Firmware Contracts in the Midlands

Firmware
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 18 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 128 129 147
Rank change year-on-year +1 +18 +52
Contract jobs citing Firmware 9 7 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.38% 0.24% 0.31%
As % of the System Software category 3.02% 2.11% 2.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 5 2
10th Percentile £353 £249 £284
25th Percentile £431 £263 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £350 £396
Median % change year-on-year +64.29% -11.67% -6.76%
75th Percentile £656 £550 £465
90th Percentile £698 - £504
England median daily rate £413 £425 £463
% change year-on-year -2.94% -8.11% -8.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £31.32 - £55.00
Median hourly rate £36.65 - £60.00
75th Percentile £41.97 - £65.00
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £81.00 £57.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year +40.87% +9.52% +5.00%

All System Software Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 298 331 476
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 12.42% 11.46% 14.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 206 241 324
10th Percentile £190 £160 £160
25th Percentile £331 £275 £220
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £449 £394
Median % change year-on-year +0.22% +13.98% +5.05%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £557
90th Percentile £695 £663 £714
England median daily rate £500 £508 £525
% change year-on-year -1.48% -3.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 5 23
10th Percentile £16.71 £14.59 £13.25
25th Percentile £19.15 £15.65 £15.74
Median hourly rate £25.87 £16.00 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +61.67% -23.81% +13.51%
75th Percentile £35.25 £23.75 £28.75
90th Percentile £39.28 £40.64 £65.00
England median hourly rate £34.50 £22.15 £43.75
% change year-on-year +55.76% -49.37% +118.75%

Firmware
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Firmware in the Midlands

Firmware
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Firmware in the Midlands

Firmware
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Firmware in the Midlands over the 6 months to 18 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Firmware in the Midlands

Firmware
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Firmware in the Midlands

Firmware
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Firmware within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 18 July 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 Midlands +8 6 £438 -20.45% 27
East Midlands +2 3 £650 +136.36% 18
Firmware
England

Firmware
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 1 (11.11%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 2 (22.22%) Azure
1 2 (22.22%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 4 (44.44%) Firewall
2 2 (22.22%) VPN
3 1 (11.11%) BGP
3 1 (11.11%) Cisco Nexus
3 1 (11.11%) DHCP
3 1 (11.11%) DNS
3 1 (11.11%) NAS
3 1 (11.11%) SAN
3 1 (11.11%) SD-WAN
3 1 (11.11%) WAN
3 1 (11.11%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (11.11%) Wireless
Development Applications
1 2 (22.22%) Git
1 2 (22.22%) JIRA
2 1 (11.11%) Bitbucket
2 1 (11.11%) Rational DOORS
General
1 2 (22.22%) Social Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Automotive
2 1 (11.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 3 (33.33%) Network Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Server Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) 3rd Line Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Administrator
3 1 (11.11%) Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Cisco Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Cisco Network Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Design Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Developer
3 1 (11.11%) FPGA Design Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) FPGA Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Full-Stack Developer
3 1 (11.11%) IT Support
3 1 (11.11%) JIRA Administrator
3 1 (11.11%) Senior
3 1 (11.11%) Senior Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Support Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Wireless Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Wireless Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) HTML
1 1 (11.11%) Laravel
1 1 (11.11%) REST
1 1 (11.11%) RESTful
1 1 (11.11%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Driving Licence
1 1 (11.11%) FPGA
1 1 (11.11%) Verilog
1 1 (11.11%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 4 (44.44%) Windows
2 2 (22.22%) Windows Server
3 1 (11.11%) CentOS
3 1 (11.11%) Linux
3 1 (11.11%) Rocky
3 1 (11.11%) Ubuntu
3 1 (11.11%) Unix
3 1 (11.11%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (33.33%) Agile
2 2 (22.22%) ITIL
2 2 (22.22%) Process Improvement
3 1 (11.11%) Break/Fix
3 1 (11.11%) CI/CD
3 1 (11.11%) Coaching
3 1 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (11.11%) Customer-Centricity
3 1 (11.11%) Design Patterns
3 1 (11.11%) FPGA Design
3 1 (11.11%) Full-Stack Development
3 1 (11.11%) Mobile Device Management
3 1 (11.11%) OO
3 1 (11.11%) Patch Management
3 1 (11.11%) Performance Tuning
3 1 (11.11%) Programme Delivery
3 1 (11.11%) Security Monitoring
3 1 (11.11%) Service Delivery
3 1 (11.11%) Task Automation
3 1 (11.11%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 1 (11.11%) JavaScript
1 1 (11.11%) PHP
1 1 (11.11%) PowerShell
1 1 (11.11%) Python
1 1 (11.11%) Shell Script
1 1 (11.11%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 3 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 2 (22.22%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (11.11%) Active Directory
1 1 (11.11%) BitLocker
1 1 (11.11%) Embedded Firmware
1 1 (11.11%) Hyper-V
1 1 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (33.33%) SCCM
2 1 (11.11%) Ansible
2 1 (11.11%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 5 (55.56%) Microsoft
2 3 (33.33%) Cisco
3 2 (22.22%) VMware
4 1 (11.11%) Apple
4 1 (11.11%) Aruba
4 1 (11.11%) Atlassian
4 1 (11.11%) CheckPoint
4 1 (11.11%) Dell
4 1 (11.11%) Fortinet
4 1 (11.11%) HP
4 1 (11.11%) McAfee
4 1 (11.11%) MobileIron
4 1 (11.11%) Veeam
4 1 (11.11%) Xilinx