Embedded Firmware Contract Job Trends in the East of England

Embedded Firmware
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring Embedded Firmware skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 112 95 98
Rank change year-on-year -17 +3 +2
Contract jobs citing Embedded Firmware 7 1 5
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 0.29% 0.075% 0.33%
As % of the System Software category 2.67% 0.56% 3.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £313 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 - -
75th Percentile £338 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £625 £475 £550
% change year-on-year +31.58% -13.64% +12.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £51.25
Median hourly rate £71.00 - £57.50
75th Percentile - - £63.75
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £60.00 - £57.50
% change year-on-year - - +15.00%

All System Software Skills
East of England

Embedded 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 of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 262 180 136
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 10.92% 13.49% 9.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 132 84 61
10th Percentile £163 £198 £185
25th Percentile £240 £283 £220
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £340
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +47.06% -31.31%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £525
90th Percentile £707 £617 £600
England median daily rate £500 £500 £513
% change year-on-year - -2.44% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 53 39 17
10th Percentile £61.40 £14.99 -
25th Percentile £68.75 £15.50 £14.16
Median hourly rate £70.50 £61.50 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +14.63% +105.00% -53.85%
75th Percentile £74.32 £88.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £88.69 £91.50 £75.95
England median hourly rate £63.31 £34.50 £30.00
% change year-on-year +83.50% +15.00% -34.91%

Embedded Firmware
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Embedded Firmware relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Embedded Firmware job vacancy trend in the East of England

Embedded Firmware
Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Embedded Firmware.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Embedded Firmware

Embedded Firmware
Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Embedded Firmware.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Embedded Firmware

Embedded Firmware
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Embedded Firmware within the East of England region over the 6 months to 5 October 2026. 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
Cambridgeshire +4 3 - - 55
Essex - 3 - - 11
Suffolk - 1 £325 - 5
Embedded Firmware
England

Embedded Firmware
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 3 (42.86%) Azure
1 3 (42.86%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 3 (42.86%) RS-232
1 3 (42.86%) RS-485
2 1 (14.29%) Broadband
2 1 (14.29%) Wi-Fi
Development Applications
1 3 (42.86%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 3 (42.86%) Electronics
1 3 (42.86%) Manufacturing
1 3 (42.86%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Developer
1 3 (42.86%) Embedded Developer
1 3 (42.86%) Embedded Software Developer
1 3 (42.86%) Firmware Developer
1 3 (42.86%) Firmware Engineer
1 3 (42.86%) Software Developer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Embedded Systems
1 3 (42.86%) FPGA
1 3 (42.86%) Verilog
1 3 (42.86%) VHDL
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) Software Engineering
2 3 (42.86%) Computer Science
2 3 (42.86%) Decision-Making
2 3 (42.86%) DevOps
2 3 (42.86%) Electronic Design Automation
2 3 (42.86%) FPGA Design
2 3 (42.86%) Image Processing
2 3 (42.86%) Integration Testing
2 3 (42.86%) Migration
2 3 (42.86%) UVM
3 1 (14.29%) QA Automation
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) C
1 3 (42.86%) C++
1 3 (42.86%) SystemVerilog
Qualifications
1 3 (42.86%) Degree
1 3 (42.86%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (42.86%) DO-254
2 1 (14.29%) QA
System Software
1 7 (100.00%) Firmware
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Actel
1 3 (42.86%) Lattice Semiconductor
1 3 (42.86%) Microsemi
1 3 (42.86%) Siemens
1 3 (42.86%) Xilinx