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

6 months to
1 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 419 332 337
Rank change year-on-year -87 +5 +66
Contract jobs citing Firmware 27 37 54
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.13% 0.28% 0.33%
As % of the System Software category 1.50% 2.54% 3.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 25 37
10th Percentile £311 £250 £186
25th Percentile £375 £310 £262
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £401 £388
Median % change year-on-year +12.36% +3.35% -26.19%
75th Percentile £500 £475 £475
90th Percentile £578 £525 £666
England median daily rate £450 £425 £450
% change year-on-year +5.88% -5.56% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 7
10th Percentile - £37.38 -
25th Percentile £42.50 £39.06 £20.50
Median hourly rate £45.00 £61.25 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.53% +191.67% -55.79%
75th Percentile £47.50 £86.25 £24.18
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £67.50 £81.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year -16.67% +40.87% +2.22%

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 1,803 1,459 1,741
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 8.98% 10.90% 10.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,226 921 1,222
10th Percentile £250 £280 £262
25th Percentile £413 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £520
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -1.44% -5.45%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £625
90th Percentile £725 £700 £725
England median daily rate £500 £500 £515
% change year-on-year - -2.91% -1.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 30 20
10th Percentile £20.20 £22.45 £20.00
25th Percentile £27.00 £22.63 £20.50
Median hourly rate £45.00 £25.58 £23.80
Median % change year-on-year +75.95% +7.46% -60.33%
75th Percentile £55.00 £35.75 £24.18
90th Percentile £69.40 £41.13 £58.00
England median hourly rate £63.14 £37.50 £24.18
% change year-on-year +68.36% +55.09% -46.10%

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 1 September 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 1 September 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 4 £475 -5.00% 16
West London -25 2 £500 +25.00% 2
East London +2 1 £327 +55.71% 6
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 7 (25.93%) Azure
2 3 (11.11%) AWS
2 3 (11.11%) Azure ExpressRoute
2 3 (11.11%) Azure Monitor
2 3 (11.11%) Azure Stack
3 2 (7.41%) AWS IoT
3 2 (7.41%) Nutanix
4 1 (3.70%) Entra ID
4 1 (3.70%) Figma
4 1 (3.70%) GitHub
4 1 (3.70%) GitHub Copilot
4 1 (3.70%) Google Workspace
4 1 (3.70%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (3.70%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 7 (25.93%) Firewall
2 5 (18.52%) VLAN
3 4 (14.81%) Network Security
4 3 (11.11%) DHCP
4 3 (11.11%) VPN
4 3 (11.11%) VSAN
4 3 (11.11%) WAN
5 2 (7.41%) DNS
5 2 (7.41%) Internet
5 2 (7.41%) MQTT
5 2 (7.41%) SAN
5 2 (7.41%) SD-WAN
5 2 (7.41%) VXLAN
6 1 (3.70%) BGP
6 1 (3.70%) Bluetooth
6 1 (3.70%) MPLS
6 1 (3.70%) TCP/IP
6 1 (3.70%) VoIP
6 1 (3.70%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (3.70%) Wireless
Development Applications
1 2 (7.41%) JIRA
2 1 (3.70%) Git
General
1 7 (25.93%) Social Skills
2 3 (11.11%) Documentation Skills
3 2 (7.41%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (7.41%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (3.70%) Automotive
4 1 (3.70%) Electronics
4 1 (3.70%) Finance
4 1 (3.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (3.70%) Legal
4 1 (3.70%) Local Government
4 1 (3.70%) Mandarin Language
4 1 (3.70%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 6 (22.22%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 6 (22.22%) Network Engineer
2 5 (18.52%) Senior
3 3 (11.11%) Azure Engineer
3 3 (11.11%) Migration Engineer
4 2 (7.41%) Automation Engineer
4 2 (7.41%) Embedded Engineer
4 2 (7.41%) Firmware Engineer
4 2 (7.41%) Nutanix Engineer
4 2 (7.41%) Senior Network Engineer
4 2 (7.41%) VMware Engineer
4 2 (7.41%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (7.41%) Windows Engineer
5 1 (3.70%) CCTV Engineer
5 1 (3.70%) Lead
5 1 (3.70%) Product Designer
5 1 (3.70%) Senior Product Designer
5 1 (3.70%) Storage and Backup Administrator
5 1 (3.70%) Storage and Backup Consultant
5 1 (3.70%) Storage and Backup Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (7.41%) .NET
2 1 (3.70%) 802.1X
2 1 (3.70%) Framer.js
2 1 (3.70%) Middleware
2 1 (3.70%) PyQt
2 1 (3.70%) Streamlit
2 1 (3.70%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 6 (22.22%) Clustering
2 5 (18.52%) Embedded Systems
3 4 (14.81%) IoT
3 4 (14.81%) Replication
4 3 (11.11%) Data Centre
4 3 (11.11%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (3.70%) ARM Cortex
5 1 (3.70%) CCTV
5 1 (3.70%) Device Driver
5 1 (3.70%) Driving Licence
5 1 (3.70%) EMC VNX
5 1 (3.70%) Enterprise Storage
5 1 (3.70%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 11 (40.74%) Windows
2 7 (25.93%) Linux
3 6 (22.22%) Windows Server
4 5 (18.52%) VMS
5 3 (11.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (11.11%) SUSE
6 1 (3.70%) AIX
6 1 (3.70%) Oracle Linux
6 1 (3.70%) Unix
6 1 (3.70%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (3.70%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (25.93%) High Availability
2 6 (22.22%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 6 (22.22%) Migration
2 6 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (18.52%) Converged Infrastructure
3 5 (18.52%) Disaster Recovery
4 4 (14.81%) Validation
5 3 (11.11%) Remediation Plan
5 3 (11.11%) Security Hardening
5 3 (11.11%) Server Management
5 3 (11.11%) Software Engineering
6 2 (7.41%) Business Continuity Planning
6 2 (7.41%) Feasibility Study
6 2 (7.41%) Incident Response
6 2 (7.41%) Proactive Maintenance
6 2 (7.41%) Project Delivery
6 2 (7.41%) Resource Allocation
6 2 (7.41%) Root Cause Analysis
6 2 (7.41%) Security Patching
6 2 (7.41%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 7 (25.93%) PowerShell
2 5 (18.52%) C++
3 4 (14.81%) C
3 4 (14.81%) Python
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%) Rust
5 1 (3.70%) VB
Qualifications
1 5 (18.52%) Security Cleared
2 3 (11.11%) Azure Certification
2 3 (11.11%) Degree
3 2 (7.41%) SC Cleared
4 1 (3.70%) CCNA
4 1 (3.70%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (3.70%) CISSP
4 1 (3.70%) MCSE
4 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.70%) Accessibility
1 1 (3.70%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (3.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (3.70%) JTAG
1 1 (3.70%) NIST
System Software
1 8 (29.63%) VMware ESXi
2 7 (25.93%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (22.22%) vSphere
4 4 (14.81%) Hyper-V
5 3 (11.11%) Active Directory
5 3 (11.11%) Embedded Firmware
5 3 (11.11%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (7.41%) BitLocker
7 1 (3.70%) PowerHA
7 1 (3.70%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 5 (18.52%) vCenter Server
2 3 (11.11%) Failover Clustering
2 3 (11.11%) FortiGate
2 3 (11.11%) Microsoft Clustering
2 3 (11.11%) VxRail
3 2 (7.41%) SCCM
4 1 (3.70%) Ansible
4 1 (3.70%) Dell DRAC
4 1 (3.70%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (3.70%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 7 (25.93%) VMware
2 6 (22.22%) Cisco
2 6 (22.22%) Dell
3 4 (14.81%) Fortinet
4 3 (11.11%) Palo Alto
5 2 (7.41%) Microsoft
6 1 (3.70%) Adobe
6 1 (3.70%) Aruba
6 1 (3.70%) Brocade
6 1 (3.70%) Commvault
6 1 (3.70%) Draytek
6 1 (3.70%) EMC
6 1 (3.70%) F5
6 1 (3.70%) Google
6 1 (3.70%) IBM
6 1 (3.70%) Oracle
6 1 (3.70%) Riverbed
6 1 (3.70%) SonicWALL
6 1 (3.70%) Veeam
6 1 (3.70%) WatchGuard