Firmware Contract Job Trends in Shropshire

Firmware
West Midlands > Shropshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Shropshire requiring Firmware skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 64 - 15
Rank change year-on-year - - +86
Contract jobs citing Firmware 1 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Shropshire 0.34% - 2.04%
As % of the System Software category 1.30% - 8.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £380 - -
West Midlands median daily rate £575 £550 £550
% change year-on-year +4.55% - +37.50%

All System Software Skills
Shropshire

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 Shropshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 77 16 12
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Shropshire 26.55% 14.16% 24.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 14 7
10th Percentile £400 £255 £200
25th Percentile £461 £420 £333
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £456 £480
Median % change year-on-year +12.60% -4.95% -3.52%
75th Percentile £537 £477 £500
90th Percentile £540 £506 £535
West Midlands median daily rate £507 £500 £418
% change year-on-year +1.40% +19.76% +4.38%

Firmware
Job Vacancy Trend in Shropshire

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

Firmware job vacancy trend in Shropshire

Firmware
Daily Rate Trend in Shropshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Shropshire citing Firmware

Firmware
Contract Job Locations in Shropshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Firmware within the Shropshire region over the 6 months to 12 November 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
Shrewsbury - 1 £380 -
Firmware
West Midlands

Firmware
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Shropshire 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 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) Network Security
1 1 (100.00%) VLAN
1 1 (100.00%) Wireless
General
1 1 (100.00%) Legal
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Security Patching
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) CCNA
1 1 (100.00%) CCNP
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Aruba
1 1 (100.00%) CheckPoint
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) Fortinet