Firmware Jobs in Bristol

Firmware
South West > Bristol

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Bristol 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 16 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 98 137 156
Rank change year-on-year +39 +19 +33
Permanent jobs citing Firmware 7 24 15
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Bristol 0.56% 0.77% 0.58%
As % of the System Software category 7.00% 7.89% 3.86%
Number of salaries quoted 3 18 11
10th Percentile - £42,000 £43,750
25th Percentile £62,500 £45,000 £72,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £53,750 £100,000
Median % change year-on-year +30.23% -46.25% +42.86%
75th Percentile £88,750 £70,000 -
90th Percentile £95,500 £83,500 -
South West median annual salary £70,000 £55,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +27.27% -18.52% +87.89%

All System Software Skills
Bristol

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 Bristol.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 100 304 389
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Bristol 8.04% 9.78% 15.03%
Number of salaries quoted 73 271 219
10th Percentile £37,350 £28,000 £28,250
25th Percentile £47,231 £36,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £55,000 £63,000
Median % change year-on-year +27.27% -12.70% +10.04%
75th Percentile £95,000 £73,750 £77,715
90th Percentile £122,500 £87,500 £90,000
South West median annual salary £47,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -4.76%

Firmware
Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

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

Job vacancy trend for Firmware in Bristol

Firmware
Salary Trend in Bristol

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

Salary trend for Firmware in Bristol

Firmware
Salary Histogram in Bristol

Salary distribution for jobs citing Firmware in Bristol over the 6 months to 16 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Firmware in Bristol

Firmware
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Bristol 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 3 (42.86%) OpenStack
General
1 4 (57.14%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Senior
1 3 (42.86%) Senior Software Engineer
1 3 (42.86%) Senior Systems Engineer
1 3 (42.86%) Software Engineer
1 3 (42.86%) Systems Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Firmware Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Embedded Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Embedded Firmware Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Lead
3 1 (14.29%) Product Manager
3 1 (14.29%) Team Leader
3 1 (14.29%) Technical Manager
3 1 (14.29%) Technical Product Manager
3 1 (14.29%) Verification Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (42.86%) OpenCL
Miscellaneous
1 4 (57.14%) Device Driver
2 3 (42.86%) CUDA
2 3 (42.86%) Data Centre
2 3 (42.86%) PCIe
3 1 (14.29%) Embedded Systems
Operating Systems
1 5 (71.43%) Linux
2 3 (42.86%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Artificial Intelligence
1 4 (57.14%) Mentoring
2 3 (42.86%) Agile
2 3 (42.86%) Device Driver Development
2 3 (42.86%) Performance Analysis
2 3 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (42.86%) Scrum
2 3 (42.86%) Software Engineering
3 2 (28.57%) Open Source
4 1 (14.29%) Defect Management
4 1 (14.29%) Dynamic Code Analysis
4 1 (14.29%) Line Management
4 1 (14.29%) People Management
4 1 (14.29%) Power Management
4 1 (14.29%) Product Roadmap
4 1 (14.29%) Requirements Management
4 1 (14.29%) Static Code Analysis
4 1 (14.29%) Test Automation
4 1 (14.29%) Validation
4 1 (14.29%) Verification and Validation
Programming Languages
1 5 (71.43%) C
2 4 (57.14%) Python
3 3 (42.86%) C++
4 1 (14.29%) Bash
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) QA
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 3 (42.86%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Graphcore