Firmware Jobs in Cambridgeshire

Firmware
East of England > Cambridgeshire

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Cambridgeshire 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 22 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 37 79 97
Rank change year-on-year +42 +18 +30
Permanent jobs citing Firmware 20 25 19
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 4.18% 1.58% 1.37%
As % of the System Software category 20.41% 10.55% 7.17%
Number of salaries quoted 13 18 9
10th Percentile - £37,750 -
25th Percentile £37,500 £42,500 £75,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £60,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% -29.41% +41.67%
75th Percentile £72,000 £64,688 £92,500
90th Percentile - £71,500 -
East of England median annual salary £52,000 £55,750 £65,000
% change year-on-year -6.73% -14.23% +13.04%

All System Software Skills
Cambridgeshire

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 Cambridgeshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 98 237 265
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 20.46% 14.97% 19.15%
Number of salaries quoted 69 177 169
10th Percentile £26,250 £24,807 £26,850
25th Percentile £31,175 £30,500 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £42,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% -5.56% -10.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,000 £66,250
90th Percentile £79,000 £92,500 £87,500
East of England median annual salary £45,000 £40,000 £46,500
% change year-on-year +12.50% -13.98% +3.33%

Firmware
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Firmware in Cambridgeshire

Firmware
Salary Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Salary trend for Firmware in Cambridgeshire

Firmware
Salary Histogram in Cambridgeshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Firmware in Cambridgeshire over the 6 months to 22 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Firmware in Cambridgeshire

Firmware
Job Locations in Cambridgeshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Firmware within the Cambridgeshire region over the 6 months to 22 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Peterborough - 6 - - 2
Huntingdon - 3 £68,000 -
Cambridge +14 2 £130,000 +116.67% 63
Firmware
East of England

Firmware
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cambridgeshire 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 6 (30.00%) Bluetooth
1 6 (30.00%) Modbus
1 6 (30.00%) Profibus
1 6 (30.00%) RS-232
1 6 (30.00%) RS-485
1 6 (30.00%) Wireless
1 6 (30.00%) ZigBee
2 1 (5.00%) MQTT
2 1 (5.00%) Wi-Fi
Development Applications
1 1 (5.00%) GDB
1 1 (5.00%) Git
General
1 8 (40.00%) Electronics
2 7 (35.00%) Manufacturing
2 7 (35.00%) Social Skills
3 6 (30.00%) Organisational Skills
4 2 (10.00%) Finance
5 1 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (5.00%) Marketing
5 1 (5.00%) Public Sector
5 1 (5.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 12 (60.00%) FPGA Engineer
2 7 (35.00%) Embedded Engineer
2 7 (35.00%) Senior
3 6 (30.00%) Embedded Software Engineer
3 6 (30.00%) Senior Embedded Engineer
3 6 (30.00%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
3 6 (30.00%) Senior Software Engineer
3 6 (30.00%) Software Engineer
4 4 (20.00%) Design Engineer
5 3 (15.00%) FPGA Design Engineer
6 2 (10.00%) Firmware Engineer
7 1 (5.00%) Electronics Design Engineer
7 1 (5.00%) Electronics Engineer
7 1 (5.00%) Embedded Firmware Engineer
7 1 (5.00%) Lead
7 1 (5.00%) Senior Firmware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.00%) OpenEmbedded
1 1 (5.00%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 12 (60.00%) FPGA
1 12 (60.00%) Verilog
1 12 (60.00%) VHDL
2 6 (30.00%) Embedded Systems
3 1 (5.00%) Analogue Electronics
3 1 (5.00%) IoT
3 1 (5.00%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (5.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 6 (30.00%) FreeRTOS
2 1 (5.00%) Android
2 1 (5.00%) Apple iOS
2 1 (5.00%) Embedded Linux
2 1 (5.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (60.00%) FPGA Design
2 10 (50.00%) Prototyping
3 7 (35.00%) Software Engineering
4 6 (30.00%) TDD
4 6 (30.00%) Unit Testing
5 1 (5.00%) Business Intelligence
5 1 (5.00%) Clean Code
5 1 (5.00%) Customer Service
5 1 (5.00%) Digital Marketing
5 1 (5.00%) Key Management
5 1 (5.00%) Linux Kernel Development
5 1 (5.00%) Non-Blocking Code
5 1 (5.00%) Open Source
5 1 (5.00%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (5.00%) Programme Management
5 1 (5.00%) Root Cause Analysis
5 1 (5.00%) Schematic Capture
5 1 (5.00%) Validation
5 1 (5.00%) Verification and Validation
Programming Languages
1 9 (45.00%) C#
2 8 (40.00%) C
3 6 (30.00%) C++
Qualifications
1 1 (5.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.00%) ISO 13485
1 1 (5.00%) ISO 9001
1 1 (5.00%) JTAG
System Software
1 10 (50.00%) Embedded Firmware
Vendors
1 1 (5.00%) EMC
1 1 (5.00%) SAP