Firmware Job Trends in the North of England

Firmware
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring Firmware skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 272 255 244
Rank change year-on-year -17 -11 +140
Permanent jobs citing Firmware 27 67 70
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 0.29% 0.48% 0.79%
As % of the System Software category 1.80% 5.86% 4.98%
Number of salaries quoted 26 52 63
10th Percentile - £27,500 £26,250
25th Percentile £43,000 £41,563 £32,200
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,250 £55,000 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.91% +37.50% -42.86%
75th Percentile £49,000 £59,000 £57,500
90th Percentile £57,500 £62,150 £66,000
England median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £50,750
% change year-on-year -4.55% +8.37% -11.74%

All System Software Skills
North of England

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 of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 1,496 1,143 1,406
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 15.90% 8.11% 15.87%
Number of salaries quoted 531 725 1,151
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,500 £26,250
25th Percentile £29,500 £33,000 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £46,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% -8.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £62,500 £60,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £76,840 £69,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £48,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -12.73% - -

Firmware
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Firmware in the North of England

Firmware
Salary Trend in the North of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Firmware.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Firmware

Firmware
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Firmware in the North of England over the 6 months to 18 September 2025.

Salary histogram for Firmware in the North of England

Firmware
Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Firmware within the North of England region over the 6 months to 18 September 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
Yorkshire +24 15 £46,000 -16.36% 5
North West -16 10 £46,500 -15.45% 26
North East +10 2 £48,250 -13.84% 5
Firmware
England

Firmware
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (3.70%) AWS
1 1 (3.70%) Azure
1 1 (3.70%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 9 (33.33%) Modbus
1 9 (33.33%) RS-485
2 1 (3.70%) Broadband
2 1 (3.70%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.70%) Big Data
1 1 (3.70%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 5 (18.52%) Visual Studio
General
1 19 (70.37%) Electronics
2 15 (55.56%) Social Skills
3 2 (7.41%) Aviation
4 1 (3.70%) Manufacturing
4 1 (3.70%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 16 (59.26%) Embedded Engineer
2 10 (37.04%) Firmware Engineer
3 9 (33.33%) Embedded Firmware Engineer
4 7 (25.93%) Electronics Engineer
4 7 (25.93%) Software Engineer
5 5 (18.52%) C# Software Engineer
5 5 (18.52%) C++ Software Engineer
6 2 (7.41%) Design Engineer
6 2 (7.41%) Electronics Design Engineer
6 2 (7.41%) Embedded Software Engineer
6 2 (7.41%) Radar Engineer
6 2 (7.41%) Senior
6 2 (7.41%) Senior C# Software Engineer
6 2 (7.41%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
6 2 (7.41%) Senior Software Engineer
7 1 (3.70%) Data Architect
7 1 (3.70%) Hardware Engineer
7 1 (3.70%) IoT Architect
7 1 (3.70%) Lead
7 1 (3.70%) Lead Electronics Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 12 (44.44%) Embedded Systems
2 9 (33.33%) Analogue Electronics
2 9 (33.33%) CAN bus
3 2 (7.41%) FPGA
3 2 (7.41%) IoT
4 1 (3.70%) ARM Cortex
4 1 (3.70%) Smart Home
Operating Systems
1 9 (33.33%) Embedded Linux
1 9 (33.33%) Linux
2 5 (18.52%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (51.85%) Mentoring
2 10 (37.04%) Collaborative Culture
3 8 (29.63%) Software Engineering
4 5 (18.52%) Embedded Software Development
4 5 (18.52%) Multithreading
5 4 (14.81%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (7.41%) Continuous Improvement
6 2 (7.41%) Safety Engineering
6 2 (7.41%) Systems Engineering
7 1 (3.70%) CAD
7 1 (3.70%) Data Architecture
7 1 (3.70%) Data Governance
7 1 (3.70%) Data Integration
7 1 (3.70%) Data Management
7 1 (3.70%) Data Modelling
7 1 (3.70%) Data Security
7 1 (3.70%) PLM
7 1 (3.70%) Project Management
7 1 (3.70%) Software Architecture
7 1 (3.70%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 21 (77.78%) C++
2 17 (62.96%) C
3 6 (22.22%) Embedded C
4 5 (18.52%) C#
4 5 (18.52%) Embedded C++
5 1 (3.70%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (7.41%) BPSS Clearance
1 2 (7.41%) CEH
1 2 (7.41%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.41%) DO-254
2 1 (3.70%) Data Quality
System Software
1 21 (77.78%) Embedded Firmware
Vendors
1 6 (22.22%) EMC
2 1 (3.70%) Google