Firmware Contracts in the East of England

Firmware
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England 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 30 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 69 100 75
Rank change year-on-year +31 -25 +54
Contract jobs citing Firmware 18 13 48
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 1.66% 0.67% 2.42%
As % of the System Software category 9.94% 9.70% 14.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 6 15
10th Percentile £86 - -
25th Percentile £86 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year -22.22% - -5.26%
75th Percentile £556 £498 £494
90th Percentile £568 £506 -
England median daily rate £425 £425 £450
% change year-on-year - -5.56% -7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 6 5
10th Percentile £75.83 - £56.50
25th Percentile £82.00 £51.25 -
Median hourly rate £88.00 £64.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +37.50% -8.57% +40.00%
75th Percentile £91.50 £78.31 -
90th Percentile £91.60 £80.63 -
England median hourly rate £81.75 £65.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year +25.77% +23.81% +5.00%

All System Software Skills
East of England

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 181 134 338
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 16.71% 6.96% 17.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 86 75 221
10th Percentile £178 £186 £170
25th Percentile £236 £228 £240
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £425 £450
Median % change year-on-year +15.29% -5.56% +5.88%
75th Percentile £575 £569 £638
90th Percentile - £700 £700
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 30 35
10th Percentile - £14.00 £14.75
25th Percentile £14.99 - £21.28
Median hourly rate £34.70 £14.16 £65.50
Median % change year-on-year +145.02% -78.38% +319.33%
75th Percentile £88.00 £15.60 £73.13
90th Percentile £91.60 £64.70 £74.50
England median hourly rate £28.75 £22.30 £50.00
% change year-on-year +28.92% -55.40% +150.00%

Firmware
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Firmware in the East of England

Firmware
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

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

Daily rate trend for Firmware in the East of England

Firmware
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Firmware in the East of England over the 6 months to 30 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Firmware in the East of England

Firmware
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

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

Hourly rate trend for Firmware in the East of England

Firmware
Hourly Rate Histogram in the East of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Firmware in the East of England over the 6 months to 30 June 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Firmware in the East of England

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 Firmware within the East of England region over the 6 months to 30 June 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
Bedfordshire +7 13 £86 - 27
Cambridgeshire +12 3 £538 - 83
Hertfordshire +21 1 - - 30
Essex +13 1 - - 16
Firmware
England

Firmware
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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 7 (38.89%) Simulink
2 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (5.56%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 1 (5.56%) SAP PLM
Communications & Networking
1 6 (33.33%) Ethernet
2 1 (5.56%) 802.11
2 1 (5.56%) Cisco ISE
2 1 (5.56%) Cisco Wireless
2 1 (5.56%) LAN
2 1 (5.56%) Multicast
2 1 (5.56%) Network Security
2 1 (5.56%) VLAN
2 1 (5.56%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (5.56%) Wireless
2 1 (5.56%) Wireless Security
2 1 (5.56%) WLAN
2 1 (5.56%) WPA2
Development Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Git
1 1 (5.56%) JIRA
1 1 (5.56%) Rational DOORS
1 1 (5.56%) Rational Rhapsody
General
1 8 (44.44%) Social Skills
2 6 (33.33%) Electronics
2 6 (33.33%) Games
2 6 (33.33%) Military
3 2 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (5.56%) Aerospace
4 1 (5.56%) Law
Job Titles
1 6 (33.33%) Lead
1 6 (33.33%) Security Engineer
2 5 (27.78%) FPGA Engineer
3 4 (22.22%) Firmware Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) Principal Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) Virtualisation Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) RF Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.56%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 8 (44.44%) FPGA
2 7 (38.89%) PCIe
2 7 (38.89%) Verilog
3 6 (33.33%) Algorithms
4 3 (16.67%) Management Information System
5 2 (11.11%) VHDL
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (38.89%) Patch Management
1 7 (38.89%) UVM
2 6 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence
2 6 (33.33%) Computer Science
2 6 (33.33%) Cryptography
2 6 (33.33%) GAP Analysis
2 6 (33.33%) Incident Management
2 6 (33.33%) Information Assurance
2 6 (33.33%) Key Management
2 6 (33.33%) Machine Learning
2 6 (33.33%) MODAF
2 6 (33.33%) Physics
2 6 (33.33%) SABSA
2 6 (33.33%) Security Management
3 5 (27.78%) Customer Requirements
4 4 (22.22%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
5 3 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (11.11%) Performance Tuning
7 1 (5.56%) Scenario Testing
7 1 (5.56%) Test Planning
Programming Languages
1 7 (38.89%) MATLAB
1 7 (38.89%) SystemVerilog
2 6 (33.33%) Tcl
3 2 (11.11%) C
3 2 (11.11%) C++
4 1 (5.56%) Python
Qualifications
1 14 (77.78%) SC Cleared
1 14 (77.78%) Security Cleared
2 10 (55.56%) Degree
3 6 (33.33%) HNC
3 6 (33.33%) HND
4 1 (5.56%) CCNP
4 1 (5.56%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (5.56%) CISSP
4 1 (5.56%) Master's Degree
4 1 (5.56%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (33.33%) DO-254
1 6 (33.33%) JSP 440
1 6 (33.33%) NCSC
1 6 (33.33%) NIST
1 6 (33.33%) NIST 800
System Software
1 2 (11.11%) Embedded Firmware
2 1 (5.56%) KVM
2 1 (5.56%) QEMU
2 1 (5.56%) Xen
Systems Management
1 1 (5.56%) Ansible
1 1 (5.56%) Cisco Prime
Vendors
1 7 (38.89%) Xilinx
2 6 (33.33%) Actel
2 6 (33.33%) Altera
2 6 (33.33%) Intel
2 6 (33.33%) Microsemi
3 1 (5.56%) AirMagnet
3 1 (5.56%) Cisco
3 1 (5.56%) Ekahau
3 1 (5.56%) SAP