Firmware Job Trends in Tyne and Wear

Firmware
North East > Tyne and Wear

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear requiring Firmware skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 64 79 -
Rank change year-on-year +15 - -
Permanent jobs citing Firmware 5 5 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Tyne and Wear 0.65% 0.51% -
As % of the System Software category 6.41% 6.85% -
Number of salaries quoted 5 2 0
10th Percentile £44,300 - -
25th Percentile £52,250 £53,000 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,500 £56,000 -
Median % change year-on-year +0.89% - -
75th Percentile £60,750 £59,000 -
90th Percentile - - -
North East median annual salary £56,500 £56,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +0.89% +1.82% -

All System Software Skills
Tyne and Wear

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 Tyne and Wear.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 78 73 57
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 10.10% 7.48% 16.33%
Number of salaries quoted 48 36 50
10th Percentile £25,440 £31,250 £28,375
25th Percentile £28,500 £34,750 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £44,137 £45,500
Median % change year-on-year -20.70% -3.00% -24.13%
75th Percentile £51,250 £53,750 £59,688
90th Percentile £62,375 £61,250 £66,375
North East median annual salary £35,000 £50,000 £45,500
% change year-on-year -30.00% +9.89% -13.33%

Firmware
Job Vacancy Trend in Tyne and Wear

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

Firmware job vacancy trend in Tyne and Wear

Firmware
Salary Trend in Tyne and Wear

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Tyne and Wear citing Firmware.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Tyne and Wear citing Firmware

Firmware
Salary Histogram in Tyne and Wear

Salary distribution for jobs citing Firmware in Tyne and Wear over the 6 months to 3 November 2025.

Salary histogram for Firmware in Tyne and Wear

Firmware
Job Locations in Tyne and Wear

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Firmware within the Tyne and Wear region over the 6 months to 3 November 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
Newcastle upon Tyne +6 1 £40,000 -28.57% 3
Firmware
North East

Firmware
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Tyne and Wear 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:

General
1 4 (80.00%) Electronics
1 4 (80.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (100.00%) Embedded Engineer
1 5 (100.00%) Embedded Software Engineer
1 5 (100.00%) Software Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (100.00%) Embedded Systems
2 1 (20.00%) ARM Cortex
2 1 (20.00%) IoT
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 5 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 4 (80.00%) Software Testing
3 1 (20.00%) Collaborative Culture
3 1 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) C
2 4 (80.00%) C++
3 1 (20.00%) Embedded C
System Software
1 4 (80.00%) Embedded Firmware