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

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Firmware
Rank 238 243 219
Rank change year-on-year
+5 -24
Permanent jobs citing Firmware 8 8 11
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the North West 0.109% 0.109% 0.157%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.394% 0.399% 0.605%
Number of salaries quoted 8 6 9
Average salary £35,000 £37,500 £31,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-6.66% +19.04%
90% offered a salary of more than £20,000 £28,250 £22,800
10% offered a salary of more than £53,200 £40,750 £53,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
All of the Miscellaneous Category
North West
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
2029 2006 1817
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the North West 27.74% 27.40% 25.90%
Number of salaries quoted 1711 1694 1572
Average salary £35,000 £35,500 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-1.40% +1.42%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £23,275 £22,500
10% offered a salary of more than £55,500 £57,500 £55,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
Firmware
England

Firmware
Jobs Demand Trend

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

North West 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 North West region.

North West Firmware Salary Trend

Firmware
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Firmware across the North West region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

North West Firmware Salary Histogram

Firmware
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Firmware within the North West region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
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Job
Vacancies
Manchester -15 2 £47,250 +26.00% 1
Cheshire - 2 £43,750 -
Cumbria - 2 £32,500 - 1
Lancashire - 1 £20,000 -
Firmware
England

Firmware
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the North West 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 9 (40.91%) C
2 8 (36.36%) LAN
2 8 (36.36%) WAN
2 8 (36.36%) DHCP
2 8 (36.36%) DNS
2 8 (36.36%) Cisco
2 8 (36.36%) Firewall
3 7 (31.82%) Electronics
3 7 (31.82%) Disaster Recovery
3 7 (31.82%) Microsoft
4 6 (27.27%) MS Exchange
4 6 (27.27%) TCP/IP
4 6 (27.27%) C++
4 6 (27.27%) Visual Studio
4 6 (27.27%) Active Directory
4 6 (27.27%) HP
4 6 (27.27%) NetApp
4 6 (27.27%) MPLS
4 6 (27.27%) Legal
4 6 (27.27%) Business Continuity
4 6 (27.27%) WSUS
4 6 (27.27%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (27.27%) vSphere
4 6 (27.27%) VMware ESXi
4 6 (27.27%) Exchange Server 2010
4 6 (27.27%) VMware
4 6 (27.27%) Vulnerability Management
4 6 (27.27%) Cisco Nexus
5 5 (22.73%) Assembly Language
5 5 (22.73%) C#

Firmware
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the North West 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 5 (22.73%) .NET
2 4 (18.18%) XML
2 4 (18.18%) Qt
2 4 (18.18%) WPF
3 2 (9.091%) CSS
3 2 (9.091%) jQuery
3 2 (9.091%) Sass
3 2 (9.091%) LESS
3 2 (9.091%) CSS3
4 1 (4.545%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
4 1 (4.545%) .NET Framework
4 1 (4.545%) JSON
4 1 (4.545%) MFC
4 1 (4.545%) Flash
Application Platforms
1 6 (27.27%) MS Exchange
1 6 (27.27%) Exchange Server 2010
2 2 (9.091%) Apache
Applications
1 1 (4.545%) Spreadsheet
1 1 (4.545%) MS Office
1 1 (4.545%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 8 (36.36%) LAN
1 8 (36.36%) WAN
1 8 (36.36%) DHCP
1 8 (36.36%) DNS
1 8 (36.36%) Firewall
2 6 (27.27%) TCP/IP
2 6 (27.27%) MPLS
2 6 (27.27%) Cisco Nexus
3 4 (18.18%) Wireless
4 3 (13.64%) Ethernet
5 2 (9.091%) VPN
5 2 (9.091%) GPRS
5 2 (9.091%) GSM
5 2 (9.091%) DMZ
5 2 (9.091%) Internet
5 2 (9.091%) BGP
5 2 (9.091%) Wi-Fi
5 2 (9.091%) VLAN
5 2 (9.091%) Fibre Channel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (13.64%) SQL Server
2 2 (9.091%) MySQL
3 1 (4.545%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 6 (27.27%) Visual Studio
General
1 7 (31.82%) Electronics
2 6 (27.27%) Legal
3 4 (18.18%) Aerospace
3 4 (18.18%) Automotive
4 1 (4.545%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 8 (36.36%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 4 (18.18%) Project Engineer
3 3 (13.64%) Developer
4 2 (9.091%) Software Engineer
4 2 (9.091%) Design Engineer
4 2 (9.091%) PHP Developer
4 2 (9.091%) PHP MySQL Developer
5 1 (4.545%) Electronics Engineer
5 1 (4.545%) Embedded Software Engineer
5 1 (4.545%) FPGA Design Engineer
5 1 (4.545%) Hardware Architect
5 1 (4.545%) FPGA Engineer
5 1 (4.545%) Senior Architect
5 1 (4.545%) Firmware Engineer
5 1 (4.545%) Head of Development
5 1 (4.545%) Systems Engineer
5 1 (4.545%) Principle Engineer
5 1 (4.545%) Architect
5 1 (4.545%) Graduate
Miscellaneous
1 2 (9.091%) VHDL
1 2 (9.091%) Field-Programmable Gate Array
2 1 (4.545%) Computer Science
2 1 (4.545%) Embedded Systems
2 1 (4.545%) STB
2 1 (4.545%) CPLD
2 1 (4.545%) Visualisation
2 1 (4.545%) Verilog
2 1 (4.545%) DTV
2 1 (4.545%) ASIC
Operating Systems
1 5 (22.73%) Linux
2 3 (13.64%) Windows
3 1 (4.545%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (31.82%) Disaster Recovery
2 6 (27.27%) Business Continuity
2 6 (27.27%) Vulnerability Management
3 4 (18.18%) OO
3 4 (18.18%) Web Development
4 2 (9.091%) Incident Management
4 2 (9.091%) Capacity Planning
4 2 (9.091%) Load Balancing
5 1 (4.545%) Validation
5 1 (4.545%) Project Planning
5 1 (4.545%) Test Scripting
5 1 (4.545%) MVC
5 1 (4.545%) Project Management
5 1 (4.545%) Benchmarking
Programming Languages
1 9 (40.91%) C
2 6 (27.27%) C++
3 5 (22.73%) Assembly Language
3 5 (22.73%) C#
4 4 (18.18%) Java
4 4 (18.18%) VB
5 2 (9.091%) JavaScript
5 2 (9.091%) PHP
5 2 (9.091%) SQL
5 2 (9.091%) PHP5
6 1 (4.545%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 3 (13.64%) Degree
2 2 (9.091%) CCNP
2 2 (9.091%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (4.545%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (18.18%) HL7
System Software
1 6 (27.27%) Active Directory
1 6 (27.27%) VMware Infrastructure
1 6 (27.27%) vSphere
1 6 (27.27%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 6 (27.27%) WSUS
Vendors
1 8 (36.36%) Cisco
2 7 (31.82%) Microsoft
3 6 (27.27%) HP
3 6 (27.27%) NetApp
3 6 (27.27%) VMware
4 2 (9.091%) EMC
4 2 (9.091%) Juniper
5 1 (4.545%) Altera
Kendal, Cumbria
Electronic Design, Mixed Signal, Digital Electronics, Hardware Design, Firmware, VHDL, CPLD, FPGA, Embedded Software, C/C++, EMC, ATEX... The Electronics Engineer / Hardware Design Engineer will have some 'C' (...
Saxon Recruitment Solutions
Salary: £30000 - £40000 per annum
Posted: 17 June 2013
Manchester, Lancashire
You will have demonstrable experience and knowledge of FPGA or ASIC design and validation techniques for high speed operation. Expert knowledge and experience of FPGA / ASIC design tools...
Search Consultancy
Salary: £50000 - £62000 per annum + benefits
Posted: 12 June 2013
North West
The Electronics Engineer will design hardware and firmware for systems mainly used in military environments... Skills and experience Degree in Electronic Engineering... Strong knowledge of Analogue and Digital...
Experis Engineering
Salary: £35000 - £38000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 11 June 2013
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