Firmware Contracts in Hillingdon

Firmware
West London > Hillingdon

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Hillingdon 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 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 8 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Firmware 5 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Hillingdon 10.64% - -
As % of the System Software category 35.71% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £330 - -
25th Percentile £359 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 - -
75th Percentile £434 - -
90th Percentile £451 - -
West London median daily rate £400 £650 -
% change year-on-year -38.46% - -

All System Software Skills
Hillingdon

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 Hillingdon.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 14 12 36
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hillingdon 29.79% 12.00% 17.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 8 34
10th Percentile £292 £361 £430
25th Percentile £359 £450 £581
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £500 £600
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% -16.67% +242.86%
75th Percentile £466 £538 £650
90th Percentile £475 - -
West London median daily rate £400 £450 £588
% change year-on-year -11.11% -23.40% +30.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £55.00 -
West London median hourly rate £26.30 £23.80 £80.00
% change year-on-year +10.48% -70.25% +288.11%

Firmware
Job Vacancy Trend in Hillingdon

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

Job vacancy trend for Firmware in Hillingdon

Firmware
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Hillingdon

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

Daily rate trend for Firmware in Hillingdon

Firmware
Contract Job Locations in Hillingdon

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Firmware within the Hillingdon 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
West Drayton - 3 £400 -
Heathrow - 1 £320 -
Uxbridge - 1 £425 - 1
Firmware
West London

Firmware
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Hillingdon 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (80.00%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (100.00%) BGP
1 5 (100.00%) Firewall
1 5 (100.00%) OSPF
1 5 (100.00%) VLAN
1 5 (100.00%) VPN
2 4 (80.00%) Cisco ISE
2 4 (80.00%) DHCP
2 4 (80.00%) DNS
2 4 (80.00%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
2 4 (80.00%) LAN
2 4 (80.00%) Network Security
2 4 (80.00%) SD-WAN
2 4 (80.00%) SSL
2 4 (80.00%) WAN
2 4 (80.00%) Wireless
2 4 (80.00%) WLAN
3 3 (60.00%) Cisco Wireless
3 3 (60.00%) DMVPN
3 3 (60.00%) EIGRP
4 1 (20.00%) VRRP
General
1 3 (60.00%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Administrator
1 2 (40.00%) Network Administrator
2 1 (20.00%) Network Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Network Security Administrator
2 1 (20.00%) Security Administrator
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Network Monitoring
2 3 (60.00%) Patch Management
2 3 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (20.00%) Analytics
3 1 (20.00%) Change Management
3 1 (20.00%) Process Improvement
3 1 (20.00%) Root Cause Analysis
Qualifications
1 5 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 4 (80.00%) CCNP
2 4 (80.00%) CCSA
3 1 (20.00%) CCNA
3 1 (20.00%) JNCIA
3 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 3 (60.00%) CA Spectrum
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) Cisco
1 5 (100.00%) SolarWinds
2 4 (80.00%) CheckPoint
2 4 (80.00%) F5
2 4 (80.00%) Juniper
2 4 (80.00%) Meraki