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 18 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 337 351 342
Rank change year-on-year +14 -9 +199
Contract jobs citing Firmware 32 18 63
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.22% 0.12% 0.33%
As % of the System Software category 1.96% 1.15% 2.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 13 51
10th Percentile £253 £200 £262
25th Percentile £338 £210 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £285 £525
Median % change year-on-year +57.89% -45.71% +10.53%
75th Percentile £548 £525 £645
90th Percentile £570 £678 £650
England median daily rate £450 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -5.26% - -

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 1,629 1,559 2,126
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 11.40% 10.35% 11.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,059 1,030 1,514
10th Percentile £325 £262 £213
25th Percentile £427 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% +4.76% -8.70%
75th Percentile £647 £663 £645
90th Percentile £738 £788 £750
England median daily rate £500 £515 £500
% change year-on-year -2.91% +3.00% -5.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 16 23
10th Percentile £21.00 £20.50 £22.00
25th Percentile £22.50 £23.75 £25.38
Median hourly rate £24.58 £23.80 £43.84
Median % change year-on-year +3.26% -45.71% +66.99%
75th Percentile £26.00 £70.00 £62.50
90th Percentile £56.43 £103.50 £74.50
England median hourly rate £47.50 £32.50 £40.33
% change year-on-year +46.15% -19.40% +61.30%

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 18 December 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 18 December 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 -11 6 £375 +87.63% 1
Central London +1 3 £425 -24.44% 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (6.25%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (6.25%) Confluence
2 1 (3.13%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (3.13%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 5 (15.63%) AWS
2 4 (12.50%) Azure
3 2 (6.25%) GCP
3 2 (6.25%) GitHub
4 1 (3.13%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 1 (3.13%) IaaS
4 1 (3.13%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (3.13%) PaaS
4 1 (3.13%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (37.50%) DNS
2 10 (31.25%) BGP
2 10 (31.25%) OSPF
3 9 (28.13%) Firewall
3 9 (28.13%) VLAN
4 8 (25.00%) EIGRP
4 8 (25.00%) Network Security
4 8 (25.00%) VPN
4 8 (25.00%) WAN
4 8 (25.00%) Wireless
5 7 (21.88%) DHCP
6 6 (18.75%) HTTPS
6 6 (18.75%) IPsec
6 6 (18.75%) SD-WAN
7 5 (15.63%) LAN
8 4 (12.50%) Cisco Wireless
8 4 (12.50%) DMVPN
8 4 (12.50%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
8 4 (12.50%) SSL
9 3 (9.38%) Cisco ISE
Development Applications
1 2 (6.25%) JIRA
2 1 (3.13%) IDA Disassembler
2 1 (3.13%) QADirector
2 1 (3.13%) Zephyr
General
1 10 (31.25%) Social Skills
2 5 (15.63%) Banking
3 4 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (6.25%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (6.25%) Organisational Skills
4 2 (6.25%) Public Sector
5 1 (3.13%) Finance
5 1 (3.13%) Financial Institution
5 1 (3.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (3.13%) Investment Banking
5 1 (3.13%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 11 (34.38%) Network Engineer
2 5 (15.63%) Cisco Engineer
3 4 (12.50%) Cisco Network Engineer
3 4 (12.50%) Juniper Engineer
4 3 (9.38%) IT Support
4 3 (9.38%) Network Security Engineer
4 3 (9.38%) Security Engineer
4 3 (9.38%) Support Engineer
5 2 (6.25%) Administrator
5 2 (6.25%) Architect
5 2 (6.25%) Desktop Support
5 2 (6.25%) Embedded Engineer
5 2 (6.25%) Network Administrator
5 2 (6.25%) Network Security Administrator
5 2 (6.25%) Security Administrator
5 2 (6.25%) Senior
5 2 (6.25%) Solutions Architect
5 2 (6.25%) Support Technician
5 2 (6.25%) Tester
6 1 (3.13%) Commvault Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 6 (18.75%) Data Centre
1 6 (18.75%) PKI
2 3 (9.38%) Embedded Systems
3 2 (6.25%) CUDA
4 1 (3.13%) Arduino
4 1 (3.13%) CCTV
4 1 (3.13%) Cloud Native
4 1 (3.13%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (3.13%) Fibre Optics
4 1 (3.13%) FPGA
4 1 (3.13%) Hedge funds
4 1 (3.13%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (3.13%) IoT
4 1 (3.13%) Life Science
4 1 (3.13%) Manufacturing Execution System
4 1 (3.13%) Mobile App
4 1 (3.13%) Onboarding
4 1 (3.13%) Replication
4 1 (3.13%) Robotics
4 1 (3.13%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 4 (12.50%) Windows
2 3 (9.38%) FreeRTOS
2 3 (9.38%) Linux
3 1 (3.13%) Android
3 1 (3.13%) Apple iOS
3 1 (3.13%) Mac OS
3 1 (3.13%) Robot Operating System
3 1 (3.13%) Windows 10
3 1 (3.13%) Windows Server
3 1 (3.13%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 7 (21.88%) Network Monitoring
3 6 (18.75%) Kalman Filter
4 5 (15.63%) Validation
5 4 (12.50%) Patch Management
6 3 (9.38%) Data Centre Operations
6 3 (9.38%) Requirements Gathering
7 2 (6.25%) Acceptance Criteria
7 2 (6.25%) Architectural Design
7 2 (6.25%) Critical Thinking
7 2 (6.25%) Customer Requirements
7 2 (6.25%) Data Pipeline
7 2 (6.25%) Incident Response
7 2 (6.25%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 2 (6.25%) Knowledge Transfer
7 2 (6.25%) Mentoring
7 2 (6.25%) Platform Engineering
7 2 (6.25%) Runbook
7 2 (6.25%) Systems Engineering
7 2 (6.25%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 8 (25.00%) C++
2 6 (18.75%) Python
3 5 (15.63%) Bash
3 5 (15.63%) Perl
4 4 (12.50%) C
5 2 (6.25%) Embedded C
5 2 (6.25%) Embedded C++
5 2 (6.25%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 11 (34.38%) Cisco Certification
2 10 (31.25%) CCNP
3 5 (15.63%) JNCIA
3 5 (15.63%) JNCIS
4 4 (12.50%) CCSA
5 2 (6.25%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (6.25%) Security Cleared
6 1 (3.13%) Azure Certification
6 1 (3.13%) CCNA
6 1 (3.13%) CEH
6 1 (3.13%) CISSP
6 1 (3.13%) MCP
6 1 (3.13%) MCSA
6 1 (3.13%) Network+ Certification
6 1 (3.13%) OSCP
6 1 (3.13%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.25%) GRC
1 2 (6.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (6.25%) NIST
1 2 (6.25%) PCI DSS
2 1 (3.13%) 21 CFR Part 11
2 1 (3.13%) JTAG
2 1 (3.13%) QA
2 1 (3.13%) SOC 2
2 1 (3.13%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 5 (15.63%) Embedded Firmware
2 3 (9.38%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (6.25%) Active Directory
3 2 (6.25%) Ceph
3 2 (6.25%) Docker
3 2 (6.25%) Lustre
3 2 (6.25%) Slurm Workload Manager
4 1 (3.13%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (3.13%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (3.13%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (9.38%) CA Spectrum
2 2 (6.25%) Kubernetes
2 2 (6.25%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (3.13%) Dell DRAC
3 1 (3.13%) Grafana
3 1 (3.13%) Prometheus
3 1 (3.13%) SCCM
3 1 (3.13%) SCOM
3 1 (3.13%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 13 (40.63%) Cisco
2 9 (28.13%) Juniper
3 7 (21.88%) Microsoft
4 6 (18.75%) Meraki
5 5 (15.63%) Dell
5 5 (15.63%) F5
6 4 (12.50%) CheckPoint
6 4 (12.50%) SolarWinds
7 3 (9.38%) Supermicro
8 2 (6.25%) Mellanox
8 2 (6.25%) NVIDIA
8 2 (6.25%) Qualys
8 2 (6.25%) Tenable
9 1 (3.13%) Apple
9 1 (3.13%) Commvault
9 1 (3.13%) EMC
9 1 (3.13%) Fortinet
9 1 (3.13%) HP
9 1 (3.13%) Remedy
9 1 (3.13%) VMware