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 5 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 138 103 113
Rank change year-on-year -35 +10 +41
Permanent jobs citing Firmware 6 17 43
As % of all permanent jobs in the East Midlands 0.19% 0.98% 1.36%
As % of the System Software category 3.02% 8.06% 9.60%
Number of salaries quoted 6 6 31
10th Percentile - £26,000 £38,750
25th Percentile £51,000 £29,500 £40,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £48,750 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.77% -2.50% +53.85%
75th Percentile £62,813 £61,250 £53,750
90th Percentile £64,750 £63,125 £60,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% +5.00%

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 199 211 448
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 6.27% 12.22% 14.15%
Number of salaries quoted 168 130 388
10th Percentile £25,750 £25,625 £23,500
25th Percentile £27,000 £28,125 £28,165
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -27.78% +5.88% -5.56%
75th Percentile £47,500 £59,250 £58,750
90th Percentile £60,000 £62,750 £67,500
England median annual salary £50,000 £57,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -13.04% +15.00% -9.09%

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
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 5 March 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 £54,000 - 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:

Communications & Networking
1 6 (100.00%) Bluetooth
2 4 (66.67%) LTE
2 4 (66.67%) Modbus
2 4 (66.67%) Wi-Fi
2 4 (66.67%) Wireless
Development Applications
1 4 (66.67%) Eclipse
1 4 (66.67%) Git
1 4 (66.67%) Subversion
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Embedded Engineer
1 4 (66.67%) Embedded Software Engineer
1 4 (66.67%) Software Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Senior
Miscellaneous
1 4 (66.67%) Raspberry Pi
Operating Systems
1 2 (33.33%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Software Engineering
2 2 (33.33%) Collaborative Culture
2 2 (33.33%) Decision-Making
2 2 (33.33%) Roadmaps
2 2 (33.33%) Schematic Capture
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) C
2 4 (66.67%) Embedded C
2 4 (66.67%) Python
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) Atmel