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

6 months to
5 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 369 333 334
Rank change year-on-year -36 +1 +172
Contract jobs citing Firmware 32 17 54
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.20% 0.13% 0.30%
As % of the System Software category 1.82% 1.20% 2.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 12 44
10th Percentile £263 - £262
25th Percentile £369 £200 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £305 £400
Median % change year-on-year +47.54% -23.75% -23.08%
75th Percentile £550 £488 £645
90th Percentile £608 £626 £659
England median daily rate £419 £458 £425
% change year-on-year -8.47% +7.65% -8.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - £21.40
25th Percentile - - £22.75
Median hourly rate - - £25.00
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £66.50 £67.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year -1.48% +3.85% +20.93%

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 1,755 1,413 1,826
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 10.80% 10.65% 10.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,187 958 1,288
10th Percentile £319 £263 £208
25th Percentile £425 £428 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £560 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +12.00% -13.04%
75th Percentile £638 £688 £625
90th Percentile £738 £813 £725
England median daily rate £500 £525 £475
% change year-on-year -4.76% +10.53% -9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 14 33
10th Percentile £21.00 £21.95 £16.17
25th Percentile £21.61 £23.80 £21.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £28.71 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.38% +14.82% -18.70%
75th Percentile £42.94 £80.19 £46.86
90th Percentile £67.70 £112.00 £60.00
England median hourly rate £34.00 £32.50 £27.38
% change year-on-year +4.62% +18.69% -28.88%

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 5 March 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 5 March 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 -19 2 £525 -16.00% 9
West London -19 1 £275 +37.50%
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 7 (21.88%) Confluence
2 2 (6.25%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (3.13%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 7 (21.88%) Azure
1 7 (21.88%) GitHub
2 5 (15.63%) Entra ID
3 1 (3.13%) Azure ExpressRoute
3 1 (3.13%) Cohesity
3 1 (3.13%) IaaS
3 1 (3.13%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (3.13%) PaaS
3 1 (3.13%) Rubrik
3 1 (3.13%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (21.88%) Ethernet
1 7 (21.88%) Modbus
1 7 (21.88%) RS-232
1 7 (21.88%) RS-485
2 6 (18.75%) DNS
3 5 (15.63%) VPN
4 4 (12.50%) Firewall
4 4 (12.50%) VLAN
4 4 (12.50%) Wireless
5 3 (9.38%) BGP
5 3 (9.38%) DHCP
5 3 (9.38%) IPsec
5 3 (9.38%) Network Security
5 3 (9.38%) OSPF
6 2 (6.25%) EIGRP
6 2 (6.25%) HTTPS
6 2 (6.25%) InfiniBand
6 2 (6.25%) Skype
6 2 (6.25%) TCP/IP
6 2 (6.25%) WAN
Development Applications
1 7 (21.88%) JIRA
2 1 (3.13%) QADirector
General
1 12 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 5 (15.63%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (12.50%) Banking
4 3 (9.38%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (6.25%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (3.13%) Finance
6 1 (3.13%) Financial Institution
6 1 (3.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (3.13%) Investment Banking
6 1 (3.13%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 6 (18.75%) Embedded Engineer
1 6 (18.75%) Network Engineer
2 5 (15.63%) Desktop Engineer
3 3 (9.38%) Senior
3 3 (9.38%) Storage Engineer
3 3 (9.38%) Support Engineer
4 2 (6.25%) Architect
4 2 (6.25%) Cisco Engineer
4 2 (6.25%) Desktop Support
4 2 (6.25%) Desktop Support Engineer
4 2 (6.25%) IT Support
4 2 (6.25%) Senior Storage Engineer
4 2 (6.25%) Solutions Architect
5 1 (3.13%) Cisco Network Engineer
5 1 (3.13%) Hardware Engineer
5 1 (3.13%) IT Support Technician
5 1 (3.13%) Network Support
5 1 (3.13%) Penetration Tester
5 1 (3.13%) QA Engineer
5 1 (3.13%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.13%) Microsoft Graph
1 1 (3.13%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 6 (18.75%) Data Centre
2 5 (15.63%) Onboarding
3 4 (12.50%) Analytical Mindset
4 3 (9.38%) PKI
5 2 (6.25%) CCTV
5 2 (6.25%) CUDA
5 2 (6.25%) Embedded Systems
6 1 (3.13%) Clustering
6 1 (3.13%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (3.13%) Enterprise Storage
6 1 (3.13%) Fibre Optics
6 1 (3.13%) FPGA
6 1 (3.13%) Hedge funds
6 1 (3.13%) IoT
6 1 (3.13%) Life Science
6 1 (3.13%) Manufacturing Execution System
6 1 (3.13%) Mobile App
6 1 (3.13%) Replication
6 1 (3.13%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 8 (25.00%) Windows
2 7 (21.88%) FreeRTOS
3 5 (15.63%) Linux
4 2 (6.25%) Mac OS
5 1 (3.13%) Android
5 1 (3.13%) Apple iOS
5 1 (3.13%) Data ONTAP
5 1 (3.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (3.13%) Windows 10
5 1 (3.13%) Windows Server
5 1 (3.13%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 7 (21.88%) Platform Engineering
2 7 (21.88%) Runbook
3 6 (18.75%) Continuous Improvement
3 6 (18.75%) ITIL
3 6 (18.75%) Patch Management
4 5 (15.63%) Performance Tuning
4 5 (15.63%) Software Distribution
5 4 (12.50%) Application Packaging
5 4 (12.50%) Computer Science
5 4 (12.50%) Data Transformation
5 4 (12.50%) Mentoring
5 4 (12.50%) User Experience
5 4 (12.50%) Validation
6 3 (9.38%) Data Centre Operations
6 3 (9.38%) Disaster Recovery
6 3 (9.38%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 3 (9.38%) Network Monitoring
6 3 (9.38%) Requirements Gathering
7 2 (6.25%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 9 (28.13%) C++
2 7 (21.88%) Embedded C++
2 7 (21.88%) PowerShell
3 3 (9.38%) C
3 3 (9.38%) Embedded C
4 2 (6.25%) Bash
4 2 (6.25%) Perl
4 2 (6.25%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
1 4 (12.50%) Degree
2 3 (9.38%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (9.38%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (6.25%) CCNP
3 2 (6.25%) JNCIA
3 2 (6.25%) JNCIS
4 1 (3.13%) Azure Certification
4 1 (3.13%) CCNA
4 1 (3.13%) MCSA
4 1 (3.13%) Microsoft Certified Professional
4 1 (3.13%) Network+ Certification
4 1 (3.13%) SC Cleared
4 1 (3.13%) Security Cleared
4 1 (3.13%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.13%) 21 CFR Part 11
1 1 (3.13%) GDPR
1 1 (3.13%) QA
1 1 (3.13%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 8 (25.00%) Embedded Firmware
2 6 (18.75%) Active Directory
3 3 (9.38%) Docker
3 3 (9.38%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (6.25%) Ceph
4 2 (6.25%) Lustre
4 2 (6.25%) Slurm Workload Manager
4 2 (6.25%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (3.13%) NFS
5 1 (3.13%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (3.13%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 6 (18.75%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (9.38%) Kubernetes
3 1 (3.13%) Ansible
3 1 (3.13%) Dell DRAC
3 1 (3.13%) Grafana
3 1 (3.13%) PaperCut
3 1 (3.13%) Podman
3 1 (3.13%) Prometheus
3 1 (3.13%) SCCM
3 1 (3.13%) SCOM
3 1 (3.13%) SnapMirror
3 1 (3.13%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 10 (31.25%) Microsoft
2 7 (21.88%) Cisco
3 4 (12.50%) Dell
3 4 (12.50%) Nexthink
4 3 (9.38%) Supermicro
5 2 (6.25%) Juniper
5 2 (6.25%) Mellanox
5 2 (6.25%) Meraki
5 2 (6.25%) NVIDIA
5 2 (6.25%) Palo Alto
5 2 (6.25%) VMware
6 1 (3.13%) Brocade
6 1 (3.13%) Commvault
6 1 (3.13%) F5
6 1 (3.13%) Fortinet
6 1 (3.13%) Isilon
6 1 (3.13%) Ruckus Wireless
6 1 (3.13%) ServiceNow
6 1 (3.13%) SolarWinds
6 1 (3.13%) Veeam