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 11 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 148 120 140
Rank change year-on-year -28 +20 -6
Permanent jobs citing Firmware 22 21 66
As % of all permanent jobs in the East Midlands 0.42% 0.95% 1.31%
As % of the System Software category 8.33% 7.27% 11.24%
Number of salaries quoted 20 19 54
10th Percentile £47,425 £37,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,125 £42,500 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £47,500 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +13.68% +11.76% -5.56%
75th Percentile £57,000 £53,750 £62,500
90th Percentile £64,775 £59,000 £76,250
England median annual salary £60,000 £52,500 £54,000
% change year-on-year +14.29% -2.78% +18.03%

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 264 289 587
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 5.10% 13.07% 11.67%
Number of salaries quoted 232 218 500
10th Percentile £26,750 £26,250 £24,500
25th Percentile £30,375 £26,500 £30,443
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £32,500 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year +30.77% -18.75% -11.11%
75th Percentile £52,813 £45,750 £52,500
90th Percentile £65,000 £58,750 £62,713
England median annual salary £52,750 £50,000 £49,000
% change year-on-year +5.50% +2.04% -10.91%

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 11 July 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 11 July 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 -22 12 £54,000 +13.68% 3
Leicestershire -33 5 £50,000 -10.71% 7
Derbyshire -1 3 £52,500 - 1
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 2 (9.09%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (9.09%) AWS
1 2 (9.09%) AWS IoT
1 2 (9.09%) Azure
1 2 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
1 2 (9.09%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 12 (54.55%) Wireless
2 11 (50.00%) Bluetooth
2 11 (50.00%) Wi-Fi
3 9 (40.91%) LTE
3 9 (40.91%) Modbus
4 4 (18.18%) VPN
5 3 (13.64%) BGP
5 3 (13.64%) WAN
6 2 (9.09%) Firewall
6 2 (9.09%) LoRaWAN
6 2 (9.09%) MQTT
6 2 (9.09%) OSPF
6 2 (9.09%) SD-WAN
6 2 (9.09%) TCP/IP
6 2 (9.09%) VLAN
6 2 (9.09%) ZigBee
7 1 (4.55%) Cisco ASA
7 1 (4.55%) LAN
7 1 (4.55%) Unified Communications
7 1 (4.55%) VXLAN
Development Applications
1 6 (27.27%) Git
1 6 (27.27%) Subversion
2 4 (18.18%) Eclipse
3 2 (9.09%) GDB
3 2 (9.09%) GitLab
3 2 (9.09%) Jenkins
3 2 (9.09%) JIRA
General
1 3 (13.64%) Manufacturing
2 2 (9.09%) Documentation Skills
2 2 (9.09%) Electronics
2 2 (9.09%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (50.00%) Embedded Engineer
1 11 (50.00%) Embedded Software Engineer
1 11 (50.00%) Software Engineer
2 5 (22.73%) Senior
3 4 (18.18%) Network Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) Author
4 2 (9.09%) Cybersecurity Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) Firmware Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) IoT Software Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) Product Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) Senior Technical Author
4 2 (9.09%) Senior Technical Writer
4 2 (9.09%) Technical Author
4 2 (9.09%) Technical Writer
5 1 (4.55%) Development Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Hardware Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Product Development Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Senior Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (9.09%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 9 (40.91%) Raspberry Pi
2 5 (22.73%) Embedded Systems
3 2 (9.09%) ARM Cortex
3 2 (9.09%) Device Driver
3 2 (9.09%) Driving Licence
3 2 (9.09%) IoT
4 1 (4.55%) Client/Server
4 1 (4.55%) Data Centre
4 1 (4.55%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (9.09%) Android
1 2 (9.09%) Embedded Linux
1 2 (9.09%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 4 (18.18%) Collaborative Culture
3 2 (9.09%) BDD
3 2 (9.09%) CAD
3 2 (9.09%) CI/CD
3 2 (9.09%) Computer Science
3 2 (9.09%) Cybersecurity
3 2 (9.09%) Decision-Making
3 2 (9.09%) Deployment Automation
3 2 (9.09%) DevOps
3 2 (9.09%) Document Management
3 2 (9.09%) Edge Computing
3 2 (9.09%) Hardware-in-the-Loop
3 2 (9.09%) Roadmaps
3 2 (9.09%) Schematic Capture
3 2 (9.09%) Software Architecture
3 2 (9.09%) Software Delivery
3 2 (9.09%) Test Automation
3 2 (9.09%) Validation
4 1 (4.55%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 14 (63.64%) C
2 9 (40.91%) Embedded C
3 7 (31.82%) Python
4 2 (9.09%) C++
Qualifications
1 3 (13.64%) Degree
1 3 (13.64%) SC Cleared
1 3 (13.64%) Security Cleared
2 2 (9.09%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (9.09%) Master's Degree
3 1 (4.55%) CCNA
3 1 (4.55%) CCNP
3 1 (4.55%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (4.55%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (9.09%) JTAG
System Software
1 2 (9.09%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 2 (9.09%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 4 (18.18%) Atmel
2 3 (13.64%) Fortinet
3 2 (9.09%) Adobe
3 2 (9.09%) Google
4 1 (4.55%) Cisco