Firmware Jobs in the North West

Firmware
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 229 235 297
Rank change year-on-year +6 +62 -52
Permanent jobs citing Firmware 62 63 32
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 0.64% 0.79% 0.34%
As % of the System Software category 6.37% 5.27% 1.94%
Number of salaries quoted 56 50 21
10th Percentile £33,375 £25,420 £33,750
25th Percentile £46,875 £26,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £46,250 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year +18.92% +15.63% -8.05%
75th Percentile £59,000 £55,938 £53,750
90th Percentile £75,000 £66,875 £58,750
England median annual salary £52,500 £45,250 £52,500
% change year-on-year +16.02% -13.81% -4.55%

All System Software Skills
North West

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 974 1,195 1,646
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 10.03% 14.98% 17.50%
Number of salaries quoted 844 822 1,099
10th Percentile £24,500 £25,420 £25,000
25th Percentile £29,000 £35,000 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £62,500 £67,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £85,000
England median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £56,325
% change year-on-year -9.09% -2.35% +2.41%

Firmware
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Firmware in the North West

Firmware
Salary Trend in the North West

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

Salary trend for Firmware in the North West

Firmware
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Firmware in the North West over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Firmware in the North West

Firmware
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 Firmware within the North West region over the 6 months to 26 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 +31 41 £52,500 - 5
Lancashire +1 15 £60,000 - 2
Cheshire -24 4 £55,500 +114.78% 3
Merseyside +3 1 £100,000 +207.69% 1
Cumbria -14 1 £85,000 +209.09%
Firmware
England

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 (1.61%) GNU Octave
Cloud Services
1 7 (11.29%) AWS
2 1 (1.61%) Azure
2 1 (1.61%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 8 (12.90%) HTTP
1 8 (12.90%) MQTT
2 7 (11.29%) Ethernet
2 7 (11.29%) Wireless
3 6 (9.68%) RS-232
4 2 (3.23%) TCP/IP
5 1 (1.61%) Bluetooth
5 1 (1.61%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (1.61%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.23%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.61%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 12 (19.35%) Git
2 3 (4.84%) Jenkins
2 3 (4.84%) JIRA
2 3 (4.84%) Rational DOORS
3 2 (3.23%) LabVIEW
4 1 (1.61%) CMake
4 1 (1.61%) GCC
4 1 (1.61%) GDB
4 1 (1.61%) Subversion
General
1 21 (33.87%) Electronics
2 12 (19.35%) Manufacturing
3 6 (9.68%) Social Skills
4 5 (8.06%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (8.06%) Organisational Skills
4 5 (8.06%) Retail
5 2 (3.23%) Advertising
6 1 (1.61%) Aerospace
6 1 (1.61%) Military
Job Titles
1 28 (45.16%) Senior
2 25 (40.32%) Embedded Engineer
3 20 (32.26%) Software Engineer
4 15 (24.19%) Embedded Software Engineer
4 15 (24.19%) Senior Embedded Engineer
5 9 (14.52%) Systems Engineer
6 7 (11.29%) Firmware Engineer
6 7 (11.29%) Lead
6 7 (11.29%) Senior Firmware Engineer
6 7 (11.29%) Senior Systems Engineer
7 6 (9.68%) Lead Embedded Software Engineer
7 6 (9.68%) Lead Software Engineer
7 6 (9.68%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
7 6 (9.68%) Senior Software Engineer
8 5 (8.06%) Electronics Engineer
8 5 (8.06%) Field Engineer
8 5 (8.06%) Field Service Engineer
8 5 (8.06%) Senior Field Engineer
8 5 (8.06%) Senior Field Service Engineer
9 4 (6.45%) Operations Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (12.90%) .NET
1 8 (12.90%) Middleware
2 7 (11.29%) CSS
2 7 (11.29%) HTML
2 7 (11.29%) Node.js
3 1 (1.61%) Express.js
3 1 (1.61%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 10 (16.13%) Embedded Systems
2 7 (11.29%) FPGA
3 5 (8.06%) Driving Licence
3 5 (8.06%) EPoS
3 5 (8.06%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (4.84%) Device Driver
5 2 (3.23%) IoT
5 2 (3.23%) Raspberry Pi
6 1 (1.61%) ARM Cortex
6 1 (1.61%) CCTV
Operating Systems
1 22 (35.48%) Linux
2 10 (16.13%) Embedded Linux
2 10 (16.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 8 (12.90%) Windows
4 2 (3.23%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (40.32%) Software Engineering
2 11 (17.74%) Agile
3 8 (12.90%) Computer Science
3 8 (12.90%) DevOps
3 8 (12.90%) Software Architecture
4 7 (11.29%) Microservices
5 6 (9.68%) Embedded Software Development
5 6 (9.68%) OO
6 5 (8.06%) Break/Fix
6 5 (8.06%) Customer Service
6 5 (8.06%) Innovative Thinking
6 5 (8.06%) ITIL
6 5 (8.06%) OOP
6 5 (8.06%) Problem-Solving
6 5 (8.06%) Time Management
6 5 (8.06%) UML
7 4 (6.45%) CI/CD
7 4 (6.45%) Cloud Operations
7 4 (6.45%) Cybersecurity
7 4 (6.45%) Product Management
Programming Languages
1 30 (48.39%) C
2 15 (24.19%) Java
3 11 (17.74%) Python
4 9 (14.52%) C#
4 9 (14.52%) SQL
5 5 (8.06%) C++
6 3 (4.84%) Bash
6 3 (4.84%) Embedded C
7 1 (1.61%) Assembly Language
7 1 (1.61%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 9 (14.52%) Degree
2 5 (8.06%) BPSS Clearance
3 3 (4.84%) Security Cleared
4 2 (3.23%) DV Cleared
4 2 (3.23%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 1 (1.61%) HNC
5 1 (1.61%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (8.06%) SLA
System Software
1 29 (46.77%) Embedded Firmware
2 3 (4.84%) Docker
3 2 (3.23%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (3.23%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (3.23%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 3 (4.84%) Ansible
1 3 (4.84%) Kubernetes
1 3 (4.84%) Podman
2 2 (3.23%) WSUS
Vendors
1 10 (16.13%) Red Hat
2 6 (9.68%) Dell
3 5 (8.06%) EMC
3 5 (8.06%) HP
3 5 (8.06%) IBM
3 5 (8.06%) NetApp
4 2 (3.23%) Microsoft
4 2 (3.23%) VMware