Firmware Job Trends in Essex

Firmware
East of England > Essex

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Essex requiring Firmware skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 60 43 44
Rank change year-on-year -17 +1 +27
Permanent jobs citing Firmware 1 8 7
As % of all permanent jobs in Essex 0.14% 1.74% 1.63%
As % of the System Software category 2.08% 11.43% 10.14%
Number of salaries quoted 0 8 6
10th Percentile - £42,100 £30,000
25th Percentile - £45,813 £43,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% +38.36%
75th Percentile - £51,750 £61,250
90th Percentile - £55,875 £62,500
East of England median annual salary £71,250 £51,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +39.71% -7.27% -

All System Software Skills
Essex

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 Essex.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 48 70 69
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Essex 6.80% 15.22% 16.08%
Number of salaries quoted 45 49 54
10th Percentile £25,950 - £26,250
25th Percentile £27,000 £21,250 £37,558
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £28,500 £40,500 £47,519
Median % change year-on-year -29.63% -14.77% +5.60%
75th Percentile £35,000 £58,750 £82,500
90th Percentile £41,800 - £87,500
East of England median annual salary £42,500 £47,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year -10.53% +11.76% -10.53%

Firmware
Job Vacancy Trend in Essex

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

Firmware job vacancy trend in Essex

Firmware
Salary Trend in Essex

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Essex citing Firmware.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Essex citing Firmware

Firmware
Job Locations in Essex

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Firmware within the Essex region over the 6 months to 4 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
Braintree - 1 - -
Firmware
East of England

Firmware
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Essex 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) HTTP
1 1 (100.00%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) InfluxDB
1 1 (100.00%) MySQL
General
1 1 (100.00%) Billing
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Mid-Level Software Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Django
1 1 (100.00%) Next.js
1 1 (100.00%) Node.js
1 1 (100.00%) React
1 1 (100.00%) REST
1 1 (100.00%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (100.00%) IoT
1 1 (100.00%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 1 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) TypeScript
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker