Firmware Contracts

Firmware
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 376 566 663
Rank change year-on-year +190 +97 -78
Contract jobs citing Firmware 230 153 188
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.53% 0.26% 0.21%
As % of the System Software category 4.94% 1.94% 1.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 132 77 109
10th Percentile £205 £161 £285
25th Percentile £292 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £488 £475
Median % change year-on-year -12.82% +2.63% +32.87%
75th Percentile £575 £540 £550
90th Percentile - £587 £610
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +5.56% - +28.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 61 32 17
10th Percentile £24.18 £40.75 £23.75
25th Percentile £47.50 £47.50 £47.50
Median hourly rate £60.50 £55.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% +10.00% +2.04%
75th Percentile £67.38 £63.13 £53.75
90th Percentile £90.00 £69.50 £54.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £60.50 £56.50 £50.75
% change year-on-year +7.08% +11.33% +2.53%

All System Software Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for system software skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 4,653 7,900 12,040
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 10.75% 13.21% 13.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,179 5,646 8,623
10th Percentile £197 £205 £200
25th Percentile £331 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% - +9.38%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £625
90th Percentile £688 £725 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £460 £485 £450
% change year-on-year -5.13% +7.75% +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 232 284 318
10th Percentile £14.06 £14.83 £13.21
25th Percentile £15.50 £18.25 £15.00
Median hourly rate £22.50 £53.75 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -58.14% +168.75% -
75th Percentile £60.19 £66.00 £44.07
90th Percentile £77.95 £75.35 £60.92
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.50 £44.93 £18.12
% change year-on-year -52.15% +148.01% +2.06%

Firmware
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Firmware in the UK

Firmware
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Firmware in the UK

Firmware
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Firmware over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Firmware in the UK

Firmware
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Firmware in the UK

Firmware
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Firmware over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Firmware in the UK

Firmware
Top 15 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 27 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
England +194 205 £425 -8.11% 291
UK excluding London +124 165 £475 +5.56% 302
South East +70 78 £525 +162.50% 104
London +139 59 £363 -28.92% 26
Work from Home +112 43 £400 -23.81% 113
North of England +65 37 £475 +58.33% 21
North West - 32 £513 - 12
Scotland +49 17 £388 -22.50% 33
South West +25 14 - - 42
East of England -6 13 £450 - 71
North East - 5 £425 - 1
Midlands +11 4 £550 +10.00% 39
West Midlands +23 3 £550 +6.80% 18
Northern Ireland +9 2 - - 3
East Midlands +13 1 - - 21

Firmware
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 14 (6.09%) Confluence
2 12 (5.22%) OpenStack
3 5 (2.17%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 26 (11.30%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.87%) Simulink
3 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.43%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 11 (4.78%) Azure
2 6 (2.61%) AWS
2 6 (2.61%) GCP
3 5 (2.17%) Microsoft 365
3 5 (2.17%) OpenShift
4 4 (1.74%) IaaS
4 4 (1.74%) SaaS
5 2 (0.87%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (0.43%) Amazon Alexa
6 1 (0.43%) Azure App Service
6 1 (0.43%) Azure Functions
6 1 (0.43%) Azure Storage
6 1 (0.43%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (0.43%) Entra ID
6 1 (0.43%) Firebase
6 1 (0.43%) GitHub
6 1 (0.43%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 28 (12.17%) Firewall
2 26 (11.30%) LAN
3 25 (10.87%) SNMP
4 23 (10.00%) Software-Defined Radio
5 19 (8.26%) BGP
5 19 (8.26%) IPsec
5 19 (8.26%) OSPF
5 19 (8.26%) Wireless
6 17 (7.39%) Wi-Fi
7 14 (6.09%) VPN
8 13 (5.65%) Cisco ASA
8 13 (5.65%) Cisco Firepower
8 13 (5.65%) Cisco ISE
8 13 (5.65%) EIGRP
8 13 (5.65%) HSRP
8 13 (5.65%) NetScaler
9 12 (5.22%) Spanning Tree
10 11 (4.78%) VoIP
11 10 (4.35%) Internet
11 10 (4.35%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.43%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 19 (8.26%) Git
2 18 (7.83%) JIRA
3 14 (6.09%) Eclipse
4 13 (5.65%) Bitbucket
4 13 (5.65%) GoogleTest
4 13 (5.65%) Robot Framework
5 5 (2.17%) Rational DOORS
6 4 (1.74%) Subversion
7 3 (1.30%) Rational Rhapsody
General
1 69 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 25 (10.87%) Organisational Skills
3 20 (8.70%) Finance
4 14 (6.09%) Public Sector
5 13 (5.65%) Electronics
6 10 (4.35%) Analytical Skills
6 10 (4.35%) Manufacturing
7 8 (3.48%) Aerospace
7 8 (3.48%) Telecoms
8 4 (1.74%) Banking
8 4 (1.74%) Investment Banking
8 4 (1.74%) Marketing
8 4 (1.74%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (0.87%) Law
9 2 (0.87%) Local Government
9 2 (0.87%) Military
10 1 (0.43%) Automotive
10 1 (0.43%) French Language
10 1 (0.43%) German Language
10 1 (0.43%) Italian Language
Job Titles
1 35 (15.22%) Hardware Engineer
2 28 (12.17%) Software Engineer
3 25 (10.87%) Network Engineer
4 21 (9.13%) Build Engineer
4 21 (9.13%) Windows Build Engineer
4 21 (9.13%) Windows Engineer
5 20 (8.70%) Embedded Engineer
5 20 (8.70%) Embedded Software Engineer
6 17 (7.39%) Developer
7 13 (5.65%) Senior
8 12 (5.22%) Firmware Developer
9 11 (4.78%) Analyst
9 11 (4.78%) Consultant
10 10 (4.35%) Cisco Engineer
10 10 (4.35%) Senior Network Engineer
10 10 (4.35%) Systems Engineer
10 10 (4.35%) VMware Engineer
11 9 (3.91%) Audio Visual Engineer
11 9 (3.91%) Firmware Engineer
12 8 (3.48%) C++ Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (6.52%) CSS
1 15 (6.52%) HTML
2 12 (5.22%) Jinja
3 6 (2.61%) Yocto
4 4 (1.74%) SAML
5 1 (0.43%) .NET
5 1 (0.43%) Flash
5 1 (0.43%) HTML5
5 1 (0.43%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 22 (9.57%) Driving Licence
2 14 (6.09%) Device Driver
3 13 (5.65%) VHDL
4 11 (4.78%) Embedded Systems
4 11 (4.78%) FPGA
5 9 (3.91%) Data Centre
6 8 (3.48%) Algorithms
7 7 (3.04%) Onboarding
8 6 (2.61%) Verilog
9 5 (2.17%) Digital TV
9 5 (2.17%) IoT
9 5 (2.17%) Video Conferencing
10 4 (1.74%) PCIe
10 4 (1.74%) STB
11 3 (1.30%) CMDB
11 3 (1.30%) Linux Command Line
12 2 (0.87%) FMCG
12 2 (0.87%) Operational Technology
12 2 (0.87%) Self-Motivation
13 1 (0.43%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 66 (28.70%) Windows
2 49 (21.30%) Linux
3 39 (16.96%) Windows 10
4 27 (11.74%) Windows Server
5 21 (9.13%) Windows NT
5 21 (9.13%) Windows Server 2012
5 21 (9.13%) Windows Server 2016
5 21 (9.13%) Windows Server 2019
6 18 (7.83%) Windows 7
7 6 (2.61%) Embedded Linux
7 6 (2.61%) Unix
8 5 (2.17%) VMS
9 4 (1.74%) VxWorks
10 1 (0.43%) CentOS
10 1 (0.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (23.48%) ITIL
2 45 (19.57%) Problem-Solving
3 41 (17.83%) Customer Service
4 34 (14.78%) Software Engineering
5 27 (11.74%) Validation
6 26 (11.30%) Agile
7 25 (10.87%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 23 (10.00%) Software Testing
9 22 (9.57%) UML
10 21 (9.13%) Deployment Automation
10 21 (9.13%) Release Management
10 21 (9.13%) Service Management
10 21 (9.13%) User Acceptance Testing
11 20 (8.70%) Customer Requirements
11 20 (8.70%) Verification and Validation
12 19 (8.26%) ITSM
12 19 (8.26%) SysML
13 18 (7.83%) Service Delivery
13 18 (7.83%) Software Deployment
14 17 (7.39%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 33 (14.35%) Python
2 24 (10.43%) C
2 24 (10.43%) C++
3 17 (7.39%) Perl
4 16 (6.96%) MATLAB
5 15 (6.52%) JavaScript
6 12 (5.22%) Tcl
7 10 (4.35%) Java
8 8 (3.48%) Embedded C
9 4 (1.74%) Assembly Language
9 4 (1.74%) Bash
9 4 (1.74%) Shell Script
10 3 (1.30%) Embedded C++
10 3 (1.30%) PowerShell
11 1 (0.43%) C#
11 1 (0.43%) Go
11 1 (0.43%) PHP
11 1 (0.43%) Ruby
11 1 (0.43%) SQL
Qualifications
1 78 (33.91%) Security Cleared
2 42 (18.26%) Degree
3 40 (17.39%) DV Cleared
4 38 (16.52%) SC Cleared
5 22 (9.57%) Cisco Certification
6 18 (7.83%) CCNA
6 18 (7.83%) CCNP
7 6 (2.61%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 4 (1.74%) Master's Degree
8 4 (1.74%) MCSE
8 4 (1.74%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (1.74%) PhD
9 2 (0.87%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (0.87%) CCIE
9 2 (0.87%) HND
10 1 (0.43%) Computer Science Degree
10 1 (0.43%) ISTQB
10 1 (0.43%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (10.43%) QA
2 8 (3.48%) SLA
3 7 (3.04%) MISRA
4 4 (1.74%) JTAG
4 4 (1.74%) MISRA C
5 3 (1.30%) Def Stans
5 3 (1.30%) DO-178B
6 2 (0.87%) NCSC
7 1 (0.43%) ISO 26262
7 1 (0.43%) JSP 440
7 1 (0.43%) NIST
7 1 (0.43%) NIST 800
System Software
1 36 (15.65%) Active Directory
2 11 (4.78%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (3.48%) Virtual Machines
4 7 (3.04%) Embedded Firmware
5 6 (2.61%) Docker
5 6 (2.61%) VMware ESXi
5 6 (2.61%) vSphere
6 2 (0.87%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 39 (16.96%) SCCM
2 27 (11.74%) WSUS
3 21 (9.13%) Sysprep
4 18 (7.83%) Ansible
5 14 (6.09%) Dell DRAC
6 7 (3.04%) vCenter Server
7 6 (2.61%) Kubernetes
8 5 (2.17%) Progress Chef
8 5 (2.17%) Puppet
8 5 (2.17%) Terraform
9 4 (1.74%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.87%) FortiGate
11 1 (0.43%) SCOM
11 1 (0.43%) VxRail
11 1 (0.43%) yum
Vendors
1 57 (24.78%) Microsoft
2 37 (16.09%) Cisco
3 22 (9.57%) Dell
4 20 (8.70%) HP
5 18 (7.83%) Atlassian
5 18 (7.83%) VMware
6 15 (6.52%) Palo Alto
7 14 (6.09%) Google
8 13 (5.65%) Citrix
8 13 (5.65%) SolarWinds
9 10 (4.35%) Red Hat
10 9 (3.91%) Isilon
11 7 (3.04%) Xilinx
12 6 (2.61%) F5
12 6 (2.61%) Infoblox
13 5 (2.17%) Intel
13 5 (2.17%) Veeam
14 4 (1.74%) Okta
14 4 (1.74%) SAP
14 4 (1.74%) ServiceNow