Firmware Jobs in County Antrim

Firmware
Northern Ireland > County Antrim

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in County Antrim 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 27 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 27 55 88
Rank change year-on-year +28 +33 -1
Permanent jobs citing Firmware 4 17 6
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in County Antrim 1.93% 2.47% 0.78%
As % of the System Software category 21.05% 40.48% 3.97%
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 -
Northern Ireland median annual salary £90,000 £28,000 £32,500
% change year-on-year +221.43% -13.85% -

All System Software Skills
County Antrim

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 County Antrim.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 19 42 151
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in County Antrim 9.18% 6.10% 19.64%
Number of salaries quoted 16 20 60
10th Percentile £46,875 £27,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £30,313 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £49,250 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.68% -1.50% -4.76%
75th Percentile £60,000 £57,813 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £107,500 £79,125
Northern Ireland median annual salary £55,000 £40,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +37.50% -20.00% +23.46%

Firmware
Job Vacancy Trend in County Antrim

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

Job vacancy trend for Firmware in County Antrim

Firmware
Salary Trend in County Antrim

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

Salary trend for Firmware in County Antrim

Firmware
Job Locations in County Antrim

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Firmware within the County Antrim region over the 6 months to 27 June 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
Belfast +20 4 £90,000 +221.43% 4
Firmware
Northern Ireland

Firmware
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in County Antrim 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