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 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 405 353 479
Rank change year-on-year -52 +126 +133
Contract jobs citing Firmware 71 193 159
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.30% 0.52% 0.33%
As % of the System Software category 2.32% 4.73% 2.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 115 74
10th Percentile £200 £205 £161
25th Percentile £325 £269 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £400 £456
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% -12.33% -8.75%
75th Percentile £538 £539 £529
90th Percentile £653 £575 £557
UK median daily rate £423 £400 £488
% change year-on-year +5.63% -17.95% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 50 28
10th Percentile £38.13 £23.81 £35.50
25th Percentile £54.30 £50.83 £47.50
Median hourly rate £62.00 £62.50 £56.25
Median % change year-on-year -0.80% +11.11% +12.50%
75th Percentile £88.00 £70.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £90.25 £90.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £60.50 £56.25
% change year-on-year +3.31% +7.56% +12.50%

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 3,061 4,077 6,097
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 12.73% 11.09% 12.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,090 2,863 4,369
10th Percentile £215 £200 £200
25th Percentile £388 £350 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £622 £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 67 207 214
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.06 £15.21
25th Percentile £17.73 £14.48 £17.76
Median hourly rate £28.41 £22.15 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +28.26% -57.81% +182.26%
75th Percentile £62.38 £58.69 £66.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £76.20 £77.20
UK median hourly rate £28.41 £24.18 £55.00
% change year-on-year +17.49% -56.04% +189.47%

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 30 May 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 30 May 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 30 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
London +10 25 £400 +6.67% 49
South East 0 16 £500 - 205
East of England +33 13 £550 +22.22% 149
North of England -4 8 £450 -10.36% 118
Midlands +19 7 £300 -4.00% 84
North West -6 7 £488 -3.27% 45
West Midlands +20 5 £300 -45.45% 48
South West +32 2 £295 - 86
East Midlands +8 2 - - 32
North East 0 1 £200 -52.94% 24
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 (2.82%) Confluence
2 1 (1.41%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.41%) SAS
Applications
1 5 (7.04%) Simulink
2 1 (1.41%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 11 (15.49%) AWS
2 6 (8.45%) Azure
3 3 (4.23%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (2.82%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 1 (1.41%) Asana
5 1 (1.41%) Entra ID
5 1 (1.41%) IaaS
5 1 (1.41%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 10 (14.08%) Firewall
1 10 (14.08%) VPN
2 9 (12.68%) BGP
3 8 (11.27%) OSPF
4 7 (9.86%) LAN
4 7 (9.86%) SAN
4 7 (9.86%) WAN
5 6 (8.45%) DNS
5 6 (8.45%) Ethernet
5 6 (8.45%) VLAN
5 6 (8.45%) Wireless
6 5 (7.04%) ATM
6 5 (7.04%) Cisco ISE
6 5 (7.04%) DHCP
6 5 (7.04%) Network Security
6 5 (7.04%) SD-WAN
6 5 (7.04%) SNMP
6 5 (7.04%) Software-Defined Radio
6 5 (7.04%) WLAN
7 4 (5.63%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.41%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 9 (12.68%) Git
2 6 (8.45%) JIRA
3 5 (7.04%) Robot Framework
4 4 (5.63%) GoogleTest
5 3 (4.23%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (2.82%) Bitbucket
6 2 (2.82%) Eclipse
6 2 (2.82%) Jenkins
General
1 21 (29.58%) Social Skills
2 7 (9.86%) Analytical Skills
2 7 (9.86%) Electronics
3 6 (8.45%) Public Sector
4 5 (7.04%) Finance
4 5 (7.04%) Games
5 4 (5.63%) Telecoms
6 3 (4.23%) Multimedia
7 2 (2.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (2.82%) Manufacturing
7 2 (2.82%) Marketing
8 1 (1.41%) Aerospace
8 1 (1.41%) Automotive
8 1 (1.41%) Banking
8 1 (1.41%) Military
8 1 (1.41%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (15.49%) Network Engineer
2 9 (12.68%) FPGA Engineer
3 8 (11.27%) Senior
4 7 (9.86%) Firmware Engineer
5 5 (7.04%) Cisco Engineer
5 5 (7.04%) Developer
5 5 (7.04%) EPoS Engineer
5 5 (7.04%) Storage Engineer
6 4 (5.63%) Architect
6 4 (5.63%) IT Engineer
6 4 (5.63%) Software Test Engineer
6 4 (5.63%) Test Engineer
6 4 (5.63%) Virtualisation Engineer
7 3 (4.23%) Administrator
7 3 (4.23%) Analyst
7 3 (4.23%) Cisco Network Engineer
7 3 (4.23%) FPGA Developer
7 3 (4.23%) Server Engineer
8 2 (2.82%) LAN Engineer
8 2 (2.82%) Unified Communications Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (7.04%) HTML
2 4 (5.63%) CSS
3 2 (2.82%) Node.js
3 2 (2.82%) REST
4 1 (1.41%) 802.1X
4 1 (1.41%) Laravel
4 1 (1.41%) Redfish
4 1 (1.41%) RESTful
4 1 (1.41%) Ruby on Rails
4 1 (1.41%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 14 (19.72%) FPGA
2 12 (16.90%) Algorithms
3 11 (15.49%) Verilog
4 9 (12.68%) VHDL
5 6 (8.45%) PCIe
6 5 (7.04%) EPoS
6 5 (7.04%) IoT
6 5 (7.04%) Smartphone
7 4 (5.63%) Device Driver
7 4 (5.63%) Embedded Systems
8 3 (4.23%) Digital Signage
9 2 (2.82%) Cloud Native
9 2 (2.82%) Clustering
9 2 (2.82%) Data Centre
9 2 (2.82%) Linux Command Line
9 2 (2.82%) NHS
10 1 (1.41%) Driving Licence
10 1 (1.41%) Greenfield Project
10 1 (1.41%) Hybrid Cloud
10 1 (1.41%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 11 (15.49%) Linux
2 6 (8.45%) Windows
3 3 (4.23%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.41%) CentOS
4 1 (1.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (1.41%) Rocky
4 1 (1.41%) Ubuntu
4 1 (1.41%) Unix
4 1 (1.41%) Windows 10
4 1 (1.41%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (15.49%) Agile
2 10 (14.08%) Migration
2 10 (14.08%) Problem-Solving
2 10 (14.08%) Signal Processing
3 9 (12.68%) Artificial Intelligence
4 8 (11.27%) Change Management
4 8 (11.27%) UVM
5 7 (9.86%) Patch Management
6 6 (8.45%) Cryptography
6 6 (8.45%) Disaster Recovery
6 6 (8.45%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 6 (8.45%) Software Testing
6 6 (8.45%) Validation
7 5 (7.04%) Computer Science
7 5 (7.04%) Machine Learning
7 5 (7.04%) Network Monitoring
7 5 (7.04%) Performance Tuning
7 5 (7.04%) Physics
7 5 (7.04%) Problem Management
8 4 (5.63%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 14 (19.72%) Python
2 8 (11.27%) C++
2 8 (11.27%) SystemVerilog
3 5 (7.04%) C
3 5 (7.04%) MATLAB
3 5 (7.04%) Tcl
4 4 (5.63%) Embedded C
5 3 (4.23%) Java
5 3 (4.23%) JavaScript
6 2 (2.82%) SQL
7 1 (1.41%) Bash
7 1 (1.41%) C-shell
7 1 (1.41%) PHP
7 1 (1.41%) Ruby
7 1 (1.41%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 25 (35.21%) Security Cleared
2 19 (26.76%) SC Cleared
3 9 (12.68%) Cisco Certification
3 9 (12.68%) Degree
4 7 (9.86%) CCNP
5 6 (8.45%) HNC
5 6 (8.45%) HND
6 4 (5.63%) CCNA
6 4 (5.63%) CCSA
7 3 (4.23%) DV Cleared
7 3 (4.23%) Master's Degree
7 3 (4.23%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (4.23%) PhD
8 1 (1.41%) JNCIA
8 1 (1.41%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (7.04%) DO-254
2 2 (2.82%) SLA
3 1 (1.41%) JSP 440
3 1 (1.41%) NCSC
3 1 (1.41%) NIST
3 1 (1.41%) NIST 800
3 1 (1.41%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 4 (5.63%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (4.23%) Active Directory
2 3 (4.23%) Embedded Firmware
2 3 (4.23%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (2.82%) VMware NSX
4 1 (1.41%) BitLocker
4 1 (1.41%) Hyper-V
4 1 (1.41%) KVM
4 1 (1.41%) QEMU
4 1 (1.41%) VMware Workstation
4 1 (1.41%) Xen
Systems Management
1 10 (14.08%) Ansible
2 4 (5.63%) vCenter Server
3 3 (4.23%) CA Spectrum
3 3 (4.23%) Cisco UCCE
3 3 (4.23%) NetBackup
4 2 (2.82%) Cisco CUCM
4 2 (2.82%) EMC NetWorker
4 2 (2.82%) FortiGate
4 2 (2.82%) HP Data Protector
4 2 (2.82%) SCCM
4 2 (2.82%) vMotion
5 1 (1.41%) Cisco Prime
5 1 (1.41%) HAProxy
5 1 (1.41%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (1.41%) Nagios
5 1 (1.41%) Plesk
5 1 (1.41%) PowerCLI
5 1 (1.41%) Puppet
5 1 (1.41%) Terraform
Vendors
1 22 (30.99%) Cisco
2 8 (11.27%) Intel
2 8 (11.27%) Xilinx
3 7 (9.86%) Microsoft
3 7 (9.86%) VMware
4 5 (7.04%) Actel
4 5 (7.04%) Altera
4 5 (7.04%) CheckPoint
4 5 (7.04%) HP
4 5 (7.04%) Meraki
4 5 (7.04%) Microsemi
4 5 (7.04%) SolarWinds
5 4 (5.63%) F5
5 4 (5.63%) Juniper
6 3 (4.23%) Algorithmics
6 3 (4.23%) Brocade
6 3 (4.23%) EMC
6 3 (4.23%) ServiceNow
7 2 (2.82%) Arista
7 2 (2.82%) Kronos