Firmware Contracts in Cumbria

Firmware
North West > Cumbria

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cumbria 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 33 27 -
Rank change year-on-year -6 - -
Contract jobs citing Firmware 6 13 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cumbria 3.08% 5.02% -
As % of the System Software category 20.00% 59.09% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 11 0
10th Percentile - £463 -
25th Percentile £513 £483 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £515 -
Median % change year-on-year +1.94% - -
75th Percentile £538 £515 -
90th Percentile - £519 -
North West median daily rate £488 £514 -
% change year-on-year -5.11% - -

All System Software Skills
Cumbria

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 Cumbria.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 30 22 12
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cumbria 15.38% 8.49% 21.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 18 7
10th Percentile £200 £463 £420
25th Percentile £338 £508 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £515 £426
Median % change year-on-year +1.92% +20.91% +0.24%
75th Percentile £538 £662 £463
90th Percentile - £670 £535
North West median daily rate £425 £450 £500
% change year-on-year -5.56% -10.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £83.55 -
North West median hourly rate £55.75 £17.72 £22.41
% change year-on-year +214.62% -20.93% +23.71%

Firmware
Job Vacancy Trend in Cumbria

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

Job vacancy trend for Firmware in Cumbria

Firmware
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cumbria

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

Daily rate trend for Firmware in Cumbria

Firmware
Contract Job Locations in Cumbria

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Firmware within the Cumbria 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
Barrow-in-Furness -11 2 - -
Firmware
North West

Firmware
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cumbria 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 6 (100.00%) SAN
Job Titles
1 6 (100.00%) Storage Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Backup Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Storage and Backup Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Change Management
1 6 (100.00%) Problem Management
2 5 (83.33%) Disaster Recovery
3 4 (66.67%) Storage Management
4 1 (16.67%) Active Listening
4 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 1 (16.67%) Line Management
Qualifications
1 6 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 6 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 4 (66.67%) NetBackup
2 3 (50.00%) EMC NetWorker
2 3 (50.00%) HP Data Protector
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) Brocade
1 4 (66.67%) Cisco
1 4 (66.67%) EMC
1 4 (66.67%) HP
2 3 (50.00%) Veritas