Firmware Job Trends in London

Firmware
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in London requiring Firmware skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 380 363 437
Rank change year-on-year -17 +74 +124
Permanent jobs citing Firmware 27 25 62
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.13% 0.21% 0.26%
As % of the System Software category 2.00% 1.63% 2.23%
Number of salaries quoted 19 16 53
10th Percentile £40,000 £33,750 £33,125
25th Percentile £46,250 £41,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,000 £85,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -27.06% +61.90% +23.53%
75th Percentile £70,000 £97,188 £67,500
90th Percentile £84,000 £102,500 £70,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £53,688 £52,500
% change year-on-year +11.76% +2.26% +14.13%

All System Software Skills
London

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 London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 1,348 1,534 2,780
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 6.40% 12.74% 11.59%
Number of salaries quoted 865 1,100 2,067
10th Percentile £35,500 £36,250 £32,750
25th Percentile £47,500 £47,500 £45,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,000 £70,274 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.03% +4.11% -0.74%
75th Percentile £92,500 £92,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £118,750 £115,000 £110,000
England median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £49,881
% change year-on-year - +5.25% -9.31%

Firmware
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Firmware job vacancy trend in London

Firmware
Salary Trend in London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing Firmware.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing Firmware

Firmware
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Firmware in London over the 6 months to 5 June 2026.

Salary histogram for Firmware in London

Firmware
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Firmware within the London region over the 6 months to 5 June 2026. 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
North London - 5 - - 1
Central London -7 3 £70,000 -24.32% 5
South London +9 2 £47,500 +26.67% 1
Firmware
England

Firmware
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 (3.70%) Kinematics
Cloud Services
1 8 (29.63%) Microsoft 365
2 7 (25.93%) Azure
3 4 (14.81%) Entra ID
4 3 (11.11%) AWS
5 1 (3.70%) AWS IoT
Communications & Networking
1 10 (37.04%) Firewall
2 4 (14.81%) Cisco IOS
2 4 (14.81%) DNS
2 4 (14.81%) WAAS
3 3 (11.11%) Unified Communications
3 3 (11.11%) VPN
3 3 (11.11%) WAN
4 2 (7.41%) SAN
4 2 (7.41%) TCP/IP
4 2 (7.41%) VLAN
5 1 (3.70%) Cisco ASA
5 1 (3.70%) Ethernet
5 1 (3.70%) Internet
5 1 (3.70%) LAN
5 1 (3.70%) MQTT
5 1 (3.70%) NX-OS
5 1 (3.70%) VXLAN
5 1 (3.70%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (14.81%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (7.41%) NoSQL
2 2 (7.41%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (3.70%) IDA Disassembler
General
1 6 (22.22%) Social Skills
2 5 (18.52%) Electronics
2 5 (18.52%) Finance
3 4 (14.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (3.70%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 10 (37.04%) Network Engineer
2 6 (22.22%) Senior
3 5 (18.52%) Lead
4 4 (14.81%) Senior Network Engineer
5 3 (11.11%) 3rd Line Support
5 3 (11.11%) Software Engineer
6 2 (7.41%) Design Engineer
6 2 (7.41%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (7.41%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (7.41%) PCB Engineer
7 1 (3.70%) 3rd Line Engineer
7 1 (3.70%) Audio Visual Engineer
7 1 (3.70%) Embedded Engineer
7 1 (3.70%) Firmware Engineer
7 1 (3.70%) FPGA Engineer
7 1 (3.70%) IT Engineer
7 1 (3.70%) Network Operations Engineer
7 1 (3.70%) Operations Engineer
7 1 (3.70%) PCB Design Engineer
7 1 (3.70%) Senior Firmware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (7.41%) Node.js
1 2 (7.41%) React
Miscellaneous
1 7 (25.93%) IoT
2 4 (14.81%) CMDB
2 4 (14.81%) Management Information System
2 4 (14.81%) Onboarding
2 4 (14.81%) Robotics
2 4 (14.81%) Video Conferencing
3 3 (11.11%) Cyber Threat
4 2 (7.41%) Data Centre
4 2 (7.41%) Embedded Systems
4 2 (7.41%) Sports Betting
5 1 (3.70%) Algorithms
5 1 (3.70%) ARM Cortex
5 1 (3.70%) Digital Signage
5 1 (3.70%) Driving Licence
5 1 (3.70%) FPGA
5 1 (3.70%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 11 (40.74%) Windows
2 5 (18.52%) Android
3 4 (14.81%) Windows Server
4 1 (3.70%) FreeRTOS
4 1 (3.70%) Linux
4 1 (3.70%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (29.63%) AI
1 8 (29.63%) Root Cause Analysis
2 7 (25.93%) Kalman Filter
2 7 (25.93%) Proactive Monitoring
2 7 (25.93%) Problem Management
2 7 (25.93%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (22.22%) Change Control
3 6 (22.22%) Disaster Recovery
3 6 (22.22%) Service Delivery
3 6 (22.22%) Task Automation
3 6 (22.22%) Vulnerability Management
4 5 (18.52%) Mentoring
4 5 (18.52%) Runbook
5 4 (14.81%) Project Delivery
5 4 (14.81%) Prototyping
5 4 (14.81%) Remote Monitoring and Management
5 4 (14.81%) Roadmaps
5 4 (14.81%) Service Catalogue
5 4 (14.81%) SIAM
5 4 (14.81%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 10 (37.04%) Python
2 9 (33.33%) PowerShell
3 6 (22.22%) C
4 5 (18.52%) C++
5 2 (7.41%) Go
5 2 (7.41%) Java
5 2 (7.41%) TypeScript
6 1 (3.70%) Bash
6 1 (3.70%) C#
6 1 (3.70%) Groovy
6 1 (3.70%) Rust
Qualifications
1 8 (29.63%) Microsoft Certification
2 6 (22.22%) CCNP
2 6 (22.22%) Cisco Certification
3 5 (18.52%) Degree
3 5 (18.52%) Security Cleared
4 4 (14.81%) SC Cleared
5 3 (11.11%) CCIE
5 3 (11.11%) CCNA
5 3 (11.11%) JNCIA
5 3 (11.11%) JNCIP
5 3 (11.11%) Network+ Certification
6 1 (3.70%) DV Cleared
6 1 (3.70%) Master's Degree
6 1 (3.70%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (14.81%) GRC
1 4 (14.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (14.81%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (22.22%) Active Directory
2 4 (14.81%) Hyper-V
3 3 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (29.63%) Microsoft Intune
2 6 (22.22%) Ansible
3 4 (14.81%) SCCM
4 2 (7.41%) Dell DRAC
4 2 (7.41%) Terraform
Vendors
1 14 (51.85%) Cisco
2 13 (48.15%) Fortinet
3 10 (37.04%) Microsoft
4 6 (22.22%) Juniper
5 4 (14.81%) ConnectWise
5 4 (14.81%) Draytek
5 4 (14.81%) VMware
6 3 (11.11%) EMC
7 2 (7.41%) Dell
8 1 (3.70%) CheckPoint
8 1 (3.70%) Cognizant
8 1 (3.70%) Meraki