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

6 months to
8 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 65 63 70
Rank change year-on-year -2 +7 +24
Contract jobs citing Firmware 6 3 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 0.78% 0.40% 0.34%
As % of the System Software category 6.90% 2.97% 2.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 1
10th Percentile £178 £245 -
25th Percentile £244 £251 £256
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £392 £275 £263
Median % change year-on-year +42.55% +4.76% -
75th Percentile £577 £333 £269
90th Percentile £666 £358 -
England median daily rate £425 £440 £475
% change year-on-year -3.41% -7.37% -8.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £55.00
Median hourly rate - - £60.00
75th Percentile - - £65.00
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £81.75 £57.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year +42.17% +9.52% -4.55%

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 87 101 133
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 11.34% 13.34% 14.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 61 69 101
10th Percentile £160 £160 £130
25th Percentile £250 £263 £198
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £415 £375 £350
Median % change year-on-year +10.67% +7.14% +40.00%
75th Percentile £523 £498 £530
90th Percentile £550 £543 £675
England median daily rate £500 £515 £525
% change year-on-year -2.91% -1.90% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 8
10th Percentile - £19.15 £13.25
25th Percentile - £20.63 £14.20
Median hourly rate £15.09 £24.20 £20.50
Median % change year-on-year -37.64% +18.05% +2.50%
75th Percentile - £38.60 £32.38
90th Percentile - £46.58 £65.00
England median hourly rate £40.00 £23.80 £40.00
% change year-on-year +68.07% -40.50% +86.05%

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
Daily Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Firmware in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 8 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram 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 8 August 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
Derbyshire +9 4 £392 +12.00% 7
Nottinghamshire -3 1 - - 5
Northamptonshire - 1 - - 4
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:

Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 1 (16.67%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 3 (50.00%) PuTTY
1 3 (50.00%) SSH
1 3 (50.00%) Telnet
2 2 (33.33%) Firewall
3 1 (16.67%) BGP
3 1 (16.67%) Cisco Nexus
3 1 (16.67%) DHCP
3 1 (16.67%) DNS
3 1 (16.67%) SD-WAN
3 1 (16.67%) VPN
3 1 (16.67%) WAN
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Git
1 1 (16.67%) Rational DOORS
General
1 4 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Network Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Break Fix Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Cisco Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Cisco Network Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Design Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) FPGA Design Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) FPGA Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Hardware Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) IT Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) IT Support
3 1 (16.67%) IT Support Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Network Support
3 1 (16.67%) Network Support Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Server Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) FPGA
1 1 (16.67%) Verilog
1 1 (16.67%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 4 (66.67%) Linux
1 4 (66.67%) Windows
2 3 (50.00%) Windows 10
2 3 (50.00%) Windows 7
2 3 (50.00%) Windows 8
3 1 (16.67%) CentOS
3 1 (16.67%) Rocky
3 1 (16.67%) Ubuntu
3 1 (16.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Break/Fix
2 2 (33.33%) Customer Experience
2 2 (33.33%) Line Management
2 2 (33.33%) Process Improvement
3 1 (16.67%) Agile
3 1 (16.67%) CI/CD
3 1 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (16.67%) Customer-Centricity
3 1 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (16.67%) FPGA Design
3 1 (16.67%) Migration
3 1 (16.67%) Performance Tuning
3 1 (16.67%) Scrum
3 1 (16.67%) Service Delivery
3 1 (16.67%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (50.00%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 3 (50.00%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 3 (50.00%) SCCM
2 1 (16.67%) Ansible
2 1 (16.67%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 5 (83.33%) Cisco
2 3 (50.00%) Dell
2 3 (50.00%) Draytek
2 3 (50.00%) McAfee
2 3 (50.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (16.67%) Fortinet
3 1 (16.67%) Xilinx