Firmware Job Trends in the South West

Firmware
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South West requiring Firmware skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 160 124 178
Rank change year-on-year -36 +54 +27
Permanent jobs citing Firmware 47 34 97
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 0.61% 1.26% 1.08%
As % of the System Software category 10.24% 9.02% 8.47%
Number of salaries quoted 40 10 65
10th Percentile £32,500 £39,625 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,938 £51,563 £42,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £70,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +27.27% -8.33%
75th Percentile £64,063 £82,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £65,000 £84,250 £75,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £52,501
% change year-on-year +9.09% +4.76% +14.13%

All System Software Skills
South 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 South West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 459 377 1,145
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 5.96% 13.93% 12.76%
Number of salaries quoted 311 269 967
10th Percentile £27,250 £29,750 £27,338
25th Percentile £31,500 £31,250 £33,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £60,125 £67,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £73,750 £95,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% -9.09%

Firmware
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Firmware job vacancy trend in the South West

Firmware
Salary Trend in the South West

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Firmware.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Firmware

Firmware
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Firmware in the South West over the 6 months to 11 May 2026.

Salary histogram for Firmware in the South West

Firmware
Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Firmware within the South West region over the 6 months to 11 May 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
Wiltshire - 17 £62,500 - 3
Bristol -10 12 £60,000 -14.29% 11
Gloucestershire - 9 £50,000 - 13
Devon -38 5 £40,500 -46.00%
Dorset -17 2 £35,000 -6.67% 2
Somerset -27 2 £47,500 -9.52% 3
Firmware
England

Firmware
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (2.13%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (4.26%) OrCAD
2 1 (2.13%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 4 (8.51%) AWS
2 3 (6.38%) Amazon EC2
2 3 (6.38%) Amazon S3
2 3 (6.38%) AWS Lambda
2 3 (6.38%) SaaS
2 3 (6.38%) Serverless
3 1 (2.13%) Azure
3 1 (2.13%) GCP
3 1 (2.13%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (6.38%) Bluetooth
1 3 (6.38%) Wireless
2 1 (2.13%) Ethernet
2 1 (2.13%) Modbus
2 1 (2.13%) Profibus
2 1 (2.13%) RFID
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (6.38%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 1 (2.13%) Bitbucket
1 1 (2.13%) Eclipse
1 1 (2.13%) GoogleTest
1 1 (2.13%) Jenkins
1 1 (2.13%) JIRA
1 1 (2.13%) SonarQube
1 1 (2.13%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 10 (21.28%) Electronics
2 5 (10.64%) Aerospace
2 5 (10.64%) Social Skills
3 4 (8.51%) Avionics
4 3 (6.38%) Manufacturing
4 3 (6.38%) Military
5 2 (4.26%) Automotive
5 2 (4.26%) Aviation
5 2 (4.26%) Law
5 2 (4.26%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (2.13%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (2.13%) Marketing
6 1 (2.13%) Retail
6 1 (2.13%) Telecoms
6 1 (2.13%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 26 (55.32%) Embedded Engineer
2 18 (38.30%) Software Engineer
3 16 (34.04%) Embedded Software Engineer
4 11 (23.40%) Firmware Engineer
5 10 (21.28%) Embedded Firmware Engineer
6 5 (10.64%) Audio DSP Engineer
6 5 (10.64%) Audio Engineer
6 5 (10.64%) Audio Software Engineer
6 5 (10.64%) DSP Embedded Software Engineer
6 5 (10.64%) DSP Engineer
6 5 (10.64%) DSP Software Engineer
7 4 (8.51%) Hardware Engineer
8 3 (6.38%) Administrator
8 3 (6.38%) Electronics Engineer
8 3 (6.38%) Head of Software Engineering
8 3 (6.38%) Linux Administrator
8 3 (6.38%) Linux Engineer
8 3 (6.38%) Linux Systems Administrator
8 3 (6.38%) Linux Systems Engineer
8 3 (6.38%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.13%) Flash
1 1 (2.13%) Next.js
1 1 (2.13%) Node.js
1 1 (2.13%) React
1 1 (2.13%) React Native
1 1 (2.13%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 14 (29.79%) IoT
2 8 (17.02%) Embedded Systems
3 3 (6.38%) Analogue Electronics
3 3 (6.38%) Cloud Native
3 3 (6.38%) FPGA
3 3 (6.38%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (6.38%) Smart Home
3 3 (6.38%) VHDL
4 2 (4.26%) Algorithms
4 2 (4.26%) Cyber Threat
4 2 (4.26%) Device Driver
4 2 (4.26%) Driving Licence
4 2 (4.26%) Raspberry Pi
5 1 (2.13%) ARM Cortex
5 1 (2.13%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 10 (21.28%) Linux
2 2 (4.26%) FreeRTOS
3 1 (2.13%) SafeRTOS
3 1 (2.13%) ThreadX
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (48.94%) Software Engineering
2 6 (12.77%) Mentoring
3 5 (10.64%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (8.51%) Code Quality
4 4 (8.51%) Containerisation
4 4 (8.51%) DevOps
4 4 (8.51%) Infrastructure as Code
4 4 (8.51%) Patch Management
4 4 (8.51%) Proactive Maintenance
4 4 (8.51%) Root Cause Analysis
5 3 (6.38%) AI
5 3 (6.38%) CI/CD
5 3 (6.38%) Low Latency
5 3 (6.38%) Microservices
5 3 (6.38%) SDLC
5 3 (6.38%) TDD
5 3 (6.38%) Technical Leadership
5 3 (6.38%) Telematics
5 3 (6.38%) Test Automation
6 2 (4.26%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 13 (27.66%) C
2 12 (25.53%) C++
3 11 (23.40%) Python
4 5 (10.64%) Embedded C
5 3 (6.38%) Embedded C++
5 3 (6.38%) PHP
6 2 (4.26%) Bash
6 2 (4.26%) C#
6 2 (4.26%) Java
7 1 (2.13%) R
7 1 (2.13%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 7 (14.89%) Security Cleared
2 5 (10.64%) SC Cleared
3 4 (8.51%) DV Cleared
4 3 (6.38%) Degree
5 2 (4.26%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (4.26%) HNC
5 2 (4.26%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.38%) ISO 9001
1 3 (6.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (6.38%) QA
2 2 (4.26%) NIST
3 1 (2.13%) Def Stans
3 1 (2.13%) DO-254
3 1 (2.13%) HAZOP
3 1 (2.13%) IEC 61508
3 1 (2.13%) IEC 62304
3 1 (2.13%) ISO 26262
System Software
1 14 (29.79%) Embedded Firmware
2 4 (8.51%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (8.51%) Kubernetes
1 4 (8.51%) Puppet
2 1 (2.13%) Ansible
2 1 (2.13%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (8.51%) Cisco
1 4 (8.51%) Dell
1 4 (8.51%) Red Hat
2 1 (2.13%) Google
2 1 (2.13%) Microsoft
2 1 (2.13%) Motorola