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 4 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 371 331 329
Rank change year-on-year -40 -2 +135
Contract jobs citing Firmware 34 24 60
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.19% 0.19% 0.34%
As % of the System Software category 2.00% 1.74% 3.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 15 45
10th Percentile £301 £202 £200
25th Percentile £351 £318 £262
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £400 £350
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% +14.29% -31.57%
75th Percentile £523 £525 £425
90th Percentile £570 £593 £571
England median daily rate £425 £465 £425
% change year-on-year -8.60% +9.41% -10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 10
10th Percentile - £37.00 -
25th Percentile - £38.13 £20.50
Median hourly rate - £40.00 £22.59
Median % change year-on-year - +77.07% -53.66%
75th Percentile - £63.13 £24.18
90th Percentile - £77.00 £25.00
England median hourly rate £66.50 £59.63 £62.50
% change year-on-year +11.53% -4.60% +13.64%

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 1,701 1,380 1,790
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 9.63% 10.98% 10.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,153 971 1,270
10th Percentile £300 £300 £213
25th Percentile £425 £435 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% -13.04%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £615
90th Percentile £729 £800 £719
England median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 16 35
10th Percentile £21.38 £22.90 £17.23
25th Percentile £23.78 £25.84 £20.50
Median hourly rate £28.88 £31.50 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -8.32% +40.00% -55.00%
75th Percentile £63.71 £39.06 £25.00
90th Percentile £69.08 £90.63 £48.89
England median hourly rate £57.63 £28.00 £21.00
% change year-on-year +105.83% +33.33% -58.00%

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 4 May 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 4 May 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 -20 3 £550 +10.00% 9
West London -25 2 £500 +25.00%
East London -5 1 £327 +59.51% 2
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 7 (20.59%) Confluence
2 2 (5.88%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (5.88%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (2.94%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (2.94%) Adobe After Effects
1 1 (2.94%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 1 (2.94%) Blender
1 1 (2.94%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 12 (35.29%) Azure
2 7 (20.59%) GitHub
3 5 (14.71%) Entra ID
4 3 (8.82%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 3 (8.82%) Azure Monitor
4 3 (8.82%) Azure Stack
5 2 (5.88%) AWS
5 2 (5.88%) AWS IoT
5 2 (5.88%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (2.94%) Cohesity
6 1 (2.94%) Figma
6 1 (2.94%) Google Workspace
6 1 (2.94%) OneDrive
6 1 (2.94%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 7 (20.59%) Ethernet
1 7 (20.59%) Modbus
1 7 (20.59%) RS-232
1 7 (20.59%) RS-485
2 6 (17.65%) Firewall
2 6 (17.65%) VLAN
3 4 (11.76%) Network Security
3 4 (11.76%) VPN
4 3 (8.82%) DHCP
4 3 (8.82%) DNS
4 3 (8.82%) VSAN
5 2 (5.88%) InfiniBand
5 2 (5.88%) Internet
5 2 (5.88%) MQTT
5 2 (5.88%) SD-WAN
5 2 (5.88%) VXLAN
5 2 (5.88%) WAN
6 1 (2.94%) SAN
6 1 (2.94%) VoIP
6 1 (2.94%) Wireless
Development Applications
1 7 (20.59%) JIRA
General
1 13 (38.24%) Social Skills
2 5 (14.71%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (8.82%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (2.94%) Banking
4 1 (2.94%) Finance
4 1 (2.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (2.94%) Mandarin Language
4 1 (2.94%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (2.94%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 6 (17.65%) Embedded Engineer
2 4 (11.76%) Desktop Engineer
2 4 (11.76%) Network Engineer
2 4 (11.76%) Senior
3 3 (8.82%) Azure Engineer
3 3 (8.82%) Migration Engineer
3 3 (8.82%) Windows Engineer
4 2 (5.88%) Architect
4 2 (5.88%) Automation Engineer
4 2 (5.88%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (5.88%) Senior Storage Engineer
4 2 (5.88%) Solutions Architect
4 2 (5.88%) Storage Engineer
5 1 (2.94%) Desktop Support
5 1 (2.94%) Hardware Engineer
5 1 (2.94%) Linux Engineer
5 1 (2.94%) Network Security Engineer
5 1 (2.94%) Project Engineer
5 1 (2.94%) Support Engineer
5 1 (2.94%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.88%) .NET
2 1 (2.94%) Framer.js
2 1 (2.94%) Microsoft Graph
2 1 (2.94%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 5 (14.71%) Data Centre
1 5 (14.71%) Onboarding
2 4 (11.76%) Analytical Mindset
2 4 (11.76%) Clustering
2 4 (11.76%) Replication
3 3 (8.82%) Embedded Systems
3 3 (8.82%) IoT
3 3 (8.82%) Linux Command Line
4 2 (5.88%) CCTV
4 2 (5.88%) CUDA
5 1 (2.94%) Driving Licence
5 1 (2.94%) Enterprise Storage
5 1 (2.94%) FPGA
5 1 (2.94%) PKI
5 1 (2.94%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 13 (38.24%) Windows
2 8 (23.53%) Linux
3 7 (20.59%) FreeRTOS
4 5 (14.71%) VMS
5 4 (11.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (8.82%) SUSE
6 3 (8.82%) Windows Server
7 1 (2.94%) Data ONTAP
7 1 (2.94%) Mac OS
7 1 (2.94%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (32.35%) Problem-Solving
2 7 (20.59%) Platform Engineering
2 7 (20.59%) Runbook
3 6 (17.65%) Application Packaging
3 6 (17.65%) Continuous Improvement
3 6 (17.65%) ITIL
3 6 (17.65%) Migration
3 6 (17.65%) Validation
4 5 (14.71%) Computer Science
4 5 (14.71%) High Availability
4 5 (14.71%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 5 (14.71%) Patch Management
4 5 (14.71%) Performance Tuning
4 5 (14.71%) User Experience
5 4 (11.76%) Data Transformation
5 4 (11.76%) Mentoring
5 4 (11.76%) Software Distribution
6 3 (8.82%) Converged Infrastructure
6 3 (8.82%) Data Centre Operations
6 3 (8.82%) Security Hardening
Programming Languages
1 11 (32.35%) PowerShell
2 9 (26.47%) C++
3 7 (20.59%) Embedded C++
4 5 (14.71%) C
5 3 (8.82%) Embedded C
6 2 (5.88%) C#
6 2 (5.88%) Java
6 2 (5.88%) Python
6 2 (5.88%) VB.NET
7 1 (2.94%) VB
Qualifications
1 6 (17.65%) Degree
2 4 (11.76%) Azure Certification
2 4 (11.76%) Computer Science Degree
2 4 (11.76%) Security Cleared
3 3 (8.82%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (2.94%) CCNA
4 1 (2.94%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (2.94%) MCSE
4 1 (2.94%) SC Cleared
4 1 (2.94%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.94%) Accessibility
1 1 (2.94%) GDPR
System Software
1 7 (20.59%) Active Directory
1 7 (20.59%) Embedded Firmware
2 6 (17.65%) VMware ESXi
2 6 (17.65%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (14.71%) vSphere
4 4 (11.76%) Hyper-V
4 4 (11.76%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (8.82%) Docker
6 2 (5.88%) BitLocker
6 2 (5.88%) Ceph
6 2 (5.88%) Lustre
6 2 (5.88%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 1 (2.94%) NFS
Systems Management
1 5 (14.71%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (11.76%) vCenter Server
3 3 (8.82%) Failover Clustering
3 3 (8.82%) Kubernetes
3 3 (8.82%) Microsoft Clustering
3 3 (8.82%) VxRail
4 2 (5.88%) Ansible
4 2 (5.88%) FortiGate
4 2 (5.88%) SCCM
5 1 (2.94%) Grafana
5 1 (2.94%) PaperCut
5 1 (2.94%) Podman
5 1 (2.94%) Prometheus
5 1 (2.94%) SCOM
5 1 (2.94%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (2.94%) SnapMirror
Vendors
1 8 (23.53%) Dell
2 7 (20.59%) Microsoft
3 6 (17.65%) VMware
4 5 (14.71%) Cisco
5 4 (11.76%) Nexthink
6 3 (8.82%) Fortinet
6 3 (8.82%) Palo Alto
6 3 (8.82%) Supermicro
7 2 (5.88%) Mellanox
7 2 (5.88%) NVIDIA
8 1 (2.94%) Brocade
8 1 (2.94%) Canon
8 1 (2.94%) Draytek
8 1 (2.94%) Google
8 1 (2.94%) Infoblox
8 1 (2.94%) SonicWALL
8 1 (2.94%) Veeam
8 1 (2.94%) WatchGuard
8 1 (2.94%) Xerox
8 1 (2.94%) Zscaler