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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 327 339 390
Rank change year-on-year +12 +51 +181
Contract jobs citing Firmware 35 49 55
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.26% 0.30% 0.25%
As % of the System Software category 2.37% 2.83% 2.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 36 39
10th Percentile £255 £200 £460
25th Percentile £338 £262 £490
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £363 £525
Median % change year-on-year +17.24% -30.95% +0.48%
75th Percentile £481 £491 £631
90th Percentile £539 £684 £732
England median daily rate £425 £400 £475
% change year-on-year +6.25% -15.79% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 4 1
10th Percentile £37.38 £21.60 -
25th Percentile £39.06 £23.26 £43.75
Median hourly rate £61.25 £24.18 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +153.31% -49.09% -
75th Percentile £86.25 - £51.25
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £81.00 £57.75 £55.00
% change year-on-year +40.26% +5.00% -

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 1,477 1,734 2,590
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 11.00% 10.74% 11.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 921 1,200 1,855
10th Percentile £300 £262 £225
25th Percentile £414 £400 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £675
90th Percentile £713 £730 £775
England median daily rate £500 £513 £513
% change year-on-year -2.44% - -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 16 31
10th Percentile £22.45 £20.00 £25.75
25th Percentile £22.63 £22.98 £40.41
Median hourly rate £25.58 £23.80 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.46% -60.33% +41.18%
75th Percentile £35.75 £24.39 £68.80
90th Percentile £41.13 £60.00 £83.00
England median hourly rate £36.00 £24.35 £47.83
% change year-on-year +47.84% -49.09% +117.41%

Firmware
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Firmware as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Firmware 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 17 September 2025.

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
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Firmware in London over the 6 months to 17 September 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Firmware in London

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 17 September 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 London 0 7 £401 +33.50% 2
Central London +6 5 £488 +89.32% 7
Firmware
England

Firmware
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 2 (5.71%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (2.86%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 12 (34.29%) AWS
2 7 (20.00%) Azure
3 4 (11.43%) GCP
4 2 (5.71%) GitHub
4 2 (5.71%) SaaS
4 2 (5.71%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 16 (45.71%) BGP
1 16 (45.71%) OSPF
2 12 (34.29%) DNS
2 12 (34.29%) WAN
3 11 (31.43%) Firewall
3 11 (31.43%) VLAN
3 11 (31.43%) VPN
4 10 (28.57%) EIGRP
4 10 (28.57%) LAN
5 8 (22.86%) IPsec
5 8 (22.86%) Network Security
5 8 (22.86%) SD-WAN
5 8 (22.86%) Wireless
6 7 (20.00%) HTTPS
7 6 (17.14%) DHCP
7 6 (17.14%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 6 (17.14%) SSL
8 5 (14.29%) Cisco ISE
8 5 (14.29%) Cisco Wireless
8 5 (14.29%) WLAN
Development Applications
1 2 (5.71%) Bitbucket
1 2 (5.71%) Git
1 2 (5.71%) GitLab
1 2 (5.71%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (2.86%) IDA Disassembler
2 1 (2.86%) Zephyr
General
1 6 (17.14%) Social Skills
2 5 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (14.29%) Public Sector
3 4 (11.43%) Finance
4 3 (8.57%) Electronics
4 3 (8.57%) Manufacturing
4 3 (8.57%) Marketing
4 3 (8.57%) Telecoms
5 2 (5.71%) Banking
6 1 (2.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 12 (34.29%) Network Engineer
2 9 (25.71%) Cisco Engineer
3 7 (20.00%) Cisco Network Engineer
3 7 (20.00%) Juniper Engineer
4 4 (11.43%) Administrator
5 3 (8.57%) Consultant
5 3 (8.57%) FPGA Engineer
5 3 (8.57%) Network Administrator
5 3 (8.57%) Network Security Administrator
5 3 (8.57%) Network Security Engineer
5 3 (8.57%) Security Administrator
5 3 (8.57%) Security Engineer
6 2 (5.71%) Implementation Engineer
6 2 (5.71%) LAN Engineer
6 2 (5.71%) LAN/WAN Engineer
6 2 (5.71%) Senior
6 2 (5.71%) Tester
6 2 (5.71%) Virtualisation Engineer
6 2 (5.71%) WAN Engineer
7 1 (2.86%) Desktop Support
Miscellaneous
1 6 (17.14%) PKI
2 5 (14.29%) Data Centre
3 3 (8.57%) Cloud Native
3 3 (8.57%) FPGA
3 3 (8.57%) Verilog
3 3 (8.57%) VHDL
4 2 (5.71%) Clustering
4 2 (5.71%) Embedded Systems
4 2 (5.71%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (5.71%) Private Cloud
4 2 (5.71%) Public Cloud
4 2 (5.71%) Video\Live Streaming
5 1 (2.86%) Arduino
5 1 (2.86%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (2.86%) IoT
5 1 (2.86%) Mobile App
5 1 (2.86%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.71%) Linux
1 2 (5.71%) Windows
2 1 (2.86%) Android
2 1 (2.86%) Apple iOS
2 1 (2.86%) FreeRTOS
2 1 (2.86%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (28.57%) Network Monitoring
2 7 (20.00%) Kalman Filter
2 7 (20.00%) Patch Management
3 6 (17.14%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (8.57%) Business Intelligence
4 3 (8.57%) Digital Marketing
4 3 (8.57%) FPGA Design
4 3 (8.57%) Incident Response
4 3 (8.57%) Network Design
4 3 (8.57%) Programme Management
4 3 (8.57%) Test Planning
4 3 (8.57%) UVM
4 3 (8.57%) Validation
5 2 (5.71%) Change Control
5 2 (5.71%) Change Management
5 2 (5.71%) Disaster Recovery
5 2 (5.71%) High Availability
5 2 (5.71%) Incident Management
5 2 (5.71%) Migration
5 2 (5.71%) Strategic Planning
Programming Languages
1 12 (34.29%) Python
2 7 (20.00%) C++
3 6 (17.14%) Bash
3 6 (17.14%) Perl
4 3 (8.57%) SystemVerilog
5 2 (5.71%) C
Qualifications
1 13 (37.14%) CCNP
1 13 (37.14%) Cisco Certification
2 8 (22.86%) JNCIA
3 6 (17.14%) CCSA
3 6 (17.14%) JNCIS
4 4 (11.43%) Security Cleared
5 3 (8.57%) Degree
5 3 (8.57%) Master's Degree
5 3 (8.57%) PhD
6 2 (5.71%) DV Cleared
6 2 (5.71%) SC Cleared
7 1 (2.86%) CEH
7 1 (2.86%) CISSP
7 1 (2.86%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (2.86%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.71%) GRC
1 2 (5.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (5.71%) NIST
1 2 (5.71%) PCI DSS
2 1 (2.86%) JTAG
2 1 (2.86%) SLA
2 1 (2.86%) SOC 2
System Software
1 4 (11.43%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (8.57%) Embedded Firmware
2 3 (8.57%) VMware NSX
3 2 (5.71%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (2.86%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 5 (14.29%) Ansible
2 4 (11.43%) CA Spectrum
3 2 (5.71%) HAProxy
3 2 (5.71%) vCenter Server
3 2 (5.71%) vMotion
4 1 (2.86%) Cisco CUCM
4 1 (2.86%) Dell DRAC
4 1 (2.86%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (2.86%) PowerCLI
Vendors
1 19 (54.29%) Cisco
2 13 (37.14%) Juniper
3 8 (22.86%) F5
4 7 (20.00%) Meraki
5 5 (14.29%) CheckPoint
5 5 (14.29%) SolarWinds
6 4 (11.43%) VMware
7 3 (8.57%) Microsoft
7 3 (8.57%) SAP
8 2 (5.71%) Arista
8 2 (5.71%) Google
8 2 (5.71%) Palo Alto
8 2 (5.71%) Qualys
8 2 (5.71%) Tenable
9 1 (2.86%) Citrix
9 1 (2.86%) Dell
9 1 (2.86%) Fortinet
9 1 (2.86%) HP
9 1 (2.86%) Ruckus Wireless
9 1 (2.86%) ServiceNow