Firmware Jobs in the South East

Firmware
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 161 267 289
Rank change year-on-year +106 +22 +9
Permanent jobs citing Firmware 263 148 202
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 1.58% 0.98% 1.02%
As % of the System Software category 10.65% 6.07% 5.92%
Number of salaries quoted 167 115 94
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £28,750
25th Percentile £38,750 £32,500 £41,565
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £45,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -14.29% -4.55%
75th Percentile £62,500 £60,625 £62,500
90th Percentile £70,000 £79,000 £72,500
England median annual salary £52,500 £45,250 £52,500
% change year-on-year +16.02% -13.81% -4.55%

All System Software Skills
South East

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 South East with a requirement for system software skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 2,469 2,440 3,413
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 14.87% 16.18% 17.32%
Number of salaries quoted 1,978 1,666 2,360
10th Percentile £26,250 £25,750 £26,250
25th Percentile £32,500 £31,250 £35,475
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - -5.00% -
75th Percentile £63,750 £65,938 £72,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £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 South East

Job postings citing Firmware as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Firmware in the South East

Firmware
Salary Trend in the South East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Firmware in the South East.

Salary trend for Firmware in the South East

Firmware
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Firmware in the South East over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Firmware in the South East

Firmware
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Firmware within the South East 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
Thames Valley +82 166 £52,501 +16.67% 45
Buckinghamshire +39 96 £51,000 +56.92% 11
Berkshire +44 53 £42,920 -4.62% 13
Hampshire -13 43 £47,500 +2.70% 20
Surrey +30 36 £54,000 -10.00% 14
Oxfordshire +11 17 £59,500 +25.26% 21
Kent +4 6 £82,500 +22.22% 3
East Sussex +17 5 £57,500 +76.92% 1
West Sussex - 5 £46,000 - 6
Middlesex - 2 £47,750 -
Sussex - 2 £40,000 -
Firmware
England

Firmware
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 8 (3.04%) SharePoint
2 2 (0.76%) Kinematics
2 2 (0.76%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.38%) Apache
3 1 (0.38%) nginx
3 1 (0.38%) OpenStack
Applications
1 14 (5.32%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (3.42%) Simulink
3 3 (1.14%) OrCAD
4 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.38%) SOLIDWORKS
4 1 (0.38%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.38%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 9 (3.42%) Microsoft 365
2 8 (3.04%) OneDrive
3 7 (2.66%) Azure
4 6 (2.28%) Power Platform
5 5 (1.90%) Power Automate
6 2 (0.76%) AWS
6 2 (0.76%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (0.76%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (0.76%) GitHub
6 2 (0.76%) SaaS
7 1 (0.38%) Akamai
7 1 (0.38%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (0.38%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 17 (6.46%) Wireless
2 13 (4.94%) LAN
3 8 (3.04%) Unified Communications
4 7 (2.66%) NAS
4 7 (2.66%) SAN
5 6 (2.28%) Firewall
6 5 (1.90%) Ethernet
6 5 (1.90%) OSPF
7 4 (1.52%) 4G
7 4 (1.52%) Bluetooth
8 3 (1.14%) RFID
9 2 (0.76%) GPRS
9 2 (0.76%) Internet
9 2 (0.76%) TCP/IP
9 2 (0.76%) VPN
9 2 (0.76%) WAN
9 2 (0.76%) ZigBee
10 1 (0.38%) 3G
10 1 (0.38%) BGP
10 1 (0.38%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (2.28%) Power BI
2 2 (0.76%) Big Data
3 1 (0.38%) InfluxDB
3 1 (0.38%) MariaDB
3 1 (0.38%) MySQL
3 1 (0.38%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (1.90%) Rational DOORS
2 4 (1.52%) Git
2 4 (1.52%) Subversion
3 2 (0.76%) GCC
3 2 (0.76%) GDB
3 2 (0.76%) GitLab
3 2 (0.76%) Jenkins
3 2 (0.76%) JIRA
3 2 (0.76%) Visual Studio
4 1 (0.38%) Eclipse
4 1 (0.38%) Mercurial
4 1 (0.38%) Selenium
4 1 (0.38%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 128 (48.67%) Electronics
2 100 (38.02%) Manufacturing
3 73 (27.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 40 (15.21%) Social Skills
5 18 (6.84%) Marketing
6 13 (4.94%) Analytical Skills
6 13 (4.94%) Automotive
6 13 (4.94%) Legal
7 12 (4.56%) Organisational Skills
7 12 (4.56%) Telecoms
8 11 (4.18%) Finance
9 9 (3.42%) Public Sector
10 3 (1.14%) Retail
11 2 (0.76%) Agriculture
11 2 (0.76%) Aviation
11 2 (0.76%) Police
12 1 (0.38%) Avionics
12 1 (0.38%) Games
12 1 (0.38%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 101 (38.40%) Electronics Engineer
2 74 (28.14%) Graduate
3 71 (27.00%) Graduate Electronics Engineer
4 69 (26.24%) Junior
5 68 (25.86%) Junior Electronics Engineer
6 61 (23.19%) Development Engineer
6 61 (23.19%) Graduate Development Engineer
7 48 (18.25%) Embedded Engineer
8 38 (14.45%) Software Engineer
9 26 (9.89%) Senior
10 25 (9.51%) Embedded Software Engineer
11 23 (8.75%) Systems Engineer
12 20 (7.60%) Hardware Engineer
13 19 (7.22%) Firmware Engineer
14 18 (6.84%) Infrastructure Support
15 16 (6.08%) Electronics Hardware Engineer
16 15 (5.70%) Design Engineer
16 15 (5.70%) Lead
16 15 (5.70%) Senior Electronics Engineer
17 14 (5.32%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (1.52%) 802.1X
1 4 (1.52%) Middleware
2 2 (0.76%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (0.76%) HTML
2 2 (0.76%) Qt
2 2 (0.76%) WPF
3 1 (0.38%) ARM Templates
3 1 (0.38%) Azure Blueprints
3 1 (0.38%) Flash
3 1 (0.38%) STL
Miscellaneous
1 35 (13.31%) Embedded Systems
2 20 (7.60%) Data Centre
3 18 (6.84%) Analogue Electronics
3 18 (6.84%) Driving Licence
3 18 (6.84%) FPGA
4 17 (6.46%) Mobile App
5 15 (5.70%) IoT
5 15 (5.70%) Management Information System
6 8 (3.04%) Device Driver
6 8 (3.04%) Replication
7 6 (2.28%) Verilog
8 5 (1.90%) PMI
8 5 (1.90%) VHDL
9 4 (1.52%) Algorithms
9 4 (1.52%) Self-Motivation
10 3 (1.14%) Renewable Energy
11 2 (0.76%) ASIC
11 2 (0.76%) ASIC Verification
11 2 (0.76%) GNSS
11 2 (0.76%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 40 (15.21%) Windows
2 26 (9.89%) Windows 10
3 23 (8.75%) Windows Server
4 22 (8.37%) Linux
5 15 (5.70%) Windows Server 2012
5 15 (5.70%) Windows Server 2016
5 15 (5.70%) Windows Server 2019
6 14 (5.32%) Windows NT
7 11 (4.18%) Windows 7
8 2 (0.76%) FreeRTOS
9 1 (0.38%) CentOS
9 1 (0.38%) Embedded Linux
9 1 (0.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 88 (33.46%) Schematic Capture
2 73 (27.76%) Project Planning
3 53 (20.15%) Software Engineering
4 35 (13.31%) Problem-Solving
5 32 (12.17%) Customer Service
6 31 (11.79%) Customer Requirements
7 27 (10.27%) ITIL
8 25 (9.51%) Software Testing
9 23 (8.75%) Agile
9 23 (8.75%) SDLC
10 22 (8.37%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 21 (7.98%) Design for Manufacturing
11 21 (7.98%) Service Management
12 20 (7.60%) Validation
13 15 (5.70%) Release Management
14 14 (5.32%) Business Intelligence
14 14 (5.32%) Collaborative Working
14 14 (5.32%) Deployment Automation
14 14 (5.32%) Mentoring
14 14 (5.32%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 83 (31.56%) C
2 40 (15.21%) C++
3 29 (11.03%) Python
4 19 (7.22%) Embedded C
5 10 (3.80%) C#
6 7 (2.66%) SQL
7 5 (1.90%) Embedded C++
8 4 (1.52%) JavaScript
9 3 (1.14%) Bash
9 3 (1.14%) Java
10 2 (0.76%) Assembly Language
10 2 (0.76%) Lua
10 2 (0.76%) MATLAB
10 2 (0.76%) Perl
10 2 (0.76%) SystemVerilog
10 2 (0.76%) Tcl
10 2 (0.76%) XAML
11 1 (0.38%) Korn
11 1 (0.38%) PHP
Qualifications
1 131 (49.81%) Degree
2 46 (17.49%) Security Cleared
3 25 (9.51%) DV Cleared
4 22 (8.37%) SC Cleared
5 6 (2.28%) Master's Degree
6 5 (1.90%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (1.90%) Microsoft Certification
6 5 (1.90%) PMI Certification
7 3 (1.14%) CCNA
7 3 (1.14%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (0.76%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (0.76%) MCSE
8 2 (0.76%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 1 (0.38%) HND
9 1 (0.38%) JNCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (4.18%) QA
2 4 (1.52%) GDPR
2 4 (1.52%) SLA
3 2 (0.76%) JTAG
4 1 (0.38%) IEC 61131
4 1 (0.38%) IEC 62304
4 1 (0.38%) ISO 13485
4 1 (0.38%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 134 (50.95%) Embedded Firmware
2 30 (11.41%) Active Directory
3 11 (4.18%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (3.04%) Hyper-V
5 5 (1.90%) vSphere
6 3 (1.14%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (1.14%) Virtual Servers
6 3 (1.14%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (0.76%) Docker
8 1 (0.38%) Citrix Hypervisor
Systems Management
1 32 (12.17%) SCCM
2 14 (5.32%) Sysprep
2 14 (5.32%) WSUS
3 7 (2.66%) NetBackup
3 7 (2.66%) SCOM
4 3 (1.14%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (1.14%) Terraform
4 3 (1.14%) vCenter Server
5 2 (0.76%) Ansible
5 2 (0.76%) Grafana
5 2 (0.76%) Kubernetes
5 2 (0.76%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 82 (31.18%) EMC
2 48 (18.25%) Microsoft
3 13 (4.94%) HP
4 11 (4.18%) VMware
5 10 (3.80%) SAP
6 8 (3.04%) Fortinet
6 8 (3.04%) Veeam
7 7 (2.66%) McAfee
8 5 (1.90%) BT
8 5 (1.90%) Juniper
8 5 (1.90%) Mitel
9 4 (1.52%) Extreme Networks
10 2 (0.76%) Facebook
10 2 (0.76%) Google
10 2 (0.76%) Splunk
11 1 (0.38%) Aruba
11 1 (0.38%) Autodesk
11 1 (0.38%) CA
11 1 (0.38%) Cisco
11 1 (0.38%) NCR