The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Firmware in IT jobs advertised for the Berkshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Firmware over the 3 months to 24 May 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 Berkshire region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Firmware
Rank 190 209 204
Rank change year-on-year
+19 -5
Permanent jobs citing Firmware 29 13 6
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Berkshire 0.557% 0.211% 0.115%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.853% 0.759% 0.391%
Number of salaries quoted 28 11 6
Average salary £50,000 £32,500 £38,750
Average salary % change year-on-year
+53.84% -16.12%
90% offered a salary of more than £40,000 £32,500 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £43,000 £51,250
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
All of the Miscellaneous Category
Berkshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
1565 1713 1535
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Berkshire 30.04% 27.80% 29.51%
Number of salaries quoted 1258 1423 1366
Average salary £42,500 £45,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-5.55% +12.50%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,500 £30,000 £26,000
10% offered a salary of more than £62,500 £60,000 £62,500
UK excluding London average salary £39,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-2.50% +6.66%
Firmware
South East

Firmware
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Berkshire Firmware Jobs Demand Trend

Firmware
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Firmware across the Berkshire region.

Berkshire Firmware Salary Trend

Firmware
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Firmware across the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Berkshire Firmware Salary Histogram

Firmware
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Firmware within the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 24 May 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Reading +8 13 £50,000 +53.84%
Newbury +14 12 £42,500 +30.76%
Bracknell - 2 £42,000 -
Firmware
South East

Firmware
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Berkshire 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 IT job ads sampled that cited Firmware.

1 35 (76.09%) Windows
2 30 (65.22%) C++
3 28 (60.87%) SAS
4 27 (58.70%) Linux
5 24 (52.17%) Device Driver
6 22 (47.83%) C
7 21 (45.65%) Embedded C
8 20 (43.48%) Embedded C++
9 17 (36.96%) FIX Protocol
9 17 (36.96%) iSCSI
9 17 (36.96%) Clustering
9 17 (36.96%) Fibre Channel
9 17 (36.96%) Big Data
9 17 (36.96%) SNMP
9 17 (36.96%) SSL
9 17 (36.96%) Flash
9 17 (36.96%) FreeBSD
10 15 (32.61%) Degree
11 13 (28.26%) F5
11 13 (28.26%) PowerShell
11 13 (28.26%) MS Excel
11 13 (28.26%) Perl
11 13 (28.26%) HP
11 13 (28.26%) Cisco
11 13 (28.26%) Microsoft
11 13 (28.26%) Sun
11 13 (28.26%) Change Management
11 13 (28.26%) Red Hat
11 13 (28.26%) Project Management
12 12 (26.09%) Java

Firmware
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Berkshire 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 IT job ads sampled that cited Firmware. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 17 (36.96%) FIX Protocol
1 17 (36.96%) Flash
2 11 (23.91%) HTML
2 11 (23.91%) XML
3 5 (10.87%) .NET
4 3 (6.522%) MFC
5 1 (2.174%) SOAP
5 1 (2.174%) JMS
Application Platforms
1 28 (60.87%) SAS
2 12 (26.09%) Apache
3 11 (23.91%) IIS
4 1 (2.174%) Tomcat
Applications
1 13 (28.26%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (2.174%) SAP MDM
Communications & Networking
1 17 (36.96%) iSCSI
1 17 (36.96%) Fibre Channel
1 17 (36.96%) SNMP
1 17 (36.96%) SSL
2 11 (23.91%) Cisco ASA
2 11 (23.91%) tcpdump
2 11 (23.91%) snoop
2 11 (23.91%) FWSM
2 11 (23.91%) Wireshark
2 11 (23.91%) Intrusion Detection
3 3 (6.522%) Ethernet
3 3 (6.522%) TCP/IP
3 3 (6.522%) Wireless
3 3 (6.522%) GPRS
3 3 (6.522%) GSM
4 1 (2.174%) ZigBee
4 1 (2.174%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (36.96%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 2 (4.348%) Visual Studio
General
1 7 (15.22%) Electronics
2 2 (4.348%) Telecoms
3 1 (2.174%) Marketing
3 1 (2.174%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 29 (63.04%) Software Engineer
2 20 (43.48%) Embedded Software Engineer
3 4 (8.696%) Firmware Engineer
3 4 (8.696%) Team Leader
4 2 (4.348%) Administrator
4 2 (4.348%) Systems Administrator
4 2 (4.348%) Network Engineer
4 2 (4.348%) Systems Engineer
4 2 (4.348%) Lead Network Engineer
4 2 (4.348%) Windows Engineer
4 2 (4.348%) Software Team Leader
4 2 (4.348%) Senior Software Engineer
4 2 (4.348%) Linux Engineer
4 2 (4.348%) Software Development Team Leader
4 2 (4.348%) Development Team Leader
5 1 (2.174%) Integration Manager
5 1 (2.174%) Technical Engineer
5 1 (2.174%) Electronics Engineer
5 1 (2.174%) Integration Project Manager
5 1 (2.174%) Senior Firmware Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 24 (52.17%) Device Driver
2 17 (36.96%) Clustering
3 5 (10.87%) Embedded Systems
4 2 (4.348%) Enterprise Storage
4 2 (4.348%) Computer Science
5 1 (2.174%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 35 (76.09%) Windows
2 27 (58.70%) Linux
3 17 (36.96%) FreeBSD
4 11 (23.91%) Solaris
4 11 (23.91%) Windows Server 2003
4 11 (23.91%) Windows Server 2008
4 11 (23.91%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 9 (19.57%) UNIX
6 7 (15.22%) VxWorks
7 1 (2.174%) Oracle Linux
7 1 (2.174%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (28.26%) Change Management
1 13 (28.26%) Project Management
2 11 (23.91%) ITIL
2 11 (23.91%) Service Delivery
2 11 (23.91%) Web Development
2 11 (23.91%) Problem Management
3 3 (6.522%) Software Engineering
3 3 (6.522%) Embedded Software Development
4 2 (4.348%) UML
4 2 (4.348%) Software Testing
5 1 (2.174%) Scrum
5 1 (2.174%) Programme Management
5 1 (2.174%) Document Management
5 1 (2.174%) Business Development
5 1 (2.174%) Integration Testing
5 1 (2.174%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 30 (65.22%) C++
2 22 (47.83%) C
3 21 (45.65%) Embedded C
4 20 (43.48%) Embedded C++
5 13 (28.26%) PowerShell
5 13 (28.26%) Perl
6 12 (26.09%) Java
7 5 (10.87%) C#
8 4 (8.696%) Assembly Language
9 2 (4.348%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 15 (32.61%) Degree
2 7 (15.22%) MCSE
2 7 (15.22%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.522%) QA
2 1 (2.174%) SLA
System Software
1 11 (23.91%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 13 (28.26%) F5
1 13 (28.26%) HP
1 13 (28.26%) Cisco
1 13 (28.26%) Microsoft
1 13 (28.26%) Sun
1 13 (28.26%) Red Hat
2 11 (23.91%) Nortel
2 11 (23.91%) Juniper
2 11 (23.91%) Egenera
2 11 (23.91%) Foundry
2 11 (23.91%) VMware
3 7 (15.22%) Intel
3 7 (15.22%) QNX
4 3 (6.522%) EMC
4 3 (6.522%) NEC
5 2 (4.348%) Progress
5 2 (4.348%) NetApp
6 1 (2.174%) SAP
6 1 (2.174%) Oracle
Newbury, Berkshire
Embedded C, Embedded Software, Firmware, C/C++, FreeBSD Kernel, RTOS, Linux, Device drivers, PCIe, Fiber channel, SAS, SCSI, iSCSI, Storage, Datacentre, SATA disks, Disk storage, R&D. This...
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Salary: £35000 - £50000 per annum
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Salary: Competitive
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