The first table below looks at the demand for the Firmware Engineer role in IT jobs advertised for the South Wales region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Firmware Engineer in their job title over the 3 months to 21 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Job Titles advertised for the South Wales region.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Firmware Engineer
Rank - - -
Permanent jobs requiring a Firmware Engineer 0 0 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in South Wales - - -
As % of the Job Titles category - - -
Number of salaries quoted 0 0 0
Average salary - - -
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £38,500
% change year-on-year
- +3.89%
All Job Titles
South Wales
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
1034 954 843
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in South Wales 98.01% 97.85% 94.61%
Number of salaries quoted 942 848 788
Average salary £35,000 £34,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+2.94% -2.85%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £24,000 £26,000
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £50,000 £47,500
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Firmware Engineer
Wales

Firmware Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Firmware Engineer across the South Wales region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

South Wales Firmware Engineer Jobs Demand Trend

Firmware Engineer
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Firmware Engineer across the South Wales region.

South Wales Firmware Engineer Salary Trend

Firmware Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the South Wales region that cited Firmware Engineer in their job title 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 with Firmware Engineer in their job title.

1 4 (100.00%) C++
1 4 (100.00%) Embedded C
1 4 (100.00%) Embedded C++
1 4 (100.00%) Assembly Language
1 4 (100.00%) Firmware
1 4 (100.00%) C
1 4 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 4 (100.00%) Degree
1 4 (100.00%) Physics
1 4 (100.00%) System Testing
1 4 (100.00%) JTAG
2 1 (25.00%) Wireless
2 1 (25.00%) Electronics
2 1 (25.00%) C#
2 1 (25.00%) TELNET
2 1 (25.00%) HTML
2 1 (25.00%) Java
2 1 (25.00%) SQL
2 1 (25.00%) .NET
2 1 (25.00%) Windows
2 1 (25.00%) LDAP
2 1 (25.00%) Windows XP
2 1 (25.00%) Bluetooth
2 1 (25.00%) GPRS
2 1 (25.00%) UMTS
2 1 (25.00%) WAN
2 1 (25.00%) HTTP
2 1 (25.00%) SNMP
2 1 (25.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (25.00%) SSH

Firmware Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the South Wales region that cited Firmware Engineer in their job title 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 with Firmware Engineer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (25.00%) HTML
1 1 (25.00%) .NET
1 1 (25.00%) Ajax
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) Wireless
1 1 (25.00%) TELNET
1 1 (25.00%) LDAP
1 1 (25.00%) Bluetooth
1 1 (25.00%) GPRS
1 1 (25.00%) UMTS
1 1 (25.00%) WAN
1 1 (25.00%) HTTP
1 1 (25.00%) SNMP
1 1 (25.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (25.00%) SSH
1 1 (25.00%) ZigBee
1 1 (25.00%) HSPA
General
1 1 (25.00%) Electronics
Miscellaneous
1 4 (100.00%) Firmware
1 4 (100.00%) Physics
2 1 (25.00%) Mathematics
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
1 1 (25.00%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 4 (100.00%) System Testing
2 1 (25.00%) Multithreading
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) C++
1 4 (100.00%) Embedded C
1 4 (100.00%) Embedded C++
1 4 (100.00%) Assembly Language
1 4 (100.00%) C
2 1 (25.00%) C#
2 1 (25.00%) Java
2 1 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (100.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (100.00%) JTAG
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Atmel