Firmware Contract Job Trends in London

Firmware
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring Firmware skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 394 316 330
Rank change year-on-year -78 +14 +129
Contract jobs citing Firmware 32 27 63
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.17% 0.22% 0.36%
As % of the System Software category 1.88% 2.06% 3.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 15 47
10th Percentile £301 £202 £200
25th Percentile £326 £280 £262
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £431 £400 £375
Median % change year-on-year +7.81% +6.67% -27.88%
75th Percentile £475 £494 £438
90th Percentile £499 £570 £583
England median daily rate £425 £425 £400
% change year-on-year - +6.25% -11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 10
10th Percentile - £37.38 -
25th Percentile - £39.06 £20.50
Median hourly rate - £61.25 £22.59
Median % change year-on-year - +171.14% -53.66%
75th Percentile - £86.25 £24.18
90th Percentile - - £25.00
England median hourly rate £70.50 £71.25 £62.50
% change year-on-year -1.05% +14.00% +11.11%

All System Software Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 1,699 1,308 1,804
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 9.26% 10.84% 10.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,144 892 1,307
10th Percentile £280 £263 £237
25th Percentile £425 £425 £379
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.00% -13.04%
75th Percentile £630 £650 £625
90th Percentile £738 £751 £725
England median daily rate £500 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 22 35
10th Percentile £21.10 £22.65 £17.23
25th Percentile £22.41 £24.61 £20.50
Median hourly rate £28.88 £31.50 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -8.32% +40.00% -62.50%
75th Percentile £59.72 £35.75 £25.00
90th Percentile £67.70 £81.63 £48.89
England median hourly rate £53.00 £28.41 £22.23
% change year-on-year +86.55% +27.83% -57.37%

Firmware
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Firmware job vacancy trend in London

Firmware
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Firmware

Firmware
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Firmware in London over the 6 months to 3 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Firmware in London

Firmware
Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Firmware

Firmware
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Firmware within the London region over the 6 months to 3 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
Central London -22 3 £550 - 5
West London -27 2 £500 +25.00%
East London -6 1 £327 +59.51% 5
North London - 1 £225 - 1
Firmware
England

Firmware
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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:

Application Platforms
1 5 (15.63%) Confluence
2 1 (3.13%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (3.13%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (3.13%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (3.13%) Adobe After Effects
1 1 (3.13%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 1 (3.13%) Blender
1 1 (3.13%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 12 (37.50%) Azure
2 6 (18.75%) Entra ID
3 5 (15.63%) GitHub
4 3 (9.38%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 3 (9.38%) Azure Monitor
4 3 (9.38%) Azure Stack
5 2 (6.25%) AWS
5 2 (6.25%) AWS IoT
6 1 (3.13%) Cohesity
6 1 (3.13%) Figma
6 1 (3.13%) Google Workspace
6 1 (3.13%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (3.13%) OneDrive
6 1 (3.13%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 6 (18.75%) Firewall
1 6 (18.75%) VLAN
2 5 (15.63%) Ethernet
2 5 (15.63%) Modbus
2 5 (15.63%) RS-232
2 5 (15.63%) RS-485
3 4 (12.50%) Network Security
3 4 (12.50%) VPN
4 3 (9.38%) DHCP
4 3 (9.38%) DNS
4 3 (9.38%) VSAN
5 2 (6.25%) Internet
5 2 (6.25%) MQTT
5 2 (6.25%) SD-WAN
5 2 (6.25%) VXLAN
5 2 (6.25%) WAN
6 1 (3.13%) Cisco ASA
6 1 (3.13%) Fibre Channel
6 1 (3.13%) InfiniBand
6 1 (3.13%) Multicast
Development Applications
1 7 (21.88%) JIRA
General
1 10 (31.25%) Social Skills
2 4 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (6.25%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (3.13%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (3.13%) Finance
4 1 (3.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (3.13%) Local Government
4 1 (3.13%) Mandarin Language
4 1 (3.13%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 7 (21.88%) Senior
2 6 (18.75%) Network Engineer
3 4 (12.50%) Desktop Engineer
3 4 (12.50%) Embedded Engineer
4 3 (9.38%) Azure Engineer
4 3 (9.38%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (9.38%) Migration Engineer
5 2 (6.25%) Automation Engineer
5 2 (6.25%) Cloud Engineer
5 2 (6.25%) Senior Network Engineer
5 2 (6.25%) Senior Storage Engineer
5 2 (6.25%) Storage Engineer
5 2 (6.25%) Windows Engineer
6 1 (3.13%) CCTV Engineer
6 1 (3.13%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (3.13%) NetApp Engineer
6 1 (3.13%) Product Designer
6 1 (3.13%) Senior Automation Engineer
6 1 (3.13%) Senior Product Designer
6 1 (3.13%) Senior Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (6.25%) .NET
2 1 (3.13%) Framer.js
2 1 (3.13%) Microsoft Graph
2 1 (3.13%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 5 (15.63%) Onboarding
2 4 (12.50%) Analytical Mindset
2 4 (12.50%) Clustering
3 3 (9.38%) Data Centre
3 3 (9.38%) IoT
3 3 (9.38%) Linux Command Line
3 3 (9.38%) Replication
4 2 (6.25%) CCTV
4 2 (6.25%) Embedded Systems
5 1 (3.13%) CUDA
5 1 (3.13%) Driving Licence
5 1 (3.13%) Enterprise Storage
5 1 (3.13%) FPGA
5 1 (3.13%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 13 (40.63%) Windows
2 6 (18.75%) Linux
3 5 (15.63%) FreeRTOS
3 5 (15.63%) VMS
4 4 (12.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (9.38%) SUSE
5 3 (9.38%) Windows Server
6 1 (3.13%) Data ONTAP
6 1 (3.13%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (28.13%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (18.75%) Application Packaging
2 6 (18.75%) Migration
2 6 (18.75%) Platform Engineering
2 6 (18.75%) Runbook
3 5 (15.63%) Computer Science
3 5 (15.63%) Continuous Improvement
3 5 (15.63%) High Availability
3 5 (15.63%) ITIL
3 5 (15.63%) Patch Management
3 5 (15.63%) Performance Tuning
3 5 (15.63%) User Experience
3 5 (15.63%) Validation
4 4 (12.50%) Data Transformation
4 4 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 4 (12.50%) Security Patching
4 4 (12.50%) Software Distribution
5 3 (9.38%) Incident Response
5 3 (9.38%) Mentoring
5 3 (9.38%) Server Management
Programming Languages
1 10 (31.25%) PowerShell
2 7 (21.88%) C++
3 5 (15.63%) Embedded C++
4 3 (9.38%) C
5 2 (6.25%) C#
5 2 (6.25%) Java
5 2 (6.25%) Python
5 2 (6.25%) VB.NET
6 1 (3.13%) Embedded C
6 1 (3.13%) VB
Qualifications
1 6 (18.75%) Degree
2 4 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
2 4 (12.50%) Security Cleared
3 3 (9.38%) Azure Certification
4 2 (6.25%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (3.13%) CCNA
5 1 (3.13%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (3.13%) MCSE
5 1 (3.13%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.13%) Accessibility
1 1 (3.13%) GDPR
System Software
1 7 (21.88%) Active Directory
2 5 (15.63%) Embedded Firmware
2 5 (15.63%) VMware ESXi
2 5 (15.63%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (12.50%) Hyper-V
3 4 (12.50%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (12.50%) vSphere
4 2 (6.25%) BitLocker
4 2 (6.25%) Docker
5 1 (3.13%) Ceph
5 1 (3.13%) Lustre
5 1 (3.13%) NFS
5 1 (3.13%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 4 (12.50%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (9.38%) Failover Clustering
2 3 (9.38%) Microsoft Clustering
2 3 (9.38%) vCenter Server
2 3 (9.38%) VxRail
3 2 (6.25%) Ansible
3 2 (6.25%) FortiGate
3 2 (6.25%) Kubernetes
3 2 (6.25%) SCCM
4 1 (3.13%) PaperCut
4 1 (3.13%) Podman
4 1 (3.13%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (3.13%) SnapMirror
Vendors
1 7 (21.88%) Microsoft
2 5 (15.63%) Cisco
2 5 (15.63%) Dell
2 5 (15.63%) VMware
3 4 (12.50%) Nexthink
4 3 (9.38%) Fortinet
4 3 (9.38%) Palo Alto
5 1 (3.13%) Adobe
5 1 (3.13%) Brocade
5 1 (3.13%) CheckPoint
5 1 (3.13%) Draytek
5 1 (3.13%) EMC
5 1 (3.13%) Forcepoint
5 1 (3.13%) Google
5 1 (3.13%) HP
5 1 (3.13%) IBM
5 1 (3.13%) Infoblox
5 1 (3.13%) NetApp
5 1 (3.13%) SonicWALL
5 1 (3.13%) WatchGuard