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 25 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 120 101 84
Rank change year-on-year -19 -17 +68
Permanent jobs citing Firmware 9 59 35
As % of all permanent jobs in the East Midlands 0.40% 1.80% 2.20%
As % of the System Software category 4.23% 17.20% 11.90%
Number of salaries quoted 8 36 23
10th Percentile - £36,250 -
25th Percentile £25,375 £37,500 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £25,750 £60,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -57.08% +20.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £59,000 £80,000 £57,500
90th Percentile - - £61,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £56,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -1.79% +6.67% -8.70%

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 213 343 294
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 9.37% 10.45% 18.47%
Number of salaries quoted 178 182 240
10th Percentile £24,775 £26,250 £26,250
25th Percentile £26,250 £31,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,000 £42,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -29.41% -19.05% +16.67%
75th Percentile £40,000 £60,938 £62,500
90th Percentile £57,500 £75,750 £70,000
England median annual salary £48,000 £56,252 £55,000
% change year-on-year -14.67% +2.28% -

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 25 November 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 25 November 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 +22 5 £25,750 - 8
Leicestershire +19 3 £56,000 +115.38% 1
Derbyshire -21 1 - - 3
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 5 (55.56%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 5 (55.56%) Azure
1 5 (55.56%) Cloud Computing
1 5 (55.56%) Entra ID
1 5 (55.56%) Microsoft 365
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Git
1 1 (11.11%) Rational DOORS
General
1 5 (55.56%) Analytical Skills
1 5 (55.56%) Law
1 5 (55.56%) Social Skills
2 3 (33.33%) Manufacturing
3 1 (11.11%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 5 (55.56%) IT Engineer
1 5 (55.56%) IT Support
1 5 (55.56%) IT Support Engineer
1 5 (55.56%) Support Engineer
1 5 (55.56%) Technical Engineer
1 5 (55.56%) Technical Support
1 5 (55.56%) Technical Support Engineer
2 3 (33.33%) Embedded Engineer
2 3 (33.33%) Embedded Firmware Engineer
2 3 (33.33%) Firmware Engineer
2 3 (33.33%) Senior
2 3 (33.33%) Senior Embedded Engineer
2 3 (33.33%) Senior Firmware Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Design Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) FPGA Design Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) FPGA Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (55.56%) Analytical Mindset
1 5 (55.56%) Onboarding
2 1 (11.11%) FPGA
2 1 (11.11%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (11.11%) Verilog
2 1 (11.11%) VHDL
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (55.56%) ITIL
1 5 (55.56%) Mentoring
1 5 (55.56%) Problem-Solving
1 5 (55.56%) Vulnerability Management
2 1 (11.11%) Agile
2 1 (11.11%) Architectural Design
2 1 (11.11%) CI/CD
2 1 (11.11%) Computer Science
2 1 (11.11%) FPGA Design
2 1 (11.11%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 5 (55.56%) PowerShell
1 5 (55.56%) SQL
2 3 (33.33%) C
3 1 (11.11%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) Degree
1 1 (11.11%) HND
1 1 (11.11%) SC Cleared
1 1 (11.11%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (55.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 5 (55.56%) Active Directory
2 3 (33.33%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 5 (55.56%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 5 (55.56%) Cisco
1 5 (55.56%) Microsoft
2 3 (33.33%) EMC
3 1 (11.11%) Mentor Graphics
3 1 (11.11%) Xilinx