Firmware Contracts in Luton

Firmware
Bedfordshire > Luton

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Luton 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 23 28 -
Rank change year-on-year +5 - -
Contract jobs citing Firmware 4 1 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Luton 4.08% 0.66% -
As % of the System Software category 50.00% 25.00% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
Bedfordshire median daily rate - - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 0
10th Percentile £65.78 - -
25th Percentile £73.31 - -
Median hourly rate £86.50 £80.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +8.13% - -
75th Percentile £89.13 - -
90th Percentile £91.15 - -
Bedfordshire median hourly rate £86.50 £80.00 -
% change year-on-year +8.13% - -

All System Software Skills
Luton

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 Luton.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 8 4 10
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Luton 8.16% 2.63% 8.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 7
10th Percentile £227 - £240
25th Percentile £339 £506 £270
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% +340.00%
75th Percentile - £519 £575
90th Percentile - - £600
Bedfordshire median daily rate £375 £275 £338
% change year-on-year +36.36% -18.52% -3.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 0
10th Percentile £65.78 - -
25th Percentile £73.31 - -
Median hourly rate £86.50 £80.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +8.13% - -
75th Percentile £89.13 - -
90th Percentile £91.15 - -
Bedfordshire median hourly rate £85.00 £66.25 -
% change year-on-year +28.30% - -

Firmware
Job Vacancy Trend in Luton

Job postings citing Firmware as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Luton.

Job vacancy trend for Firmware in Luton

Firmware
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Luton

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

Daily rate trend for Firmware in Luton

Firmware
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Luton

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

Hourly rate trend for Firmware in Luton

Firmware
Hourly Rate Histogram in Luton

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Firmware in Luton over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Firmware in Luton

Firmware
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Luton 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:

Applications
1 3 (75.00%) Simulink
Communications & Networking
1 3 (75.00%) Ethernet
General
1 4 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (75.00%) Electronics
2 3 (75.00%) Games
3 1 (25.00%) Military
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) FPGA Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Firmware Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Lead
2 1 (25.00%) Principal Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Algorithms
1 3 (75.00%) FPGA
1 3 (75.00%) PCIe
1 3 (75.00%) Verilog
2 1 (25.00%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Cryptography
2 3 (75.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 3 (75.00%) Computer Science
2 3 (75.00%) Customer Requirements
2 3 (75.00%) Machine Learning
2 3 (75.00%) Physics
2 3 (75.00%) UVM
3 1 (25.00%) GAP Analysis
3 1 (25.00%) Incident Management
3 1 (25.00%) Information Assurance
3 1 (25.00%) Key Management
3 1 (25.00%) MODAF
3 1 (25.00%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) Patch Management
3 1 (25.00%) SABSA
3 1 (25.00%) Security Management
3 1 (25.00%) Threat Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) MATLAB
1 3 (75.00%) SystemVerilog
1 3 (75.00%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 4 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (75.00%) Degree
2 3 (75.00%) HNC
2 3 (75.00%) HND
3 1 (25.00%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (75.00%) DO-254
2 1 (25.00%) JSP 440
2 1 (25.00%) NCSC
2 1 (25.00%) NIST
2 1 (25.00%) NIST 800
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Actel
1 3 (75.00%) Altera
1 3 (75.00%) Intel
1 3 (75.00%) Microsemi
1 3 (75.00%) Xilinx