Firmware Contract Job Trends in Harlow

Firmware
Essex > Harlow

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Harlow citing Firmware skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 November 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

	6 months to 14 Nov 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Rank	12	-	-
Rank change year-on-year	-	-	-
Contract jobs citing Firmware	2	0	0
As % of all contract jobs in Harlow	4.76%	-	-
As % of the System Software category	50.00%	-	-
Number of daily rates quoted	0	0	0
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	-	-	-
Essex median daily rate	-	-	£650
% change year-on-year	-	-	+103.13%

All System Software Skills
Harlow

Firmware falls under the System Software category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies citing system software skills in Harlow.

	6 months to 14 Nov 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Contract vacancies citing system software skills	4	0	0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Harlow	9.52%	-	-
Number of daily rates quoted	2	0	0
10^th Percentile	-	-	-
25^th Percentile	£413	-	-
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£425	-	-
75^th Percentile	£438	-	-
90^th Percentile	-	-	-
Essex median daily rate	£240	£213	£313
% change year-on-year	+12.94%	-32.00%	-28.57%

Firmware Job Vacancy Trend in Harlow

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

Firmware Top 11 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Harlow

For the 6 months to 14 November 2026, contractor job vacancies citing Firmware also mentioned the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Harlow region citing Firmware.

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	C	100.0%	2
1	Embedded C	100.0%	2
1	Embedded Firmware	100.0%	2
1	FPGA Design	100.0%	2
1	MATLAB	100.0%	2
1	Model-Based Systems Engineering	100.0%	2
1	SC Cleared	100.0%	2
1	Security Cleared	100.0%	2
1	Simulink	100.0%	2
1	Systems Engineering	100.0%	2
1	Xilinx	100.0%	2

Firmware Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Harlow by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

System Software

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Embedded Firmware	100.0%	2