Firmware Contracts in Reading

Firmware
Berkshire > Reading

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading 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 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 57 - 98
Rank change year-on-year - - -36
Contract jobs citing Firmware 39 0 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 3.28% - 0.075%
As % of the System Software category 22.67% - 0.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £205 - £508
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 - £515
Median % change year-on-year - - +46.10%
75th Percentile - - £523
90th Percentile - - -
Berkshire median daily rate £575 £360 £515
% change year-on-year +59.72% -30.10% +46.10%

All System Software Skills
Reading

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 Reading with a requirement for system software skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 172 121 173
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 14.48% 11.72% 12.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 127 90 131
10th Percentile £205 £386 £133
25th Percentile £519 £481 £348
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £605 £581 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.09% +16.25% +11.11%
75th Percentile £610 £675 £625
90th Percentile £675 £701 £700
Berkshire median daily rate £575 £525 £475
% change year-on-year +9.52% +10.53% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 7 1
10th Percentile - £15.90 -
25th Percentile - £32.61 £9.75
Median hourly rate £65.00 £50.00 £10.00
Median % change year-on-year +30.00% +400.00% -83.33%
75th Percentile - £63.75 £10.25
90th Percentile - £74.55 -
Berkshire median hourly rate £65.00 £54.78 £41.25
% change year-on-year +18.66% +32.80% -31.54%

Firmware
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Job vacancy trend for Firmware in Reading

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

Daily rate trend for Firmware in Reading

Firmware
Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Firmware in Reading over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Firmware in Reading

Firmware
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

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

Hourly rate trend for Firmware in Reading

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading 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 18 (46.15%) Microsoft Office
Communications & Networking
1 18 (46.15%) LAN
General
1 39 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 18 (46.15%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 21 (53.85%) Build Engineer
1 21 (53.85%) Windows Build Engineer
1 21 (53.85%) Windows Engineer
2 18 (46.15%) Hardware Engineer
3 5 (12.82%) Break Fix Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 18 (46.15%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 39 (100.00%) Windows
1 39 (100.00%) Windows 10
2 21 (53.85%) Windows NT
2 21 (53.85%) Windows Server
2 21 (53.85%) Windows Server 2012
2 21 (53.85%) Windows Server 2016
2 21 (53.85%) Windows Server 2019
3 18 (46.15%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (100.00%) Customer Service
1 39 (100.00%) ITIL
2 21 (53.85%) Deployment Automation
2 21 (53.85%) Release Management
2 21 (53.85%) Service Management
2 21 (53.85%) User Acceptance Testing
3 18 (46.15%) Customer Requirements
3 18 (46.15%) Problem-Solving
3 18 (46.15%) Service Delivery
3 18 (46.15%) Software Deployment
3 18 (46.15%) Software Testing
Qualifications
1 39 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 39 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 18 (46.15%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (53.85%) QA
System Software
1 21 (53.85%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 39 (100.00%) SCCM
2 21 (53.85%) Sysprep
2 21 (53.85%) WSUS
Vendors
1 39 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 18 (46.15%) HP