Firmware Contract Job Trends in Surrey

Firmware
South East > Surrey

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Surrey requiring Firmware skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 61 - 51
Rank change year-on-year - - +20
Contract jobs citing Firmware 2 0 2
As % of all contract jobs in Surrey 0.34% - 0.35%
As % of the System Software category 5.00% - 3.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - £480
25th Percentile - - £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 - £525
Median % change year-on-year - - +61.54%
75th Percentile - - £563
90th Percentile - - £570
South East median daily rate £600 £450 £425
% change year-on-year +33.33% +5.88% +102.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £50.00 - -
South East median hourly rate £60.00 £57.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.35% -11.54% +20.93%

All System Software Skills
Surrey

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 Surrey.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 40 32 64
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Surrey 6.73% 10.03% 11.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 22 47
10th Percentile £356 £182 £232
25th Percentile £413 £208 £257
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £345 £350
Median % change year-on-year +37.68% -1.43% -33.33%
75th Percentile £523 £534 £475
90th Percentile £660 £573 £597
South East median daily rate £525 £500 £541
% change year-on-year +5.00% -7.49% +8.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 3 6
10th Percentile £52.62 - -
25th Percentile £60.92 - -
Median hourly rate £67.47 £28.00 £17.80
Median % change year-on-year +140.96% +57.30% -50.56%
75th Percentile - £30.39 -
90th Percentile £99.48 £31.82 £35.40
South East median hourly rate £52.50 £57.50 £54.88
% change year-on-year -8.70% +4.78% +7.07%

Firmware
Job Vacancy Trend in Surrey

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

Firmware job vacancy trend in Surrey

Firmware
Daily Rate Trend in Surrey

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Surrey citing Firmware

Firmware
Hourly Rate Trend in Surrey

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Surrey citing Firmware.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Surrey citing Firmware

Firmware
Contract Job Locations in Surrey

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Firmware within the Surrey region over the 6 months to 13 August 2026. 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
Guildford - 1 - - 3
Firmware
South East

Firmware
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Surrey 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) Software-Defined Radio
1 1 (50.00%) Unified Communications
1 1 (50.00%) Wireless
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) C++ Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Lead
1 1 (50.00%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Device Driver
1 1 (50.00%) Embedded Systems
1 1 (50.00%) MicroBlaze
1 1 (50.00%) RISC-V
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Embedded Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Agile
1 1 (50.00%) Digital Signal Processing
1 1 (50.00%) Signal Processing
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) C
1 1 (50.00%) C++
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (50.00%) Embedded Firmware
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft