Firmware Job Trends in Gloucestershire

Firmware
South West > Gloucestershire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Gloucestershire requiring Firmware skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 54 76 84
Rank change year-on-year +22 +8 +19
Permanent jobs citing Firmware 5 1 16
As % of all permanent jobs in Gloucestershire 0.77% 0.15% 1.76%
As % of the System Software category 8.77% 0.78% 6.48%
Number of salaries quoted 5 1 11
10th Percentile - - £23,750
25th Percentile £51,250 £48,750 £25,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,500 £35,000
Median % change year-on-year - +50.00% -30.00%
75th Percentile £53,750 £56,250 £54,125
90th Percentile £78,500 - £60,000
South West median annual salary £50,000 £65,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -23.08% +30.00% -16.67%

All System Software Skills
Gloucestershire

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 57 129 247
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 8.76% 19.37% 27.23%
Number of salaries quoted 47 72 157
10th Percentile £32,750 £32,500 £29,440
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +14.29% -4.55%
75th Percentile £76,250 £73,125 £61,000
90th Percentile £84,000 £82,400 £75,000
South West median annual salary £45,000 £52,500 £49,000
% change year-on-year -14.29% +7.14% +3.16%

Firmware
Job Vacancy Trend in Gloucestershire

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

Firmware job vacancy trend in Gloucestershire

Firmware
Salary Trend in Gloucestershire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Gloucestershire citing Firmware.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Gloucestershire citing Firmware

Firmware
Salary Histogram in Gloucestershire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Firmware in Gloucestershire over the 6 months to 28 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Firmware in Gloucestershire

Firmware
Job Locations in Gloucestershire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Firmware within the Gloucestershire region over the 6 months to 28 December 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
Gloucester - 1 £95,000 - 1
Firmware
South West

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:

General
1 4 (80.00%) Electronics
1 4 (80.00%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Electronics Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Principal Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Principal Systems Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Systems Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (80.00%) Analogue Electronics
2 1 (20.00%) FPGA
2 1 (20.00%) VHDL
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) C
1 4 (80.00%) Embedded C
1 4 (80.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (80.00%) Degree
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) EMC