Firmware Contracts in the City of London

Firmware
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of 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 114 124 176
Rank change year-on-year +10 +52 +6
Contract jobs citing Firmware 5 3 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.28% 0.14% 0.055%
As % of the System Software category 2.69% 1.27% 0.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 3 0
10th Percentile £503 £203 -
25th Percentile £544 £263 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £375 -
Median % change year-on-year +66.67% - -
75th Percentile £663 £388 -
90th Percentile £678 - -
Central London median daily rate £500 £375 -
% change year-on-year +33.33% - -

All System Software Skills
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 186 237 439
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 10.59% 10.79% 12.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 131 175 295
10th Percentile £263 £250 £213
25th Percentile £405 £388 £424
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £575
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -13.04% +4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £659 £725
90th Percentile £701 £742 £788
Central London median daily rate £531 £475 £563
% change year-on-year +11.68% -15.56% +2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 5 0
10th Percentile £36.05 - -
25th Percentile £57.13 £21.25 -
Median hourly rate £98.50 £40.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +146.25% - -
75th Percentile £146.13 - -
90th Percentile £170.95 £46.15 -
Central London median hourly rate £24.48 £40.00 £23.50
% change year-on-year -38.81% +70.21% -7.84%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Firmware in the City of London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Firmware in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Firmware in the City of London

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Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

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

Daily rate histogram for Firmware in the City of London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Firmware in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for Firmware in the City of London

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 (20.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) Firewall
2 1 (20.00%) Cisco ISE
2 1 (20.00%) DHCP
2 1 (20.00%) DNS
2 1 (20.00%) H.323
2 1 (20.00%) MGCP
2 1 (20.00%) Network Security
2 1 (20.00%) Unified Communications
2 1 (20.00%) VLAN
2 1 (20.00%) VRRP
2 1 (20.00%) WebEx
2 1 (20.00%) Wi-Fi
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Git
General
1 3 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Finance
2 1 (20.00%) French Language
2 1 (20.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (20.00%) Multimedia
2 1 (20.00%) Organisational Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (20.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 1 (20.00%) Desktop Support
1 1 (20.00%) Firmware Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) Network Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) Security Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) Senior
1 1 (20.00%) Senior Firmware Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (20.00%) Digital Signage
1 1 (20.00%) FPGA
1 1 (20.00%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Windows
2 1 (20.00%) Linux
2 1 (20.00%) Windows Server
2 1 (20.00%) Windows Server 2012
2 1 (20.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Asset Management
2 1 (20.00%) Change Management
2 1 (20.00%) Customer Experience
2 1 (20.00%) High Availability
2 1 (20.00%) Incident Management
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (20.00%) Inventory Management
2 1 (20.00%) IT Asset Management
2 1 (20.00%) Low Latency
2 1 (20.00%) Migration
2 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (20.00%) Signal Processing
2 1 (20.00%) Statistics
2 1 (20.00%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (20.00%) Hyper-V
1 1 (20.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Ansible
1 1 (20.00%) Cisco CUCM
1 1 (20.00%) Cisco UCCE
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Cisco
2 1 (20.00%) Fortinet
2 1 (20.00%) Palo Alto
2 1 (20.00%) Veeam
2 1 (20.00%) Xilinx