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 2 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 416 348 335
Rank change year-on-year -68 -13 +99
Contract jobs citing Firmware 27 36 60
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.13% 0.26% 0.37%
As % of the System Software category 1.50% 2.43% 3.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 23 40
10th Percentile £313 £250 £197
25th Percentile £375 £293 £262
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £400 £394
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% +1.59% -24.28%
75th Percentile £475 £456 £475
90th Percentile £500 £525 £612
England median daily rate £425 £425 £440
% change year-on-year - -3.41% -7.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 10
10th Percentile - £37.38 -
25th Percentile £42.50 £39.06 £20.50
Median hourly rate £45.00 £61.25 £22.59
Median % change year-on-year -26.53% +171.14% -52.44%
75th Percentile £47.50 £86.25 £24.18
90th Percentile - - £25.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £81.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year -19.75% +40.87% +6.98%

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 1,804 1,482 1,747
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 8.94% 10.80% 10.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,226 969 1,260
10th Percentile £256 £276 £262
25th Percentile £413 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £514
Median % change year-on-year - +2.19% -7.68%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £615
90th Percentile £713 £725 £720
England median daily rate £500 £500 £513
% change year-on-year - -2.44% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 29 20
10th Percentile £22.87 £22.40 £20.45
25th Percentile £28.50 £22.50 £20.50
Median hourly rate £48.75 £26.00 £23.80
Median % change year-on-year +87.50% +9.24% -60.33%
75th Percentile £55.00 £35.75 £24.39
90th Percentile £59.25 £49.25 £28.25
England median hourly rate £57.63 £37.50 £23.80
% change year-on-year +53.69% +57.56% -40.50%

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 2 August 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 2 August 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 -15 4 £475 -5.00% 11
West London -25 2 £500 +25.00% 1
East London +1 1 £327 +59.51% 3
North London - 1 £225 -
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 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (3.70%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (3.70%) Adobe After Effects
1 1 (3.70%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 1 (3.70%) Blender
1 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 12 (44.44%) Azure
2 6 (22.22%) Entra ID
3 3 (11.11%) AWS
3 3 (11.11%) Azure ExpressRoute
3 3 (11.11%) Azure Monitor
3 3 (11.11%) Azure Stack
4 2 (7.41%) AWS IoT
5 1 (3.70%) Cohesity
5 1 (3.70%) Figma
5 1 (3.70%) GitHub
5 1 (3.70%) GitHub Copilot
5 1 (3.70%) Google Workspace
5 1 (3.70%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (3.70%) OneDrive
5 1 (3.70%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 6 (22.22%) Firewall
1 6 (22.22%) VLAN
2 4 (14.81%) Network Security
3 3 (11.11%) DHCP
3 3 (11.11%) DNS
3 3 (11.11%) VPN
3 3 (11.11%) VSAN
4 2 (7.41%) Internet
4 2 (7.41%) MQTT
4 2 (7.41%) SD-WAN
4 2 (7.41%) VXLAN
4 2 (7.41%) WAN
5 1 (3.70%) Multicast
5 1 (3.70%) SAN
5 1 (3.70%) Unicast
5 1 (3.70%) VoIP
5 1 (3.70%) Wireless
Development Applications
1 2 (7.41%) JIRA
2 1 (3.70%) Git
General
1 8 (29.63%) Social Skills
2 5 (18.52%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (7.41%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (3.70%) Automotive
4 1 (3.70%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (3.70%) Electronics
4 1 (3.70%) Finance
4 1 (3.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (3.70%) Local Government
4 1 (3.70%) Mandarin Language
4 1 (3.70%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 6 (22.22%) Senior
2 5 (18.52%) Network Engineer
3 4 (14.81%) Desktop Engineer
3 4 (14.81%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (11.11%) Azure Engineer
4 3 (11.11%) Migration Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) Automation Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) Cloud Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) Senior Network Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) Windows Engineer
6 1 (3.70%) AIX Consultant
6 1 (3.70%) Backup Administrator
6 1 (3.70%) Backup Consultant
6 1 (3.70%) Designer
6 1 (3.70%) Firmware Engineer
6 1 (3.70%) SAN Storage Administrator
6 1 (3.70%) SAN Storage Consultant
6 1 (3.70%) Senior Designer
6 1 (3.70%) Storage Engineer
6 1 (3.70%) Workstream Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (7.41%) .NET
2 1 (3.70%) Framer.js
2 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Graph
2 1 (3.70%) PyQt
2 1 (3.70%) REST
2 1 (3.70%) Streamlit
Miscellaneous
1 5 (18.52%) Clustering
1 5 (18.52%) Onboarding
2 4 (14.81%) Analytical Mindset
3 3 (11.11%) Data Centre
3 3 (11.11%) Embedded Systems
3 3 (11.11%) IoT
3 3 (11.11%) Linux Command Line
3 3 (11.11%) Replication
4 1 (3.70%) CCTV
4 1 (3.70%) Driving Licence
4 1 (3.70%) Enterprise Storage
Operating Systems
1 14 (51.85%) Windows
2 5 (18.52%) VMS
3 4 (14.81%) Linux
3 4 (14.81%) Windows Server
4 3 (11.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (11.11%) SUSE
5 1 (3.70%) AIX
5 1 (3.70%) Data ONTAP
5 1 (3.70%) Mac OS
5 1 (3.70%) Oracle Linux
5 1 (3.70%) Unix
5 1 (3.70%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (3.70%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (37.04%) Problem-Solving
2 7 (25.93%) Migration
3 6 (22.22%) Application Packaging
3 6 (22.22%) ITIL
4 5 (18.52%) Computer Science
4 5 (18.52%) High Availability
4 5 (18.52%) Performance Tuning
4 5 (18.52%) Runbook
4 5 (18.52%) User Experience
5 4 (14.81%) Data Transformation
5 4 (14.81%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 4 (14.81%) Patch Management
5 4 (14.81%) Platform Engineering
5 4 (14.81%) Software Distribution
5 4 (14.81%) Validation
6 3 (11.11%) Converged Infrastructure
6 3 (11.11%) Disaster Recovery
6 3 (11.11%) Remediation Plan
6 3 (11.11%) Security Hardening
6 3 (11.11%) Server Management
Programming Languages
1 10 (37.04%) PowerShell
2 4 (14.81%) Python
3 3 (11.11%) C
3 3 (11.11%) C++
4 2 (7.41%) C#
4 2 (7.41%) Java
4 2 (7.41%) VB.NET
5 1 (3.70%) Embedded C
5 1 (3.70%) Embedded C++
5 1 (3.70%) Perl
5 1 (3.70%) VB
Qualifications
1 6 (22.22%) Degree
2 4 (14.81%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (11.11%) Azure Certification
3 3 (11.11%) Security Cleared
4 2 (7.41%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (3.70%) CCNA
5 1 (3.70%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (3.70%) CISSP
5 1 (3.70%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.70%) Accessibility
1 1 (3.70%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (3.70%) GDPR
1 1 (3.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (3.70%) NIST
System Software
1 7 (25.93%) Active Directory
2 6 (22.22%) VMware ESXi
2 6 (22.22%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (14.81%) Hyper-V
3 4 (14.81%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (14.81%) vSphere
4 2 (7.41%) BitLocker
5 1 (3.70%) Embedded Firmware
5 1 (3.70%) NFS
5 1 (3.70%) PowerHA
5 1 (3.70%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 4 (14.81%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (11.11%) Failover Clustering
2 3 (11.11%) Microsoft Clustering
2 3 (11.11%) vCenter Server
2 3 (11.11%) VxRail
3 2 (7.41%) FortiGate
3 2 (7.41%) SCCM
4 1 (3.70%) Ansible
4 1 (3.70%) Dell DRAC
4 1 (3.70%) PaperCut
4 1 (3.70%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (3.70%) SnapMirror
4 1 (3.70%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 7 (25.93%) Microsoft
2 6 (22.22%) VMware
3 5 (18.52%) Cisco
3 5 (18.52%) Dell
4 4 (14.81%) Nexthink
5 3 (11.11%) Fortinet
6 2 (7.41%) Palo Alto
7 1 (3.70%) Adobe
7 1 (3.70%) Canon
7 1 (3.70%) Draytek
7 1 (3.70%) EMC
7 1 (3.70%) Google
7 1 (3.70%) IBM
7 1 (3.70%) Infoblox
7 1 (3.70%) Meraki
7 1 (3.70%) SonicWALL
7 1 (3.70%) Veeam
7 1 (3.70%) WatchGuard
7 1 (3.70%) Xerox
7 1 (3.70%) Zscaler