Firmware Contracts in Central London

Firmware
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London 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 122 130 170
Rank change year-on-year +8 +40 +19
Contract jobs citing Firmware 7 3 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.35% 0.12% 0.052%
As % of the System Software category 3.13% 1.12% 0.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 3 0
10th Percentile - £203 -
25th Percentile £475 £263 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £375 -
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% - -
75th Percentile £638 £388 -
90th Percentile £668 - -
London median daily rate £400 £350 £510
% change year-on-year +14.29% -31.37% -1.16%

All System Software Skills
Central London

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 Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 224 267 476
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 11.22% 10.92% 12.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 160 203 325
10th Percentile £237 £214 £213
25th Percentile £383 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £531 £475 £563
Median % change year-on-year +11.68% -15.56% +2.27%
75th Percentile £615 £650 £700
90th Percentile £688 £738 £788
London median daily rate £550 £500 £575
% change year-on-year +10.00% -13.04% +2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 5 2
10th Percentile £21.48 - £21.40
25th Percentile £21.81 £21.25 £22.00
Median hourly rate £24.48 £40.00 £23.50
Median % change year-on-year -38.81% +70.21% -7.84%
75th Percentile £66.71 - £24.50
90th Percentile £139.19 £46.15 £24.80
London median hourly rate £28.41 £22.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year +26.27% -50.00% +83.67%

Firmware
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Firmware in Central London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Daily rate trend for Firmware in Central London

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Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Firmware in Central London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Firmware in Central London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

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

Hourly rate trend for Firmware in Central London

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Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Firmware within the Central London 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
City of London +10 5 £625 +66.67% 2
West End of London - 2 £500 - 2
Firmware
London

Firmware
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (14.29%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 3 (42.86%) H.323
1 3 (42.86%) MGCP
1 3 (42.86%) Unified Communications
1 3 (42.86%) WebEx
2 2 (28.57%) Firewall
3 1 (14.29%) Cisco ISE
3 1 (14.29%) DHCP
3 1 (14.29%) DNS
3 1 (14.29%) Network Security
3 1 (14.29%) VLAN
3 1 (14.29%) VRRP
3 1 (14.29%) Wi-Fi
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Git
General
1 3 (42.86%) Multimedia
1 3 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Finance
2 1 (14.29%) French Language
2 1 (14.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (14.29%) Organisational Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
2 1 (14.29%) Retail
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Network Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Cisco Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Cisco Network Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Unified Communications Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Desktop Support
3 1 (14.29%) Firmware Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Security Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Senior
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Firmware Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Digital Signage
2 2 (28.57%) NHS
3 1 (14.29%) Data Centre
3 1 (14.29%) FPGA
3 1 (14.29%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 2 (28.57%) Windows
2 1 (14.29%) Linux
2 1 (14.29%) Windows Server
2 1 (14.29%) Windows Server 2012
2 1 (14.29%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) Customer Experience
2 2 (28.57%) Asset Management
3 1 (14.29%) Change Management
3 1 (14.29%) High Availability
3 1 (14.29%) Incident Management
3 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (14.29%) Inventory Management
3 1 (14.29%) IT Asset Management
3 1 (14.29%) Low Latency
3 1 (14.29%) Migration
3 1 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (14.29%) Signal Processing
3 1 (14.29%) Statistics
3 1 (14.29%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (57.14%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) CCNA
1 2 (28.57%) CCNP
1 2 (28.57%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Active Directory
1 1 (14.29%) Hyper-V
1 1 (14.29%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (42.86%) Ansible
1 3 (42.86%) Cisco UCCE
2 1 (14.29%) Cisco CUCM
Vendors
1 4 (57.14%) Cisco
2 1 (14.29%) Fortinet
2 1 (14.29%) Palo Alto
2 1 (14.29%) Veeam
2 1 (14.29%) Xilinx