Firmware Contracts in the North West

Firmware
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for Firmware skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Firmware over the 6 months to 14 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 111 153 169
Rank change year-on-year +42 +16 -39
Contract jobs citing Firmware 24 10 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.91% 0.32% 0.30%
As % of the System Software category 9.60% 1.97% 2.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 6 9
10th Percentile £339 £425 -
25th Percentile £452 £427 £145
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £450 £580
Median % change year-on-year +12.94% -22.41% +54.67%
75th Percentile £515 £469 £586
90th Percentile £529 £475 £604
England median daily rate £400 £456 £500
% change year-on-year -12.33% -8.75% +36.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £20.63
25th Percentile - - £21.56
Median hourly rate - - £23.75
75th Percentile - - £26.56
90th Percentile - - £27.88
England median hourly rate £62.50 £55.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year +13.64% +10.00% +1.52%

All System Software Skills
North West

Firmware is in the System Software category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for system software skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 250 507 572
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 9.43% 16.30% 14.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 174 365 423
10th Percentile £176 £200 £159
25th Percentile £287 £325 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £488 £450
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% +20.00%
75th Percentile £569 £575 £611
90th Percentile £674 £650 £650
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 27 27
10th Percentile - £13.98 £15.00
25th Percentile £15.50 £16.22 £15.75
Median hourly rate £17.72 £20.00 £18.12
Median % change year-on-year -11.40% +10.41% -55.82%
75th Percentile £35.81 £52.13 £20.07
90th Percentile £46.18 £65.00 £33.55
England median hourly rate £21.00 £50.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year -58.00% +163.16% -5.00%

Firmware
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Firmware in the North West

Firmware
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Firmware in the North West

Firmware
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Firmware in the North West over the 6 months to 14 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Firmware in the North West

Firmware
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for Firmware in the North West

Firmware
Contract Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Firmware within the North West region over the 6 months to 14 May 2024. 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
Cumbria -11 13 £515 +14.44%
Cheshire - 6 - - 4
Manchester +17 4 £408 -9.44% 8
Merseyside - 1 £388 - 3
Firmware
England

Firmware
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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:

Communications & Networking
1 13 (54.17%) BGP
1 13 (54.17%) Cisco ASA
1 13 (54.17%) Cisco Firepower
1 13 (54.17%) Cisco ISE
1 13 (54.17%) EIGRP
1 13 (54.17%) Firewall
1 13 (54.17%) HSRP
1 13 (54.17%) IPsec
1 13 (54.17%) NetScaler
1 13 (54.17%) OSPF
2 12 (50.00%) SNMP
2 12 (50.00%) Spanning Tree
2 12 (50.00%) Wi-Fi
3 6 (25.00%) SAN
4 2 (8.33%) SD-WAN
5 1 (4.17%) DHCP
5 1 (4.17%) DNS
5 1 (4.17%) InfiniBand
5 1 (4.17%) TCP/IP
5 1 (4.17%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.17%) SQL Server
General
1 5 (20.83%) Public Sector
2 1 (4.17%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (4.17%) Electronics
2 1 (4.17%) Finance
2 1 (4.17%) Manufacturing
2 1 (4.17%) Marketing
2 1 (4.17%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 13 (54.17%) Network Engineer
2 9 (37.50%) Senior
2 9 (37.50%) Senior Network Engineer
3 6 (25.00%) Cisco Engineer
3 6 (25.00%) SAN Engineer
3 6 (25.00%) SAN Storage Engineer
3 6 (25.00%) Storage Engineer
3 6 (25.00%) VMware Engineer
4 5 (20.83%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
5 3 (12.50%) Systems Engineer
6 2 (8.33%) Analyst
6 2 (8.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (8.33%) Network Analyst
6 2 (8.33%) Server Engineer
7 1 (4.17%) Consultant
7 1 (4.17%) Developer
7 1 (4.17%) Python Developer
7 1 (4.17%) Windows Engineer
7 1 (4.17%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
7 1 (4.17%) Windows Server Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (50.00%) Jinja
Miscellaneous
1 6 (25.00%) Data Centre
2 2 (8.33%) Driving Licence
3 1 (4.17%) Device Driver
3 1 (4.17%) Embedded Systems
3 1 (4.17%) Onboarding
3 1 (4.17%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.17%) VMS
1 1 (4.17%) Windows
1 1 (4.17%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (54.17%) Change Management
1 13 (54.17%) ITIL
1 13 (54.17%) Network Management
2 12 (50.00%) DevOps
2 12 (50.00%) ITSM
3 2 (8.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 2 (8.33%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (8.33%) Workflow
4 1 (4.17%) Business Intelligence
4 1 (4.17%) Code Quality
4 1 (4.17%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (4.17%) Deep Learning
4 1 (4.17%) Digital Marketing
4 1 (4.17%) Network Virtualisation
4 1 (4.17%) Performance Metrics
4 1 (4.17%) Product Breakdown Structure
4 1 (4.17%) Programme Management
4 1 (4.17%) Server Virtualisation
4 1 (4.17%) Stress Testing
4 1 (4.17%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 13 (54.17%) Python
2 12 (50.00%) Perl
2 12 (50.00%) Tcl
3 1 (4.17%) MATLAB
3 1 (4.17%) PowerShell
3 1 (4.17%) SQL
Qualifications
1 13 (54.17%) SC Cleared
1 13 (54.17%) Security Cleared
2 12 (50.00%) CCNA
2 12 (50.00%) CCNP
2 12 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (4.17%) Degree
3 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 7 (29.17%) VMware ESXi
2 2 (8.33%) Active Directory
3 1 (4.17%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (4.17%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 12 (50.00%) Ansible
2 6 (25.00%) vCenter Server
3 1 (4.17%) Dell DRAC
Vendors
1 21 (87.50%) Cisco
2 13 (54.17%) Citrix
2 13 (54.17%) Palo Alto
2 13 (54.17%) SolarWinds
3 7 (29.17%) VMware
4 2 (8.33%) Meraki
4 2 (8.33%) Microsoft
4 2 (8.33%) Nortel
5 1 (4.17%) BMC
5 1 (4.17%) Dell
5 1 (4.17%) Isilon
5 1 (4.17%) Red Hat
5 1 (4.17%) SAP