Firmware Contracts in the South West

Firmware
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 29 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 111 142 151
Rank change year-on-year +31 +9 +9
Contract jobs citing Firmware 2 14 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.12% 0.43% 0.29%
As % of the System Software category 0.71% 3.54% 1.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 6
10th Percentile £179 - £275
25th Percentile £223 - £338
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £295 - £450
Median % change year-on-year - - -14.29%
75th Percentile £368 - £547
90th Percentile £411 - £579
England median daily rate £433 £400 £456
% change year-on-year +8.13% -12.33% -8.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 10 0
Median hourly rate - £90.00 -
England median hourly rate £61.50 £62.50 £56.25
% change year-on-year -1.60% +11.11% +12.50%

All System Software Skills
South West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 280 396 535
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 16.60% 12.22% 15.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 227 297 400
10th Percentile £207 £174 £200
25th Percentile £381 £439 £372
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £535 £513
Median % change year-on-year +2.80% +4.39% +7.89%
75th Percentile £623 £600 £623
90th Percentile £697 £675 £725
England median daily rate £513 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 32 36
10th Percentile £16.05 - £14.58
25th Percentile £17.38 £40.00 £17.22
Median hourly rate £48.48 £68.75 £60.35
Median % change year-on-year -29.49% +13.92% +24.75%
75th Percentile £79.03 £86.25 £65.25
90th Percentile £79.61 £90.00 £88.75
England median hourly rate £28.46 £22.00 £52.13
% change year-on-year +29.34% -57.80% +180.65%

Firmware
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Firmware in the South West

Firmware
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for Firmware in the South West

Firmware
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Firmware in the South West over the 6 months to 29 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Firmware in the South West

Firmware
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Hourly rate trend for Firmware in the South West

Firmware
Contract Job Locations in the South 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 South West region over the 6 months to 29 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
Wiltshire +35 1 £440 - 6
Bristol +2 1 £150 - 22
Firmware
England

Firmware
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) ATM
1 1 (50.00%) Internet
1 1 (50.00%) NGFW
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) EPoS Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Network Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) EPoS
1 1 (50.00%) Smartphone
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco
1 1 (50.00%) VMware