Embedded Firmware Engineer Jobs in the UK excluding London

Embedded Firmware Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Embedded Firmware Engineer salary in the UK excluding London is £66,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 4 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 535 667 748
Rank change year-on-year +132 +81 +87
Permanent jobs requiring an Embedded Firmware Engineer 18 85 20
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.048% 0.12% 0.033%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.053% 0.13% 0.036%
Number of salaries quoted 16 67 20
10th Percentile £49,375 £40,000 £42,000
25th Percentile £57,500 £46,250 £50,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,000 £52,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +25.71% -19.23% +21.50%
75th Percentile £69,000 £60,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £77,625 £65,000 -
UK median annual salary £66,000 £52,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +25.71% -19.23% +18.18%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the UK excluding London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 33,760 66,748 54,875
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.34% 94.80% 89.27%
Number of salaries quoted 18,678 47,256 31,166
10th Percentile £27,500 £26,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £38,600 £35,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,000 £50,000 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -5.66% +6.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £78,750 £76,250 £82,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £52,550 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.42% -12.42% -

Embedded Firmware Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Embedded Firmware Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Embedded Firmware Engineer in the UK excluding London

Embedded Firmware Engineer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Embedded Firmware Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Embedded Firmware Engineer in the UK excluding London

Embedded Firmware Engineer
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Embedded Firmware Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 4 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Embedded Firmware Engineer in the UK excluding London

Embedded Firmware Engineer
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Embedded Firmware Engineer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 4 May 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
Scotland +115 11 £66,000 +25.71% 5
Yorkshire +80 2 £64,250 -1.15%
North of England +67 2 £64,250 +7.08% 1
South West +109 1 - -
South East +100 1 £52,500 -30.00%
East of England +47 1 - - 2
West Midlands +44 1 £67,500 +12.50% 1
Wales +37 1 £50,000 - 5
Midlands +34 1 £67,500 +28.57% 2
Embedded Firmware Engineer
UK

Embedded Firmware Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 4 May 2025, Embedded Firmware Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the UK excluding London region featuring Embedded Firmware Engineer in the job title.

1 18 (100.00%) C
1 18 (100.00%) Firmware
2 14 (77.78%) Embedded Firmware
3 13 (72.22%) Collaborative Working
4 12 (66.67%) Linux
5 11 (61.11%) C++
5 11 (61.11%) Embedded Linux
6 10 (55.56%) Finance
6 10 (55.56%) Device Driver
6 10 (55.56%) Modbus
7 9 (50.00%) Product Ownership
7 9 (50.00%) Continuous Deployment
7 9 (50.00%) CI/CD
7 9 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
7 9 (50.00%) Multithreading
7 9 (50.00%) Software Architecture
7 9 (50.00%) TCP/IP
8 5 (27.78%) Telecoms
8 5 (27.78%) Clean Code
9 4 (22.22%) Wearables
9 4 (22.22%) Assembly Language
9 4 (22.22%) Wireless
9 4 (22.22%) ZigBee
9 4 (22.22%) Smart Energy
9 4 (22.22%) SDLC
10 3 (16.67%) Analogue Electronics
10 3 (16.67%) Electronics
11 2 (11.11%) Degree
11 2 (11.11%) Embedded Systems
12 1 (5.56%) Open Source

Embedded Firmware Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Applications
1 1 (5.56%) OrCAD
Communications & Networking
1 10 (55.56%) Modbus
2 9 (50.00%) TCP/IP
3 4 (22.22%) Wireless
3 4 (22.22%) ZigBee
4 1 (5.56%) Bluetooth
4 1 (5.56%) Ethernet
4 1 (5.56%) MQTT
4 1 (5.56%) RS-485
4 1 (5.56%) Wi-Fi
General
1 10 (55.56%) Finance
2 5 (27.78%) Telecoms
3 4 (22.22%) Wearables
4 3 (16.67%) Electronics
5 1 (5.56%) Manufacturing
5 1 (5.56%) Marketing
5 1 (5.56%) Public Sector
5 1 (5.56%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 10 (55.56%) Device Driver
2 9 (50.00%) Product Ownership
3 4 (22.22%) Smart Energy
4 3 (16.67%) Analogue Electronics
5 2 (11.11%) Embedded Systems
6 1 (5.56%) CAN bus
6 1 (5.56%) FPGA
6 1 (5.56%) IoT
6 1 (5.56%) Verilog
6 1 (5.56%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 12 (66.67%) Linux
2 11 (61.11%) Embedded Linux
3 1 (5.56%) Android
3 1 (5.56%) Apple iOS
3 1 (5.56%) FreeRTOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (72.22%) Collaborative Working
2 9 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 9 (50.00%) Continuous Deployment
2 9 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
2 9 (50.00%) Multithreading
2 9 (50.00%) Software Architecture
3 5 (27.78%) Clean Code
4 4 (22.22%) SDLC
5 1 (5.56%) Defect Management
5 1 (5.56%) DevOps
5 1 (5.56%) Digital Signal Processing
5 1 (5.56%) Kalman Filter
5 1 (5.56%) Linux Kernel Development
5 1 (5.56%) Mathematics
5 1 (5.56%) Mentoring
5 1 (5.56%) Open Source
5 1 (5.56%) Prototyping
5 1 (5.56%) Root Cause Analysis
5 1 (5.56%) Schematic Capture
5 1 (5.56%) Signal Processing
Programming Languages
1 18 (100.00%) C
2 11 (61.11%) C++
3 4 (22.22%) Assembly Language
4 1 (5.56%) C#
Qualifications
1 2 (11.11%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.56%) ISO 13485
1 1 (5.56%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 18 (100.00%) Firmware
2 14 (77.78%) Embedded Firmware
Vendors
1 1 (5.56%) EMC
1 1 (5.56%) SAP