Firmware Contracts in London

Firmware
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring Firmware skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Firmware over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 331 331 471
Rank change year-on-year 0 +140 +76
Contract jobs citing Firmware 22 60 22
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.18% 0.34% 0.081%
As % of the System Software category 1.59% 3.38% 0.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 45 14
10th Percentile £202 £200 £369
25th Percentile £318 £262 £441
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £350 £510
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -31.37% -1.16%
75th Percentile £525 £425 £556
90th Percentile £593 £571 £589
England median daily rate £465 £425 £463
% change year-on-year +9.41% -8.11% -2.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 10 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £78.75 £20.50 -
Median hourly rate £82.50 £22.59 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +265.21% -54.82% +163.16%
75th Percentile £86.25 £24.18 -
90th Percentile - £25.00 -
England median hourly rate £62.00 £61.25 £55.00
% change year-on-year +1.22% +11.36% +10.00%

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 1,384 1,777 3,145
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 11.03% 9.97% 11.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 973 1,262 2,297
10th Percentile £300 £213 £250
25th Percentile £438 £363 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £575
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -13.04% +2.22%
75th Percentile £671 £615 £688
90th Percentile £800 £719 £775
England median daily rate £525 £494 £525
% change year-on-year +6.33% -5.95% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 35 42
10th Percentile £22.64 £17.23 £15.73
25th Percentile £23.90 £20.50 £22.85
Median hourly rate £28.41 £22.50 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +26.27% -50.00% +83.67%
75th Percentile £35.75 £25.00 £73.63
90th Percentile £91.50 £48.89 £85.00
England median hourly rate £27.94 £21.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year +33.05% -58.00% +163.16%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Firmware in London.

Daily rate trend for Firmware in London

Firmware
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Firmware in London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Firmware in London

Firmware
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Firmware in London.

Hourly rate trend 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 1 May 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
Central London +8 7 £500 +33.33% 6
West London +14 5 £400 -38.46% 2
East London +15 2 £205 -46.05% 1
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 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 4 (18.18%) AWS
2 2 (9.09%) Azure
3 1 (4.55%) Asana
3 1 (4.55%) Entra ID
3 1 (4.55%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (4.55%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 8 (36.36%) Firewall
2 6 (27.27%) Cisco ISE
2 6 (27.27%) Network Security
2 6 (27.27%) VLAN
2 6 (27.27%) VPN
3 5 (22.73%) BGP
3 5 (22.73%) DHCP
3 5 (22.73%) DNS
3 5 (22.73%) OSPF
4 4 (18.18%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 4 (18.18%) LAN
4 4 (18.18%) SD-WAN
4 4 (18.18%) SSL
4 4 (18.18%) WAN
4 4 (18.18%) Wireless
4 4 (18.18%) WLAN
5 3 (13.64%) Cisco Wireless
5 3 (13.64%) EIGRP
5 3 (13.64%) MGCP
5 3 (13.64%) WebEx
Development Applications
1 1 (4.55%) Git
1 1 (4.55%) JIRA
General
1 8 (36.36%) Social Skills
2 5 (22.73%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (22.73%) Finance
2 5 (22.73%) Public Sector
3 4 (18.18%) Telecoms
4 3 (13.64%) Multimedia
5 2 (9.09%) Electronics
5 2 (9.09%) Manufacturing
5 2 (9.09%) Marketing
6 1 (4.55%) French Language
6 1 (4.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (4.55%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (4.55%) Retail
Job Titles
1 7 (31.82%) Network Engineer
2 3 (13.64%) Administrator
3 2 (9.09%) Cisco Engineer
3 2 (9.09%) Cisco Network Engineer
3 2 (9.09%) EPoS Engineer
3 2 (9.09%) Firmware Engineer
3 2 (9.09%) FPGA Engineer
3 2 (9.09%) IT Engineer
3 2 (9.09%) Network Administrator
3 2 (9.09%) Security Engineer
3 2 (9.09%) Senior
3 2 (9.09%) Unified Communications Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) Citrix Consultant
4 1 (4.55%) IT Support Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) Network Migration Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) Network Security Administrator
4 1 (4.55%) Network Systems Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) Security Administrator
4 1 (4.55%) Senior IT Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) Senior Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (13.64%) Digital Signage
1 3 (13.64%) FPGA
1 3 (13.64%) VHDL
2 2 (9.09%) EPoS
2 2 (9.09%) NHS
2 2 (9.09%) Smartphone
2 2 (9.09%) Verilog
3 1 (4.55%) Data Centre
3 1 (4.55%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (4.55%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (4.55%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 4 (18.18%) Windows
2 2 (9.09%) Linux
3 1 (4.55%) Windows Server
3 1 (4.55%) Windows Server 2012
3 1 (4.55%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (31.82%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (22.73%) Network Monitoring
3 3 (13.64%) Customer Experience
3 3 (13.64%) Migration
3 3 (13.64%) Patch Management
4 2 (9.09%) Asset Management
4 2 (9.09%) Business Intelligence
4 2 (9.09%) Change Management
4 2 (9.09%) Configuration Management
4 2 (9.09%) Digital Marketing
4 2 (9.09%) FPGA Design
4 2 (9.09%) ITIL
4 2 (9.09%) ITSM
4 2 (9.09%) Low Latency
4 2 (9.09%) Programme Management
4 2 (9.09%) Service Management
4 2 (9.09%) Statistics
4 2 (9.09%) Test Planning
4 2 (9.09%) UVM
4 2 (9.09%) Virtual Infrastructure
Programming Languages
1 5 (22.73%) Python
2 2 (9.09%) SystemVerilog
Qualifications
1 8 (36.36%) Cisco Certification
2 6 (27.27%) CCNP
3 4 (18.18%) CCNA
3 4 (18.18%) CCSA
4 3 (13.64%) Degree
4 3 (13.64%) Security Cleared
5 2 (9.09%) Master's Degree
5 2 (9.09%) PhD
6 1 (4.55%) DV Cleared
6 1 (4.55%) HNC
6 1 (4.55%) HND
6 1 (4.55%) JNCIA
6 1 (4.55%) Network+ Certification
6 1 (4.55%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.55%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 3 (13.64%) Active Directory
2 1 (4.55%) Hyper-V
2 1 (4.55%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (4.55%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (4.55%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 3 (13.64%) Ansible
1 3 (13.64%) CA Spectrum
1 3 (13.64%) Cisco UCCE
2 1 (4.55%) Cisco CUCM
2 1 (4.55%) Plesk
Vendors
1 11 (50.00%) Cisco
2 5 (22.73%) Meraki
2 5 (22.73%) SolarWinds
3 4 (18.18%) CheckPoint
3 4 (18.18%) F5
3 4 (18.18%) Juniper
4 2 (9.09%) Fortinet
4 2 (9.09%) Microsoft
4 2 (9.09%) Palo Alto
4 2 (9.09%) SAP
5 1 (4.55%) Citrix
5 1 (4.55%) Ericsson
5 1 (4.55%) Hitachi
5 1 (4.55%) Nokia
5 1 (4.55%) Rackspace
5 1 (4.55%) Veeam
5 1 (4.55%) VMware
5 1 (4.55%) Xilinx
5 1 (4.55%) Zscaler