Firmware Jobs in Belfast

Firmware
County Antrim > Belfast

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Belfast requiring Firmware skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Firmware over the 6 months leading up to 25 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 27 47 86
Rank change year-on-year +20 +39 -8
Permanent jobs citing Firmware 4 17 6
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Belfast 2.14% 2.96% 0.81%
As % of the System Software category 21.05% 48.57% 4.17%
Number of salaries quoted 3 6 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £27,500 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £28,000 £32,500
Median % change year-on-year +221.43% -13.85% -
75th Percentile - £28,500 £33,750
90th Percentile - £31,125 -
County Antrim median annual salary £90,000 £28,000 £32,500
% change year-on-year +221.43% -13.85% -

All System Software Skills
Belfast

Firmware falls under the System Software category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring system software skills in Belfast.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 19 35 144
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Belfast 10.16% 6.10% 19.54%
Number of salaries quoted 16 20 54
10th Percentile £46,875 £27,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £30,313 £43,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £51,750 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.28% +3.50% -4.76%
75th Percentile £60,000 £71,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £107,500 £81,375
County Antrim median annual salary £55,000 £51,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +7.84% +2.00% -4.76%

Firmware
Job Vacancy Trend in Belfast

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

Job vacancy trend for Firmware in Belfast

Firmware
Salary Trend in Belfast

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Firmware in Belfast.

Salary trend for Firmware in Belfast

Firmware
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Belfast 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) SSL
General
1 3 (75.00%) Aerospace
2 1 (25.00%) Legal
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Architect
1 3 (75.00%) Firmware Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Cybersecurity Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Product Engineer
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Linux
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (25.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (25.00%) Cryptography
1 1 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (25.00%) GitOps
1 1 (25.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (25.00%) OWASP
1 1 (25.00%) Product Management
1 1 (25.00%) Scrum
1 1 (25.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
1 1 (25.00%) Software Architecture
1 1 (25.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (25.00%) Sprint Review
1 1 (25.00%) Threat Modelling
1 1 (25.00%) Ticket Management
1 1 (25.00%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
1 1 (25.00%) CCSP
1 1 (25.00%) CEH
1 1 (25.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (25.00%) CISSP
1 1 (25.00%) CompTIA Security+
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) NIST
1 1 (25.00%) NIST 800
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) CSIRT