Firmware Job Trends in the East Midlands

Firmware
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the East Midlands requiring Firmware skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 125 126 95
Rank change year-on-year +1 -31 +2
Permanent jobs citing Firmware 56 20 74
As % of all permanent jobs in the East Midlands 0.85% 0.86% 1.86%
As % of the System Software category 17.50% 6.56% 17.49%
Number of salaries quoted 48 19 53
10th Percentile £40,500 £25,300 -
25th Percentile £50,000 £25,375 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.68% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £53,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £70,000 £59,000 -
England median annual salary £60,000 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +14.29% -4.55% +6.80%

All System Software Skills
East Midlands

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 the East Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 320 305 423
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 4.84% 13.12% 10.63%
Number of salaries quoted 266 229 274
10th Percentile £27,750 £25,375 £28,000
25th Percentile £30,500 £26,500 £34,174
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £32,500 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +38.46% -23.53% -15.00%
75th Percentile £57,000 £41,000 £58,250
90th Percentile £70,000 £53,750 £67,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £48,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +14.58% -12.73% -

Firmware
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Firmware relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Firmware job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

Firmware
Salary Trend in the East Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Firmware.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Firmware

Firmware
Salary Histogram in the East Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Firmware in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 20 September 2026.

Salary histogram for Firmware in the East Midlands

Firmware
Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Firmware within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 20 September 2026. 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
Nottinghamshire -4 32 £65,000 +152.43% 13
Leicestershire -31 11 £50,000 -10.71% 8
Northamptonshire - 11 £52,500 - 9
Derbyshire -11 2 £53,750 +2.38% 5
Firmware
England

Firmware
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 3 (5.36%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (3.57%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (1.79%) OrCAD
1 1 (1.79%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 1 (1.79%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 7 (12.50%) Azure
2 5 (8.93%) Entra ID
2 5 (8.93%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (3.57%) AWS
3 2 (3.57%) AWS IoT
3 2 (3.57%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (3.57%) Cloud Computing
3 2 (3.57%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 17 (30.36%) Wireless
2 14 (25.00%) Wi-Fi
3 12 (21.43%) Bluetooth
3 12 (21.43%) LTE
3 12 (21.43%) Modbus
4 6 (10.71%) VPN
5 5 (8.93%) TCP/IP
5 5 (8.93%) VLAN
6 4 (7.14%) Firewall
7 3 (5.36%) BGP
7 3 (5.36%) DHCP
7 3 (5.36%) DNS
7 3 (5.36%) Network Security
8 2 (3.57%) LoRaWAN
8 2 (3.57%) MQTT
8 2 (3.57%) OSPF
8 2 (3.57%) SD-WAN
8 2 (3.57%) WAN
8 2 (3.57%) ZigBee
9 1 (1.79%) VXLAN
Development Applications
1 2 (3.57%) GDB
1 2 (3.57%) Git
1 2 (3.57%) GitLab
1 2 (3.57%) Jenkins
1 2 (3.57%) JIRA
1 2 (3.57%) Subversion
General
1 5 (8.93%) Electronics
1 5 (8.93%) Manufacturing
2 4 (7.14%) Music Industry
3 3 (5.36%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (5.36%) Social Skills
4 2 (3.57%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (1.79%) Legal
Job Titles
1 20 (35.71%) Embedded Engineer
1 20 (35.71%) Embedded Software Engineer
1 20 (35.71%) Software Engineer
2 16 (28.57%) Cybersecurity Engineer
3 13 (23.21%) Senior
4 10 (17.86%) Firmware Engineer
4 10 (17.86%) Product Engineer
5 7 (12.50%) Lead
6 5 (8.93%) IT Engineer
7 4 (7.14%) Electronics Engineer
7 4 (7.14%) Software Team Leader
7 4 (7.14%) Team Leader
8 3 (5.36%) 3rd Line Support
8 3 (5.36%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
8 3 (5.36%) IT Support
8 3 (5.36%) IT Support Engineer
8 3 (5.36%) Network Engineer
8 3 (5.36%) Senior IT Support
8 3 (5.36%) Senior Support Engineer
8 3 (5.36%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.57%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 12 (21.43%) Raspberry Pi
2 4 (7.14%) Analogue Electronics
2 4 (7.14%) Embedded Systems
2 4 (7.14%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (3.57%) ARM Cortex
3 2 (3.57%) Device Driver
3 2 (3.57%) Driving Licence
3 2 (3.57%) IoT
3 2 (3.57%) Management Information System
3 2 (3.57%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.79%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 5 (8.93%) Windows
2 3 (5.36%) Windows Server
3 2 (3.57%) Embedded Linux
3 2 (3.57%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (37.50%) Cybersecurity
2 20 (35.71%) Software Engineering
3 11 (19.64%) Validation
4 6 (10.71%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (8.93%) Agile
5 5 (8.93%) Mentoring
5 5 (8.93%) Patch Management
5 5 (8.93%) Vulnerability Remediation
6 4 (7.14%) Customer Service
7 3 (5.36%) Business Continuity
7 3 (5.36%) Continuous Improvement
7 3 (5.36%) Disaster Recovery
7 3 (5.36%) Scrum
7 3 (5.36%) Sprint Planning
7 3 (5.36%) Stakeholder Management
8 2 (3.57%) Identity Management
8 2 (3.57%) Information Security
8 2 (3.57%) ITIL
8 2 (3.57%) ITSM
8 2 (3.57%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 15 (26.79%) C
2 12 (21.43%) Embedded C
3 4 (7.14%) C++
4 2 (3.57%) PowerShell
4 2 (3.57%) Python
4 2 (3.57%) SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (12.50%) Degree
2 3 (5.36%) Azure Certification
2 3 (5.36%) CCNA
2 3 (5.36%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (5.36%) Microsoft Certification
2 3 (5.36%) SC Cleared
2 3 (5.36%) Security Cleared
3 2 (3.57%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (3.57%) Master's Degree
4 1 (1.79%) HNC
4 1 (1.79%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.57%) JTAG
System Software
1 15 (26.79%) Embedded Firmware
2 5 (8.93%) Active Directory
3 3 (5.36%) Hyper-V
3 3 (5.36%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (3.57%) FortiGate
1 2 (3.57%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 6 (10.71%) Cisco
1 6 (10.71%) Fortinet
2 5 (8.93%) Microsoft
3 3 (5.36%) Palo Alto
3 3 (5.36%) SonicWALL
3 3 (5.36%) Sophos
3 3 (5.36%) VMware
3 3 (5.36%) WatchGuard
4 2 (3.57%) Adobe
4 2 (3.57%) EMC
4 2 (3.57%) Google
5 1 (1.79%) SAP