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 13 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
13 Nov 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 342 355 362
Rank change year-on-year +13 +7 +197
Contract jobs citing Firmware 36 22 62
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.26% 0.14% 0.31%
As % of the System Software category 2.21% 1.35% 2.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 15 46
10th Percentile £250 £200 £262
25th Percentile £275 £248 £452
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £450 £563
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% -20.00% +7.66%
75th Percentile £489 £706 £645
90th Percentile £568 £775 £650
England median daily rate £438 £475 £450
% change year-on-year -7.89% +5.56% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £78.75 - -
Median hourly rate £82.50 - -
75th Percentile £86.25 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £81.00 £70.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year +15.71% +21.74% +4.55%

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 1,630 1,635 2,326
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 11.59% 10.45% 11.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,024 1,087 1,662
10th Percentile £300 £263 £221
25th Percentile £425 £413 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £538
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% - -6.52%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £720 £775 £750
England median daily rate £500 £515 £500
% change year-on-year -2.91% +3.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 13 27
10th Percentile £21.00 £20.20 £23.78
25th Percentile £22.50 £23.59 £31.25
Median hourly rate £24.00 £23.80 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.84% -52.40% +100.00%
75th Percentile £27.00 £62.50 £64.38
90th Percentile £49.70 £108.10 £75.50
England median hourly rate £30.00 £50.00 £43.84
% change year-on-year -40.00% +14.05% +82.36%

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 13 November 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
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 13 November 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 -6 6 £375 +87.63% 1
Central London +14 5 £488 +27.45% 11
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 2 (5.56%) nginx
2 1 (2.78%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (2.78%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 8 (22.22%) AWS
2 7 (19.44%) Azure
3 4 (11.11%) GCP
4 3 (8.33%) SaaS
5 2 (5.56%) GitHub
6 1 (2.78%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 1 (2.78%) IaaS
6 1 (2.78%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (2.78%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (36.11%) BGP
1 13 (36.11%) DNS
1 13 (36.11%) OSPF
2 11 (30.56%) Firewall
2 11 (30.56%) VLAN
3 10 (27.78%) VPN
3 10 (27.78%) WAN
4 9 (25.00%) EIGRP
4 9 (25.00%) IPsec
5 8 (22.22%) Network Security
5 8 (22.22%) Wireless
6 7 (19.44%) DHCP
6 7 (19.44%) HTTPS
6 7 (19.44%) LAN
7 6 (16.67%) SD-WAN
8 4 (11.11%) Cisco Wireless
8 4 (11.11%) DMVPN
8 4 (11.11%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
8 4 (11.11%) SSL
8 4 (11.11%) TCP/IP
Development Applications
1 2 (5.56%) Bitbucket
1 2 (5.56%) Git
1 2 (5.56%) GitLab
2 1 (2.78%) IDA Disassembler
2 1 (2.78%) QADirector
2 1 (2.78%) Zephyr
General
1 8 (22.22%) Social Skills
2 6 (16.67%) Banking
3 5 (13.89%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (8.33%) Finance
4 3 (8.33%) Public Sector
5 2 (5.56%) Manufacturing
6 1 (2.78%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (2.78%) Electronics
6 1 (2.78%) Financial Institution
6 1 (2.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (2.78%) Investment Banking
6 1 (2.78%) Marketing
6 1 (2.78%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (2.78%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 14 (38.89%) Network Engineer
2 10 (27.78%) Cisco Engineer
3 7 (19.44%) Cisco Network Engineer
3 7 (19.44%) Juniper Engineer
4 3 (8.33%) Administrator
4 3 (8.33%) IT Support
4 3 (8.33%) Network Security Engineer
4 3 (8.33%) Security Engineer
4 3 (8.33%) Senior
4 3 (8.33%) Support Engineer
5 2 (5.56%) Consultant
5 2 (5.56%) Desktop Support
5 2 (5.56%) Network Administrator
5 2 (5.56%) Network Security Administrator
5 2 (5.56%) Security Administrator
5 2 (5.56%) Support Technician
5 2 (5.56%) Tester
5 2 (5.56%) Virtualisation Engineer
6 1 (2.78%) IT Analyst
6 1 (2.78%) IT Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 7 (19.44%) PKI
2 5 (13.89%) Data Centre
3 2 (5.56%) Clustering
3 2 (5.56%) Embedded Systems
3 2 (5.56%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (5.56%) Private Cloud
3 2 (5.56%) Public Cloud
3 2 (5.56%) Video\Live Streaming
4 1 (2.78%) Arduino
4 1 (2.78%) CCTV
4 1 (2.78%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (2.78%) FPGA
4 1 (2.78%) Hedge funds
4 1 (2.78%) IoT
4 1 (2.78%) Life Science
4 1 (2.78%) Mobile App
4 1 (2.78%) Replication
4 1 (2.78%) Robotics
4 1 (2.78%) Verilog
4 1 (2.78%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 5 (13.89%) Windows
2 2 (5.56%) Linux
3 1 (2.78%) Android
3 1 (2.78%) Apple iOS
3 1 (2.78%) FreeRTOS
3 1 (2.78%) Mac OS
3 1 (2.78%) Robot Operating System
3 1 (2.78%) Windows 10
3 1 (2.78%) Windows Server
3 1 (2.78%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (25.00%) Network Monitoring
2 7 (19.44%) Kalman Filter
2 7 (19.44%) Patch Management
3 6 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (11.11%) Disaster Recovery
4 4 (11.11%) Network Design
5 3 (8.33%) Incident Response
5 3 (8.33%) Inventory Management
5 3 (8.33%) Validation
6 2 (5.56%) Change Control
6 2 (5.56%) High Availability
6 2 (5.56%) Incident Management
6 2 (5.56%) ITIL
6 2 (5.56%) Migration
6 2 (5.56%) Network Segmentation
6 2 (5.56%) Root Cause Analysis
6 2 (5.56%) Strategic Planning
6 2 (5.56%) System Testing
6 2 (5.56%) Zero Trust
7 1 (2.78%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 10 (27.78%) Python
2 7 (19.44%) C++
3 6 (16.67%) Bash
3 6 (16.67%) Perl
4 2 (5.56%) C
4 2 (5.56%) PowerShell
5 1 (2.78%) SystemVerilog
Qualifications
1 12 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
2 11 (30.56%) CCNP
3 8 (22.22%) JNCIA
4 6 (16.67%) JNCIS
5 4 (11.11%) CCSA
5 4 (11.11%) Security Cleared
6 3 (8.33%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (5.56%) DV Cleared
7 2 (5.56%) SC Cleared
8 1 (2.78%) Azure Certification
8 1 (2.78%) CCNA
8 1 (2.78%) CEH
8 1 (2.78%) CISSP
8 1 (2.78%) Degree
8 1 (2.78%) Master's Degree
8 1 (2.78%) MCP
8 1 (2.78%) MCSA
8 1 (2.78%) Network+ Certification
8 1 (2.78%) OSCP
8 1 (2.78%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.56%) GRC
1 2 (5.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (5.56%) NIST
1 2 (5.56%) PCI DSS
2 1 (2.78%) 21 CFR Part 11
2 1 (2.78%) JTAG
2 1 (2.78%) QA
2 1 (2.78%) SLA
2 1 (2.78%) SOC 2
2 1 (2.78%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 5 (13.89%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (8.33%) Embedded Firmware
2 3 (8.33%) Virtual Machines
2 3 (8.33%) VMware ESXi
2 3 (8.33%) VMware NSX
3 2 (5.56%) Active Directory
4 1 (2.78%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (8.33%) Ansible
1 3 (8.33%) CA Spectrum
1 3 (8.33%) Microsoft Intune
1 3 (8.33%) vCenter Server
2 2 (5.56%) HAProxy
2 2 (5.56%) vMotion
3 1 (2.78%) Cisco CUCM
3 1 (2.78%) Dell DRAC
3 1 (2.78%) PowerCLI
3 1 (2.78%) SCCM
3 1 (2.78%) SCOM
Vendors
1 18 (50.00%) Cisco
2 12 (33.33%) Juniper
3 8 (22.22%) Microsoft
4 7 (19.44%) F5
5 6 (16.67%) Meraki
6 5 (13.89%) VMware
7 4 (11.11%) CheckPoint
7 4 (11.11%) SolarWinds
8 3 (8.33%) Palo Alto
9 2 (5.56%) Dell
9 2 (5.56%) Google
9 2 (5.56%) Qualys
9 2 (5.56%) ServiceNow
9 2 (5.56%) Tenable
10 1 (2.78%) Apple
10 1 (2.78%) Commvault
10 1 (2.78%) EMC
10 1 (2.78%) Fortinet
10 1 (2.78%) HP
10 1 (2.78%) SAP
36 Firmware jobs in London