engineer
4 24 (15.48%) Embedded Software Engineer
5 20 (12.90%) Network Engineer
6 17 (10.97%) Windows Engineer
7 16 (10.32%) Build Engineer
7 16 (10.32%) Windows Build Engineer
8 15 (9.68%) C++ Software Engineer
9 12 (7.74%) Firmware Engineer
9 12 (7.74%) Senior
10 9 (5.81%) Senior Network Engineer
11 8 (5.16%) Developer
11 8 (5.16%) VMware Engineer
12 7 (4.52%) Digital Hardware Engineer
12 7 (4.52%) Embedded C++ Engineer
12 7 (4.52%) Embedded C++ Software Engineer
12 7 (4.52%) Firmware Developer
12 7 (4.52%) SAN Storage Engineer
12 7 (4.52%) Storage Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (10.97%) CSS
1 17 (10.97%) HTML
2 12 (7.74%) Jinja
3 3 (1.94%) Flash
4 2 (1.29%) JSON
5 1 (0.65%) YAML
5 1 (0.65%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 16 (10.32%) Driving Licence
2 12 (7.74%) Device Driver
2 12 (7.74%) VHDL
3 9 (5.81%) Data Centre
4 8 (5.16%) Algorithms
4 8 (5.16%) Verilog
5 7 (4.52%) Embedded Systems
5 7 (4.52%) FPGA
6 5 (3.23%) IoT
7 4 (2.58%) PCIe
8 3 (1.94%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (1.94%) Management Information System
8 3 (1.94%) Operational Technology
8 3 (1.94%) Security Posture
9 2 (1.29%) Augmented Reality
9 2 (1.29%) CMDB
9 2 (1.29%) FMCG
9 2 (1.29%) Linux Command Line
9 2 (1.29%) Smartphone
9 2 (1.29%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 42 (27.10%) Windows
2 33 (21.29%) Linux
3 28 (18.06%) Windows 10
4 17 (10.97%) Windows Server
5 16 (10.32%) Windows NT
5 16 (10.32%) Windows Server 2012
5 16 (10.32%) Windows Server 2016
5 16 (10.32%) Windows Server 2019
6 12 (7.74%) Windows 7
7 5 (3.23%) Embedded Linux
8 4 (2.58%) Unix
8 4 (2.58%) VxWorks
9 3 (1.94%) ThreadX
10 1 (0.65%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (27.10%) ITIL
2 36 (23.23%) Software Engineering
3 29 (18.71%) Customer Service
3 29 (18.71%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 24 (15.48%) Problem-Solving
5 22 (14.19%) Agile
6 21 (13.55%) UML
6 21 (13.55%) Validation
7 18 (11.61%) SysML
8 17 (10.97%) Change Management
9 16 (10.32%) Deployment Automation
9 16 (10.32%) Network Management
9 16 (10.32%) Release Management
9 16 (10.32%) Scrum
9 16 (10.32%) Service Management
9 16 (10.32%) Software Testing
9 16 (10.32%) User Acceptance Testing
10 15 (9.68%) Verification and Validation
11 13 (8.39%) Service Delivery
12 12 (7.74%) ITSM
Programming Languages
1 27 (17.42%) C++
2 22 (14.19%) Python
3 21 (13.55%) C
4 17 (10.97%) JavaScript
5 14 (9.03%) Tcl
6 13 (8.39%) Perl
7 12 (7.74%) Embedded C
8 8 (5.16%) Java
9 7 (4.52%) MATLAB
10 4 (2.58%) Assembly Language
10 4 (2.58%) Shell Script
11 3 (1.94%) Embedded C++
11 3 (1.94%) SystemVerilog
12 2 (1.29%) Bash
13 1 (0.65%) PowerShell
13 1 (0.65%) SQL
Qualifications
1 58 (37.42%) Security Cleared
2 31 (20.00%) Degree
2 31 (20.00%) DV Cleared
3 27 (17.42%) SC Cleared
4 17 (10.97%) CCNA
4 17 (10.97%) Cisco Certification
5 12 (7.74%) CCNP
6 5 (3.23%) Microsoft Certification
6 5 (3.23%) PhD
7 4 (2.58%) Master's Degree
7 4 (2.58%) MCSE
7 4 (2.58%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 2 (1.29%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (1.29%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (1.29%) HND
9 1 (0.65%) CTC Cleared
9 1 (0.65%) IBM Certification
9 1 (0.65%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (11.61%) QA
2 7 (4.52%) MISRA
3 5 (3.23%) JTAG
4 4 (2.58%) MISRA C
4 4 (2.58%) SLA
5 3 (1.94%) Def Stans
5 3 (1.94%) DO-178B
5 3 (1.94%) NCSC
6 2 (1.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.65%) DO-254
7 1 (0.65%) GDPR
7 1 (0.65%) IEC 61508
7 1 (0.65%) JSP 440
7 1 (0.65%) NIST
7 1 (0.65%) NIST 800
System Software
1 17 (10.97%) Active Directory
2 11 (7.10%) Embedded Firmware
3 7 (4.52%) VMware ESXi
4 5 (3.23%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (2.58%) vSphere
6 1 (0.65%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 28 (18.06%) SCCM
2 16 (10.32%) Sysprep
2 16 (10.32%) WSUS
3 12 (7.74%) Ansible
4 6 (3.87%) vCenter Server
5 1 (0.65%) NetBackup
5 1 (0.65%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 39 (25.16%) Microsoft
2 25 (16.13%) Cisco
3 23 (14.84%) Atlassian
4 17 (10.97%) Google
5 13 (8.39%) Citrix
5 13 (8.39%) Palo Alto
5 13 (8.39%) SolarWinds
6 12 (7.74%) HP
7 11 (7.10%) VMware
8 6 (3.87%) Xilinx
9 4 (2.58%) IBM
9 4 (2.58%) Intel
10 3 (1.94%) Brocade
10 3 (1.94%) EMC
11 2 (1.29%) Broadcom
11 2 (1.29%) CheckPoint
11 2 (1.29%) Meraki
11 2 (1.29%) Nortel
11 2 (1.29%) Renesas
11 2 (1.29%) Siemens