Embedded Firmware Contracts in England

Embedded Firmware
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Embedded Firmware skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Embedded 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 481 534 640
Rank change year-on-year +53 +106 +131
Contract jobs citing Embedded Firmware 4 8 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.016% 0.022% 0.026%
As % of the System Software category 0.13% 0.20% 0.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 8
10th Percentile £520 - -
25th Percentile £522 £525 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £456
Median % change year-on-year - +20.55% +1.39%
75th Percentile £606 £575 £494
90th Percentile £625 - £506
UK median daily rate £588 £550 £475
% change year-on-year +6.82% +15.79% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 5
10th Percentile - £56.75 £43.00
25th Percentile - - £47.50
Median hourly rate - £65.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year - +30.00% -
75th Percentile - - £52.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - £65.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year - +30.00% -2.44%

All System Software Skills
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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 3,088 4,031 6,595
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 12.68% 10.84% 13.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,136 2,794 4,778
10th Percentile £213 £190 £204
25th Percentile £400 £325 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £494 £525
Median % change year-on-year +6.33% -5.95% -
75th Percentile £625 £600 £650
90th Percentile £725 £688 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £488 £525
% change year-on-year +7.69% -7.14% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 73 209 243
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.06 £14.25
25th Percentile £18.13 £14.48 £17.72
Median hourly rate £27.94 £21.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +33.05% -58.00% +163.16%
75th Percentile £64.50 £58.69 £65.00
90th Percentile £87.65 £72.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £22.50 £53.43
% change year-on-year +22.22% -57.88% +167.13%

Embedded Firmware
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Embedded Firmware in England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Embedded Firmware in England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Embedded Firmware in England.

Hourly rate trend for Embedded Firmware in England

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Contract Job Locations in 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 England 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
East of England +31 2 £544 - 30
Midlands +21 1 - - 8
West Midlands +13 1 - - 5
Embedded Firmware
UK

Embedded Firmware
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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:

Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Git
1 1 (25.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (25.00%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Senior
2 2 (50.00%) Virtualisation Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Full-Stack Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Penetration Tester
3 1 (25.00%) Security Penetration Tester
3 1 (25.00%) Security Researcher
3 1 (25.00%) Senior Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Senior Penetration Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) HTML
1 1 (25.00%) Laravel
1 1 (25.00%) REST
1 1 (25.00%) RESTful
1 1 (25.00%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) PCIe
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Android
1 1 (25.00%) FreeRTOS
1 1 (25.00%) Linux
1 1 (25.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (25.00%) Agile
1 1 (25.00%) Cryptography
1 1 (25.00%) Design Patterns
1 1 (25.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 1 (25.00%) Memory Management
1 1 (25.00%) MVC
1 1 (25.00%) Offensive Security
1 1 (25.00%) OO
1 1 (25.00%) Penetration Testing
1 1 (25.00%) Performance Optimisation
1 1 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (25.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (25.00%) TDD
1 1 (25.00%) Validation
1 1 (25.00%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) C
1 3 (75.00%) C++
2 1 (25.00%) Assembly Language
2 1 (25.00%) Java
2 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (25.00%) PHP
2 1 (25.00%) Rust
2 1 (25.00%) Shell Script
2 1 (25.00%) SQL
System Software
1 4 (100.00%) Firmware
2 1 (25.00%) KVM
2 1 (25.00%) QEMU
2 1 (25.00%) Xen