Firmware Contract Job Trends in Hillingdon

Firmware
West London > Hillingdon

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Hillingdon requiring Firmware skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 17 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Firmware 4 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Hillingdon 5.13% - -
As % of the System Software category 40.00% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £365 - -
25th Percentile £388 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £407 - -
75th Percentile £423 - -
90th Percentile £432 - -
West London median daily rate £375 £200 £625
% change year-on-year +87.63% -68.00% -

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 10 5 14
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hillingdon 12.82% 14.29% 18.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 5 11
10th Percentile £363 £430 £153
25th Percentile £381 - £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £407 £475 £575
Median % change year-on-year -14.42% -17.39% +173.81%
75th Percentile £433 - £588
90th Percentile £444 £520 £638
West London median daily rate £413 £409 £550
% change year-on-year +0.86% -25.64% +80.33%

Firmware
Job Vacancy Trend in Hillingdon

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

Firmware job vacancy trend in Hillingdon

Firmware
Daily Rate Trend in Hillingdon

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Hillingdon citing Firmware.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Hillingdon citing Firmware

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 15 December 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 £413 -
Heathrow - 1 £350 -
Firmware
West London

Firmware
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hillingdon by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) AWS
2 1 (25.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 4 (100.00%) Firewall
1 4 (100.00%) Network Security
1 4 (100.00%) SD-WAN
1 4 (100.00%) VLAN
1 4 (100.00%) WAN
2 3 (75.00%) BGP
2 3 (75.00%) Cisco ISE
2 3 (75.00%) Cisco Wireless
2 3 (75.00%) DHCP
2 3 (75.00%) DMVPN
2 3 (75.00%) DNS
2 3 (75.00%) EIGRP
2 3 (75.00%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
2 3 (75.00%) LAN
2 3 (75.00%) OSPF
2 3 (75.00%) SSL
2 3 (75.00%) VPN
2 3 (75.00%) Wireless
2 3 (75.00%) WLAN
3 1 (25.00%) Telnet
General
1 3 (75.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Network Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Network Security Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Security Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Administrator
2 1 (25.00%) Network Administrator
2 1 (25.00%) Network Security Administrator
2 1 (25.00%) Security Administrator
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Network Monitoring
1 3 (75.00%) Patch Management
1 3 (75.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (25.00%) Incident Response
2 1 (25.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
Qualifications
1 4 (100.00%) CCNP
1 4 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (75.00%) CCSA
3 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
4 1 (25.00%) CEH
4 1 (25.00%) CISSP
4 1 (25.00%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) GRC
1 1 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (25.00%) NIST
1 1 (25.00%) PCI DSS
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) CA Spectrum
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) CheckPoint
1 3 (75.00%) Cisco
1 3 (75.00%) F5
1 3 (75.00%) Juniper
1 3 (75.00%) Meraki
1 3 (75.00%) SolarWinds
2 1 (25.00%) Qualys
2 1 (25.00%) Tenable