Firmware Jobs in Manchester

Firmware
North West > Manchester

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Manchester with a requirement for Firmware skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Firmware over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 173 206 248
Rank change year-on-year +33 +42 -52
Permanent jobs citing Firmware 41 38 12
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 0.80% 0.76% 0.21%
As % of the System Software category 8.02% 5.07% 1.23%
Number of salaries quoted 35 30 5
10th Percentile £27,500 £27,000 £30,600
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,750 £31,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,500 £50,500
Median % change year-on-year - +3.96% +32.89%
75th Percentile £55,000 £57,500 £57,500
90th Percentile £56,250 £66,875 £58,250
North West median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £38,750
% change year-on-year +4.76% +35.48% -10.92%

All System Software Skills
Manchester

Firmware is in the System Software category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in Manchester with a requirement for system software skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 511 750 977
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 10.02% 14.91% 17.28%
Number of salaries quoted 438 530 752
10th Percentile £26,250 £26,000 £26,025
25th Percentile £31,250 £40,375 £36,458
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £71,250 £76,063
90th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £85,000
North West median annual salary £45,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% - +5.26%

Firmware
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Job postings citing Firmware as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Job vacancy trend for Firmware in Manchester

Firmware
Salary Trend in Manchester

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Firmware in Manchester.

Salary trend for Firmware in Manchester

Firmware
Salary Histogram in Manchester

Salary distribution for jobs citing Firmware in Manchester over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Firmware in Manchester

Firmware
Job Locations in Manchester

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Firmware within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Bolton - 6 £50,000 - 1
Oldham - 5 £52,500 -
Stockport - 5 £52,500 - 1
Firmware
North West

Firmware
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Applications
1 1 (2.44%) GNU Octave
Cloud Services
1 1 (2.44%) Azure
1 1 (2.44%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 7 (17.07%) Ethernet
2 6 (14.63%) RS-232
3 2 (4.88%) TCP/IP
4 1 (2.44%) HTTP
4 1 (2.44%) MQTT
4 1 (2.44%) ZigBee
Development Applications
1 4 (9.76%) Git
2 3 (7.32%) Jenkins
2 3 (7.32%) JIRA
2 3 (7.32%) Rational DOORS
3 2 (4.88%) LabVIEW
4 1 (2.44%) CMake
4 1 (2.44%) GCC
4 1 (2.44%) GDB
General
1 18 (43.90%) Electronics
2 5 (12.20%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (12.20%) Organisational Skills
2 5 (12.20%) Retail
2 5 (12.20%) Social Skills
3 3 (7.32%) Manufacturing
4 2 (4.88%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 20 (48.78%) Software Engineer
2 16 (39.02%) Embedded Engineer
2 16 (39.02%) Senior
3 15 (36.59%) Embedded Software Engineer
4 6 (14.63%) Lead
4 6 (14.63%) Lead Embedded Software Engineer
4 6 (14.63%) Lead Software Engineer
4 6 (14.63%) Senior Embedded Engineer
4 6 (14.63%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
4 6 (14.63%) Senior Software Engineer
5 5 (12.20%) Electronics Engineer
5 5 (12.20%) Field Engineer
5 5 (12.20%) Field Service Engineer
5 5 (12.20%) Firmware Engineer
5 5 (12.20%) Senior Field Engineer
5 5 (12.20%) Senior Field Service Engineer
5 5 (12.20%) Senior Firmware Engineer
6 3 (7.32%) Developer
7 2 (4.88%) C# Developer
8 1 (2.44%) Help Desk Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (19.51%) .NET
1 8 (19.51%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 7 (17.07%) FPGA
2 5 (12.20%) Driving Licence
2 5 (12.20%) EPoS
2 5 (12.20%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (7.32%) Device Driver
3 3 (7.32%) Embedded Systems
4 2 (4.88%) Raspberry Pi
5 1 (2.44%) ARM Cortex
5 1 (2.44%) CCTV
5 1 (2.44%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 12 (29.27%) Linux
2 9 (21.95%) Embedded Linux
3 8 (19.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (12.20%) Windows
5 2 (4.88%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (51.22%) Software Engineering
2 8 (19.51%) Computer Science
3 6 (14.63%) Embedded Software Development
4 5 (12.20%) Break/Fix
4 5 (12.20%) Customer Service
4 5 (12.20%) Innovative Thinking
4 5 (12.20%) ITIL
4 5 (12.20%) OO
4 5 (12.20%) OOP
4 5 (12.20%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (12.20%) Time Management
4 5 (12.20%) UML
5 4 (9.76%) DevOps
6 3 (7.32%) Agile
6 3 (7.32%) Configuration Management
6 3 (7.32%) Requirements Management
7 2 (4.88%) ERP
7 2 (4.88%) Manufacturing Engineering
8 1 (2.44%) Data Collection
8 1 (2.44%) FPGA Design
Programming Languages
1 20 (48.78%) C
2 9 (21.95%) C#
3 8 (19.51%) Java
4 4 (9.76%) Python
5 3 (7.32%) Bash
5 3 (7.32%) C++
6 2 (4.88%) Embedded C
6 2 (4.88%) SQL
7 1 (2.44%) Assembly Language
7 1 (2.44%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 8 (19.51%) Degree
2 5 (12.20%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (12.20%) SLA
System Software
1 18 (43.90%) Embedded Firmware
2 3 (7.32%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (7.32%) Ansible
1 3 (7.32%) Kubernetes
1 3 (7.32%) Podman
Vendors
1 8 (19.51%) Red Hat
2 6 (14.63%) Dell
3 5 (12.20%) EMC
3 5 (12.20%) HP
3 5 (12.20%) IBM
3 5 (12.20%) NetApp