Firmware Job Trends in Farnborough

Firmware
Hampshire > Farnborough

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Farnborough citing Firmware skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 November 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

	6 months to 11 Nov 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Rank	62	-	-
Rank change year-on-year	-	-	-
Permanent jobs citing Firmware	2	0	0
As % of all permanent jobs in Farnborough	0.23%	-	-
As % of the System Software category	2.90%	-	-
Number of salaries quoted	1	0	0
10^th Percentile	-	-	-
25^th Percentile	£82,500	-	-
Median annual salary (50^th Percentile)	£85,000	-	-
75^th Percentile	£87,500	-	-
90^th Percentile	-	-	-
Hampshire median annual salary	£65,000	£54,375	£58,000
% change year-on-year	+19.54%	-6.25%	+54.67%

All System Software Skills
Farnborough

Firmware falls under the System Software category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies citing system software skills in Farnborough.

	6 months to 11 Nov 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Permanent vacancies citing system software skills	69	4	16
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Farnborough	8.00%	3.74%	15.69%
Number of salaries quoted	46	2	8
10^th Percentile	£58,750	£56,500	£25,750
25^th Percentile	£61,875	£58,750	£30,813
Median annual salary (50^th Percentile)	£70,000	£65,000	£82,500
Median % change year-on-year	+7.69%	-21.21%	+135.71%
75^th Percentile	£80,000	£73,750	£87,500
90^th Percentile	£88,750	£77,500	-
Hampshire median annual salary	£62,500	£53,125	£55,000
% change year-on-year	+17.65%	-3.41%	+22.22%

Firmware Job Vacancy Trend in Farnborough

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

Firmware Salary Trend in Farnborough

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Farnborough citing Firmware.

Firmware Top 27 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Farnborough

For the 6 months to 11 November 2026, job vacancies citing Firmware also mentioned the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Farnborough region citing Firmware.

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Altera	100.0%	2
1	Assembly Language	100.0%	2
1	C	100.0%	2
1	C++	100.0%	2
1	Configuration Management	100.0%	2
1	Embedded Firmware	100.0%	2
1	FPGA Design	100.0%	2
1	Information Assurance	100.0%	2
1	Rational DOORS	100.0%	2
1	Requirements Gathering	100.0%	2
1	Roadmaps	100.0%	2
1	SC Cleared	100.0%	2
1	Security Cleared	100.0%	2
1	Towers Watson Igloo	100.0%	2
1	UVM	100.0%	2
1	Xilinx	100.0%	2
17	Collaborative Working	50.0%	1
17	IBM	50.0%	1
17	Integration Testing	50.0%	1
17	Problem-Solving	50.0%	1
17	Project Delivery	50.0%	1
17	Project Management	50.0%	1
17	Requirements Analysis	50.0%	1
17	Root Cause Analysis	50.0%	1
17	System Integration Testing	50.0%	1
17	Systems Engineering	50.0%	1
17	Technology Roadmap	50.0%	1

Firmware Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Farnborough by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

System Software

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Embedded Firmware	100.0%	2