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

6 months to
1 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 423 331 354
Rank change year-on-year -92 +23 +32
Contract jobs citing Firmware 29 36 39
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.14% 0.27% 0.24%
As % of the System Software category 1.59% 2.38% 2.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 24 28
10th Percentile £325 £250 £190
25th Percentile £375 £275 £249
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £419 £394
Median % change year-on-year +7.46% +6.35% -25.00%
75th Percentile £475 £478 £547
90th Percentile £575 £533 £775
England median daily rate £450 £425 £450
% change year-on-year +5.88% -5.56% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 3
10th Percentile - £37.38 -
25th Percentile £42.50 £39.06 -
Median hourly rate £45.00 £61.25 £24.18
Median % change year-on-year -26.53% +153.31% -49.09%
75th Percentile £47.50 £86.25 -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £62.50 £81.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year -22.84% +15.71% +27.27%

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 1,827 1,513 1,703
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 8.98% 11.23% 10.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,252 939 1,161
10th Percentile £251 £299 £260
25th Percentile £413 £413 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £638
90th Percentile £725 £713 £749
England median daily rate £500 £500 £510
% change year-on-year - -1.86% +1.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 29 16
10th Percentile £16.45 £22.40 £21.90
25th Percentile £24.01 £22.50 £23.80
Median hourly rate £32.50 £25.15 £23.99
Median % change year-on-year +29.22% +4.84% -60.02%
75th Percentile £54.88 £35.75 £58.75
90th Percentile £67.60 £52.40 £102.25
England median hourly rate £65.00 £34.50 £27.50
% change year-on-year +88.41% +25.45% -40.22%

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 October 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 October 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 -33 3 £513 +5.13% 7
West London -26 2 £500 +24.84% 7
East London - 1 £327 - 3
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:

Applications
1 1 (3.45%) Adobe After Effects
1 1 (3.45%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 1 (3.45%) Blender
1 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 4 (13.79%) Azure
2 3 (10.34%) AWS
2 3 (10.34%) Cohesity
2 3 (10.34%) Rubrik
3 2 (6.90%) AWS IoT
3 2 (6.90%) Nutanix
4 1 (3.45%) Entra ID
4 1 (3.45%) Figma
4 1 (3.45%) GitHub
4 1 (3.45%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 3 (10.34%) Firewall
1 3 (10.34%) MPLS
1 3 (10.34%) WAN
2 2 (6.90%) DHCP
2 2 (6.90%) Internet
2 2 (6.90%) MQTT
2 2 (6.90%) SAN
2 2 (6.90%) SDH
2 2 (6.90%) SD-WAN
2 2 (6.90%) TETRA
2 2 (6.90%) VXLAN
3 1 (3.45%) Cisco Nexus
3 1 (3.45%) DNS
3 1 (3.45%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
3 1 (3.45%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
3 1 (3.45%) Multicast
3 1 (3.45%) NAS
3 1 (3.45%) Network Security
3 1 (3.45%) TCP/IP
3 1 (3.45%) VLAN
Development Applications
1 2 (6.90%) JIRA
2 1 (3.45%) Git
General
1 10 (34.48%) Social Skills
2 6 (20.69%) Documentation Skills
3 5 (17.24%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (6.90%) Organisational Skills
4 2 (6.90%) Telecoms
5 1 (3.45%) Automotive
5 1 (3.45%) Electronics
5 1 (3.45%) Finance
5 1 (3.45%) Legal
5 1 (3.45%) Local Government
5 1 (3.45%) Mandarin Language
5 1 (3.45%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 8 (27.59%) Network Engineer
2 6 (20.69%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 6 (20.69%) Senior
3 3 (10.34%) Backup Engineer
3 3 (10.34%) Storage and Backup Engineer
3 3 (10.34%) Storage Engineer
4 2 (6.90%) Automation Engineer
4 2 (6.90%) Cloud Engineer
4 2 (6.90%) Embedded Engineer
4 2 (6.90%) Firmware Engineer
4 2 (6.90%) Lead
4 2 (6.90%) Nutanix Engineer
4 2 (6.90%) Senior Cloud Engineer
4 2 (6.90%) Senior Network Engineer
4 2 (6.90%) VMware Engineer
4 2 (6.90%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (6.90%) Windows Engineer
5 1 (3.45%) Project Engineer
5 1 (3.45%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (3.45%) Storage Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (6.90%) .NET
2 1 (3.45%) 802.1X
2 1 (3.45%) Framer.js
2 1 (3.45%) Middleware
2 1 (3.45%) PyQt
2 1 (3.45%) Streamlit
2 1 (3.45%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 6 (20.69%) Clustering
2 5 (17.24%) Embedded Systems
3 4 (13.79%) Enterprise Storage
3 4 (13.79%) IoT
4 3 (10.34%) Data Centre
5 1 (3.45%) ARM Cortex
5 1 (3.45%) CCTV
5 1 (3.45%) Device Driver
5 1 (3.45%) EMC VNX
5 1 (3.45%) Onboarding
5 1 (3.45%) Replication
5 1 (3.45%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 7 (24.14%) Windows
2 5 (17.24%) Windows Server
3 4 (13.79%) Linux
4 3 (10.34%) Data ONTAP
5 2 (6.90%) VMS
6 1 (3.45%) AIX
6 1 (3.45%) Oracle Linux
6 1 (3.45%) Unix
6 1 (3.45%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (3.45%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (27.59%) Disaster Recovery
2 7 (24.14%) High Availability
3 6 (20.69%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 6 (20.69%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (13.79%) Capacity Planning
4 4 (13.79%) Problem Management
5 3 (10.34%) Migration
5 3 (10.34%) Performance Tuning
5 3 (10.34%) Security Hardening
5 3 (10.34%) Software Engineering
6 2 (6.90%) Converged Infrastructure
6 2 (6.90%) Cyber Resilience
6 2 (6.90%) Feasibility Study
6 2 (6.90%) Incident Response
6 2 (6.90%) Proactive Maintenance
6 2 (6.90%) Project Delivery
6 2 (6.90%) Resource Allocation
6 2 (6.90%) Security Patching
6 2 (6.90%) Technical Leadership
6 2 (6.90%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 5 (17.24%) C++
2 4 (13.79%) C
2 4 (13.79%) PowerShell
2 4 (13.79%) Python
3 2 (6.90%) C#
3 2 (6.90%) Java
3 2 (6.90%) VB.NET
4 1 (3.45%) Embedded C
4 1 (3.45%) Embedded C++
4 1 (3.45%) Perl
4 1 (3.45%) Rust
4 1 (3.45%) VB
Qualifications
1 3 (10.34%) Degree
1 3 (10.34%) Security Cleared
2 2 (6.90%) SC Cleared
3 1 (3.45%) CCNA
3 1 (3.45%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (3.45%) CISSP
3 1 (3.45%) ISTQB
3 1 (3.45%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
3 1 (3.45%) MCSE
3 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.90%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 1 (3.45%) Accessibility
2 1 (3.45%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (3.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (3.45%) JTAG
2 1 (3.45%) NCSC
2 1 (3.45%) NIST
System Software
1 7 (24.14%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (13.79%) VMware ESXi
3 3 (10.34%) Embedded Firmware
3 3 (10.34%) NFS
3 3 (10.34%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (10.34%) vSphere
4 2 (6.90%) Active Directory
4 2 (6.90%) BitLocker
5 1 (3.45%) PowerHA
5 1 (3.45%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 3 (10.34%) FortiGate
1 3 (10.34%) SnapMirror
2 2 (6.90%) SCCM
2 2 (6.90%) vCenter Server
3 1 (3.45%) Ansible
3 1 (3.45%) Dell DRAC
3 1 (3.45%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 7 (24.14%) VMware
2 6 (20.69%) Cisco
3 3 (10.34%) Fortinet
3 3 (10.34%) NetApp
3 3 (10.34%) Palo Alto
4 2 (6.90%) Dell
4 2 (6.90%) Ericsson
4 2 (6.90%) Nokia
5 1 (3.45%) Aruba
5 1 (3.45%) Brocade
5 1 (3.45%) Commvault
5 1 (3.45%) EMC
5 1 (3.45%) F5
5 1 (3.45%) IBM
5 1 (3.45%) Infoblox
5 1 (3.45%) Meraki
5 1 (3.45%) Riverbed
5 1 (3.45%) SolarWinds
5 1 (3.45%) Veeam
5 1 (3.45%) Zscaler