Embedded Firmware Jobs in the Midlands

Embedded Firmware
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Midlands requiring Embedded Firmware skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Embedded Firmware over the 6 months leading up to 19 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 241 264 301
Rank change year-on-year +23 +37 +53
Permanent jobs citing Embedded Firmware 7 83 4
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.10% 0.58% 0.047%
As % of the System Software category 1.00% 5.74% 0.33%
Number of salaries quoted 6 57 4
10th Percentile £41,250 - -
25th Percentile £41,875 £50,000 £33,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,000 £60,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -23.33% +26.32% -15.18%
75th Percentile £51,250 £65,000 £63,813
90th Percentile £54,500 £76,250 £64,375
England median annual salary £62,500 £52,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +19.05% -8.70% +8.49%

All System Software Skills
Midlands

Embedded 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 the Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 698 1,446 1,204
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 10.39% 10.08% 14.14%
Number of salaries quoted 514 1,167 725
10th Percentile £26,250 £24,500 £25,750
25th Percentile £29,750 £30,000 £30,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £42,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% -5.56% -
75th Percentile £58,125 £57,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £73,750 £68,000 £72,500
England median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% -

Embedded Firmware
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Job postings citing Embedded Firmware as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Embedded Firmware in the Midlands

Embedded Firmware
Salary Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Embedded Firmware in the Midlands.

Salary trend for Embedded Firmware in the Midlands

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Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Embedded Firmware within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 19 June 2025. 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
East Midlands +16 5 £45,000 -14.29% 12
West Midlands +32 2 £49,000 -20.33% 15
Embedded Firmware
England

Embedded Firmware
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) LTE
1 1 (14.29%) Wi-Fi
1 1 (14.29%) Wireless
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Git
2 1 (14.29%) Appium
2 1 (14.29%) JIRA
2 1 (14.29%) Subversion
2 1 (14.29%) TestRail
General
1 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Automotive
2 1 (14.29%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Electronics
2 1 (14.29%) Finance
2 1 (14.29%) Manufacturing
2 1 (14.29%) Marketing
2 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
2 1 (14.29%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Design Engineer
1 4 (57.14%) Electronics Design Engineer
1 4 (57.14%) Electronics Engineer
1 4 (57.14%) Electronics Hardware Engineer
1 4 (57.14%) Hardware Design Engineer
1 4 (57.14%) Hardware Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Senior
3 1 (14.29%) Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Embedded Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Full-Stack Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Embedded Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) REST
2 1 (14.29%) HTML
2 1 (14.29%) JSON
2 1 (14.29%) Laravel
2 1 (14.29%) RESTful
2 1 (14.29%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 6 (85.71%) Embedded Systems
2 4 (57.14%) Analogue Electronics
3 1 (14.29%) IoT
3 1 (14.29%) Mobile App
3 1 (14.29%) Raspberry Pi
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Android
1 1 (14.29%) Apple iOS
1 1 (14.29%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) Collaborative Working
1 5 (71.43%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (28.57%) Defect Tracking
2 2 (28.57%) Validation
3 1 (14.29%) Agile
3 1 (14.29%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (14.29%) CAD
3 1 (14.29%) Configuration Management
3 1 (14.29%) Digital Marketing
3 1 (14.29%) Manual Testing
3 1 (14.29%) MVC
3 1 (14.29%) OO
3 1 (14.29%) Performance Testing
3 1 (14.29%) Programme Management
3 1 (14.29%) Project Management
3 1 (14.29%) Regression Testing
3 1 (14.29%) Schematic Capture
3 1 (14.29%) Stress Testing
3 1 (14.29%) TDD
3 1 (14.29%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) SQL
2 1 (14.29%) JavaScript
2 1 (14.29%) PHP
2 1 (14.29%) Shell Script
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) QA
System Software
1 7 (100.00%) Firmware
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) SAP