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 7 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 412 352 425
Rank change year-on-year -60 +73 +63
Permanent jobs citing Firmware 12 41 42
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.051% 0.34% 0.21%
As % of the System Software category 0.86% 2.65% 2.00%
Number of salaries quoted 9 30 31
10th Percentile £40,250 £35,550 £39,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £43,875 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% - +11.63%
75th Percentile £82,500 £72,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £91,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +14.29% -4.55% +10.00%

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 1,389 1,545 2,097
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 5.88% 12.64% 10.69%
Number of salaries quoted 910 1,114 1,409
10th Percentile £35,000 £33,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £47,875 £42,625 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £67,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.41% -3.57% +3.70%
75th Percentile £92,500 £88,750 £90,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £110,000 £107,750
England median annual salary £55,000 £49,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +12.24% -2.00% -9.91%

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 7 August 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 7 August 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
Central London -2 5 £70,000 +12.90% 10
North London - 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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (41.67%) AWS
2 3 (25.00%) Azure
3 1 (8.33%) AWS IoT
3 1 (8.33%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (16.67%) VLAN
1 2 (16.67%) WAN
1 2 (16.67%) Wireless
2 1 (8.33%) BGP
2 1 (8.33%) Cisco Firepower
2 1 (8.33%) Cisco ISE
2 1 (8.33%) Cisco Wireless
2 1 (8.33%) DNS
2 1 (8.33%) EIGRP
2 1 (8.33%) Firewall
2 1 (8.33%) HSRP
2 1 (8.33%) Internet
2 1 (8.33%) LAN
2 1 (8.33%) MQTT
2 1 (8.33%) OSPF
2 1 (8.33%) TCP/IP
2 1 (8.33%) Unified Communications
2 1 (8.33%) VRRP
2 1 (8.33%) VXLAN
2 1 (8.33%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (25.00%) NoSQL
1 3 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (8.33%) Amazon RDS
General
1 7 (58.33%) Electronics
2 4 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 3 (25.00%) Finance
4 1 (8.33%) Law
4 1 (8.33%) Legal
Job Titles
1 3 (25.00%) Software Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) PCB Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) Senior
2 2 (16.67%) Senior Software Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) 3rd Line Support
3 1 (8.33%) Audio Visual Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Cisco Network Specialist
3 1 (8.33%) Cisco Specialist
3 1 (8.33%) Design Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Electronics Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Embedded Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Hardware Design Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Hardware Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Installations Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Network Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Network Operations Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Network Specialist
3 1 (8.33%) Operations Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) PCB Design Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (25.00%) Node.js
1 3 (25.00%) React
Miscellaneous
1 5 (41.67%) IoT
2 3 (25.00%) Robotics
2 3 (25.00%) Sports Betting
3 1 (8.33%) CCTV
3 1 (8.33%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (8.33%) Data Centre
3 1 (8.33%) Driving Licence
3 1 (8.33%) Embedded Systems
3 1 (8.33%) Fibre Optics
3 1 (8.33%) Onboarding
3 1 (8.33%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 2 (16.67%) Windows
2 1 (8.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (41.67%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (25.00%) Analytics
2 3 (25.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (25.00%) Data Science
2 3 (25.00%) Disruptive Innovation
2 3 (25.00%) End-to-End Testing
2 3 (25.00%) PLM
2 3 (25.00%) Prototyping
2 3 (25.00%) Rapid Prototyping
2 3 (25.00%) Service Delivery
2 3 (25.00%) Software Engineering
3 2 (16.67%) Root Cause Analysis
4 1 (8.33%) CAD
4 1 (8.33%) Customer Service
4 1 (8.33%) Cybersecurity
4 1 (8.33%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (8.33%) Feasibility Study
4 1 (8.33%) Preventative Maintenance
4 1 (8.33%) Problem Management
4 1 (8.33%) Remote Monitoring and Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (41.67%) C
1 5 (41.67%) Python
2 3 (25.00%) C++
2 3 (25.00%) Go
2 3 (25.00%) TypeScript
3 1 (8.33%) Java
3 1 (8.33%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (8.33%) CCNP
1 1 (8.33%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (8.33%) DV Cleared
1 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (8.33%) NVQ Level 3
1 1 (8.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.33%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (8.33%) Active Directory
1 1 (8.33%) Hyper-V
1 1 (8.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (25.00%) Terraform
2 1 (8.33%) Ansible
2 1 (8.33%) FortiGate
2 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 3 (25.00%) EMC
1 3 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (16.67%) Cisco
3 1 (8.33%) Aruba
3 1 (8.33%) Cognizant
3 1 (8.33%) ConnectWise
3 1 (8.33%) Draytek
3 1 (8.33%) Fortinet
3 1 (8.33%) Palo Alto
3 1 (8.33%) Remedy
3 1 (8.33%) VMware