Senior Firmware Engineer Contracts in Chelmsford

Senior Firmware Engineer
Essex > Chelmsford

The median Senior Firmware Engineer daily rate in Chelmsford is £638, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

 6 months to
1 May 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 1 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Firmware Engineer 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Chelmsford 40.00% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 40.00% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £614 - -
25th Percentile £616 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £638 - -
75th Percentile £666 - -
90th Percentile £671 - -
Essex median daily rate £638 - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Chelmsford

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Chelmsford. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Chelmsford with a recognized job title 5 12 29
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 100.00% 85.71% 100.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 6 16
10th Percentile £373 £218 £105
25th Percentile £463 £291 £128
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £450 £296
Median % change year-on-year +38.89% +52.28% -26.13%
75th Percentile £656 £534 £528
90th Percentile £668 £569 £588
Essex median daily rate £400 £458 £450
% change year-on-year -12.57% +1.67% -8.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 6 4
10th Percentile - £12.86 £20.04
25th Percentile - £13.59 £20.85
Median hourly rate £120.00 £16.63 £23.31
Median % change year-on-year +621.59% -28.66% -2.88%
75th Percentile - £19.88 £24.62
90th Percentile - £20.25 -
Essex median hourly rate £26.25 £40.31 £43.32
% change year-on-year -34.88% -6.94% +80.48%

Senior Firmware Engineer Skill Set
Top 8 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Chelmsford

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Senior Firmware Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Chelmsford region featuring Senior Firmware Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Firmware
1 2 (100.00%) VHDL
1 2 (100.00%) FPGA
1 2 (100.00%) Xilinx
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Git
1 2 (100.00%) Signal Processing

Senior Firmware Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Chelmsford 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:

Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Git
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) FPGA
1 2 (100.00%) VHDL
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Signal Processing
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Firmware
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Xilinx
6 Senior Firmware Engineer jobs in Essex