Firmware Job Trends in Glasgow

Firmware
Scotland > Glasgow

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Glasgow requiring Firmware skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 64 63 121
Rank change year-on-year -1 +58 -53
Permanent jobs citing Firmware 12 20 8
As % of all permanent jobs in Glasgow 0.84% 2.68% 0.52%
As % of the System Software category 15.58% 25.64% 5.23%
Number of salaries quoted 12 20 6
10th Percentile £32,125 £63,750 £49,125
25th Percentile £40,000 £75,000 £52,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £80,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.13% +39.13% -
75th Percentile £81,250 £85,000 £61,250
90th Percentile - - £65,625
Scotland median annual salary £45,000 £80,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -43.75% +23.08% +13.04%

All System Software Skills
Glasgow

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 Glasgow.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 77 78 153
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Glasgow 5.40% 10.46% 9.95%
Number of salaries quoted 47 50 64
10th Percentile £27,000 £29,000 £28,500
25th Percentile £29,250 £51,875 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £43,500 £67,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -35.56% +35.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £53,750 £85,000 £61,250
90th Percentile £80,000 - £67,500
Scotland median annual salary £40,000 £57,500 £53,000
% change year-on-year -30.43% +8.49% -

Firmware
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

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

Firmware job vacancy trend in Glasgow

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Salary Trend in Glasgow

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing Firmware.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing Firmware

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Salary Histogram in Glasgow

Salary distribution for jobs citing Firmware in Glasgow over the 6 months to 24 September 2026.

Salary histogram for Firmware in Glasgow

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Glasgow 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:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (8.33%) MySQL
1 1 (8.33%) SQL Server
General
1 4 (33.33%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 4 (33.33%) Architect
1 4 (33.33%) Hardware Architect
2 3 (25.00%) Firmware Engineer
2 3 (25.00%) Security Engineer
2 3 (25.00%) Test Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Electronics Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Embedded Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (8.33%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 3 (25.00%) Embedded Systems
1 3 (25.00%) FPGA
2 2 (16.67%) PCIe
2 2 (16.67%) Verilog
2 2 (16.67%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 1 (8.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (33.33%) IT Strategy
1 4 (33.33%) Product Management
1 4 (33.33%) Requirements Management
1 4 (33.33%) Risk Management
1 4 (33.33%) Roadmaps
1 4 (33.33%) Software Testing
1 4 (33.33%) Systems Engineering
1 4 (33.33%) Technology Strategy
2 2 (16.67%) AI
2 2 (16.67%) Edge Computing
Programming Languages
1 3 (25.00%) C
2 2 (16.67%) SystemVerilog
3 1 (8.33%) C#
3 1 (8.33%) Python
3 1 (8.33%) SQL