Firmware Jobs in the South West

Firmware
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 21 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 142 199 223
Rank change year-on-year +57 +24 +45
Permanent jobs citing Firmware 31 100 52
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 0.87% 1.07% 0.77%
As % of the System Software category 8.33% 8.24% 4.46%
Number of salaries quoted 9 68 39
10th Percentile £39,250 £37,125 £34,184
25th Percentile £48,750 £42,000 £41,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £55,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +27.27% -18.52% +87.89%
75th Percentile £82,500 £67,188 £81,875
90th Percentile £86,000 £75,000 £100,000
England median annual salary £52,250 £52,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year -0.48% +10.53% -11.21%

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 372 1,214 1,167
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 10.46% 12.93% 17.36%
Number of salaries quoted 252 977 700
10th Percentile £29,750 £27,290 £27,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £62,000 £72,000
90th Percentile £94,878 £80,000 £81,375
England median annual salary £53,594 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +7.19% -9.09% -

Firmware
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Firmware in the South West

Firmware
Salary Trend in the South West

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

Salary trend for Firmware in the South West

Firmware
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Firmware in the South West over the 6 months to 21 May 2025.

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 21 May 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
Devon +22 22 £67,500 - 4
Bristol +37 7 £70,000 +30.23% 36
Dorset +38 1 £37,500 -6.25% 3
Somerset -8 1 £52,500 -19.23% 7
Firmware
England

Firmware
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 3 (9.68%) OpenStack
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.23%) Ethernet
Development Applications
1 1 (3.23%) Git
General
1 21 (67.74%) Electronics
2 10 (32.26%) Social Skills
3 5 (16.13%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (6.45%) Aerospace
5 1 (3.23%) Legal
Job Titles
1 25 (80.65%) Senior
2 15 (48.39%) Design Engineer
2 15 (48.39%) Electronics Design Engineer
2 15 (48.39%) Electronics Engineer
2 15 (48.39%) Senior Design Engineer
2 15 (48.39%) Senior Electronics Design Engineer
2 15 (48.39%) Senior Electronics Engineer
3 6 (19.35%) FPGA Engineer
3 6 (19.35%) Senior FPGA Engineer
4 5 (16.13%) Senior VHDL Engineer
4 5 (16.13%) Software Engineer
4 5 (16.13%) VHDL Engineer
5 4 (12.90%) Senior Software Engineer
5 4 (12.90%) Systems Engineer
6 3 (9.68%) Embedded Engineer
6 3 (9.68%) Senior Systems Engineer
7 2 (6.45%) Embedded Software Engineer
7 2 (6.45%) Firmware Engineer
8 1 (3.23%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
8 1 (3.23%) Verification Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (9.68%) OpenCL
Miscellaneous
1 16 (51.61%) Optoelectronics
2 6 (19.35%) FPGA
2 6 (19.35%) MicroBlaze
2 6 (19.35%) VHDL
3 5 (16.13%) GNSS
3 5 (16.13%) Satnav
4 4 (12.90%) Device Driver
5 3 (9.68%) CUDA
5 3 (9.68%) Data Centre
5 3 (9.68%) PCIe
6 1 (3.23%) Analogue Electronics
6 1 (3.23%) ARM Cortex
6 1 (3.23%) Embedded Systems
6 1 (3.23%) Fibre Optics
Operating Systems
1 11 (35.48%) Linux
2 9 (29.03%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (67.74%) Requirements Analysis
2 16 (51.61%) Prototyping
2 16 (51.61%) Schematic Capture
2 16 (51.61%) Stress Analysis
3 8 (25.81%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (19.35%) FPGA Design
5 5 (16.13%) B2B
5 5 (16.13%) Computer Science
5 5 (16.13%) Creative Thinking
5 5 (16.13%) Defect Tracking
5 5 (16.13%) Innovative Thinking
5 5 (16.13%) Signal Processing
5 5 (16.13%) Software Engineering
6 4 (12.90%) Artificial Intelligence
6 4 (12.90%) Mentoring
7 3 (9.68%) Agile
7 3 (9.68%) Device Driver Development
7 3 (9.68%) Performance Analysis
7 3 (9.68%) Scrum
8 2 (6.45%) Open Source
Programming Languages
1 12 (38.71%) C
2 10 (32.26%) C++
3 5 (16.13%) MATLAB
3 5 (16.13%) Perl
3 5 (16.13%) Python
3 5 (16.13%) Tcl
3 5 (16.13%) VB
4 1 (3.23%) Bash
4 1 (3.23%) Embedded C
4 1 (3.23%) Embedded C++
Qualifications
1 21 (67.74%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.45%) QA
System Software
1 23 (74.19%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 3 (9.68%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (19.35%) Xilinx
2 5 (16.13%) Altera
2 5 (16.13%) Green Hills
3 3 (9.68%) Graphcore