Firmware Jobs in the South East

Firmware
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 19 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 227 160 243
Rank change year-on-year -67 +83 +32
Permanent jobs citing Firmware 85 292 136
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 0.89% 1.54% 1.03%
As % of the System Software category 9.19% 11.95% 6.23%
Number of salaries quoted 39 177 104
10th Percentile £41,250 £31,250 -
25th Percentile £52,188 £39,380 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £50,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +30.00% +11.11% -18.18%
75th Percentile £75,000 £60,750 £57,500
90th Percentile £81,250 £67,250 £71,750
England median annual salary £51,000 £52,500 £46,000
% change year-on-year -2.86% +14.13% -16.36%

All System Software Skills
South East

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 South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 925 2,443 2,182
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 9.65% 12.90% 16.58%
Number of salaries quoted 589 1,889 1,543
10th Percentile £28,250 £26,250 £25,750
25th Percentile £36,250 £32,500 £31,350
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £73,750 £62,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £87,300 £78,750 £82,500
England median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% -

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 19 June 2025.

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 19 June 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
Hampshire +88 53 £49,375 +9.72% 53
Surrey +17 14 £70,000 +28.44% 28
Thames Valley -79 11 £75,000 +47.06% 97
Berkshire 0 6 £77,500 +75.44% 47
Oxfordshire +29 4 £65,000 +19.27% 29
East Sussex +24 4 £52,500 -8.70% 11
Kent +38 3 £62,500 +42.86% 24
Buckinghamshire -47 1 £75,000 +47.06% 23
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:

Applications
1 4 (4.71%) Simulink
2 2 (2.35%) OrCAD
Communications & Networking
1 43 (50.59%) Software-Defined Radio
2 20 (23.53%) Wireless
3 4 (4.71%) DHCP
3 4 (4.71%) Firewall
4 3 (3.53%) Cisco Firepower
4 3 (3.53%) Cisco IOS
4 3 (3.53%) Cisco ISE
4 3 (3.53%) Junos
4 3 (3.53%) Network Security
4 3 (3.53%) NX-OS
4 3 (3.53%) VLAN
5 2 (2.35%) Ethernet
5 2 (2.35%) MQTT
5 2 (2.35%) RS-485
6 1 (1.18%) BGP
6 1 (1.18%) DNS
6 1 (1.18%) LAN
6 1 (1.18%) OSPF
6 1 (1.18%) TCP/IP
6 1 (1.18%) WAN
Development Applications
1 10 (11.76%) JIRA
2 1 (1.18%) Bitbucket
2 1 (1.18%) Visual Studio
General
1 23 (27.06%) Finance
2 14 (16.47%) Electronics
3 9 (10.59%) Manufacturing
4 4 (4.71%) Social Skills
5 2 (2.35%) Automotive
5 2 (2.35%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (2.35%) Retail
6 1 (1.18%) Aerospace
6 1 (1.18%) Marketing
6 1 (1.18%) Military
6 1 (1.18%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.18%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 23 (27.06%) Embedded Engineer
2 22 (25.88%) Systems Engineer
3 21 (24.71%) Embedded Software Engineer
3 21 (24.71%) Radio Engineer
3 21 (24.71%) Software Engineer
4 18 (21.18%) Senior
5 12 (14.12%) Electronics Engineer
6 11 (12.94%) Firmware Engineer
7 10 (11.76%) Senior Electronics Engineer
8 8 (9.41%) Network Engineer
9 7 (8.24%) Lead
10 5 (5.88%) Hardware Engineer
10 5 (5.88%) Senior Firmware Engineer
11 3 (3.53%) Cloud Engineer
11 3 (3.53%) Design Engineer
12 2 (2.35%) Developer
12 2 (2.35%) Development Engineer
12 2 (2.35%) Senior Development Engineer
12 2 (2.35%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
12 2 (2.35%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.18%) .NET
1 1 (1.18%) .NET Framework
1 1 (1.18%) ASP.NET
1 1 (1.18%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 28 (32.94%) FPGA
2 24 (28.24%) Embedded Systems
3 22 (25.88%) e-Learning
4 19 (22.35%) MicroBlaze
4 19 (22.35%) RISC-V
5 13 (15.29%) VHDL
6 5 (5.88%) Data Centre
7 4 (4.71%) Management Information System
8 3 (3.53%) Algorithms
8 3 (3.53%) Analogue Electronics
8 3 (3.53%) Device Driver
8 3 (3.53%) IoT
8 3 (3.53%) PKI
8 3 (3.53%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (2.35%) Driving Licence
10 1 (1.18%) Acoustics
10 1 (1.18%) CAN bus
10 1 (1.18%) FMCG
10 1 (1.18%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 22 (25.88%) Linux
2 19 (22.35%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (52.94%) Digital Signal Processing
1 45 (52.94%) Signal Processing
2 44 (51.76%) Innovative Thinking
3 28 (32.94%) Physics
4 21 (24.71%) Software Engineering
5 20 (23.53%) Agile
6 13 (15.29%) Schematic Capture
7 11 (12.94%) Problem-Solving
8 10 (11.76%) Mathematics
9 9 (10.59%) Design for Test
9 9 (10.59%) Issue Tracking
9 9 (10.59%) Product Requirements
9 9 (10.59%) Validation
10 8 (9.41%) Decision-Making
10 8 (9.41%) Verification and Validation
11 6 (7.06%) Change Control
11 6 (7.06%) Customer Service
12 5 (5.88%) Asset Management
12 5 (5.88%) Ticket Management
13 4 (4.71%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 29 (34.12%) C
2 25 (29.41%) MATLAB
3 24 (28.24%) C++
4 4 (4.71%) Embedded C
5 2 (2.35%) Embedded C++
6 1 (1.18%) C#
6 1 (1.18%) Python
Qualifications
1 55 (64.71%) Security Cleared
2 49 (57.65%) SC Cleared
3 11 (12.94%) Degree
4 10 (11.76%) DV Cleared
5 4 (4.71%) Cisco Certification
6 3 (3.53%) CCNA
6 3 (3.53%) Master's Degree
6 3 (3.53%) PhD
7 2 (2.35%) HNC
7 2 (2.35%) HND
8 1 (1.18%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (7.06%) SLA
2 4 (4.71%) ISO/IEC 15288
3 1 (1.18%) AUTOSAR
3 1 (1.18%) Def Stans
3 1 (1.18%) HAZOP
3 1 (1.18%) IEC 61508
3 1 (1.18%) ISO 26262
3 1 (1.18%) MISRA
3 1 (1.18%) MISRA C
3 1 (1.18%) QA
System Software
1 49 (57.65%) Embedded Firmware
2 3 (3.53%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 3 (3.53%) vCenter Server
2 1 (1.18%) FortiGate
2 1 (1.18%) Functional Safety
Vendors
1 7 (8.24%) Cisco
2 6 (7.06%) Juniper
3 3 (3.53%) Broadcom
3 3 (3.53%) EMC
3 3 (3.53%) Fortinet
3 3 (3.53%) SolarWinds
3 3 (3.53%) Xilinx
4 2 (2.35%) Dell
4 2 (2.35%) Oracle
5 1 (1.18%) Atlassian
5 1 (1.18%) Freescale
5 1 (1.18%) Meraki
5 1 (1.18%) Palo Alto
5 1 (1.18%) SAP
5 1 (1.18%) SonicWALL