Firmware Job Trends in Stoke-on-Trent

Firmware
Staffordshire > Stoke-on-Trent

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Stoke-on-Trent requiring Firmware skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 30 - 42
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing Firmware 1 0 1
As % of all permanent jobs in Stoke-on-Trent 0.38% - 0.33%
As % of the System Software category 10.00% - 1.67%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £27,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 - £28,000
75th Percentile - - £28,500
90th Percentile - - -
Staffordshire median annual salary £65,000 £51,251 £28,500
% change year-on-year +26.83% +79.83% -32.94%

All System Software Skills
Stoke-on-Trent

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 Stoke-on-Trent.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 10 47 60
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Stoke-on-Trent 3.79% 51.65% 19.93%
Number of salaries quoted 8 39 49
10th Percentile £32,147 £29,550 £24,900
25th Percentile £34,674 £32,500 £27,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,000 £35,000 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.71% -12.50% +37.93%
75th Percentile £43,918 £37,500 £50,000
90th Percentile £72,150 £41,150 £52,500
Staffordshire median annual salary £35,866 £35,000 £39,500
% change year-on-year +2.47% -11.39% +21.54%

Firmware
Job Vacancy Trend in Stoke-on-Trent

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Firmware relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Stoke-on-Trent.

Firmware job vacancy trend in Stoke-on-Trent

Firmware
Salary Trend in Stoke-on-Trent

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Stoke-on-Trent citing Firmware.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Stoke-on-Trent citing Firmware

Firmware
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Stoke-on-Trent 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 (100.00%) Ethernet
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Embedded Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Embedded Software Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) WebSockets
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Embedded Software Development
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering