Firmware Contract Job Trends in Merseyside

Firmware
North West > Merseyside

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Merseyside requiring Firmware skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 26 32 -
Rank change year-on-year +6 - -
Contract jobs citing Firmware 9 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in Merseyside 3.59% 0.44% -
As % of the System Software category 15.79% 2.50% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
North West median daily rate £500 £475 £525
% change year-on-year +5.26% -9.52% +262.07%

All System Software Skills
Merseyside

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 Merseyside.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 57 40 32
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Merseyside 22.71% 17.62% 18.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 20 21
10th Percentile £132 £133 £188
25th Percentile £134 £143 £220
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £152 £175 £270
Median % change year-on-year -13.43% -35.19% -28.00%
75th Percentile £288 £278 £350
90th Percentile £458 £443 £494
North West median daily rate £425 £450 £425
% change year-on-year -5.56% +5.88% -5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 5
10th Percentile - £15.08 -
25th Percentile - £16.31 £16.25
Median hourly rate - £17.22 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year - -6.92% +5.71%
75th Percentile - £17.44 £19.50
90th Percentile - - £20.70
North West median hourly rate £19.00 £22.09 £18.50
% change year-on-year -13.99% +19.41% -55.42%

Firmware
Job Vacancy Trend in Merseyside

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Firmware relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Merseyside.

Firmware job vacancy trend in Merseyside

Firmware
Daily Rate Trend in Merseyside

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Merseyside citing Firmware.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Merseyside citing Firmware

Firmware
Contract Job Locations in Merseyside

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Firmware within the Merseyside region over the 6 months to 14 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
Liverpool +5 9 - - 1
Firmware
North West

Firmware
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Merseyside 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:

Communications & Networking
1 9 (100.00%) BIG-IP
1 9 (100.00%) DNS
1 9 (100.00%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
1 9 (100.00%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
1 9 (100.00%) HTTP
1 9 (100.00%) SSL
1 9 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 9 (100.00%) Wireshark
2 1 (11.11%) DMZ
Development Applications
1 9 (100.00%) Fiddler
General
1 9 (100.00%) Banking
1 9 (100.00%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 9 (100.00%) Blue Coat Engineer
1 9 (100.00%) IP Network Engineer
1 9 (100.00%) Network Engineer
1 9 (100.00%) Web Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 9 (100.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (11.11%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (100.00%) Data Loss Prevention
1 9 (100.00%) Load Balancing
1 9 (100.00%) Malware Detection/Protection
2 1 (11.11%) Migration
2 1 (11.11%) Network Segmentation
Programming Languages
1 1 (11.11%) Python
System Software
1 9 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) Ansible
Vendors
1 9 (100.00%) Blue Coat
1 9 (100.00%) F5
1 9 (100.00%) McAfee
1 9 (100.00%) NetApp
1 9 (100.00%) VMware