Firmware Jobs in the Midlands

Firmware
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Midlands requiring Firmware skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Firmware over the 6 months leading up to 22 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 227 195 282
Rank change year-on-year -32 +87 +45
Permanent jobs citing Firmware 34 123 33
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.49% 1.01% 0.37%
As % of the System Software category 5.38% 8.92% 2.63%
Number of salaries quoted 33 92 25
10th Percentile £39,000 £37,500 -
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £26,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £52,500 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +23.53% -20.56%
75th Percentile £53,750 £63,688 £58,750
90th Percentile £64,250 £71,250 £110,000
England median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +10.53% -11.21%

All System Software Skills
Midlands

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 632 1,379 1,253
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 9.17% 11.37% 13.91%
Number of salaries quoted 452 1,174 739
10th Percentile £26,250 £24,500 £25,500
25th Percentile £29,000 £30,000 £30,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £39,250 £42,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.65% -5.56% -
75th Percentile £53,750 £56,188 £61,125
90th Percentile £68,750 £67,500 £72,500
England median annual salary £54,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +8.00% -9.09% -

Firmware
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Firmware in the Midlands

Firmware
Salary Trend in the Midlands

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

Salary trend for Firmware in the Midlands

Firmware
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Firmware in the Midlands over the 6 months to 22 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Firmware in the Midlands

Firmware
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 Firmware within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 22 May 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
West Midlands +15 17 £45,147 -25.68% 27
East Midlands -7 17 £47,500 -5.00% 26
Firmware
England

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:

Applications
1 9 (26.47%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (2.94%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 6 (17.65%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 4 (11.76%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (5.88%) Azure
3 1 (2.94%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 14 (41.18%) Wi-Fi
2 5 (14.71%) Wireless
3 3 (8.82%) Firewall
3 3 (8.82%) LTE
3 3 (8.82%) WAN
4 2 (5.88%) Modbus
4 2 (5.88%) VPN
5 1 (2.94%) BGP
5 1 (2.94%) Bluetooth
5 1 (2.94%) Cisco ISE
5 1 (2.94%) Cisco Nexus
5 1 (2.94%) DHCP
5 1 (2.94%) DNS
5 1 (2.94%) GSM
5 1 (2.94%) IPsec
5 1 (2.94%) J1939
5 1 (2.94%) Network Security
5 1 (2.94%) OpenScape
5 1 (2.94%) OSPF
5 1 (2.94%) ZigBee
Development Applications
1 4 (11.76%) Git
1 4 (11.76%) JIRA
2 3 (8.82%) Subversion
3 2 (5.88%) Eclipse
4 1 (2.94%) Appium
4 1 (2.94%) TestRail
General
1 6 (17.65%) Electronics
2 5 (14.71%) Social Skills
3 3 (8.82%) Pharmaceutical
3 3 (8.82%) Public Sector
4 2 (5.88%) Automotive
4 2 (5.88%) Manufacturing
4 2 (5.88%) Police
4 2 (5.88%) Telecoms
5 1 (2.94%) Advertising
5 1 (2.94%) Aerospace
5 1 (2.94%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (2.94%) Finance
5 1 (2.94%) Law
5 1 (2.94%) Marketing
5 1 (2.94%) Military
5 1 (2.94%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 10 (29.41%) Embedded Engineer
2 7 (20.59%) Analyst
2 7 (20.59%) Senior
3 6 (17.65%) Embedded Software Engineer
3 6 (17.65%) Software Engineer
3 6 (17.65%) Support Analyst
4 5 (14.71%) Hardware Engineer
5 4 (11.76%) Design Engineer
5 4 (11.76%) Electronics Design Engineer
5 4 (11.76%) Electronics Engineer
6 3 (8.82%) Electronics Hardware Engineer
6 3 (8.82%) Hardware Design Engineer
6 3 (8.82%) Lead
6 3 (8.82%) Reliability Engineer
6 3 (8.82%) Senior Embedded Engineer
6 3 (8.82%) Senior Reliability Engineer
6 3 (8.82%) Support Team Leader
6 3 (8.82%) Team Leader
7 2 (5.88%) Hardware Support Engineer
7 2 (5.88%) IT Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.88%) REST
2 1 (2.94%) HTML
2 1 (2.94%) JSON
2 1 (2.94%) Laravel
2 1 (2.94%) RESTful
2 1 (2.94%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 9 (26.47%) Embedded Systems
2 3 (8.82%) Analogue Electronics
2 3 (8.82%) ARM Cortex
2 3 (8.82%) IoT
2 3 (8.82%) iPad
2 3 (8.82%) iPhone
2 3 (8.82%) Raspberry Pi
3 1 (2.94%) ASIC
3 1 (2.94%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (2.94%) FPGA
3 1 (2.94%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.94%) Mobile App
3 1 (2.94%) Smart Energy
3 1 (2.94%) VHDL
3 1 (2.94%) VLSI
Operating Systems
1 10 (29.41%) Windows
2 4 (11.76%) Apple iOS
3 1 (2.94%) Android
3 1 (2.94%) CentOS
3 1 (2.94%) Linux
3 1 (2.94%) Rocky
3 1 (2.94%) Ubuntu
3 1 (2.94%) Unix
3 1 (2.94%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (29.41%) Change Management
2 9 (26.47%) Incident Management
2 9 (26.47%) Mobile Device Management
2 9 (26.47%) Problem Management
3 8 (23.53%) Asset Management
3 8 (23.53%) Major Incident Management
3 8 (23.53%) Software Engineering
4 6 (17.65%) ITSM
5 5 (14.71%) Collaborative Working
5 5 (14.71%) Customer Service
5 5 (14.71%) Test Automation
5 5 (14.71%) Validation
6 4 (11.76%) Case Management
6 4 (11.76%) Cybersecurity
6 4 (11.76%) Line Management
6 4 (11.76%) Problem-Solving
7 3 (8.82%) Agile
7 3 (8.82%) FMEA
7 3 (8.82%) Performance Optimisation
7 3 (8.82%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 9 (26.47%) C
2 3 (8.82%) Python
3 2 (5.88%) Embedded C
3 2 (5.88%) SQL
4 1 (2.94%) Assembly Language
4 1 (2.94%) C#
4 1 (2.94%) C++
4 1 (2.94%) JavaScript
4 1 (2.94%) MATLAB
4 1 (2.94%) PHP
4 1 (2.94%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 4 (11.76%) Degree
2 1 (2.94%) A+ Certification
2 1 (2.94%) CCNP
2 1 (2.94%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (2.94%) CompTIA Security+
2 1 (2.94%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (2.94%) DV Cleared
2 1 (2.94%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.88%) QA
2 1 (2.94%) Automotive SPICE
2 1 (2.94%) AUTOSAR
2 1 (2.94%) DO-254
2 1 (2.94%) MISRA
2 1 (2.94%) MISRA C
2 1 (2.94%) NIST
2 1 (2.94%) SLA
System Software
1 9 (26.47%) BitLocker
2 7 (20.59%) Embedded Firmware
3 3 (8.82%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 11 (32.35%) SCCM
2 1 (2.94%) Ansible
2 1 (2.94%) FortiGate
2 1 (2.94%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 11 (32.35%) Apple
1 11 (32.35%) HP
1 11 (32.35%) Microsoft
2 9 (26.47%) MobileIron
3 6 (17.65%) McAfee
3 6 (17.65%) Remedy
4 3 (8.82%) Minitab
5 2 (5.88%) Atmel
5 2 (5.88%) Cisco
6 1 (2.94%) Aruba
6 1 (2.94%) EMC
6 1 (2.94%) F5
6 1 (2.94%) Juniper
6 1 (2.94%) SAP
6 1 (2.94%) Xilinx