Firmware Contracts in the UK excluding London

Firmware
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 286 245 329
Rank change year-on-year -41 +84 +81
Contract jobs citing Firmware 54 149 116
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.42% 0.72% 0.51%
As % of the System Software category 2.96% 6.02% 3.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 70 53
10th Percentile £200 £205 £161
25th Percentile £300 £304 £256
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year -7.89% +5.56% -0.44%
75th Percentile £538 £575 £494
90th Percentile £645 - £530
UK median daily rate £423 £400 £488
% change year-on-year +5.63% -17.95% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 53 22
10th Percentile £52.36 £47.50 £19.38
25th Percentile £56.25 £51.06 £51.56
Median hourly rate £66.25 £62.50 £58.75
Median % change year-on-year +6.00% +6.38% +20.54%
75th Percentile £88.00 £70.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £91.15 £90.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £60.50 £56.25
% change year-on-year +3.31% +7.56% +12.50%

All System Software Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 1,823 2,476 3,431
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 14.11% 11.96% 15.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,250 1,695 2,415
10th Percentile £200 £181 £181
25th Percentile £313 £311 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £480
Median % change year-on-year - -0.94% +6.56%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £587
90th Percentile £650 £650 £678
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 50 189 170
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.06 £14.25
25th Percentile £15.25 £14.16 £16.56
Median hourly rate £32.32 £24.18 £49.20
Median % change year-on-year +33.67% -50.85% +181.14%
75th Percentile £69.00 £62.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £88.08 £80.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £28.41 £24.18 £55.00
% change year-on-year +17.49% -56.04% +189.47%

Firmware
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Firmware as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Firmware in the UK excluding London

Firmware
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Firmware in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Firmware in the UK excluding London

Firmware
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Firmware in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Firmware in the UK excluding London

Firmware
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Firmware in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Firmware in the UK excluding London

Firmware
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Firmware in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Firmware in the UK excluding London

Firmware
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Firmware within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 30 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
South East 0 16 £500 - 205
East of England +33 13 £550 +22.22% 149
North of England -4 8 £450 -10.36% 120
Midlands +19 7 £300 -4.00% 87
North West -6 7 £488 -3.27% 48
Scotland -2 6 £413 +6.45% 84
West Midlands +20 5 £300 -45.45% 51
South West +32 2 £295 - 86
East Midlands +8 2 - - 32
Wales +4 2 £363 - 27
North East 0 1 £200 -52.94% 24
Firmware
UK

Firmware
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (3.70%) Confluence
2 1 (1.85%) SAS
Applications
1 6 (11.11%) Simulink
2 2 (3.70%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 4 (7.41%) AWS
2 2 (3.70%) Azure
2 2 (3.70%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (1.85%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (12.96%) Ethernet
2 6 (11.11%) Firewall
3 5 (9.26%) ATM
3 5 (9.26%) SAN
3 5 (9.26%) SNMP
3 5 (9.26%) Software-Defined Radio
4 4 (7.41%) Wi-Fi
5 3 (5.56%) BGP
5 3 (5.56%) VPN
5 3 (5.56%) Wireless
6 2 (3.70%) Cisco Nexus
6 2 (3.70%) DNS
6 2 (3.70%) HTTP
6 2 (3.70%) LAN
6 2 (3.70%) Multicast
6 2 (3.70%) OSPF
6 2 (3.70%) WAN
7 1 (1.85%) Cisco ISE
7 1 (1.85%) DHCP
7 1 (1.85%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.85%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 9 (16.67%) Git
2 5 (9.26%) JIRA
2 5 (9.26%) Robot Framework
3 4 (7.41%) GoogleTest
4 3 (5.56%) Jenkins
5 2 (3.70%) Bitbucket
5 2 (3.70%) Eclipse
6 1 (1.85%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 15 (27.78%) Social Skills
2 7 (12.96%) Electronics
3 5 (9.26%) Games
4 3 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (3.70%) Aerospace
6 1 (1.85%) Automotive
6 1 (1.85%) Finance
6 1 (1.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.85%) Military
6 1 (1.85%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.85%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 7 (12.96%) Firmware Engineer
1 7 (12.96%) FPGA Engineer
1 7 (12.96%) Network Engineer
2 5 (9.26%) Developer
2 5 (9.26%) EPoS Engineer
2 5 (9.26%) Senior
2 5 (9.26%) Storage Engineer
3 4 (7.41%) Analyst
3 4 (7.41%) Architect
3 4 (7.41%) IT Engineer
3 4 (7.41%) Software Test Engineer
3 4 (7.41%) Test Engineer
4 3 (5.56%) FPGA Developer
4 3 (5.56%) Principal Engineer
4 3 (5.56%) Server Engineer
5 2 (3.70%) C++ Software Engineer
5 2 (3.70%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (3.70%) Senior Solutions Architect
5 2 (3.70%) Software Engineer
5 2 (3.70%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (9.26%) HTML
2 4 (7.41%) CSS
3 2 (3.70%) Node.js
3 2 (3.70%) REST
4 1 (1.85%) 802.1X
4 1 (1.85%) Laravel
4 1 (1.85%) Redfish
4 1 (1.85%) RESTful
4 1 (1.85%) Ruby on Rails
4 1 (1.85%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 13 (24.07%) FPGA
2 12 (22.22%) Algorithms
3 11 (20.37%) Verilog
4 8 (14.81%) VHDL
5 7 (12.96%) PCIe
6 5 (9.26%) EPoS
6 5 (9.26%) IoT
6 5 (9.26%) Smartphone
7 4 (7.41%) Device Driver
7 4 (7.41%) Embedded Systems
8 2 (3.70%) Linux Command Line
9 1 (1.85%) Driving Licence
9 1 (1.85%) EMV
9 1 (1.85%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 11 (20.37%) Linux
2 6 (11.11%) Windows
3 3 (5.56%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.85%) CentOS
4 1 (1.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (1.85%) Rocky
4 1 (1.85%) Ubuntu
4 1 (1.85%) Unix
4 1 (1.85%) Windows 10
4 1 (1.85%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (18.52%) Agile
2 9 (16.67%) Artificial Intelligence
2 9 (16.67%) Signal Processing
3 8 (14.81%) Migration
4 7 (12.96%) Cryptography
4 7 (12.96%) UVM
5 6 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 6 (11.11%) Software Testing
6 5 (9.26%) Change Management
6 5 (9.26%) Computer Science
6 5 (9.26%) Disaster Recovery
6 5 (9.26%) Machine Learning
6 5 (9.26%) Physics
6 5 (9.26%) Validation
7 4 (7.41%) Cloud Enablement
7 4 (7.41%) Decision-Making
7 4 (7.41%) Device Driver Development
7 4 (7.41%) Performance Tuning
7 4 (7.41%) Problem-Solving
7 4 (7.41%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 9 (16.67%) C++
2 8 (14.81%) Python
2 8 (14.81%) SystemVerilog
3 6 (11.11%) C
3 6 (11.11%) MATLAB
4 5 (9.26%) Tcl
5 4 (7.41%) Embedded C
6 3 (5.56%) Java
6 3 (5.56%) JavaScript
7 2 (3.70%) SQL
8 1 (1.85%) Bash
8 1 (1.85%) C-shell
8 1 (1.85%) PHP
8 1 (1.85%) Ruby
8 1 (1.85%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 23 (42.59%) Security Cleared
2 19 (35.19%) SC Cleared
3 8 (14.81%) Degree
4 5 (9.26%) HNC
4 5 (9.26%) HND
5 3 (5.56%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (3.70%) CCNA
6 2 (3.70%) DV Cleared
6 2 (3.70%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (1.85%) CCNP
7 1 (1.85%) Master's Degree
7 1 (1.85%) Network+ Certification
7 1 (1.85%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (11.11%) DO-254
2 1 (1.85%) JSP 440
2 1 (1.85%) NCSC
2 1 (1.85%) NIST
2 1 (1.85%) NIST 800
2 1 (1.85%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (5.56%) Embedded Firmware
2 2 (3.70%) BitLocker
3 1 (1.85%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.85%) Hyper-V
3 1 (1.85%) KVM
3 1 (1.85%) QEMU
3 1 (1.85%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (1.85%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.85%) VMware NSX
3 1 (1.85%) Xen
Systems Management
1 4 (7.41%) Ansible
2 3 (5.56%) FortiGate
2 3 (5.56%) NetBackup
2 3 (5.56%) SCCM
3 2 (3.70%) EMC NetWorker
3 2 (3.70%) HP Data Protector
3 2 (3.70%) vCenter Server
4 1 (1.85%) Cisco Prime
4 1 (1.85%) HAProxy
4 1 (1.85%) Nagios
4 1 (1.85%) Puppet
4 1 (1.85%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (18.52%) Cisco
2 9 (16.67%) Intel
2 9 (16.67%) Xilinx
3 7 (12.96%) Microsemi
4 6 (11.11%) Altera
4 6 (11.11%) HP
5 5 (9.26%) Actel
5 5 (9.26%) Microsoft
6 4 (7.41%) VMware
7 3 (5.56%) Algorithmics
7 3 (5.56%) Brocade
7 3 (5.56%) EMC
8 2 (3.70%) Apple
8 2 (3.70%) Dell
8 2 (3.70%) Google
8 2 (3.70%) Kronos
8 2 (3.70%) McAfee
8 2 (3.70%) MobileIron
8 2 (3.70%) ServiceNow
8 2 (3.70%) Veritas