Firmware Contracts in the Thames Valley

Firmware
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 21 September 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Sep 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 122 129 179
Rank change year-on-year +7 +50 -15
Contract jobs citing Firmware 7 17 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.32% 0.61% 0.35%
As % of the System Software category 2.44% 4.63% 2.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 13 7
10th Percentile £264 - £424
25th Percentile £359 £205 £435
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £210 £488
Median % change year-on-year +120.24% -56.92% +8.33%
75th Percentile £500 £215 £563
90th Percentile - £467 £623
South East median daily rate £463 £210 £469
% change year-on-year +120.24% -55.20% +23.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £21.31 -
South East median hourly rate £70.00 £56.25 £55.00
% change year-on-year +24.44% +2.27% -2.65%

All System Software Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 287 367 614
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 13.04% 13.22% 15.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 193 267 448
10th Percentile £313 £170 £168
25th Percentile £406 £294 £361
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £481 £500
Median % change year-on-year +9.25% -3.89% +14.61%
75th Percentile £608 £594 £588
90th Percentile £651 £675 £650
South East median daily rate £508 £500 £475
% change year-on-year +1.62% +5.26% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 10 15
10th Percentile £27.75 £18.95 £11.00
25th Percentile £45.73 £19.75 £11.63
Median hourly rate £56.75 £37.56 £13.00
Median % change year-on-year +51.09% +188.90% -14.75%
75th Percentile £58.49 £54.56 £77.43
90th Percentile £62.97 £61.58 £96.25
South East median hourly rate £56.75 £55.00 £38.14
% change year-on-year +3.17% +44.22% -4.66%

Firmware
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing Firmware as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for Firmware in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Firmware in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Firmware in the Thames Valley

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Firmware in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 21 September 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Firmware in the Thames Valley

Firmware
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Firmware in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for Firmware in the Thames Valley

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Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Firmware within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 21 September 2024. 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
Oxfordshire - 4 £500 - 5
Buckinghamshire - 2 £425 - 11
Berkshire -4 1 £200 -4.76% 18
Firmware
South East

Firmware
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (28.57%) Wireless
2 1 (14.29%) ATM
2 1 (14.29%) Firewall
2 1 (14.29%) Wi-Fi
General
1 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Analyst
1 3 (42.86%) Firmware Engineer
1 3 (42.86%) Security Analyst
2 2 (28.57%) IT Analyst
2 2 (28.57%) IT Security Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Cybersecurity Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) EPoS Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) IT Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (14.29%) EPoS
1 1 (14.29%) Management Information System
1 1 (14.29%) Operational Technology
1 1 (14.29%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) Data Security
1 3 (42.86%) Disk Encryption
1 3 (42.86%) Test Automation
1 3 (42.86%) Test Scripting
2 2 (28.57%) Network Management
2 2 (28.57%) Penetration Testing
2 2 (28.57%) Server Building
2 2 (28.57%) Server Management
2 2 (28.57%) Vulnerability Scanning
3 1 (14.29%) Creative Thinking
3 1 (14.29%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (14.29%) Data Protection
3 1 (14.29%) Incident Management
3 1 (14.29%) Incident Response
3 1 (14.29%) Information Management
3 1 (14.29%) Information Security
3 1 (14.29%) Migration
3 1 (14.29%) SIEM
3 1 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (14.29%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) Bash
Qualifications
1 3 (42.86%) SC Cleared
1 3 (42.86%) Security Cleared
2 1 (14.29%) CTC Cleared
2 1 (14.29%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) GDPR
Systems Management
1 3 (42.86%) Ansible
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) NVIDIA
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft