Embedded Firmware Jobs in the North West

Embedded Firmware
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for Embedded Firmware skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Embedded Firmware over the 6 months to 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 261 287 333
Rank change year-on-year +26 +46 -84
Permanent jobs citing Embedded Firmware 29 19 3
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 0.30% 0.24% 0.032%
As % of the System Software category 2.99% 1.59% 0.18%
Number of salaries quoted 23 19 3
10th Percentile £48,250 £48,500 £36,450
25th Percentile £51,250 £51,250 £43,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% +32.18%
75th Percentile £59,000 £63,125 £59,375
90th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £59,750
England median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -12.50% +14.29% +2.44%

All System Software Skills
North West

Embedded 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 the North West with a requirement for system software skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 970 1,197 1,645
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 10.00% 15.12% 17.46%
Number of salaries quoted 839 816 1,096
10th Percentile £24,450 £25,420 £25,000
25th Percentile £29,000 £35,000 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £48,579 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.37% -2.84% +5.26%
75th Percentile £62,500 £66,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £85,000
England median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £56,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% -1.79% +1.82%

Embedded Firmware
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing Embedded Firmware as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for Embedded Firmware in the North West

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Salary Trend in the North West

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Embedded Firmware in the North West.

Salary trend for Embedded Firmware in the North West

Embedded Firmware
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Embedded Firmware in the North West over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Embedded Firmware in the North West

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Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Embedded Firmware within the North West region over the 6 months to 28 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
Manchester +26 18 £52,500 -4.55% 2
Lancashire - 7 £55,000 -
Cheshire - 2 £56,000 -
Cumbria - 1 £85,000 -
Merseyside - 1 £100,000 -
Embedded Firmware
England

Embedded Firmware
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 (3.45%) GNU Octave
Cloud Services
1 1 (3.45%) Azure
1 1 (3.45%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 7 (24.14%) Wireless
2 1 (3.45%) Bluetooth
2 1 (3.45%) Ethernet
2 1 (3.45%) HTTP
2 1 (3.45%) MQTT
2 1 (3.45%) TCP/IP
2 1 (3.45%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (3.45%) ZigBee
Development Applications
1 12 (41.38%) Git
2 3 (10.34%) Jenkins
2 3 (10.34%) JIRA
2 3 (10.34%) Rational DOORS
3 2 (6.90%) LabVIEW
4 1 (3.45%) CMake
4 1 (3.45%) GCC
4 1 (3.45%) GDB
4 1 (3.45%) Subversion
General
1 12 (41.38%) Manufacturing
2 9 (31.03%) Electronics
3 2 (6.90%) Advertising
4 1 (3.45%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 19 (65.52%) Embedded Engineer
2 15 (51.72%) Senior
3 10 (34.48%) Embedded Software Engineer
3 10 (34.48%) Senior Embedded Engineer
3 10 (34.48%) Software Engineer
4 7 (24.14%) Firmware Engineer
4 7 (24.14%) Lead
4 7 (24.14%) Senior Firmware Engineer
4 7 (24.14%) Senior Systems Engineer
4 7 (24.14%) Systems Engineer
5 6 (20.69%) Lead Embedded Software Engineer
5 6 (20.69%) Lead Software Engineer
6 2 (6.90%) C# Developer
6 2 (6.90%) Developer
6 2 (6.90%) Embedded Firmware Engineer
7 1 (3.45%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
7 1 (3.45%) Senior Software Engineer
7 1 (3.45%) Software Manager
7 1 (3.45%) Software Team Leader
7 1 (3.45%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (27.59%) Middleware
2 2 (6.90%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 9 (31.03%) Embedded Systems
2 3 (10.34%) Device Driver
3 2 (6.90%) IoT
3 2 (6.90%) Raspberry Pi
4 1 (3.45%) ARM Cortex
4 1 (3.45%) FPGA
Operating Systems
1 13 (44.83%) Linux
2 10 (34.48%) Embedded Linux
3 8 (27.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (6.90%) Ubuntu
5 1 (3.45%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (37.93%) Agile
1 11 (37.93%) Software Engineering
2 7 (24.14%) Software Architecture
3 6 (20.69%) Embedded Software Development
3 6 (20.69%) OO
4 5 (17.24%) OOP
4 5 (17.24%) UML
5 4 (13.79%) DevOps
6 3 (10.34%) Configuration Management
6 3 (10.34%) Requirements Management
7 2 (6.90%) Computer Science
7 2 (6.90%) ERP
7 2 (6.90%) Manufacturing Engineering
8 1 (3.45%) Analytics
8 1 (3.45%) Data Collection
8 1 (3.45%) Scrum
8 1 (3.45%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 25 (86.21%) C
2 8 (27.59%) Java
3 5 (17.24%) C++
4 4 (13.79%) Python
5 3 (10.34%) Bash
5 3 (10.34%) C#
5 3 (10.34%) Embedded C
6 2 (6.90%) SQL
7 1 (3.45%) Assembly Language
7 1 (3.45%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 2 (6.90%) Degree
System Software
1 29 (100.00%) Firmware
2 3 (10.34%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (10.34%) Ansible
1 3 (10.34%) Kubernetes
1 3 (10.34%) Podman
Vendors
1 8 (27.59%) Red Hat