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

6 months to
2 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 345 338 336
Rank change year-on-year -7 -2 +198
Contract jobs citing Firmware 31 19 61
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.21% 0.13% 0.33%
As % of the System Software category 1.91% 1.28% 3.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 14 51
10th Percentile £263 £165 £262
25th Percentile £300 £203 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £285 £525
Median % change year-on-year +57.89% -45.71% +5.00%
75th Percentile £550 £513 £641
90th Percentile £600 £673 £648
England median daily rate £475 £474 £473
% change year-on-year +0.26% +0.26% -0.53%

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 1,625 1,490 2,007
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 11.27% 10.28% 10.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,077 985 1,415
10th Percentile £337 £260 £211
25th Percentile £431 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% +4.76% -8.70%
75th Percentile £650 £664 £638
90th Percentile £750 £800 £738
England median daily rate £500 £518 £500
% change year-on-year -3.38% +3.50% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 17 22
10th Percentile £21.00 £20.60 £22.00
25th Percentile £21.50 £23.59 £25.19
Median hourly rate £25.15 £23.80 £39.42
Median % change year-on-year +5.67% -39.62% +57.67%
75th Percentile £25.74 £62.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £59.14 £101.80 £71.76
England median hourly rate £48.72 £28.71 £46.29
% change year-on-year +69.73% -37.98% +79.75%

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 January 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 January 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 +2 4 £488 -13.33% 2
West London -15 2 £313 +56.25%
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 (16.13%) Confluence
2 2 (6.45%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (3.23%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (3.23%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 5 (16.13%) GitHub
2 3 (9.68%) Azure
3 1 (3.23%) AWS
3 1 (3.23%) Azure ExpressRoute
3 1 (3.23%) GCP
3 1 (3.23%) IaaS
3 1 (3.23%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (3.23%) PaaS
3 1 (3.23%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (25.81%) DNS
2 6 (19.35%) BGP
2 6 (19.35%) IPsec
2 6 (19.35%) OSPF
3 5 (16.13%) EIGRP
3 5 (16.13%) Ethernet
3 5 (16.13%) HTTPS
3 5 (16.13%) Modbus
3 5 (16.13%) RS-232
3 5 (16.13%) RS-485
4 4 (12.90%) Firewall
4 4 (12.90%) VLAN
4 4 (12.90%) VPN
4 4 (12.90%) Wireless
5 3 (9.68%) DHCP
5 3 (9.68%) Network Security
5 3 (9.68%) Skype
5 3 (9.68%) WAN
6 2 (6.45%) TCP/IP
6 2 (6.45%) Wi-Fi
Development Applications
1 5 (16.13%) JIRA
2 1 (3.23%) IDA Disassembler
2 1 (3.23%) QADirector
2 1 (3.23%) Zephyr
General
1 9 (29.03%) Social Skills
2 5 (16.13%) Banking
3 3 (9.68%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (6.45%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (3.23%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (3.23%) Finance
5 1 (3.23%) Financial Institution
5 1 (3.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (3.23%) Investment Banking
5 1 (3.23%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 9 (29.03%) Network Engineer
2 5 (16.13%) Cisco Engineer
3 4 (12.90%) Cisco Network Engineer
3 4 (12.90%) Embedded Engineer
3 4 (12.90%) Juniper Engineer
4 3 (9.68%) IT Support
4 3 (9.68%) Senior
4 3 (9.68%) Support Engineer
5 2 (6.45%) Architect
5 2 (6.45%) Desktop Support
5 2 (6.45%) Solutions Architect
5 2 (6.45%) Storage Engineer
5 2 (6.45%) Support Technician
5 2 (6.45%) Tester
6 1 (3.23%) Deployment Analyst
6 1 (3.23%) FPGA Engineer
6 1 (3.23%) Principal Engineer
6 1 (3.23%) Senior Storage Engineer
6 1 (3.23%) Software QA Engineer
6 1 (3.23%) Windows Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 6 (19.35%) Data Centre
1 6 (19.35%) PKI
2 4 (12.90%) Embedded Systems
3 2 (6.45%) CUDA
4 1 (3.23%) Arduino
4 1 (3.23%) CCTV
4 1 (3.23%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (3.23%) Fibre Optics
4 1 (3.23%) FPGA
4 1 (3.23%) Hedge funds
4 1 (3.23%) IoT
4 1 (3.23%) Life Science
4 1 (3.23%) Manufacturing Execution System
4 1 (3.23%) Mobile App
4 1 (3.23%) Onboarding
4 1 (3.23%) Replication
4 1 (3.23%) Robotics
4 1 (3.23%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 6 (19.35%) FreeRTOS
2 4 (12.90%) Linux
2 4 (12.90%) Windows
3 1 (3.23%) Android
3 1 (3.23%) Apple iOS
3 1 (3.23%) Mac OS
3 1 (3.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (3.23%) Robot Operating System
3 1 (3.23%) Windows 10
3 1 (3.23%) Windows Server
3 1 (3.23%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (16.13%) Kalman Filter
1 5 (16.13%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (12.90%) Continuous Improvement
2 4 (12.90%) Mentoring
2 4 (12.90%) Validation
3 3 (9.68%) Data Centre Operations
3 3 (9.68%) Network Monitoring
3 3 (9.68%) Requirements Gathering
4 2 (6.45%) Acceptance Criteria
4 2 (6.45%) Architectural Design
4 2 (6.45%) Critical Thinking
4 2 (6.45%) Customer Requirements
4 2 (6.45%) Data Pipeline
4 2 (6.45%) DevOps
4 2 (6.45%) Disaster Recovery
4 2 (6.45%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 2 (6.45%) Runbook
4 2 (6.45%) Systems Engineering
4 2 (6.45%) Technical Leadership
4 2 (6.45%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 11 (35.48%) C++
2 6 (19.35%) Python
3 5 (16.13%) Bash
3 5 (16.13%) C
3 5 (16.13%) Embedded C++
3 5 (16.13%) Perl
4 3 (9.68%) Embedded C
5 2 (6.45%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 7 (22.58%) Cisco Certification
2 6 (19.35%) CCNP
3 5 (16.13%) JNCIA
3 5 (16.13%) JNCIS
4 2 (6.45%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (3.23%) Azure Certification
5 1 (3.23%) CCNA
5 1 (3.23%) CEH
5 1 (3.23%) CISSP
5 1 (3.23%) MCP
5 1 (3.23%) MCSA
5 1 (3.23%) Network+ Certification
5 1 (3.23%) OSCP
5 1 (3.23%) SC Cleared
5 1 (3.23%) Security Cleared
5 1 (3.23%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.23%) 21 CFR Part 11
1 1 (3.23%) GRC
1 1 (3.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (3.23%) JTAG
1 1 (3.23%) NIST
1 1 (3.23%) PCI DSS
1 1 (3.23%) QA
1 1 (3.23%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 8 (25.81%) Embedded Firmware
2 3 (9.68%) Docker
2 3 (9.68%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (6.45%) Active Directory
3 2 (6.45%) Ceph
3 2 (6.45%) Lustre
3 2 (6.45%) Slurm Workload Manager
4 1 (3.23%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (3.23%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (3.23%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (9.68%) Kubernetes
2 2 (6.45%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (3.23%) Ansible
3 1 (3.23%) Dell DRAC
3 1 (3.23%) Grafana
3 1 (3.23%) Podman
3 1 (3.23%) Prometheus
3 1 (3.23%) SCCM
3 1 (3.23%) SCOM
3 1 (3.23%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 9 (29.03%) Cisco
2 7 (22.58%) Microsoft
3 5 (16.13%) Dell
3 5 (16.13%) Juniper
4 3 (9.68%) Supermicro
5 2 (6.45%) Mellanox
5 2 (6.45%) Meraki
5 2 (6.45%) NVIDIA
6 1 (3.23%) Apple
6 1 (3.23%) Brocade
6 1 (3.23%) Commvault
6 1 (3.23%) EMC
6 1 (3.23%) Fortinet
6 1 (3.23%) HP
6 1 (3.23%) IBM
6 1 (3.23%) Palo Alto
6 1 (3.23%) Qualys
6 1 (3.23%) Remedy
6 1 (3.23%) Tenable
6 1 (3.23%) VMware