Firmware Jobs in the North West

Firmware
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 20 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 273 227 232
Rank change year-on-year -46 +5 +83
Permanent jobs citing Firmware 27 65 61
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 0.34% 0.65% 0.79%
As % of the System Software category 2.39% 6.75% 5.00%
Number of salaries quoted 26 59 50
10th Percentile - £27,500 £25,420
25th Percentile - £45,000 £26,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,683 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.30% +4.76% +41.89%
75th Percentile - £58,250 £57,188
90th Percentile £52,500 £75,000 £72,500
England median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year - +10.53% -11.21%

All System Software Skills
North West

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 West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 1,129 963 1,219
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 14.07% 9.65% 15.76%
Number of salaries quoted 321 832 819
10th Percentile £25,750 £24,275 £25,420
25th Percentile £36,250 £29,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £45,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £73,886 £62,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £92,500 £75,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £53,500 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +7.00% -9.09% -

Firmware
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Firmware in the North West

Firmware
Salary Trend in the North West

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

Salary trend for Firmware in the North West

Firmware
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Firmware in the North West over the 6 months to 20 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Firmware in the North West

Firmware
Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Firmware within the North West region over the 6 months to 20 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
Lancashire -66 22 £47,683 -17.07% 10
Manchester +14 3 £57,500 +9.52% 10
Cheshire +4 1 £50,000 -9.91% 2
Cumbria -66 1 - - 7
Firmware
England

Firmware
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 2 (7.41%) Wireless
2 1 (3.70%) Cisco Nexus
2 1 (3.70%) DHCP
2 1 (3.70%) DNS
2 1 (3.70%) SD-WAN
2 1 (3.70%) WAN
2 1 (3.70%) ZigBee
General
1 24 (88.89%) Social Skills
2 23 (85.19%) Electronics
3 22 (81.48%) Aviation
4 1 (3.70%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (3.70%) Manufacturing
4 1 (3.70%) Marketing
4 1 (3.70%) Telecoms
4 1 (3.70%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 22 (81.48%) Radar Engineer
2 1 (3.70%) Design Engineer
2 1 (3.70%) Electronics Design Engineer
2 1 (3.70%) Electronics Engineer
2 1 (3.70%) Embedded Engineer
2 1 (3.70%) Embedded Software Engineer
2 1 (3.70%) Firmware Engineer
2 1 (3.70%) Hardware Engineer
2 1 (3.70%) Network Engineer
2 1 (3.70%) Software Engineer
2 1 (3.70%) Wintel Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (7.41%) FPGA
2 1 (3.70%) Embedded Systems
2 1 (3.70%) Replication
2 1 (3.70%) Smart Energy
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.70%) Windows
1 1 (3.70%) Windows Server
1 1 (3.70%) Windows Server 2016
1 1 (3.70%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (88.89%) Problem-Solving
2 22 (81.48%) Safety Engineering
2 22 (81.48%) Systems Engineering
3 2 (7.41%) Software Engineering
4 1 (3.70%) CAD
4 1 (3.70%) Change Management
4 1 (3.70%) Collaborative Working
4 1 (3.70%) Feasibility Study
4 1 (3.70%) High Availability
4 1 (3.70%) Incident Management
4 1 (3.70%) ITIL
4 1 (3.70%) Patch Management
4 1 (3.70%) Performance Monitoring
4 1 (3.70%) Performance Tuning
4 1 (3.70%) Problem Management
4 1 (3.70%) Project Management
4 1 (3.70%) Prototyping
4 1 (3.70%) Regulatory Compliance
4 1 (3.70%) Root Cause Analysis
4 1 (3.70%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 2 (7.41%) C
2 1 (3.70%) Assembly Language
2 1 (3.70%) C++
2 1 (3.70%) Python
Qualifications
1 22 (81.48%) BPSS Clearance
1 22 (81.48%) CEH
1 22 (81.48%) Degree
2 1 (3.70%) CCNA
2 1 (3.70%) CCNP
2 1 (3.70%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (3.70%) DBS Check
2 1 (3.70%) SC Cleared
2 1 (3.70%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (81.48%) DO-254
System Software
1 1 (3.70%) Active Directory
1 1 (3.70%) Embedded Firmware
1 1 (3.70%) Hyper-V
1 1 (3.70%) Virtual Servers
1 1 (3.70%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 1 (3.70%) Cisco
1 1 (3.70%) Meraki
1 1 (3.70%) VMware