Firmware Jobs in the UK excluding London

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 Firmware skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited 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 231 387 388
Rank change year-on-year +156 +1 -8
Permanent jobs citing Firmware 849 451 590
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.20% 0.75% 0.83%
As % of the System Software category 9.62% 4.87% 4.86%
Number of salaries quoted 624 328 216
10th Percentile £31,250 £27,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £32,500 £40,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £49,000 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -8.41% +7.00%
75th Percentile £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £72,500 £80,750 £72,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £47,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.53% -13.64% +4.76%

All System Software Skills
UK excluding London

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%

Firmware
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Firmware in the UK excluding London

Firmware
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Firmware in the UK excluding London

Firmware
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Salary histogram for Firmware in the UK excluding London

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 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 +88 269 £51,000 +13.33% 103
Midlands +72 119 £53,750 +26.47% 46
North of England +72 112 £52,500 +61.54% 20
East of England +63 112 £56,500 -13.08% 66
Scotland -17 99 £52,500 -3.67% 26
South West +20 97 £55,000 -8.33% 38
West Midlands +60 69 £61,500 +36.67% 18
North West +15 63 £55,000 +4.76% 15
East Midlands +20 50 £50,000 +81.82% 28
Yorkshire +97 39 £42,500 +31.99% 4
Wales +8 24 £60,000 +9.09% 7
Northern Ireland +40 17 £28,000 -13.85%
North East - 10 £55,000 - 1
Firmware
UK

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:

Application Platforms
1 10 (1.18%) SharePoint
2 8 (0.94%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (0.59%) Kinematics
4 1 (0.12%) Apache
4 1 (0.12%) nginx
4 1 (0.12%) OpenStack
Applications
1 23 (2.71%) Simulink
2 19 (2.24%) Microsoft Office
3 10 (1.18%) OrCAD
4 6 (0.71%) SOLIDWORKS
5 4 (0.47%) Windchill
6 3 (0.35%) GNU Octave
7 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Excel
7 1 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.12%) TargetLink
Business Applications
1 1 (0.12%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 23 (2.71%) Azure
2 20 (2.36%) AWS
3 16 (1.88%) Microsoft 365
4 14 (1.65%) GitHub
5 8 (0.94%) Azure DevOps
5 8 (0.94%) OneDrive
6 7 (0.82%) Cloud Computing
6 7 (0.82%) Power Platform
7 6 (0.71%) AWS IoT
7 6 (0.71%) SaaS
8 5 (0.59%) Power Automate
9 2 (0.24%) AWS CloudFormation
10 1 (0.12%) Akamai
10 1 (0.12%) Azure Data Factory
10 1 (0.12%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 1 (0.12%) Entra ID
10 1 (0.12%) GitHub Actions
10 1 (0.12%) IaaS
10 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Purview
10 1 (0.12%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 127 (14.96%) Wireless
2 48 (5.65%) Ethernet
3 38 (4.48%) TCP/IP
4 30 (3.53%) Bluetooth
5 26 (3.06%) Wi-Fi
6 25 (2.94%) MQTT
7 23 (2.71%) HTTP
7 23 (2.71%) LAN
8 22 (2.59%) WAN
9 20 (2.36%) Firewall
10 18 (2.12%) RS-232
11 17 (2.00%) Internet
12 16 (1.88%) DNS
12 16 (1.88%) OSPF
12 16 (1.88%) SD-WAN
13 15 (1.77%) 5G
14 13 (1.53%) Wireshark
15 12 (1.41%) BGP
15 12 (1.41%) LTE
15 12 (1.41%) Software-Defined Radio
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (0.82%) Power BI
2 6 (0.71%) Relational Database
3 5 (0.59%) Big Data
4 4 (0.47%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (0.24%) MariaDB
5 2 (0.24%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (0.24%) SQL Server
6 1 (0.12%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (0.12%) InfluxDB
6 1 (0.12%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 54 (6.36%) Git
2 27 (3.18%) Jenkins
3 20 (2.36%) Rational DOORS
4 18 (2.12%) JIRA
5 16 (1.88%) Subversion
6 12 (1.41%) LabVIEW
7 9 (1.06%) Rational Team Concert
8 6 (0.71%) Visual Studio
9 4 (0.47%) Rational Rhapsody
10 3 (0.35%) GCC
10 3 (0.35%) GDB
10 3 (0.35%) GitLab
10 3 (0.35%) Team Foundation Server
11 2 (0.24%) Eclipse
11 2 (0.24%) PetaLinux
12 1 (0.12%) CMake
12 1 (0.12%) Mercurial
12 1 (0.12%) Postman
12 1 (0.12%) Selenium
12 1 (0.12%) TeamCity
General
1 352 (41.46%) Electronics
2 203 (23.91%) Social Skills
3 187 (22.03%) Manufacturing
4 141 (16.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 68 (8.01%) Analytical Skills
6 50 (5.89%) Automotive
7 45 (5.30%) Finance
8 43 (5.06%) Marketing
9 38 (4.48%) Telecoms
10 36 (4.24%) Public Sector
11 30 (3.53%) Organisational Skills
12 27 (3.18%) Retail
13 17 (2.00%) Aerospace
14 13 (1.53%) Legal
15 12 (1.41%) Military
16 9 (1.06%) Presentation Skills
17 7 (0.82%) Aviation
18 5 (0.59%) French Language
19 2 (0.24%) Avionics
19 2 (0.24%) Law
Job Titles
1 272 (32.04%) Embedded Engineer
2 178 (20.97%) Software Engineer
3 168 (19.79%) Senior
4 145 (17.08%) Electronics Engineer
5 122 (14.37%) Firmware Engineer
6 120 (14.13%) Graduate
7 119 (14.02%) Embedded Software Engineer
8 105 (12.37%) Junior
9 87 (10.25%) Embedded Firmware Engineer
10 84 (9.89%) Graduate Electronics Engineer
11 79 (9.31%) Junior Electronics Engineer
12 78 (9.19%) Development Engineer
13 72 (8.48%) Senior Embedded Engineer
14 71 (8.36%) Graduate Development Engineer
15 58 (6.83%) Systems Engineer
16 53 (6.24%) Lead
17 50 (5.89%) Developer
18 47 (5.54%) Senior Software Engineer
19 44 (5.18%) Hardware Engineer
20 37 (4.36%) Design Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (2.00%) HTML
2 16 (1.88%) Yocto
3 15 (1.77%) CSS
4 14 (1.65%) 802.1X
4 14 (1.65%) Flask
5 13 (1.53%) Node.js
5 13 (1.53%) Qt
6 12 (1.41%) Middleware
7 10 (1.18%) .NET
8 8 (0.94%) Django
8 8 (0.94%) React
9 7 (0.82%) Web Services
10 5 (0.59%) FFmpeg
10 5 (0.59%) Flash
10 5 (0.59%) GStreamer
10 5 (0.59%) OpenCV
10 5 (0.59%) REST
10 5 (0.59%) WPF
11 3 (0.35%) POSIX
12 2 (0.24%) Boost C++ Libraries
Miscellaneous
1 97 (11.43%) FPGA
2 71 (8.36%) Embedded Systems
3 55 (6.48%) IoT
4 47 (5.54%) Self-Motivation
5 46 (5.42%) Data Centre
6 38 (4.48%) Driving Licence
7 36 (4.24%) Algorithms
8 29 (3.42%) Analogue Electronics
8 29 (3.42%) VHDL
9 21 (2.47%) GNSS
9 21 (2.47%) Management Information System
10 18 (2.12%) Device Driver
10 18 (2.12%) Mobile App
11 17 (2.00%) EPoS
12 13 (1.53%) PCIe
12 13 (1.53%) Video\Live Streaming
13 11 (1.30%) Analytical Mindset
13 11 (1.30%) Raspberry Pi
14 10 (1.18%) Arduino
14 10 (1.18%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 150 (17.67%) Linux
2 100 (11.78%) Windows
3 47 (5.54%) Embedded Linux
4 28 (3.30%) Windows Server
5 23 (2.71%) Windows 10
6 19 (2.24%) Windows Server 2012
7 17 (2.00%) Windows Server 2016
7 17 (2.00%) Windows Server 2019
8 16 (1.88%) Unix
9 14 (1.65%) FreeRTOS
10 12 (1.41%) Windows NT
11 11 (1.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 10 (1.18%) Windows 7
13 9 (1.06%) Android
14 8 (0.94%) AIX
14 8 (0.94%) Solaris
15 4 (0.47%) VxWorks
16 2 (0.24%) Apple iOS
16 2 (0.24%) Debian
16 2 (0.24%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 297 (34.98%) Software Engineering
2 138 (16.25%) Computer Science
3 127 (14.96%) Problem-Solving
4 108 (12.72%) Schematic Capture
5 83 (9.78%) Project Planning
6 73 (8.60%) Agile
7 61 (7.18%) Software Testing
8 58 (6.83%) Customer Service
9 56 (6.60%) SDLC
10 54 (6.36%) Mentoring
11 53 (6.24%) Mathematics
12 52 (6.12%) ITIL
13 50 (5.89%) Validation
14 49 (5.77%) Physics
15 48 (5.65%) Customer Requirements
16 41 (4.83%) Business Intelligence
17 39 (4.59%) Infrastructure Engineering
17 39 (4.59%) Programme Management
17 39 (4.59%) Signal Processing
18 38 (4.48%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 346 (40.75%) C
2 162 (19.08%) C++
3 111 (13.07%) Embedded C
4 105 (12.37%) Python
5 46 (5.42%) C#
6 26 (3.06%) SQL
7 25 (2.94%) MATLAB
8 22 (2.59%) Embedded C++
9 21 (2.47%) Java
10 20 (2.36%) Bash
11 18 (2.12%) Perl
12 13 (1.53%) JavaScript
13 10 (1.18%) Tcl
14 8 (0.94%) VB
15 7 (0.82%) Assembly Language
15 7 (0.82%) TypeScript
16 5 (0.59%) XAML
17 3 (0.35%) Groovy
17 3 (0.35%) Lua
17 3 (0.35%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 332 (39.10%) Degree
2 103 (12.13%) Security Cleared
3 55 (6.48%) BPSS Clearance
4 36 (4.24%) DV Cleared
5 32 (3.77%) SC Cleared
6 16 (1.88%) Computer Science Degree
7 15 (1.77%) Master's Degree
8 14 (1.65%) Cisco Certification
9 8 (0.94%) CCNP
9 8 (0.94%) HND
10 7 (0.82%) CCDP
10 7 (0.82%) CCIE
10 7 (0.82%) CCIE Routing and Switching
11 6 (0.71%) CCNA
12 5 (0.59%) Microsoft Certification
12 5 (0.59%) PhD
12 5 (0.59%) PMI Certification
13 4 (0.47%) HNC
13 4 (0.47%) Network+ Certification
13 4 (0.47%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (3.18%) QA
1 27 (3.18%) SLA
2 18 (2.12%) MISRA
3 14 (1.65%) JTAG
4 10 (1.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 10 (1.18%) MISRA C
5 9 (1.06%) ISO 13485
6 8 (0.94%) 21 CFR Part 11
7 5 (0.59%) ISO 26262
8 4 (0.47%) Automotive SPICE
8 4 (0.47%) AUTOSAR
8 4 (0.47%) GDPR
8 4 (0.47%) IEC 61508
9 3 (0.35%) Def Stans
9 3 (0.35%) ECSS
10 2 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 12207
11 1 (0.12%) IEC 61131
11 1 (0.12%) IEC 62304
11 1 (0.12%) ISO 9001
11 1 (0.12%) ISO/IEC 15288
System Software
1 355 (41.81%) Embedded Firmware
2 34 (4.00%) Active Directory
3 26 (3.06%) VMware Infrastructure
4 20 (2.36%) Virtual Machines
5 17 (2.00%) Hyper-V
6 13 (1.53%) Docker
7 6 (0.71%) VMware ESXi
8 5 (0.59%) vSphere
9 3 (0.35%) Virtual Servers
10 2 (0.24%) VMware Server
11 1 (0.12%) Citrix Hypervisor
Systems Management
1 30 (3.53%) SCCM
2 19 (2.24%) Ansible
3 14 (1.65%) WSUS
4 12 (1.41%) Sysprep
5 11 (1.30%) Kubernetes
5 11 (1.30%) SCOM
6 7 (0.82%) Functional Safety
6 7 (0.82%) Microsoft Intune
6 7 (0.82%) NetBackup
7 4 (0.47%) Failover Clustering
7 4 (0.47%) FortiGate
7 4 (0.47%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
7 4 (0.47%) Podman
7 4 (0.47%) Terraform
7 4 (0.47%) vCenter Server
8 3 (0.35%) Grafana
9 2 (0.24%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 120 (14.13%) EMC
2 54 (6.36%) Microsoft
3 35 (4.12%) SAP
4 32 (3.77%) VMware
5 30 (3.53%) HP
6 24 (2.83%) IBM
7 20 (2.36%) Xilinx
8 19 (2.24%) Cisco
9 18 (2.12%) Dell
9 18 (2.12%) NetApp
9 18 (2.12%) Red Hat
10 13 (1.53%) Fortinet
10 13 (1.53%) Veeam
11 10 (1.18%) Citrix
12 9 (1.06%) Altera
12 9 (1.06%) Intel
13 8 (0.94%) Green Hills
13 8 (0.94%) Motorola
13 8 (0.94%) Oracle
14 7 (0.82%) McAfee