Firmware Contracts in West London

Firmware
London > West London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in West 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 26 40 -
Rank change year-on-year +14 - -
Contract jobs citing Firmware 5 3 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West London 2.38% 0.85% -
As % of the System Software category 16.67% 6.98% -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 3 0
10th Percentile £330 £450 -
25th Percentile £359 £525 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £650 -
Median % change year-on-year -38.46% - -
75th Percentile £434 £669 -
90th Percentile £451 £680 -
London median daily rate £400 £350 £510
% change year-on-year +14.29% -31.37% -1.16%

All System Software Skills
West 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 West London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 30 43 90
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West London 14.29% 12.11% 15.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 28 72
10th Percentile £235 £143 £236
25th Percentile £366 £291 £395
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £450 £588
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% -23.40% +30.56%
75th Percentile £459 £509 £650
90th Percentile £558 £563 -
London median daily rate £550 £500 £575
% change year-on-year +10.00% -13.04% +2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 8
10th Percentile £24.13 £22.60 £71.85
25th Percentile £24.94 £23.05 £75.00
Median hourly rate £26.30 £23.80 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.48% -70.25% +288.11%
75th Percentile £27.65 £40.65 £86.25
90th Percentile £28.46 £50.76 £90.00
London median hourly rate £28.41 £22.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year +26.27% -50.00% +83.67%

Firmware
Job Vacancy Trend in West London

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

Job vacancy trend for Firmware in West London

Firmware
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in West London

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

Daily rate trend for Firmware in West London

Firmware
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in West London

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

Hourly rate trend for Firmware in West London

Firmware
Contract Job Locations in West 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 West London region over the 6 months to 1 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
Hillingdon - 5 £400 - 1
Firmware
London

Firmware
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (80.00%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (100.00%) BGP
1 5 (100.00%) Firewall
1 5 (100.00%) OSPF
1 5 (100.00%) VLAN
1 5 (100.00%) VPN
2 4 (80.00%) Cisco ISE
2 4 (80.00%) DHCP
2 4 (80.00%) DNS
2 4 (80.00%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
2 4 (80.00%) LAN
2 4 (80.00%) Network Security
2 4 (80.00%) SD-WAN
2 4 (80.00%) SSL
2 4 (80.00%) WAN
2 4 (80.00%) Wireless
2 4 (80.00%) WLAN
3 3 (60.00%) Cisco Wireless
3 3 (60.00%) DMVPN
3 3 (60.00%) EIGRP
4 1 (20.00%) VRRP
General
1 3 (60.00%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Administrator
1 2 (40.00%) Network Administrator
2 1 (20.00%) Network Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Network Security Administrator
2 1 (20.00%) Security Administrator
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Network Monitoring
2 3 (60.00%) Patch Management
2 3 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (20.00%) Analytics
3 1 (20.00%) Change Management
3 1 (20.00%) Process Improvement
3 1 (20.00%) Root Cause Analysis
Qualifications
1 5 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 4 (80.00%) CCNP
2 4 (80.00%) CCSA
3 1 (20.00%) CCNA
3 1 (20.00%) JNCIA
3 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 3 (60.00%) CA Spectrum
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) Cisco
1 5 (100.00%) SolarWinds
2 4 (80.00%) CheckPoint
2 4 (80.00%) F5
2 4 (80.00%) Juniper
2 4 (80.00%) Meraki