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 28 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 465 304 554
Rank change year-on-year -161 +250 +57
Permanent jobs citing Firmware 226 782 399
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.47% 0.88% 0.46%
As % of the System Software category 3.93% 7.32% 2.93%
Number of salaries quoted 152 579 295
10th Percentile £36,375 £31,250 £26,850
25th Percentile £42,875 £41,250 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +10.53% -13.64%
75th Percentile £70,000 £63,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,875 £71,500 £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 5,757 10,687 13,610
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 11.90% 12.09% 15.63%
Number of salaries quoted 3,292 8,579 9,168
10th Percentile £27,775 £26,250 £27,750
25th Percentile £35,750 £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 £97,528 £86,250 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -0.90%

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 28 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 28 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 -78 67 £62,500 +25.00% 145
East of England -23 39 £54,000 -1.82% 146
Midlands -28 35 £47,500 -9.52% 32
North of England -34 35 £47,683 -9.18% 53
London +85 26 £85,000 +61.90% 126
North West -39 26 £47,683 -11.29% 25
South West +38 21 £70,000 +27.27% 75
West Midlands +12 18 £45,074 -24.88% 18
East Midlands +1 17 £47,500 -5.00% 14
Yorkshire +33 7 £46,000 +8.24% 22
North East +41 2 £61,000 +10.91% 6
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 (1.33%) Microsoft Exchange
1 3 (1.33%) OpenStack
Applications
1 22 (9.73%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (2.21%) Simulink
3 2 (0.88%) OrCAD
Business Applications
1 7 (3.10%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 14 (6.19%) Azure
2 13 (5.75%) Microsoft 365
3 9 (3.98%) AWS
4 5 (2.21%) AWS Direct Connect
4 5 (2.21%) Entra ID
5 2 (0.88%) GitHub
6 1 (0.44%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (0.44%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 39 (17.26%) Software-Defined Radio
2 36 (15.93%) Wireless
3 26 (11.50%) Firewall
3 26 (11.50%) Wi-Fi
4 15 (6.64%) VPN
5 14 (6.19%) DHCP
5 14 (6.19%) WAN
6 11 (4.87%) DNS
6 11 (4.87%) Modbus
6 11 (4.87%) VLAN
7 10 (4.42%) Cisco ASA
7 10 (4.42%) Cisco Firepower
7 10 (4.42%) LAN
8 9 (3.98%) Bluetooth
8 9 (3.98%) RS-485
8 9 (3.98%) ZigBee
9 8 (3.54%) OSPF
9 8 (3.54%) SD-WAN
9 8 (3.54%) TCP/IP
10 7 (3.10%) BGP
Development Applications
1 12 (5.31%) JIRA
2 11 (4.87%) Git
3 4 (1.77%) Eclipse
4 3 (1.33%) GDB
4 3 (1.33%) Subversion
5 1 (0.44%) Appium
5 1 (0.44%) LabVIEW
5 1 (0.44%) TestRail
General
1 71 (31.42%) Electronics
2 68 (30.09%) Social Skills
3 35 (15.49%) Finance
4 23 (10.18%) Aviation
5 16 (7.08%) Manufacturing
6 10 (4.42%) Analytical Skills
7 9 (3.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 9 (3.98%) Organisational Skills
8 5 (2.21%) Telecoms
9 4 (1.77%) Public Sector
10 3 (1.33%) Automotive
10 3 (1.33%) Banking
10 3 (1.33%) Marketing
10 3 (1.33%) Pharmaceutical
10 3 (1.33%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (1.33%) Wearables
11 2 (0.88%) Aerospace
11 2 (0.88%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (0.88%) Police
11 2 (0.88%) Retail
Job Titles
1 53 (23.45%) Senior
2 45 (19.91%) Embedded Engineer
3 40 (17.70%) Software Engineer
4 35 (15.49%) Embedded Software Engineer
5 28 (12.39%) Electronics Engineer
6 26 (11.50%) Design Engineer
7 24 (10.62%) Systems Engineer
8 22 (9.73%) Lead
8 22 (9.73%) Radar Engineer
9 21 (9.29%) Electronics Design Engineer
9 21 (9.29%) Network Engineer
10 20 (8.85%) Firmware Engineer
11 18 (7.96%) Radio Engineer
11 18 (7.96%) Senior Electronics Engineer
12 16 (7.08%) Analyst
12 16 (7.08%) FPGA Engineer
13 15 (6.64%) Hardware Engineer
13 15 (6.64%) Support Analyst
14 14 (6.19%) Senior Embedded Engineer
14 14 (6.19%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (1.77%) REST
2 3 (1.33%) OpenCL
2 3 (1.33%) OpenEmbedded
2 3 (1.33%) Yocto
3 2 (0.88%) GraphQL
3 2 (0.88%) Middleware
4 1 (0.44%) .NET
4 1 (0.44%) HTML
4 1 (0.44%) JSON
4 1 (0.44%) Laravel
4 1 (0.44%) RESTful
4 1 (0.44%) SAML
4 1 (0.44%) Vue
4 1 (0.44%) WSH
Miscellaneous
1 46 (20.35%) FPGA
2 45 (19.91%) Embedded Systems
3 28 (12.39%) VHDL
4 19 (8.41%) e-Learning
4 19 (8.41%) MicroBlaze
5 16 (7.08%) RISC-V
6 14 (6.19%) Data Centre
7 13 (5.75%) Analogue Electronics
7 13 (5.75%) Verilog
8 11 (4.87%) Optoelectronics
9 7 (3.10%) Management Information System
9 7 (3.10%) Self-Motivation
10 6 (2.65%) Device Driver
10 6 (2.65%) IoT
11 5 (2.21%) Algorithms
12 3 (1.33%) Hybrid Cloud
12 3 (1.33%) PCIe
12 3 (1.33%) Raspberry Pi
12 3 (1.33%) Satnav
12 3 (1.33%) Smart Energy
Operating Systems
1 40 (17.70%) Linux
2 38 (16.81%) Windows
3 24 (10.62%) Embedded Linux
4 15 (6.64%) Windows Server
5 6 (2.65%) FreeRTOS
6 5 (2.21%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.88%) Android
7 2 (0.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.44%) CentOS
8 1 (0.44%) Rocky
8 1 (0.44%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.44%) Unix
8 1 (0.44%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.44%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.44%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (24.34%) Problem-Solving
2 52 (23.01%) Software Engineering
3 43 (19.03%) Signal Processing
4 40 (17.70%) Innovative Thinking
5 38 (16.81%) Digital Signal Processing
6 28 (12.39%) Agile
7 24 (10.62%) Prototyping
7 24 (10.62%) Schematic Capture
8 23 (10.18%) Systems Engineering
9 22 (9.73%) Physics
9 22 (9.73%) Safety Engineering
10 21 (9.29%) Mentoring
11 20 (8.85%) Change Management
12 18 (7.96%) FPGA Design
12 18 (7.96%) Validation
13 14 (6.19%) Customer Service
13 14 (6.19%) Incident Management
13 14 (6.19%) Requirements Analysis
14 13 (5.75%) Asset Management
14 13 (5.75%) Verification and Validation
Programming Languages
1 70 (30.97%) C
2 50 (22.12%) C++
3 27 (11.95%) MATLAB
4 11 (4.87%) Python
5 10 (4.42%) C#
6 7 (3.10%) Embedded C
7 6 (2.65%) Ada
8 5 (2.21%) PowerShell
9 4 (1.77%) Embedded C++
10 3 (1.33%) Assembly Language
10 3 (1.33%) Bash
10 3 (1.33%) Perl
10 3 (1.33%) Tcl
10 3 (1.33%) VB
11 2 (0.88%) SQL
12 1 (0.44%) Java
12 1 (0.44%) JavaScript
12 1 (0.44%) PHP
12 1 (0.44%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.44%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 53 (23.45%) Degree
2 43 (19.03%) Security Cleared
3 39 (17.26%) SC Cleared
4 22 (9.73%) BPSS Clearance
4 22 (9.73%) CEH
5 5 (2.21%) Cisco Certification
6 4 (1.77%) DV Cleared
7 3 (1.33%) CCNA
7 3 (1.33%) CCNP
7 3 (1.33%) PhD
8 2 (0.88%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.44%) A+ Certification
9 1 (0.44%) CompTIA Security+
9 1 (0.44%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.44%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.44%) MCITP
9 1 (0.44%) MCSA
9 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.44%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (10.18%) DO-254
2 6 (2.65%) QA
2 6 (2.65%) SLA
3 3 (1.33%) JTAG
4 2 (0.88%) Accessibility
4 2 (0.88%) AUTOSAR
5 1 (0.44%) Automotive SPICE
5 1 (0.44%) ISO 13485
5 1 (0.44%) ISO 26262
5 1 (0.44%) ISO 9001
5 1 (0.44%) ISO/IEC 15288
5 1 (0.44%) MISRA
5 1 (0.44%) MISRA C
5 1 (0.44%) NIST
System Software
1 84 (37.17%) Embedded Firmware
2 10 (4.42%) BitLocker
3 9 (3.98%) Active Directory
4 4 (1.77%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (1.33%) Hyper-V
5 3 (1.33%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.44%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (0.44%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 14 (6.19%) SCCM
2 5 (2.21%) WSUS
3 3 (1.33%) Ansible
3 3 (1.33%) Kubernetes
4 2 (0.88%) FortiGate
4 2 (0.88%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.44%) Dell DRAC
5 1 (0.44%) Terraform
5 1 (0.44%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 28 (12.39%) Microsoft
2 22 (9.73%) Cisco
3 16 (7.08%) Fortinet
4 13 (5.75%) CheckPoint
4 13 (5.75%) HP
5 12 (5.31%) Apple
6 11 (4.87%) Meraki
6 11 (4.87%) SolarWinds
7 10 (4.42%) MobileIron
8 9 (3.98%) Infoblox
8 9 (3.98%) VMware
9 8 (3.54%) Xilinx
10 7 (3.10%) McAfee
10 7 (3.10%) Remedy
11 6 (2.65%) Juniper
12 5 (2.21%) Dell
12 5 (2.21%) Dynatrace
12 5 (2.21%) EMC
13 4 (1.77%) Palo Alto
14 3 (1.33%) Graphcore