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 3 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 122 126 155
Rank change year-on-year +4 +29 +39
Contract jobs citing Firmware 5 2 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.26% 0.098% 0.21%
As % of the System Software category 3.23% 0.86% 1.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 1
10th Percentile £300 £183 -
25th Percentile £338 £213 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £415 £275 £503
Median % change year-on-year +50.91% -45.33% -9.53%
75th Percentile £503 £338 -
90th Percentile £546 £368 -
Central London median daily rate £500 £275 £503
% change year-on-year +81.82% -45.33% -9.53%

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 155 232 450
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 8.21% 11.31% 13.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 110 171 304
10th Percentile £259 £313 £238
25th Percentile £408 £400 £447
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -8.70% +4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £660 £738
90th Percentile £688 £725 £824
Central London median daily rate £536 £525 £575
% change year-on-year +2.10% -8.70% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 2
10th Percentile £22.95 - £23.88
25th Percentile £24.38 £77.50 £27.81
Median hourly rate £28.50 £85.00 £36.25
Median % change year-on-year -66.47% +134.48% +36.79%
75th Percentile £108.88 £92.50 £45.31
90th Percentile £156.05 - £49.63
Central London median hourly rate £27.48 £85.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -67.68% +240.00% +6.38%

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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 3 August 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:

Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Office
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) H.323
1 1 (20.00%) MGCP
1 1 (20.00%) Unified Communications
1 1 (20.00%) WebEx
1 1 (20.00%) Wi-Fi
General
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Finance
2 1 (20.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (20.00%) Multimedia
2 1 (20.00%) Organisational Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (20.00%) Analyst
1 1 (20.00%) Cisco Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) Consultant
1 1 (20.00%) Deployment Analyst
1 1 (20.00%) Deployment Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) Desktop Support
1 1 (20.00%) IT Analyst
1 1 (20.00%) IT Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) IT Support
1 1 (20.00%) IT Support Analyst
1 1 (20.00%) IT Support Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) Network Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) Support Analyst
1 1 (20.00%) Support Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) Virtualisation Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Clustering
1 1 (20.00%) Digital Signage
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) High Availability
2 1 (20.00%) Asset Management
2 1 (20.00%) Customer Experience
2 1 (20.00%) Inventory Management
2 1 (20.00%) IT Asset Management
2 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) C
1 1 (20.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) VMware ESXi
1 1 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Ansible
1 1 (20.00%) Cisco CUCM
1 1 (20.00%) Cisco UCCE
1 1 (20.00%) vCenter Server
1 1 (20.00%) vMotion
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Cisco
2 1 (20.00%) Apple
2 1 (20.00%) Dell
2 1 (20.00%) HP
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) VMware