Firmware Contracts in Berkshire

Firmware
South East > Berkshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire with a requirement for Firmware skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Firmware over the 6 months to 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 80 110 122
Rank change year-on-year +30 +12 -29
Contract jobs citing Firmware 40 3 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 2.02% 0.17% 0.13%
As % of the System Software category 15.75% 1.51% 0.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 2 1
10th Percentile - £231 -
25th Percentile £205 £278 £508
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £360 £515
Median % change year-on-year +59.72% -30.10% +46.10%
75th Percentile - £448 £523
90th Percentile - £497 -
South East median daily rate £525 £200 £450
% change year-on-year +162.50% -55.56% +27.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £17.50 -
South East median hourly rate £62.50 £52.50 £57.00
% change year-on-year +19.05% -7.89% +14.00%

All System Software Skills
Berkshire

Firmware is in the System Software category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire with a requirement for system software skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 254 199 315
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 12.81% 10.98% 13.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 178 135 226
10th Percentile £205 £325 £150
25th Percentile £335 £413 £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £525 £463
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% +13.51% +2.78%
75th Percentile £608 £638 £623
90th Percentile £675 £700 £658
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 16 4
10th Percentile - £16.99 £11.70
25th Percentile - £40.63 £14.63
Median hourly rate £65.00 £54.78 £41.25
Median % change year-on-year +18.66% +32.80% -31.54%
75th Percentile - £71.25 £72.50
90th Percentile - £78.56 £81.50
South East median hourly rate £50.75 £53.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year -4.25% +165.00% -

Firmware
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Firmware in Berkshire

Firmware
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Firmware in Berkshire

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Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Firmware in Berkshire over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Firmware in Berkshire

Firmware
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Firmware in Berkshire

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Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Firmware within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 26 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Reading - 39 £575 - 6
Maidenhead - 1 £650 - 3
Firmware
South East

Firmware
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire 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 18 (45.00%) Microsoft Office
Communications & Networking
1 18 (45.00%) LAN
Development Applications
1 1 (2.50%) Rational DOORS
General
1 39 (97.50%) Social Skills
2 18 (45.00%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 21 (52.50%) Build Engineer
1 21 (52.50%) Windows Build Engineer
1 21 (52.50%) Windows Engineer
2 18 (45.00%) Hardware Engineer
3 5 (12.50%) Break Fix Engineer
4 1 (2.50%) Consultant
4 1 (2.50%) Lead
4 1 (2.50%) Lead Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 18 (45.00%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 39 (97.50%) Windows
1 39 (97.50%) Windows 10
2 21 (52.50%) Windows NT
2 21 (52.50%) Windows Server
2 21 (52.50%) Windows Server 2012
2 21 (52.50%) Windows Server 2016
2 21 (52.50%) Windows Server 2019
3 18 (45.00%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (97.50%) Customer Service
1 39 (97.50%) ITIL
2 21 (52.50%) Deployment Automation
2 21 (52.50%) Release Management
2 21 (52.50%) Service Management
2 21 (52.50%) User Acceptance Testing
3 18 (45.00%) Customer Requirements
3 18 (45.00%) Problem-Solving
3 18 (45.00%) Service Delivery
3 18 (45.00%) Software Deployment
3 18 (45.00%) Software Testing
4 1 (2.50%) SysML
4 1 (2.50%) Systems Engineering
4 1 (2.50%) UML
4 1 (2.50%) Validation
4 1 (2.50%) Verification and Validation
4 1 (2.50%) V-Model
Qualifications
1 40 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 39 (97.50%) DV Cleared
3 18 (45.00%) Degree
4 1 (2.50%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (52.50%) QA
System Software
1 21 (52.50%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 39 (97.50%) SCCM
2 21 (52.50%) Sysprep
2 21 (52.50%) WSUS
Vendors
1 39 (97.50%) Microsoft
2 18 (45.00%) HP