Firmware Contracts in England

Firmware
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 6 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 408 373 464
Rank change year-on-year -35 +91 +159
Contract jobs citing Firmware 90 182 177
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.34% 0.49% 0.37%
As % of the System Software category 2.75% 4.31% 2.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 95 79
10th Percentile £201 £205 £192
25th Percentile £303 £305 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £414 £425 £450
Median % change year-on-year -2.65% -5.56% -10.00%
75th Percentile £522 £545 £528
90th Percentile £598 £575 £563
UK median daily rate £400 £450 £475
% change year-on-year -11.11% -5.26% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 45 29
10th Percentile £41.11 £21.97 £38.25
25th Percentile £55.59 £51.06 £47.50
Median hourly rate £81.00 £65.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +24.62% +23.81% +5.00%
75th Percentile £88.00 £70.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £91.50 £77.30 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £81.00 £60.50 £53.75
% change year-on-year +33.88% +12.56% +7.50%

All System Software Skills
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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 3,271 4,227 6,187
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 12.32% 11.36% 12.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,154 2,931 4,404
10th Percentile £222 £213 £200
25th Percentile £375 £375 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -
75th Percentile £600 £608 £650
90th Percentile £700 £688 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 78 194 219
10th Percentile £15.06 £14.06 £14.25
25th Percentile £22.50 £14.74 £17.50
Median hourly rate £31.39 £22.15 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +41.69% -55.70% +150.00%
75th Percentile £70.88 £58.64 £66.00
90th Percentile £88.23 £70.00 £76.80
UK median hourly rate £28.00 £23.80 £54.00
% change year-on-year +17.65% -55.93% +170.00%

Firmware
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Firmware in England

Firmware
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Firmware in England

Firmware
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Firmware in England over the 6 months to 6 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Firmware in England

Firmware
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Firmware in England

Firmware
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

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

Hourly rate histogram for Firmware in England

Firmware
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 Firmware within the England region over the 6 months to 6 July 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
London +8 34 £400 +1.59% 263
East of England +37 21 £350 -22.22% 148
South East -1 15 £500 +25.00% 177
North of England -19 9 £438 -13.19% 74
Midlands +15 8 £475 +35.71% 53
North West -9 8 £450 -10.71% 45
West Midlands +10 5 £300 -45.45% 37
South West +32 3 £440 - 89
East Midlands 0 3 £650 +136.36% 15
North East - 1 £200 - 6
Firmware
UK

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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (2.22%) Confluence
1 2 (2.22%) nginx
Applications
1 8 (8.89%) Simulink
2 4 (4.44%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (2.22%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 2 (2.22%) SAP PLM
Cloud Services
1 15 (16.67%) AWS
2 9 (10.00%) Azure
3 3 (3.33%) GCP
3 3 (3.33%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (2.22%) GitHub
4 2 (2.22%) SaaS
4 2 (2.22%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 1 (1.11%) Asana
5 1 (1.11%) Entra ID
5 1 (1.11%) IaaS
5 1 (1.11%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 17 (18.89%) Firewall
2 16 (17.78%) BGP
2 16 (17.78%) VPN
3 15 (16.67%) OSPF
4 14 (15.56%) WAN
5 13 (14.44%) LAN
5 13 (14.44%) VLAN
6 10 (11.11%) DNS
6 10 (11.11%) Network Security
6 10 (11.11%) SD-WAN
6 10 (11.11%) Wireless
7 9 (10.00%) DHCP
7 9 (10.00%) Ethernet
8 8 (8.89%) Cisco ISE
8 8 (8.89%) Cisco Wireless
8 8 (8.89%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
8 8 (8.89%) SSL
8 8 (8.89%) WLAN
9 7 (7.78%) EIGRP
10 6 (6.67%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.11%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 9 (10.00%) Git
2 8 (8.89%) JIRA
3 4 (4.44%) Bitbucket
3 4 (4.44%) GoogleTest
3 4 (4.44%) Robot Framework
4 3 (3.33%) Rational DOORS
4 3 (3.33%) Sonatype Nexus
5 2 (2.22%) Eclipse
5 2 (2.22%) GitLab
5 2 (2.22%) Jenkins
5 2 (2.22%) Rational Rhapsody
General
1 28 (31.11%) Social Skills
2 11 (12.22%) Analytical Skills
2 11 (12.22%) Electronics
3 8 (8.89%) Public Sector
4 6 (6.67%) Finance
4 6 (6.67%) Games
4 6 (6.67%) Military
5 5 (5.56%) Manufacturing
5 5 (5.56%) Telecoms
6 3 (3.33%) Law
6 3 (3.33%) Marketing
6 3 (3.33%) Multimedia
7 2 (2.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.11%) Aerospace
8 1 (1.11%) Automotive
8 1 (1.11%) Banking
8 1 (1.11%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 16 (17.78%) Network Engineer
2 12 (13.33%) FPGA Engineer
3 8 (8.89%) Cisco Engineer
3 8 (8.89%) Security Engineer
4 7 (7.78%) Firmware Engineer
5 6 (6.67%) Cisco Network Engineer
5 6 (6.67%) Lead
5 6 (6.67%) Senior
6 5 (5.56%) Administrator
6 5 (5.56%) Analyst
6 5 (5.56%) Design Engineer
6 5 (5.56%) Developer
6 5 (5.56%) IT Engineer
7 4 (4.44%) Network Administrator
7 4 (4.44%) Principal Engineer
7 4 (4.44%) RF Engineer
7 4 (4.44%) Storage Engineer
7 4 (4.44%) Virtualisation Engineer
8 3 (3.33%) EPoS Engineer
8 3 (3.33%) IT Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (5.56%) HTML
2 4 (4.44%) CSS
3 2 (2.22%) Flash
3 2 (2.22%) Node.js
3 2 (2.22%) REST
4 1 (1.11%) 802.1X
4 1 (1.11%) Laravel
4 1 (1.11%) RESTful
4 1 (1.11%) Ruby on Rails
4 1 (1.11%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 17 (18.89%) FPGA
2 14 (15.56%) Verilog
3 11 (12.22%) Algorithms
3 11 (12.22%) VHDL
4 7 (7.78%) PCIe
5 4 (4.44%) Data Centre
6 3 (3.33%) Cloud Native
6 3 (3.33%) Digital Signage
6 3 (3.33%) EPoS
6 3 (3.33%) IoT
6 3 (3.33%) Management Information System
6 3 (3.33%) Smartphone
7 2 (2.22%) Analogue Electronics
7 2 (2.22%) Clustering
7 2 (2.22%) Device Driver
7 2 (2.22%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (2.22%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (2.22%) NHS
7 2 (2.22%) Private Cloud
7 2 (2.22%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 9 (10.00%) Linux
2 5 (5.56%) Windows
3 2 (2.22%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.11%) CentOS
4 1 (1.11%) Rocky
4 1 (1.11%) Ubuntu
4 1 (1.11%) Unix
4 1 (1.11%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (18.89%) Patch Management
2 15 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
3 11 (12.22%) Network Monitoring
4 10 (11.11%) Artificial Intelligence
4 10 (11.11%) Migration
4 10 (11.11%) UVM
5 9 (10.00%) Agile
5 9 (10.00%) Change Management
6 8 (8.89%) Incident Management
6 8 (8.89%) Signal Processing
6 8 (8.89%) Validation
7 7 (7.78%) Disaster Recovery
8 6 (6.67%) Computer Science
8 6 (6.67%) Cryptography
8 6 (6.67%) GAP Analysis
8 6 (6.67%) Information Assurance
8 6 (6.67%) Key Management
8 6 (6.67%) MODAF
8 6 (6.67%) Physics
8 6 (6.67%) Security Management
Programming Languages
1 19 (21.11%) Python
2 10 (11.11%) C++
2 10 (11.11%) SystemVerilog
3 8 (8.89%) MATLAB
4 7 (7.78%) C
5 6 (6.67%) Tcl
6 3 (3.33%) Java
6 3 (3.33%) JavaScript
7 2 (2.22%) Embedded C
7 2 (2.22%) SQL
8 1 (1.11%) Bash
8 1 (1.11%) Perl
8 1 (1.11%) PHP
8 1 (1.11%) Ruby
8 1 (1.11%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 34 (37.78%) Security Cleared
2 26 (28.89%) SC Cleared
3 16 (17.78%) Degree
4 14 (15.56%) Cisco Certification
5 12 (13.33%) CCNP
6 8 (8.89%) CCSA
7 7 (7.78%) HNC
7 7 (7.78%) HND
8 4 (4.44%) CCNA
8 4 (4.44%) JNCIA
8 4 (4.44%) Master's Degree
8 4 (4.44%) PhD
9 3 (3.33%) DV Cleared
9 3 (3.33%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (1.11%) CISSP
10 1 (1.11%) JNCIS
10 1 (1.11%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (7.78%) NIST
2 6 (6.67%) DO-254
2 6 (6.67%) JSP 440
2 6 (6.67%) NCSC
2 6 (6.67%) NIST 800
3 2 (2.22%) SLA
4 1 (1.11%) GRC
4 1 (1.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.11%) PCI DSS
4 1 (1.11%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (1.11%) SOC 2
System Software
1 5 (5.56%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (4.44%) VMware NSX
3 3 (3.33%) Embedded Firmware
4 2 (2.22%) Active Directory
4 2 (2.22%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (1.11%) BitLocker
5 1 (1.11%) Hyper-V
5 1 (1.11%) KVM
5 1 (1.11%) QEMU
5 1 (1.11%) Xen
Systems Management
1 11 (12.22%) Ansible
2 6 (6.67%) CA Spectrum
3 3 (3.33%) Cisco UCCE
3 3 (3.33%) NetBackup
3 3 (3.33%) vCenter Server
4 2 (2.22%) Cisco CUCM
4 2 (2.22%) EMC NetWorker
4 2 (2.22%) FortiGate
4 2 (2.22%) HAProxy
4 2 (2.22%) HP Data Protector
4 2 (2.22%) SCCM
4 2 (2.22%) vMotion
5 1 (1.11%) Cisco Prime
5 1 (1.11%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (1.11%) Plesk
5 1 (1.11%) PowerCLI
5 1 (1.11%) Terraform
Vendors
1 29 (32.22%) Cisco
2 11 (12.22%) Juniper
3 10 (11.11%) F5
4 9 (10.00%) CheckPoint
4 9 (10.00%) Intel
4 9 (10.00%) Meraki
5 8 (8.89%) SolarWinds
5 8 (8.89%) VMware
5 8 (8.89%) Xilinx
6 7 (7.78%) Microsoft
7 6 (6.67%) Actel
7 6 (6.67%) Altera
7 6 (6.67%) Microsemi
8 5 (5.56%) EMC
8 5 (5.56%) HP
8 5 (5.56%) SAP
9 4 (4.44%) Google
10 3 (3.33%) Algorithmics
10 3 (3.33%) Brocade
10 3 (3.33%) Kronos