The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Firmware in IT jobs advertised for the Manchester 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 Manchester region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Firmware
Rank 193 174 167
Rank change year-on-year
-19 -7
Permanent jobs citing Firmware 1 1 6
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Manchester 0.025% 0.028% 0.152%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.086% 0.102% 0.574%
Number of salaries quoted 1 1 6
Average salary £38,500 £29,000 £31,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+32.75% -7.93%
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
All of the Miscellaneous Category
Manchester
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
1169 983 1046
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Manchester 28.81% 27.11% 26.51%
Number of salaries quoted 1050 803 934
Average salary £35,000 £35,000 £35,000
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £23,500 £22,000
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £57,500 £50,250
UK excluding London average salary £38,815 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-2.96% +6.66%
Firmware
North West

Firmware
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Manchester 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 Manchester region.

Manchester Firmware Salary Trend

Firmware
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Manchester 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 8 (72.73%) DHCP
1 8 (72.73%) DNS
1 8 (72.73%) Cisco
1 8 (72.73%) VMware
1 8 (72.73%) Disaster Recovery
2 6 (54.55%) Firewall
2 6 (54.55%) Business Continuity
2 6 (54.55%) NetApp
2 6 (54.55%) MPLS
2 6 (54.55%) TCP/IP
2 6 (54.55%) Microsoft
2 6 (54.55%) Active Directory
2 6 (54.55%) HP
2 6 (54.55%) MS Exchange
2 6 (54.55%) LAN
2 6 (54.55%) WAN
2 6 (54.55%) WSUS
2 6 (54.55%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (54.55%) vSphere
2 6 (54.55%) VMware ESXi
2 6 (54.55%) Exchange Server 2010
2 6 (54.55%) Legal
2 6 (54.55%) Vulnerability Management
2 6 (54.55%) Cisco Nexus
3 3 (27.27%) Windows
4 2 (18.18%) Linux
4 2 (18.18%) SharePoint
4 2 (18.18%) C
4 2 (18.18%) EMC
4 2 (18.18%) SAN

Firmware
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Manchester 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 Platforms
1 6 (54.55%) MS Exchange
1 6 (54.55%) Exchange Server 2010
2 2 (18.18%) SharePoint
2 2 (18.18%) Lync
Communications & Networking
1 8 (72.73%) DHCP
1 8 (72.73%) DNS
2 6 (54.55%) TCP/IP
2 6 (54.55%) Cisco Nexus
2 6 (54.55%) LAN
2 6 (54.55%) WAN
2 6 (54.55%) MPLS
2 6 (54.55%) Firewall
3 2 (18.18%) Wireless
3 2 (18.18%) SAN
4 1 (9.091%) Fibre Channel
4 1 (9.091%) Ethernet
General
1 6 (54.55%) Legal
Job Titles
1 6 (54.55%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Administrator
2 2 (18.18%) Network Administrator
2 2 (18.18%) Software Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Systems Administrator
3 1 (9.091%) Systems Engineer
3 1 (9.091%) Developer
3 1 (9.091%) Embedded Software Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) EqualLogic
2 1 (9.091%) Embedded Systems
2 1 (9.091%) DTV
2 1 (9.091%) STB
Operating Systems
1 3 (27.27%) Windows
2 2 (18.18%) Linux
3 1 (9.091%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (72.73%) Disaster Recovery
2 6 (54.55%) Business Continuity
2 6 (54.55%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (18.18%) C
1 2 (18.18%) PowerShell
2 1 (9.091%) C++
2 1 (9.091%) Assembly Language
System Software
1 6 (54.55%) Active Directory
1 6 (54.55%) VMware Infrastructure
1 6 (54.55%) vSphere
1 6 (54.55%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 6 (54.55%) WSUS
2 2 (18.18%) SCCM
2 2 (18.18%) SCOM
Vendors
1 8 (72.73%) Cisco
1 8 (72.73%) VMware
2 6 (54.55%) NetApp
2 6 (54.55%) Microsoft
2 6 (54.55%) HP
3 2 (18.18%) EMC
3 2 (18.18%) Spiceworks
Manchester, Lancashire
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Search Consultancy
Salary: £35000 - £42000 per annum + Fantastic Benefits
Posted: 14 May 2013
Manchester, Lancashire
The role is a full lifecycle development role taking initial requirements from customers, designing the hardware and firmware through to manufacture to safety compliance. You… You'll be...
Jam Recruitment Ltd
Salary: £35000 - £40000 per annum + Pension, Medical & Bonus
Posted: 15 May 2013
Manchester, North West
The role is a full lifecycle development role taking initial requirements from customers, designing the hardware and firmware through to manufacture to safety compliance.You You'll be...
JAM
Salary: £35000 - £40000 per annum + Pension, Medical & Bonus
Posted: 16 May 2013