Firmware Contracts in Cambridgeshire

Firmware
East of England > Cambridgeshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cambridgeshire 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 21 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 43 47 31
Rank change year-on-year +4 -16 +40
Contract jobs citing Firmware 3 5 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 0.93% 1.06% 3.77%
As % of the System Software category 7.89% 11.63% 41.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 13
10th Percentile £364 - -
25th Percentile £422 - £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 - £463
Median % change year-on-year - - -5.13%
75th Percentile £566 - £494
90th Percentile £571 - £527
East of England median daily rate £500 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +11.11% - -7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £57.50 -
East of England median hourly rate £88.00 £64.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year +37.50% -8.57% +16.67%

All System Software Skills
Cambridgeshire

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 Cambridgeshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 38 43 51
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 11.73% 9.13% 9.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 12 29
10th Percentile £225 £200 £179
25th Percentile £379 £219 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £240 £450
Median % change year-on-year +120.83% -46.67% +5.88%
75th Percentile £550 £275 £494
90th Percentile £571 £478 £543
East of England median daily rate £490 £356 £450
% change year-on-year +37.54% -20.83% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 21 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £14.99 - £14.25
Median hourly rate £15.14 £14.16 £14.50
Median % change year-on-year +6.92% -2.34% +6.15%
75th Percentile £15.29 £15.12 £14.75
90th Percentile £15.44 £63.75 £15.80
East of England median hourly rate £63.25 £14.80 £62.50
% change year-on-year +327.36% -76.32% +297.08%

Firmware
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Firmware in Cambridgeshire

Firmware
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Daily rate trend for Firmware in Cambridgeshire

Firmware
Daily Rate Histogram in Cambridgeshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Firmware in Cambridgeshire over the 6 months to 21 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Firmware in Cambridgeshire

Firmware
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Firmware in Cambridgeshire

Firmware
Contract Job Locations in Cambridgeshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Firmware within the Cambridgeshire region over the 6 months to 21 July 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
Cambridge +2 3 £538 - 30
Firmware
East of England

Firmware
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cambridgeshire 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) 802.11
1 1 (33.33%) Cisco ISE
1 1 (33.33%) Cisco Wireless
1 1 (33.33%) LAN
1 1 (33.33%) Multicast
1 1 (33.33%) Network Security
1 1 (33.33%) VLAN
1 1 (33.33%) Wi-Fi
1 1 (33.33%) Wireless
1 1 (33.33%) Wireless Security
1 1 (33.33%) WLAN
1 1 (33.33%) WPA2
General
1 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Virtualisation Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) PCIe
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Performance Tuning
1 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) Memory Management
2 1 (33.33%) Patch Management
2 1 (33.33%) Performance Optimisation
2 1 (33.33%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) C
1 2 (66.67%) C++
2 1 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) CCNP
1 1 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Embedded Firmware
2 1 (33.33%) KVM
2 1 (33.33%) QEMU
2 1 (33.33%) Xen
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Ansible
1 1 (33.33%) Cisco Prime
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) AirMagnet
1 1 (33.33%) Cisco
1 1 (33.33%) Ekahau