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 17 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 406 362 428
Rank change year-on-year -44 +66 +95
Permanent jobs citing Firmware 13 34 58
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.058% 0.27% 0.26%
As % of the System Software category 0.94% 2.15% 2.29%
Number of salaries quoted 10 24 49
10th Percentile £44,750 £34,350 £38,450
25th Percentile £50,313 £43,688 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% - +14.29%
75th Percentile £86,250 £90,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £94,250 £100,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £52,500 £54,000
% change year-on-year +14.29% -2.78% +18.03%

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 1,386 1,580 2,532
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 6.22% 12.70% 11.24%
Number of salaries quoted 911 1,138 1,827
10th Percentile £35,000 £35,000 £34,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £70,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.57% +3.70% -
75th Percentile £91,250 £90,000 £88,750
90th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £107,500
England median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £49,500
% change year-on-year +5.00% +1.01% -10.00%

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 17 July 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 17 July 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 0 5 £70,000 -24.32% 10
South London +4 1 £47,500 +26.67% 2
North London - 1 - - 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 (7.69%) Kinematics
Cloud Services
1 4 (30.77%) AWS
1 4 (30.77%) Azure
2 1 (7.69%) AWS IoT
2 1 (7.69%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (23.08%) Firewall
1 3 (23.08%) WAN
2 2 (15.38%) VLAN
2 2 (15.38%) VPN
2 2 (15.38%) Wi-Fi
2 2 (15.38%) Wireless
3 1 (7.69%) BGP
3 1 (7.69%) Cisco ASA
3 1 (7.69%) Cisco ISE
3 1 (7.69%) DNS
3 1 (7.69%) EIGRP
3 1 (7.69%) Ethernet
3 1 (7.69%) Internet
3 1 (7.69%) LAN
3 1 (7.69%) MQTT
3 1 (7.69%) NX-OS
3 1 (7.69%) OSPF
3 1 (7.69%) SAN
3 1 (7.69%) TCP/IP
3 1 (7.69%) VRRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (15.38%) NoSQL
1 2 (15.38%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (7.69%) Amazon RDS
General
1 5 (38.46%) Electronics
2 4 (30.77%) Finance
2 4 (30.77%) Social Skills
3 1 (7.69%) Advertising
3 1 (7.69%) Law
3 1 (7.69%) Legal
Job Titles
1 3 (23.08%) Network Engineer
1 3 (23.08%) Senior
2 2 (15.38%) PCB Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) Software Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) 3rd Line Support
3 1 (7.69%) Cisco Specialist
3 1 (7.69%) Design Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Electronics Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Firmware Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Hardware Design Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Hardware Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Network Operations Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Network Specialist
3 1 (7.69%) Operations Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Senior Firmware Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Senior Network Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Senior Software Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (15.38%) Node.js
1 2 (15.38%) React
Miscellaneous
1 4 (30.77%) IoT
1 4 (30.77%) Robotics
2 2 (15.38%) Data Centre
2 2 (15.38%) Embedded Systems
2 2 (15.38%) Sports Betting
3 1 (7.69%) Algorithms
3 1 (7.69%) ARM Cortex
3 1 (7.69%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (7.69%) Digital Signage
3 1 (7.69%) Driving Licence
3 1 (7.69%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 2 (15.38%) Windows
2 1 (7.69%) FreeRTOS
2 1 (7.69%) Robot Operating System
2 1 (7.69%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (23.08%) CI/CD
1 3 (23.08%) PLM
1 3 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
1 3 (23.08%) Prototyping
1 3 (23.08%) Rapid Prototyping
2 2 (15.38%) Analytics
2 2 (15.38%) Data Science
2 2 (15.38%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (15.38%) Disruptive Innovation
2 2 (15.38%) End-to-End Testing
2 2 (15.38%) Root Cause Analysis
2 2 (15.38%) Service Delivery
2 2 (15.38%) Software Engineering
3 1 (7.69%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (7.69%) DevOps
3 1 (7.69%) Kalman Filter
3 1 (7.69%) Machine Learning
3 1 (7.69%) Mentoring
3 1 (7.69%) Network Architecture
3 1 (7.69%) Performance Analysis
Programming Languages
1 5 (38.46%) C
2 4 (30.77%) C++
2 4 (30.77%) Python
3 2 (15.38%) Go
3 2 (15.38%) TypeScript
4 1 (7.69%) Java
4 1 (7.69%) PowerShell
4 1 (7.69%) Rust
Qualifications
1 1 (7.69%) CCNP
1 1 (7.69%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.69%) Accessibility
System Software
1 2 (15.38%) Active Directory
2 1 (7.69%) Hyper-V
2 1 (7.69%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (15.38%) Terraform
2 1 (7.69%) Ansible
2 1 (7.69%) Dell DRAC
2 1 (7.69%) FortiGate
2 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 4 (30.77%) Cisco
2 3 (23.08%) EMC
2 3 (23.08%) Fortinet
2 3 (23.08%) Microsoft
3 1 (7.69%) Aruba
3 1 (7.69%) CheckPoint
3 1 (7.69%) Cognizant
3 1 (7.69%) ConnectWise
3 1 (7.69%) Dell
3 1 (7.69%) Draytek
3 1 (7.69%) Meraki
3 1 (7.69%) Palo Alto
3 1 (7.69%) VMware