Firmware Jobs in England

Firmware
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Firmware skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Firmware over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 314 561 585
Rank change year-on-year +247 +24 -31
Permanent jobs citing Firmware 760 438 675
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.90% 0.47% 0.52%
As % of the System Software category 6.95% 3.04% 2.86%
Number of salaries quoted 562 302 262
10th Percentile £32,500 £27,000 £31,836
25th Percentile £42,500 £32,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £45,250 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +16.02% -13.81% -4.55%
75th Percentile £64,688 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £74,875 £83,750 £72,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £47,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.53% -13.64% +6.80%

All System Software Skills
England

Firmware is in the System Software category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for system software skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 10,931 14,396 23,617
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 12.89% 15.44% 18.07%
Number of salaries quoted 8,862 9,766 13,983
10th Percentile £26,250 £28,000 £27,750
25th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £38,331
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £56,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -1.79% +1.82%
75th Percentile £67,500 £77,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £86,949 £95,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £56,325
% change year-on-year -9.09% -2.35% +2.41%

Firmware
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Firmware as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Firmware in England

Firmware
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Firmware in England

Firmware
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Firmware in England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Firmware in England

Firmware
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 within the England region over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. 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 +106 263 £50,000 +11.11% 104
Midlands +84 119 £53,750 +26.47% 39
East of England +56 113 £56,500 -13.08% 71
North of England +68 112 £52,500 +61.54% 21
South West +31 91 £55,000 -8.33% 42
West Midlands +73 70 £61,500 +36.67% 18
London +159 62 £56,250 +36.36% 26
North West +10 62 £55,000 +4.76% 12
East Midlands +18 49 £50,000 +81.82% 21
Yorkshire +103 40 £42,500 +31.99% 8
North East +7 10 £55,000 +34.15% 1
Firmware
UK

Firmware
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:

Application Platforms
1 13 (1.71%) Microsoft Exchange
2 9 (1.18%) SharePoint
3 6 (0.79%) Confluence
4 2 (0.26%) Apache
4 2 (0.26%) IIS
4 2 (0.26%) Kinematics
4 2 (0.26%) nginx
4 2 (0.26%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.13%) CMS
Applications
1 23 (3.03%) Simulink
2 20 (2.63%) Microsoft Office
3 8 (1.05%) OrCAD
4 6 (0.79%) SOLIDWORKS
5 4 (0.53%) Windchill
6 3 (0.39%) GNU Octave
7 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Excel
7 1 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.13%) TargetLink
Business Applications
1 1 (0.13%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 35 (4.61%) Azure
2 23 (3.03%) Microsoft 365
3 22 (2.89%) AWS
4 16 (2.11%) Azure DevOps
5 15 (1.97%) GitHub
6 8 (1.05%) OneDrive
6 8 (1.05%) Power Platform
7 7 (0.92%) AWS IoT
8 5 (0.66%) Power Automate
9 3 (0.39%) Entra ID
9 3 (0.39%) IaaS
9 3 (0.39%) SaaS
10 2 (0.26%) Akamai
10 2 (0.26%) AWS CloudFormation
10 2 (0.26%) Azure Data Factory
10 2 (0.26%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 2 (0.26%) Azure Storage
10 2 (0.26%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 2 (0.26%) Microsoft Purview
10 2 (0.26%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 69 (9.08%) Wireless
2 34 (4.47%) Ethernet
3 31 (4.08%) Firewall
4 27 (3.55%) Wi-Fi
5 26 (3.42%) Bluetooth
6 25 (3.29%) LAN
7 24 (3.16%) TCP/IP
8 22 (2.89%) WAN
9 20 (2.63%) DNS
10 19 (2.50%) 5G
10 19 (2.50%) MQTT
11 17 (2.24%) RS-232
12 16 (2.11%) OSPF
13 15 (1.97%) HTTP
13 15 (1.97%) SD-WAN
14 14 (1.84%) VPN
15 13 (1.71%) Internet
15 13 (1.71%) LTE
16 12 (1.58%) BGP
16 12 (1.58%) Software-Defined Radio
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (1.05%) Power BI
2 7 (0.92%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (0.26%) Big Data
3 2 (0.26%) MariaDB
3 2 (0.26%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (0.26%) SQL Server
4 1 (0.13%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (0.13%) InfluxDB
4 1 (0.13%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 44 (5.79%) JIRA
2 39 (5.13%) Git
3 20 (2.63%) Jenkins
4 19 (2.50%) Rational DOORS
5 16 (2.11%) Subversion
6 13 (1.71%) LabVIEW
7 9 (1.18%) Rational Team Concert
8 6 (0.79%) Team Foundation Server
9 5 (0.66%) Selenium
9 5 (0.66%) Visual Studio
10 4 (0.53%) Rational Rhapsody
11 3 (0.39%) GCC
11 3 (0.39%) GDB
11 3 (0.39%) GitLab
12 2 (0.26%) Eclipse
12 2 (0.26%) PetaLinux
12 2 (0.26%) Postman
12 2 (0.26%) TeamCity
13 1 (0.13%) Bugzilla
13 1 (0.13%) Cucumber
General
1 321 (42.24%) Electronics
2 169 (22.24%) Manufacturing
3 127 (16.71%) Social Skills
4 91 (11.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 61 (8.03%) Analytical Skills
6 51 (6.71%) Finance
7 48 (6.32%) Automotive
8 39 (5.13%) Marketing
9 29 (3.82%) Telecoms
10 28 (3.68%) Public Sector
11 27 (3.55%) Legal
12 23 (3.03%) Organisational Skills
13 20 (2.63%) Retail
14 14 (1.84%) Aerospace
14 14 (1.84%) Presentation Skills
15 12 (1.58%) Military
16 10 (1.32%) Law
16 10 (1.32%) Police
17 7 (0.92%) Aviation
17 7 (0.92%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 189 (24.87%) Embedded Engineer
2 154 (20.26%) Software Engineer
3 138 (18.16%) Electronics Engineer
4 126 (16.58%) Senior
5 99 (13.03%) Embedded Software Engineer
6 95 (12.50%) Graduate
7 83 (10.92%) Firmware Engineer
8 82 (10.79%) Graduate Electronics Engineer
9 81 (10.66%) Junior
10 78 (10.26%) Junior Electronics Engineer
11 73 (9.61%) Development Engineer
12 71 (9.34%) Graduate Development Engineer
13 62 (8.16%) Systems Engineer
14 53 (6.97%) Embedded Firmware Engineer
14 53 (6.97%) Senior Embedded Engineer
15 51 (6.71%) Lead
16 41 (5.39%) Hardware Engineer
17 40 (5.26%) Developer
18 32 (4.21%) Senior Software Engineer
19 30 (3.95%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (2.11%) Yocto
2 14 (1.84%) 802.1X
3 13 (1.71%) .NET
3 13 (1.71%) Qt
4 12 (1.58%) Middleware
5 10 (1.32%) HTML
6 8 (1.05%) CSS
6 8 (1.05%) Flask
7 7 (0.92%) Node.js
8 5 (0.66%) Flash
9 4 (0.53%) ARM Templates
10 3 (0.39%) POSIX
10 3 (0.39%) React
10 3 (0.39%) WPF
11 2 (0.26%) Azure Blueprints
11 2 (0.26%) Boost C++ Libraries
11 2 (0.26%) Elastic Stack
11 2 (0.26%) React Native
11 2 (0.26%) Web Services
11 2 (0.26%) wxWidgets
Miscellaneous
1 91 (11.97%) FPGA
2 74 (9.74%) Embedded Systems
3 49 (6.45%) IoT
4 44 (5.79%) Data Centre
5 37 (4.87%) Algorithms
6 31 (4.08%) Driving Licence
7 29 (3.82%) Self-Motivation
8 28 (3.68%) Analogue Electronics
9 25 (3.29%) VHDL
10 21 (2.76%) Management Information System
11 20 (2.63%) Replication
12 18 (2.37%) Mobile App
13 17 (2.24%) Device Driver
14 16 (2.11%) GNSS
15 13 (1.71%) PCIe
16 10 (1.32%) Verilog
17 9 (1.18%) ARM Cortex
17 9 (1.18%) EPoS
17 9 (1.18%) Tandem
18 7 (0.92%) MicroBlaze
Operating Systems
1 131 (17.24%) Linux
2 111 (14.61%) Windows
3 37 (4.87%) Windows Server
4 32 (4.21%) Embedded Linux
5 29 (3.82%) Windows 10
6 22 (2.89%) Windows Server 2012
6 22 (2.89%) Windows Server 2016
6 22 (2.89%) Windows Server 2019
7 14 (1.84%) Windows NT
8 11 (1.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 11 (1.45%) Windows 7
9 9 (1.18%) FreeRTOS
10 8 (1.05%) Android
11 7 (0.92%) Unix
12 2 (0.26%) Debian
12 2 (0.26%) Ubuntu
13 1 (0.13%) Apple iOS
13 1 (0.13%) CentOS
13 1 (0.13%) FreeBSD
13 1 (0.13%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 221 (29.08%) Software Engineering
2 106 (13.95%) Schematic Capture
3 104 (13.68%) Problem-Solving
4 83 (10.92%) Project Planning
5 75 (9.87%) Software Testing
6 73 (9.61%) Agile
7 68 (8.95%) Computer Science
8 59 (7.76%) ITIL
9 53 (6.97%) Customer Service
10 46 (6.05%) Validation
11 45 (5.92%) Customer Requirements
12 40 (5.26%) Signal Processing
13 39 (5.13%) SDLC
14 38 (5.00%) DevOps
14 38 (5.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 38 (5.00%) Test Automation
15 37 (4.87%) Technical Leadership
16 35 (4.61%) Cybersecurity
16 35 (4.61%) FPGA Design
17 33 (4.34%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 266 (35.00%) C
2 148 (19.47%) C++
3 86 (11.32%) Python
4 55 (7.24%) Embedded C
5 48 (6.32%) C#
6 27 (3.55%) SQL
7 25 (3.29%) MATLAB
8 24 (3.16%) Java
9 16 (2.11%) Embedded C++
10 10 (1.32%) Bash
10 10 (1.32%) Perl
10 10 (1.32%) RPG
11 9 (1.18%) Tcl
12 8 (1.05%) JavaScript
13 7 (0.92%) VB
14 5 (0.66%) Assembly Language
15 4 (0.53%) Rust
16 3 (0.39%) Groovy
16 3 (0.39%) Lua
16 3 (0.39%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 265 (34.87%) Degree
2 106 (13.95%) Security Cleared
3 47 (6.18%) BPSS Clearance
4 39 (5.13%) DV Cleared
5 33 (4.34%) SC Cleared
6 16 (2.11%) Cisco Certification
7 9 (1.18%) Computer Science Degree
8 8 (1.05%) CCNA
8 8 (1.05%) CCNP
8 8 (1.05%) Master's Degree
9 7 (0.92%) CCDP
9 7 (0.92%) CCIE
9 7 (0.92%) CCIE Routing and Switching
9 7 (0.92%) Microsoft Certification
10 6 (0.79%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 5 (0.66%) Azure Certification
11 5 (0.66%) PMI Certification
12 4 (0.53%) HNC
12 4 (0.53%) HND
12 4 (0.53%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (3.03%) QA
2 22 (2.89%) SLA
3 18 (2.37%) MISRA
4 10 (1.32%) GDPR
4 10 (1.32%) MISRA C
5 8 (1.05%) JTAG
6 6 (0.79%) PMO
7 5 (0.66%) ISO 26262
8 4 (0.53%) Automotive SPICE
8 4 (0.53%) AUTOSAR
8 4 (0.53%) IEC 61508
9 3 (0.39%) Def Stans
9 3 (0.39%) ECSS
9 3 (0.39%) IEC 62304
9 3 (0.39%) ISO 13485
10 2 (0.26%) Disclosure Scotland
10 2 (0.26%) HIPAA
10 2 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 12207
10 2 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 1 (0.13%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 305 (40.13%) Embedded Firmware
2 41 (5.39%) Active Directory
3 31 (4.08%) VMware Infrastructure
4 19 (2.50%) VMware ESXi
5 14 (1.84%) Hyper-V
6 12 (1.58%) Virtual Machines
7 7 (0.92%) Docker
8 6 (0.79%) vSphere
9 5 (0.66%) Virtual Servers
10 2 (0.26%) VMware Server
11 1 (0.13%) BitLocker
11 1 (0.13%) Citrix Hypervisor
11 1 (0.13%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 34 (4.47%) SCCM
2 24 (3.16%) SCOM
3 18 (2.37%) WSUS
4 14 (1.84%) Sysprep
5 8 (1.05%) Microsoft Intune
6 7 (0.92%) Ansible
6 7 (0.92%) Functional Safety
6 7 (0.92%) NetBackup
6 7 (0.92%) vCenter Server
7 6 (0.79%) Kubernetes
8 5 (0.66%) Failover Clustering
8 5 (0.66%) FortiGate
8 5 (0.66%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
9 4 (0.53%) Podman
9 4 (0.53%) Terraform
10 3 (0.39%) Grafana
11 2 (0.26%) PowerCLI
11 2 (0.26%) Prometheus
11 2 (0.26%) SCOrch
11 2 (0.26%) vRealize
Vendors
1 115 (15.13%) EMC
2 67 (8.82%) Microsoft
3 36 (4.74%) VMware
4 27 (3.55%) SAP
5 26 (3.42%) Veeam
6 25 (3.29%) HP
6 25 (3.29%) IBM
7 23 (3.03%) Cisco
8 21 (2.76%) Dell
8 21 (2.76%) NetApp
9 19 (2.50%) Xilinx
10 13 (1.71%) Citrix
10 13 (1.71%) Fortinet
11 10 (1.32%) Red Hat
12 9 (1.18%) Intel
13 8 (1.05%) McAfee
14 7 (0.92%) Commvault
14 7 (0.92%) Green Hills
14 7 (0.92%) Motorola
14 7 (0.92%) SolarWinds