Firmware Engineer Jobs in England

Firmware Engineer
UK > England

The median Firmware Engineer salary in England is £67,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 18 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 671 736 902
Rank change year-on-year +65 +166 +196
Permanent jobs requiring a Firmware Engineer 22 87 20
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.044% 0.10% 0.023%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.049% 0.11% 0.025%
Number of salaries quoted 15 60 17
10th Percentile £43,800 £31,825 £34,900
25th Percentile £50,625 £41,875 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +28.57% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £81,875 £60,000 £66,250
90th Percentile £127,400 £62,500 £82,000
UK median annual salary £66,000 £52,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +25.71% -19.23% +23.81%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in England. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in England with a recognized job title 45,134 81,676 80,812
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.05% 94.55% 91.52%
Number of salaries quoted 24,494 60,830 51,454
10th Percentile £29,750 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,126 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,500 £53,000 £60,800
Median % change year-on-year +6.60% -12.83% +1.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £82,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £90,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £56,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +6.67% -12.50% -

Firmware Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured Firmware Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Firmware Engineer in England

Firmware Engineer
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Firmware Engineer in England.

Salary trend for Firmware Engineer in England

Firmware Engineer
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Firmware Engineer in England over the 6 months to 18 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Firmware Engineer in England

Firmware Engineer
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Firmware Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 18 May 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
South East +79 9 £65,000 -13.33% 27
North of England +32 4 £48,000 -8.57% 15
Yorkshire +61 3 £46,000 +73.58% 4
London +113 2 £70,000 +40.00% 6
South West +100 2 - - 18
East of England +34 2 £130,000 +173.68% 24
West Midlands +38 1 £67,500 +12.50% 5
Midlands +36 1 £67,500 +28.57% 7
North West -7 1 £50,000 -4.76% 6
Firmware Engineer
UK

Firmware Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 18 May 2025, Firmware Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the England region featuring Firmware Engineer in the job title.

1 22 (100.00%) Firmware
2 18 (81.82%) C
3 10 (45.45%) Embedded Firmware
4 8 (36.36%) Linux
5 7 (31.82%) FPGA
5 7 (31.82%) C++
5 7 (31.82%) Electronics
5 7 (31.82%) Finance
6 6 (27.27%) Embedded Linux
6 6 (27.27%) Embedded Systems
7 5 (22.73%) Verification and Validation
7 5 (22.73%) Social Skills
7 5 (22.73%) Analogue Electronics
7 5 (22.73%) Open Source
7 5 (22.73%) Validation
8 4 (18.18%) MATLAB
8 4 (18.18%) Simulink
8 4 (18.18%) Mathematics
8 4 (18.18%) Digital Signal Processing
8 4 (18.18%) Signal Processing
8 4 (18.18%) Software Engineering
8 4 (18.18%) Linux Kernel Development
9 3 (13.64%) Mentoring
9 3 (13.64%) Analytical Skills
9 3 (13.64%) Software-Defined Radio
9 3 (13.64%) Virtual Team
9 3 (13.64%) OpenEmbedded
9 3 (13.64%) Yocto
9 3 (13.64%) Mathematical Modelling
9 3 (13.64%) Innovative Thinking

Firmware Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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:

Applications
1 4 (18.18%) Simulink
2 1 (4.55%) OrCAD
Communications & Networking
1 3 (13.64%) Software-Defined Radio
1 3 (13.64%) Wireless
1 3 (13.64%) ZigBee
2 2 (9.09%) Modbus
2 2 (9.09%) MQTT
2 2 (9.09%) RS-485
3 1 (4.55%) Ethernet
3 1 (4.55%) HTTP
3 1 (4.55%) RS-232
3 1 (4.55%) TCP/IP
3 1 (4.55%) Wi-Fi
Development Applications
1 3 (13.64%) GDB
1 3 (13.64%) Git
General
1 7 (31.82%) Electronics
1 7 (31.82%) Finance
2 5 (22.73%) Social Skills
3 3 (13.64%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (13.64%) Telecoms
3 3 (13.64%) Wearables
4 2 (9.09%) Manufacturing
5 1 (4.55%) Automotive
5 1 (4.55%) Marketing
5 1 (4.55%) Public Sector
5 1 (4.55%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (13.64%) OpenEmbedded
1 3 (13.64%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 7 (31.82%) FPGA
2 6 (27.27%) Embedded Systems
3 5 (22.73%) Analogue Electronics
4 3 (13.64%) e-Learning
4 3 (13.64%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (13.64%) Virtual Team
5 2 (9.09%) CAN bus
5 2 (9.09%) Smart Energy
5 2 (9.09%) VHDL
6 1 (4.55%) ARM Cortex
6 1 (4.55%) Device Driver
6 1 (4.55%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (4.55%) IoT
6 1 (4.55%) Life Science
6 1 (4.55%) Verilog
Operating Systems
1 8 (36.36%) Linux
2 6 (27.27%) Embedded Linux
3 1 (4.55%) Android
3 1 (4.55%) Apple iOS
3 1 (4.55%) FreeRTOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (22.73%) Open Source
1 5 (22.73%) Validation
1 5 (22.73%) Verification and Validation
2 4 (18.18%) Digital Signal Processing
2 4 (18.18%) Linux Kernel Development
2 4 (18.18%) Mathematics
2 4 (18.18%) Signal Processing
2 4 (18.18%) Software Engineering
3 3 (13.64%) Clean Code
3 3 (13.64%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 3 (13.64%) Innovative Thinking
3 3 (13.64%) Integration Testing
3 3 (13.64%) Key Management
3 3 (13.64%) Mathematical Modelling
3 3 (13.64%) Mentoring
3 3 (13.64%) Software Testing
3 3 (13.64%) Unit Testing
4 2 (9.09%) Collaborative Culture
4 2 (9.09%) Collaborative Working
4 2 (9.09%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 18 (81.82%) C
2 7 (31.82%) C++
3 4 (18.18%) MATLAB
4 2 (9.09%) Assembly Language
5 1 (4.55%) Bash
5 1 (4.55%) Embedded C
5 1 (4.55%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (13.64%) SC Cleared
1 3 (13.64%) Security Cleared
2 2 (9.09%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (13.64%) JTAG
2 1 (4.55%) AUTOSAR
2 1 (4.55%) ISO 13485
2 1 (4.55%) ISO 26262
2 1 (4.55%) ISO 9001
2 1 (4.55%) MISRA
2 1 (4.55%) MISRA C
2 1 (4.55%) QA
System Software
1 22 (100.00%) Firmware
2 10 (45.45%) Embedded Firmware
Vendors
1 3 (13.64%) Xilinx
2 1 (4.55%) EMC
2 1 (4.55%) SAP