Firmware Contracts in Bedfordshire

Firmware
East of England > Bedfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Bedfordshire requiring Firmware skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Firmware over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 29 34 -
Rank change year-on-year +5 - -
Contract jobs citing Firmware 4 1 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Bedfordshire 2.56% 0.41% -
As % of the System Software category 26.67% 5.56% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
East of England median daily rate £575 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +27.78% - -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 0
10th Percentile £65.78 - -
25th Percentile £73.31 - -
Median hourly rate £86.50 £80.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +8.13% - -
75th Percentile £89.13 - -
90th Percentile £91.15 - -
East of England median hourly rate £85.00 £68.75 £60.00
% change year-on-year +23.64% +14.58% +22.45%

All System Software Skills
Bedfordshire

Firmware falls under the System Software category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring system software skills in Bedfordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 15 18 33
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bedfordshire 9.62% 7.32% 17.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 9 24
10th Percentile £174 £173 £157
25th Percentile £207 £175 £198
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £275 £338
Median % change year-on-year +36.36% -18.52% -3.57%
75th Percentile £525 £388 £531
90th Percentile - £526 £550
East of England median daily rate £470 £425 £430
% change year-on-year +10.59% -1.16% +1.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 2 0
10th Percentile £41.06 £54.13 -
25th Percentile £60.75 £58.44 -
Median hourly rate £85.00 £66.25 -
Median % change year-on-year +28.30% - -
75th Percentile £88.00 £73.44 -
90th Percentile £90.70 £77.38 -
East of England median hourly rate £21.46 £14.16 £24.62
% change year-on-year +51.55% -42.49% +58.84%

Firmware
Job Vacancy Trend in Bedfordshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Firmware in Bedfordshire

Firmware
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Bedfordshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Firmware in Bedfordshire.

Daily rate trend for Firmware in Bedfordshire

Firmware
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Bedfordshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Firmware in Bedfordshire.

Hourly rate trend for Firmware in Bedfordshire

Firmware
Hourly Rate Histogram in Bedfordshire

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Firmware in Bedfordshire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Firmware in Bedfordshire

Firmware
Contract Job Locations in Bedfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Firmware within the Bedfordshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Luton +5 4 - - 23
Firmware
East of England

Firmware
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Bedfordshire 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 3 (75.00%) Simulink
Communications & Networking
1 3 (75.00%) Ethernet
General
1 4 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (75.00%) Electronics
2 3 (75.00%) Games
3 1 (25.00%) Military
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) FPGA Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Firmware Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Lead
2 1 (25.00%) Principal Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Algorithms
1 3 (75.00%) FPGA
1 3 (75.00%) PCIe
1 3 (75.00%) Verilog
2 1 (25.00%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Cryptography
2 3 (75.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 3 (75.00%) Computer Science
2 3 (75.00%) Customer Requirements
2 3 (75.00%) Machine Learning
2 3 (75.00%) Physics
2 3 (75.00%) UVM
3 1 (25.00%) GAP Analysis
3 1 (25.00%) Incident Management
3 1 (25.00%) Information Assurance
3 1 (25.00%) Key Management
3 1 (25.00%) MODAF
3 1 (25.00%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) Patch Management
3 1 (25.00%) SABSA
3 1 (25.00%) Security Management
3 1 (25.00%) Threat Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) MATLAB
1 3 (75.00%) SystemVerilog
1 3 (75.00%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 4 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (75.00%) Degree
2 3 (75.00%) HNC
2 3 (75.00%) HND
3 1 (25.00%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (75.00%) DO-254
2 1 (25.00%) JSP 440
2 1 (25.00%) NCSC
2 1 (25.00%) NIST
2 1 (25.00%) NIST 800
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Actel
1 3 (75.00%) Altera
1 3 (75.00%) Intel
1 3 (75.00%) Microsemi
1 3 (75.00%) Xilinx