Firmware Contracts in the South East

Firmware
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 139 127 181
Rank change year-on-year -12 +54 +53
Contract jobs citing Firmware 16 74 31
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.54% 1.32% 0.55%
As % of the System Software category 3.65% 9.00% 3.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 41 18
10th Percentile £205 - £158
25th Percentile £374 £205 £161
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £186
Median % change year-on-year - +168.46% -58.61%
75th Percentile £606 £575 £483
90th Percentile £675 - £527
England median daily rate £425 £400 £456
% change year-on-year +6.25% -12.33% -8.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 24 10
10th Percentile £52.79 £50.84 £15.21
25th Percentile £55.38 £51.06 £25.00
Median hourly rate £57.50 £62.50 £53.75
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +16.28% -
75th Percentile £60.13 £66.25 £58.75
90th Percentile £61.55 £70.00 £60.00
England median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £56.25
% change year-on-year - +11.11% +12.50%

All System Software Skills
South East

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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 438 822 802
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 14.79% 14.64% 14.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 320 524 539
10th Percentile £208 £205 £206
25th Percentile £325 £400 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £526 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.94% +5.20% +5.26%
75th Percentile £600 £608 £600
90th Percentile £676 £650 £675
England median daily rate £513 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 48 43
10th Percentile £26.39 £17.69 £15.50
25th Percentile £28.00 £17.80 £18.25
Median hourly rate £57.50 £54.88 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.78% -0.23% +175.00%
75th Percentile £60.13 £64.06 £70.63
90th Percentile £67.25 £70.00 £75.00
England median hourly rate £28.21 £22.15 £52.13
% change year-on-year +27.34% -57.51% +178.03%

Firmware
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Firmware in the South East

Firmware
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

Daily rate trend for Firmware in the South East

Firmware
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Firmware in the South East over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Firmware in the South East

Firmware
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

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

Hourly rate trend for Firmware in the South East

Firmware
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Firmware within the South East region over the 6 months to 31 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
Hampshire +18 12 £525 +40.00% 24
Kent +3 2 £205 - 10
Thames Valley 0 1 £327 -43.13% 38
Berkshire -2 1 £327 -43.13% 15
Middlesex - 1 £500 - 1
Firmware
England

Firmware
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 2 (12.50%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 4 (25.00%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (31.25%) Software-Defined Radio
2 4 (25.00%) SNMP
3 2 (12.50%) HTTP
4 1 (6.25%) ATM
4 1 (6.25%) BGP
4 1 (6.25%) Cisco Nexus
4 1 (6.25%) Ethernet
4 1 (6.25%) Firewall
4 1 (6.25%) Multicast
4 1 (6.25%) OSPF
4 1 (6.25%) TCP/IP
4 1 (6.25%) VXLAN
Development Applications
1 5 (31.25%) Robot Framework
2 4 (25.00%) Git
2 4 (25.00%) GoogleTest
2 4 (25.00%) JIRA
3 2 (12.50%) Bitbucket
3 2 (12.50%) Eclipse
3 2 (12.50%) Jenkins
4 1 (6.25%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 6 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 1 (6.25%) Aerospace
2 1 (6.25%) Finance
2 1 (6.25%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (25.00%) Architect
1 4 (25.00%) Software Test Engineer
1 4 (25.00%) Test Engineer
2 3 (18.75%) Developer
2 3 (18.75%) FPGA Developer
2 3 (18.75%) FPGA Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Embedded Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Network Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Senior
3 2 (12.50%) Senior Architect
3 2 (12.50%) Senior Solutions Architect
3 2 (12.50%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (6.25%) C++ Software Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) EPoS Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) IT Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Software Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (25.00%) CSS
1 4 (25.00%) HTML
2 2 (12.50%) Node.js
3 1 (6.25%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 7 (43.75%) Algorithms
2 4 (25.00%) Device Driver
2 4 (25.00%) Embedded Systems
2 4 (25.00%) IoT
3 3 (18.75%) FPGA
3 3 (18.75%) Verilog
3 3 (18.75%) VHDL
4 2 (12.50%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (6.25%) EPoS
5 1 (6.25%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 9 (56.25%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (50.00%) Agile
2 7 (43.75%) Signal Processing
3 5 (31.25%) Software Testing
4 4 (25.00%) Architectural Design
4 4 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence
4 4 (25.00%) Cloud Enablement
4 4 (25.00%) Decision-Making
4 4 (25.00%) Device Driver Development
4 4 (25.00%) Migration
4 4 (25.00%) Multithreading
4 4 (25.00%) Project Management
4 4 (25.00%) Scrum
4 4 (25.00%) SDLC
4 4 (25.00%) SysML
4 4 (25.00%) UML
4 4 (25.00%) Validation
4 4 (25.00%) Verification and Validation
5 3 (18.75%) Digital Signal Processing
5 3 (18.75%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 3 (18.75%) Integration Testing
Programming Languages
1 6 (37.50%) C++
1 6 (37.50%) Python
2 4 (25.00%) Embedded C
3 3 (18.75%) C
3 3 (18.75%) Java
4 2 (12.50%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 6 (37.50%) Security Cleared
2 3 (18.75%) SC Cleared
3 1 (6.25%) CCNA
3 1 (6.25%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (6.25%) Network+ Certification
Systems Management
1 1 (6.25%) Ansible
1 1 (6.25%) Terraform
1 1 (6.25%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 3 (18.75%) Algorithmics
1 3 (18.75%) Intel
2 2 (12.50%) Atlassian
2 2 (12.50%) Google
3 1 (6.25%) Cisco
3 1 (6.25%) ServiceNow
3 1 (6.25%) VMware