Firmware Contract Job Trends in Lincolnshire

Firmware
East Midlands > Lincolnshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Lincolnshire requiring Firmware skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 21 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Firmware 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Lincolnshire 0.72% - -
As % of the System Software category 11.11% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £475 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - -
75th Percentile £525 - -
90th Percentile - - -
East Midlands median daily rate £500 £650 £275
% change year-on-year -23.08% +136.36% -22.81%

All System Software Skills
Lincolnshire

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 Lincolnshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 9 2 7
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Lincolnshire 6.47% 5.00% 13.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 5
10th Percentile £351 - £188
25th Percentile £372 £175 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £419 £180 £325
Median % change year-on-year +132.64% -44.62% -49.22%
75th Percentile £478 £185 £338
90th Percentile £506 - £518
East Midlands median daily rate £402 £422 £369
% change year-on-year -4.74% +14.44% +5.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 1 1
10th Percentile £72.75 - -
25th Percentile - - £45.22
Median hourly rate £74.00 £15.09 £48.56
Median % change year-on-year +390.39% -68.93% -
75th Percentile - - £51.91
90th Percentile £75.25 - -
East Midlands median hourly rate £49.88 £15.09 £48.56
% change year-on-year +230.52% -68.93% +136.88%

Firmware
Job Vacancy Trend in Lincolnshire

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

Firmware job vacancy trend in Lincolnshire

Firmware
Hourly Rate Trend in Lincolnshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Lincolnshire citing Firmware.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Lincolnshire citing Firmware

Firmware
Contract Job Locations in Lincolnshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Firmware within the Lincolnshire region over the 6 months to 25 June 2026. 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
Lincoln - 1 £500 - 1
Firmware
East Midlands

Firmware
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Lincolnshire 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 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) DHCP
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) LAN
1 1 (100.00%) Network Security
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (100.00%) WAN
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Server Engineer
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Project Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (100.00%) MCSA
1 1 (100.00%) MCSE
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) SolarWinds
1 1 (100.00%) VMware