Firmware Job Trends in the East of England

Firmware
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring Firmware skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 138 141 86
Rank change year-on-year +3 -55 +106
Permanent jobs citing Firmware 18 41 59
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 0.43% 1.16% 2.45%
As % of the System Software category 7.00% 7.85% 13.53%
Number of salaries quoted 12 18 34
10th Percentile £46,160 £43,175 £41,125
25th Percentile £49,978 £46,938 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,250 £53,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +34.43% -3.64% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £58,938 £62,500
90th Percentile - £61,625 £75,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £56,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -1.79% +1.82% -

All System Software Skills
East of England

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 of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 257 522 436
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 6.12% 14.77% 18.08%
Number of salaries quoted 190 299 361
10th Percentile £27,000 £25,000 £25,750
25th Percentile £29,303 £30,000 £30,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £47,500 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% +11.76% -10.53%
75th Percentile £62,063 £58,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £73,750 £87,500
England median annual salary £48,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -15.65% +4.55% -

Firmware
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Firmware relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Firmware job vacancy trend in the East of England

Firmware
Salary Trend in the East of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Firmware.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Firmware

Firmware
Salary Histogram in the East of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Firmware in the East of England over the 6 months to 15 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Firmware in the East of England

Firmware
Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Firmware within the East of England region over the 6 months to 15 January 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
Hertfordshire +8 10 £67,500 +17.39% 15
Cambridgeshire +2 4 £52,500 -4.55% 15
Bedfordshire +36 2 £76,250 +32.61% 11
Essex -13 1 - - 4
Norfolk - 1 £70,000 - 4
Firmware
England

Firmware
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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:

Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Simulink
Cloud Services
1 1 (5.56%) AWS
1 1 (5.56%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 2 (11.11%) Cisco ISE
1 2 (11.11%) Cisco Nexus
1 2 (11.11%) LAN
1 2 (11.11%) Network Security
1 2 (11.11%) Spanning Tree
1 2 (11.11%) TCP/IP
1 2 (11.11%) VLAN
1 2 (11.11%) WAN
1 2 (11.11%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (5.56%) Ethernet
2 1 (5.56%) HTTP
2 1 (5.56%) MQTT
2 1 (5.56%) RS-232
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.56%) InfluxDB
1 1 (5.56%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 4 (22.22%) Git
1 4 (22.22%) GitLab
2 1 (5.56%) Eclipse
2 1 (5.56%) Jenkins
2 1 (5.56%) JIRA
2 1 (5.56%) Rational DOORS
2 1 (5.56%) Selenium
2 1 (5.56%) WebDriver
General
1 5 (27.78%) Electronics
1 5 (27.78%) Telecoms
2 3 (16.67%) Manufacturing
3 1 (5.56%) Advertising
3 1 (5.56%) Automotive
3 1 (5.56%) Billing
3 1 (5.56%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (5.56%) Pharmaceutical
3 1 (5.56%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (22.22%) Lead
2 3 (16.67%) Software Team Leader
2 3 (16.67%) Team Leader
3 2 (11.11%) Design Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) Electronics Design Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) Electronics Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) Software Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Field Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Field Service Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Firmware Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Head of Development
4 1 (5.56%) Lead Electronics Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Mid-Level Software Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Senior
4 1 (5.56%) Senior Firmware Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Test Automation Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Validation Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Verification Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.56%) Django
1 1 (5.56%) Next.js
1 1 (5.56%) Node.js
1 1 (5.56%) React
1 1 (5.56%) REST
1 1 (5.56%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 5 (27.78%) Algorithms
2 2 (11.11%) FPGA
2 2 (11.11%) IoT
2 2 (11.11%) Life Science
3 1 (5.56%) Cloud Native
3 1 (5.56%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (5.56%) PCIe
3 1 (5.56%) Renewable Energy
3 1 (5.56%) Robotics
3 1 (5.56%) Verilog
3 1 (5.56%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 3 (16.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (55.56%) Software Engineering
2 5 (27.78%) Computer Science
2 5 (27.78%) Physics
2 5 (27.78%) Signal Processing
2 5 (27.78%) Validation
3 4 (22.22%) AI
3 4 (22.22%) Digital Signal Processing
3 4 (22.22%) Innovative Thinking
3 4 (22.22%) Mathematics
4 3 (16.67%) Coaching
4 3 (16.67%) Line Management
4 3 (16.67%) Logistics
4 3 (16.67%) Mentoring
4 3 (16.67%) Schematic Capture
5 2 (11.11%) CI/CD
5 2 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 2 (11.11%) IT Strategy
5 2 (11.11%) Network Management
5 2 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 10 (55.56%) C
1 10 (55.56%) Python
2 4 (22.22%) Embedded C
3 3 (16.67%) C++
4 2 (11.11%) Java
5 1 (5.56%) Bash
5 1 (5.56%) C#
5 1 (5.56%) Embedded C++
5 1 (5.56%) JavaScript
5 1 (5.56%) MATLAB
5 1 (5.56%) SQL
5 1 (5.56%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 9 (50.00%) Degree
2 6 (33.33%) SC Cleared
2 6 (33.33%) Security Cleared
3 4 (22.22%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (5.56%) HNC
4 1 (5.56%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.56%) GxP
1 1 (5.56%) MISRA
System Software
1 1 (5.56%) Docker
Vendors
1 2 (11.11%) Cisco
1 2 (11.11%) EMC
1 2 (11.11%) SolarWinds
2 1 (5.56%) Altera
2 1 (5.56%) Microsoft