Firmware Contracts in the UK excluding London

Firmware
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Firmware skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Firmware over the 6 months to 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 234 342 410
Rank change year-on-year +108 +68 -48
Contract jobs citing Firmware 164 109 101
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.80% 0.46% 0.33%
As % of the System Software category 6.69% 3.03% 2.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 85 48 61
10th Percentile £205 £161 £263
25th Percentile £302 £206 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% - +22.45%
75th Percentile £575 £520 £538
90th Percentile - £550 £568
UK median daily rate £425 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -15.00% +5.26% +30.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 49 26 6
10th Percentile £47.50 £38.75 £23.13
25th Percentile £51.06 £47.69 £31.81
Median hourly rate £60.50 £56.50 £50.75
Median % change year-on-year +7.08% +11.33% +2.53%
75th Percentile £67.38 £65.00 £53.75
90th Percentile £90.00 £70.00 -
UK median hourly rate £60.50 £55.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year +10.00% +10.00% +2.04%

All System Software Skills
UK excluding London

Firmware is in the System Software category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for system software skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 2,453 3,601 4,663
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 11.93% 15.08% 15.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,647 2,606 3,312
10th Percentile £177 £180 £158
25th Percentile £281 £313 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £480 £450
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +6.67% +6.16%
75th Percentile £583 £588 £561
90th Percentile £650 £680 £648
UK median daily rate £495 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -5.71% - +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 192 188 242
10th Percentile £14.01 £14.25 £13.00
25th Percentile £14.16 £16.60 £14.25
Median hourly rate £20.98 £44.93 £18.12
Median % change year-on-year -53.31% +148.01% +2.49%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £23.75
90th Percentile £79.80 £71.13 £51.65
UK median hourly rate £22.50 £54.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year -58.33% +170.00% -

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 5 May 2024.

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 5 May 2024.

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 5 May 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
South East +68 79 £525 +162.50% 120
North of England +59 35 £490 +30.53% 24
North West +54 30 £514 +14.17% 16
Scotland +57 17 £388 -22.50% 30
South West +26 14 - - 43
East of England -7 14 £450 - 81
North East - 5 £425 - 1
Midlands +15 3 £550 +15.79% 49
West Midlands +15 2 £550 +6.80% 19
Northern Ireland - 2 - -
East Midlands +13 1 - - 30
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 14 (8.54%) Confluence
2 4 (2.44%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 17 (10.37%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.22%) Simulink
Cloud Services
1 3 (1.83%) IaaS
2 2 (1.22%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (0.61%) Amazon S3
3 1 (0.61%) AWS
3 1 (0.61%) Azure
3 1 (0.61%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 26 (15.85%) SNMP
2 24 (14.63%) Software-Defined Radio
3 19 (11.59%) LAN
4 17 (10.37%) Firewall
5 16 (9.76%) Wi-Fi
6 13 (7.93%) BGP
6 13 (7.93%) Cisco ASA
6 13 (7.93%) Cisco Firepower
6 13 (7.93%) Cisco ISE
6 13 (7.93%) EIGRP
6 13 (7.93%) HSRP
6 13 (7.93%) IPsec
6 13 (7.93%) NetScaler
6 13 (7.93%) OSPF
7 12 (7.32%) Spanning Tree
8 11 (6.71%) SAN
9 8 (4.88%) InfiniBand
9 8 (4.88%) VoIP
10 6 (3.66%) VLAN
10 6 (3.66%) Wireless
Development Applications
1 21 (12.80%) Git
2 19 (11.59%) JIRA
3 15 (9.15%) Eclipse
4 14 (8.54%) Bitbucket
4 14 (8.54%) GoogleTest
4 14 (8.54%) Robot Framework
5 4 (2.44%) Subversion
6 3 (1.83%) Rational Rhapsody
7 1 (0.61%) CMake
7 1 (0.61%) Rational DOORS
General
1 51 (31.10%) Social Skills
2 17 (10.37%) Organisational Skills
3 13 (7.93%) Electronics
4 9 (5.49%) Aerospace
4 9 (5.49%) Manufacturing
5 7 (4.27%) Public Sector
5 7 (4.27%) Telecoms
6 6 (3.66%) Finance
7 4 (2.44%) Analytical Skills
8 3 (1.83%) Banking
8 3 (1.83%) Investment Banking
8 3 (1.83%) Marketing
9 2 (1.22%) Law
10 1 (0.61%) Automotive
10 1 (0.61%) French Language
10 1 (0.61%) German Language
10 1 (0.61%) Italian Language
10 1 (0.61%) Military
10 1 (0.61%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.61%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 33 (20.12%) Hardware Engineer
2 29 (17.68%) Software Engineer
3 21 (12.80%) Build Engineer
3 21 (12.80%) Embedded Engineer
3 21 (12.80%) Embedded Software Engineer
3 21 (12.80%) Windows Build Engineer
3 21 (12.80%) Windows Engineer
4 19 (11.59%) Network Engineer
5 11 (6.71%) Developer
5 11 (6.71%) Senior
6 9 (5.49%) C++ Software Engineer
6 9 (5.49%) Firmware Engineer
6 9 (5.49%) Senior Network Engineer
7 8 (4.88%) Consultant
7 8 (4.88%) Firmware Developer
7 8 (4.88%) VMware Engineer
8 7 (4.27%) Digital Hardware Engineer
8 7 (4.27%) Java Engineer
8 7 (4.27%) Java Software Engineer
8 7 (4.27%) SAN Storage Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (9.76%) CSS
1 16 (9.76%) HTML
2 12 (7.32%) Jinja
3 6 (3.66%) Yocto
4 2 (1.22%) Flash
5 1 (0.61%) HTML5
5 1 (0.61%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 21 (12.80%) Driving Licence
2 13 (7.93%) Device Driver
2 13 (7.93%) VHDL
3 8 (4.88%) Algorithms
3 8 (4.88%) Embedded Systems
4 7 (4.27%) Data Centre
4 7 (4.27%) FPGA
4 7 (4.27%) Onboarding
4 7 (4.27%) Verilog
5 5 (3.05%) Digital TV
6 4 (2.44%) IoT
6 4 (2.44%) PCIe
6 4 (2.44%) STB
7 2 (1.22%) CMDB
7 2 (1.22%) FMCG
7 2 (1.22%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (1.22%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.22%) Operational Technology
7 2 (1.22%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.61%) ASIC
Operating Systems
1 51 (31.10%) Windows
2 38 (23.17%) Windows 10
3 36 (21.95%) Linux
4 21 (12.80%) Windows NT
4 21 (12.80%) Windows Server
4 21 (12.80%) Windows Server 2012
4 21 (12.80%) Windows Server 2016
4 21 (12.80%) Windows Server 2019
5 17 (10.37%) Windows 7
6 6 (3.66%) Embedded Linux
7 5 (3.05%) Unix
8 4 (2.44%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (31.10%) ITIL
2 38 (23.17%) Customer Service
3 35 (21.34%) Software Engineering
4 27 (16.46%) Problem-Solving
5 26 (15.85%) Agile
5 26 (15.85%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 24 (14.63%) Validation
7 22 (13.41%) Software Testing
8 21 (12.80%) Deployment Automation
8 21 (12.80%) Release Management
8 21 (12.80%) Service Management
8 21 (12.80%) User Acceptance Testing
9 19 (11.59%) UML
9 19 (11.59%) Verification and Validation
10 18 (10.98%) Customer Requirements
11 17 (10.37%) Change Management
11 17 (10.37%) Service Delivery
11 17 (10.37%) Software Deployment
12 16 (9.76%) SysML
13 14 (8.54%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 26 (15.85%) Python
2 23 (14.02%) C++
3 22 (13.41%) C
4 16 (9.76%) JavaScript
5 15 (9.15%) MATLAB
5 15 (9.15%) Perl
6 13 (7.93%) Tcl
7 9 (5.49%) Embedded C
7 9 (5.49%) Java
8 4 (2.44%) Assembly Language
8 4 (2.44%) Shell Script
9 3 (1.83%) Embedded C++
10 2 (1.22%) Bash
11 1 (0.61%) SystemVerilog
Qualifications
1 68 (41.46%) Security Cleared
2 39 (23.78%) DV Cleared
3 35 (21.34%) Degree
4 30 (18.29%) SC Cleared
5 16 (9.76%) CCNA
5 16 (9.76%) Cisco Certification
6 12 (7.32%) CCNP
7 4 (2.44%) Master's Degree
7 4 (2.44%) MCSE
7 4 (2.44%) Microsoft Certification
7 4 (2.44%) PhD
7 4 (2.44%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 2 (1.22%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (1.22%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (1.22%) HND
9 1 (0.61%) IBM Certification
9 1 (0.61%) ISTQB
9 1 (0.61%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (14.63%) QA
2 7 (4.27%) MISRA
3 4 (2.44%) JTAG
3 4 (2.44%) MISRA C
4 3 (1.83%) Def Stans
4 3 (1.83%) DO-178B
5 2 (1.22%) SLA
6 1 (0.61%) ISO 26262
6 1 (0.61%) JSP 440
6 1 (0.61%) NCSC
6 1 (0.61%) NIST
6 1 (0.61%) NIST 800
System Software
1 29 (17.68%) Active Directory
2 8 (4.88%) Embedded Firmware
3 6 (3.66%) VMware ESXi
4 4 (2.44%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (2.44%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 38 (23.17%) SCCM
2 21 (12.80%) Sysprep
2 21 (12.80%) WSUS
3 12 (7.32%) Ansible
4 8 (4.88%) Dell DRAC
5 6 (3.66%) vCenter Server
6 1 (0.61%) NetBackup
6 1 (0.61%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 43 (26.22%) Microsoft
2 23 (14.02%) Cisco
3 19 (11.59%) HP
4 18 (10.98%) Atlassian
5 15 (9.15%) Google
6 13 (7.93%) Citrix
6 13 (7.93%) Palo Alto
6 13 (7.93%) SolarWinds
7 10 (6.10%) VMware
8 9 (5.49%) Isilon
9 8 (4.88%) Dell
9 8 (4.88%) Red Hat
10 7 (4.27%) Xilinx
11 4 (2.44%) IBM
11 4 (2.44%) Intel
12 3 (1.83%) EMC
12 3 (1.83%) SAP
13 2 (1.22%) BMC
13 2 (1.22%) CheckPoint
13 2 (1.22%) Nortel