Firmware Jobs in the North of England

Firmware
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for Firmware skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Firmware over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 279 347 348
Rank change year-on-year +68 +1 -49
Permanent jobs citing Firmware 112 95 103
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 0.65% 0.54% 0.57%
As % of the System Software category 5.69% 3.85% 3.09%
Number of salaries quoted 101 67 66
10th Percentile £27,500 £25,420 £31,250
25th Percentile £38,750 £26,250 £37,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £32,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +61.54% -40.91% -8.33%
75th Percentile £57,500 £55,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £62,750 -
England median annual salary £52,500 £45,250 £52,500
% change year-on-year +16.02% -13.81% -4.55%

All System Software Skills
North of England

Firmware is in the System Software category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for system software skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 1,969 2,469 3,332
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 11.42% 14.11% 18.49%
Number of salaries quoted 1,675 1,646 2,420
10th Percentile £25,000 £25,750 £25,500
25th Percentile £29,750 £34,000 £31,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £47,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.57% -6.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £57,500 £67,500 £66,250
90th Percentile £70,000 £80,000 £85,000
England median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £56,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% -1.79% +1.82%

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

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Firmware in the North of England.

Salary trend for Firmware in the North of England

Firmware
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Firmware in the North of England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

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 27 April 2024. 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
North West +10 62 £55,000 +4.76% 12
Yorkshire +103 40 £42,500 +31.99% 8
North East +7 10 £55,000 +34.15% 1
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:

Application Platforms
1 5 (4.46%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (0.89%) GNU Octave
Cloud Services
1 7 (6.25%) AWS
2 6 (5.36%) Azure
3 5 (4.46%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (0.89%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 12 (10.71%) Wireless
2 10 (8.93%) TCP/IP
3 9 (8.04%) MQTT
4 8 (7.14%) HTTP
5 7 (6.25%) Ethernet
6 6 (5.36%) RS-232
7 5 (4.46%) DHCP
7 5 (4.46%) DNS
7 5 (4.46%) VPN
7 5 (4.46%) Wi-Fi
8 4 (3.57%) Firewall
8 4 (3.57%) Internet
8 4 (3.57%) LAN
8 4 (3.57%) WAN
9 1 (0.89%) Bluetooth
9 1 (0.89%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (4.46%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (1.79%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.89%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 12 (10.71%) Git
2 4 (3.57%) JIRA
3 3 (2.68%) Jenkins
3 3 (2.68%) Rational DOORS
4 2 (1.79%) LabVIEW
5 1 (0.89%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.89%) CMake
5 1 (0.89%) GCC
5 1 (0.89%) GDB
5 1 (0.89%) Subversion
General
1 51 (45.54%) Electronics
2 22 (19.64%) Manufacturing
3 14 (12.50%) Social Skills
4 13 (11.61%) Automotive
5 7 (6.25%) Organisational Skills
6 5 (4.46%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (4.46%) Finance
6 5 (4.46%) Retail
7 4 (3.57%) Aerospace
8 2 (1.79%) Advertising
9 1 (0.89%) Military
Job Titles
1 46 (41.07%) Software Engineer
2 44 (39.29%) Senior
3 39 (34.82%) Embedded Engineer
4 27 (24.11%) Senior Embedded Engineer
5 25 (22.32%) Embedded Software Engineer
6 17 (15.18%) Firmware Engineer
7 15 (13.39%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
7 15 (13.39%) Senior Software Engineer
8 12 (10.71%) Systems Engineer
9 10 (8.93%) Senior Firmware Engineer
10 8 (7.14%) Lead
11 7 (6.25%) Senior Systems Engineer
12 6 (5.36%) Graduate
12 6 (5.36%) Lead Embedded Software Engineer
12 6 (5.36%) Lead Software Engineer
13 5 (4.46%) Electronics Engineer
13 5 (4.46%) Embedded Firmware Engineer
13 5 (4.46%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 5 (4.46%) Senior Field Engineer
13 5 (4.46%) Senior Field Service Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (8.04%) .NET
2 8 (7.14%) Middleware
3 7 (6.25%) CSS
3 7 (6.25%) HTML
3 7 (6.25%) Node.js
4 3 (2.68%) Yocto
5 1 (0.89%) Express.js
5 1 (0.89%) Web Services
5 1 (0.89%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 10 (8.93%) Embedded Systems
2 7 (6.25%) Driving Licence
2 7 (6.25%) FPGA
2 7 (6.25%) Self-Motivation
3 5 (4.46%) Clustering
3 5 (4.46%) EPoS
4 4 (3.57%) Data Centre
5 3 (2.68%) Device Driver
6 2 (1.79%) ARM Cortex
6 2 (1.79%) IoT
6 2 (1.79%) Raspberry Pi
7 1 (0.89%) CCTV
Operating Systems
1 27 (24.11%) Linux
2 13 (11.61%) Embedded Linux
2 13 (11.61%) Windows
3 10 (8.93%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (4.46%) Windows Server
4 5 (4.46%) Windows Server 2012
4 5 (4.46%) Windows Server 2016
4 5 (4.46%) Windows Server 2019
5 2 (1.79%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (46.43%) Software Engineering
2 14 (12.50%) Computer Science
3 13 (11.61%) Embedded Software Development
3 13 (11.61%) Software Testing
4 11 (9.82%) Agile
5 10 (8.93%) Problem-Solving
6 9 (8.04%) Disaster Recovery
6 9 (8.04%) ITIL
7 8 (7.14%) DevOps
7 8 (7.14%) Product Requirements
7 8 (7.14%) Roadmaps
7 8 (7.14%) Software Architecture
8 7 (6.25%) Microservices
8 7 (6.25%) Time Management
9 6 (5.36%) Cybersecurity
9 6 (5.36%) OO
10 5 (4.46%) Break/Fix
10 5 (4.46%) Continuous Improvement
10 5 (4.46%) Customer Experience
10 5 (4.46%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 53 (47.32%) C
2 18 (16.07%) C++
3 15 (13.39%) Java
4 12 (10.71%) Python
5 10 (8.93%) C#
6 9 (8.04%) SQL
7 4 (3.57%) Embedded C
8 3 (2.68%) Bash
9 1 (0.89%) Assembly Language
9 1 (0.89%) MATLAB
9 1 (0.89%) Rust
Qualifications
1 17 (15.18%) Degree
2 5 (4.46%) Azure Certification
2 5 (4.46%) BPSS Clearance
3 4 (3.57%) Network+ Certification
4 3 (2.68%) Security Cleared
5 2 (1.79%) CCNA
5 2 (1.79%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (1.79%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.79%) DV Cleared
5 2 (1.79%) MCP
5 2 (1.79%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 1 (0.89%) HNC
6 1 (0.89%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (10.71%) SLA
2 3 (2.68%) ISO 26262
System Software
1 36 (32.14%) Embedded Firmware
2 7 (6.25%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (4.46%) Active Directory
3 5 (4.46%) Hyper-V
3 5 (4.46%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (2.68%) Docker
5 2 (1.79%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (1.79%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 5 (4.46%) Failover Clustering
1 5 (4.46%) FortiGate
1 5 (4.46%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
1 5 (4.46%) Microsoft Intune
1 5 (4.46%) SCOM
2 3 (2.68%) Ansible
2 3 (2.68%) Functional Safety
2 3 (2.68%) Kubernetes
2 3 (2.68%) Podman
3 2 (1.79%) WSUS
Vendors
1 10 (8.93%) Red Hat
2 7 (6.25%) Cisco
2 7 (6.25%) Microsoft
2 7 (6.25%) VMware
3 6 (5.36%) Dell
4 5 (4.46%) Aruba
4 5 (4.46%) Barracuda Networks
4 5 (4.46%) Citrix
4 5 (4.46%) Commvault
4 5 (4.46%) EMC
4 5 (4.46%) HP
4 5 (4.46%) IBM
4 5 (4.46%) Kaseya
4 5 (4.46%) NetApp
4 5 (4.46%) Veeam
5 2 (1.79%) Meraki