The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Firmware in IT jobs advertised for the Kent region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Firmware over the 3 months to 17 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 Kent region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Firmware
Rank - 72 96
Permanent jobs citing Firmware 0 2 4
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Kent - 0.281% 0.380%
As % of the Miscellaneous category - 0.985% 1.384%
Number of salaries quoted 0 2 3
Average salary - £38,750 £50,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- -22.50%
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
All of the Miscellaneous Category
Kent
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
329 203 289
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Kent 27.95% 28.47% 27.47%
Number of salaries quoted 272 176 259
Average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
90% offered a salary of more than £28,500 £25,000 £24,401
10% offered a salary of more than £72,500 £50,600 £51,500
UK excluding London average salary £38,815 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-2.96% +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 Kent region as a proportion of the total demand within the Miscellaneous category.

Kent 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 Kent region.

Kent Firmware Salary Trend

Firmware
Top 24 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Kent 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 (100.00%) C
1 2 (100.00%) C++
2 1 (50.00%) Visual Studio
2 1 (50.00%) Windows
2 1 (50.00%) Linux
2 1 (50.00%) OOP
2 1 (50.00%) OO
2 1 (50.00%) ISO 9001
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) Embedded C
2 1 (50.00%) Embedded C++
2 1 (50.00%) Middleware
2 1 (50.00%) CAD
2 1 (50.00%) Electronics
2 1 (50.00%) Manufacturing
2 1 (50.00%) Device Driver
2 1 (50.00%) VHDL
2 1 (50.00%) Field-Programmable Gate Array
2 1 (50.00%) Degree
2 1 (50.00%) Physics
2 1 (50.00%) Multithreading
2 1 (50.00%) Video Processing
2 1 (50.00%) Open Source
2 1 (50.00%) Embedded Systems

Firmware
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Kent 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 (50.00%) Middleware
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Visual Studio
General
1 1 (50.00%) Electronics
1 1 (50.00%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Software Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Embedded Software Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Firmware Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Device Driver
1 1 (50.00%) VHDL
1 1 (50.00%) Field-Programmable Gate Array
1 1 (50.00%) Physics
1 1 (50.00%) Open Source
1 1 (50.00%) Embedded Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) OOP
1 1 (50.00%) OO
1 1 (50.00%) CAD
1 1 (50.00%) Multithreading
1 1 (50.00%) Video Processing
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) C
1 2 (100.00%) C++
2 1 (50.00%) Embedded C
2 1 (50.00%) Embedded C++
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) ISO 9001
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
Kent
Embedded C, Microchip, Atmel microcontrollers, Bug Trackers, Debug tools, C++, C# My client is an energy company based in Kent... *Possible development Windows PC applications... Skills Embedded C...
Circle Recruitment
Salary: £30000 - £35000 per annum
Posted: 16 May 2013