Firmware Job Trends in Nottinghamshire

Firmware
East Midlands > Nottinghamshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Nottinghamshire requiring Firmware skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 56 60 74
Rank change year-on-year +4 +14 -
Permanent jobs citing Firmware 28 15 6
As % of all permanent jobs in Nottinghamshire 1.67% 2.33% 0.51%
As % of the System Software category 31.11% 21.43% 5.50%
Number of salaries quoted 27 14 4
10th Percentile £43,600 £25,113 £43,000
25th Percentile £51,000 £25,375 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £34,125 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +90.48% -31.75% -
75th Percentile - £50,625 -
90th Percentile £70,000 £52,125 -
East Midlands median annual salary £54,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +13.68% -5.00% -

All System Software Skills
Nottinghamshire

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 Nottinghamshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 90 70 109
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Nottinghamshire 5.37% 10.87% 9.18%
Number of salaries quoted 80 61 71
10th Percentile £29,000 £25,375 £31,250
25th Percentile £30,500 £28,000 £39,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,000 £35,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +48.57% -22.22% -25.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £40,250 £52,500
90th Percentile £70,000 £43,750 £62,500
East Midlands median annual salary £45,000 £32,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year +38.46% -23.53% -10.53%

Firmware
Job Vacancy Trend in Nottinghamshire

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

Firmware job vacancy trend in Nottinghamshire

Firmware
Salary Trend in Nottinghamshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Nottinghamshire citing Firmware.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Nottinghamshire citing Firmware

Firmware
Salary Histogram in Nottinghamshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Firmware in Nottinghamshire over the 6 months to 8 September 2026.

Salary histogram for Firmware in Nottinghamshire

Firmware
Job Locations in Nottinghamshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Firmware within the Nottinghamshire region over the 6 months to 8 September 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
Nottingham -16 16 £54,000 +13.68% 7
Worksop -10 2 £26,250 +1.94% 1
Firmware
East Midlands

Firmware
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Nottinghamshire 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:

Applications
1 1 (3.57%) OrCAD
Cloud Services
1 2 (7.14%) Azure
1 2 (7.14%) Cloud Computing
1 2 (7.14%) Entra ID
1 2 (7.14%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 11 (39.29%) Wireless
2 10 (35.71%) Bluetooth
2 10 (35.71%) LTE
2 10 (35.71%) Modbus
2 10 (35.71%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (3.57%) Firewall
3 1 (3.57%) LAN
3 1 (3.57%) Unified Communications
3 1 (3.57%) VPN
3 1 (3.57%) WAN
General
1 3 (10.71%) Social Skills
2 1 (3.57%) Electronics
2 1 (3.57%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 16 (57.14%) Embedded Engineer
1 16 (57.14%) Embedded Software Engineer
1 16 (57.14%) Software Engineer
2 14 (50.00%) Cybersecurity Engineer
3 8 (28.57%) Firmware Engineer
3 8 (28.57%) Product Engineer
4 2 (7.14%) IT Engineer
5 1 (3.57%) Electronics Engineer
5 1 (3.57%) Electronics Hardware Engineer
5 1 (3.57%) Hardware Engineer
5 1 (3.57%) Network Engineer
5 1 (3.57%) Senior
5 1 (3.57%) Senior Electronics Engineer
5 1 (3.57%) Senior Hardware Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 10 (35.71%) Raspberry Pi
2 2 (7.14%) Management Information System
2 2 (7.14%) Onboarding
3 1 (3.57%) Analogue Electronics
3 1 (3.57%) Client/Server
3 1 (3.57%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (7.14%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (57.14%) Cybersecurity
1 16 (57.14%) Software Engineering
2 3 (10.71%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (7.14%) Configuration Management
3 2 (7.14%) Identity Management
3 2 (7.14%) Incident Management
3 2 (7.14%) Incident Response
3 2 (7.14%) Information Security
3 2 (7.14%) ITIL
3 2 (7.14%) ITSM
3 2 (7.14%) Mentoring
3 2 (7.14%) Patch Management
3 2 (7.14%) Process Improvement
3 2 (7.14%) Root Cause Analysis
3 2 (7.14%) Service Management
3 2 (7.14%) Technical Analysis
3 2 (7.14%) User Experience
3 2 (7.14%) Vulnerability Management
3 2 (7.14%) Vulnerability Remediation
4 1 (3.57%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 10 (35.71%) C
1 10 (35.71%) Embedded C
2 2 (7.14%) PowerShell
2 2 (7.14%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (3.57%) CCNA
1 1 (3.57%) CCNP
1 1 (3.57%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (3.57%) Degree
1 1 (3.57%) Network+ Certification
System Software
1 2 (7.14%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (7.14%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 2 (7.14%) Cisco
1 2 (7.14%) Microsoft
2 1 (3.57%) EMC