Firmware Jobs in the Thames Valley

Firmware
South East > Thames Valley

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley with a requirement for Firmware skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Firmware over the 6 months to 2 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 97 186 185
Rank change year-on-year +89 -1 +20
Permanent jobs citing Firmware 167 80 95
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 2.48% 1.31% 1.37%
As % of the System Software category 15.89% 7.80% 9.33%
Number of salaries quoted 84 62 40
10th Percentile £31,250 - £36,125
25th Percentile £34,500 £31,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,250 £43,750 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +21.71% -12.50% -
75th Percentile £60,750 £45,000 £56,250
90th Percentile £72,125 £48,750 £57,500
South East median annual salary £50,000 £45,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +11.11% -14.29% -4.55%

All System Software Skills
Thames Valley

Firmware is in the System Software category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley with a requirement for system software skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 1,051 1,025 1,018
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 15.61% 16.73% 14.67%
Number of salaries quoted 837 663 722
10th Percentile £27,900 £24,500 £26,250
25th Percentile £36,000 £30,500 £32,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £45,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% -13.64%
75th Percentile £68,750 £67,500 £70,938
90th Percentile £86,000 £85,000 £81,250
South East median annual salary £47,500 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -

Firmware
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing Firmware as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for Firmware in the Thames Valley

Firmware
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Firmware in the Thames Valley.

Salary trend for Firmware in the Thames Valley

Firmware
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing Firmware in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 2 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Firmware in the Thames Valley

Firmware
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Firmware within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 2 May 2024. 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
Buckinghamshire +38 96 £51,000 +56.92% 12
Berkshire +52 52 £42,920 -4.62% 14
Oxfordshire +15 19 £59,500 +25.26% 18
Firmware
South East

Firmware
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 4 (2.40%) Kinematics
2 1 (0.60%) Apache
2 1 (0.60%) nginx
2 1 (0.60%) OpenStack
Applications
1 11 (6.59%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 4 (2.40%) SaaS
2 2 (1.20%) AWS
2 2 (1.20%) Azure
3 1 (0.60%) Akamai
3 1 (0.60%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (0.60%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 1 (0.60%) GitHub
3 1 (0.60%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (0.60%) Microsoft Purview
3 1 (0.60%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 13 (7.78%) LAN
2 8 (4.79%) Wireless
3 5 (2.99%) OSPF
3 5 (2.99%) RFID
4 4 (2.40%) Firewall
4 4 (2.40%) Internet
5 2 (1.20%) TCP/IP
5 2 (1.20%) VPN
5 2 (1.20%) WAN
6 1 (0.60%) BGP
6 1 (0.60%) Bluetooth
6 1 (0.60%) Ethernet
6 1 (0.60%) GPRS
6 1 (0.60%) MQTT
6 1 (0.60%) RS-232
6 1 (0.60%) RS-485
6 1 (0.60%) VoIP
6 1 (0.60%) WLAN
6 1 (0.60%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (2.40%) Big Data
2 1 (0.60%) InfluxDB
2 1 (0.60%) MariaDB
2 1 (0.60%) MySQL
2 1 (0.60%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (0.60%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 5 (2.99%) Rational DOORS
2 1 (0.60%) Git
2 1 (0.60%) Mercurial
2 1 (0.60%) Subversion
General
1 96 (57.49%) Electronics
2 82 (49.10%) Manufacturing
3 73 (43.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 20 (11.98%) Social Skills
5 12 (7.19%) Legal
5 12 (7.19%) Organisational Skills
6 9 (5.39%) Marketing
7 6 (3.59%) Analytical Skills
8 5 (2.99%) Automotive
9 3 (1.80%) Retail
10 1 (0.60%) Finance
10 1 (0.60%) Public Sector
10 1 (0.60%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.60%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 82 (49.10%) Electronics Engineer
2 61 (36.53%) Development Engineer
2 61 (36.53%) Graduate
2 61 (36.53%) Graduate Development Engineer
2 61 (36.53%) Graduate Electronics Engineer
2 61 (36.53%) Junior
2 61 (36.53%) Junior Electronics Engineer
3 22 (13.17%) Systems Engineer
4 20 (11.98%) Hardware Engineer
5 17 (10.18%) Infrastructure Support
6 16 (9.58%) Electronics Hardware Engineer
6 16 (9.58%) Senior
7 15 (8.98%) Embedded Engineer
8 13 (7.78%) Graduate Hardware Engineer
8 13 (7.78%) Junior Hardware Engineer
9 11 (6.59%) Desktop Engineer
9 11 (6.59%) Desktop Support Engineer
9 11 (6.59%) DV Cleared Desktop Support
9 11 (6.59%) Firmware Engineer
9 11 (6.59%) Senior Electronics Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (2.40%) 802.1X
1 4 (2.40%) WPF
2 3 (1.80%) Middleware
3 1 (0.60%) ARM Templates
3 1 (0.60%) Azure Blueprints
3 1 (0.60%) STL
Miscellaneous
1 16 (9.58%) Embedded Systems
2 15 (8.98%) Driving Licence
3 13 (7.78%) Analogue Electronics
4 10 (5.99%) IoT
5 8 (4.79%) Data Centre
6 5 (2.99%) Management Information System
7 4 (2.40%) GNSS
8 2 (1.20%) ASIC
8 2 (1.20%) ASIC Verification
8 2 (1.20%) FPGA
8 2 (1.20%) Verilog
9 1 (0.60%) Algorithms
9 1 (0.60%) Molecular Biology
9 1 (0.60%) PKI
9 1 (0.60%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 27 (16.17%) Windows
2 25 (14.97%) Windows 10
3 14 (8.38%) Windows Server
3 14 (8.38%) Windows Server 2012
3 14 (8.38%) Windows Server 2016
3 14 (8.38%) Windows Server 2019
4 13 (7.78%) Windows NT
5 12 (7.19%) Linux
6 11 (6.59%) Windows 7
7 2 (1.20%) FreeRTOS
8 1 (0.60%) CentOS
8 1 (0.60%) Embedded Linux
8 1 (0.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 81 (48.50%) Schematic Capture
2 73 (43.71%) Project Planning
3 28 (16.77%) Customer Requirements
4 27 (16.17%) Customer Service
5 24 (14.37%) ITIL
6 22 (13.17%) Design for Manufacturing
7 20 (11.98%) Problem-Solving
7 20 (11.98%) Service Management
8 19 (11.38%) Software Testing
9 15 (8.98%) Collaborative Working
9 15 (8.98%) Release Management
10 14 (8.38%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 13 (7.78%) Deployment Automation
11 13 (7.78%) Software Engineering
12 12 (7.19%) Configuration Management
12 12 (7.19%) Requirements Gathering
13 11 (6.59%) Code Quality
13 11 (6.59%) Service Delivery
13 11 (6.59%) Software Deployment
14 10 (5.99%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 41 (24.55%) C
2 17 (10.18%) C++
3 15 (8.98%) Python
4 11 (6.59%) Embedded C
5 8 (4.79%) C#
6 4 (2.40%) Embedded C++
6 4 (2.40%) XAML
7 3 (1.80%) SQL
8 2 (1.20%) Perl
8 2 (1.20%) SystemVerilog
8 2 (1.20%) Tcl
9 1 (0.60%) Bash
9 1 (0.60%) Korn
9 1 (0.60%) PHP
Qualifications
1 92 (55.09%) Degree
2 40 (23.95%) Security Cleared
3 24 (14.37%) DV Cleared
4 18 (10.78%) SC Cleared
5 3 (1.80%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.60%) CCNA
6 1 (0.60%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (0.60%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.60%) JNCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (4.19%) QA
2 4 (2.40%) SLA
3 1 (0.60%) ISO 9001
3 1 (0.60%) JTAG
System Software
1 86 (51.50%) Embedded Firmware
2 21 (12.57%) Active Directory
3 8 (4.79%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.60%) Citrix Hypervisor
4 1 (0.60%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 31 (18.56%) SCCM
2 13 (7.78%) Sysprep
2 13 (7.78%) WSUS
3 7 (4.19%) NetBackup
3 7 (4.19%) SCOM
4 1 (0.60%) Terraform
Vendors
1 74 (44.31%) EMC
2 32 (19.16%) Microsoft
3 11 (6.59%) HP
4 7 (4.19%) McAfee
5 5 (2.99%) Juniper
6 4 (2.40%) Extreme Networks
7 1 (0.60%) Aruba
7 1 (0.60%) Cisco
7 1 (0.60%) Fortinet
7 1 (0.60%) Google
7 1 (0.60%) Meraki
7 1 (0.60%) SAP
7 1 (0.60%) VMware