The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Firmware in IT jobs advertised for the Buckinghamshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Firmware over the 3 months to 22 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 Buckinghamshire region.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Firmware
Rank 130 121 124
Rank change year-on-year
-9 +3
Permanent jobs citing Firmware 5 6 7
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Buckinghamshire 0.245% 0.308% 0.338%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.810% 1.062% 1.053%
Number of salaries quoted 3 5 7
Average salary £45,000 £42,500 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+5.88% +13.33%
90% offered a salary of more than £43,000 £42,500 £32,500
10% offered a salary of more than £49,000 £44,000 £41,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
All of the Miscellaneous Category
Buckinghamshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
617 565 665
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Buckinghamshire 30.22% 29.00% 32.14%
Number of salaries quoted 526 503 593
Average salary £40,000 £37,500 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+6.66% -
90% offered a salary of more than £24,000 £22,500 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £50,000 £52,500
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 Buckinghamshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Miscellaneous category.

Buckinghamshire 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 Buckinghamshire region.

Buckinghamshire Firmware Salary Trend

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 Buckinghamshire region over the 3 months to 22 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
Milton Keynes - 3 £47,500 -
Buckingham - 2 £42,500 -
Firmware
South East

Firmware
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Buckinghamshire 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 9 (75.00%) Degree
2 8 (66.67%) C
3 6 (50.00%) Assembly Language
4 5 (41.67%) Embedded C
4 5 (41.67%) Electronics
5 4 (33.33%) Device Driver
6 3 (25.00%) Manufacturing
6 3 (25.00%) Cadence
6 3 (25.00%) DNS
6 3 (25.00%) HP
6 3 (25.00%) Middleware
6 3 (25.00%) UNIX
6 3 (25.00%) Linux
6 3 (25.00%) TCP/IP
6 3 (25.00%) Embedded Systems
7 2 (16.67%) Validation
7 2 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
7 2 (16.67%) GNU Toolchain
7 2 (16.67%) Computer Science
7 2 (16.67%) Network Security
7 2 (16.67%) VPN
7 2 (16.67%) DHCP
7 2 (16.67%) SNMP
7 2 (16.67%) SOAP
7 2 (16.67%) XML
7 2 (16.67%) C++
7 2 (16.67%) IPv4
7 2 (16.67%) IPv6
7 2 (16.67%) i2
7 2 (16.67%) OSPF

Firmware
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Buckinghamshire 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 3 (25.00%) Middleware
2 2 (16.67%) SOAP
2 2 (16.67%) XML
Business Applications
1 1 (8.333%) Oracle 11i
Communications & Networking
1 3 (25.00%) DNS
1 3 (25.00%) TCP/IP
2 2 (16.67%) Network Security
2 2 (16.67%) VPN
2 2 (16.67%) DHCP
2 2 (16.67%) SNMP
2 2 (16.67%) IPv4
2 2 (16.67%) IPv6
2 2 (16.67%) OSPF
2 2 (16.67%) Firewall
3 1 (8.333%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (8.333%) Wireless
3 1 (8.333%) RFID
3 1 (8.333%) SAN
3 1 (8.333%) LDAP
3 1 (8.333%) Bluetooth
3 1 (8.333%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (8.333%) Oracle Reports
1 1 (8.333%) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications
1 2 (16.67%) GNU Toolchain
2 1 (8.333%) PVCS
2 1 (8.333%) Rational DOORS
General
1 5 (41.67%) Electronics
2 3 (25.00%) Manufacturing
3 1 (8.333%) Publishing
3 1 (8.333%) Finance
3 1 (8.333%) Aerospace
3 1 (8.333%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 5 (41.67%) Firmware Engineer
2 3 (25.00%) Software Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Design Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Embedded Software Engineer
4 1 (8.333%) FPGA Design Engineer
4 1 (8.333%) C Developer
4 1 (8.333%) C Software Engineer
4 1 (8.333%) HPUX Systems Administrator
4 1 (8.333%) Software Design Engineer
4 1 (8.333%) UNIX Systems Administrator
4 1 (8.333%) UNIX Administrator
4 1 (8.333%) Software Developer
4 1 (8.333%) Developer
4 1 (8.333%) Systems Administrator
4 1 (8.333%) Systems Engineer
4 1 (8.333%) Administrator
4 1 (8.333%) FPGA Engineer
4 1 (8.333%) Senior FPGA Engineer
4 1 (8.333%) Senior Design Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (33.33%) Device Driver
2 3 (25.00%) Embedded Systems
3 2 (16.67%) Computer Science
3 2 (16.67%) ASIC
3 2 (16.67%) VHDL
3 2 (16.67%) Field-Programmable Gate Array
4 1 (8.333%) Clustering
4 1 (8.333%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 3 (25.00%) UNIX
1 3 (25.00%) Linux
2 1 (8.333%) HPUX
2 1 (8.333%) Solaris
2 1 (8.333%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (8.333%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (16.67%) Validation
1 2 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
1 2 (16.67%) IC Design
1 2 (16.67%) Software Engineering
2 1 (8.333%) Risk Management
2 1 (8.333%) Service Management
2 1 (8.333%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (8.333%) Code Coverage
2 1 (8.333%) Six Sigma
2 1 (8.333%) ITIL
2 1 (8.333%) UML
2 1 (8.333%) Data Protection
2 1 (8.333%) Unit Testing
2 1 (8.333%) Digital Signal Processing
2 1 (8.333%) Signal Processing
Programming Languages
1 8 (66.67%) C
2 6 (50.00%) Assembly Language
3 5 (41.67%) Embedded C
4 2 (16.67%) C++
5 1 (8.333%) Shell Script
5 1 (8.333%) Perl
Qualifications
1 9 (75.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.333%) JTAG
1 1 (8.333%) DO-254
System Software
1 1 (8.333%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
1 1 (8.333%) Veritas Volume Manager
Systems Management
1 1 (8.333%) NetBackup
1 1 (8.333%) Tivoli
1 1 (8.333%) HP Data Protector
1 1 (8.333%) HP SIM
Vendors
1 3 (25.00%) Cadence
1 3 (25.00%) HP
2 2 (16.67%) i2
3 1 (8.333%) NetApp
3 1 (8.333%) Veritas
3 1 (8.333%) Red Hat
3 1 (8.333%) Sun
3 1 (8.333%) Symantec
3 1 (8.333%) EMC
3 1 (8.333%) Oracle
3 1 (8.333%) TippingPoint
3 1 (8.333%) Actel
3 1 (8.333%) ArcSight
Milton Keynes, Thames Valley
Knowledge and use of JTAG; code coverage/profiling; and automated test tools would be highly desirable... Knowledge of WIFI, Classic Bluetooth, BLE would be highly desirable... Familiarity with...
Salary: £45000 - £55000 per annum + package
Posted: 8 May 2013