Firmware Job Trends in South Yorkshire

Firmware
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in South Yorkshire requiring Firmware skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 54 52 47
Rank change year-on-year -2 -5 +55
Permanent jobs citing Firmware 6 5 20
As % of all permanent jobs in South Yorkshire 0.96% 0.91% 3.28%
As % of the System Software category 13.04% 16.13% 15.04%
Number of salaries quoted 6 1 20
10th Percentile £47,750 - -
25th Percentile £52,500 £29,325 £31,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £31,050 £32,250
Median % change year-on-year +77.13% -3.72% -26.03%
75th Percentile £57,500 £32,775 £39,000
90th Percentile - - £61,425
Yorkshire median annual salary £55,000 £40,525 £34,500
% change year-on-year +35.72% +17.46% -50.71%

All System Software Skills
South Yorkshire

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 South Yorkshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 46 31 133
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 7.32% 5.64% 21.84%
Number of salaries quoted 46 14 113
10th Percentile £28,750 £29,098 £24,150
25th Percentile £29,250 £35,000 £30,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,500 £50,500 £36,000
Median % change year-on-year -35.64% +40.28% -4.00%
75th Percentile £49,750 £62,875 £50,000
90th Percentile £58,250 £64,250 £57,500
Yorkshire median annual salary £45,000 £49,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -5.26%

Firmware
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Firmware job vacancy trend in South Yorkshire

Firmware
Salary Trend in South Yorkshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing Firmware.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing Firmware

Firmware
Job Locations in South Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Firmware within the South Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 9 January 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
Sheffield +6 6 £55,000 +77.13% 2
Firmware
Yorkshire

Firmware
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Yorkshire 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) Modbus
1 1 (16.67%) RS-485
General
1 6 (100.00%) Electronics
2 5 (83.33%) Finance
2 5 (83.33%) Manufacturing
3 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (100.00%) Embedded Engineer
2 5 (83.33%) Design Engineer
2 5 (83.33%) Electronics Design Engineer
2 5 (83.33%) Electronics Engineer
2 5 (83.33%) Embedded Software Design Engineer
2 5 (83.33%) Software Design Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Embedded Firmware Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Firmware Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 6 (100.00%) Analogue Electronics
1 6 (100.00%) Embedded Systems
2 1 (16.67%) CAN bus
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Embedded Linux
1 1 (16.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Agile
2 1 (16.67%) Collaborative Culture
2 1 (16.67%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) C
1 6 (100.00%) C++
2 5 (83.33%) Embedded C
2 5 (83.33%) Embedded C++
System Software
1 6 (100.00%) Embedded Firmware