Embedded Firmware Jobs in the UK excluding London

Embedded Firmware
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 436 631 640
Rank change year-on-year +195 +9 -22
Permanent jobs citing Embedded Firmware 355 130 211
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.50% 0.22% 0.30%
As % of the System Software category 4.02% 1.41% 1.74%
Number of salaries quoted 224 109 43
10th Percentile £40,000 £33,750 £42,750
25th Percentile £46,250 £50,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +9.09% +15.79%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £61,250
90th Percentile £75,000 £82,950 £65,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -12.50% +14.29% +7.69%

All System Software Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for system software skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 8,828 9,252 12,140
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 12.45% 15.38% 17.14%
Number of salaries quoted 7,081 5,850 8,320
10th Percentile £25,750 £25,750 £26,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £32,200 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £60,000 £66,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £73,750 £78,750 £83,300
UK 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 UK excluding London

Job postings citing Embedded Firmware as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Embedded Firmware in the UK excluding London

Embedded Firmware
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Embedded Firmware in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Embedded Firmware in the UK excluding London

Embedded Firmware
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Embedded Firmware in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Embedded Firmware in the UK excluding London

Embedded Firmware
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Embedded Firmware within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 9 May 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
South East +107 136 £50,000 -16.67% 19
Midlands - 69 £52,500 - 12
Scotland -52 54 £52,500 -0.94% 12
West Midlands - 39 £60,750 - 4
North of England +69 36 £55,000 - 2
South West +4 33 £52,500 -2.33% 7
North West +26 30 £55,000 - 2
East Midlands - 30 £52,500 - 8
East of England +12 23 £67,500 +3.85% 23
Wales +4 4 £65,000 - 4
Yorkshire +90 3 £60,000 +41.18%
North East - 3 £60,000 -
Embedded Firmware
UK

Embedded Firmware
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 11 (3.10%) Simulink
2 3 (0.85%) GNU Octave
3 2 (0.56%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.56%) OrCAD
4 1 (0.28%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.28%) TargetLink
Cloud Services
1 6 (1.69%) GitHub
2 5 (1.41%) AWS
2 5 (1.41%) AWS IoT
3 2 (0.56%) Azure
3 2 (0.56%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (0.28%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (0.28%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 52 (14.65%) Wireless
2 15 (4.23%) 5G
2 15 (4.23%) Ethernet
3 11 (3.10%) LTE
3 11 (3.10%) TCP/IP
4 9 (2.54%) Bluetooth
4 9 (2.54%) HTTP
5 8 (2.25%) DNS
5 8 (2.25%) Internet
5 8 (2.25%) SD-WAN
5 8 (2.25%) SMTP
5 8 (2.25%) WAN
6 7 (1.97%) MQTT
6 7 (1.97%) Wi-Fi
7 6 (1.69%) 5G NR
7 6 (1.69%) 802.11
7 6 (1.69%) LoRaWAN
7 6 (1.69%) Software-Defined Radio
8 4 (1.13%) Modbus
9 2 (0.56%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.28%) MariaDB
1 1 (0.28%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 24 (6.76%) Git
2 12 (3.38%) Jenkins
3 4 (1.13%) JIRA
4 3 (0.85%) GCC
4 3 (0.85%) GDB
4 3 (0.85%) Rational DOORS
4 3 (0.85%) Visual Studio
5 2 (0.56%) LabVIEW
5 2 (0.56%) PetaLinux
5 2 (0.56%) Subversion
6 1 (0.28%) CMake
6 1 (0.28%) GitLab
6 1 (0.28%) Phabricator
General
1 171 (48.17%) Electronics
2 121 (34.08%) Manufacturing
3 112 (31.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 52 (14.65%) Social Skills
5 26 (7.32%) Automotive
6 19 (5.35%) Analytical Skills
7 16 (4.51%) Finance
8 13 (3.66%) Marketing
8 13 (3.66%) Public Sector
8 13 (3.66%) Telecoms
9 12 (3.38%) Legal
10 8 (2.25%) Presentation Skills
11 4 (1.13%) Aerospace
12 2 (0.56%) Advertising
12 2 (0.56%) Avionics
12 2 (0.56%) Influencing Skills
13 1 (0.28%) Police
13 1 (0.28%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 169 (47.61%) Embedded Engineer
2 97 (27.32%) Firmware Engineer
3 96 (27.04%) Electronics Engineer
4 85 (23.94%) Graduate
5 84 (23.66%) Software Engineer
6 82 (23.10%) Embedded Firmware Engineer
7 80 (22.54%) Graduate Electronics Engineer
7 80 (22.54%) Junior
8 79 (22.25%) Junior Electronics Engineer
9 74 (20.85%) Development Engineer
10 71 (20.00%) Graduate Development Engineer
11 70 (19.72%) Embedded Software Engineer
12 67 (18.87%) Senior
13 42 (11.83%) Senior Embedded Engineer
14 32 (9.01%) Developer
15 25 (7.04%) Senior Firmware Engineer
16 22 (6.20%) Lead
17 18 (5.07%) Electronics Hardware Engineer
17 18 (5.07%) Embedded Developer
17 18 (5.07%) Hardware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (4.23%) Yocto
2 8 (2.25%) Middleware
3 6 (1.69%) 802.1X
3 6 (1.69%) Flask
4 2 (0.56%) .NET
4 2 (0.56%) POSIX
4 2 (0.56%) Qt
5 1 (0.28%) Django
5 1 (0.28%) FastAPI
5 1 (0.28%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 33 (9.30%) Embedded Systems
2 30 (8.45%) FPGA
3 17 (4.79%) Mobile App
4 16 (4.51%) GNSS
5 15 (4.23%) Device Driver
5 15 (4.23%) IoT
6 12 (3.38%) VHDL
7 10 (2.82%) Tandem
8 8 (2.25%) Analogue Electronics
8 8 (2.25%) CUDA
8 8 (2.25%) MicroBlaze
8 8 (2.25%) Self-Motivation
9 7 (1.97%) Algorithms
10 6 (1.69%) PCIe
11 4 (1.13%) ARM Cortex
12 3 (0.85%) Management Information System
13 2 (0.56%) Arduino
13 2 (0.56%) Mali
13 2 (0.56%) Raspberry Pi
13 2 (0.56%) Verilog
Operating Systems
1 63 (17.75%) Linux
2 26 (7.32%) Embedded Linux
3 20 (5.63%) Windows
4 8 (2.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 8 (2.25%) Unix
5 7 (1.97%) FreeRTOS
6 4 (1.13%) Android
7 2 (0.56%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 131 (36.90%) Software Engineering
2 85 (23.94%) Schematic Capture
3 83 (23.38%) Project Planning
4 46 (12.96%) Computer Science
5 27 (7.61%) Mentoring
6 26 (7.32%) Problem-Solving
6 26 (7.32%) Test Automation
7 24 (6.76%) Agile
8 22 (6.20%) SDLC
9 19 (5.35%) Mathematics
10 18 (5.07%) Software Architecture
11 17 (4.79%) Configuration Management
11 17 (4.79%) FPGA Design
11 17 (4.79%) Physics
12 16 (4.51%) B2B
12 16 (4.51%) Signal Processing
13 15 (4.23%) Business Intelligence
14 13 (3.66%) Digital Marketing
14 13 (3.66%) Programme Management
15 12 (3.38%) UML
Programming Languages
1 185 (52.11%) C
2 91 (25.63%) C++
3 50 (14.08%) Python
4 49 (13.80%) Embedded C
5 14 (3.94%) C#
6 11 (3.10%) MATLAB
7 10 (2.82%) Embedded C++
8 9 (2.54%) Java
9 8 (2.25%) Perl
9 8 (2.25%) Tcl
9 8 (2.25%) VB
10 3 (0.85%) Bash
10 3 (0.85%) Groovy
10 3 (0.85%) Lua
10 3 (0.85%) Rust
11 2 (0.56%) Assembly Language
11 2 (0.56%) JavaScript
11 2 (0.56%) Shell Script
11 2 (0.56%) SQL
Qualifications
1 170 (47.89%) Degree
2 15 (4.23%) Security Cleared
3 10 (2.82%) BPSS Clearance
4 6 (1.69%) DV Cleared
5 4 (1.13%) SC Cleared
6 2 (0.56%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (1.97%) MISRA
1 7 (1.97%) MISRA C
2 3 (0.85%) QA
3 1 (0.28%) ISO 9001
3 1 (0.28%) JTAG
System Software
1 355 (100.00%) Firmware
2 5 (1.41%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (1.13%) Ansible
1 4 (1.13%) Kubernetes
1 4 (1.13%) Podman
2 1 (0.28%) Grafana
Vendors
1 89 (25.07%) EMC
2 13 (3.66%) SAP
3 10 (2.82%) Xilinx
4 8 (2.25%) Altera
4 8 (2.25%) Green Hills
4 8 (2.25%) Motorola
4 8 (2.25%) Red Hat
5 2 (0.56%) Facebook
5 2 (0.56%) Microsoft
5 2 (0.56%) Sitecore
6 1 (0.28%) Atmel
6 1 (0.28%) Freescale