Firmware Jobs in the East Midlands

Firmware
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the East Midlands 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 2 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 143 142 152
Rank change year-on-year -1 +10 +43
Permanent jobs citing Firmware 21 67 16
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 0.76% 1.24% 0.61%
As % of the System Software category 7.27% 10.98% 3.11%
Number of salaries quoted 19 54 11
10th Percentile £37,000 £37,500 -
25th Percentile £42,500 £38,750 £26,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £46,250 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.70% +15.63% -20.00%
75th Percentile £53,750 £61,875 £57,500
90th Percentile £59,000 £65,000 -
England median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £45,500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +15.39% -17.27%

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 289 610 514
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 10.52% 11.30% 19.46%
Number of salaries quoted 215 513 231
10th Percentile £26,250 £24,500 £25,750
25th Percentile £26,500 £28,500 £27,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,500 £40,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.75% -11.11% +5.88%
75th Percentile £47,500 £52,500 £56,500
90th Percentile £58,750 £63,500 £67,500
England median annual salary £52,500 £49,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +6.06% -10.00% -

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

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Firmware in the East Midlands.

Salary trend for Firmware in the East Midlands

Firmware
Salary Histogram in the East Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Firmware in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 2 July 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 2 July 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 +35 12 £47,500 +11.76% 4
Leicestershire +34 4 £56,000 +31.76% 6
Derbyshire +14 4 £52,500 -12.50% 5
Northamptonshire -19 1 £40,000 -20.00%
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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (4.76%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 3 (14.29%) LTE
1 3 (14.29%) WAN
1 3 (14.29%) Wi-Fi
1 3 (14.29%) Wireless
2 2 (9.52%) Modbus
3 1 (4.76%) DHCP
3 1 (4.76%) DNS
3 1 (4.76%) Firewall
3 1 (4.76%) VPN
Development Applications
1 4 (19.05%) Git
2 3 (14.29%) JIRA
2 3 (14.29%) Subversion
3 2 (9.52%) Eclipse
4 1 (4.76%) Rational DOORS
General
1 6 (28.57%) Electronics
2 5 (23.81%) Manufacturing
3 4 (19.05%) Social Skills
4 3 (14.29%) Pharmaceutical
4 3 (14.29%) Public Sector
5 1 (4.76%) Finance
5 1 (4.76%) Marketing
5 1 (4.76%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 10 (47.62%) Embedded Engineer
2 8 (38.10%) Senior
3 6 (28.57%) Design Engineer
3 6 (28.57%) Hardware Engineer
4 5 (23.81%) Electronics Design Engineer
4 5 (23.81%) Electronics Engineer
4 5 (23.81%) Embedded Software Engineer
4 5 (23.81%) Senior Embedded Engineer
4 5 (23.81%) Software Engineer
5 4 (19.05%) Electronics Hardware Engineer
5 4 (19.05%) Hardware Design Engineer
6 3 (14.29%) Embedded Firmware Engineer
6 3 (14.29%) Firmware Engineer
6 3 (14.29%) Reliability Engineer
6 3 (14.29%) Senior Firmware Engineer
6 3 (14.29%) Senior Reliability Engineer
7 2 (9.52%) Hardware Support Engineer
7 2 (9.52%) IT Engineer
7 2 (9.52%) IT Support
7 2 (9.52%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.76%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 8 (38.10%) Embedded Systems
2 4 (19.05%) Analogue Electronics
3 3 (14.29%) ARM Cortex
3 3 (14.29%) IoT
3 3 (14.29%) Raspberry Pi
4 1 (4.76%) FPGA
4 1 (4.76%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (4.76%) Verilog
4 1 (4.76%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.76%) CentOS
1 1 (4.76%) Linux
1 1 (4.76%) Rocky
1 1 (4.76%) Ubuntu
1 1 (4.76%) Windows
1 1 (4.76%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (23.81%) Collaborative Working
1 5 (23.81%) Problem-Solving
1 5 (23.81%) Software Engineering
2 4 (19.05%) Validation
3 3 (14.29%) Case Management
3 3 (14.29%) FMEA
3 3 (14.29%) Performance Optimisation
3 3 (14.29%) System Testing
3 3 (14.29%) Test Automation
4 2 (9.52%) Cybersecurity
4 2 (9.52%) Requirements Workshops
4 2 (9.52%) Schematic Capture
5 1 (4.76%) CI/CD
5 1 (4.76%) Continuous Improvement
5 1 (4.76%) Customer-Centricity
5 1 (4.76%) Defect Tracking
5 1 (4.76%) FPGA Design
5 1 (4.76%) Process Improvement
5 1 (4.76%) Verification and Validation
5 1 (4.76%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 9 (42.86%) C
2 3 (14.29%) Python
3 2 (9.52%) Embedded C
4 1 (4.76%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (4.76%) Degree
1 1 (4.76%) HND
1 1 (4.76%) SC Cleared
1 1 (4.76%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.76%) QA
1 1 (4.76%) SLA
System Software
1 8 (38.10%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 2 (9.52%) SCCM
2 1 (4.76%) Ansible
2 1 (4.76%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 4 (19.05%) EMC
2 3 (14.29%) Minitab
3 2 (9.52%) Apple
3 2 (9.52%) Atmel
3 2 (9.52%) HP
4 1 (4.76%) Cisco
4 1 (4.76%) Mentor Graphics
4 1 (4.76%) Microsoft
4 1 (4.76%) SAP
4 1 (4.76%) Xilinx