Embedded Firmware Job Trends in Gloucestershire

Embedded Firmware
South West > Gloucestershire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Gloucestershire requiring Embedded Firmware skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 81 - 118
Rank change year-on-year - - -2
Permanent jobs citing Embedded Firmware 1 0 9
As % of all permanent jobs in Gloucestershire 0.085% - 0.54%
As % of the System Software category 0.96% - 2.44%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 9
10th Percentile - - £50,000
25th Percentile £67,500 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 - £75,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +25.00%
75th Percentile £72,500 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South West median annual salary £65,000 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -13.33% - +39.53%

All System Software Skills
Gloucestershire

Embedded 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 Gloucestershire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 104 84 369
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 8.81% 21.21% 22.06%
Number of salaries quoted 61 50 283
10th Percentile £32,750 £30,975 £29,552
25th Percentile £40,500 £43,438 £33,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £61,250 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -18.37% +16.67% -4.55%
75th Percentile £66,250 £74,688 £60,625
90th Percentile £76,250 £95,250 £75,000
South West median annual salary £42,500 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -10.53% -5.00% +5.26%

Embedded Firmware
Job Vacancy Trend in Gloucestershire

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

Embedded Firmware job vacancy trend in Gloucestershire

Embedded Firmware
Salary Trend in Gloucestershire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Gloucestershire citing Embedded Firmware.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Gloucestershire citing Embedded Firmware

Embedded Firmware
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Gloucestershire 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) Confluence
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Bitbucket
1 1 (100.00%) Eclipse
1 1 (100.00%) GoogleTest
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
1 1 (100.00%) SonarQube
1 1 (100.00%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Electronics
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Embedded Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Embedded Software Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Embedded Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Software Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Embedded Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) FreeRTOS
1 1 (100.00%) ThreadX
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Code Quality
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (100.00%) Embedded Software Development
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C
1 1 (100.00%) C++
1 1 (100.00%) Embedded C
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Firmware
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Google