Firmware Jobs in Leicestershire

Firmware
East Midlands > Leicestershire

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Leicestershire with a requirement for Firmware skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Firmware over the 6 months to 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 85 88 105
Rank change year-on-year +3 +17 -39
Permanent jobs citing Firmware 21 6 3
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leicestershire 1.95% 0.79% 0.27%
As % of the System Software category 18.10% 4.92% 2.75%
Number of salaries quoted 19 4 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £38,750 £26,250 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £27,500 -
Median % change year-on-year +54.55% - -
75th Percentile £53,750 £28,750 -
90th Percentile - - -
East Midlands median annual salary £50,000 £27,500 £32,500
% change year-on-year +81.82% -15.38% -30.48%

All System Software Skills
Leicestershire

Firmware is in the System Software category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in Leicestershire with a requirement for system software skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 116 122 109
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leicestershire 10.78% 16.01% 9.72%
Number of salaries quoted 96 34 87
10th Percentile £24,500 £26,250 £23,850
25th Percentile £29,625 £31,875 £25,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £51,125 £26,500
Median % change year-on-year -16.87% +92.92% -38.37%
75th Percentile £53,750 £56,438 £48,750
90th Percentile £61,250 £65,625 £55,000
East Midlands median annual salary £40,000 £45,000 £39,000
% change year-on-year -11.11% +15.38% -8.24%

Firmware
Job Vacancy Trend in Leicestershire

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

Job vacancy trend for Firmware in Leicestershire

Firmware
Salary Trend in Leicestershire

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

Salary trend for Firmware in Leicestershire

Firmware
Job Locations in Leicestershire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Firmware within the Leicestershire region over the 6 months to 29 April 2024. 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
Leicester +25 11 £52,500 -
Loughborough - 10 £42,500 - 2
Firmware
East Midlands

Firmware
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Leicestershire 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (19.05%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 2 (9.52%) Modbus
1 2 (9.52%) MQTT
Development Applications
1 2 (9.52%) Git
1 2 (9.52%) Jenkins
General
1 12 (57.14%) Electronics
2 2 (9.52%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 12 (57.14%) Embedded Engineer
1 12 (57.14%) Embedded Firmware Engineer
1 12 (57.14%) Firmware Engineer
2 6 (28.57%) Software Engineer
3 2 (9.52%) Control Software Engineer
3 2 (9.52%) Hardware Engineer
3 2 (9.52%) Senior
3 2 (9.52%) Senior Software Engineer
4 1 (4.76%) Design Engineer
4 1 (4.76%) Electronics Design Engineer
4 1 (4.76%) Electronics Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (42.86%) Yocto
2 4 (19.05%) Qt
3 2 (9.52%) Boost C++ Libraries
Miscellaneous
1 2 (9.52%) Embedded Systems
Operating Systems
1 13 (61.90%) Linux
2 9 (42.86%) Embedded Linux
3 2 (9.52%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (52.38%) Software Engineering
2 9 (42.86%) Linux Kernel Development
3 4 (19.05%) Computer Science
4 2 (9.52%) Product Requirements
4 2 (9.52%) TDD
5 1 (4.76%) Schematic Capture
Programming Languages
1 13 (61.90%) C
1 13 (61.90%) C++
2 4 (19.05%) C#
3 2 (9.52%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (28.57%) Degree
System Software
1 15 (71.43%) Embedded Firmware
Vendors
1 1 (4.76%) EMC
1 1 (4.76%) Sitecore