Firmware Job Trends in the North East

Firmware
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North East requiring Firmware skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 73 71 65
Rank change year-on-year -2 -6 +27
Permanent jobs citing Firmware 8 15 8
As % of all permanent jobs in the North East 0.79% 1.61% 1.06%
As % of the System Software category 9.64% 14.29% 6.61%
Number of salaries quoted 8 12 8
10th Percentile £48,275 - -
25th Percentile £52,250 £53,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,500 £56,750 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.44% +3.18% +34.15%
75th Percentile £60,750 £64,000 £57,500
90th Percentile - - -
England median annual salary £55,000 £56,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -1.79% +1.82% -

All System Software Skills
North East

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 North East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 83 105 121
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 8.23% 11.28% 16.03%
Number of salaries quoted 57 53 106
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £29,375
25th Percentile £29,750 £35,500 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £52,500 £40,750
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +28.83% -20.10%
75th Percentile £60,750 £63,750 £57,500
90th Percentile £75,440 £72,222 £62,500
England median annual salary £48,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -16.52% +4.55% -

Firmware
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

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

Firmware job vacancy trend in the North East

Firmware
Salary Trend in the North East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing Firmware.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing Firmware

Firmware
Salary Histogram in the North East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Firmware in the North East over the 6 months to 12 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Firmware in the North East

Firmware
Job Locations in the North East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Firmware within the North East region over the 6 months to 12 January 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
Tyne and Wear +13 8 £56,500 - 11
Firmware
England

Firmware
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North East 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:

General
1 7 (87.50%) Electronics
1 7 (87.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (100.00%) Embedded Engineer
1 8 (100.00%) Embedded Software Engineer
1 8 (100.00%) Software Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 8 (100.00%) Embedded Systems
2 1 (12.50%) ARM Cortex
2 1 (12.50%) IoT
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 8 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 7 (87.50%) Software Testing
3 1 (12.50%) Collaborative Culture
3 1 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 8 (100.00%) C
2 7 (87.50%) C++
3 1 (12.50%) Embedded C
System Software
1 7 (87.50%) Embedded Firmware