The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Firmware in IT jobs advertised for the East Sussex region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Firmware over the 3 months to 19 June 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 East Sussex region.

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Firmware
Rank 94 89 81
Rank change year-on-year
-5 -8
Permanent jobs citing Firmware 1 5 1
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in East Sussex 0.107% 0.529% 0.137%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.301% 1.340% 0.568%
Number of salaries quoted 0 5 1
Average salary - £35,000 £55,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- -36.36%
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
All of the Miscellaneous Category
East Sussex
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
332 373 176
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in East Sussex 35.58% 39.47% 24.14%
Number of salaries quoted 305 326 164
Average salary £37,500 £35,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+7.14% -
90% offered a salary of more than £26,000 £25,000 £22,500
10% offered a salary of more than £48,000 £47,000 £47,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +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 East Sussex region as a proportion of the total demand within the Miscellaneous category.

East Sussex 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 East Sussex region.

East Sussex Firmware Salary Trend

Firmware
Top 28 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the East Sussex 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 2 (66.67%) LabVIEW
1 2 (66.67%) Electronics
1 2 (66.67%) Field-Programmable Gate Array
1 2 (66.67%) Degree
2 1 (33.33%) Embedded Systems
2 1 (33.33%) Freescale
2 1 (33.33%) Software Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Agilent
2 1 (33.33%) Finance
2 1 (33.33%) VHDL
2 1 (33.33%) C
2 1 (33.33%) C#
2 1 (33.33%) C++
2 1 (33.33%) SQL
2 1 (33.33%) VB
2 1 (33.33%) VB.NET
2 1 (33.33%) .NET
2 1 (33.33%) UML
2 1 (33.33%) OOD
2 1 (33.33%) ISO 9001
2 1 (33.33%) Ethernet
2 1 (33.33%) HP
2 1 (33.33%) EMC
2 1 (33.33%) Assembly Language
2 1 (33.33%) CAD
2 1 (33.33%) AutoCAD
2 1 (33.33%) CAE
2 1 (33.33%) Project Management

Firmware
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the East Sussex 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 1 (33.33%) .NET
Applications
1 1 (33.33%) AutoCAD
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) Ethernet
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) LabVIEW
General
1 2 (66.67%) Electronics
2 1 (33.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Design Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Hardware Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Electronics Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Field-Programmable Gate Array
2 1 (33.33%) Embedded Systems
2 1 (33.33%) VHDL
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) Software Testing
1 1 (33.33%) UML
1 1 (33.33%) OOD
1 1 (33.33%) CAD
1 1 (33.33%) CAE
1 1 (33.33%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) C
1 1 (33.33%) C#
1 1 (33.33%) C++
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
1 1 (33.33%) VB
1 1 (33.33%) VB.NET
1 1 (33.33%) Assembly Language
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) ISO 9001
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Freescale
1 1 (33.33%) Agilent
1 1 (33.33%) HP
1 1 (33.33%) EMC