Firmware Jobs in England

Firmware
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England requiring Firmware skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Firmware over the 6 months leading up to 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 461 306 543
Rank change year-on-year -155 +237 +59
Permanent jobs citing Firmware 232 788 396
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.47% 0.88% 0.46%
As % of the System Software category 3.98% 7.34% 2.94%
Number of salaries quoted 158 585 291
10th Percentile £37,125 £31,250 £26,750
25th Percentile £43,000 £41,250 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +10.53% -11.21%
75th Percentile £70,000 £63,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £78,625 £71,250 £84,750
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -9.09%

All System Software Skills
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 England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 5,822 10,732 13,492
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 11.89% 12.00% 15.62%
Number of salaries quoted 3,332 8,561 9,046
10th Percentile £28,000 £26,250 £27,750
25th Percentile £35,938 £32,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £67,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £86,250 £95,000
UK median annual salary £53,875 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +7.75% -9.09% -

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 30 May 2025.

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 30 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 -73 73 £58,000 +16.00% 203
East of England -21 41 £56,750 +3.18% 149
Midlands -2 35 £47,500 -9.52% 84
North of England -23 35 £47,683 -9.18% 118
North West -31 26 £47,683 -11.29% 45
London +77 25 £85,000 +61.90% 49
South West +22 20 £70,000 +27.27% 86
West Midlands +6 18 £45,074 -24.88% 48
East Midlands +8 17 £47,500 -5.00% 32
Yorkshire +32 7 £46,000 +8.24% 50
North East +39 2 £61,000 +10.91% 24
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 3 (1.29%) Microsoft Exchange
1 3 (1.29%) OpenStack
Applications
1 21 (9.05%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (2.16%) Simulink
3 2 (0.86%) OrCAD
Business Applications
1 7 (3.02%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.43%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 14 (6.03%) Azure
2 13 (5.60%) Microsoft 365
3 11 (4.74%) AWS
4 5 (2.16%) AWS Direct Connect
4 5 (2.16%) Entra ID
5 2 (0.86%) Firebase
5 2 (0.86%) GCP
5 2 (0.86%) GitHub
6 1 (0.43%) Amazon Alexa
6 1 (0.43%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (0.43%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (0.43%) BigCommerce
6 1 (0.43%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (0.43%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 40 (17.24%) Software-Defined Radio
2 36 (15.52%) Wireless
3 28 (12.07%) Firewall
4 26 (11.21%) Wi-Fi
5 15 (6.47%) DHCP
5 15 (6.47%) VPN
6 14 (6.03%) WAN
7 12 (5.17%) Cisco Firepower
7 12 (5.17%) VLAN
8 11 (4.74%) DNS
8 11 (4.74%) Modbus
8 11 (4.74%) RS-485
9 10 (4.31%) Cisco ASA
9 10 (4.31%) LAN
10 9 (3.88%) Bluetooth
10 9 (3.88%) Cisco ISE
10 9 (3.88%) NX-OS
10 9 (3.88%) ZigBee
11 8 (3.45%) SD-WAN
11 8 (3.45%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.43%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 14 (6.03%) JIRA
2 13 (5.60%) Git
3 4 (1.72%) Eclipse
4 3 (1.29%) GDB
4 3 (1.29%) Subversion
5 1 (0.43%) Appium
5 1 (0.43%) LabVIEW
5 1 (0.43%) TestRail
5 1 (0.43%) Visual Studio
General
1 72 (31.03%) Electronics
2 70 (30.17%) Social Skills
3 37 (15.95%) Finance
4 23 (9.91%) Aviation
5 17 (7.33%) Manufacturing
6 9 (3.88%) Analytical Skills
6 9 (3.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 8 (3.45%) Organisational Skills
8 6 (2.59%) Telecoms
9 5 (2.16%) Automotive
9 5 (2.16%) Public Sector
10 4 (1.72%) Marketing
11 3 (1.29%) Banking
11 3 (1.29%) Pharmaceutical
11 3 (1.29%) Presentation Skills
11 3 (1.29%) Wearables
12 2 (0.86%) Aerospace
12 2 (0.86%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (0.86%) Police
12 2 (0.86%) Retail
Job Titles
1 52 (22.41%) Senior
2 47 (20.26%) Embedded Engineer
3 41 (17.67%) Software Engineer
4 36 (15.52%) Embedded Software Engineer
5 28 (12.07%) Electronics Engineer
6 26 (11.21%) Design Engineer
7 24 (10.34%) Network Engineer
7 24 (10.34%) Systems Engineer
8 22 (9.48%) Lead
8 22 (9.48%) Radar Engineer
9 21 (9.05%) Electronics Design Engineer
9 21 (9.05%) Firmware Engineer
10 18 (7.76%) Radio Engineer
10 18 (7.76%) Senior Electronics Engineer
11 15 (6.47%) Analyst
11 15 (6.47%) FPGA Engineer
11 15 (6.47%) Hardware Engineer
12 14 (6.03%) Senior Embedded Engineer
12 14 (6.03%) Senior Software Engineer
12 14 (6.03%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (2.16%) REST
2 3 (1.29%) OpenCL
2 3 (1.29%) OpenEmbedded
2 3 (1.29%) Yocto
3 2 (0.86%) .NET
3 2 (0.86%) GraphQL
3 2 (0.86%) HTML
3 2 (0.86%) Laravel
3 2 (0.86%) Middleware
3 2 (0.86%) React
4 1 (0.43%) .NET Framework
4 1 (0.43%) ASP.NET
4 1 (0.43%) CSS
4 1 (0.43%) JSON
4 1 (0.43%) React Native
4 1 (0.43%) RESTful
4 1 (0.43%) SAML
4 1 (0.43%) Vue
4 1 (0.43%) WSH
Miscellaneous
1 46 (19.83%) Embedded Systems
2 45 (19.40%) FPGA
3 27 (11.64%) VHDL
4 20 (8.62%) e-Learning
5 19 (8.19%) MicroBlaze
6 17 (7.33%) RISC-V
7 15 (6.47%) Data Centre
8 13 (5.60%) Analogue Electronics
8 13 (5.60%) Verilog
9 11 (4.74%) Optoelectronics
10 8 (3.45%) IoT
11 7 (3.02%) Management Information System
11 7 (3.02%) Self-Motivation
12 6 (2.59%) Device Driver
13 5 (2.16%) Algorithms
14 3 (1.29%) CAN bus
14 3 (1.29%) Hybrid Cloud
14 3 (1.29%) Mobile App
14 3 (1.29%) Raspberry Pi
14 3 (1.29%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 40 (17.24%) Linux
2 36 (15.52%) Windows
3 25 (10.78%) Embedded Linux
4 15 (6.47%) Windows Server
5 6 (2.59%) FreeRTOS
6 5 (2.16%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.86%) Android
7 2 (0.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.43%) CentOS
8 1 (0.43%) Rocky
8 1 (0.43%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.43%) Unix
8 1 (0.43%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.43%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.43%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (24.14%) Problem-Solving
2 53 (22.84%) Software Engineering
3 44 (18.97%) Signal Processing
4 40 (17.24%) Digital Signal Processing
4 40 (17.24%) Innovative Thinking
5 31 (13.36%) Agile
6 24 (10.34%) Prototyping
6 24 (10.34%) Schematic Capture
7 23 (9.91%) Systems Engineering
8 22 (9.48%) Change Management
8 22 (9.48%) Physics
8 22 (9.48%) Safety Engineering
9 21 (9.05%) Mentoring
10 19 (8.19%) Validation
11 17 (7.33%) FPGA Design
12 15 (6.47%) Customer Service
13 14 (6.03%) Asset Management
13 14 (6.03%) Incident Management
14 13 (5.60%) Requirements Analysis
14 13 (5.60%) Verification and Validation
Programming Languages
1 71 (30.60%) C
2 50 (21.55%) C++
3 26 (11.21%) MATLAB
4 12 (5.17%) Python
5 11 (4.74%) C#
6 8 (3.45%) Embedded C
7 6 (2.59%) Ada
8 5 (2.16%) PowerShell
9 4 (1.72%) Embedded C++
10 3 (1.29%) Assembly Language
10 3 (1.29%) Bash
10 3 (1.29%) JavaScript
10 3 (1.29%) SQL
11 2 (0.86%) Java
11 2 (0.86%) Perl
11 2 (0.86%) PHP
11 2 (0.86%) Tcl
11 2 (0.86%) VB
12 1 (0.43%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.43%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 54 (23.28%) Degree
2 46 (19.83%) Security Cleared
3 40 (17.24%) SC Cleared
4 22 (9.48%) BPSS Clearance
4 22 (9.48%) CEH
5 6 (2.59%) Cisco Certification
5 6 (2.59%) DV Cleared
6 4 (1.72%) CCNA
7 3 (1.29%) CCNP
7 3 (1.29%) PhD
8 2 (0.86%) DBS Check
8 2 (0.86%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.43%) A+ Certification
9 1 (0.43%) CompTIA Security+
9 1 (0.43%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.43%) MCITP
9 1 (0.43%) MCSA
9 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.43%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (9.91%) DO-254
2 7 (3.02%) QA
2 7 (3.02%) SLA
3 3 (1.29%) JTAG
4 2 (0.86%) Accessibility
4 2 (0.86%) AUTOSAR
5 1 (0.43%) Automotive SPICE
5 1 (0.43%) ISO 13485
5 1 (0.43%) ISO 26262
5 1 (0.43%) ISO 9001
5 1 (0.43%) ISO/IEC 15288
5 1 (0.43%) MISRA
5 1 (0.43%) MISRA C
5 1 (0.43%) NIST
System Software
1 85 (36.64%) Embedded Firmware
2 10 (4.31%) BitLocker
3 9 (3.88%) Active Directory
4 4 (1.72%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (1.29%) Hyper-V
5 3 (1.29%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (1.29%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.43%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 14 (6.03%) SCCM
2 4 (1.72%) WSUS
3 3 (1.29%) Ansible
3 3 (1.29%) Kubernetes
3 3 (1.29%) vCenter Server
4 2 (0.86%) FortiGate
4 2 (0.86%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.43%) Dell DRAC
5 1 (0.43%) Terraform
Vendors
1 27 (11.64%) Microsoft
2 25 (10.78%) Cisco
3 17 (7.33%) Fortinet
4 13 (5.60%) CheckPoint
4 13 (5.60%) HP
4 13 (5.60%) SolarWinds
5 12 (5.17%) Apple
6 11 (4.74%) Meraki
7 10 (4.31%) MobileIron
8 9 (3.88%) Infoblox
8 9 (3.88%) Juniper
8 9 (3.88%) VMware
9 7 (3.02%) McAfee
9 7 (3.02%) Remedy
9 7 (3.02%) Xilinx
10 6 (2.59%) EMC
11 5 (2.16%) Dell
11 5 (2.16%) Dynatrace
12 4 (1.72%) Palo Alto
13 3 (1.29%) Graphcore