Firmware Jobs in Hertfordshire

Firmware
East of England > Hertfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Hertfordshire requiring Firmware skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Firmware over the 6 months leading up to 17 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 77 59 110
Rank change year-on-year -18 +51 -22
Permanent jobs citing Firmware 8 64 21
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 0.97% 3.20% 1.17%
As % of the System Software category 6.02% 23.19% 7.45%
Number of salaries quoted 8 52 17
10th Percentile £64,900 £45,000 £43,250
25th Percentile - £48,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £56,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +23.89% +2.73% +2.33%
75th Percentile - £65,000 £62,500
90th Percentile - £80,000 £67,500
East of England median annual salary £54,000 £56,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -4.42% -13.08% +13.04%

All System Software Skills
Hertfordshire

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 Hertfordshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 133 276 282
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 16.10% 13.80% 15.69%
Number of salaries quoted 87 233 198
10th Percentile £38,500 £25,000 £30,688
25th Percentile £46,875 £31,250 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,320 £42,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +30.16% -15.00% +17.65%
75th Percentile £69,375 £58,750 £62,500
90th Percentile £79,250 £66,000 £67,500
East of England median annual salary £45,000 £40,000 £46,500
% change year-on-year +12.50% -13.98% +5.08%

Firmware
Job Vacancy Trend in Hertfordshire

Job postings citing Firmware as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire.

Job vacancy trend for Firmware in Hertfordshire

Firmware
Salary Trend in Hertfordshire

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Firmware in Hertfordshire.

Salary trend for Firmware in Hertfordshire

Firmware
Salary Histogram in Hertfordshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Firmware in Hertfordshire over the 6 months to 17 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Firmware in Hertfordshire

Firmware
Job Locations in Hertfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Firmware within the Hertfordshire region over the 6 months to 17 May 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
Stevenage -9 6 £70,000 +23.89% 3
Firmware
East of England

Firmware
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Hertfordshire by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Communications & Networking
1 2 (25.00%) Software-Defined Radio
General
1 6 (75.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 6 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 6 (75.00%) Lead
1 6 (75.00%) Project Leader
1 6 (75.00%) Software Project Leader
2 1 (12.50%) Architect
2 1 (12.50%) Design Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Electronics Design Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Electronics Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Embedded Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Systems Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Embedded Systems
1 1 (12.50%) FPGA
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) Agile
1 6 (75.00%) Budgeting
1 6 (75.00%) Coaching
1 6 (75.00%) Cost Control
1 6 (75.00%) Mentoring
1 6 (75.00%) Planning and Forecasting
1 6 (75.00%) Project Management
1 6 (75.00%) Scrum
1 6 (75.00%) Software Engineering
1 6 (75.00%) UML
1 6 (75.00%) Validation
1 6 (75.00%) Verification and Validation
1 6 (75.00%) Waterfall
2 1 (12.50%) FPGA Design
2 1 (12.50%) Image Processing
2 1 (12.50%) Signal Processing
Programming Languages
1 6 (75.00%) Ada
1 6 (75.00%) C
1 6 (75.00%) C++
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) Degree
System Software
1 6 (75.00%) Embedded Firmware
Vendors
1 1 (12.50%) EMC
1 1 (12.50%) Intel
1 1 (12.50%) Xilinx