Firmware Job Trends in Surrey

Firmware
South East > Surrey

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Surrey requiring Firmware skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 100 75 101
Rank change year-on-year -25 +26 -12
Permanent jobs citing Firmware 22 22 36
As % of all permanent jobs in Surrey 0.96% 1.85% 1.78%
As % of the System Software category 12.50% 11.17% 15.93%
Number of salaries quoted 18 21 24
10th Percentile £52,125 £36,250 £46,250
25th Percentile - £47,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £66,563 £75,000 £66,250
90th Percentile £78,250 - £68,375
South East median annual salary £65,000 £55,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year +18.18% +1.85% +27.06%

All System Software Skills
Surrey

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 Surrey.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 176 197 226
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Surrey 7.71% 16.57% 11.16%
Number of salaries quoted 148 151 140
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,750 £25,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,625 £33,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £42,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +35.29% -22.73% -
75th Percentile £67,500 £57,500 £66,250
90th Percentile £73,750 £73,750 £78,750
South East median annual salary £60,000 £45,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +33.33% -10.00% -

Firmware
Job Vacancy Trend in Surrey

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

Firmware job vacancy trend in Surrey

Firmware
Salary Trend in Surrey

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Surrey citing Firmware.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Surrey citing Firmware

Firmware
Salary Histogram in Surrey

Salary distribution for jobs citing Firmware in Surrey over the 6 months to 17 August 2026.

Salary histogram for Firmware in Surrey

Firmware
Job Locations in Surrey

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Firmware within the Surrey region over the 6 months to 17 August 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
Guildford -30 2 £56,250 +15.38% 1
Chertsey - 2 £80,000 -
Woking - 2 £65,000 - 1
Godalming -11 1 £45,000 -14.29% 1
Staines - 1 - -
Firmware
South East

Firmware
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Surrey 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:

Cloud Services
1 15 (68.18%) Azure
2 3 (13.64%) Azure Stack
2 3 (13.64%) Nutanix
3 1 (4.55%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (4.55%) GitHub
3 1 (4.55%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 12 (54.55%) Firewall
2 3 (13.64%) VSAN
3 2 (9.09%) LAN
3 2 (9.09%) VLAN
3 2 (9.09%) WAN
4 1 (4.55%) Ethernet
4 1 (4.55%) NFC
4 1 (4.55%) RS-232
4 1 (4.55%) RS-485
4 1 (4.55%) TCP/IP
Development Applications
1 2 (9.09%) Git
2 1 (4.55%) GitLab
2 1 (4.55%) Jenkins
General
1 4 (18.18%) Electronics
2 3 (13.64%) Documentation Skills
2 3 (13.64%) Social Skills
3 2 (9.09%) Manufacturing
3 2 (9.09%) Military
4 1 (4.55%) Retail
Job Titles
1 7 (31.82%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (13.64%) Consultant
2 3 (13.64%) IT Consultant
2 3 (13.64%) Nutanix Engineer
2 3 (13.64%) Software Engineer
2 3 (13.64%) VMware Engineer
2 3 (13.64%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (9.09%) Data Centre Engineer
3 2 (9.09%) Field Engineer
3 2 (9.09%) Field Service Engineer
3 2 (9.09%) IT Engineer
3 2 (9.09%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (9.09%) Senior
3 2 (9.09%) Senior Software Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) FPGA Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) Hardware Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) Hardware Test Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) QA Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) VHDL Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.55%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (4.55%) GStreamer
1 1 (4.55%) OpenTelemetry
1 1 (4.55%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 11 (50.00%) Data Centre
1 11 (50.00%) Enterprise Storage
1 11 (50.00%) iSeries
1 11 (50.00%) Replication
2 4 (18.18%) Embedded Systems
3 3 (13.64%) Clustering
4 2 (9.09%) Acoustics
4 2 (9.09%) Driving Licence
5 1 (4.55%) FPGA
5 1 (4.55%) IoT
5 1 (4.55%) Product Ownership
5 1 (4.55%) Robotics
5 1 (4.55%) VHDL
5 1 (4.55%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 7 (31.82%) Windows
2 5 (22.73%) Windows Server
3 4 (18.18%) Linux
4 2 (9.09%) Windows Server 2016
4 2 (9.09%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (4.55%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (63.64%) Disaster Recovery
1 14 (63.64%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 5 (22.73%) Technical Leadership
2 5 (22.73%) Validation
3 4 (18.18%) Software Engineering
4 3 (13.64%) BCP
4 3 (13.64%) Business Continuity
4 3 (13.64%) Business Continuity Planning
4 3 (13.64%) Configuration Management
4 3 (13.64%) Converged Infrastructure
4 3 (13.64%) High Availability
4 3 (13.64%) Proactive Maintenance
4 3 (13.64%) Root Cause Analysis
4 3 (13.64%) Signal Processing
4 3 (13.64%) Test Automation
4 3 (13.64%) Verification and Validation
5 2 (9.09%) DevOps
5 2 (9.09%) Mentoring
5 2 (9.09%) Preventative Maintenance
5 2 (9.09%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 3 (13.64%) C++
1 3 (13.64%) PowerShell
1 3 (13.64%) Python
2 1 (4.55%) Bash
Qualifications
1 5 (22.73%) Degree
2 4 (18.18%) DV Cleared
2 4 (18.18%) SC Cleared
2 4 (18.18%) Security Cleared
3 2 (9.09%) HNC
3 2 (9.09%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (9.09%) QA
System Software
1 16 (72.73%) VMware Infrastructure
2 13 (59.09%) Hyper-V
3 5 (22.73%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (13.64%) Docker
4 3 (13.64%) VMware NSX
4 3 (13.64%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (13.64%) vCenter Server
1 3 (13.64%) VxRail
2 1 (4.55%) Ansible
2 1 (4.55%) Grafana
2 1 (4.55%) Kubernetes
2 1 (4.55%) Prometheus
2 1 (4.55%) Terraform
Vendors
1 16 (72.73%) VMware
2 14 (63.64%) Veeam
3 13 (59.09%) Microsoft
4 11 (50.00%) Commvault
4 11 (50.00%) EMC
4 11 (50.00%) HP
4 11 (50.00%) IBM
5 3 (13.64%) Dell
6 2 (9.09%) Cisco
7 1 (4.55%) Lattice Semiconductor
7 1 (4.55%) Xilinx