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 7 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 318 332 459
Rank change year-on-year +14 +127 +90
Contract jobs citing Firmware 27 68 30
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.22% 0.39% 0.12%
As % of the System Software category 2.03% 3.73% 1.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 50 15
10th Percentile £202 £200 £443
25th Percentile £280 £272 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £380 £520
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -26.92% -0.48%
75th Percentile £494 £469 £534
90th Percentile £570 £664 £563
England median daily rate £425 £400 £450
% change year-on-year +6.25% -11.11% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 10 2
10th Percentile £37.38 - £44.38
25th Percentile £39.06 £20.50 £45.31
Median hourly rate £61.25 £22.59 £48.75
Median % change year-on-year +171.14% -53.66% -
75th Percentile £86.25 £24.18 £50.94
90th Percentile - £25.00 £51.13
England median hourly rate £71.25 £62.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year +14.00% +13.64% +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 1,331 1,823 2,933
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 10.89% 10.33% 11.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 901 1,315 2,150
10th Percentile £268 £250 £245
25th Percentile £424 £380 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £575
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -13.04% +4.55%
75th Percentile £650 £625 £675
90th Percentile £750 £725 £775
England median daily rate £505 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +1.00% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 35 33
10th Percentile £22.50 £17.23 £16.40
25th Percentile £24.00 £20.50 £25.00
Median hourly rate £29.00 £22.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +28.89% -62.50% +118.18%
75th Percentile £35.75 £25.00 £69.50
90th Percentile £86.25 £48.89 £82.40
England median hourly rate £28.46 £22.15 £52.13
% change year-on-year +28.47% -57.51% +180.27%

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 7 June 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Firmware in London over the 6 months to 7 June 2025.

Hourly rate histogram 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 7 June 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 +16 7 £550 +46.67% 3
West London +11 5 £400 -38.46% 3
East London +18 2 £205 -46.05%
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 2 (7.41%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 9 (33.33%) AWS
2 6 (22.22%) Azure
3 2 (7.41%) GCP
3 2 (7.41%) GitHub
3 2 (7.41%) SaaS
3 2 (7.41%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 1 (3.70%) Asana
4 1 (3.70%) Entra ID
4 1 (3.70%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (3.70%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 10 (37.04%) VPN
2 9 (33.33%) BGP
2 9 (33.33%) OSPF
3 8 (29.63%) LAN
3 8 (29.63%) WAN
4 7 (25.93%) Firewall
4 7 (25.93%) VLAN
5 4 (14.81%) Cisco ISE
5 4 (14.81%) DHCP
5 4 (14.81%) DNS
5 4 (14.81%) Ethernet VPN
5 4 (14.81%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
5 4 (14.81%) Multicast
5 4 (14.81%) Network Security
5 4 (14.81%) SD-WAN
5 4 (14.81%) SSL
5 4 (14.81%) VXLAN
5 4 (14.81%) Wireless
5 4 (14.81%) WLAN
6 3 (11.11%) Cisco Wireless
Development Applications
1 3 (11.11%) Git
2 2 (7.41%) Bitbucket
2 2 (7.41%) GitLab
2 2 (7.41%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (3.70%) JIRA
General
1 7 (25.93%) Social Skills
2 5 (18.52%) Finance
2 5 (18.52%) Public Sector
3 4 (14.81%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (14.81%) Telecoms
4 3 (11.11%) Electronics
4 3 (11.11%) Manufacturing
4 3 (11.11%) Marketing
4 3 (11.11%) Multimedia
5 1 (3.70%) Banking
5 1 (3.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (3.70%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (29.63%) Network Engineer
2 6 (22.22%) Cisco Engineer
3 4 (14.81%) Cisco Network Engineer
4 3 (11.11%) FPGA Engineer
4 3 (11.11%) Senior
5 2 (7.41%) Administrator
5 2 (7.41%) Consultant
5 2 (7.41%) EPoS Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) Firmware Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) Implementation Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) IT Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) Juniper Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) LAN Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) LAN/WAN Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) Network Administrator
5 2 (7.41%) Unified Communications Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) Virtualisation Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) WAN Engineer
6 1 (3.70%) Desktop Support
6 1 (3.70%) Migration Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (14.81%) Data Centre
1 4 (14.81%) FPGA
1 4 (14.81%) VHDL
2 3 (11.11%) Digital Signage
2 3 (11.11%) Verilog
3 2 (7.41%) Cloud Native
3 2 (7.41%) Clustering
3 2 (7.41%) EPoS
3 2 (7.41%) NHS
3 2 (7.41%) Private Cloud
3 2 (7.41%) Public Cloud
3 2 (7.41%) Smartphone
3 2 (7.41%) Video\Live Streaming
4 1 (3.70%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (3.70%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (3.70%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (3.70%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.70%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (25.93%) Network Monitoring
2 6 (22.22%) Patch Management
3 5 (18.52%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (14.81%) Migration
5 3 (11.11%) Business Intelligence
5 3 (11.11%) Change Management
5 3 (11.11%) Customer Experience
5 3 (11.11%) Digital Marketing
5 3 (11.11%) FPGA Design
5 3 (11.11%) High Availability
5 3 (11.11%) Programme Management
5 3 (11.11%) Root Cause Analysis
5 3 (11.11%) Test Planning
5 3 (11.11%) UVM
6 2 (7.41%) Change Control
6 2 (7.41%) End-to-End Testing
6 2 (7.41%) Network Design
6 2 (7.41%) Network Segmentation
6 2 (7.41%) Security Patching
6 2 (7.41%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 8 (29.63%) Python
2 3 (11.11%) SystemVerilog
Qualifications
1 8 (29.63%) Cisco Certification
2 6 (22.22%) CCNP
3 4 (14.81%) CCNA
3 4 (14.81%) CCSA
3 4 (14.81%) Degree
3 4 (14.81%) Security Cleared
4 3 (11.11%) JNCIA
4 3 (11.11%) Master's Degree
4 3 (11.11%) PhD
5 2 (7.41%) DV Cleared
5 2 (7.41%) SC Cleared
6 1 (3.70%) HNC
6 1 (3.70%) HND
6 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (3.70%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.70%) Sarbanes-Oxley
1 1 (3.70%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (14.81%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (11.11%) VMware NSX
3 2 (7.41%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (3.70%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 8 (29.63%) Ansible
2 3 (11.11%) CA Spectrum
2 3 (11.11%) Cisco UCCE
3 2 (7.41%) Cisco CUCM
3 2 (7.41%) HAProxy
3 2 (7.41%) vCenter Server
3 2 (7.41%) vMotion
4 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (3.70%) Plesk
4 1 (3.70%) PowerCLI
Vendors
1 15 (55.56%) Cisco
2 6 (22.22%) F5
2 6 (22.22%) Juniper
3 5 (18.52%) Meraki
3 5 (18.52%) SolarWinds
4 4 (14.81%) CheckPoint
4 4 (14.81%) VMware
5 3 (11.11%) Palo Alto
5 3 (11.11%) SAP
6 2 (7.41%) Arista
6 2 (7.41%) Microsoft
7 1 (3.70%) Citrix
7 1 (3.70%) Ericsson
7 1 (3.70%) Hitachi
7 1 (3.70%) Nokia
7 1 (3.70%) Rackspace
7 1 (3.70%) ServiceNow
7 1 (3.70%) Xilinx
7 1 (3.70%) Zscaler