Firmware Jobs in Northern Ireland

Firmware
UK > Northern Ireland

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Northern Ireland 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 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 61 94 80
Rank change year-on-year +33 -14 -22
Permanent jobs citing Firmware 16 4 1
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 2.31% 0.46% 0.15%
As % of the System Software category 27.59% 1.65% 0.70%
Number of salaries quoted 5 2 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £27,500 £31,250 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £28,000 £32,500 -
Median % change year-on-year -13.85% - -
75th Percentile £28,500 £33,750 -
90th Percentile £31,650 - -
UK median annual salary £52,500 £47,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.53% -13.64% +10.00%

All System Software Skills
Northern Ireland

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 Northern Ireland with a requirement for system software skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 58 242 142
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 8.36% 27.98% 21.16%
Number of salaries quoted 30 96 77
10th Percentile £27,500 £29,625 £26,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £32,875 £30,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £50,000 £40,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +23.46% -22.86%
75th Percentile £73,750 £65,000 £58,750
90th Percentile £107,750 £66,875 £63,000
UK median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £57,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% -3.51% +3.64%

Firmware
Job Vacancy Trend in Northern Ireland

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

Job vacancy trend for Firmware in Northern Ireland

Firmware
Salary Trend in Northern Ireland

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

Salary trend for Firmware in Northern Ireland

Firmware
Job Locations in Northern Ireland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Firmware within the Northern Ireland region over the 6 months to 25 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
County Antrim +37 16 £28,000 -13.85% 3
Firmware
UK

Firmware
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Northern Ireland 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (6.25%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 1 (6.25%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 11 (68.75%) TCP/IP
2 6 (37.50%) Wireshark
3 1 (6.25%) DHCP
3 1 (6.25%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (37.50%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 6 (37.50%) Jenkins
General
1 10 (62.50%) Social Skills
2 6 (37.50%) Electronics
3 4 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (25.00%) Organisational Skills
3 4 (25.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 11 (68.75%) Software Engineer
2 10 (62.50%) Senior
3 6 (37.50%) Embedded Engineer
3 6 (37.50%) Embedded Software Engineer
4 5 (31.25%) Senior Software Engineer
5 4 (25.00%) Field Engineer
5 4 (25.00%) Field Service Engineer
5 4 (25.00%) Senior Field Engineer
5 4 (25.00%) Senior Field Service Engineer
6 1 (6.25%) IT Engineer
6 1 (6.25%) IT Support
6 1 (6.25%) IT Support Engineer
6 1 (6.25%) Senior IT Engineer
6 1 (6.25%) Senior IT Support
6 1 (6.25%) Senior Support Engineer
6 1 (6.25%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (37.50%) Node.js
2 5 (31.25%) FFmpeg
2 5 (31.25%) GStreamer
2 5 (31.25%) OpenCV
2 5 (31.25%) REST
2 5 (31.25%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 11 (68.75%) Video\Live Streaming
2 4 (25.00%) Driving Licence
2 4 (25.00%) EPoS
2 4 (25.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 11 (68.75%) Embedded Linux
1 11 (68.75%) Linux
2 5 (31.25%) Windows
3 1 (6.25%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (68.75%) Asynchronous Programming
1 11 (68.75%) Computer Science
1 11 (68.75%) Multithreading
1 11 (68.75%) Open Source
1 11 (68.75%) Software Engineering
2 6 (37.50%) Agile
3 5 (31.25%) Analytics
3 5 (31.25%) Artificial Intelligence
3 5 (31.25%) Computer Vision
3 5 (31.25%) Deep Learning
3 5 (31.25%) Epics
3 5 (31.25%) OO
3 5 (31.25%) OOP
3 5 (31.25%) Threat Analysis
3 5 (31.25%) User Stories
3 5 (31.25%) Video Analytics
4 4 (25.00%) Break/Fix
4 4 (25.00%) Innovative Thinking
4 4 (25.00%) ITIL
4 4 (25.00%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 11 (68.75%) Bash
1 11 (68.75%) Python
2 6 (37.50%) C
2 6 (37.50%) Perl
3 1 (6.25%) C++
Qualifications
1 11 (68.75%) Degree
2 5 (31.25%) Master's Degree
2 5 (31.25%) PhD
3 4 (25.00%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (68.75%) QA
2 6 (37.50%) JTAG
3 4 (25.00%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (31.25%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (31.25%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (25.00%) Dell
1 4 (25.00%) HP
1 4 (25.00%) IBM
1 4 (25.00%) NetApp
2 1 (6.25%) Microsoft