Firmware Contracts in the East Midlands

Firmware
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East Midlands 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 54 65 79
Rank change year-on-year +11 +14 +18
Contract jobs citing Firmware 2 1 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 0.37% 0.13% 0.58%
As % of the System Software category 4.00% 1.18% 3.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - £450
75th Percentile - - £500
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £465 £425 £463
% change year-on-year +9.41% -8.11% -2.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £55.00
Median hourly rate - - £60.00
75th Percentile - - £65.00
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £62.00 £61.25 £55.00
% change year-on-year +1.22% +11.36% +10.00%

All System Software Skills
East Midlands

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 East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 50 85 168
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 9.33% 11.00% 16.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 61 127
10th Percentile £185 £145 £153
25th Percentile £250 £185 £223
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £459 £338 £375
Median % change year-on-year +36.00% -10.00% +50.00%
75th Percentile £537 £498 £583
90th Percentile £550 £577 £694
England median daily rate £525 £494 £525
% change year-on-year +6.33% -5.95% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 18
10th Percentile - - £12.27
25th Percentile - £45.22 £15.25
Median hourly rate £15.09 £48.56 £23.24
Median % change year-on-year -68.93% +108.95% +25.62%
75th Percentile - £51.91 £40.25
90th Percentile - - £65.00
England median hourly rate £27.94 £21.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year +33.05% -58.00% +163.16%

Firmware
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Job postings citing Firmware as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Firmware in the East Midlands

Firmware
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Firmware in the East Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Firmware in the East Midlands

Firmware
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Firmware in the East Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Firmware in the East Midlands

Firmware
Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Firmware within the East Midlands 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
Northamptonshire -1 1 - - 1
Nottinghamshire - 1 - -
Firmware
England

Firmware
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 (50.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
2 1 (50.00%) BGP
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco Nexus
2 1 (50.00%) DHCP
2 1 (50.00%) DNS
2 1 (50.00%) SD-WAN
2 1 (50.00%) VPN
2 1 (50.00%) WAN
General
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Network Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco Network Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Server Engineer
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) CentOS
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Rocky
1 1 (50.00%) Ubuntu
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
1 1 (50.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (50.00%) Customer-Centricity
1 1 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (50.00%) Migration
1 1 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (50.00%) Process Improvement
1 1 (50.00%) Service Delivery
1 1 (50.00%) Zero Trust
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) SLA
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Ansible
1 1 (50.00%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco
2 1 (50.00%) Fortinet
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft