Firmware Jobs in Northern Ireland

Firmware
UK > Northern Ireland

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Northern Ireland 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 17 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 31 59 88
Rank change year-on-year +28 +29 +7
Permanent jobs citing Firmware 6 17 6
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 1.90% 2.30% 0.75%
As % of the System Software category 28.57% 37.78% 3.87%
Number of salaries quoted 5 6 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £27,500 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £28,000 £32,500
Median % change year-on-year +221.43% -13.85% -
75th Percentile - £28,500 £33,750
90th Percentile - £31,125 -
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -9.09%

All System Software Skills
Northern Ireland

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 Northern Ireland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 21 45 155
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 6.65% 6.10% 19.45%
Number of salaries quoted 18 24 66
10th Percentile £47,125 £27,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £32,560 £36,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £49,250 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.68% -1.50% -
75th Percentile £82,500 £57,813 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £101,500 £78,750
UK median annual salary £51,914 £49,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.88% -10.00% -

Firmware
Job Vacancy Trend in Northern Ireland

Job postings citing Firmware as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Northern Ireland.

Job vacancy trend for Firmware in Northern Ireland

Firmware
Salary Trend in Northern Ireland

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Firmware in Northern Ireland.

Salary trend for Firmware in Northern Ireland

Firmware
Job Locations in Northern Ireland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Firmware within the Northern Ireland region over the 6 months to 17 July 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
County Antrim +26 6 £90,000 +221.43% 4
Firmware
UK

Firmware
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Northern Ireland 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 1 (16.67%) SSL
General
1 5 (83.33%) Aerospace
2 1 (16.67%) Legal
Job Titles
1 5 (83.33%) Architect
1 5 (83.33%) Firmware Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Cybersecurity Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Product Engineer
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Linux
1 1 (16.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (16.67%) CI/CD
1 1 (16.67%) Computer Science
1 1 (16.67%) Cryptography
1 1 (16.67%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (16.67%) GitOps
1 1 (16.67%) Incident Response
1 1 (16.67%) OWASP
1 1 (16.67%) Product Management
1 1 (16.67%) Scrum
1 1 (16.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
1 1 (16.67%) Software Architecture
1 1 (16.67%) Software Engineering
1 1 (16.67%) Sprint Review
1 1 (16.67%) Threat Modelling
1 1 (16.67%) Ticket Management
1 1 (16.67%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) (ISC)2 CCSP
1 1 (16.67%) CCSP
1 1 (16.67%) CEH
1 1 (16.67%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (16.67%) CISSP
1 1 (16.67%) CompTIA Security+
1 1 (16.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) NIST
1 1 (16.67%) NIST 800
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) CSIRT