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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 124 104 99
Rank change year-on-year -20 -5 +67
Permanent jobs citing Firmware 20 73 26
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 0.86% 1.84% 1.49%
As % of the System Software category 6.56% 17.26% 9.45%
Number of salaries quoted 19 53 16
10th Percentile £25,300 - £26,250
25th Percentile £25,375 £37,500 £30,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £53,750 £80,000 £58,500
90th Percentile £59,000 - £61,500
England median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% -13.04%

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 305 423 275
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 13.16% 10.65% 15.80%
Number of salaries quoted 229 283 210
10th Percentile £25,375 £28,000 £25,975
25th Percentile £26,500 £34,348 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,500 £42,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -23.53% -15.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £41,000 £58,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £53,750 £67,500 £67,500
England median annual salary £47,683 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -13.30% - -

Firmware
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Job postings citing Firmware as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Firmware 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 17 September 2025.

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 17 September 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
Nottinghamshire +25 13 £25,750 -48.50% 3
Derbyshire -3 4 £52,500 -
Leicestershire +27 3 £56,000 +31.76% 3
Firmware
England

Firmware
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 5 (25.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 5 (25.00%) Azure
1 5 (25.00%) Cloud Computing
1 5 (25.00%) Entra ID
1 5 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (15.00%) WAN
2 2 (10.00%) LTE
2 2 (10.00%) Modbus
2 2 (10.00%) Wi-Fi
2 2 (10.00%) Wireless
Development Applications
1 3 (15.00%) Git
2 2 (10.00%) Eclipse
2 2 (10.00%) Subversion
3 1 (5.00%) Rational DOORS
General
1 5 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
1 5 (25.00%) Law
1 5 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (15.00%) Manufacturing
3 2 (10.00%) Public Sector
4 1 (5.00%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 8 (40.00%) Embedded Engineer
2 7 (35.00%) IT Engineer
2 7 (35.00%) IT Support
2 7 (35.00%) IT Support Engineer
2 7 (35.00%) Support Engineer
3 6 (30.00%) Hardware Engineer
4 5 (25.00%) Design Engineer
4 5 (25.00%) Embedded Software Engineer
4 5 (25.00%) Software Engineer
4 5 (25.00%) Technical Engineer
4 5 (25.00%) Technical Support
4 5 (25.00%) Technical Support Engineer
5 4 (20.00%) Electronics Design Engineer
5 4 (20.00%) Electronics Engineer
5 4 (20.00%) Electronics Hardware Engineer
5 4 (20.00%) Hardware Design Engineer
6 3 (15.00%) Embedded Firmware Engineer
6 3 (15.00%) Firmware Engineer
6 3 (15.00%) Senior
6 3 (15.00%) Senior Embedded Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 7 (35.00%) Embedded Systems
2 5 (25.00%) Analytical Mindset
2 5 (25.00%) Onboarding
3 4 (20.00%) Analogue Electronics
4 3 (15.00%) ARM Cortex
5 2 (10.00%) IoT
5 2 (10.00%) Raspberry Pi
6 1 (5.00%) FPGA
6 1 (5.00%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (5.00%) Verilog
6 1 (5.00%) VHDL
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (45.00%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (25.00%) ITIL
2 5 (25.00%) Mentoring
2 5 (25.00%) Software Engineering
2 5 (25.00%) Vulnerability Management
3 4 (20.00%) Collaborative Working
4 3 (15.00%) Performance Optimisation
5 2 (10.00%) Cybersecurity
5 2 (10.00%) Requirements Workshops
6 1 (5.00%) Agile
6 1 (5.00%) Architectural Design
6 1 (5.00%) CI/CD
6 1 (5.00%) Computer Science
6 1 (5.00%) FPGA Design
6 1 (5.00%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 8 (40.00%) C
2 5 (25.00%) PowerShell
2 5 (25.00%) SQL
3 3 (15.00%) Python
4 2 (10.00%) Embedded C
Qualifications
1 1 (5.00%) Degree
1 1 (5.00%) HND
1 1 (5.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (5.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 7 (35.00%) Embedded Firmware
2 5 (25.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (25.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (10.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 5 (25.00%) Cisco
1 5 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (15.00%) EMC
3 2 (10.00%) Apple
3 2 (10.00%) Atmel
3 2 (10.00%) HP
4 1 (5.00%) Mentor Graphics
4 1 (5.00%) Xilinx