Firmware Job Trends in Manchester

Firmware
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring Firmware skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 124 147 127
Rank change year-on-year +23 -20 +88
Permanent jobs citing Firmware 9 4 21
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 0.31% 0.15% 0.83%
As % of the System Software category 5.63% 1.70% 5.44%
Number of salaries quoted 9 4 17
10th Percentile £44,600 - -
25th Percentile £45,750 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,500 £48,750 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.62% -2.50% -4.76%
75th Percentile £47,250 £54,688 £58,750
90th Percentile - £58,625 £69,750
North West median annual salary £46,500 £51,500 £53,750
% change year-on-year -9.71% -4.19% +4.88%

All System Software Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 160 235 386
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 5.58% 8.81% 15.22%
Number of salaries quoted 138 134 320
10th Percentile £32,200 £31,075 £29,000
25th Percentile £38,188 £40,000 £38,583
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,250 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -0.45% +5.24% -
75th Percentile £70,438 £74,144 £70,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £87,500 £77,625
North West median annual salary £50,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% +5.26%

Firmware
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Firmware job vacancy trend in Manchester

Firmware
Salary Trend in Manchester

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Firmware.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Firmware

Firmware
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester 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 (11.11%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (11.11%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 1 (11.11%) Azure
1 1 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (11.11%) Entra ID
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (11.11%) OneDrive
1 1 (11.11%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 1 (11.11%) DHCP
1 1 (11.11%) DNS
1 1 (11.11%) Firewall
1 1 (11.11%) Network Security
1 1 (11.11%) SD-WAN
1 1 (11.11%) TCP/IP
1 1 (11.11%) VLAN
1 1 (11.11%) VPN
1 1 (11.11%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (11.11%) SQL Server
General
1 8 (88.89%) Electronics
2 1 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Finance
2 1 (11.11%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (88.89%) Electronics Engineer
1 8 (88.89%) Embedded Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Senior
2 1 (11.11%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Analytical Mindset
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (88.89%) Embedded Software Development
2 1 (11.11%) Change Control
2 1 (11.11%) Containerisation
2 1 (11.11%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (11.11%) DevOps
2 1 (11.11%) Digital Transformation Programme
2 1 (11.11%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Management
2 1 (11.11%) ITIL
2 1 (11.11%) Mentoring
2 1 (11.11%) Network Virtualisation
2 1 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (11.11%) Storage Management
2 1 (11.11%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (88.89%) C
1 8 (88.89%) C++
1 8 (88.89%) Embedded C
1 8 (88.89%) Embedded C++
2 1 (11.11%) PowerShell
2 1 (11.11%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) Azure Certification
1 1 (11.11%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 8 (88.89%) Embedded Firmware
2 1 (11.11%) Active Directory
2 1 (11.11%) Docker
2 1 (11.11%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (11.11%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) FortiGate
1 1 (11.11%) Kubernetes
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 8 (88.89%) EMC
2 1 (11.11%) Fortinet
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft