Embedded Firmware Jobs in Kent

Embedded Firmware
South East > Kent

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Kent requiring Embedded Firmware skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Embedded Firmware over the 6 months leading up to 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 61 105 -
Rank change year-on-year +44 - -
Permanent jobs citing Embedded Firmware 3 3 0
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Kent 0.42% 0.20% -
As % of the System Software category 5.77% 1.65% -
Number of salaries quoted 3 1 0
10th Percentile £53,250 - -
25th Percentile £56,250 £26,250 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £27,500 -
Median % change year-on-year +127.27% - -
75th Percentile £63,750 £28,750 -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median annual salary £62,500 £50,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +25.00% -16.67% +14.29%

All System Software Skills
Kent

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 Kent.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 52 182 227
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Kent 7.25% 12.23% 19.70%
Number of salaries quoted 41 173 171
10th Percentile £26,250 £23,050 £25,750
25th Percentile £29,750 £30,000 £32,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £40,000 £40,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% -1.23% -3.57%
75th Percentile £57,500 £57,500 £52,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £67,500 £62,500
South East median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year +15.79% - -5.00%

Embedded Firmware
Job Vacancy Trend in Kent

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

Job vacancy trend for Embedded Firmware in Kent

Embedded Firmware
Salary Trend in Kent

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

Salary trend for Embedded Firmware in Kent

Embedded Firmware
Job Locations in Kent

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Embedded Firmware within the Kent region over the 6 months to 2 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
Margate - 1 £62,500 - 2
Embedded Firmware
South East

Embedded Firmware
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Kent 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:

Applications
1 1 (33.33%) OrCAD
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) Ethernet
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Embedded Engineer
1 3 (100.00%) Embedded Software Engineer
1 3 (100.00%) Software Engineer
2 2 (66.67%) Senior
2 2 (66.67%) Senior Embedded Engineer
2 2 (66.67%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
2 2 (66.67%) Senior Software Engineer
3 1 (33.33%) Embedded Firmware Engineer
3 1 (33.33%) Firmware Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Analogue Electronics
1 1 (33.33%) FPGA
1 1 (33.33%) Verilog
1 1 (33.33%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Embedded Linux
1 1 (33.33%) FreeRTOS
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) Mentoring
2 2 (66.67%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (33.33%) CAD
3 1 (33.33%) DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) Digital Signal Processing
3 1 (33.33%) Kalman Filter
3 1 (33.33%) Linux Kernel Development
3 1 (33.33%) Mathematics
3 1 (33.33%) Signal Processing
3 1 (33.33%) Statistics
3 1 (33.33%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) C
1 1 (33.33%) C++
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) Firmware