Firmware Contracts in Scotland

Firmware
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 24 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 114 106 163
Rank change year-on-year -8 +57 +3
Contract jobs citing Firmware 6 15 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.37% 0.71% 0.037%
As % of the System Software category 3.41% 5.21% 0.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 2 1
10th Percentile - £331 -
25th Percentile £200 £341 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £388 £500
Median % change year-on-year +6.45% -22.50% -2.44%
75th Percentile £456 £441 -
90th Percentile £475 £454 -
UK median daily rate £425 £413 £488
% change year-on-year +3.03% -15.38% +2.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 9 0
Median hourly rate £70.00 £60.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +15.70% - -
UK median hourly rate £61.50 £62.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year -1.60% +13.64% +10.00%

All System Software Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 176 288 408
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 10.73% 13.70% 15.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 113 194 286
10th Percentile £207 £189 £188
25th Percentile £400 £288 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £426 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.63% -10.32% +5.56%
75th Percentile £538 £494 £538
90th Percentile £588 £634 £615
UK median daily rate £503 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +0.50% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 10 2
10th Percentile - £55.19 £24.34
25th Percentile - £60.25 £29.66
Median hourly rate £70.00 £60.50 £40.68
Median % change year-on-year +15.70% +48.72% -8.58%
75th Percentile - £60.75 £50.80
90th Percentile - - £55.57
UK median hourly rate £28.21 £22.50 £54.00
% change year-on-year +25.36% -58.33% +184.21%

Firmware
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Firmware in Scotland

Firmware
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Firmware in Scotland

Firmware
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Firmware in Scotland over the 6 months to 24 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Firmware in Scotland

Firmware
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for Firmware in Scotland

Firmware
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Firmware within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 24 May 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
Edinburgh +2 3 £313 - 32
Glasgow -7 2 £306 -27.94% 9
Dundee - 1 £438 - 14
Firmware
UK

Firmware
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 1 (16.67%) Simulink
Communications & Networking
1 2 (33.33%) ATM
2 1 (16.67%) BGP
2 1 (16.67%) Ethernet
2 1 (16.67%) Firewall
2 1 (16.67%) LAN
2 1 (16.67%) NFC
2 1 (16.67%) OSPF
2 1 (16.67%) VPN
2 1 (16.67%) WAN
2 1 (16.67%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (16.67%) Wireless
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Git
1 1 (16.67%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (33.33%) Electronics
2 1 (16.67%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) EPoS Engineer
1 2 (33.33%) Firmware Engineer
1 2 (33.33%) IT Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) C Software Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) C/C++ Software Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) C++ Software Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Network Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Principal Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Software Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) EPoS
1 2 (33.33%) FPGA
1 2 (33.33%) Smartphone
1 2 (33.33%) Verilog
1 2 (33.33%) VHDL
2 1 (16.67%) EMV
2 1 (16.67%) PCIe
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (33.33%) FPGA Design
1 2 (33.33%) Migration
2 1 (16.67%) Code Quality
2 1 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (16.67%) Cryptography
2 1 (16.67%) Integration Testing
2 1 (16.67%) ITIL
2 1 (16.67%) Knowledge Transfer
2 1 (16.67%) Mentoring
2 1 (16.67%) Network Monitoring
2 1 (16.67%) Software Engineering
2 1 (16.67%) Software Testing
2 1 (16.67%) UVM
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) SystemVerilog
2 1 (16.67%) C
2 1 (16.67%) C++
2 1 (16.67%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) Degree
2 1 (16.67%) CCNA
2 1 (16.67%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
2 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) DO-254
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Microsemi
1 2 (33.33%) Xilinx
2 1 (16.67%) Altera
2 1 (16.67%) Cisco
2 1 (16.67%) Fortinet
2 1 (16.67%) Intel